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But we must take care not to be carried too far in our depreciation of German light literature by our indignation at the over-estimate formed of some of its professors. Let us admit that there are admirable authors a fact which it would be impossible to deny with such works before us as Tieck's, and Hoffman's, and a host of others quos nunc perscribere longum est.
But Jan used to say, 'Water will do it best; give water time. Jan Van Eyck was never in a hurry, and that is why the world will not forget him in a hurry." This and several other receipts, quae nunc perscribere longum est, Margaret gave him with sparkling eyes, and Gerard received them like a legacy from Heaven, so interesting are some things that read uninteresting.
Congreve I saw a dozen of times at Button's, a splendid wreck of a man, magnificently attired, and though gouty, and almost blind, bearing a brave face against fortune. The great Mr. There were hundreds of men, wits, and pretty fellows frequenting the theatres and coffee-houses of that day whom "nunc perscribere longum est."