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Then said he, 'O youths, my princes! methinks the sitting in this seat giveth a key to secret sources of wisdom; and I see what it is, the glory and the exaltation coveted by men. Now, he took from the asses and the monkeys one, and said to it, 'Be my chief Vizier, and to another, 'Be my Chamberlain! and to another, 'Be my Treasurer! and so on, till a dispute arose between the animals, and jealousy of each other was visible in their glances, and they appealed to him clamorously.
"If earth were heaven, I might," she replied. "But, where all things fade, how miserable to be the one that could not fade!" "This dark old St. Peter has a fierce and ugly scowl, saint though he be," continued Walter; "he troubles me. But the Virgin looks kindly at us." "Yes, but very sorrowfully, methinks," said Elinor.
Once there we shall be safe, and shall move farther south to the wild hills between Apulia and Campania, or if it is too hot for us there, down into Bruttium, whence we can, if it be needed, cross into Sicily. I am not thinking of making war with Rome. We intend to live and die as free men, and methinks that in the mountains we may laugh at the whole strength of Rome."
"I hinted of the matter to your excellencies, as a consideration for your wisdom; methinks it will be something gained to remove one so dangerous from the recollection and from before the eyes of a love-sick maiden." "Is the damsel so amorous?" "She is of Italy, Signore, and our sun bestows warm fancies and fervent minds." "Let her to the confessional and her prayers! The godly prior of St.
"Anything ye will, messire: for since I am the want universal and gold the universal need, needs must want need! And here is a rare-turned phrase, methinks?" "So thus do I wed need with want," nodded Beltane, tossing him the coin.
The reader will find some notice of them in the author's account of his sojourn at Newstead Abbey. But enough of Christmas and its gambols; it is time for me to pause in this garrulity. Methinks I hear the questions asked by my graver readers, "To what purpose is all this? how is the world to be made wiser by this talk?" Alas! is there not wisdom enough extant for the instruction of the world?
Meantime huge smoking cities arose, innumerable. Green leaves shrank before the hot breath of furnaces. The fair face of Nature was deformed as with the ravages of some loathsome disease. And methinks, sweet Una, even our slumbering sense of the forced and of the far-fetched might have arrested us here.
"'On such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees And they did make no noise, on such a night Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls And sighed his soul towards the Grecian tents Where Cressid lay!" "You know your Shakespeare!" said Rivardi. "Who would not know him!" replied Aloysius "One is not blind to the sun!"
Even if I die before you, my Perdita, treasure up my ashes till yours may mingle with mine. It is a foolish sentiment for one who is not a materialist, yet, methinks, even in that dark cell, I may feel that my inanimate dust mingles with yours, and thus have a companion in decay."
"Before we came 'twas talked at Philadelphia that an uprising of the Indians was looked for along the borders. In truth, methinks there hath already been atrocities committed upon the settlers, but affairs seem no worse with them than they are here with you." When they finally drew up before the Freehold meeting-house it was obvious to the least heedful that something unusual was astir.
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