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si, Mimnermus uti censet, sine amore jocisque nil est jucundum, vivas in amore jorisqne. HOR. Epist. I. vi 65, 66. If, as Mimnennus held, nought else can move Your soul to pleasure, live in sports and love.
The theatre was completed, and was found to be, without the _echeia_, a fine vehicle of sound. It was tried, not only in the morning rehearsals, but occasionally, and chiefly on afternoons of bad weather, by recitations, and even lectures; for though some of the party attached no value to that mode of dogmatic instruction, yet with the majority, and especially with the young ladies, it was decidedly in favour.