"Show it me!"
Gerard brought the work to him in fear and trembling; then stood, heart-sick, awaiting his verdict.
When it came it staggered him. For the verdict was, a Dominican falling on his neck.
CHAPTER LXI
HAPPY the man who has two chain-cables; Merit, and Women.
Oh that I, like Gerard, had a "chaine des dames" to pull up by.
I would be prose laureat, or professor of the spasmodic, or something, in no time. En attendant, I will sketch the Fra Colonna.
The true revivers of ancient learning and philosophy, were two writers of fiction—Petrarch, and Boccaccio.
Their labours were not crowned with great, public, and immediate success; but they sowed the good seed; and it never perished, but quickened in the soil, awaiting sunshine.