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Polly, slapping his trouser pocket. "Oh, carm on," said Parsons. "Always do it on tuppence for a bitter." "Lemme get my pipe on," said Platt, who had recently taken to smoking with great ferocity. "Then I'm with you." Pause and struggle. "Don't ram it down, O' Man," said Parsons, watching with knitted brows. "Don't ram it down. Give it Air. Seen my stick, O' Man? Right O."
I bain't no good at jumping and I wunt." They urged her gently but firmly towards the window. "You lemme do it my own way," said the old lady at the sill.... "I could do it better if e'd take it off." "Oh! carm on!" "It's wuss than Carter's stile," she said, "before they mended it. With a cow a-looking at you." Mr. Gambell hovered protectingly below. Mr. Polly steered her aged limbs from above.
The Gir, totally unknown at the present day, is familiarly mentioned by Claudian, who, however, it may be recollected, was a native of Africa: 'Gir, ditissimus amnis 'Aethiopum, simili mentitus gurgite Nilum. Carm. 21. v. 252. In some MSS. it is notissimus amnis; but the other reading is more probable.
But still more happy, Jesus would say to us, is he who, freed from all illusion, shall reproduce in himself the celestial vision, and, with no millenarian dream, no chimerical paradise, no signs in the heavens, but by the uprightness of his will and the poetry of his soul, shall be able to create anew in his heart the true kingdom of God! Comp. Carm.
Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est. CATULL., Carm. 39 in Egnat. Nothing so foolish as the laugh of fools. Among all kinds of writing, there is none in which authors are more apt to miscarry than in works of humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
I have noted one great advantage they have had in the Plotting of their Tragedies, that is, they are always grounded upon some known History, according to that of HORACE, Ex noto fictum carm n sequar: and in that, they have so imitated the Ancients, that they have surpassed them. "Atque ita mentitur, sic veris falso remiscet, Primo ne medium, media ne discrepet imum.
"Horace, Carm. 'Tis not his profession to know either how to hunt or to dance well; "Orabunt causas alii, coelique meatus Describent radio, et fulgentia sidera dicent; Hic regere imperio populos sciat."
Horace has elegantly adopted the same strain of compliment. Te multa prece, te prosequitur mero Defuso pateris; et Laribus tuum Miscet numen, uti Graecia Castoris Et magni memor Herculis. Carm.
Horace, in the ardour of youth, and when his bosom beat high with the raptures of fancy, had, in the pursuit of Grecian literature, drunk largely, at the source, of the delicious springs of Castalia; and it seems to have been ever after his chief ambition, to transplant into the plains of Latium the palm of lyric poetry. Nor did he fail of success: Exegi monumentum aere perennius. Carm. iii. 30.
An' now sit down an' quiet yourself, an' I'll tell you jus' how things is. So down we sits, an' says he, jus' as carm as a summer cloud, 'My dear, this is a lunertic asylum.
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