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"For then I shall be with him. In coelo quies," she would say, throwing up her fine eyes to heaven, and quoting the enormous words of the hatchment which was put up in the church, and over Bluebeard's hall, where the butler, the housekeeper, the footman, the housemaid, and scullions were all in the profoundest mourning.
From the time the poison began to operate you would have conjectured that sleep was overpowering it, and you would have exclaimed: "Pressitque jacentem, dulcis et alta quies, placidaeque simillima morti." There are now two positive proofs of the effect of this fatal poison: viz. the death of the dog and that of the sloth.
On the bark of this tree, I engraved the following lines from Virgil: Fortunatus et ille deos qui novit agrestes! "Happy are thou, my son, in knowing only the pastoral divinities." And over the door of Madame de la Tour's cottage where the families so frequently met, I placed this line: At secura quies, et nescia fallere vita. "Here dwell a calm conscience, and a life that knows not deceit."
The porter was drowsing on his bench within the lodge, but at the knock he roused himself and, opening the wicket, came hobbling forth and greeted the Knight, while a tame starling that hung in a wicker cage within piped out, "In coelo quies! In coelo quies!" such being the words that the poor old lame porter had taught him to speak. "Where is thy prior?" asked the Knight of the old porter.
'Domus parva, quies magna, the magister tittered, and swept across the rushes in his furs to rub his hands before the fire. 'When shall I teach your Margot the learned tongues? 'When the sun sets in the East, the printer muttered. Udal sent to him over his shoulder, as words of consolation: 'The new Queen is come to Rochester. The printer heaved an immense sigh: 'God be praised!
"Pressitque jacentem Dulcis et alta quies, placidæque simillima morti." Æn., vi., 522.
Mention may be made in passing, also, of a strange conception, which is somewhat out of harmony with the rest of the system, and of which, moreover, little use is made. This is the conception of infinite modes. As such are cited, facies totius mundi, motus et quies, intellectus absolute infinitus. Kuno Fischer's interpretation of this difficult conception may be accepted.
Now get the knee-tethers on them. Quies! Did you never hear bullets before? Now put the donkeys here. Not much you don't get my polo-pony to make a zareba with. Picket the ponies between the grove and the river out of danger's way. These fellows seem to fire even higher than they did in '85." "That's got home, anyhow," said Scott, as they heard a soft, splashing thud like a stone in a mud-bank.
He read the lettering, and it was: Hilaire O'Hagan ob. 1696 aetat 35. Parva domus, magna quies. He sank down on his knees with a childish sob.
It was ages since he had ventured in that neighbourhood, which, when finally he got there, gave him the agreeable sensation of being in a city other than New York. Hic Labor, Haec Quies, he saw written on the statue of a tall maiden, and though, in New York, quiet is to be had only in the infrequent cemeteries, deep down, yet with the rest of the inscription he had been engaged all day.
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