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The pious prince beheld young Lausus dead; He grieved, he wept, then grasped his hand and said, "Poor hapless youth! what praises can be paid To worth so great?" I shall take another opportunity to consider the other parts of this old song. Part Two. Pendent opera interrupta. VIRG., AEn. iv. 88. The works unfinished and neglected lie.
"No; they scarcely observed her countenance, except that her complexion was too fair for a gypsy's; yet, now I think of it, Mrs. Mrs. Tiddy, being just married, was romantic at that day." "Well, it is an odd tale; but life is full of odd tales. Here we are at the house; it really is a splendid old place!" PENDENT opera interrupta.* VIRGIL. * "The things begun are interrupted and suspended."
The literary history of the ‘Pensées’ is a very curious one. They first appeared in the end of 1669, in a small duodecimo volume, with the appropriate motto, “Pendent opera interrupta.” Their preparation for the press had been a subject of much anxiety to Pascal’s friends.
Art often undergoes a transformation while they are pending, pendent opera interrupta; they proceed quietly in accordance with the transformed art. The new art takes the monument where it finds it, incrusts itself there, assimilates it to itself, develops it according to its fancy, and finishes it if it can.
"No; they scarcely observed her countenance, except that her complexion was too fair for a gypsy's; yet, now I think of it, Mrs. Mrs. Tiddy, being just married, was romantic at that day." "Well, it is an odd tale; but life is full of odd tales. Here we are at the house; it really is a splendid old place!" PENDENT opera interrupta.* VIRGIL. * "The things begun are interrupted and suspended."
Before the revolution, this palace belonged to MONSIEUR, next brother to Lewis XVI. It has since been occupied by the Directory, each of whose members here had apartments. No material change has yet been made in it; nor does any thing announce that the partial alterations intended, either in its exterior or interior, will speedily be completed. " Pendent opera interrupta minaeque, &c."
Never did any one prepare to bid adieu to the world more absolutely and unreservedly, and to shake hands with all manner of interest in it, than I expect to do. The deadest deaths are the best: "'Miser, O miser, aiunt, 'omnia ademit Una dies infesta mihi tot praemia vitae." And the builder, "Manuet," says he, "opera interrupta, minaeque Murorum ingentes."
This is not to be hoped for from Beauty, or Dress, or Fashion, but from those inward Ornaments which are not to be defaced by Time or Sickness, and which appear most amiable to those who are most acquainted with them. Quaest. Lib. v. No. 74. Friday, May 25, 1711. Addison. ... Pendent opera interrupta ... Virg.
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