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Just as the youth, mounted on a chair, was adjusting the portrait of the Duke, which he had observed to be awry, the gentleman for whom he had been all this time waiting entered the room. 'Floreat Etona! hastily exclaimed the gentleman, in a sharp voice; 'you are setting the Duke to rights.
When chyle, milk, or other extraneous fluids are found in the urinary bladder, or in any other excretory receptacle of a gland; no one can for a moment believe, that these have been collected from the mass of blood by a morbid secretion, as it contradicts all analogy. Aurea duræ Mala ferant quercus? Narcisco floreat alnus? Pinguia corticibus sudent electra myricæ?
Floreat Etona, under all circumstances. 'I certainly, Coningsby, said Lord Vere, 'shall not assume the Conservative Cause, instead of the cause for which Hampden died in the field, and Sydney on the scaffold. 'The cause for which Hampden died in the field and Sydney on the scaffold, said Coningsby, 'was the cause of the Venetian Republic. 'How, how? cried Buckhurst.
Romance the very etymology carries its history, for 't is only natural that the first love-stories should have been written in the language of Rome. Nor is it inapt that the typical lover should recall Rome by his name: O, Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou. Romeo? Romantic Love is the rose Evolution has grown on earthly soil. Floreat!
He who for days and days and years and years said always one thing alone: "Carthage must be destroyed!" 'But this man is no noble Roman, Katharine cried indignantly. 'There was never a nature more Roman, Throckmorton mocked at her. 'For if Cato cried for years: Delenda est Carthago, Cromwell hath contrived for years: Floreat rex meus. Cato stuck at no means. Privy Seal hath stuck at none.
Dupré himself joined with uproarious tunefulness in a chorus which went tolerably trippingly to the air of "Here's to the Maiden of Bashful Fifteen." "Here's to the House, Edmonstone House. Floreat semper Edmonstone House." Mannix trolled the words out in a clear tenor voice. One after another of the eleven, even Fenton, the slow bowler who had no ear for music, picked them up.
The Duffer continued: "Now, Fluff, I won't touch your body, because you might tumble to pieces, but if I hear you slanging the school or our house, I'll pull out handfuls of fluff. D'ye hear?" "Yes," said Fluff, meekly. "Say 'Floreat Herga' on your bended knees!" Fluff obeyed. "And remember," said the Duffer, impressively, "that we've had a king here, haven't we, Caterpillar?"
Amid the burst of martial music and the shouts of the multitude, the band of heroes, as if they were marching from Athens, or Thebes, or Sparta, to some heroic deed, encircled the mount; the ensign reaches its summit, and then, amid a deafening cry of 'Floreat Etona! he unfurls, and thrice waves the consecrated standard. 'Lord Monmouth, said Mr.
Said Felix Adler to his hemlock-spruce, "Vivat, crescat, floreat"; and a sentiment much like it was implied in Sol Smith Russell's words to the grove's master as they finished putting in his linden together for he was just then proposing to play Rip Van Winkle, which Joseph Jefferson had finally decided to produce no more: "Here's to your healt', undt der healt' of all your family; may you lif long undt brosper."
I say how could your best friends excuse themselves, if in regard to your lordship they should suffer such a precedent to be handed down to such a man unobserved or uncensured? Invenit etiam aemulos infaelix nequitia Ambitious men have not always been deterred by the unhappy fate of their predecessors, Quid si floreat vigeatque?
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