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Alexander Soutsos anarch ancient ancient Egypt ANDREW LANG AUTRES TEMPS ball Beneath BLIND AND CAPTIVE boom BRAGGART bright Rosaleen BRITISH COMPOSER capers CAPTIVE NIGHTINGALE Caruso cheer claim colour Corelli and Caine corybantic cricket Daily Mail dead Demetrius deûm DRINK DRUMONT E. V. LUCAS endure ETHICAL CLOTHING ev'ry Fashion's foozle fray Freedom's granted Glasgow Fair glory golf golfers hail Hall Caine Hapless I lament Harry Le Queux hear heard heroic band Horridge Jones lament and wail Last lilt LIONEL BENSON lustre magic Magpie maid MALWOOD ECLOGUE Mammon MILES GLORIOSUS musical musing nation never numbers o'er Parasang play praise Press quæ Queux and William rhyme RICHARD STRAUSS Romaic of Alexander Rosebery round rubber-cored sang Scotia's singing sober soul STANZAS stirred tell thee There's thou vale VISION OF DRAGATZÁN William de Windt Windt and Harry zest
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Page 21 - ... non me carminibus vincet nec Thracius Orpheus, nec Linus, huic mater quamvis atque huic pater adsit, Orphei Calliopea, Lino formosus Apollo.
Page 18 - Assyrium vulgo nascetur amomum. at simul heroum laudes et facta parentis iam legere et quae sit poteris cognoscere virtus, molli paulatim flavescet campus arista, incultisque rubens pendebit sentibus uva, et durae quercus sudabunt roscida mella.
Page 16 - Teque adeo decus hoc aevi, te consule inibit, Pollio et incipient magni procedere menses. te duce si qua manent sceleris vestigia nostri, inrita perpetua solvent formidine terras.
Page 17 - Pollio et incipient magni procedere menses. te duce si qua manent sceleris vestigia nostri, inrita perpetua solvent formidine terras. ille deum vitam accipiet, divisque videbit permixtos heroas et ipse videbitur illis, pacatumque reget patriis virtutibus orbem.
Page 18 - Thetim ratibus, quae cingere muris oppida, quae iubeant telluri infindere sulcos. alter erit tum Tiphys, et altera quae vehat Argo delectos heroas; erunt etiam altera bella atque iterum ad Troiam magnus mittetur Achilles.
Page 17 - At tibi prima, puer, nullo munuscula cultu errantis hederas passim cum baccare tellus mixtaque ridenti colocasia fundet acantho. » Ipsae lacte domum referent distenta capellae ubera, nec magnos metuent armenta leones ; ipsa tibi blandos fundent cunabula flores.
Page 19 - Hinc ubi iam firmata virum te fecerit aetas cedet et ipse mari vector nec nautica pinus mutabit merces. omnis feret omnia tellus. non rastros patietur humus, non vinea falcem...
Page 20 - Talia saecla,' suis dixerunt, ' currite,' fusis Concordes stabili fatorum numine Parcae. Aggredere o magnos — aderit jam tempus — honores, Cara deum soboles, magnum Jovis incrementum...
Page 107 - ... to a sincere feeling ; but not to expatiate on the emotions which they mistake for the real emotion in the other departments, there are probably a good many people who mistake for a love of nature the pleasure of fresh air, physical movement, and change of scene. Many worthy golfers, for instance, who do not know that they are speaking insincerely, attribute, in conversation, the pleasure they feel in pursuing their game to the agreeable surroundings in which it is pursued ; but my secret belief...