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So may the winged horse, your ancient badge and cognisance, still flourish! So may future Hookers and Seldens illustrate your church and chambers! So may the sparrows, in default of more melodious quiristers, imprisoned hop about your walks! So may the fresh-coloured and cleanly nursery-maid, who by leave airs her playful charge in your stately gardens, drop her prettiest blushing curtsey as ye pass, reductive of juvenescent emotion! So may the younkers of this generation eye you, pacing your stately terrace, with the same superstitious veneration with which the child Elia gazed on the old worthies that solemnised the parade before ye!
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Essay on the old benchers, speaks of many changes he had witnessed in the Temple--_i.e._, the Gothicising the entrance to the Inner Temple Hall and the Library front, to assimilate them to the hall, which they did not resemble; to the removal of the winged horse over the Temple Hall, and the frescoes of the Virtues which once Italianised it. He praises, too, the antique air of the
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with their moral inscriptions, seeming almost coeval with the time which they measured, and taking their revelations immediately from heaven, holding correspondence with the fountain of light. Of these dials there still remain--one in Temple Lane, with the motto,
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Pereunt et imputantur; one in Essex Court,
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Vestigia nulla retrorsum; and one in Brick Court on which Goldsmith must often have gazed--the motto,
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Time and tide tarry for no man. In Pump Court and Garden Court are two dials without mottoes; and in each Temple garden is a pillar dial--
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On an old brick house at the east end of Inner Temple Terrace, removed in 1828, was a dial with the odd inscription,
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Begone about your business,