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See ante, p. 366. See ante,, i. 458 'O præclarum diem quum ad illud divinum animorum concilium c'tumque profiscar. Cicero's De Senectute, c. 23. See ante, p. 396. See ante, ii. 162. I had not then seen his letters to Mrs. Thrale. In the Life of Edmund Smith. See ante, i. 81, and Johnson's Works, vii. 380. Unlike Walmsley and Johnson, of whom one was a Whig, the other a Tory.
You have already guessed, I have no doubt, the purpose of this lengthy argument. The sagacious man, believe me, can never be utterly miserable, and I most willingly agree with my friend Horace, who says that, on the contrary, such a man is always happy. 'Nisi quum pituita molesta est. But, pray where is the man who is always suffering from a rheum?
The reason whereof is thought to be this: Ad praesens ova cras pullis sunt meliora. ut est gl. in l. quum hi. ff. de transact. Nor is this all; for the inconvenience of the contrary is set down in gloss. c. de allu. l. fin. Quum labor in damno est, crescit mortalis egestas.
Thus writes Suetonius "prægrandibus oculis, qui, quod mirum esset, noctu etiam et in tenebris, viderent, sed ad breve, et quum primum a somno patuissent; deinde rursum hebescebant." Tib. cap. lxviii. Those who are familiar with the classic historians, will see in this description no exaggeration whatever.
"Mihi est propositum in taberna mori, Vinum sit appositum morientis ori, Ut dicant, quum venerint, angelorum chori Deus sit propitius huic potatori." The students of the Northern nations mock, of course, at these revellers, thumbs are bitten, threats exchanged, and we shall see what comes of the quarrel.
The nurse, moreover, told us that it urined at both bodies, and that the members of the other were nourished, sensible, and in the same plight with that she gave suck to, excepting that they were shorter and less. "Ut quum facts sunt, tum ad conjecturam aliqui interpretatione revocentur;" as 'tis said of Epimenides, that he always prophesied backward.
When told, one day, of the unfavorable whispers, he smiled a little and answered his informant, whom he knew to be one of the whisperers himself, laying a hand kindly upon his shoulder: "Father Murphy," or whatever the name was, "your words comfort me." "How is that?" "Because 'Væ quum benedixerint mihi homines!"*
The only thought, therefore, on which we can repose with comfort, is that which presents to us the care of Providence, whose eye takes in the whole of things, and under whose direction all involuntary errours will terminate in happiness. No. 108. Nobis, quum semel occidit brevis lux, Nox est perpetua una dormienda. CATULLUS, Lib. v. El. v.
Quum exsurgerent homines in nos, forte vivos deglutissent nos; when we were eaten in the salad, with salt, oil, and vinegar. Quum irasceretur furor eorum in nos, forsitan aqua absorbuisset nos; when he drank the great draught. Torrentem pertransivit anima nostra; when the stream of his water carried us to the thicket.
The eulogium of Ovid is "Carmina sublimis tunc sunt peritura Lucretî, Exitio terras quum dabit una dies." Elegiac poetry has an honorable place in Roman literature. To this school belongs Ovid, born 43 B.C., died 18 A.D., whose "Tristia," a doleful description of the evils of exile, were much admired by the Romans.
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