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Other works were The Examination of W. Shakespeare touching Deer-stealing , Pericles and Aspasia , Pentameron , Hellenics , and Poemata et Inscriptiones . He quarrelled finally with his wife in 1835, and returned to England, which, however, he had to leave in 1858 on account of an action for libel arising out of a book, Dry Sticks Fagoted.
Life of Grotius prefixed to his works. Le Clerc, Hist. de Hollande, l. 12. t. 2. See the critical Remarks on Bayle's Dict. ed. 1734. Ep. 55. p. 18. Ep. 95. p. 41. Ep. 648. p. 952. Ep. 697. p. 965. Poemata, p. 217. Ep. 491. p. 896. VI. It was therefore on the tenth of April in the year 1583, that Grotius was born, at Delft.
Now the light people bend to other aims; A lust of scribbling every breast inflames; Our youth, our senators, with bays are crowned, And rhymes eternal as our feasts go round. Scribimus indocti doctique poemata passim. Hor. Epeat. ii. 1. But every desperate blockhead dares to write, Verse is the trade of every living wight. Francis.
Ecce inter pocula quaerunt Romulidae saturi, quid dia poemata narrent. Persius, Sat. i. 30. Nay, more! Our nobles, gorged, and swilled with wine, Call o'er the banquet for a lay divine! Gifford. It was cultivated as a kind of fashionable exercise, in short and desultory attempts, in which the chief ambition was to produce verses extempore.
The Lady who desires me for her Sake to end one of my Papers with the following Letter, I am persuaded, thinks such a Perseverance very impracticable. Husband, Stay more at home. The Colonel whom you charged me to see no more, is in Town. Martha Housewife. No. 179. Tuesday, September 25, 1711. Addison. 'Centuriae seniorum agitant expertia frugis: Celsi praetereunt austera Poemata Rhamnes.
The LATIN POEMS follow as a separate collection, paged separately from p. 1 to p. 88, and with this new title-page prefixed to them: "Joannis Miltoni Londinensis Poemata: quorum pleraque intra annum oetatis vigesimum conscripsit: nunc primum edita. Londini, Typis R.R., Prostant ad Insignia Principis, in Coemeterio D. Pauli, apud Humphredum Moseley, 1645."
"If you take my silence for consent to your extravagant eulogium of Horace," I said, "you are mistaken; for in my opinion the 'nec cum venari volet poemata panges', of which you think so much, is to my mind a satire devoid of delicacy." "Satire and delicacy are hard to combine."
"If you take my silence for consent to your extravagant eulogium of Horace," I said, "you are mistaken; for in my opinion the 'nec cum venari volet poemata panges', of which you think so much, is to my mind a satire devoid of delicacy." "Satire and delicacy are hard to combine."
But that sort of reason which banishes the affections is incapable of filling their place. These public affections, combined with manners, are required sometimes as supplements, sometimes as correctives, always as aids to law. The precept given by a wise man, as well as a great critic, for the construction of poems, is equally true as to states: Non satis est pulchra esse poemata, dulcia sunto.
It is looked on as one of the best Grotius ever wrote. April 1, 1599. Ep. 2. p. 1. Ep. 3. p. 1. Poemata, p. 262. Ep. 24. p. 7. Ep. 1581. p. 711. Ep. 325. p. 115. Ep. 3. p. 1. Ep 4. p. 1. X. Grotius, who had resolved to follow the Bar, pleaded his first cause at Delft in the year 1599, at his return from France.
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