It passes from a reflection on "the dreary fuimus of all things here" to the advice But "carpe diem," Juan, "carpe, carpe!" To-morrow sees another race as gay And transient, and devour'd by the same harpy.

Not that I have any animosity against the good creatures that are so anxious to drive away the harpy Solitude from me.

Mr. LEIF-JONES implied that it was more disastrous than the U-boats, and Mr. HOUSTON loudly protested at being represented as a harpy.

All thought of fear or deference was gone, she had nothing left but scorn for these two despicable creatures, the fat harpy and her crapulent consort who had battened so long upon her misery, who had held her in bondage to the most menial tasks of their wretched restaurant while they filched and hoarded the money paid them for giving her the care and the advantages that were her due.

Only thus much I would require, honesty in every physician, that he be not over-careless or covetous, harpy-like to make a prey of his patient; Carnificis namque est (as [2850]Wecker notes) inter ipsos cruciatus ingens precium exposcere, as a hungry chirurgeon often produces and wire-draws his cure, so long as there is any hope of pay, Non missura cutem, nisi plena cruoris hirudo.

And the event which one might most readily conjecture to have taken place through divine means was that a thunderbolt descended upon his dinner and consumed it all as it was being brought to him, like some tremendous harpy snatching away his food.

Lady Kirkbank's town complexion was superintended by Seraphine, sometimes even manipulated by those harpy-like claws.

We'll go to Clanricarde Place directly after luncheon, and see what that old harpy has to show us.' Lesbia had a rather uncomfortable feeling about facing the fair Seraphine, without being able to give her a cheque upon account of that dreadful bill.

Furthermore, the erroneous reference of Calaeno's omen to Anchises in the seventh book (l. 122) would indicate that this part at least was written before the harpy-scene of the third, for the latter is so extensive that the poet could hardly have forgotten it if it had already been written.

In this enlightened age of the universal subscription-paper, exhausted givers are familiar objects, but a receiver who finds the labors of his calling excessive is as non-existent as the harpy, his mythological prototype.

My name is Sawbridge, sir, and I am the first lieutenant of the Harpy.

That evening Mr. Jack Easy was safe on board his majesty's sloop Harpy.

II.On Board the Harpy Jack remained in his hammock during the first few days at sea.

"I'd not only give up the ocean," thought Jack, "and my share of it, but also my share of the Harpy, unto anyone who fancies it.

When the Harpy was at Malta, Jack, wroth at the way the two men talked at him, declared he would give them satisfaction.

Within doors they infest, harpy-like, the dinner-table Diripiuntque dapes, contactuque omnia foedant Immundo and hover in impending clouds over the sugar basin at tea; in the pantry it is buz; in the dairy it is buz; in the kitchen it is buz; one loud, long-continued, and monotonous buz!

Dryden resembled rather the mortal steed which was yoked with these immortal twain, the brood of Zephyr and the Harpy Podarga; only we can hardly say of the poet what Homer says of Pedasus [Greek:

Finally, as though the very spirit of parody danced in the company of this strange poem, Wordsworth himself chronicled its ill-fate in a sonnet imitated from Milton's defence of "Tetrachordon," singing how, on the appearance of Peter Bell, a harpy brood On Bard and Hero clamourously fell.

This harpy had loved Leonora with the fondness of the veteran for the new recruit.

I have had everything, and upon each feast of will and sense the world afforded me this love has swept down, like a harpywas it not a harpy you called the bird in that old poem of yours?to rob me of delight.

The immortal Harpy.

The Prophetess who foretells it, is an Hungry Harpy, as the Person who discovers it is young Ascanius.

For thy confusion, Thou ravenous harpy, with an angel's face, Thou art discovered, thou too charming rival; I'll be revenged upon those fatal eyes.

Daughter Of Tartaruslove-grinning Woman above, Dragon-tailed underhoney-tongued, Harpy-clawed, Into the glittering meshes of slaughter

"That harpy hopes to fleece us," said Dalrymple, slipping his arm through mine and drawing me towards the roulette table.