. The universal anthology ; a collection of the best literature, ancient, mediaeval and modern, with biographical and explanatory notes. d as their funds increase,With fresh recruits they still augment their stock,Molding the young novitiate to her trade:Form, feature, manners, everything so changedThat not a trace of former self is left. Venetian Diploma of Semitecolo (Sixteenth Century) This specimen was selected from a fine collection of thesedocuments in the British Museum, on account of the beau-tiful miniature painting of the illumination. The diplomato which this miniature is attached b
. The universal anthology ; a collection of the best literature, ancient, mediaeval and modern, with biographical and explanatory notes. d as their funds increase,With fresh recruits they still augment their stock,Molding the young novitiate to her trade:Form, feature, manners, everything so changedThat not a trace of former self is left. Venetian Diploma of Semitecolo (Sixteenth Century) This specimen was selected from a fine collection of thesedocuments in the British Museum, on account of the beau-tiful miniature painting of the illumination. The diplomato which this miniature is attached bears the date 1644, andis from the Doge Francesco Molino, appointing Semitecolo,a noble Venetian, Conte, or Governor, of Pago and Isola, onthe coast of Dalmatia. The mystery of the connection of theminiature with the diploma may possibly be explained by sup-posing that when many of these documents were scatteredat the time of the invasion of Venice by the French revolu-tionists, some person, having obtained possession of several,supplied the defect of a damaged miniature in the presentbook, from some other of the same Venetian Diploma of Semitecolo. (Sixteenth Century.) This specimen was selected from a fine collection of these documents in the British Museum, on account of the beautiful miniature painting of the illumination. The diploma to which this miniature is attcuhed bears the date 1644. FRAGMENTS OF GREEK COMIC POETS. 311 Is the wench short ? a triple sole of cork Exalts the pigmy to a proper size. Is she too tall of stature ? a low chair Softens the fault, and a tine easy stoop Lowers her to a standard pitch. If narrow-hipped, A handsome wadding readily supplies What nature stints, and all beholders cry, See what plump haunches ! Hath the nymph perchance A high round paunch, stuffed like our comic drolls, And strutting out foreright ? a good stout busk, Pushing athwart, shall force the intruder back. Hath she red brows ? a little soot will cure em. Is she
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