Marmorea dormis sub imagine Maida, Ad januam domini sit tibi terra levis.' Thus Englished by an eminent hand, — * Beneath the sculptured form which late you wore, Sleep soundly, Maida. at your master's door... St. Nicholas - Page 36edited by - 1914Full view - About this book
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1838 - 390 pages
...mentioned with high praise in the Introduction to Quentin Durward. Thus Englished by an eminent hand,— ' Beneath the sculptured form which late you wore, Sleep soundly, Maida, at your master's door.' " Yesterday we had our solemn hunt and killed fourteen hares,—but a dog of Sir Adam's broke her leg,... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 428 pages
...sub imagine Maida, Ad januam domini sit tibi terra levis.' Thus Englished by an eminent hand, — * Beneath the sculptured form which late you wore, Sleep soundly, Maida. at your master's door.* " Yesterday we had our solemn hunt, and killed fourteen hares, — but a dog of Sir Adam's broke her... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 434 pages
...sub imagine Maida, Ad januam doniini sit tibi terra levis.' Thus Englished by an eminent hand, — ' Beneath the sculptured form which late you wore, Sleep soundly, Maida, at your master's door.' " Yesterday we had our solemn hunt, and killed fourteen hares, — but a dog of Sir Adam's broke her... | |
| 1893 - 840 pages
...Abbotsford in 1824, and was buried underneath the " leaping-ou-stone," with this couplet inscribed : — Beneath the sculptured form which late you wore, Sleep soundly, Maida, at your master's door. My father's birthday, the 15th September, was always celebrated with Highland games. They generally... | |
| Xavier Donald MacLeod - Authors, Scottish - 1852 - 326 pages
...sub-imagine Maida Adjanuam dotnini sittibi terra levis." Thus improvisedly Englished by Scott— " Beside the sculptured form, which late you wore, Sleep soundly, Maida, at your master's door." When the sacred, yet joyous season of the Nativity drew nigh, Abbotsford of course held a large party.... | |
| John Wilson, John Gibson Lockhart, James Hogg - 1854 - 516 pages
...imagine Maida, Ad januam domini sit tibi terra levis, of which his own extemporized translation was Beneath the sculptured form which late you wore, Sleep soundly, Maida, at your master's door. The Latin couplet was composed by Srott and Li,ckhart. It was seen by James Ballantyne, who printed... | |
| George Richard Jesse - Dogs - 1866 - 466 pages
...sub imagine Maida, Ad januam domini sit tibi terra levis.' " Thus Englished by an eminent hand, — ' Beneath the sculptured form which late you wore, Sleep soundly, Maida, at your master's door.' " Richardson, in his excellent work, states that Maida's sire I was one of the noble shepherds' dogs... | |
| Hildebrand - Literature - 1876 - 380 pages
...Lockhart, over welks fautive quantiteit veel te doen is geweest, en dat "Walter Scott dus vertaald heeft: Beneath the sculptured form which late you wore, Sleep soundly, Maida, at your m asters door. DE ABDIJ VAN MELROSE. b. bladz. 297. Zie hier de vermaarde plaats in haar geheel: If... | |
| William Chambers - Biography - 1878 - 334 pages
...doorway of Abbotsford. His attached master wrote an epitaph on him in Latin, which he thus Englished : Beneath the sculptured form which late you wore, Sleep soundly, Maida, at your master's door. It was a sad pang for Scott, when quitting home to seek for health abroad, and which he did not find,... | |
| American literature - 1881 - 884 pages
...dormis sub imagine, Maida, Ad januam domini sit tibi terra levis," and which Scott at once Englished : " Beneath the sculptured form which late you wore. Sleep soundly. Maida, at your master's door," — has been made famous not only by its subject and its authors, but also by its false quantity. Before... | |
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