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I have been employing all my leisure hours during the last nine years in perfecting a system of philosophy entirely new, and applicable to all times, to all nations, and to all individuals. I have discovered the true foundation for it, which, like all great inventions, is so simple that it will surprise the world it was never thought of before. It is this: "Posito impossibili sequitur quidlibet."
Laureate, that “quidlibet audendi” of yours may now and then gild the poet, at the same time that it makes the historian cut a sorry figure!
The case is the same in our verse, as it was in theirs: Rhyme to us, being in lieu of Quantity to them. But if no latitude is to be allowed a Poet; you take from him, not only his license of quidlibet audendi: but you tie him up in a straighter compass than you would a Philosopher. "This is, indeed, Musas colere severiores. You would have him follow Nature, but he must follow her on foot.
"I am pleased," said Michael, "to tell you why it is usual to paint that which was never seen in the world, and how right such licence is, and how true it is, for some who do not understand him are accustomed to say that Horace, a lyric poet, wrote this verse in abuse of painters: Pictoribus adque poetis Quidlibet audendi semper fuit acqua potestas.
I have seen a book, entitled 'Quidlibet ex Quolibet', or the art of making anything out of anything; which is not so difficult as it would seem, if once one quits certain plain truths, obvious in gross to every understanding, in order to run after the ingenious refinements of warm imaginations and speculative reasonings.
So I went to Quidlibet's, you know Quidlibet and that hieroglyphic sign of his with the omniscient-looking eye as its most prominent feature, and laid my case before him. I want you, said I, to look up an old book of mighty little value, one of your ten-cent vagabonds would be the sort of thing, but an old beggar, with a cover like this, and lay it by for me.
And Quidlibet, who is a pleasant body to deal with, only he has insulted one or two gentlemanly books by selling them to me at very low-bred and shamefully insufficient prices, Quidlibet, I say, laid by three old books for me to help myself from, and did n't take the trouble even to make me pay the thirty cents for 'em.
I have seen a book, entitled 'Quidlibet ex Quolibet', or the art of making anything out of anything; which is not so difficult as it would seem, if once one quits certain plain truths, obvious in gross to every understanding, in order to run after the ingenious refinements of warm imaginations and speculative reasonings.
So I went to Quidlibet's, you know Quidlibet and that hieroglyphic sign of his with the omniscient-looking eye as its most prominent feature, and laid my case before him. I want you, said I, to look up an old book of mighty little value, one of your ten-cent vagabonds would be the sort of thing, but an old beggar, with a cover like this, and lay it by for me.
It is, I must admit, a drab and dreary crowd to look at, these Germans at the theatre, at the opera, in the concert halls. They do not dress, or if they are women undress, for their music as do we; their music dresses for them. They come, most of them, in the clothes that they have worn all day, each quidlibet induitus.
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