The Colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus Concerning Men, Manners and Things, Volume 2London: Gibbings, Limited, 1900 - Theology |
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Page 315 - The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many a summer dies the swan. Me only cruel immortality Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world, A...
Page 312 - In a word, I thought I beheld Religion mixing in the dance ; but as I had never seen her so engaged, I should have...
Page 44 - Sb. Well, we will season our eggs with pleasant stories. I found a place in the Epodes of Horace not corrupted as to the writing, but wrong interpreted, and not only by Mancinellus and other later writers, but by Porphyry himself. The place is in the poem where he sings a recantation to the witch Canidia.
Page 39 - Qui bene vertendo, et easdem scribendo male, ex Graecis bonis Latinas fecit non bonas. Idem Menandri Phasma nunc nuper dedit, Atque in Thesauro scripsit, causam dicere...
Page 21 - If you find fault with anything they tell you presently, if you don't like look for another inn. In their cities they allow hay, but very unwillingly and sparingly, and that is almost as dear as oats. When you have taken care of your horse, you come whole into the stove, boots, baggage, dirt, and all, for that is a common room for all comers.
Page 194 - Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.
Page 220 - ... himself to the mother herself in these terms, when she had but newly lain in, she would not have taken it amiss. But the officer, as if he had been inspired with some enthusiasm, looking upon us with astonished eyes, and with a sort of horror, cursing our blasphemous expression, said. What need is there for your putting this question, when you have an authentic record ? and had turned us out of doors for heretics, had not a few pence pacified his rage.
Page 195 - Who will give me the wings of a dove, that I may fly away and be at rest.
Page 300 - ... the Necessities of young Persons, as he found them Materials for going on with their studies, he would not have had so much Money to have spent lavishly, but would have done Praise-worthily: But what with lying hard, by bad and spare Diet, late and hard Studies, within one Year's Space, of many young Men of a good Genius, and very hopeful, some he kill'd, others he blinded, others he made run distracted, and others he brought into the Leprosy, some of whom I know very well; and in short, not...
Page 334 - Dominic scented of roses) was hung upon the right arm ; called " snakes' eggs " in text, because the latter cohere when laid, like a string of beads. A Visit to St. James at Compostella, and after that to the famous Virgin on the other Side of the Water in England 2 The shrine of Compostella in Galicia owed its celebrity to the legend of the discovery of St James's body there. The scallop-shell was peculiarly the emblem of pilgrims to this shrine. " And how should I know your true love From many...