[eBook #11911] Language: English Character set encoding: iso-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SILENT ISLE*** E-text prepared by the Internet Archive Million Book Project, papeters, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team THE SILENT ISLE BY ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge 1913 Nec prohibui cor meum.

" As Bellerophon in Homer, "Qui miser in sylvis moerens errabat opacis, Ipse suum cor edens, hominum vestigia vitans.

Ex menstrui sanguinis tetra ad cor et cerebrum exhalatione, vitiatum semen mentem perturbat, &c. non per essentiam, sed per consensum.

"Simul in [4940]oculorum radiis crescebat fax amorum, Et cor fervebat invecti ignis impetu; Pulchritudo enim Celebris immaculatae foeminae, Acutior hominibus est veloci sagitta.

In order to say it attentively have we taken great pains to put away all kinds of distractions? "Munda cor meum ab omnibus vanis perversis et alienis cogitationibus" (ibid.).

I loved familiar-letter-writing, as I had more than once told her, above all the species of writing: it was writing from the heart, (without the fetters prescribed by method or study,) as the very word cor-respondence implied.

There is not a Cor-rnishman that is not a big pig!" He lifted the second leg wearily over the rail.

Cor totum combustum, jecur suffumigatum, pulmo arefactus, ut credam miseram illam animam bis elixam aut combustam, ob maximum ardorem quem patiuntur ob ignem amoris.

My last night's epistle was childishly querulous: but you have put a little life into me, and I will thank you for your remembrance of me, while my sense of it is yet warm; for if I linger a day or two, I may use the same phrase of acknowledgment, or similar, but the feeling that dictates it now will be gone; I shall send you a caput mortuum; not a cor vivens.