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Tibullus, or the ... Author of the Schoolmistress. In the London Magazine Lamb wrote "Catullus." Tibullus was one of the tenderest of Latin poets. The "prettiest of poems" he called it in a letter to John Clare. Ad Leonoram. The following translation of Milton's sonnet was made by Leigh Hunt: A greater, Leonora, visits thee: Thy voice proclaims the present deity.
Where ever His Majesty went, this princess always accompanied her father upon the same, sedan, carriage, Royal boat, yacht &c. and on her being grown up she became more prudent than other children of the same age, she paid every affectionate attention to her affectionate and esteemed father in every thing where her ability allowed; she was well educated in the vernacular Siamese literature which she commenced to study when she was 3 years old, and in last year she commenced to study in the English School where the schoolmistress, Lady L has observed that she was more skillful than the other royal Children, she pronounced & spoke English in articulate & clever manner which pleased the schoolmistress exceedingly, so that the schoolmistress on the loss of this her beloved pupil, was in great sorrow and wept much.
"Think," I said, "before you answer: if you take the long path with me now, I shall interpret it that we are to part no more!" The schoolmistress stepped back with a sudden movement, as if an arrow had struck her. "'One of the long granite blocks used as seats was hard by the one you may still see close by the Gingko-tree. "Pray sit down," I said.
His virginal purity recoiled from alluding to certain things. "Of having been over-intimate with the village schoolmistress. What can you answer, my son?" "Holy Father," Benedetto said calmly, "the Spirit is answering for me in your heart."
And so I thought that by marrying a young schoolmistress I should get some one in the house who could teach 'em, and bring 'em into genteel condition, all for nothing. You see, they are growed up too tall to be sent to school. 'O, mercy! she almost moaned.
But I found out that the schoolmistress had a vein of charity about her, which had hitherto been worked on a small silver and copper basis, which made her think less, perhaps, of luxuries than even I did, modestly as I have expressed my wishes.
The old gentleman took the watch-paper carefully from her, replaced it, turned away and walked out, holding the watch in his hand. I saw him pass the window a moment after with that foolish white hat on his head; he couldn't have been thinking what he was about when he put it on. So the schoolmistress and I were left alone.
Aqua fortis, says he, because you know that'll eat your insides out, if you get it too strong, and so you always mind how much you take. Next to that, says he, rum's the safest for a wise man, and small beer for a fool. I never mistrusted anything about him and that schoolmistress till I heerd they was keepin' company and was go'n' to be merried.
So unconscious was she of all around, that the falling back of the other children did not cause her to raise her eyes; neither was she aware of Miss Rutherford's first exclamations, nor yet of the question which was next addressed to her by the horrified schoolmistress. "How did it happen? Some of you run at once for a doctor Dr. Williams in Grove Road Oh, quick! Ida Starr, how did it happen?"
At the close of two such foolish, idle, happy hours he found himself lying at the feet of the schoolmistress, gazing dreamily in her face as she sat upon the sloping hillside weaving wreaths of laurel and syringa, in very much the same attitude as he had lain when first they met. Nor was the similitude greatly forced.
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