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'But all Pompeii is your patron, and every portico an altar in your praise. 'Ah! the poor Pompeians are very civil they love to honour merit. But they are only the inhabitants of a petty town spero meliora! Shall we within? 'Certainly; we lose time till we hear your poem.
Work without hope of profits! That cannot be, for it would be self-destruction. He would like to, perhaps; he has not the courage. Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor. The retired proprietor is really the owl of the fable gathering beech-nuts for its mutilated mice until it is ready to devour them.
"You have exprest yourself extremely well," cries Booth; "and I entirely agree with the justice of your sentiments; but, however true all this may be in theory, I still doubt its efficacy in practice. And the cause of the difference between these two is this; that we reason from our heads, but act from our hearts: -Video meliora, proboque; Deteriora sequor.
Between him and the upper air are two feet of earth, together with an elegant canine tombstone, on which Miss Rothesay, by the entreaty of the disconsolate Meliora, has modelled in clay a very good likeness of the departed. Snap is the only individual who has passed away at Woodford Cottage; in all things else there has been an increase, not a decrease.
Why should you tire yourself thus, after all the fatigues of the day?" Meliora looked up. "Ah! true, true! I shall never do this any more, I know. But the poor flowers must not suffer; I'll take care of them while I can. Those dahlias, that I have watched all the year, want watering every night, and will do for a month to come. A month! Oh!
There is a call on us for vigorous and continual resolution, self-denial, and activity. Now, man is not a being of mere intellect. Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor, is a complaint which, alas! we all of us might daily utter. The slightest solicitation of appetite is often able to draw us to act in opposition to our clearest judgment, our highest interests, and most resolute determinations.
The Rothesays were to leave one day, the Vanbrughs the next. Olive and Meliora were both very busy too busy to have time for regrets.
The chaplain was touched by Harry's gift of the horse; and felt a genuine friendliness towards the lad. "You see, sir," says he, "I am of the world, and must do as the rest of the world does. I have led a rough life, Mr. Warrington, and can't afford to be more particular than my neighbours. Video meliora, deteriora sequor, as we said at college.
"Then you are not glad to see me you, the sole friend I have in the world, whom I have travelled a thousand miles to meet travelled alone and unprotected you are not glad to see me? I will turn and go back again I will leave the house I will I" Her rapid speech ended in a burst of tears. Poor Meliora felt like a guilty thing. "Miss Manners Christal my poor child! I didn't mean that!
But even this was, as Meliora would have expressed it, "for the best," since it made her feel the sweetness of having a tender mother to take off her dripping garments, and smooth her hair, and make her sit down before the bright fire. And then Olive laid her head in her mother's lap, and thought how wrong nay, wicked she had been.
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