...benefit is to be gained from a doctor who will — * " Read each wound, each weakness clear, Will strike his finger on the place And say, ' Thou ailest here and here.' " It is far better for him, instead of poring over a detail of the causes and symptoms of the disease...

...benefit is to be gained from a doctor who will ' Read each wound, each weakness clear, Will strike his finger on the place And say, " Thou ailest here and here." ' It is far better for him, instead of poring over a detail of the causes and symptoms of the disease...

...in verse for the study of the true and the fitting, and writes those sermones repentis per hiimitm which embody the philosophy of his later years; but,...characteristic poems on this theme (Sat. i:i and Ep. ii :2) ( he sets forth the fatuous reasons which the man absorbed in the pursuit of wealth advances...

...individual to whom he gives counsel, he seems with delicate irony to hint what is the matter with him ; to lay his finger on the place, And say, thou ailest here, and here, and at the same time to indicate the cure for his infirmity. And all this he does in the pleasantest...

...Femmes qui Volent." " Take the suffering human race To read each wound, each weakness clear ; To strike his finger on the place And say, ' Thou ailest here and here,' " was convicted not only of tiresomeness, but of immorality, whereas, of course, the only immoral plays...

...Gronouius and Huetius fumble at it one after another, and then turns to Bentley and sees Bentley strike his finger on the place and say thou ailest here, and here. His Manilius is a greater work than either the Horace or the Phalaris ; yet its subject condemns it...

...members of the household were devoid of it. The Vicar was quite able to diagnose the case and " put his finger on the place and say, ' Thou ailest here and here,' " and told her frankly that what was really wrong was her own conceit and self-complacency, and sent...

...like Goethe's Werther take the suffering human race and "Read each wound and weakness clear And strike his finger on the place and say Thou ailest here and here." The modern benefactor must be not only a diagnostician, he must be a magician and healer as well, an atlas...

...stubborn perplexity of reading or interpretation . . . then turns to Bentley and sees Bentley strike his finger on the place and say thou ailest here, and here" (M. Manilii Astronomicon Liber I, p. xvi). In the same pages, indeed, Housman issued a significant...

...stubborn perplexity of reading or interpretation, ... [one] turns to Bentley and sees Bentley strike his finger on the place and say thou ailest here, and here.' 25 If moral discourse required no further justification than force of sentiment, strength of commitment;...