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" 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 36
edited by - 1914
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 3

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,...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 7

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...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 7

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...
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The Living Age, Volume 199

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...
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Life of Sir Walter Scott

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....
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Noetes Ambrosianæ, Volume 4

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...
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Researches Into the History of the British Dog: From Ancient Laws ..., Volume 1

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...
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Verscheidenheden meest op letterkundig gebied

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...
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Stories of Remarkable Persons

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,...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 34

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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