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I had resolved No age should come on me ere youth was spent, For I would wear myself out, Omar Khayyam's While you live Drink! for once dead you never shall return, Swinburne's cry of despair, show that in a revulsion from the asceticism of the puritan, no less than in a revulsion from the stupidity of the plain man, it may become easy for the poet to carry his carpe diem philosophy very far.
But you must not will you, dear Clym?" "You are just like all women. They are ever content to build their lives on any incidental position that offers itself; whilst men would fain make a globe to suit them. Listen to this, Eustacia. There is a subject I have determined to put off no longer. Your sentiment on the wisdom of Carpe diem does not impress me today.
It will be seen that the philosophy of these songs is mostly of the Epicurean and carpe diem order.
I will live in the light of my Charlotte's smiles while I can, and for the rest "Il ne faut pas dire, fontaine, je ne boirai pas de ton eau." There is no cup so bitter that a man dare say, I will not drain it to the very dregs. "What must be, shall be that's a certain text;" and in the mean time carpe diem. I am all a Bohemian again. Nov. 5th.
But you must not will you, dear Clym?" "You are just like all women. They are ever content to build their lives on any incidental position that offers itself; whilst men would fain make a globe to suit them. Listen to this, Eustacia. There is a subject I have determined to put off no longer. Your sentiment on the wisdom of Carpe diem does not impress me today.
The motto 'Carpe diem, which I had found in my father's Horace and had engraved upon my seal ring, unexpectedly gained a new significance by no longer translating it "enjoy," but "use the day," till the time came when the two meanings seemed identical.
Some of them, it is true, uttered threats of bitter vengeance on the heads of the villainous slaves, as they called the blacks; but they passed the bottle freely, and talked, and even laughed, as if nothing special was happening. Major Malcolm was surprised at their apparent indifference to danger. "Carpe diem is my motto," observed a jovial, bald-headed gentleman, who sat next to him.
Whether his friends were immediately to resume power, or whether their estates ultimately were to be confiscated, the practical conclusion to Charles Egremont appeared to be the same. Carpe diem.
It passes from a reflection on "the dreary fuimus of all things here" to the advice But "carpe diem," Juan, "carpe, carpe!" To-morrow sees another race as gay And transient, and devour'd by the same harpy. "Life's a poor player," then play out the play. It was the natural conclusion of the foregone stage of Byron's career.
It can exhibit to the world that Peace is a most desirable mother-in-law; and it is tempted to dream of capping the pinnacle of wisdom when it squats on a fundamental truth. Bull's perusal of the Horatian carpe diem is acute as that of the cattle in fat meads; he walks like lusty Autumn carrying his garner to drum on, for a sign of his diligent wisdom in seizing the day.
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