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And it was not till long after the impression had begun to wear away, that I was enabled, with something like a smile, to recall the striking incongruity of the confession understanding the term in its worldly acceptation with the frame and physiognomy of the person before me. His brow would have scared away the Levities the Jocos Risus-que faster than the Loves fled the face of Dis at Enna.
"Animula vagula, blandula, Hospes, comesque corporis, Quae nunc abibis in loca, Pallidula, rigida, nudula, Nee, ut soles, dabis jocos?" It sounds a little gloomy as a quotation, but, fortunately for Germany and the Emperor, for "nunc" can be put, pace the poet, the indefinite, yet all too definite, "aliquando."
Frigidula, palidula, undula! Nec, ut soles, dabis jocos. Certainly you will be 'extra dominium' immediately. And my lord Stomach, his Grace, and my lord Heart, his Excellency, and my lord Head, his Royal Highness all must resign office."
Animula, vagula, blandula, Hospes, comesque corporis Quæ nonc abibis in loca, Pallidula, rigida, nudula? Nec, ut soles, dabis jocos. Thus imitated by Prior: Poor little pretty fluttering thing, Must we no longer live together? And dost thou prune thy trembling wing To take thy flight thou know'st not whither?
Erasmus, that learned and charming writer, who was blessed with the genius which could enliven a folio, has well described himself, sum naturâ propensior ad jocos quam fortasse deceat: more constitutionally inclined to pleasantry than, as he is pleased to add, perhaps became him.
Palma is victory. I observed, that the character of Nicholson, in this book resembled that of Burke: for it is said, in one place, 'in omnes lusos & jocos se saepe resolvebat ; and, in another, 'sed accipitris more e conspectu aliquando astantium sublimi se protrahens volatu, in praedam miro impetu descendebat . JOHNSON. 'No, Sir; I never heard Burke make a good joke in my life . BOSWELL. 'But, Sir, you will allow he is a hawk. Dr.
A few more of these light productions remain among his papers, but their wit is gone with those for whom they were written; the wings of Time "eripuere jocos." "Never mind them, brave black Dick, Though they've played thee such a trick Damn their ribands and their garters, Get you to your post and quarters. Look upon the azure sea, There's a Sailor's Taffety!
My mother, Madam, had been delivered sooner than the green bag infallibly at least by twenty knots. End of the first volume. Multitudinis imperitae non formido judicia, meis tamen, rogo, parcant opusculis in quibus fuit propositi semper, a jocis ad seria, in seriis vicissim ad jocos transire. Joan. Saresberiensis, Episcopus Lugdun. Great wits jump: for the moment Dr.
I am giving away my old horses, and anybody is welcome to my saddles and horse-furniture. "Singula de nobis anni praedantur euntes; Eripuere jocos, venerem, convivia, ladum; Tendunt extorquere poemata." "Our years keep taking toll as they move on; My feasts, my frolics, are already gone, And now, it seems, my verses must go too."
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