Yet, so short-lived was that joy that the event has always seemed more like a disquieting dream than a reality; for they came at night and were gone in the morning, and left me sorrowing.

It's all very fine to assume a lofty scorn of the pleasures of the table, but there is great virtue in a really good feed, especially when low-living and high-thinking have been the order of the day.

Whether the Latin Lives proper are free translations of the Irish Lives or the Irish Lives translations of Latin originals remains still, to a large extent, an open question.

Toil, toil, toil Life is labor and love: Live, love and labor is then our song, Till we lay down our toils for the resting throng, With our Architect above.

"Live and let live" is a more modern slogan, which mounts in turn from mere toleration of other people to a spirit of service and universal brotherhood.

So like a painted battle the war stood Silenced, the living quiet as the dead, And in the heart of Arthur joy was lord.

" Living, just living, was with Ann clearly the great thing to be desired.

"Nash, had Lycambes on earth living been The time thou wast, his death had been all one; Had he but mov'd thy tartest Muse to spleen Unto the fork he had as surely gone: For why?