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Then came the row of giant peaks Pitz d'Aela, Tinzenhorn, and Michelhorn, above the deep ravine of Albula all seen across wide undulating golden swards, close-shaven and awaiting winter. Carnations hung from cottage windows in full bloom, casting sharp angular black shadows on white walls. Italiam petimus! We have climbed the valley of the Julier, following its green, transparent torrent.
Italiam petimus! We left our upland home before daybreak on a clear October morning. There had been a hard frost, spangling the meadows with rime-crystals, which twinkled where the sun's rays touched them. Men and women were mowing the frozen grass with thin short Alpine scythes; and as the swathes fell, they gave a crisp, an almost tinkling sound.
And then there are the forests of dark pines upon those many knolls and undulating mountain-flanks beside the lakes. Sitting and dreaming there in noonday sun, I kept repeating to myself Italiam petimus! A hurricane blew upward from the pass as we left Silvaplana, ruffling the lake with gusts of the Italian wind.
Let me therefore advise this Generation of Wranglers, for their own and for the publick Good, to act at least so consistently with themselves, as not to burn with Zeal for Irreligion, and with Bigotry for Nonsense. No. 186. Wednesday, October 3, 1711. Addison. 'Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia. Hor.
Trembling, anxious, cumbered with much digestive bread, they did proceed to Constantinople, they did go round the world. The rest of us must be contented with a fair, but a less arduous, goal. Italiam petimus: we return to the Pension Bertolini. George said it was his old room. "No, it isn't," said Lucy; "because it is the room I had, and I had your father's room.
It was mentioned that Dr. He certainly ought to be kicked. JOHNSON. 'Sir, we all do this in some degree, "Veniam petimus damusque vicissim ." To be sure it may be done so much, that a man may deserve to be kicked. BEAUCLERK. 'He is very malignant. JOHNSON. 'No, Sir; he is not malignant. He is mischievous, if you will.
And then there are the forests of dark pines upon those many knolls and undulating mountain-flanks beside the lakes. Sitting and dreaming there in noonday sun, I kept repeating to myself Italiam petimus! A hurricane blew upward from the pass as we left Silvaplana, ruffling the lake with gusts of the Italian wind.
There is a sound of cow-bells on the meadows; and the roar of the stream is dulled or quickened as the gusts of this October wind sweep by or slacken. Italiam petimus! Tangimus Italiam! Chiavenna is a worthy key to this great gate Italian.
Who would to-day dare repeat those maledictions against the bold builders who construct the magnificent trans-Atlantic liners on which, in a dozen days from Genoa, one lands in Boston or New York? "Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia," exclaims Horace that is to say, in anticipation he considered the Wright brothers crazy. Who, save some man of erudition, has knowledge to-day of sumptuary laws?
Townsend's holiday succeeded to Hutton's, and when the holidays were over, including my own, which not unnaturally took me to Venice, "Italiam petimus" should always be the motto of an English youth, I returned to take up the position of a weekly leader-writer and holiday-understudy, a mixed post which by the irony of fate, as I have already said, had just been vacated by Mr. Asquith.
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