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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.