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... raised a family, my eldest lad—I hadn’t begun to think of sons then—is an American citizen, and looking for- ward to leaving Harvard. There’s a touch... ...tended, advanced on Graham. Then he stopped, with his hand slowly gesticu- lating, and looked about him. “A seat,” said Howard impatiently, and in a m... ...fter two hundred years. The haphazard cylinders he substituted displayed a musical fan- tasia. At first it was beautiful, and then it was sensuous. He... ...a crowd. He stopped near the highest step. Before him, on that level, were groups of seats and a little kiosk. He went up to this and, stopping in the... ...ty at the very beginning.” “What was his name?” “Graham.” “No, I mean—that American’s.” “Isbister.” “Isbister!” cried Graham. “Why, I don’t even know ... ...earn much in the schools nowadays. But I know all about him. He was a rich American who went from En- gland, and he left the Sleeper even more than Wa... ...ble gold. They clambered up the tottering walls, they clung in wreaths and groups about the high-standing pillars. They swarmed along the edges of the... ...party councils, ruling by newspapers and electoral organisations—two small groups of rich and able men, work- ing at first in opposition, then present... ... afford to wait,” said Graham; “they can afford to wait. I know. I’m not a Latin. There’s questions I want to ask some expert—about your machinery. I’...

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...first edition, the “ Globe “ edition, and about a dozen others English and American. I found many misprints and corrup- tions in all except the editio... ...s the Franciscan steeple reel? And see! upon the crowded street, In motley groups what masquers meet! Banner and pageant, pipe and drum, And merry mor... ...w (cf. vi. 488), and sometimes = precipice. 73. On the lone wood. Note the musical variation in the measure here; the 1st, 3d, and 4th syllables being... ...5 below. 523. In better time. That is, in better times or days; not in the musical sense. 524. Chime. Accord, sing; a poetical use of the word. Cf. vi... ... for him. The maniacs or poetry have indeed had a prescriptive right to be musical, since the days of Ophelia downwards; but it is rather a rash exten... ...ing the title of the King of the Commons, or Rex Plebeiorum, as Lesley has latinized it. The usual prize to the best shooter was a silver arrow. Such ... ...18 The Lady of the Lake crafte hath your Damozell,” etc. 306. Prore. Prow (Latin prora); used only in poetry. 309. Astrand. On strand (cf. ashore), st...

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... way of any real talent that the pupil might chance to have. Rachel, being musical, was allowed to learn nothing but music; she became a fanatic about... ...oing the best he could to serve it out of Parliament. For that purpose the Latin countries did very well, although the East, of course, would have don... ...the part of hoarse energetic sheep-dog. By means of a few words of caustic Latin he had the animals marshalled, and by inclining a sharp shoulder he l... ...it would be to join the ranks of the married women—no longer to hang on to groups of girls much younger than herself—to escape the long solitude of an... ...picked flowers, and sent stones bounding before them. “Who writes the best Latin verse in your college, Hirst?” Mr. Elliot called back incongruously, ... ...“which shall it be?” “Balzac,” said Rachel, “or have you the Speech on the American Revolution, Uncle Ridley?” “The Speech on the American Revolution?... ...w figures in the thin white dust to explain how Bach wrote his fugues. “My musical gift was ruined,” he explained, as they walked on after one of thes... ... she darted and ejaculated he gave Rachel a sketch of the history of South American art. He would deal with one of his wife’s exclamations, and then r... ...essness to think or to look. She was turning over the slippery pages of an American magazine, when the hall door swung, a wedge of light fell upon the...

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...took part in a series of scenes such as the taming of wild ponies upon the American prairies, or the conduct of a vast ship in a hurricane round a bla... ...ense that Ralph had said something very stupid. So, after three lessons in Latin grammar, one might correct a fellow student, whose knowledge did not ... ...—that’s too bad. That’s—what’s the word I mean, Trevor, something long and Latin—the sort of word you and Katharine know—” Mr. Hilbery suggested “cyni... ... for it. She cast her eyes down in irritation, and read again her mother’s musical sentences about the silver gulls, and the roots of little pink flow... ...ust on the floor meditatively with the toe of his boot, he was roused by a musical and familiar voice behind him, ac- companied by a light touch upon ... ... over the list of his gifts and acquire- ments, his knowledge of Greek and Latin, his knowledge of art and literature, his skill in the management of ... ...liam reflected, because, as a rule, the women of her family were unusually musical. Her cousin, Cassandra Otway, for example, had a very fine taste in... ...ith relief, and she had merely to shake hands with Rodney and to greet the American lady who had come to be shown the relics, before the talk started ... ..., and the polite alacrity with which he was answering the questions of the American visitor. It was certainly a sight to daunt any one coming in with ...

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...e of his terrible stings. Matey was good at lessons, too—liked them; liked Latin and Greek; would help a poor stumbler. Where he did such good work wa... ...he work, doesn’t dispirit. Otherwise, one may say that an African or South American traveller has a more exciting time. I shall manage to keep my head... ... be stubborn to resist a softness. Now she cared no more for the hackneyed musical word; friendship was her desire. If it is not life’s poetry, it is ... ... old housewives in doorways, gaffer goodman meeting his crony on the path, groups of boys and girls. She would take the girls, Matthew Weyburn the boy... ...acy vernacular, which a society nourished upon Norman- English and English-Latin banishes from print, largely to its impoverishment, some think. By th... ...d celebrated it among his comrades when a boy at school. ‘You ‘re to teach Latin and Greek, you said. For you ‘re right: we English can’t understand t... ... 250 Lord Ormont and His Aminta ‘You may be feeling tired presently.’ The musical sincerity of her ‘Oh no, not I!’ sped through his limbs; he had a w... ...is boys: English, French, Germans, Italians, a Spaniard in my time—a South American I have sent him— two from Boston, Massachusetts—and clever!—all em...

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...d Dumay to his wife, mak- ing her sit close by him. Madame Dumay, a little American about thirty-six years of age, wiped her eyes furtively; she adore... ... richest com- mercial house in Havre. Madame Dumay, a rather pretty little American, had the misfortune to lose all her children at their birth; and h... ...empts at self-instruction came a phenomenon not uncommon to natures with a musical vo- cation; Modeste composed, as far as a person ignorant of the la... ...ly, for at least a month, Modeste had warbled the songs of night- ingales, musical rhapsodies whose poetry and meaning had roused the attention of her... ...lti- vated flowers, and compiled and published “The Flora of Piedmont,” in Latin, a labor of ten years. “I’ll master De Marsay some of these days!” th... ...d Dumay, “and you shall be a notary and the successor of Latournelle.” The American wife took the hand of the poor hunchback and pressed it. “What! yo... ...tscha,” said the duke, smiling. When the people on the quays, attracted in groups by the 165 Balzac splendor of the royal equipage, saw the funny spe...

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... why you are trying — those bullies! My mother wants you to carry on their musical education. How selfish of her! As if attending to these curst cocks ... ...nerous business when she had regained the art, for she had caught from her musical mother numerous airs that suited those songsters admirably. A far m... ...umference of the field, for the first passage of the horses and machine. Two groups, one of men and lads, and the other of women, had come down the lane... ...e eastern hedge top struck the west hedge midway, so that the heads of the groups were enjoying sunrise while their feet were still in the dawn. They ... ...numbered fifty acres instead of ten, the farmsteads were more extended, the groups of cattle formed tribes hereabout; there only families. These myriad... ...ryman, landowner, agriculturist, and breeder of cattle. He would become an American or Australian Phase the Third — The Rally 103 Abraham, commanding... ..., nevertheless, it did seem unaccountable to her that a decidedly bookish, musical, thinking young man should have chosen deliberately to be a farmer,... ...om the back of a mule which was bearing him from the interior of the South American Continent towards the coast. His experiences of this strange land ... ...d: OstiumsepulchriantiquaefamiliaeD 0 Urberville. Tess did not read Church Latin like a Cardinal, but she knew that this was the door of her ancestral...

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...ay morning at half after nine.” “Nemo!” repeats Mr. T ulkinghorn. “Nemo is Latin for no one.” “It must be English for some one, sir, I think,” Mr. Sna... ...He has shown nothing but his shell. As easily might the tone of a delicate musical instrument be inferred from its case, as the tone of Mr. T ulkingho... ... to Allegory and meditation. By this time the news has got into the court. Groups of its inhabitants assemble to discuss the thing, and the outposts o... ... at all.” At length, one afternoon a little before sunset, when the bright groups of figures which have for the last hour or two 164 Bleak House – Vo... ... been eight years at a public school and had learnt, I understood, to make Latin verses of several sorts in the most admirable manner. But I never hea... ...as glad to get rid of the trouble of consideration, I wondered whether the Latin verses often ended in this or whether Richard’s was a solitary case. ... ...n, and the hall was blocked up by a grand piano, a harp, and several other musical instru ments in cases, all in progress of removal, and all looking... ...ghts as I lie here. T ake an extreme case. T ake the case of the slaves on American plantations. I dare say they are worked hard, I dare say they don’... ... British Beauty wears every variety of fancy dress, plays every variety of musical instrument, fondles every variety of dog, ogles every variety of pr...

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...of skill—poker. He had been the aptest pupil of a steady-eyed, sententious American, who had drifted mysteriously into Macassar from the wastes of the... ...sehold was reposing, Babalatchi and Lakamba passed silent amongst sleeping groups to the riverside, and, taking a canoe, paddled off stealthily on the... ...of laughter, a loud hail, a name or a joke sent out in a soft drawl. Small groups squatted round the little fires, and the monotonous undertone of tal... ...rbarians, persistent, steady, repeating itself in the soft syl- lables, in musical tones of the never-ending dis- courses of those men of the forests ... ...d reckless; the envy and admiration of Lakamba’s re- tainers, who stood in groups or flitted about noise- lessly in the shadows of the courtyard. The ... ...ep coming brutal and heavy, like the lead that kills. To forget in annihi- lating sleep; to tumble headlong, as if stunned, out of daylight into the n... ...and,” said Almayer, sulkily. “Don’t be angry,” hiccoughed the other. “It’s Latin, and it’s wisdom. It means: Don’t waste your breath 296 An Outcast o...

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...ay morning at half after nine.” “Nemo!” repeats Mr. T ulkinghorn. “Nemo is Latin for no one.” “It must be English for some one, sir, I think,” Mr. Sna... ...He has shown nothing but his shell. As easily might the tone of a delicate musical instrument be inferred from its case, as the tone of Mr. T ulkingho... ... to Allegory and meditation. By this time the news has got into the court. Groups of its inhabitants assemble to discuss the thing, and the outposts o... ... at all.” At length, one afternoon a little before sunset, when the bright groups of figures which have for the last hour or two 164 Bleak House – Di... ... been eight years at a public school and had learnt, I understood, to make Latin verses of several sorts in the most admirable manner. But I never hea... ...as glad to get rid of the trouble of consideration, I wondered whether the Latin verses often ended in this or whether Richard’s was a solitary case. ... ...n, and the hall was blocked up by a grand piano, a harp, and several other musical instru ments in cases, all in progress of removal, and all looking... ...ghts as I lie here. T ake an extreme case. T ake the case of the slaves on American plantations. I dare say they are worked hard, I dare say they don’... ... British Beauty wears every variety of fancy dress, plays every variety of musical instrument, fondles every variety of dog, ogles every variety of pr...

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... front of the house there was a flower garden, with straight gravel paths, groups of acacias and lilac, and round flower beds. T o the left, past the ... ...ronounced the word “science “ with emotion, and finished his speech by the Latin exclamation, laboremus! which he instantly translated into Russian. K... ... off the power of his elo- quence and of calming the rising storm. He knew Latin, and Virgil’s Quos ego was not unfamiliar to him. He did not consciou... ...contained nothing but a few painted wooden chairs and a couch covered with American cloth. There were pictures everywhere of an indifferent variety . ... ...ed up to them, and began shouting at them, thumping his fists and gesticu- lating for about five minutes. The words “For Freedom! March on! Put the sh... ...g to play such an important part; where his wife patronised the arts, gave musical evenings, and founded charitable cook- shops; where Kollomietzev wa... ...ands. They are not heroes, not even ‘heroes of labour’ as some crank of an American, or Englishman, called them in a book he wrote for the edification...

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...patience seems to have been due to a needless panic, Bootle, the notorious American scientific quack, having made an announcement that Filmer interpre... ...ve indistinctly, enormous self-assertive things, he backs into the rear of groups by instinct if Banghurst drops the line for a minute, and when he wa... ... the air just a little too steeply as the archbishop was sailing through a Latin quotation for all the world like an archbishop in a book, and it came... ...d only say “you should have tasted it!” and of fairy music, “like a little musical box,” that came out of nodding flowers. There was a great open plac...

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... willing to suf- fer hunger and thirst in exchange for acquiring Greek and Latin. But there is a far more exact prototype of the worthy Dominie, upon ... ...er all these disadvantages, he obtained a competent knowledge of Greek and Latin, and some acquaintance with the sciences. In progress of time, Abel S... ...anced far into the ocean, waving in the moonlight along ground of an undu- lating and varied form, and presenting those varieties of light and shade, ... ...is time, when there’s sae little money stirring in Scotland wi’ this weary American war, that somebody may get the land a bargain—Deil be in them, tha... ...who was to usher him to the man of law. The period was near the end of the American war. The desire of room, of air, and of decent accommodation, had ... ...e, its variety of lights, and the eternally changing bustle of its hundred groups, offers, by night espe- cially, a spectacle, which, though composed ... ...hly, deserved; yet his pride and interest, like the for- titude of a North American Indian, manned him to sustain the tortures inflicted at once by th... ...w, so we must make the most of our conquest to-night.” This led to another musical trial of skill, and that to lively conversation. At length, when th...

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...res whom we have deliberately suffered to be bred for misery and ruin. The American portion of this story is in no other respect a carica- ture than a... ...or the most part (Mr. Bevan ex- pected), of a ludicrous side, only, of the American character—of that side which was, four-and-twenty years ago, from ... ...mon capacity or accomplishments, I think! Am I, or am I not?’ ‘You are the American aloe of the human race, my dear Chiv,’ said Mr Tigg, ‘which only b... ...ve of our separation, Mr Jinkins and the gentle- men have made up a little musical party among themselves, and do intend, in the dead of this night, t... ... when gentlemen sit up late they drink, and when they drink they’re not so musical, perhaps, as when they don’t. But this is the arrangement; and I kn... ... the regular box, and expected an appointment on the first vacancy. He was musical besides, and had a little key-bugle in his pocket, on which, whenev... ... in allusion to its usefulness as a means of venti- 480 Martin Chuzzlewit lating the stomach of any adversary in a close contest. He had used these w... ...ut into its place, an ancient scholar read the inscrip- tion, which was in Latin; not in English; that would never do. It gave great satisfaction; esp... ...y of that happy temperament which can be ecstatic without any other stimu- lating cause than a general desire to establish a large and profitable conn...

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...he date of the very first action fought between the British troops and the Americans. That, for these reasons, the jury, being a loyal jury (as he kne... ...nhappily, I am!” The plaintive tone of her compassion merged into the less musical voice of the Judge, as he said something fiercely: “Answer the ques... ...a contraband trade in European lan guages, instead of conveying Greek and Latin through the Custom house. The rest of his time he passed in London. N... ...here every fierce and furious expression was in vivid life, there were two groups of faces each seven in number so fixedly contrasting with the rest,...

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...very advocate who catered at the 15 Sir W alter Scott Scottish bar made a Latin address to the Court, faculty, and audience, in set terms, and said a... ... set terms, and said a few words upon a text of the civil law, to show his Latinity and jurisprudence. He also wore his hat for a minute, in order to ... ...onversation. Agreeably to this amiable propensity, I was internally specu- lating concerning the cause of the rider keeping aloof from us, when my com... ...d, well-made, white-ankled Thetis, who had obtained me manumission from my musical task. This was nothing less than the sudden appearance of the old w... ...a ram when be makes his race, darted off right down the street, scattering groups of weatherbeaten lairds and periwigged burgesses, and bearing down a... ...ght is by no means an improb- able fiction. Shortly after the close of the American war, Sir James Graham of Netherby constructed a dam-dyke, or cauld...

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...r him; but these Poles, who, in order to make themselves understood, spoke Latin—and very bad Latin indeed—would not accept such an excuse, and forc- ... ...on to those who seek it. Santeuil, Canon of Saint Victor, and the greatest Latin poet who has appeared for many centuries, accompanied him. Santeuil w... ...at once hastened to the chateau, where I found a great buzzing and several groups of people talking. Mahony was closeted a long time with the King. At... ...ignified manner; presiding, in fact, over the Salon of Marly, and over the groups gath- ered round him, like the divinity of a temple, who receives wi... ...utterly without sense, and who had had some expe- rience. Without voice or musical knowledge, he used to sing, in private, the passages of the opera p... ...whose permanent reign did not last less than thirty-two years? Born in the American islands, where her father, perhaps a gentleman, had gone to seek h... ...t, if he had wished, but for greatness’ sake he always had an interpreter. Latin and many other languages he spoke very well. There was a detachment o... ...at the Parliament was near. So soon as he had retired, the Council rose by groups, and could no longer be kept seated. M. le Duc d’Orleans himself at ...

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... Death of Chatterton, 16 -- An Invocation, 19 -- Anna and Harland, 20 -- To the Evening Star, 21 -- Pain, 22 -- On a Lady Weeping: Imitation from the Latin of Nicolaus Archius, 23 -- Monody on a Tea-kettle, 24 -- Genevieve, 26 -- On Receiving an Account that his Only Sister?s Death was Inevitable, 27 -- On Seeing a Youth Affectionately Welcomed by a Sister, 28 -- A Mathema...

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.... . . . . . . . 22 Pain . . . . . . 23 On a Lady Weeping: Imitation from the Latin of Nicolaus Archius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Monody on a... .... . . . 175 On the Christening of a Friend’s Child . . 177 Translation of a Latin Inscription by the Rev. W. L. Bowles in Nether-Stowey Church . . .... ... night! - 22 - Pain Coleridge: Poems On a Lady Weeping: Imitation from the Latin of Nicolaus Archius ?1790 Lovely gems of radiance meek Tremb... ...ls in gamesome play, And frisk about, as lamb or kitten gay! Yea! and more musically sweet to me Thy dissonant harsh bray of joy would be, Than wa... ...he hand of Time Flies o’er his mystic lyre: in shadowy dance The alternate groups of Joy and Grief advance Responsive to his varying strains sublim... ...nd with a proud delight Oft will I tell thee, Minstrel of the Moon! ‘‘Most musical, most melancholy’’ Bird! That all thy soft diversities of tone, ... ...he dimness of the stars. And hark! the Nightingale begins its song, ‘‘Most musical, most melancholy’’ bird! A melancholy bird? Oh! idle thought! I... ...oralist prates, ’Tis the keystone and cement of civilized States. Those American Reps! And i’ faith, they were serious! It shock’d us at Paris,...

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..................................................................... 182 THE AMERICAN POPULATION .......................................................... ...ory of this development and arrive at any other conclusion. The French and Americans can laugh at our aeroplanes, the Ger- mans are ten years ahead of... ...lf and dominate the tailor- ing of the world, while Brazilians, Frenchmen, Americans and Germans fly. That we are hopelessly behindhand in aeronautics... ...e the aeroplane routes along the line of the world’s coast- lines and lake groups and waterways. The airmen will go to and fro over water as the midge... ...of adapting itself to them has been no more than patching. Individuals and groups and trades have found themselves in imperfectly apprehended and diff... ... these latter things, his extensive unilluminated knowl- edge of Greek and Latin, and his greater costliness, that he differs from a young carpenter o... ...r history with models and photo- 161 H. G . Wells graphs and diagrams for Latin versification, would make any considerable difference in this matter.... ...ture is entirely different in highly inflected languages such as Greek and Latin and in so uninflected a language as English, that learning Greek to i... ...ays been his dream to have a piano. The youngest girl, he is convinced, is musical. As a man who has knocked about the world and has thought, he quite...

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...lish-speaking man. No doubt the spirit of the inquiry is more British than American, that the aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more... ...e aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more com- plete than American thought is yet prepared for, but that is a difference not of quali... ...ed develop principles of primary importance in the fundamen- tal schism of American politics between the local State gov- ernment and the central powe... ...ining I mean the differentiation of sounds—articu- late, inarticulate, and musical—fixing the child’s attention and causing it to imitate. As every so... ...lve or fourteen. But, beginning early—as early as pos- sible—every child, ‘musical’ or not, can be trained, just as every child, ‘artistic’ or not, ma... ...ing not only women but men who will solemnly profess to “know” English and Latin, 84 Mankind in the Making French, German and Italian, perhaps Greek,... ...orms in schools deal- ing in a really intelligent and instructive way with Latin and Greek, so far as it is necessary to know these languages in order... ...e commonweal of thought. Such was Greek at one time to the Roman, such was Latin to the Bohemian, the German, the Englishman or the Spaniard of the mi... ...gently rather than to play it—to distinguish the threads, the values, of a musical com- position, to have a quickened ear rather than a disciplined ha...