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Is this a repeat programme or a reprise performance?
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
Clemency Burton-Hill on the tv progoramme 'Pointless Celebrities' - Satis verborum if that is the term.
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
Look you one time classicists, its fifty years since I did Latin O level, but I think 'Satis verborum' means 'Enough words' or 'Satieted with verbiage' or something like that. If it doesnt will a better scholar enlighten me?
Look you one time classicists, its fifty years since I did Latin O level, but I think 'Satis verborum' means 'Enough words' or 'Satieted with verbiage' or something like that. If it doesnt will a better scholar enlighten me?
Res ipsa loquitur might be closer to the mark, but who's counting - we knew what Stan meant!
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
Look you one time classicists, its fifty years since I did Latin O level, but I think 'Satis verborum' means 'Enough words' or 'Satieted with verbiage' or something like that. If it doesnt will a better scholar enlighten me?
... do we think that Stanfordian was thinking of 'verb: sap:', ie 'verbum satis sapienti' - a word is enough for the wise, viz, 'know what I mean, nudge nudge'...
I have to confess that when first I heard of CB-H I thought that it was a firm of solicitors, appeals for clemency and all - which just goes to show how wrong one can be...
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