The doctor &c / by the late Robert Southey ; edited by his son-in-law, John Wood Warter.

  • Robert Southey
Date:
1865
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Credit: The doctor &c / by the late Robert Southey ; edited by his son-in-law, John Wood Warter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Alcimi—d'lcono ch' to ho crcduto formar me stesso, per- suadendomi che le conditioni ch' to al Dottore attribuisco, tutte siano tn me. A' questi tali non voglio giii ncgar di non haver tentato tutto queUo, ch' to vorrei che sapesse il Dottore; et penso che chi non havesse havuto qtialche notitia delle cose che nel libro si trattano, per erudito che fosse stato, male haverebbe potuto scriverle: ma io non son tanio privo di giudicio in conoscere me stesso, che mi presuma super tutto quello, che so desiderare. Castiglione. In a building,—if it be large, there is much to be done in preparing and laying the foundation, before the walls appear above ground; much is doing within, when the work does not seem, perhaps, to advance without, and when it is considerably forward, yet being encumbered with scaffolds and rubbish, a bystander sees it at great disadvantage, and can form but an imperfect judgment of it. But all this while the architect himself, even from the laying of the first stone, conceives of it according to the plan and design he has formed; he prepares and ad- justs the materials, disposing each in its proper time and place, and views it in idea as already finished. In due season it is compleated, but not in a day. The top-stone is fixed, and then, the scaffolds and rubbish being re- moved, it appears to others as he intended it should be. John Newton. Non si dea adunque V uomo contentare di fare le cose buone, ma dee studiare di farle anco leggiadre. E non i altro leggiadria, che una cotale quasi luce, che risplende dalla convenevolexza delle cose, che sono ben composte, e ben divtsaie I' una con V ultra, e tutte insieme; senza la quel misura eziandio il bene non e bello, e la bellezza non e piacevole. M. Gio. Della Casa, Galateo. Pick out of mirth, like stones out of thy ground, Profaneness, filthiness, abusiveness; These are the scum with which coarse wits abound ; The few may spare them well. Herbert. The wise, — weighs each thing as it ought. Mistakes no term, nor sentence wrests awry; The fond will read awhile, but cares for nought. Yet casts on each man’s work a frowning eye. This neither treats of matters low nor high. But finds a meane, that each good meaning might In all true means take Charity aright. Churchyard. While others fish with craft for great opinion, I with great truth catch mere simplicity. Whilst some with cunning gild their copper crowns. With truth and plainness I do w'ear mine bare. Fear not my truth ; the moral of my wit Is — plain and true; — there’s all the reach of it. Shakspeare. rovrcvv ouv ovvma. sra^raiv, OTi tro<f^ovixS;, xoux MvorjTias hrwr,^'yia'(x.i l^pXvoi^u, Oil^itrO' OtVTM fTO?iu TO ^oOlOV, OOT i(f' iyBsXOC XtUTOtJf 66^v/3oy ^^ritrrbv Aijva’/Vjjy, > r \ > /- ✓ tv 0 ^OlVlTYii OOXltt yjXt^OlV, XOOTCC VOUV (potld^bi Xoc./JOTOVT! UiTUTU. Aristophanes. Io vorrei. Monsignor, solo tant' arte Ch' io potessi, per longo e per traverso, Dipengervi il mio cor in queste carte. Ludovico Dolce. Nous nous aimons un peu, c'est notre foible d tons ; Le prix que nous valons qui le sqait rtiieux que nous ? Et puis la mode en est, et la cour I'autorise. Nous parlons de nous-memes avec tout franchise. Corneille. Mes paroles sont un peu de dure digestion pour la foiblesse des estomacs d'd present. Mais si on les remdche bien, on en tirera beaucoup de substance. Mademoiselle Bourignon. Supersunt etiarn plurima qua; did possint in hone materiam, quibus pro vitando fastidio, supersedendum puto; ut St quis eadem conari velit, habeat eliatnnum aliquid in quo exerceat industriam. Ken. Kapin. I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading as I had in the writing. Quarles. La 7 ]
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