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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 15: the Circuits.—Visits in England and Scotland.—August to October, 1838.—age, 27. (search)
English verses, and my Latin would not flow very smoothly now. The inscriptions have been printed in Winged Words on Chantrey's Woodcocks, edited by James Patrick Muirhead, M. A., with etchings. London: John Murray. 1857. A copy of the volume is in the Boston Public Library. Only a few of the seventeen, as copied by Sumner, are given here; in some instances they differ from Mr. Muirhead's version. Vixerunt, vivunt, O vis quanta entis! eadem Ad vitam reduces qua periere manu! Mr. Children, F. R.S. This last is quite epigrammatic. We fled from Norway o'er the German wave, And pilgrims here we found an early grave; Hard fate was ours; for herroi=s kai\ maka/ressin dmou= h(mei=s ga\r qa/nomen *xantroi=o be/lessi dame/ntes, ka)n li/qw| a)qana/tous au)to\s e)/qhke pa/lin. It is thus translated by Mr. Muirhead, the compiler of the ‘Winged Words on Chantrey's Woodcocks,’ p. 37:— Happy at once and miserable, we Seem to partake the fate of Niobe; For, perishing by C<