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"Here Epicurus hath his fiery tomb, And with him all his followers, who maintain That soul and body share one common doom"; and is still better rendered by Dr. Parsons, "Here in their cemetery on this side, With his whole sect, is Epicurus pent, Who thought the spirit with its body died." "Suo cimitero da questa parte hanno Con Epieuro tutti i suoi seguaci, Che l'anima col corpo morta fanno."
How important, then, that genius should be called in here to the aid of virtue, and the fascinations of the highest species of excellence employed to elevate, where so many causes exist to degrade the soul! "Cosi all egro fanciul' porgiamo aspersi, Di soave licor gli orli del Vaso; Succhi amari, ingannato intanto ei beve, Et dall' inganno suo vita riceve."
The veteran man of letters had talked brilliantly more suo of many things, most of all perhaps of his dead friend, Charles Dickens. Who seemed more surely to have been writing Christmas stories for Posterity? we had asked ourselves musingly, as we discussed the change of temper since the days when Dickens or Father Christmas might have stood for the Time-Spirit.
It is customary in every country to end a letter with the words: your most obedient servant votre très-humble serviteur suo devotissimo servo. Wax, a substance naturally hard and brittle, can be made soft by the application of a little warmth, so that it will take any shape you please.
The Romans say of him, "Era un Signore in paese suo" "He was a gentleman in his own country," and this belief is borne out by a certain courtesy and style in his bearing which would not shame the first gentleman in the land. He was undoubtedly of a good family in the provinces, and came to Rome, while yet young, to seek his fortune.
Although disgusted with the life I was leading I was unwilling to change it: Simigliante a quella 'nferma Che non puo trovar posa in su le piume, Ma con dar volta suo dolore scherma. Thus I tortured my mind to give it change and I fell into all these vagaries in order to get out of myself.
The son of BUFFON one day surprised his father by the sight of a column, which he had raised to the memory of his father's eloquent genius. It is a pillar of marble bearing this inscription: "Excelsæ turris humilia columna, Parenti suo filius Buffon. 1785." Fathers absorbed in their occupations can but rarely attract their offspring.
He quotes an old prophecy, attributed to Merlin, and with a sort of wonder, as if recollecting that England owed so much of its literary learning to that country; and the prophecy says that after long years Oxford will pass into Ireland 'Vada boum suo tempore transibunt in Hiberniam. When I read this, I could not but indulge the pleasant fancy that in the days when the Dublin University shall arise in material splendour, an allusion to this prophecy might form a poetic element in the inscription on the pedestal of the statue which commemorates its first Rector.
Ludovico, per che ultra che mi sia stato acetto, representando la persona de la S.V. Reverendiss. lui anche per conto suo mi ha addutta gran satisfazione, havendomi cum la narratione de l'opera the compone facto passar questi due giorni non solum senza fastidio, ma cum piacer grandissimo."
In order, then, that he should have been aedile under Titus, even admitting that he could boast, like Cicero, of having obtained all his honours in the prescribed years "omnes honores anno suo" and been aedile the moment he was qualified by age for the office, he must have been born, at least, as far back as the year 44.
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