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... presumed to deliver these things in the Latin tongue, not trusting to my own learning, which is little or none at all, but partly from traditions of our ancestors, partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans, and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymus, Prosper, Eusebius, and from the his...

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...wn learning, which is little or none at all, but partly from traditions of our ancestors, partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabit- a... ...earning, which is little or none at all, but partly from traditions of our ancestors, partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabit- ants ... ...s- per, Eusebius, and from the histories of the Scots and Saxons, although our enemies, not following my own inclinations, but, to the best of my abil... ...riors, not from envy of those who are superior to me, in the 858th year of our Lord’s incarnation, and in the 24th year of Mervin, king of the Brit- o... ..., Isidorus, Prosper, and from the annals of the Scots and Saxons, and from our ancient traditions. Many teachers and scribes have attempted to write t... ... six hundred and twelve years are computed. From Darius to the ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the fifteenth year of the emperor Tiberius, a... ... have learned another account of this Brutus from the ancient books of our ancestors.* After the deluge, the three sons of Noah severally occupied thr... ... interposed with his assis- tance. We are informed by the tradition of our ancestors that seven emperors went into Britain, though the Romans affirm t... ...ears after the passion of Christ, and, 3 according to the tradition of our ancestors, from the period of their first arrival in Britain, to the first ...

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...t demon, essentially Dionysian. So that his works, true though they are to our life, are at once a reproach, a protest, and a challenge, ever calling ... ...ny, perfect down to every detail of dress, to the slight- est action, with our slovenliness and confusion and petti- ness, a sad result—considering ou... ... petti- ness, a sad result—considering our knowledge of past ex- perience, our possession of superior weapons, our religion given to make us holy and ... ...nclu- sion he asks: Is not the “Odyssey” in every sense a deep reproach to our nineteenth century? An understanding of Gogol’s point of view gives the... ...s and the Tatars; and that when the Poles undertake any expedition against our faith, you may beat the Poles. Come, clink your glasses. How now? Is th... ...tales he had heard of hidden hoards, cabinets with secret drawers, left by ancestors for their spendthrift descendants, with firm belief in the extrav... ...d to a poor artist; and he believed with the simple, reverent faith of his ancestors. At length, by his unintermitting labour and perseverance in the ...

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...am ill-bred!” Agatha laughed. “What a deep old thing she is! She knows all our weaknesses, and stabs at us through them. Catch her telling me, or Jane... ...Y ou know that it is the most dishonorable thing any of us can do.” “Poch! Our little sins are not worth making such a fuss about. I always like to ha... ...lowed it. Sa- rah Gerram.”’ “Little fool!” said Miss Lindsay. “The idea of our having to record in the same book with brats like that!” “Here is a tou... ...de to- wards myself and my colleagues which we cannot, consis- tently with our duty to ourselves and her fellow students, pass over. If Miss Wylie has... ...’t. Have you seen the Re- cording Angel lately, either of you?” “Not since our last entry,” said Gertrude. “Chips,” said Agatha, calling to the flaxen... ...d do not need the royal relish of blood to my sport. And I do not share my ancestors’ taste in statuary. Hence—” Here T refusis opened a drawer, took ...

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...of the mere merit or demerit of his poetry. “We cannot bear a Papist to be our principal bard,” said one class. “No T ory for our translator of Homer,... ... while Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Bowles, have underrated him. It shall be our endeavour, in our succeeding remarks, to steer a middle course between ... ...s in placing him on a level with Chaucer, Shakspeare, Spenser, and Milton, our remarks will show that we think it as vain as superfluous. 10 The Poet... ...l or artificial objects be better suited for the treatment of the poet. In our life of Bowles we promised, and shall now proceed to attempt, a short r... ...eaera’s hair,” far less with the “golden tresses” and “wanton ringlets” of our primeval parent in the garden of Eden. Shakspeare, on the other hand, w... ...d? Be this thy comfort, that ’tis thine t’ efface, With virtuous acts, thy ancestors’ disgrace, And be thyself the honour of thy race. But see! the st... ... old his cup extends, Which whoso tastes forgets his former friends, Sire, ancestors, himself. One casts his eyes Up to a star, and like Endymion dies... ...taken upon them to adulterate the common and current sense of our glorious ancestors, poets of this realm, by clipping, coining, defacing the images, ...

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...stian computation as 48 B.C. A great radiance of silver fire, the dawn of a moonlit night, is rising in the east. The stars and the cloudless sky are our own contemporaries, nineteen and a half centuries younger than we know them; but you would not guess that from their appearance. Below them are two notable drawbacks of civilization: a palace, and soldiers....

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... moonlit night, is rising in the east. The stars and the cloudless sky are our own contemporaries, nineteen and a half centuries younger than we know ... ... of your tidings. BEL AFFRIS. I have no tidings, except that we shall have our throats cut presently, women, soldiers, and all. PERSIAN (to Belzanor).... ...old you? BELZANOR. He says that the Roman Julius Caesar, who has landed on our shores with a handful of followers, will make himself master of Egypt. ... ...yria, and how we of Egypt should deal with the Roman Pompey, newly come to our shores after his defeat by Caesar at Pharsalia. What, think ye, did we ... ...d that Caesar is already come; for we had not made half a day’s journey on our way back when we came upon a city rabble flying from his legions, whose... ...rest). Belzanor: I am Ftatateeta, the Queen’s chief nurse; and your divine ancestors were proud to be painted on the wall in the pyramids of the kings... ...o fought Caesar and impressed Roman observers much as we should expect the ancestors of Mr. Podsnap to impress the culti- vated Italians of their time...

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...Excerpt: This little play is really a religious tract in dramatic form. If our silly censorship would permit its performance, it might possibly help to set right-side-up the perverted conscience and re-invigorate the starved self-respect of our considerable class of loose-lived playgoers whose point...

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...nsorship This little play is really a religious tract in dramatic form. If our silly censorship would permit its perfor- mance, it might possibly help... ...-up the perverted conscience and re-invigorate the starved self-respect of our considerable class of loose-lived playgoers whose point of honor is to ... ...mains the most accurate and penetrating study of the genteel littleness of our class govern- ments in the English language, that whenever an abuse bec... ...ish language, that whenever an abuse becomes oppressive enough to persuade our party parliamentarians that something must be done, they immediately se... ...odern commercial civi- lization that it is no longer difficult to convince our governments that something must be done, even to the extent of attempts... ...courses by permitting railway contractors to desecrate the graves of their ancestors, and their soldiers to wear clothes which indecently revealed the...

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...Excerpt: Inferno: Canto I. Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost. Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say What was this forest savage, rough, and stern, Which in the very thought renews the fear....

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...nferno: Canto I nferno: Canto I nferno: Canto I Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward p... ...” And he to me: “These things shall all be known T o thee, as soon as we our footsteps stay Upon the dismal shore of Acheron.” Then with mine eyes... ... forest, The forest, say I, of thick-crowded ghosts. Not very far as yet our way had gone This side the summit, when I saw a fire That overcame ... ... did he name and point out with his finger, Whom Love had separated from our life. After that I had listened to my Teacher, Naming the dames of el... ...hem By love which leadeth them, and they will come.” Soon as the wind in our direction sways them, My voice uplift I: “O ye weary souls! Come sp... ...hat he eyed me, and, as if disdainful, Then asked of me, “Who were thine ancestors?” I, who desirous of obeying was, Concealed it not, but all rev... ...is and not burst. Then tell me, my beloved root ancestral, Who were your ancestors, and what the years That in your boyhood chronicled themselves?... ...and thirty more, To reinflame itself beneath his paw. 312 Longfellow My ancestors and I our birthplace had Where first is found the last ward of ... ... Gold Florence enflowered in all their mighty deeds! So likewise did the ancestors of those Who evermore, when vacant is your church, Fatten by ...

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...blage of communities and interests, so, on another, that the foun dation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of ... ...eneration for it. What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love? There may be little solidity in an ancient idea that... ...uld be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extra neous should infect the purit... ...ur liberties if anything partial or extra neous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtu ous, and independent elections. If an election is ... ...lasses, and of society in all its forms, but as the only means of preserving our Constitution from its natural enemies, the spirit of sophistry, the s... ...nhallowed purposes than the control of the public press. The maxim which our ancestors derived from the mother country that “the freedom of the press ... ...gainst foreign aggression, for the defense of those principles for which our ancestors so gloriously contended As far as it depends upon me it shall b... ...hop, and in other occupations may come. The negroes are now Americans. Their ancestors came here years ago against their will, and this is their only ... ...nd is feasible under the form of government which we have inherited from our ancestors. Our Constitution is so simple and practi cal that it is possi...

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... walkers, nowadays, who undertake no persevering, never ending enterprises. Our expeditions are but tours, and come round again at evening to the old... ... which Walking H. D. Thoreau 3 we set out. Half the walk is but retracing our steps. We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spi... ...e, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return—prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms. If you are r... ...r afternoon, we have been shaking the dust of the village from the skirts of our garments, making haste past those houses with purely Doric or Gothic ... ...ter—will cause a thicker cuticle to grow over some of the finer qualities of our nature, as on the face and hands, or as severe manual labor robs the ... ...e forest and wilder ness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind. Our ancestors were savages. The story of Romulus and Remus being suckled by a...

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...IVER “Beneath low hills, in the broad interval Through which at will our Indian rivulet Winds mindful still of sannup and of squaw, Whose ... ...w, there dwell they. They never die, Nor snivel, nor cry, Nor ask our pity With a wet eye. A sound estate they ever mend T o every a... ...descent of an eighth of an inch in a mile is sufficient to produce a flow. Our river has, probably, very near the smallest allowance. The story is cur... ... aie downward to the sea”;— and I trust that I may be allowed to associate our muddy but much abused Concord River with the most famous in history. ... ...s of the first travel lers. They are the constant lure, when they flow by our doors, to distant enterprise and adventure, and, by a natural im pulse... ...iliar appellation of a celebrated train band of this town, whose untrained ancestors stood creditably at Concord North 27 HenryDavidThoreau Bridge. T... ...ike some Indian tribes, we bear about with us the mouldering relics of our ancestors on our shoul ders. If, for instance, a man asserts the value of ... ...ntheConcordandMerrimackRivers of T yngsborough, who had the story from his ancestors, that one of these captives, when the Indians were about to upset... ...s. I think that posterity will doubt if such things ever were; if our bold ancestors who settled this land were not struggling rather with the for es...

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...beards bowed with years; priests, as am I of Zeus, and these the flower of our youth. Meanwhile, the common folk, with wreathed boughs Crowd our two m... ...e, or where Ismenus gives his oracles by fire. For, as thou seest thyself, our ship of State, Sore buffeted, can no more lift her head, Foundered bene... ...ift her head, Foundered beneath a weltering surge of blood. A blight is on our harvest in the ear, A blight upon the grazing flocks and herds, A bligh... ...nd withal Armed with his blazing torch the God of Plague Hath swooped upon our city emptying The house of Cadmus, and the murky realm Of Pluto is full... ...led; No, by a god inspired (so all men deem, And testify) didst thou renew our life. And now, O Oedipus, our peerless king, All we thy votaries beseec... ...to men the secret of my birth. O Polybus, O Corinth, O my home, Home of my ancestors (so wast thou called) How fair a nursling then I seemed, how foul...

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... he say? Soest (loud to Ruysum). He wants to treat us; he will not hear of our clubbing together, the king paying only a double share. Ruysum. Let him... ...art. Ruysum. Who? Soest (aloud). Philip the Second, King of Spain. Ruysum. Our most gracious king and master! Long life to him. Soest. Did you not lik... ...te. He speaks little, they say. Soest. He is no king for us Netherlanders. Our princes must be joyous and free like ourselves, must live and let live.... ..., my friends, we had sharp work of it 8 Egmont there! The victory was all our own. Did not those French dogs carry fire and desolation into the very ... ...els, and that not near enough; —besides, their shot fell some- times among our troops. It did some good, however! It broke the French lines, and raise... ...es to hear himself addressed, as though he would fain be reminded that his ancestors were masters of Guelderland. Why does he not assume his proper ti... ..., who governed according to hereditary laws, rights, and us- ages; how our ancestors paid due honour to their sovereign so long as he governed them eq... ...Goethe Soest. Yes, yes! The old princes tried it also. Vansen. Ay! But our ancestors kept a sharp look-out. If they thought themselves aggrieved by th...

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...ss of faces, thinking not of them, but of that long and unhappy chapter in our country’s history which followed the one great structural mistake of th... ...im that I have ever since carried with me. It is on this that his claim to our gratitude rests. To teach the Negro to read, whether English, or Greek,... ...ch it may be said that it points the way to a new epoch in a large area of our national life. To work out the plan on paper, or at a distance—that is ... ... regard a Southern white man as he regarded a Northern one. It is well for our common country that the day is come when he and his work are regarded a... ...hly in the South as in any other part of the Union. I think that no man of our generation has a more noteworthy achieve- ment to his credit than this;... ... coloured people of the tortures which the slaves, including, no doubt, my ancestors on my mother’s side, suffered in the middle passage of the slave ... ..., the ten million Negroes inhabiting this country, who themselves or whose ancestors went through the school of American slavery, are in a stronger an...

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...OLOGUE Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes... ...heir children’s end, nought could remove, Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage; The which if you with patient ears attend, What here shall miss,... ...ur stage; The which if you with patient ears attend, What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. 4 ACT I SCENE I: Verona. A public place. ... ...e wall, and thrust his maids to the wall. GREGORY: The quarrel is between our masters and us their men. SAMPSON: ’Tis all one, I will show myself a ... ...me not. GREGORY: No, marry; I fear thee! SAMPSON: Let us take the law of our sides; let them begin. GREGORY: I will frown as I pass by, and let the... ...eceptacle, Where, for these many hundred years, the bones Of all my buried ancestors are packed: Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth, Lies fes...

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...im Muses, and their ship defend From rock of Ignorance and Error’s wave, Y our gracious eyes upon this labor bend: To you these tales of love and conq... ...edicate, to you this work I send: My Muse hereafter shall perhaps unfold Y our fights, your battles, and your combats bold. V For if the Christian Pri... ...ht, In form of airy members fair imbared, His spirits pure were subject to our sight, Like to a man in show and shape he fared, But full of heavenly m... ...d trophies to his cross and name. 9 Torquato Tasso XXII “But not for this our homes we first forsook, And from our native soil have marched so far: N... ...ain an idle smook, And lands possess that wild and barbarous are: That for our conquests were too mean a prey, To shed our bloods, to work our souls’ ... ...th endless pride: The other boasts more what himself had done Than all his ancestors’ great acts beside; Y et his forefathers old before him were Famo... ... him that kills her knight: He takes his fatal arms, and in his shield His ancestors and their great deeds beheld. 373 Torquato Tasso I Gaza the city... ...ing of my streets withhold, From ravishing my virgins keep, and save Thine ancestors’ dead bones and ashes cold! To thee thy fathers dear and parents ...

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...ance the public good; I suppose them, as at the beginning of no mean endeav our, not a little altered and moved inwardly in their minds: some with do... ...t from such a steep disadvantage of tyranny and super stition grounded into our principles as was beyond the manhood of a Roman recovery, it will be ... ...it will be attributed first, as is most due, to the strong assistance of God our de liverer, next to your faithful guidance and undaunted wisdom, Lor... ... all learning, and the stop of truth, not only by disexercising and blunting our abili ties in what we know already, but by hindering and cropping th... ... this project of li censing crept out of the Inquisition, was catched up by our prelates, and hath caught some of our presbyters. In Athens, where bo... ...om any ancient state, or polity or church; nor by any statute left us by our ancestors elder or later; nor from the modern custom of any reformed city...

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...lden 5 Or, as Raleigh rhymes it in his sonorous way, “From thence our kind hard hearted is, enduring pain and care, Approving that o... ...We should feed and clothe him gratuitously sometimes, and recruit him with our cordials, before we judge of him. The finest qualities of our nature, l... ...a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which det... ... natures remember that the sun rose clear. It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be truste... ... to that neighbor.” Hippocrates has even left directions how we should cut our nails; that is, even with the ends of the fingers, neither shorter nor ... ... houses, spending on them sev eral thousands.” In this course which our ancestors took there was a show of prudence at least, as if their principle... ...elves in their holiday garments to offer sacrifices and oblations to their ancestors. It is an ocean of subtile intelligences. They are everywhere, ab... ...e. I have no doubt that it was a principle they fought for, as much as our ancestors, and not to avoid a three penny tax on their tea; and the results... ... a pile of wood. It is as precious to us as it was to our Saxon and Norman ancestors. If they made their bows of it, we make our gun stocks of it. Mic...

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...ing all due weight to so curious an exhibition of opinion, it is doubtless our part, at the same time, to beware that we do not give it too much. This... ...been repaid. With these things in some measure before us, we must re- mind our readers of another influence at work in this affair, and one acting, as... ...cen- sure; and whoever among us shall step forward, with such knowledge as our common critics have of Goethe, to enlighten 5 Goethe the European publ... ...sm, which, in estimating his other merits, ought now- ise to be forgotten. Our own view of the case coincides, we confess, in some degree with that of... ...ay that we trace in the creations of this man, belonging in every sense to our own time, some touches of that old, divine spirit, which had long passe... ...mes, and informing us of the manners, customs, and feelings of those early ancestors who were so strangely made present to us by pipers and depu- ties... ...nt of so often repeated promises, by which the capacity for faith in those ancestors is set in the clearest light. It is in this faith also that Jacob... ... a true German. He related to me circumstantially, out of Tacitus, how our ancestors found pleasure in the feelings which Na- ture so provides for us,...

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... a deli- 6 Rosmersholm cious effect on one—and till lately we had to deny our- selves that pleasure, you know. Kroll (nodding slowly). Poor Beata cou... ... find you get on at Rosmersholm, now that you are alone here—I mean, since our poor Beata— Rebecca. Oh, thanks—I get on very well here. Her death has ... ... can you sit there and jest about such things! Kroll. Oh, well, I dare say our good John Rosmer thinks he has had more than enough of married life. Bu... ... you a good long visit, because there is a matter I want to talk over with our excellent friend—Well, then, Miss West, to prevent your taking foolish ... ...oks him in the face.) Dear old friend! I knew that one day we should be on our old footing again. Kroll. My dear fellow, have you that insane idea in ... ...le mo- ment has arrived.”—”A reckless outrage on the fair fame of honoured ancestors”—”in the expectation that those who are enjoying a brief spell of... ...houghtfully in front of her). John Rosmer’s nature is deeply rooted in his ancestors. That is certainly very true. Kroll. Yes, and you ought to have t...

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...ospels as records of fact; for I am not acting as a detective, but turning our modern lights on to certain ideas and doctrines in them which disentang... ...sgrace. WAS JESUS A MARTYR? It is important therefore that we should clear our minds of the notion that Jesus died, as some are in the habit of declar... ... us to seek the little Societies to which these rare birds belong, we pass our lives among people who, whatever creeds they may repeat, and in whateve... ...upt him, also with presents and flatteries. This seems shocking to us; but our objection to it is quite a recent development: no longer ago than Shake... ...appeasing it. In doing it we offer God as a sacrifice the gratification of our own revenge and the protection of our own lives without cost to ourselv... ...od. Illogically, such divine kings insist a good deal on their royal human ancestors. Alexander, claiming to be the son of Apollo, is equally deter- m...