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They have all heard of the many instances of persons of as humble condition as themselves accidentally falling upon a princely fortune, and they know, too, what a miraculous change such a discovery makes in the social condition of a peon, for every miner in Zacatecas knows the homely distich: "Had the metals not been so rich at San Bernabe, Ibarra would not have wed the daughter of Virey."
Proposed Excursion Knowledge of Welsh Singular Groom Harmonious Distich Welsh Pronunciation Dafydd Ab Gwilym. IN the summer of the year 1854 myself, wife, and daughter determined upon going into Wales, to pass a few months there.
So I said to him, 'Allah requite thee amply! this is a path all must perforce tread, and it behoveth thee to take patience; adding, 'But who is dead unto thee? He answered, 'One who was dearest of the folk to me, and best beloved. 'Perhaps thy father? 'No! 'Thy brother? "No! "One of thy kindred? 'No! Then asked I, 'What relation was the dead to thee?; and he answered, 'My lover. Quoth I to myself, 'This is the first proof to swear by his lack of wit. So I said to him, 'Assuredly there be others than she and fairer; and he made answer, 'I never saw her, that I might judge whether or no there be others fairer than she. Quoth I to myself, 'This is another proof positive. Then I said to him, 'And how couldst thou fall in love with one thou hast never seen? He replied 'Know that I was sitting one day at the window, when lo! there passed by a man, singing the following distich,
It was the quiet time in the afternoon when the rougher labors of the day were ended, and the housewife might rest herself with the more delicate tasks of spinning, knitting, or needlework, for it was in these, "the good old days" we all so plaintively lament, that the distich "Man may work from sun to sun But woman's work is never done" originated, and was something more than a bitter jest.
If, on the contrary, he writes well, as I hope he will, because I never saw an ape so clever and ingenious, and so quick of apprehension, I declare that I will adopt him as my son." Perceiving that no one opposed my design, I took the pen, and wrote six sorts of hands used among the Arabians, and each specimen contained an extemporary distich or quatrain in praise of the sultan.
"In 1661, you perceive," said Baisemeaux, "eighty entries; and in 1659, eighty also." "Ah!" said Aramis. "Seldon; I seem to know that name. Was it not you who spoke to me about a certain young man?" "Yes, a poor devil of a student, who made What do you call that where two Latin verses rhyme together?" "A distich." "Yes; that is it." "Poor fellow; for a distich."
Master Rowland, as in courtesy bound, limped with the stranger over his helmets and gauntlets, his wooden carvings, his black-letter distich; and, although she was not overflowing in her praises, she had seen other family pictures by Greuze, and she herself possessed a fan painted by Watteau, to which he was vastly welcome if he cared for such a broken toy.
Dryden had at this time no fixed principles, either in religion or politics, is abundantly evident, from his heroic stanzas on Oliver Cromwel, written after his funeral 1658; and immediately upon the restoration he published Astræa Redux, a poem on the happy restoration of Charles the IId; and the same year, his Panegyric to the king on his coronation: In the former of these pieces, a remarkable distich has expos'd our poet to the ridicule of the wits.
In our days its cultivation during twenty-five years has almost entirely removed the apprehension at first entertained, that being transplanted to America, the cane would by degrees degenerate, and become as slender as the creole cane. The tablones, or grounds planted with sugar-canes, are divided by hedges of a colossal gramen; the lata, or gynerium, with distich leaves.
Hotels: Stella d'Italia, moderate only; Globo, dirty. * Caffe Garibaldi. Post and Telegraph office in Corso Vittorio Emmanuele, next to theatre. A walk round the Walls should on no account be omitted. Hence the distich, "POGGIBONIZZI, FAUI IN LA, CHE MONTERIANO SI FA CITTA!" till recently enscribed over the Siena gate.
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