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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)
inscriptions in Greek (see post, letter of March 1, 1839), which Sumner sent to Lord Leicester, one of which was the following:— oi(/hper *nio/bhs moi/rh toih/de kai\ h(mi=n e)stin o)izuroi=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 Chantrey's dart, we die, And in his marble live immortally.<] To Professor Simon Greenleaf, Cambridge. Holkham House, Nov. 2, 1888. My dear Greenleaf,—Which is the older of the two,—--you or I? There cannot be much disparity of age, I feel; for you write so freshly as to respond to all the little of youth there is left in me, or I have grown so grave as to be climbing prematurely to the dignity of your years. But time has moved faster with me, since I left y