Et querimur genus infelix, humana labare Membra aevo, cum regna palam moriantur et urbes.

Diceva Orlando al Re: Le mie promesse Tutte ho servate, quante mai ne fei; Ma se quel che or mi chiedi io promettesse E s'io il giurassi, io non l'attenderei; Così poria spiccar mie membra istesse E levarmi di fronte gli occhi miei, E viver senza spirto e senza core, Come lasciar

Disjunction N. disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement; discontinuity &c 70; abjunction^; cataclasm^; inconnection^; abstraction, abstractedness; isolation; insularity, insulation; oasis; island; separateness &c adj.; severalty; disjecta membra

[Lat.], medley; mere mixture &c 41; fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta membra

Dispersion N. {opp. 72} dispersion; disjunction &c 44; divergence &c 291; aspersion; scattering &c v.; dissemination, diffusion, dissipation, distribution; apportionment &c 786; spread, respersion^, circumfusion^, interspersion, spargefaction^; affusion^. waifs and estrays^, flotsam and jetsam, disjecta membra

dramatic poetry, lyric poetry; opera; posy, anthology; disjecta membra poetae song [Lat.], ballad, lay; love song, drinking song, war song, sea song; lullaby; music &c 415; nursery rhymes.

They are scattered up and down the "Ilias" and "Odusseia" in the shape of disjecta membra.

Besides all manner of tortures, brazen bulls, racks, wheels, strappadoes, guns, engines, &c. Ad unum corpus humanum supplicia plura, quam membra: We have invented more torturing instruments, than there be several members in a man's body, as Cyprian well observes.

It troubles some to be unburied, or so: "non te optima mater Condet humi, patriove onerabit membra sepulchro; Alitibus linguere feris, et gurgite mersum Unda feret, piscesque impasti vulnera lambent.

Dirigis huc quoties spectantia lumina, flamma Succendunt inopi saucia membra mihi.

So dumb and dead creatures dote, but men are mad, stupefied many times at the first sight of beauty, amazed, as that fisherman in Aristaenetus that spied a maid bathing herself by the seaside, [4860] "Soluta mihi sunt omnia membra

Though in men these parts are not so much respected; a grim Saracen sometimes,nudus membra Pyracmon, a martial hirsute face pleaseth best; a black man is a pearl in a fair woman's eye, and is as acceptable as lame Vulcan was to Venus; for he being a sweaty fuliginous blacksmith, was dearly beloved of her, when fair Apollo, nimble Mercury were rejected, and the rest of the sweet-faced gods forsaken.

[5102] "Tenta modo tangere corpus, Jam tua mellifluo membra calore fluent.

Ad extinguendum coitum, ungantur membra genitalia, et renes et pecten aqua in qua opium Thebaicum sit dissolutum; libidini maxime contraria camphora est, et coriandrum siccum frangit coitum, et erectionem virgae impedit; idem efficit synapium ebibitum.

Est quaedam pulchritudo justitiae quam videmus oculis cordis, amamus, et exardescimus, ut in martyribus, quum eorum membra bestiae lacerarent, etsi alias deformes, &c. 4560.

Ergo membra debilia, et penuria alibilis succi marcescunt, squalentque ut herbae in horto meo hoc mense Maio Zeriscae, ob imbrium defectum.

Florea mansuetae petulantes vincula tigri Per ludum pueri injicient, et fessa colubri Membra viatoris recreabunt frigore linguae.

Errat adhuc vitreus per prata virentia rivus, Quo toties lavi membra tenella puer; Hic delusa rudi frustrabar brachia motu, Dum docuit, blanda voce, natare pater.

v. 10, or of still more disjecta membra of St. Matthew.

Our poets are not merely vague and confused, they are altogether fragmentarydisjecta membra poetarum; they need some uniting idea.

To us, some of those wildest "Rob the Ranter" bursts of blackguardism are most deeply mournful, hardly needing that the sympathies which they stir up should be heightened by the little scraps of prayer and bitter repentance, which lie up and down among their uglier brethren, the disjecta membra of a great "De Profundis," perhaps not all unheard.

For when the orator has employed those topics which I have shown to be admissible, then the whole of his efforts must be transferred to what the Greeks call, I know not why, [Greek: kommata] and [Greek: kola], and which we may translate, though not very correctly, "incisa" and "membra."

O Fortunati mercatores, gravis annis Miles ait, multo jam fractus membra labore!

The two last are put in the room of Ferrum exercebant vasto Cylopes in antro, Brontesque, Steropesque, & nudus membra Pyraemon.

Pars in gramineis exercent membra palæstris, Contendunt ludo, & fulva luctanter arena: Pars pedibus plaudunt choreas, & carmina dicunt.