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So remote an analogy to sex could not assert itself pervasively. Thus Horace says: Quis multa gracilis te puer in rosa perfusis liquidis urget odoribus grato, Pyrrha, sub antro?
"A well-disposed answer, Jacob; thy wishes shall be gratified. Knowest thou thine alphabet?" "I don't know what that is." "Then thou knowest it not. Mr Knapps shall forthwith instruct thee. Thou shall forthwith go to Mr Knapps, who inculcateth the rudiments. Levior Puer, lighter-boy, thou hast a crafty look."
'Perfect! he cried again. 'Puer pulchre! Next! He never went further than that with me in the way of correction. My size and my skill as a wrestler, that shortly ensured for me the respect of the boys, helped me to win the esteem of the master. I learned my lessons and kept out of mischief. But others of equal proficiency were not so fortunate.
An unlucky accident had occurred at Point Puer that morning, however, and the place was in a suppressed ferment. A refractory little thief named Peter Brown, aged twelve years, had jumped off the high rock and drowned himself in full view of the constables. These "jumpings off" had become rather frequent lately, and Burgess was enraged at one happening on this particular day.
I will not say to you, upon this occasion, like the father in Ovid, "Parce, puer, stimulis, et fortius utere loris." On the contrary, drive on briskly; it is not the chariot of the sun that you drive, but you carry the sun in your chariot; consequently, the faster it goes, the less it will be likely to scorch or consume. This is Spanish enough, I am sure.
Why do you want to people the minds of everybody that reads your good-for-nothing libel which you call a "biography" with your impudent caricatures of a man who was a better-looking fellow than yourself, I 'll bet you ten to one, a man whom his Latin tutor called fommosus puer when he was only a freshman?
"Saville, a game at ecarte." As the lion in the Tower looked at the lapdog, so in all the compassion of contempt looked Saville on Lord Falconer. "Infelix puer!" muttered Godolphin; "Infelix puer atque, impar congressus Achilli." "With all my heart," said Saville at last. "Yet, no we've been talking of death such topics waken a man's conscience, Falconer, I never play for less than " "Ponies!
"Agnovit bos et asinus Quod Puer erat Dominus!" In some of the earliest pictures the animals kneel, "confessing the Lord." One of the old Latin hymns, De Nativitate Domini, describes them, in that wintry night, as warming the new-born Infant with their breath; and they have always been interpreted as symbols, the ox as emblem of the Jews, the ass of the Gentiles.
I will not say to you, upon this occasion, like the father in Ovid, "Parce, puer, stimulis, et fortius utere loris." On the contrary, drive on briskly; it is not the chariot of the sun that you drive, but you carry the sun in your chariot; consequently, the faster it goes, the less it will be likely to scorch or consume. This is Spanish enough, I am sure.
The day before the barge was to proceed down the river to Sheerness, with a cargo of bricks, I called upon my worthy old master, Dominie Dobiensis. "Salve puer!" cried the old man, who was sitting in his study. "Verily, Jacob, thou art come in good time. I am at leisure, and will give thee a lesson. Sit down, my child." The Dominie opened the Aeneid of Virgil, and commenced forthwith.
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