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I often used to wish, when, years afterwards, I was myself a reviewer for the London Spectator, that I could light upon some son of his father who might similarly lighten my labors. This unknown book was actually rewritten, in whole or in part, no less than seven times. Non sum qualis eram.
I find by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when the one suffers, the other sympathizes. 'Non sum qualis eram': neither my memory nor my invention are now what they formerly were. It is in a great measure my own fault; I cannot accuse Nature, for I abused her; and it is reasonable I should suffer for it.
I think there has not yet been time for the second great book and work. "The glorification of our Indian Policy only made me melancholy. I hope you now get full and real rest. Though I feel as in perfect health, I have to say to myself, Non sum qualis eram, and take warnings. Pray, do you the same. "Affectionately, to you and yours, "F. W. Newman." "In London vegetarianism seems going ahead.
"Non sum qualis eram sub bonae regno Cynarae," said his Grace of Ormskirk. He had a statesman-like partiality for the fag-end of an alcaic. Then he lifted his head at the sound of a girl's voice. Somewhere rearward to the hedge the girl idly sang an old song of Thomas Heywood's, in a serene contralto, low-pitched and effortless, but very sweet. Smilingly the Duke beat time.
Non sum qualis eram when I waited several hours at the gallery door to hear Patti, and knew not a moment's fatigue to the end of the concert; or when, at the Academy, I was astonished to find that it was four o'clock, and I had forgotten food since breakfast. The truth is, I do not much enjoy anything nowadays which I cannot enjoy alone.
I find by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when the one suffers, the other sympathizes. 'Non sum qualis eram': neither my memory nor my invention are now what they formerly were. It is in a great measure my own fault; I cannot accuse Nature, for I abused her; and it is reasonable I should suffer for it.
Yet do I love life the better, therefore, and I have read that 'to despise gold is to be rich." BELTANE. "Do all bowmen read, then?" BOWMAN. "Why look ye, brother, I am not what I was aforetime non sum quails eram I was bred a shaveling, a mumbler, a be-gowned do-nothing brother, I was a monk, but the flesh and the devil made of me a bowman, heigho so wags the world!
The more common conclusion, however, was that the affair was, simply, X-traordinary and in-X-plicable. Even the town mathematician confessed that he could make nothing of so dark a problem. He said that, for his part, he had no doubt about the matter at all, that it was a clear case, that Mr. Pestis eram vivus moriens tua mors ero. Martin Luther
I know not how to meet the present emergency, or with what weapons to beat down the Northern and Southern follies, now raging in equal extremes. If you can possibly leave home, I want you to be here, a day or two before I speak... I have poor spirits and little courage. Non sum qualis eram. Mr.
For Macdonald was essentially a scholar; he did not merely mug up notes by German commentators an hour before the lesson. For him the classics lived; and he made his form realise this. To do Aristophanes with him was far better than any music hall. Horace he hated. One day when they were doing Donec gratus eram tibi, he burst out with wrath: "Horrible little cad he was! Can't you see him?
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