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In short, my dear sir, try the suaviter in modo (as we classical men say) before you commit yourself to the fortiter in re
In the first place, you are probably aware that two years ago I made a journey to South America--one which will be classical in the scientific history of the world?
For some reason it looked a very artificial lake; indeed, the whole scene was like a classical landscape with a touch of Watteau; the Palladian facade of the house pale in the moon, and the same silver touching the very pagan and naked marble nymph in the middle of the pond.
They were his father and mother, his brother the Reverend Felix--curate at a town in the adjoining county, home for the inside of a fortnight--and his other brother, the Reverend Cuthbert, the classical scholar, and Fellow and Dean of his College, down from Cambridge for the long vacation.
To even the little manliness his classical prototypes possessed, though, he can lay no claim whatever, being a listless effeminate noodle, on the shady side of forty.
Bohn's Classical Library), 1850; by Wharton, 1883 (see Greek version), S.
Sir Henry followed suit with a verse out of the Old Testament, and something about Balbus building a wall, in Latin, whilst Good addressed the Queen of Night in a volume of the most classical bad language which he could think of.
Gringoire, who liked noble and classical comparisons, compared him in thought to the living tripod of Vulcan.

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