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On one side rose a square, narrow turret, surmounted by a gilt dome and quaint weathercock, below the architrave of which was a sun-dial, set in the stonework; and another dial stood in the garden, with the common and beautiful motto, "Non numero horas, nisi serenas!"* * "I number not the hours, unless sunny." On the other side of the bay window a huge buttress cast its mass of shadow.
Therefore we concluded to go to sea again, putting forth through Boca Chica, with intent to take down our masts, upon hope of fair weather, and to ride under the rocks called Las Serenas, which are two leagues off at sea, as we had usually done aforetime, so that they could not discern us from the rocks.
Such a man is Petrarch; and yet, by the irresistible purifying and elevating power of the "Vita Nuova," this man came to write not other albas and serenas, not other love-songs to be added to the love-songs of Provence, but those sonnets and canzoni which for four centuries taught the world, too coarse as yet to receive Dante's passion at first hand, a nobler and more spiritual love.
People are getting tired of military controversies, and if they were not, I should be precluded from dealing with them by the fact that I intend to avoid as far as possible matters which concern living men, unless these are non-contentious. Horas non numero nisi serenas.
"And better. Horas non numero nisi serenas." "And what's that?" I translated literally. Dolly clapped her hands, and her face gleamed with smiles. "I like that one," she cried. "Stop!" said I imperatively. "You'll set it moving!" "It's very sensible," said she. "More freely rendered, it means, I live only when you "
Francezka continued in a voice half laughter and half tears: "And around the sun-dial are the words: Horas non numero nisi serenas I read it 'Only the sunny hours I mark. Oh, what serene and sunny hours shall I have in that garden! There is no spot at Capello I love so well no spot in the world I love so well. It shall not be touched it shall remain green and mossy and secluded just as it is now.
"Quemvis perferre laborem Suadet, et inducit noctes vigilare serenas." To this end I have some time since, with a world of pains and art, dissected the carcass of human nature, and read many useful lectures upon the several parts, both containing and contained, till at last it smelt so strong I could preserve it no longer.
On one side rose a square, narrow turret, surmounted by a gilt dome and quaint weathercock, below the architrave of which was a sun-dial, set in the stonework; and another dial stood in the garden, with the common and beautiful motto, "Non numero horas, nisi serenas!"* * "I number not the hours, unless sunny." On the other side of the bay window a huge buttress cast its mass of shadow.
David laughed gleefully. "Oh, of course, REALLY I do lots of things, only I don't count those any more. 'Horas non numero nisi serenas, you knew," he quoted pleasantly, smiling into the man's astonished eyes. "Jack, what was that what he said?" whispered the little girl. "It sounded foreign. IS he foreign?" "You've got me, Jill," retorted the man, with a laughing grimace.
"'Horas non numero nisi serenas. Uncle Samuel, who sits by me, has just been reading the above motto, the inscription on a sun-dial in Venice. It strikes me as having a distant relationship to what I was going to say. I have come to a firm resolution to count no hours but unclouded ones, and to let all others slip out of my memory and reckoning as quickly as possible. . . .
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