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Upon such occasions it is not amiss to know how to parley cuisine, and to be able to dissert upon the growth and flavor of wines. These, it is true, are very little things; but they are little things that occur very often, and therefore should be said 'avec gentillesse et grace'. I am sure they must fall often in your way; pray take care to catch them.
Muratori, Storia d' Italia, vol. 7. p. 135. Leipsic, 1748. Muratori, Dissertazione sopra le Antichita Italiane, dissert. 4. Otto Frisingensis, lib. 1. cap. 23. Otto Frisingensis, ibid. Ibid. Otto Frisingensis, ibid. While Frederic was yet fighting his way home through Italy, Adrian had to face about and confront another foe in William, the Norman king of Sicily.
And zif a man aske hem, what paradys thei menen; thei seyn, to paradys, that is a place of delytes, where men schulle fynde alle maner of frutes, in alle cesouns, and ryveres rennynge of mylk and hony, and of wyn, and of swete watre; and that thei schulle have faire houses and noble, every man aftre his dissert, made of precyous stones, and of gold, and of sylver; and that every man schalle have 80 wyfes, alle maydenes; and he schalle have ado every day with hem, and zit he schalle fynden hem alle weys maydenes.
If then, ladies, the big-wigs begin to sneer at the course of our studies, calling our darling romances foolish, trivial, noxious to the mind, enervators of intellect, fathers of idleness, and what not, let us at once take a high ground, and say, Go you to your own employments, and to such dull studies as you fancy; go and bob for triangles, from the Pons Asinorum; go enjoy your dull black draughts of metaphysics; go fumble over history books, and dissert upon Herodotus and Livy; OUR histories are, perhaps, as true as yours; our drink is the brisk sparkling champagne drink, from the presses of Colburn, Bentley and Co.; our walks are over such sunshiny pleasure-grounds as Scott and Shakspeare have laid out for us; and if our dwellings are castles in the air, we find them excessively splendid and commodious; be not you envious because you have no wings to fly thither.
Strabo, Geog., lib. i. Maurice, Indian Antiquities, vol. ii. p. 297. Div. Leg., vol. i. b. ii. § iv. p. 193, 10th Lond. edit. The hidden doctrines of the unity of the Deity and the immortality of the soul were taught originally in all the Mysteries, even those of Cupid and Bacchus. WARBURTON, apud Spence's Anecdotes, p. 309. Isoc. Paneg., p. 59. Apud Arrian. Dissert., lib. iii. c. xxi. Phaedo.
The above Letter is alluded to in the Preface to the 2nd edit, of his Dissert, p. 3. Mr. O'Connor afterwards died at the age of eighty-two. See a well-drawn character of him in the Gent. Mag. for August 1791. Mr. Croker shows good reason for believing that in the original letter this parenthesis stood: 'if such there were. See ante, i. 292.
"`I was away in the dissert somewheres, he is wont to say, `I don't rightly remimber where, for my brain's no better than a sive at geagraphy, but it was a wild place, anyhow bad luck to it!
She soon recognised his love of nature; and this allowed her to dissert on the subject, at once sublime and inexhaustible, with copiousness worthy of the theme. When she found he was an entomologist, and that it was not so much mountains as insects which interested him, she shifted her ground, but treated it with equal felicity. Strange, but nature is never so powerful as in insect life.
Where those asterisks are drawn on the page, you must know, a pause occurred, during which I was engaged with "Hood's Own," having been referred to the book by this life of the author which I have just been reading. I am not going to dissert on Hood's humor; I am not a fair judge.
Dissert. on the Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries, in the Pamphleteer, vol. viii. p. 53. Symbol. und Mythol. der Alt. Völk. In these Mysteries, after the people had for a long time bewailed the loss of a particular person, he was at last supposed to be restored to life. BRYANT, Anal. of Anc. Mythology, vol. iii. p. 176. Herod. Hist., lib. iii. c. clxxi.
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