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Updated: September 29, 2025
"Nilus in extremum fugit perterritus orbem Occuluitque caput, quod adhuc latet." Lost through reckless presumption, might not earnest humility recover that mysterious lurking-place?
I went to bed, and dreamed that I was as tall as cousin Phillis, and had a sudden and miraculous growth of whisker, and a still more miraculous acquaintance with Latin and Greek. Alas! I wakened up still a short, beardless lad, with 'tempus fugit' for my sole remembrance of the little Latin I had once learnt.
I shall not be sorry to leave this place either. And then Mrs. Jupe and Mr. Jupe Mr. Dupe I call him she deceives him so dreadfully with her gadding about But anon, anon, good people! "It is New Year's Eve to-day, and nearly nine months since I came up to London. Tempus fugit!
It floated before me on the page like a picture, and underneath it stood the mournful line: Optima dies … prima fugit. IN Lincoln the best part of the theatrical season came late, when the good companies stopped off there for one-night stands, after their long runs in New York and Chicago.
Mottos also were in great evidence, and while a sundial reminded you that "Tempus fugit," an enticing resting-place somewhat bewilderingly bade you to "Bide a wee." But then again the rustic seat in the pleached alley of laburnums had carved on its back, "Much have I travelled in the realms of gold," so that, meditating on Keats, you could bide a wee with a clear conscience.
"Well, old Hod Fugit can't; an' there's Willis I forget his name, but down at the mill, you know! I don't think the sheriff can, either." "Can your father I mean Tom Hewlet?" "Well, he sort of pokes along at it, but it ain't just what you'd call readin'. Sometimes, when he's right drunk, he gets a piece of old newspaper an' moves his mouth around.
The Boulevard Montmorenci long ago plowed the shrines of romance out of the knowledge of the living, and a part of the Longchamps racecourse occupies the spot whither impecunious poets and adventure-seeking wives repaired to escape the insistence of cruel bailiffs and the spies of suspicious and monotonous husbands. Tempus fugit! I used to read Thackeray's Paris Sketches with a kind of awe.
Gawtrey at last finished a breakfast that would have astonished the whole Corporation of London; and then taking out a large old watch, with an enamelled back doubtless more German than its master he said, as he lifted up his carpet-bag, "I must be off tempos fugit, and I must arrive just in time to nick the vessels. Shall get to Ostend, or Rotterdam, safe and snug; thence to Paris.
"Oh, he's faring well enough, doubtless. Trust those Louisianians for cookery. When Irving is in New Orleans there are special houses where he drops in on Fridays, just for court-bouillon. I've known him to weed a bed of geraniums rather than miss it." "Such are the vicissitudes of pedestrianism. Well, tempus fugit; let us be going. We have just an hour to reach our dining-hall.
Joseph Albany, whom my own eyes saw precipitated from the battlements of Clidesthrow Castle?" "Ay," answered the Doctor, "but you did not see me swim ashore on a marsh covered with sedges fugit ad salices after a manner which I will explain to you another time." Holdenough touched his hand with doubt and uncertainty.
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