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Twenty musicians followed, blowing hideous discord through pipes of reeds, while he seated himself on the ground "like a monkey," as Le Moyne has it in the grave Latin of his Brevis Narratio. A council followed, in which broken words were aided by signs and pantomime; and a treaty of alliance was made, Laudonniere renewing his rash promise to aid the chief against his enemies.
Excuse me for being so troublesome, but what the devil have I done with my fork? Thank you, I am sure. Temulentia, quoad me ipsum, brevis calligo est. I sit and eat, sir, in a London fog. I should bring a link-boy to table with me; and I would too, if the little brutes were only washed! I intend to found a Philanthropical Society for Washing the Deserving Poor and Shaving Soldiers.
Besides, this ought to be our comfort, that naturally, if the pain be violent, 'tis but short; and if long, nothing violent: "Si gravis, brevis; Si longus, levis." That which makes us suffer pain with so much impatience is the not being accustomed to repose our chiefest contentment in the soul; that we do not enough rely upon her who is the sole and sovereign mistress of our condition.
Ars longa, vita brevis, was an overpowering conviction of the lad's, and he went to work to apply the maddest of correctives. Art so exacting and life so short, then it was his office to labor so much the more earnestly, so much the more eagerly, that he might squeeze dry this orange of the present, and lose no opportunity, no moment.
With two strokes, the one at Hippocrates, the other at Lord Verulam, did my father achieve it. The stroke at the prince of physicians, with which he began, was no more than a short insult upon his sorrowful complaint of the Ars longa, and Vita brevis. Life short, cried my father, and the art of healing tedious!
Those three years ended, the fellowship, it may be, won, still books, books, if the whole world does not close at the college gates. Do I, from scholar, effloresce into literary man, author by profession? Do I go into the law? Ars longa, vita brevis, which, paraphrased, means that it is slow work before one fags one's way to a brief! Do I turn doctor?
"If that old man had lived, what a crop I might have reaped from him! What enormous transactions in moral agriculture it might have been my privilege to carry on! Ars longa," said Captain Wragge, pathetically drifting into Latin "vita brevis! Let us drop a tear on the lost opportunities of the past, and try what the present can do to console us.
Farther, my language has nothing in it that is facile and polished; 'tis rough, free, and irregular, and as such pleases, if not my judgment, at all events my inclination, but I very well perceive that I sometimes give myself too much rein, and that by endeavouring to avoid art and affectation I fall into the other inconvenience: "Brevis esse laboro, Obscurus fio." Hor., Art.
"How many kinds of a chump can you be in one day?" asked her wrathful brother. "Pons longa, vita brevis," observed Hamil, intensely amused. "Don't sit on her, Gray." "O dear! O dear!" said Cecile calmly, "I'd rather be stepped on again than sat on like that!" "You're a sweet little thing anyway," said Hamil, "even if you do fall down in Bridge as well as otherwise " "Shiela! You told Garret!"
You are father's friend; you were his friend when I was away. Tell me if he missed me very much. Tell me about him. I have been longing to ask you all the time. What is he doing? I have heard about his choir. He has got some wonderful treble voices." "He is very busy now rehearsing the 'Missa Brevis. It will be given next Sunday. It will be splendidly done ... You ought to come to hear it."
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