Carminum rariorum macaronicorum delectus:: in usum ludorum Apollinarum, quae solenniter Edinburgi celebrantur, apud Conventum Gymnasticum Filiorum Aesculapii, Volume 36Ex typographia G. Ramsay et Sociorum. ; Venales prostant Apud Petrum Hill, Juniorem, 1813 - Macaronic literature - 144 pages |
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Page 128 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Page 136 - Blest as the immortal gods is he, The youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee all the while Softly speak and sweetly smile.
Page 136 - Twas this depriv'd my soul of rest, And rais'd such tumults in my breast; For while I gaz'd, in transport tost, My breath was gone, my voice was lost: in. ' My bosom glow'd: the subtle flame Ran quick thro' all my vital frame; O'er my dim eyes a darkness hung; My ears with hollow murmurs rung.
Page 136 - O'er my dim eyes a darkness hung ; My ears with hollow murmurs rung. In dewy damps my limbs were chill'd ; My blood with gentle horrors thrill'd ; My feeble pulse forgot to play ; I fainted, sunk, and died away.
Page 120 - Than coffee, tea, or milk and water ; That cheerful company, cum risu, Cum vino forti, suavi visu, Gustatu dulci, still has been A cure for hyppo and the spleen ; That hen and capon, vervecina, Beef, duck and pasties, cum ferina, Are good stomachics, and the best Of cordials, probatum est.
Page 11 - Per costam, et scopulis lobster monyfootus in udis Creepat, et in mediis ludit whitenius undis ; Et vos skipperii, soliti qui per mare breddum...
Page 119 - Fraser could never stand before him ; For he, by page and leaf, can quote More books than Solomon ere wrote. A lover of the mathematics He is, but hates the hydrostatics, Because he thinks it a cold study To deal in water, clear or muddy. Doctissimus est medicinae, Almost as Boerhaave or Bellini.
Page 49 - Nook of Fife the daw'n Speel'd westlines up the lift, Carles wha heard the cock had craw'n, Begoud to rax and rift: And greedy wives wi...
Page 119 - He vies, if sober, with Duns Scotus, Sed multo magis si sit potus. In disputando just as keen as Calvin, John Knox, or Tom Aquinas. In every question of theology, Versatus...
Page 122 - Dabamus at a large punch-bowl Within our proper common school, The twenty-sixth day of November, Ten years, the date we may remember, After the race...