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For ourselves, we are much more disposed to look indulgently on the pleasures which he allowed to himself than on the pain which he inflicted on his neighbors: "Atque utinam his potius nugis tota illa dedisset Tempora sævitiæ, claras quibus abstulit urbi Illustresque animas, impune ac vindice nullo."
Nec Deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice nodus inciderit. Motions excited by sensation. Digestion. Generation. Pleasure of existence. Hypochondriacism. 2. Pain introduced. Sensitive fevers of two kinds. 3. Two sensorial powers exerted in sensitive fevers. Size of the blood. Nervous fevers distinguished from putrid ones. The septic and antiseptic theory. 4. Two kinds of delirium. 5.
As for what Horace says in his "Art of Poetry," that no machines are to be used unless on some extraordinary occasion "Nec deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice nodus"
Serious reflection will always give courage in a good cause; and the courage arising from reflection is of a much superior nature to the animal and constitutional courage of a foot soldier. The former is steady and unshaken, where the 'nodus' is 'dignus vindice'; the latter is oftener improperly than properly exerted, but always brutally.
He took his rapier from under his cloak, and seemed about to search the thickets around. "I will prevent him," whispered the Doctor to Alice. "I will keep faith with you you shall not come on the scene nisi dignus vindice nodus I'll explain that another time. Vindex is feminine as well as masculine, so the quotation is defensible. Keep you close."
Only the most purblind could fail to observe, what only the most perverse could hesitate to admit, that there was at first sight an obvious connection between the poison-flower "purple from love's wound" squeezed by Oberon into the eyes of the sleeping Titania and the poison rubbed by Vindice upon the skull of the murdered Gloriana.
Did he tell you the Stoics were the best of men, and send you to their school? I dare say he recommends different philosophers to different persons, according to their individual needs? Her. Nothing of the kind, Lycinus; I never consulted him upon it. Ly. Why? was it not a dignus vindice nodus? or were you confident in your own unaided discrimination? Her. Why, yes; I was. Ly.
"For tragedy implies some ponderable matter in dispute, some dignus vindice nodus; and this piece of work was all about the petulance of a young ass that had been spoiled, and wanted nothing so much as to be tied up and soundly belted.
Possibly enough there may be no call for any such exceptional solution; for, after all, there may be nothing to solve no dignus vindice nodus.
For ourselves, we are much more disposed to look indulgently on the pleasures which he allowed to himself than on the pain which he inflicted on his neighbours. "Atque utinam his potius nugis tota illa dedisset Tempora saevitiae, claras quibus abstulit urbi Illustresque animas, impune ac vindice nullo."
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