* Prussicos odi, puer, apparatus,as old NAP said to young NAP, when the Teutonic bullets flew about them at Saarbruck.

"The second part of the canticle (verses 76-80, 'Et tu puer ...

How say you, Mistress Virga, will you suffer Hic puer bonae indolis to tear His lessons, leaves, and lectures from his book? 1ST BOY.

Purum aut minorem annis, trahet mater secum si placet, sed ætatis puer perfectæ, eliget pro proprio placito viuere superstes, aut mori iuxta parentes.

O puer ut sis vitalis metuo, "How much I dread Thy days are short, some lord shall strike thee dead.

If he be a soldier, and so applauded, his valour extolled, though it be impar congressus, as that of Troilus and Achilles, Infelix puer, he will combat with a giant, run first upon a breach, as another Philippus, he will ride into the thickest of his enemies.

"Qui cupit optatam cursu contingere metam, Multa tulit, fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit.

"Prome reconditum, Lyde strenua, caecubum, Capaciores puer huc affer Scyphos, Et Chia vina aut Lesbia.

Postquam puer morbo abiit, et ipse delphinus periit.

lux purpuret ortum Expectata diu! naturae claustra refringens, Nascere, magne puer!

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.

Lusibus gaudet puer otiosis, Luxus oblectat juvenem theatri, At seni fluxo sapienter uti Tempore restat.

Haec musae ad Venerem: sic Marti, diva, mineris, Hue nunquam volitat debilis iste puer.

"Nemo tam puer est at Cerberum timeat, et tenebras," &c.] [Footnote 17: Fragm.

Inseruit pollices, pruna nana evellens, et magnâ voce exclamavit "Dii boni, quàm bonus puer fio!" Diddle-diddle-dumkins!

In medias res is the rule, you know, formose puer, my excellent old boy!

Octavius, to whom the poem is dedicated, is addressed Octavi venerande and sancte puer, a clear reference to the remarkable honor that Caesar secured for him by election to the office of pontiff when he was approaching his fifteenth birthday and before he assumed the toga virilis.

Then, having used the Greek word pothos, he checks himself as though dreading a frown from Varius, and substitutes the Latin word puer, Scilicet hoc fraude, Vari dulcissime, dicam: "Dispeream, nisi me perdidit iste pothos.

" Sin autem praecepta vetant me dicere, sane Non dicam, sed: "me perdidit iste puer.

It is an old prescription, "Multa tulit fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit, Abstinuit venere et vino.

As I look over these last letters, which gush and throb with the fulness of his activity, and are so tenderly streaked with touches of constant affection and remembrance, yet are so calm and duly mindful of every detail, I do not think with an elder friend, in whom the wisdom of years has only deepened sympathy for all generous youthful impulse, of Virgil's Marcellus, "Heu, miserande puer!"

Ultima primis Cedunt: dissimiles hic vir et ille puer.

Ast illam potuitne Puer donare sagittis?

The epigram is as follows: "Oxoniæ salsus (juvenis tum) more vetusto; Wintoniæque (puer tum) piperatus eram.

'Nec duo sunt at forma duplex, nec fæmina dici Nec puer ut possint, neutrumque et utrumque videntur.' Ovid.

Make a thin paste from pure starch or arrowroot.

But pure water is stale and flat to such a mouth: something more emphatic is needed.

The arteries are the highly elastic and extensible tubes which carry the pure, fresh blood outwards from the heart to all parts of the body.

At all events, these substances have an injurious action, for an atmosphere containing simply one per cent of pure carbon dioxid has very little hurtful effect on the animal economy, but an atmosphere in which the carbon dioxid has been raised one per cent by breathing is highly injurious.

About the same amount of carbon dioxid is expelled, and this could be represented by a piece of pure charcoal weighing 9 ounces.

Persons in this lowered state of health are much more prone to surfer from colds, catarrhs, bronchitis, and pneumonia than if they were living in the open air, or breathing only pure air.

The object of ventilation is twofold: First, to provide for the removal of the impure air; second, for a supply of pure air.

The pure air introduced should not be far below the temperature of the room, or if so, the entering current should be introduced towards the ceiling, that it may mix with the warm air.

If the circuit from entrance to exit is short, draughts are likely to be produced, and impure air has less chance of mixing by diffusion with the pure air.

In brief, it is necessary to have a thorough mixing of pure and impure air, so that the combination at different parts of the room may be fairly uniform.

And it will so remain and be familiar in the mouths of posterity, with a fame as pure as it is noble.

He was warm in his friendships, pure in life, and his early death will be lamented by a wide circle of friends.

As it is he thinks our meeting was just pure chance.

We tire of everything, at times, except the felicities of a pure and fervid love.

His scepter is the rod of Righteousnesse, 155 With which he bruseth all his foes to dust, And the great Dragon strongly doth represse Under the rigour of his iudgment iust; His seate is Truth, to which the faithfull trust, From whence proceed her beames so pure and bright, 160

Pure blood? MYSELF: No, grade.

The reader will notice here two things: first, that though the poem is almost pure Anglo-Saxon,[50] our first speech has already dropped many inflections and is more easily read than Beowulf; second, that French influence is already at work in Layamon's rimes and assonances, that is, the harmony resulting from using the same vowel sound in several successive lines:

Happy she who dies lamented, she who leaves in the heart that loves her a pure picture, a sacred remembrance, unspotted by the base passions engendered by the years!

This pure air, and these stones, now so clean, will be crowded with coal, with boxes and barrels, the products of human industry, but let it not matter, for we shall move about rapidly in comfortable coaches to seek in the interior other air, other scenes on other shores, cooler temperatures on the slopes of the mountains.

Fourteen young men of the principal islands of the archipelago, from the pure Indian (if there be pure ones) to the Peninsular Spaniard, were met to hold the banquet advised by Padre Irene in view of the happy solution of the affair about instruction in Castilian.

Fourteen young men of the principal islands of the archipelago, from the pure Indian (if there be pure ones) to the Peninsular Spaniard, were met to hold the banquet advised by Padre Irene in view of the happy solution of the affair about instruction in Castilian.

Learned in the doctrines of Christ, who closes heaven against the rich, they, our redeemers and genuine ministers of the Saviour, seek every means to lift away our sins and bear them far, far off, there where the accursed Chinese and Protestants dwell, to leave us this air, limpid, pure, healthful, in such a way that even should we so wish afterwards, we could not find a real to bring about our condemnation.

Such prowess gained him great renown, and a renown so pure that it is to be wished all fame could be acquired in like mannermothers would then weep less and earth would be more populous!

A solitary walk in a solitary place, with the great world sleeping about you, and the great skies throbbing above you, and the long unrest of the panting summer night, fading into the cool of dews, and pure gray dawns, has in it something of what Mr. Robertson calls "God's silence.

The most pure utterance of this feeling is perhaps Schiller's "Gods of Greece," where the loss of the Olympians is distinctly deplored, because it has unpeopled, not heaven, but earth.