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The end was drawing on: the golden bowl was breaking; the silver cord was fast being loosed -- that _animula, blandula, vagula, hospes, comesque_, was about to flee.
Types of Children's Literature Walter Barnes
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_That "animula blandula, vagula, hospes comesque" was about to flee.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide Charles Herbert Sylvester
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= The same phrase at _Tr_ III vii 18 (to his stepdaughter Perilla) 'utque pater natae _duxque comesque_ fui' and _Tr_
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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The only instances I have found that are not from Ovid's didactic verse are the present passage and xii 23-24 'tu bonus hortator, tu duxque comesque fuisti,/cum regerem tenera frena nouella manu'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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The end was drawing on: the golden bowl was breaking; the silver cord was fast being loosed -- that _animula blandula, vagula, hospes, comesque_ [113-5] was about to flee.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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The end was drawing on: the golden bowl was breaking; the silver cord was fast being loosed -- that _animula blandula, vagula, hospes, comesque_ (dear fleeting life, a sojourner and companion) was about to flee.
The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories William Patten 1902
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The end was drawing on: the golden bowl was breaking; the silver cord was fast being loosed -- that _animula blandula, vagula, hospes, comesque_, was about to flee.
Famous Stories Every Child Should Know Various 1880
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One of them is a version of Hadrian's deathbed address to his departing spirit, "Animula, vagula, blandula / Hospes comesque corporis", rendered - probably by Donne himself - in an English translation of the same year as "My little wandering, sportful soul, / Guest and companion of my body".
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One of them is a version of Hadrian's deathbed address to his departing spirit, "Animula, vagula, blandula / Hospes comesque corporis", rendered - probably by Donne himself - in an English translation of the same year as "My little wandering, sportful soul, / Guest and companion of my body".
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hospes comesque corporis, quae nunc abibis in loca pallidula rigida nudula, nec ut soles dabis iocos!
To his Soul Hadrian 1912
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