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'Fervidus tecum Puer, et solutis Gratiae zonis, properentque Nymphae, Et parum comis sine te Juventas, Mercuriusque. Hor. 'ad Venerem. A friend of mine has two Daughters, whom I will call Laetitia and Daphne; The Former is one of the Greatest Beauties of the Age in which she lives, the Latter no way remarkable for any Charms in her Person.
He tried to take it. It resisted; and, under cover of that little disturbance, the other hand dexterously whipped two pins out of her hair. The long brown tresses all her own fell over her eyes and down to her waist, and the picture of distressed beauty was complete. Even so did the women of antiquity conquer male pity "solutis crinibus."
Man alone can dress a good dish; and every man whatever is more or less a cook, in seasoning what he himself eats. 'Your definition is good, said Mr Burke, 'and I now see the full force of the common proverb. "There is REASON in roasting of eggs". When Mr Wilkes, in his days of tumultuous opposition, was borne upon the shoulders of the mob. ... numerisque fertur LEGE solutis.
Horace, Odes, iv. 2. II. The common reading is solutis. Wilkes told me this himself with classical admiration. Malone, who was so kind as to superintend the press while I was in Scotland, and the first part of the second edition was printing.
Lessing has passages of freer and more harmonious utterance in some of his most careless prose essays, than can be found in his Nathan from the first line to the last. In the numeris lege solutis he is often snatched beyond himself, and becomes truly dithyrambic; in his pentameters the march of the thought is comparatively hampered and irresolute.
Both the odes want the essential constituent of metrical compositions, the stated recurrence of settled numbers. It may be alleged that Pindar is said by Horace to have written numeris lege solutis; but as no such lax performances have been transmitted to us, the meaning of that expression cannot be fixed; and perhaps the like return might properly be made to a modern Pindarist as Mr.
Et notandum, quod per totam patriam singulae mulieres maritatae, vt intelligantur maritis subiectae, et vt discernantur a solutis, gestant in capitis summitate similitudinem pedis viri, longitudinis brachij et dimidij, quadam leui materia operatam: videlicet nobiles de sericosis operibus pannorum, seu alijs raris et pulchris pannis, et preciosis lapillis, et ignobiles iuxta statum suum de materia communiori.
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