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Pope, Imitations of Horace, Bk. ii Sat. 'One of the dippers at Brighthelmstone, seeing Mr. Johnson swim in the year 1766, said: "Why, Sir, you must have been a stout-hearted gentleman forty years ago." Piozzi's Anec. p. 113. 'Errat adhuc vitreus per prata virentia rivus, Quo toties lavi membra tenella puer; Hic delusa rudi frustrabar brachia motu, Dum docuit blanda voce natare pater.
To take such a ride twice in an afternoon taxed my strength, but the Marquesan boys and girls were never wearied, and laughed at my violent breathing. The Romans ranked swimming with letters, saying of an uneducated man, "Nec literas didicit nec natare." He had neither learned to read nor to swim. The sea is the book of the South Sea Islanders.
The dare-devil wildness and the cool quietude that were so intimately and intricately mingled in his natare could alone have prompted and projected such a thought and such an action as suggested themselves to him now; in the moment of his direst extremity, of his utter hopelessness, of his most imminent peril, he went to take a last look at his mistress!
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