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We may now reconstruct for ourselves the classic scene with Orpheus "singing on the hill to his lyre" the verses "O meos longum modulata lusus." The music was the half melancholy, half passionate melody of some wandering Italian frottola which readily fitted itself to the sonorous Sapphics.
"Vir ubi longum tepidusque præbet Jupiter brumas, et amicus Aulon, Fertili Baccho nimium Falernis Invidet uvis." Which translated means: En route, called on the Bey of Biscay. Found him in amiable temper not a bit rough. Lisbon delightful. Chatsworth not in it with the smallest flower-and-kitchen garden here. Dined at the "Brag" short for Braganza. Suddenly inspired wrote drinking song:
John the Divine; attended with copious Disquisitions on the relative Merits of moral and physical Philosophy, as contrasted with the pusillanimous Lectures of that Ignoramus of the first Water, Phadrick M'Swagger, falsely calling himself Philomath cum multis aliis quos enumerare longum est: "Humbly Sheweth
But we must take care not to be carried too far in our depreciation of German light literature by our indignation at the over-estimate formed of some of its professors. Let us admit that there are admirable authors a fact which it would be impossible to deny with such works before us as Tieck's, and Hoffman's, and a host of others quos nunc perscribere longum est.
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