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The flowers grow over them now, or the church floor covers them; the sack is drunk, the roast beef is eaten, the quarrel is over; the beauty and the red-faced parson, the husband and wife, they are all with Tullus and Ancus. Pulvis et umbra that is the moral of "Pepys's Diary."

It is a mere sermon: ... but it is true, and I find it touching and beneficial, to me at least; and I think there is some fine writing in it, some very apt and pregnant phrases. Pulvis et Umbra, I call it; I might have called it a Darwinian Sermon, if I had wanted. Its sentiments, although parsonic, will not offend even you, I believe."

There is a kind of Heaviness and Ignorance that hangs upon the Minds of ordinary Men, which is too thick for Knowledge to break through. Their Souls are not to be enlightened. ... Nox atra cava circumvolat umbra.

We would not for the world express much admiration of another man's house, for fear it should be thought we had never seen anything so fine before! 'A beautiful statue this of Bacchus! said the Roman senator. 'A mere trifle! replied Diomed. 'What charming paintings! said Fulvia. 'Mere trifles! answered the owner. 'Exquisite candelabra! cried the warrior. 'Exquisite! echoed his umbra.

The name of the Father and Maker would become a mere survival, nominis umbra, worship and sacrifice going to the ancestral ghost. That explanation would fit the state of religion which Mr. Im Thurn has found, rightly or wrongly, in British Guiana.

'Not in your presence, grave Pansa, returned Clodius, rattling the dice in a long box; 'your presence restrains all license: it is not the thing, but the excess of the thing, that hurts. 'What wisdom! muttered the umbra. 'Well, I will look another way, said the aedile. 'Not yet, good Pansa; let us wait till we have supped, said Glaucus.

The Oriental and the Norse sacred books are full of fresh and beautiful allusions; but the Greek saw in Nature only a framework for Art, and the Roman only a camping-ground for men. Even Virgil describes the grotto of Aeneas merely as a "black grove" with "horrid shade," "Horrenti atrum nemus imminet umbrâ."

Harvey met her at the door, and bade her run instantly to the doctor's house, which was quite near. The doctor could only say, 'We warned her. Sicut umbra praeterit dies. The dial on the front of the old house was just shadowing four o'clock.

Take no thought about your proof-sheets; they shall be done as if Woodfall himself did them. Pray send us word of Mrs. Coleridge and little David Hartley, your little reality. Farewell, dear Substance. Take no umbrage at anything I have written. C. LAMB, Umbra. Miss Elizabeth Benger. See "Dictionary of Nationai Biography," iv. 221. January, 1801. Thanks for your letter and present.

Scarcely had she received the salutation of the two guests, ere Pansa and his wife, Lepidus, Clodius, and the Roman senator, entered almost simultaneously; then came the widow Fulvia; then the poet Fulvius, like to the widow in name if in nothing else; the warrior from Herculaneum, accompanied by his umbra, next stalked in; afterwards, the less eminent of the guests. Ione yet tarried.