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To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends. Often have I reflected on this since; and, instead of being angry at many of those who have written against me, have smiled to think that they were unintentionally subservient to my fame, by using a battledoor to make me virum volitare per ora.
though in another place he says, Mulier una duum virum.
On laying down one of his plays, the reader is inclined to apply to him Tacitus' judgment of Agricola, "bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter." Now, when we open Dick of Devonshire, the naturalness and simplicity of the first scene at once suggest Heywood's hand. In the second scene, the spirited eulogy on Drake
His living voice, with its undulations and inflexions, assisted by the mobile play of feature and an infinite variety of bodily gesture, is driven to borrow dignity from the same metaphor; the orator and the actor are fain to be judged by style. "It is most true," says the author of The Anatomy of Melancholy, "stylus virum arguit, our style bewrays us."
We are quite alone. You never saw anything so unlike as being here five months out of place, to the congresses of a fortnight in place; but you know the "Justum et tenacem propositi virum" can amuse himself without the "Civium ardor!" As I have not so much dignity of character to fill up my time, I could like a little more company.
And again he rolled out under his breath, for the sheer joy of the verse: Salve, magna parens frugum, Saturnia tellus, Magna virum. The priest looked at him with a smile; preoccupied yet shrewd. 'I follow you with some astonishment. Surely I remember other sentiments on your part? Manisty coloured a little, and shook his black head, protesting.
Their stature is in general tall, their limbs muscular, their face masculine, their voice deep, and their deportment bold and manly in a word, they completely justify the words of Martial: "Mentiturque virum prodigiosa Venus." In the case of man's impotency it often happens, on the contrary, that, with organs to all appearance perfectly formed, he is, nevertheless, impotent.
If you love Latin, I will repeat you some fine lines out of Horace, which would inspire courage into a coward. `Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori Mors et fugacem persequitur virum Nec parcit imbellis juventae Poplitibus, timidoque tergo." "I wish you would construe them," cries Partridge; "for Horace is a hard author, and I cannot understand as you repeat them."
Let us fall upon all Classicals and Liberals without distinction of age or sex, and put them all to the sword with ridicule. There must be no quarter." "We must act honorably; there must be no bribing with copies of books or presents; no taking money of publishers. We must inaugurate a Restoration of Journalism." "Good!" said Martainville. "Justum et tenacem propositi virum!
I know, indeed, which is most conformable to the rules of grammar: but yet I sometimes express myself as the freedom of our language allows me, as when I say at pleasure, either prob deum, or prob deorum; and, at other times, as I am obliged by custom, as when I say trium virum for virorum, or sestertium nummum for nummorum: because in the latter case the mode of expression is invariable.
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