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Poor Haydon, with whom I have smoked many a pipe, would have acknowledged that Mr. Goodall's "David's Promise to Bathsheba" and "By the Sea of Galilee" prove that his aspirations are nearly fulfilled. These are extremely large pictures, yet well hung. The figure of Abishag is a little too much in the French taste for an old-fashioned painter. Ars longa, nuda veritas!
He said, "Yowi, he bin go longa other pub;" but as, on further questioning, he modified his statement by asserting that the man he saw was young, short and very fat, no heed was paid to his evidence it being the habit of blacks to give any answer that they think will please the questioner. "He'll play us some dog's trick, that old fellow," said Charlie. "I can't wait here looking for him, though.
During a discussion, George told the following story, which, it will be noticed, has in some details, its parallel in a tragic incident in the history of England. No attempt is made to refine George's language: "This fella spear kill plenty. Kangaroo, wallaby, fish kill 'em all asame. He go ri' through longa kangaroo. One time me see 'em catch one fella boy.
A chaplet of oak leaves would thus seem to have been part of the insignia of the old kings of Alba Longa as of their successors the kings of Rome; in both cases it marked the monarch as the human representative of the oak-god.
Thus many a nameless battle was fought on the trackless Steppe, and many brave men fell unhonoured and unsung: "Illacrymabiles Urgentur ignotique longa Nocte, carent quia vate sacro." Notwithstanding these valuable services, the Cossack communities were a constant source of diplomatic difficulties and political dangers.
He cut away the outer covering of the burden suspended from the saddle, and nodded his head wisely. These were boxes of cartridges to carry one thousand each. The grey old man turned and looked at him who lay on the ground. 'A la longa, he said with a grim smile. 'In the long run, Antonio.
I respect the evidence of my contemporaries, but I cannot forget the sayings of the Father of medicine, Ars longa, judicium diffcile. I am not presuming to express an opinion concerning Veratrum viride, which was little heard of when I was still practising medicine.
He never knows when he is well or sick, but is always tampering with his health till he has spoiled it, like a foolish musician that breaks his strings with striving to put them in tune; for Nature, which is physic, understands better how to do her own work than those that take it from her at second hand. Hippocrates says, Ars longa, vita brevis, and it is the truest of all his aphorisms
Leading Æneas and the Sibyl onto a rising ground, in the midst of the souls which were crowding about the magic stream of Lethe, he pointed out to him a long array of future kings of Latium, Silvius, who was to be the son of Æneas's old age by his consort Lavinia; Procas, Capys, and Numitor, destined to be monarchs of Alba Longa; and Romulus, the future founder of the great city of Rome, which would extend over seven hills, and would spread her dominion over the whole earth.
He gave an account to a friend of the suppression of a black rogue, a faithful report of which is presented as an example of unbowdlerised pidgin English. George "You bin hear about Mr Limsee have fight? My word, he fight proper; close up killed. We three fella ride about. Cap'n big strong boy that me and Mr Limsee. Wild boy boy from outside; Myall beggar that fella longa gully. Hit Mr Limsee.
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