continct

Updated: July 27, 2025

Here he described to his old school-fellow, Hector, the dull sameness of his life, in the words of the poet: Vitam continct una dies: that it was as unvaried as the note of the cuckoo, and that he did not know whether it were more disagreeable for him to teach, or for the boys to learn the grammar rules.

Henry Francis Cary - Lives of the English Poets: From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of: Johnson's Lives