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Seepost, June 2, 1781. Johnson's Works, viii 440. Ib. p.436 'Eheu! fugaces, Postume, Postume, Labuntur anni. 'How swiftly glide our flying years! FRANCIS. Horace, Odes, ii.14. i. The late Mr. James Ralph told Lord Macartney, that he passed an evening with Dr. The Doctor happening to go out into the garden, Mr.
In the month of June, for example, there is really nothing which quite conjures up for the college youth of today a sense of the mutability and impermanence of this mortal life so much as the sight of a member of the class of 1875 after three days' intensive drinking. Eheu fugaces!
Do you know this in the new Opera Verdi's?" She played a phrase or two of the Trovatore. For it was the new Opera that year, and we were boys ... eheu fugaces! "I really think I ought to walk back a little and see about those young people," says Aunt Constance fatuously. Thereupon Gwen finds she would like a little walk in the cool, and will accompany Aunt Constance.
Here's to you, laddie, and to our lasting friendship." He sipped his claret. "It's not like the Lafitte in the old cellar Eheu fugaces anni et what the plague is the Latin for vintages? But 'twill serve." He drank again and smacked his lips. "It will even serve very satisfactorily. Good wine at a perfect temperature is not the daily drink of the British soldier."
Dear, good brother, he always was, and is now my guardian angel, although now he comes from heaven to shield me, for I am the last on earth of my father's family. Alas, how many of those academy classmates, each of whom was then the soul of honor and the heart of truth, drowned their intellects in the flowing bowl. Eheu, Eheu, fugaces anni labuntur!
I once lost fugaces in the Ode Posthume, Posthume . I mentioned to him, that a worthy gentleman of my acquaintance actually forgot his own name. JOHNSON. 'Sir, that was a morbid oblivion. Dr. Shaw, the professor of divinity, breakfasted with us. I took out my Ogden on Prayer, and read some of it to the company. Dr. Johnson praised him. Ogden goes farther.
But it is better when a man reads from immediate inclination. He repeated a good many lines of Horace's Odes, while we were in the chaise. I remember particularly the Ode Eheu fugaces. He told me that Bacon was a favourite authour with him; but he had never read his works till he was compiling the English Dictionary, in which, he said, I might see Bacon very often quoted. Mr.
But it was certainly at the Grand Cafe that I first set eyes on Labouchere, who, like Sala, was installed at the neighbouring Grand Hotel, and was soon to become famous as the Daily News' "Besieged Resident." As for Mr. Eheu! fugaces labuntur anni.
Aye, me what changes time doth ring eheu! fugaces!" "And what of him, sir, your opponent?" I ventured to ask. "Was necessitated to buy himself a new hat, seeing I'd peppered the one he wore, young sir."
Years following years, steal something every day; at last they steal us from ourselves away. What Horace says is, Eheu fugaces, anni labuntur postume, postume: Years glide away, and are lost to me, lost to me.
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