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There is a life elemental rather than human in those mighty limbs; and the passion that twists them on the marriage-bed has in it the stress of storms, the rampings and roarings of leopards at play. Take this single line: et Venus in silvis jungebat corpora amantum. What a picture of primeval breadth and vastness!
As for myself, I scrape wildly on the violin, as a simple country amateur 'Orpheus in silvis'. Do not imagine, however, Monsieur le Comte, that we let the worship of this sweet art absorb all our faculties all our time-certainly not. When you take part in our little reunions, which of course you will do, you will find we disdain no pursuit worthy of thinking beings.
In an elegant suite of chambers in the Rue Castiglione sat a merry party at dessert. Senhor José Francisco de Silvis was a short-legged, dark-complexioned Portuguese, one of those who usually come from Brazil with incredible wealth, live incredible lives in Paris, and, above all, become notorious by making the most incredible acquaintances.
"He behaved foolishly. You did not stop for Giuseppe, did you?" "I did not." "I am not blaming you," said she, and led the way. "Silvis te, Tyrrhene, feras agitare putasti? Advenit qui vestra dies muliebribus armis Verba redarguerit." VIRGIL, Aeneid, xi.
'Oh, these truffles! groaned Anatole, holding his stomach. All at once the room was lit up. Two servants with lamps and candelabra appeared in the portière; and at the same moment the stranger finished by bringing down his fingers of steel with all his might in a dissonance, so startling, so unearthly, that the whole party sprang up. 'Out with the lamps! shouted De Silvis.
Silvis, ubi passim Palantes error certo de tramite pellit, Ille sinistrorsum, hic dextrorsum abit; unus utrique Error, sed variis illudit partibus. As Wolfe strode away from the inn, he muttered to himself, "Can it be that Mordaunt has suddenly grown rich? If so, I rejoice at it. True, that he was not for our cause, but he had the spirit and the heart which belonged to it.
'No, no! shrieked Adèle; 'I dare not be in the dark. Oh, that dreadful man! Who was it? Yes, who was it? They involuntarily crowded round the host, and no one noticed the stranger slip out behind the servants. De Silvis tried to laugh. 'I think it was the devil himself. Come, let us go to the opera. 'To the opera! Not at any price! exclaimed Louison. 'I will hear no music for a fortnight.
He had lured them with him, and now they could not break loose; downward, ever downward, he led them downward, where was a dull and muffled murmur as of threatenings and plaints. 'Er führt eine famose linke Hand, said the doctor. But De Silvis did not hear him; he sat, like the others, in breathless expectancy. A dark, sickening dread went out from the music and spread itself over them all.
Thus punishment was clothed with divine authority. Effigies et signa. Images and standards, i.e. images, which serve for standards. Images of wild beasts are meant, cf. H. 4, 22: depromptae silvis lucisve ferarum imagines. Turmam, cavalry. Cuneum, infantry, but sometimes both. Conglobatio is found only in writers after the Augustan age and rarely in them. It occurs in Sen. Qu. Nat. 1, 15, cf.
"Quum Venus in silvis jungebat corpora amantum," they have travelled the long, the weary way Lucretius describes to little avail, if they may not keep their hopes and fears. Robbed of these we are robbed of all; it serves us nothing to have conquered the soil and fought the winds and waves, to have built cities, and tamed fire, if the world is to be "dispeopled of its dreams."
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