Godley Alfred Denis
Alfred Denis Godley (1856--1925) was a classical scholar and author of humorous poems. From 1910 to 1920 he was Public Orator at the University of Oxford, a post that involved composing citations in Latin for the recipients of honorary degrees. One of these was for Thomas Hardy who received an Honorary D. Litt. in 1920, and whose treatment of rural themes Godley compared to Virgil. He is mainly remembered today for his humorous verse, including macaronic pieces such as The Motor Bus, which playfully mixes Latin declensions with English. Godley's published works include: He also published a translations of Herodotus (1921) and Horace's Odes (1898). Godley was a first cousin of the Under-Secretary of State for India John Arthur Godley, 1st Baron Kilbracken.
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: RUBAIYYAT OF MODERATIONS A7AKE! for the Nightingale upon the VV Bough Has sung of Moderations: ay, and now Pales in the Firmament above the Schools The Constellation of the boding Plough. I too in distant Ages long ago To him that ploughed me gave a Quid or so: It was a Fraud : it was not good enough : Ne'er for my Quid had I my Quid pro Quo. Yetfor the Man who pays his painful Pence Some Laws may frame from dark Experience : Still from the Wells of harsh Adversity May Wisdom draw the Pail of Common Sense Take these few Rules, whichcarefully rehearsed Will land the User safely in a First, Second, or Third, or Gulf: and after all There's nothing lower than a Plough at worst. Plain is the Trick of doing Latin Prose ; An Esse Videantur at the Close Makes it to all Intents and Purposes As good as anything of Cicero's. Yet let it not your anxious Mind perturb Should Grammar's Law your Diction fail to curb: Be comforted : it is like Tacitus : 'Tis mostly done by leaving out the Verb. Mark well the Point: and thus your Answer fit That you thereto all Reference omit, But argue still about it and about Of This, and That, and T'Othernot of It. RUBAIYYAT OF MODERATIONS 15 Say, why should You upon your proper Hook Dilate on Things which whoso cares to look Will find, in Libraries or otherwhere, Already stated in a printed Book ? Keep clear of Facts: the Fool who deals in those A Mucker he inevitably goes: The dusty Don who looks your Paper o'er He knows about it allor thinks he knows. A Pipe, a Teapot, and a Pencil blue, A Crib, perchance a Lexiconand You Beside him singing in a Wilderness Of Suppositions palpably untrue 'Tis all he needs : he is content with these : Not Facts he wants, but soft H...
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