dulcedo

Reposted in honor of the Most Blessed Virgin vita, dulcedo et spes nostra, on the Fifth Sunday after Easter, 2009: Notre Dame, conçue sans péché, priez pour nous qui avons recours à vous. posted by New Catholic at 12:01 AM

Archive 2009-05-01 2009

Cum loquitur Lais, quanta, O dii boni, vocis ejus dulcedo!

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

In a very sophisticated time, simplicity has a new dulcedo.

The Works of Max Beerbohm Max Beerbohm 1914

Quam multis amaritudinibus humanae felicitatis dulcedo respersa est!

The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

Lectio opponit ori solidum cibum, Meditatio frangit; Oratio japorem conciliat, Contemplatio est ipsa dulcedo que jucundat & resicit.

The spiritual guide which disentangles the soul / by Michael de Molinos ; edited with an introduction by Kathleen Lyttelton and a note by H. Scott Holland. 1907

Lectio opponit ori solidum cibum, Meditatio frangit; Oratio japorem conciliat, Contemplatio est ipsa dulcedo que jucundat & resicit.

The spiritual guide which disentangles the soul / by Michael de Molinos ; edited with an introduction by Kathleen Lyttelton and a note by H. Scott Holland. 1907

Perhaps the old saying held in her case: < i > ex forti dulcedo ; perhaps her confident strength had abandonments more flattering and complete than those of weaker women; perhaps in those moments her forceful dark face took on a soulful beauty that entranced his exquisite susceptibility; perhaps -- but the suppositions are infinite.

The Man Shakespeare Frank Harris 1893

After having caused evil to arise from the very utility of its principle, competition again finds a way to extract good from evil; destruction en genders utility, equilibrium is realized by agitation, and it may be said of competition, as Samson said of the lion which he had slain: De comedente cibus exiit, et de forti dulcedo.

System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery 1888

To obviate his apprehension, that by settling in London I might desert the seat of my ancestors, I assured him, that I had old feudal principles to a degree of enthusiasm; and that I felt all the dulcedo of the natale solum [501].

Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

First, there was the canticle of exultation, the joyous welcome of a being yet little, stammering forth respectful caresses, petting with gentle words, and fondness of a child who seeks to coax his mother -- this is the "Salve Regina, Mater misericordiæ, vita, dulcedo et spes nostra, salve."

En Route 1877