The Life And Opinions of John Buncle Esquire

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Undo habeas nemo quaerit, sed oportet habere. Quorum animis, a prima lamigine, non insedit illud ? " And what Catullus told his Lesbia, is it not approved to this day by the largest part of the great female world ? Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus, Rumoresque Senum severiorum, Omnes unius aestimemus assis. Soles occidere et redire possunt, Nobis, cum semel occidit brevis lux, Nox est perpetua una dormiendo. discunt omnes ante Alpha et Beta puell.i'. The girls all learn this lesson before their ABC; and as to the opinion of the poet, it shews how sadly the Augustan age, with all its learning, and polite advantages, was corrupted : and as Virgil makes a jest of his own fine description of a paradise of the Elysian fields ; as is evident from his dismissing his hero out of the ivory gate ; which shews he was