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I once lost fugaces in the Ode Posthume, Posthume . I mentioned to him, that a worthy gentleman of my acquaintance actually forgot his own name. JOHNSON. 'Sir, that was a morbid oblivion. Dr. Shaw, the professor of divinity, breakfasted with us. I took out my Ogden on Prayer, and read some of it to the company. Dr. Johnson praised him. Ogden goes farther.
I once lost fugaces in the Ode Posthume, Posthume. I mentioned to him, that a worthy gentleman of my acquaintance actually forgot his own name. JOHNSON. 'Sir. that was a morbid oblivion. Friday, 2Oth August Dr Shaw, the professor of divinity, breakfasted with us. I took out my Ogden On Prayer, and read some of it to the company. Dr Johnson praised him.
"Four times as many as 'La Pucelle, which M. Chaplain is meditating. Is it also on this subject, too, that you have composed a hundred thousand verses?" "Listen to me, you eternally absent-minded creature," said Moliere. "It is certain," continued La Fontaine, "that legume, for instance, rhymes with posthume." "In the plural, above all."
To smell, though well, is to stink: "Rides nos, Coracine, nil olentes Malo, quam bene olere, nil olere." And elsewhere: "Posthume, non bene olet, qui bene semper olet."
And one thing is to be noted in favour of the processions; the taste of town-decoration was excellent, and the combinations of floral colours were admirable. Perhaps there is too much of nosegay in Madeira, making us remember the line Posthume, non bene olet qui bane semper olet. I went to the Jesuit church to hear the predica, or sermon.
They call other rolls now in chapel and in class-room, and chant other songs at their revels and their feasts. 'Eheu, Posthume!" "Pshaw, Ned Blount! there's corn in Egypt still.
"Souvenirs sur Mirabeau, et sur les deux Premieres Assemblees Legislatives". Par Etienne Dumont, de Geneve: ouvrage posthume publie par M.J.L. Duval, Membre du Conseil Representatif du Canton du Geneve. 8vo. Paris: 1832. This is a very amusing and a very instructive book: but even if it were less amusing and less instructive, it would still be interesting as a relic of a wise and virtuous man.
Gowles pilfered the notion from Good's glass eye, in a secular romance, called King Solomon's Mines, which Mr. Gowles, we are sure, never heard of in his life. In the drawing-room, or, as it is more correctly called, the "dormitory," of my club, I had been reading a volume named "Sur l'Humanite Posthume," by M. D'Assier, a French follower of Comte.
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