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Powerless, we venture to promise, are those private Compliments themselves. But what then? Amicus Plato, magis amica veritas; Teufelsdrockh is our friend, Truth is our divinity.
A type by no means immaculate, a creature not at all too bright and good for English nature's daily food in times of mercantile or military enterprise; no whit more if no whit less excellent and radiant than reality. Amica Britannia, sed magis amica veritas.
"Ah, Austin! do you not humble me if you are too proud to accept what is due to you from my brother?" "Velit, nolit, quod amica," answered my father, taking off and rubbing his spectacles, "which means, Kitty, that when a man's married he has no will of his own. To think," added Mr. Caxton, musingly, "that in this world one cannot be sure of the simplest mathematical definition.
'Iris' , an opera on a rather unpleasant Japanese story, has met with a certain degree of favour, but 'Le Maschere' , an attempt to introduce Harlequin and Columbine to the lyric stage, failed completely, nor does 'Amica' seen to have done much to rehabilitate the composer's waning reputation.
But now the Tribune's hatred was internecine. I have hitherto said nothing, and need say but little, of a certain disreputable lady named Clodia. She was the sister of Clodius and the wife of Metellus Celer. She was accused by public voice in Rome of living in incest with her brother, and of poisoning her husband. Cicero calls her afterward, in his defence of Cælius, "amica omnium."
All is well with you? Will they have to put paint on her soft cheeks to-morrow? Little, if they hold the colour as full as now? My Sandra! amica! should I have been jealous if Giacomo had known you? On my soul, I cannot guess! But, you love what he loved. He seems to live for me when they are talking of Italy, and you send your eyes forward as if you saw the country free.
By degrees a tender delirium took hold of her sense; and then a subtle emotion which was partly prompted by dim rivalry with the voice that seemed to be speaking so richly to the man she loved set her bosom rising and falling. She translated it to herself thus: "What a joy it will be to him to hear me now!" And in a pause she sang clear out "Prima d'Italia amica;"
The books went one way, the boys another, the books to Andover, the boys to Concord. The dawn of American liberty was not an "Aurora musis amica." The Muse of History alone remained with Brigadier Putnam and General Ward. The College was turned into a camp, a measure abundantly justified by public necessity, but causing much damage to the buildings occupied as barracks by the Continentals.
Such a blind shot with the sharp dart of longing love may never fail of the prick, the which is God, as Himself saith in the book of love, where He speaketh to a languishing soul and a loving, saying thus: Vulnerasti cor meum, soror mea, amica mea, et sponsa mea, vulnerasti cor meum, in uno oculorum tuorum: "Thou hast wounded mine heart, my sister, my leman, and my spouse, thou hast wounded mine heart in one of thine eyes."
Our English affix, ess, is, I believe, confined either to words derived from the Latin, as actress, directress, etc., or from the French, as mistress, duchess, and the like. But the German, inn, enables us to designate the sex in every possible relation of life. But I am especially pleased with their Freundinn, which, unlike the amica of the Romans, is seldom used but in its best and purest sense.
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