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Vergil apparently never published the Ciris, for he re-used its lines, indeed whole blocks of its lines with a freedom that cannot be paralleled. The much discussed line of the fourth Eclogue: Cara deum suboles, magnum Jovis incrementum, and Aeneid II. 405: Ad caelum tendens ardentia lumina frustra, and a score of others.
We might behold the beams of science and philosophy breaking in upon their land, which at some happy period in still later times might blaze with full lustre; and joining their influence to that of pure religion, might illuminate and invigorate the most distant extremities of that immense continent. Nos primus equis Oriens afflavit anhelis; Illìc sera rubens accendit lumina Vesper.
Hunt out second volume of Kames's "History of Man," passage containing Reid's Logic, don't know where the book is! How does the line beginning Lumina conjurent, inter something, end? Is it in Grey? See. Fracastorius writes: Quantum hoe infecit vitium, quot adiverit urbes. Query, ought it not, in strict grammar, to be injecerit, instead of infecit? If you don't know, write to father.
"Sed frons laeta parum, et dejecto lumina vultu" This beautiful figure, of Carrara marble, is sculptured in a masterly manner. It comes from the Museum of the Capitol, and previously belonged to the collection of Cardinal Alessandro Albani. The fore-arm and left leg are modern. ANTINOUeS.
And, moreover, chastisements that are inflicted with weight and discretion are much better received and with greater benefit by him who suffers; otherwise, he will not think himself justly condemned by a man transported with anger and fury, and will allege his master's excessive passion, his inflamed countenance, his unwonted oaths, his emotion and precipitous rashness, for his own justification: "Ora tument ira, nigrescunt sanguine venae, Lumina Gorgoneo saevius igne micant."
Nam qui Tartareum in specus Victus lumina flexerit, Quidquid praecipuum trahit, Perdit, dum videt inferos. It may be observed, in general, that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure instant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification.
They tell me that the first time they sang it, as they came to this passage she burst into tears and sank down almost senseless: O bona patria! lumina sobria te speculantur, Ad tua nomina sobria lumina collacrimantur: Et tua mentio pectoris unctis, cura doloris, Concipientibus aethers mentibus ignis amoris. November 17. The winter must soon be here again.
It appears from another passage in the same work, that this inviolable arcanum was something which Ovid had seen, and, as he insinuates, through his own ignorance and mistake. Cur aliquid vidi? cur conscia lumina feci? Cur imprudenti cognita culpa mihi est? Ibid. Inscia quod crimen viderunt lumina, plector: Peccatumque oculos est habuisse meum. De Trist. iii. 5.
'It may be so, said Henry; 'and yet Jerusalem! Jerusalem! It was my father's cry; it was King Edward's cry; it was St. Louis' cry; and yet they never got there. 'St. Louis was far on his way, said James. 'Ay! he never turned aside! said Henry, sighing, and moving restlessly and wearily with something of returning fever. "'O bona patria, lumina sobria te speculantur "
Juv. 13, 164: Caerula quis stupuit Germani lumina? flavam Caesariem, et madido torquentem cornua cirro? Nempe quod haec illis natura est omnibus una. Magna corpora. "Sidonius Apollinaris says, that, being in Germany and finding the men so very tall, he could not address verses of six feet to patrons who were seven feet high: Spernit senipedem stilum Thalia, Ex quo septipedes vidit patronos." Mur.
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