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Grace was said by the Professor of Divinity, in a macaronic Latin, which I could by no means follow, only I could hear it rhymed, and I guessed it to be more witty than reverent. After which the Senatus Academicus sat down to rough plenty in the shape of rizzar'd haddocks and mustard, a sheep's head, a haggis, and other delicacies of Scotland.
He had in the course of the evening recited "near upon five hundred extempore macaronic verses; composed and executed an oratorio and opera" upon a piano without strings, namely the center-table; drawn "an entirely original view of Nantasket Beach"; made a temperance address; and given vent to "innumerable jests, jokes, puns, oddities, quiddities and nothings," interrupted by his own laughter and that of his hearers.
It now occurred to me, however, that I had incautiously left the brandy- flask in his charge, and when he came up with me I gathered from his fishy eye, and the thick dribblings of his macaronic gibberish, which was compounded of sundry Indian dialects and French-Canadian patois, coarsely ground up with bits of broken English, that the modern Circe, who changes men into beasts, had wrought her spells upon him; a circumstance at which I was terribly annoyed, as foreboding an ignominious entry into the city by back-lane and sally-port, instead of my long- anticipated triumphal progress up St.
At the beginning of the procession he had gathered vagabonds in the ruins of the Roman theatre, and had delivered to them in a macaronic language, half French and half Tuscan, a sermon, which he took pleasure in repeating: "Kings, senators, and judges have said: 'The life of nations is in us. Well, they lie; and they are the coffin saying: 'I am the cradle.
Grace was said by the Professor of Divinity, in a macaronic Latin, which I could by no means follow, only I could hear it rhymed, and I guessed it to be more witty than reverent. After which the Senatus Academicus sat down to rough plenty in the shape of rizzar'd haddocks and mustard, a sheep's head, a haggis, and other delicacies of Scotland.
"Yes; but look out for the booksellers when you publish anything, if you have not yet begun; they are greater robbers than Barabbas." "I shall not have anything to do with these gentlemen till I am an old man." "Then they will be the scourge of your old age." Thereupon I quoted a Macaronic verse by Merlin Coccaeus. "Where's that from?" "It's a line from a celebrated poem in twenty-four cantos."
At the beginning of the procession he had gathered vagabonds in the ruins of the Roman theatre, and had delivered to them in a macaronic language, half French and half Tuscan, a sermon, which he took pleasure in repeating: "Kings, senators, and judges have said: 'The life of nations is in us. Well, they lie; and they are the coffin saying: 'I am the cradle.
A few minutes afterwards, a tall Jacobin friar, blind of one eye, called Corsini, whom I had known in Venice, came in and paid me many compliments. He told me that I had arrived just in time to go to a picnic got up by the Macaronic academicians for the next day, after a sitting of the academy in which every member was to recite something of his composition.
"Yes; but look out for the booksellers when you publish anything, if you have not yet begun; they are greater robbers than Barabbas." "I shall not have anything to do with these gentlemen till I am an old man." "Then they will be the scourge of your old age." Thereupon I quoted a Macaronic verse by Merlin Coccaeus. "Where's that from?" "It's a line from a celebrated poem in twenty-four cantos."
Sometimes he goes in front of the piano, sometimes behind, but invariably he hears the storm of applause when it ends, and he bows with great gusto. "I don't know whether it's the other people who are laughing at him, or he who is laughing at the others. "The other day he said to me in his macaronic Italian: "'Mr.
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