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"'Pailidula, nudula, rigida," he completed the quatrain. "'Ghostpale, stark, and rigid. He's got a grisly imagination, that pin-operator. I shouldn't care to have him on my trail." "But Robinson!" protested Bertram feebly. "What has a plump, commonplace, twentieth-century, cutaway-wearing, flat-inhabiting Robinson to do with a Roman emperor's soul-questionings?"
Speeches, treatises of various kinds, anecdotes, and a collection of oracles, are ascribed to his pen. Also certain epigrams which we still possess, and chiefly that exquisite address to his soul, composed on his death-bed: "Animala vagula blandula Hospes comesque corporis Quae nunc abibis in loca, Pallidula rigida nudula? Nec ut soles dabis iocos."
But strobus, as it is the most valuable, is also perhaps the most delicate tree of the American forest, while its congener, the Northern pitch-pine, Pinus rigida, is less injured by fire than any other tree of that country.
The white pine, Pinus strobus, as it is the most valuable, is also perhaps the most delicate tree of the American forest, while its congener, the Northern pitch-pine, Pinus rigida, is less injured by fire than any other tree of that country.
Animula, vagula, blandula, Hospes, comesque corporis Quæ nonc abibis in loca, Pallidula, rigida, nudula? Nec, ut soles, dabis jocos. Thus imitated by Prior: Poor little pretty fluttering thing, Must we no longer live together? And dost thou prune thy trembling wing To take thy flight thou know'st not whither?
Another handsome species which is fairly common is the solidago rigida, or hard-leaved golden-rod, whose leaves are thick, rough and fairly broad, the lower ones sometimes a foot long, and whose flower clusters form a broad flat top. Each cluster is very large, containing twenty-five or thirty flowers if you care to pull one to pieces and count them.
"Equi sine fraenis, deformis ipse cursus, rigida cervice et extento capite currentium." Livy, xxxv. Whoever gave these the title of Golden Epistles had another kind of opinion of them than I have.
"Animula vagula, blandula, Hospes, comesque corporis, Quae nunc abibis in loca, Pallidula, rigida, nudula, Nee, ut soles, dabis jocos?" It sounds a little gloomy as a quotation, but, fortunately for Germany and the Emperor, for "nunc" can be put, pace the poet, the indefinite, yet all too definite, "aliquando."
'Until very lately solution of continuity was a favourite phrase with English surgeons; where a bone was broken, or the flesh, &c. cut or lacerated, there was a solution of continuity. See ante, ii. 106, for laceration. He died March 11, 1780, aged 40. Gent. Mag. 1780, p. 155. 'Animula, vagula, blandula, Hospes comesque corporis, Quæ nunc abibis in loca, Pallidula, rigida, nudula?
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