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By this I could perceive how fearful a thing it is to have an evil conscience, and called to remembrance the saying of the poet: "Multa male timeo, qui feci multa proterve." That is to say, "I fear much evil because I have done much."
When the solemn moment of the Crucifixion is reached on Good Friday, when the officiating priests advance in turn to adoration while the Cross itself lifts its voice in "Reproaches" to the multitude with Palestrina's music, who does not feel the dramatic directness of the representation? Popule meus, quid feci tibi? aut in quo contristavi te? responde mihi.
"Verily, thou art an Apollo or, rather, referring to thy want of legs, half an Apollo that is, a demi-god. "Fair words, master; I'm no liar," cried Tom. "Clap a stopper on your tongue, or you'll get into disgrace." "Ubi lapsus quid feci," said the Dominie; "I spoke of thy musical tongue; and, furthermore, I spoke alle-gori-cal-ly."
It was late when we rose from conference, and I betook me to the princess's apartments. She was pensive that evening; yet, when I left her, she flung her arms about me and grew, for an instant, bashfully radiant as she slipped a ring on my finger. I was wearing the King's ring; but I had also on my little finger a plain band of gold engraved with the motto of our family: "Nil Quae Feci."
All his plans and proposed projects were instantly altered for the purpose of giving them the appearance of novelty; and my father found himself in a situation to apply these lines of Virgil to himself. "Hos ego versiculos feci, tulit alter honores." These lines I made, another has the praise. He thought no more of him, and we were set up as a mark of every kind of obloquy.
Ex abiete factus est, ait ille, terebinthinum olet Carbunculus inest, ait uxor. Mortuus est nasus, respondit hospes. Vivus est ait illa, et si ipsa vivam tangam. Votum feci sancto Nicolao, ait peregrinus, nasum meum intactum fore usque ad Quodnam tempus? illico respondit illa. Slawkenbergius's Tale
In this work Sodoma made a portrait of himself, with a beard, being now old, and with a brush in his hand, which is pointing to a scroll that says "Feci."
Upon formalities followed kindness; the season was beginning, and at his modest lodgings arrived cards, notes, bidding to ceremonies greater and less; one or two of these summonses bore names which might have stirred envy in the sons of fashion. Solus feci! He allowed himself a little pride.
It still accepted the Empire because the Empire was the glory of Italy, the crown that gave to her people the presidency of civilization. It still recognized the authority of the Church because the Church was the eldest daughter of Italy emergent from the wrecks of Roman society. But the nation had become conscious of its right to stand apart from either. : 'Hospes eras, civem feci.
He then, under pretence of adding some new ornament, still kept them from me; and at length presented them himself. 'Ego versiculos feci, tulit alter honores. This gave him an introduction upon a certain footing to the Hotel de Luxembourg.
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