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"`Parlour, bedroom, and bath," he continued, with a melancholy smile; "and `Lachrymae, and `A Reading from Homer. Sometimes they have `The Music Lesson, or `Winter Scene' or `A Neapolitan Fisher Lad' instead of `Lachrymae, but they always have `A Reading from Homer. When you opened the door, a moment ago, I had a very strong impression that something extraordinary would some time happen to me in this room."
We had had gentlemen for Presidents before him, but he was the first one who rooted for votes with the common herd by catering to the gutter instead of to the skyline, and the tail end of his policy is to be seen in the mortifying appearance of our highest officials and representatives. Hinc illae lachrymae!
Where are they? Caligula has even made it up with his mother-in-law, and you reflect with joy on that fact, as the two flit by your mind's eye, hand in hand. All this nonsense is for those of us who HAVE awakenings. The rest of "our party" may sit at Spillman's and eat coffee-cakes and sip Lachrymae Christi, while we walk alone through the Coliseum, with the crowd of old heathen.
The crisis was past, and Edward was saved!... And yet... sunt lachrymae rerem... to me watching the cigar-stump alternately pale and glow against the dark background of laurel, a vision of a tip-tilted nose, of a small head poised scornfully, seemed to hover on the gathering gloom seemed to grow and fade and grow again, like the grin of the Cheshire cat pathetically, reproachfully even; and the charms of the baker's wife slipped from my memory like snow-wreaths in thaw.
Hinc illae lachrymae!" ... "Not at all," said Mr. Machin in reply to a question, "I have the highest admiration for Miss Euclid's genius. I should not presume to dictate to her as to her art. She has had a very long experience of the stage, very long, and doubtless knows better than I do. Only, the Regent happens to be my theatre, and I'm responsible for it.
Our capacities for romance are far in excess of the needs of the race: we have a surplus of emotion, and Satan finds mischievous vent for it. We are confronted with a curious dualism of soul and body, with two streams of tendency that will not always run parallel: hinc illae lachrymae. This it is that makes M. Bourget's "Cruel Enigme."
But the worst of all is that, in the utmost perfection of your luxury, you had no wine to be named with claret, Burgundy, champagne, old hock, or Tokay. You boasted much of your Falernum, but I have tasted the Lachrymae Christi and other wines of that coast, not one of which would I have drunk above a glass or two of if you would have given me the Kingdom of Naples.
This promotes happiness all round, and makes the literary man contented with his lot. In England authors have no Academy, and so have to fall back on the poor publishers: Hinc illae lachrymae! Everybody paints the portrait of nobody.
"I trow," returned the Cardinal, "that one of these same hinds is a boon companion of the fool's hinc illae lachrymae, and a speech that would have befitted a wise man's mouth." "There is work that may well make even a fool grave, friend Thomas," replied the jester.
"I trow," returned the Cardinal, "that one of these same hinds is a boon companion of the fool's hinc illae lachrymae, and a speech that would have befitted a wise man's mouth." "There is work that may well make even a fool grave, friend Thomas," replied the jester.
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