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And throughout this Essay the feeling that truth and beauty and virtue are one, and that Nature is the symbol which typifies it to the soul, is the inspiring sentiment. Noscitur a sociis applies as well to a man's dead as to his living companions. A young friend of mine in his college days wrote an essay on Plato. When he mentioned his subject to Mr.
'Don't I know the type of man? Noscitur ex sociis have you Latin enough for that? 'You'll find that you are misinformed, Marian replied, and therewith went from the room. She could not trust herself to converse longer.
However, it was not of Keats that I wished to write, but of his friend, John Hamilton Reynolds. Noscitur a sociis a man is known by the company he keeps. Reynolds, I think, must have been excellent company, if we may judge him by his writings. We find the poet writing to him in the April of 1817, from the Isle of Wight.
And hence this friendship gave occasion to many sarcastical remarks among the domestics, most of which were either proverbs before, or at least are become so now; and, indeed, the wit of them all may be comprised in that short Latin proverb, "Noscitur a socio;" which, I think, is thus expressed in English, "You may know him by the company he keeps."
They had driven back the enemy with discomfiture, a thing, by the way, Sir, which is not always performed when it is promised. A gentleman to whom I have already referred in this debate had come into Congress, during my absence from it, from South Carolina, and had brought with him a high reputation for ability. He came from a school with which we had been acquainted, et noscitur a sociis.
Be it, that, by an unconscionable extension of the old adage, noscitur a socio, my literary friends are never under the water-fall of criticism, but I must be wet through with the spray; yet how came the torrent to descend upon them? First then, with regard to Mr. Southey. I well remember the general reception of his earlier publications; namely, the poems published with Mr.
"I forgot to tell you that Major Keene is much addicted to play, and, besides, is intimate with the Vicomte de Châteaumesnil. Noscitur a sociis." The reverend man was an indifferent classic, but he had a way of flashing scraps out of grammars and Analecta Minora before women and others unlikely to be down upon him, as if they were quotations from some recondite author.
I was wrong to speak unkindly to you, very wrong indeed, and I am sorry for it; but don't teaze me no more, that's a good lad; for I feel worse than you do about it. I beg your pardon, I " "Well," said Mr. Slick, "to get back to what we was a sayin', for you do talk like a book, that's a fact; 'noscitur a sociis, says you." "Ay, 'Birds of a feather flock together, as the old maxim goes.
I was wrong to speak unkindly to you, very wrong indeed, and I am sorry for it; but don't teaze me no more, that's a good lad; for I feel worse than you do about it. I beg your pardon, I " "Well," said Mr. Slick, "to get back to what we was a sayin', for you do talk like a book, that's a fact; 'noscitur a sociis, says you." "Ay, 'Birds of a feather flock together, as the old maxim goes.
They had driven back the enemy with discomfiture, a thing, by the way, Sir, which is not always performed when it is promised. A gentleman to whom I have already referred in this debate had come into Congress, during my absence from it, from South Carolina, and had brought with him a high reputation for ability. He came from a school with which we had been acquainted, et noscitur a sociis.