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You must of necessity call me father, since that is the relation I am supposed to bear to you. Amuba can become Amnis and Chebron Chefu." "And I will be Mytis," Mysa said. "What name will you take, Ruth? There is no Egyptian name quite like yours." "It matters not what you call me," Ruth said. "We will call you Nite," Mysa said. "I had a great friend of that name, but she died."
"Ille etiam patriis agmen ciet Ocnus ab oris Fatidicæ Mantûs et Tusci filius amnis, Qui muros matrisque dedit tibi. Mantua nomen." Ocnus was next, who led his native train Of hardy warriors thro' the wat'ry plain, The son of Manto by the Tuscan stream, From whence the Mantuan town derives its name.
How different is this bit of pathology from the public feeling of Emerson's lines: Spirit that made those heroes dare To die and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee. Rura quae Liris quietâ Mordet aquâ, taciturnus amnis. The Concord School of Philosophy opened its first session in the summer of 1879.
"Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis: at ille Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum." We are imitating the man who made the experiment of constantly reducing the food on which his horse is to live. Let us take care that, just as he is learning to live on nothing, we do not find him dead in his stall. This, however, is no joking matter.
Now these two lines consist in a senseless plagiarism from the counterfeited madness of Edgar in Lear, who, in imitation of the gypsy incantations, puns on the old word mair, a hag; and the no less senseless adoption of Dryden's forest fiend, and the wisard stream by which Milton, in his Lycidas, so finely characterizes the spreading Deva, fabulosus amnis.
XXIX. Omnium harum gentium virtute praecipui Batavi, non multum ex ripa, sed insulam Rheni amnis colunt, Chattorum quondam populus et seditione domestica in eas sedes transgressus, in quibus pars Romani imperii fierent.
They were not wiser than the clown of Horace, who seated himself by the rushing stream, thinking it must soon run itself out Expectat rusticus dum defluat amnis; at ille Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis ævum. Vain is the dream that man will ever reach the point when he will think no more of the gods.
See Boswell's Hebrides, Sept. 30. 'They heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden. Genesis, iii. 8. ... 'Vivendi recte qui prorogat horam, Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis; at ille Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum.
"We went out by the door at the other side of our cabin in our woollen robes, on to that little platform on which the man is standing to steer, and poured jars of water over each other." "And you both slept well?" "Yes, indeed, and without waking once till we heard Amnis call you to get up." "You disturbed everyone, you see, Amnis," Chebron said. "And a very good thing too," Amuba laughed.
The earliest authority for the derivation of the name of Fulham is Camden, in his "Britannia," who is quoted by all succeeding writers. Fullon and Furglas in the Saxon toong signifieth Fowles, and Ham or Hame as much as Home in our Toong. So that Fullonham or Fuglahame is as much as to say the Home House or Habitacle of Fowle. Ham also in many places signifieth Amnis a River.
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