...te about toys. The praises of the toy theatre have been a common theme for essayists, the planning of the scenes, the painting and cutting out of the ... ...n a hitherto desolate country under the frowning nail-studded cliffs of an ancient trunk. Then I conquered them and garrisoned their land. (Alas! they... ...ience is the organised conquest of Nature, and I can quite understand that ancient libertine refusing to cooperate in her own undoing. And I can quite... ...me roads rather more carefully tended, the Inns not very much altered, the ancient familiar market-house. The occasional wheeled traffic would have st... ...things. We joined in the earnest acquirement of all that was necessary for Greek epigrams and Latin verse, and for the rest played games. We dipped do... .... Within, we were taught as the chief subjects of instruc- tion, Latin and Greek. We were taught very badly because the men who taught us did not habi... ...ow and localised life had lain in those days through Latin, and afterwards Greek had come in as the vehicle of a flood of new and amazing ideas. Once ...

...y would stand up for the full power of convocation, and the renewal of its ancient privileges. It was true that he could not himself intone the servic... ...welve bedesmen. ‘But, ’ he said, laughing, ‘I shall be greatly shorn of my ancient glory. ’ ‘Why so, papa?’ ‘This new act of parliament, that is to pu... ... leaves no room in a man’s mind for graver subjects than conic sections or Greek accents. Greek accents, however, and conic sections were esteemed nec... ... domain of the modern landlord was of wider notoriety than the fame of the ancient saint. He was a fair specimen of what that race has come to in our ... ...s than any other man in his own county, and the next to it, of the English essayists of the two last centuries. He possessed complete sets of the ‘Idl... ...who have Sophocles at their fingers’ ends regard those who know nothing of Greek. They might doubt- less be good sort of people, entitled to much prai... ...d to himself as he walked down the bishop’s avenue. ‘Well, at any rate the Greek play bishops were not so bad as that. ’ It has been said that Mr Slop...

...re was the distinction of line which stamps the beauty of the antique; the Greek profile, with the velvet whiteness of women’s faces, and eyes full of... ...hat have come and gone during the last forty years, have tried to tame the ancient families perched aloft like wary ravens on their crag; the said fam... ...he seclusion enforced by political storms, he taught his pu- pil Latin and Greek and some smatterings of natural science. A mother might have modified... ...ks published in France for the first time between 1815 and 1821, the great essayists, M. de Bonald and M. de Maistre (those two eagles of thought)—all... ...s marvelous than the other de- pendent invention of printing, was known in ancient times in China. Thence by the unrecognized channels of commerce the... ...mitation, made from rags, was first made at Basel, in 1170, by a colony of Greek refugees, according to some authorities; or at Padua, in 1301, by an ...

... and swarming popularisation of flying which is now certainly imminent. We ancient survivors of those who believed in and wrote about flying before th... ...e British together, this great, laxly scattered, sea-linked association of ancient states and new-formed countries, Oriental nations, and con- tinenta... ...in the bee or the ant. Curiosity, deep stirrings to wander, the still more ancient inheritance of the hunter, a recurrent dis- taste for labour, and r... ...ugh the ageing and whitening of the realistically coloured statuary of the Greeks and Romans. Much of the charm of the old furniture and needlework, a... ...n exception or so, it does not signify at all. He would set almost all the Greek and Roman literature in well-printed translations and with luminous i... ...In- dividualist soul. The hands are the hands of Plato, the wide- thinking Greek, but the voice is the voice of a humane, pub- lic-spirited, but limit... ...a classification of minds— the sort of classification dear to the Y.M.C.A. essayists, made for the purposes of the essay and unknown to psychology. Th...

...give you stale sneers at all the celebrated speakers. He was the terror of essayists at the Speculative or the Forensic. In social qualities he seems ... ...paring note- books. A reserved rivalry sunders them. Here are some deep in Greek particles: there, others are already inhabitants of that land ‘Where ... ... dialectic nightmares– is often found astride of a somnolent sederunt. The Greeks and Romans, too, are reserved as sort of general- utility men, to do... ...thmetic could postpone beyond a year or two. He was essentially the simple ancient man, the farmer and landholder; 190 Robert Louis Stevenson he woul... ...ld centuries, since first the heathens shouted for their installation. The ancients had hallowed them to some ill religion, and their neighbourhood ha...