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He tried hard to weep, but did not succeed. 0 tempora! O mores! Such are the broadening effects of travel and two short months in the Orient. Conceive of the old maid schoolteacher in America assuming the position of judge in a matrimonial or extra-matrimonial scandal of this sort.
"You? What's the younger set coming to?" and he motioned a servant to fill her glass. But she pushed it aside with a shiver, and gave Plank a strange look which he scarcely understood at the moment. "More caprices; all sorts of 'em on the programme," muttered Ferrall, looking down at her from where he stood beside Plank. "O tempora! O Sylvia! Plank, would you mind hunting up my wife?
They have no duties. 'O tempora, O mores!" He paused to relight his cigar, and, just then, Georgia came in, dressed very richly. He tossed the taper into the grate, and exclaimed, as she threw her arms round his neck and kissed him: "You pretty imp; what is to pay now? Here Beulah has been sitting, nobody knows how long, in that frigid zone you call your music room.
In substituting fortune for the object of his designs, the man of genius deprives himself of those heats of inspiration reserved for him who lives for himself; the mollia tempora fandi of Art. If he be subservient to the public taste, without daring to raise it to his own, the creature of his times has not the choice of his subjects, which choice is itself a sort of invention.
See ante, i. 71, and ii. 226. Captain Cook's third voyage. The first two volumes by Captain Cook; the last by Captain King. See ante, ii. 73, 228, 248; iii. 49. quae mollissima fandi Tempora. time wherein the word May softliest be said. MORRIS. Virgil, Aeneids, iv. 293. See ante, i. 71. See ante, i. 203, note 6. Boswell began to eat dinners in the Inner Temple so early as 1775.
A new Number Seven, with electric lights and a bathroom and a brass bed. Tempora mutantur. There is an empire and a feudal system, did one but know it. The clans are part of the empire, and each chief is responsible for his clan did one but know it. One doesn't know it. Number nine belongs from year to year to Mr.
The time should likewise be judiciously chosen; every man has his 'mollia tempora', but that is far from being all day long; and you would choose your time very ill, if you applied to a man about one business, when his head was full of another, or when his heart was full of grief, anger, or any other disagreeable sentiment.
Beside her was a thin young man in a gray suit, and the thin young man was waving an old pipe about, and saying: "Tempora mutantur, Lily. The wise employer " "I am afraid, sir," said Anthony, in a terrible voice, "that you are not acquainted with the rules of my house. I object to pipes. There are cigars in the humidor behind you." "Very sorry, Mr. Cardew," Willy Cameron explained. "I didn't know.
Yet it did cause such uneasiness and was peremptorily checked. It was impossible then for a native-born Canadian, whether of English or French extraction, to look a home-appointed government official in the face. "Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis." See Duke de la Rochefoucault's Liancourt's travels through North America. On the 21st January, 1807, Mr.
Jam vero tempora curarum remissionumque divisa: ubi conventus ac judicia poscerent, gravis, intentus, severus, et saepius misericors; ubi officio satisfactum, nulla ultra potestatis persona: tristitiam et arrogantiam et avaritiam exuerat: nec illi, quod est rarissimum, aut facilitas auctoritatem aut severitas amorem deminuit.
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