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Steele. ... Sed tu simul obligasti Perfidum votis caput, enitescis Pulchrior multo ... Hor.
That is the Palazzo Publico, the shrine of Aristotle's Politics and the Miracles of the Virgin. What is that long spear which seems to shake as it glances skywards? It isn't a spear; it's the Torre del Mangia the loveliest tower in Tuscany, the filia pulchrior of a beautiful mother, the Torre della Vacca of Florence.
Pace mihi liceat, coelestes, dicere vestra; Mortalis visust pulchrior esse deo-. The author of this epigram, Greek in its tone and inspired by Greek enthusiasm for art, was no less a man than the conqueror of the Cimbri, Quintus Lutatius Catulus, consul in 652. IV. XII. Course of Literature and Rhetoric
"Merses profundo, pulchrior evenit." He had many friends and a great reputation; they brought him various preferments, the lectureship at Gray's Inn, the vicarage of St Lawrence Jewry, and the Deanery of Ripon, within a few years after his banishment from Cambridge.
Pace mihi liceat, coelestes, dicere vestra; Mortalis visust pulchrior esse deo-. The author of this epigram, Greek in its tone and inspired by Greek enthusiasm for art, was no less a man than the conqueror of the Cimbri, Quintus Lutatius Catulus, consul in 652. IV. XII. Course of Literature and Rhetoric
And because this gave the magister a great thirst he drank much of a warmed wine from Burgundy that the hostess brought herself. They sat, byside, on cushions on a couch before the warm fire. 'Filia pulchra mater pulchrior! the magister muttered, and he cast his arms about her soft and plump waist.
So-and-so, my lassie is thriving well, but would it no' be more to the point to say, "O matra pulchra filia pulchrior"? which astounded them very much if she managed to reach the end without being flung, but usually she had a fit of laughing in the middle, and so they found her out.
The little Venetia was a charming child, and the kind-hearted Doctor, though a bachelor, loved children. O! matre pulchrâ, filia pulchrior, was the Rev. Dr. Masham's apposite and favourite quotation after his weekly visit to Cherbury.
She is dark, as Gabrielle de Caylus was dark. She is beautiful, not so beautiful as Gabrielle de Caylus indeed, but, bah! filia pulchra, matre pulchrior. Before the king to-day I will produce her. The princess cannot but accept her.
Before one is the Ponte di Mezzo, the most ancient bridge of the city, built in 1660, but really the representative of its forerunners that here bound north and south together: En moles olim lapidea vix aetatem ferrus nunc mormorea pulchrior et firmior stat simulato Marte virtutis verae specimen saepe datura, you read on one of the pillars at the northern end.
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