heráldica

EN Yes, those were noble names on the dusky flyleaf and, even for so poor a Latinist as he, the dusky verses were as fragrant as though they had lain all those years in myrtle and lavender and vervain; but yet it wounded him to think that he would never be but a shy guest at the feast of the world's culture and that the monkish learning, in terms of which he was striving to forge out an esthetic philosophy, was held no higher by the age he lived in than the subtle and curious jargons of heraldry and falconry.
GL Si, aqueles eran nomes nobres inscritos na poeirenta guarda e, mesmo para un latinista pobre coma el, os versos amarelentos eran tan fragrantes como se durante todos aqueles anos tivesen sido envolvidos en mirto, lavanda e verbena; pero aínda lle fería máis o coidar que nunca sería máis que un convidado de pedra no banquete da cultura mundial e que a aprendizaxe monacal, da que pretendía tirar unha filosofía estética, non tiña máis interese nos tempos en que vivía que a sutil e curiosa xerga da heráldica ou da cetrería.
Fonte: RET (3509)

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