“My soul to-day
Is far away,
Sailing the Vesuvian Bay;
My wingéd boat,
A bird afloat,
Swims ’round the purple peaks remote.”
The English language does not contain a more exquisite bit of word-painting than the poem embodying the above-quoted lines.--Thomas Buchanan Read, Drifting (1867).
Veto (Monsieur and Madame), Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette. The king had the power of putting his veto on any decree of the National Assembly (1791), in consequence of which he was nicknamed “Capet Veto.”
⁂ The name occurs in the celebrated song called La Carmagnole, which was sung to a dance of the same name.
Vetus, in the Times newspaper, is the nom de plume of Edward Sterling (1773-1847), “The Thunderer” (1812-13).