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Come, O sleep! for thine are the joys of living and dying: Life without sorrow, and death with no anguish, no pain. From the German of Schmidt. No. 41. Si mutabile pectus Est tibi, consiliis, non curribus, utere nostris; Dum potes, et solidis etiam num sedibus adstas, Dumque male optatos nondum premis inscius axes. OVID. Met. ii. 143.
More, yet more, most exemplary of listeners; and a web or webs of very various texture. Let any man tell truths of himself, and seem to be consistent, if he can. From grave to gay, from simple to severe, is the line most expressive of such foolish versatility as mine; varium et mutabile semper, to one thing constant never.
"You tell me what would be incredible of a nation which did not deserve the character that Virgil gives of a woman, varium et mutabile semper.
Dominie Sampson left her presence altogether crest-fallen, and, as he shut the door, could not help muttering the 'varium et mutabile' of Virgil. Next day he appeared with a very rueful visage, and tendered Miss Bertram a letter. 'Mr. Hazlewood, he said, 'was to discontinue his lessons, though he had generously made up the pecuniary loss.
This lady, who has crept into his bosom, has a sister in the Elector of Hanover's court, and yet we are well assured that our most private communication is placed in her keeping. 'VARIUM ET MUTABILE SEMPER FEMINA, said Dr. Grumball. 'She puts his secrets into her work-bag, said Maxwell; 'and out they fly whenever she opens it.
"Perhaps you might sometimes," said the doctor, "be of these sentiments; but you remember your own Virgil Varium et mutabile semper faemina." "Nay, Amelia," said Mrs. Atkinson, "you are now concerned as well as I am; for he hath now abused the whole sex, and quoted the severest thing that ever was said against us, though I allow it is one of the finest."
I am compensated, however, by the possession of the first volume of the "Noces de Picciola," or "Cari-catures," as they are called. On the title-page Bobtail is made to say: "If Carry were to marry one of us, I'd give thee any odds she would be safe, O Rag, to love the other " "Varium et mutabile semper femina," he adds, and his story illustrates the truth of the poet's words.
Let me consider your letter not written, and continue on the same terms as we were before. Perhaps, as George knows Virgil, you might find your own schoolboy recollections of that poet useful here, and add, /Varium et mutabile semper femina/; hackneyed, but true." "My dear Chillingly, your suggestion is capital. How the deuce at your age have you contrived to know the world so well?"
At times she will exhibit extreme tenderness, as if she repented of her thoughts and her projects; sometimes she will be sullen and at cross-purposes with you; in a word, she will fulfill the varium et mutabile femina which we hitherto have had the folly to attribute to the feminine temperament.
Nothing intelligible came out, except that the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth made <i>ice</i> in English; the eighty-fourth, eighty-fifth, and eighty-sixth, the word <i>sir</i>; then at last I seemed to find the Latin words <i>rota, mutabile, ira, nec, atra</i>. "Ha! there seems to be some truth in my uncle's notion," thought I.
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