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We are witnessing the domestic, and not the princely feast the entertainment of a gentleman, not an emperor or a senator. 'Ah, good old Horace! said Sallust, compassionately; 'he sang well of feasts and girls, but not like our modern poets. 'The immortal Fulvius, for instance, said Clodius. 'Ah, Fulvius, the immortal! said the umbra.
His bath had filled him with a boyish desire to whistle and sing; and now, as he tied his bow and felt the silk-lined comfort of his dinner-jacket, he heard with a throb of elation the soft sound of a skirt go by his door. He murmured as he followed: " lentus in umbra Formosam resonare doces Amaryllida silvas."
'Sicut umbra praeterit dies' so ran the motto of the dial set between porch and eaves; to Harvey Rolfe the kindliest of all greetings, welcoming him to such tranquillity as he knew not how to find elsewhere. It was in the town, yet nothing town-like.
The meteor would loom larger and larger in the sky, but with the umbra of our earth eating its heart of brightness out, and at last it would be the whole sky, a sky of luminous green clouds, with a white brightness about the horizon, west and east. Then a pause a pause of not very exactly definite duration and then, no doubt, a great blaze of shooting stars.
Adams' biography than his own, except so far as it proves the affectionate intimacy which subsisted between them. Hope-Scott's handwriting: 'William Adams, R. I. P. sub 'umbra crucis. J. R. H. S. 1871. The work was published for the Christian Knowledge Society, of the committee of which Mr. Hope at the time was still a member. In connection with the same society Mr. Mr.
This, indeed, was the one sole memorial which restores my father's image to me as a personal reality; otherwise he would have been for me a bare nominis umbra. He languished, indeed, for weeks upon a sofa; and, during that interval, it happened naturally, from my repose of manners, that I was a privileged visitor to him throughout his waking hours.
he warbled; and I stopped my play, and listened as if to a nightingale, until he reached tu, Tityre, lentus in umbra Formosam resonare doces Amaryllida silvan. 'Oh Papa, what is that? I could not prevent myself from asking. He translated the verses, he explained their meaning, but his exposition gave me little interest. What to me was beautiful Amaryllis?
But who is Ione? 'Ah! you have but just come to Pompeii, or you would deserve ostracism for your ignorance, said Lepidus, conceitedly; 'not to know Ione, is not to know the chief charm of our city. 'She is of the most rare beauty, said Pansa; 'and what a voice! 'She can feed only on nightingales' tongues, said Clodius. 'Nightingales' tongues! beautiful thought! sighed the umbra.
For you must not transplant any of these annuals, that only live to see their sun father for one brief season, into the shade of any tree or overhanging roof, but at most in the travelling umbra of a distant object, such as a tall spruce, the northeastern side of a hedge, or such like.
These insignia are placed over the entrance to the Hall in Lower Thames-street; they are sculptured in bold relief, and are not meanly executed. The Hall, or the greater part of it, has been taken down to make room for the New London Bridge approaches; the frame-work of the door, and the arms still remain stat portus umbra.
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