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Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.
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Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.
[Lat., Medio de fonte leporum
Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.]
The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in
learning.
The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in
learning.
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour;
Improve each moment as it flies!
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour;
Improve each moment as it flies!
Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
Now, infidel, I have you on the hip!
Now, infidel, I have you on the hip!
Round, round, while thus we go round,
The best thing a man can do,
Is to make read more
Round, round, while thus we go round,
The best thing a man can do,
Is to make it at least, a merry-go-round,
By--sending the wine round too.
The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike
the melancholy.
The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike
the melancholy.
With the arm which won the victory he protects the vanquished.
With the arm which won the victory he protects the vanquished.