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... the ammunition, till two men came along driving four mules. Dravot up and dances in front of them, singing, ‘Sell me four mules.’ Says the first man,... ...r of the British Museum. All I demanded, as politely as possible, was “the Greek antiquity man.” The policeman knew nothing except the rules of the Mu... ...he. “So far as I can ascertain it is an attempt to write extremely corrupt Greek on the part” —here he glared at me with intention— “of an extremely i... ...e the most marvel- ous tale in the world, nothing less than the story of a Greek galley-slave, as told by himself. Small wonder that his dream- ing ha... ...rstand metempsychosis, and a sound commer- cial education does not include Greek. He would supply m~here I capered among the dumb gods of Egypt and la... ... Charlie had spoken nothing that might not lie within the experiences of a Greek galley-slave. But now, or there was no virtue in books, he had talked...

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... as at this, used each to make a language for himself, besides the strange Greek, Latin, Italian, German, and Swiss words, foreign phrases, and Spanis... ...ished to arrange with you a merry feast after the ancient method, when the Greeks and Romans said their Pater noster to Master Pria- pus, and the lear... ...eror Ahasuerus, as is written in the master-book, for Bible comes from the Greek word biblos, as if to say the only book. The mouse promised to delive... ...oth of Gold. In every corner mice were making merry. Everywhere there were dances, concerts, ban- quets, sarabands, music, joyous songs, and epithalam... ...ising all languages since the Deluge, of the Hebrew, Chaldeans, Egyptians, Greeks, Latins, and of T urnus, the ancient founder of T ours; and the good... ... hear her chattering as en- tertainment many foreign dialects, such as the Greek or the Latin empire, Moorish, and, above all, French better than any ...

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...een grapes, and produce 51 Thomas Carlyle colic, pestilential dysentery, (Greek). And the Peasants as- sassinate us, they do not join us; shrill wome... ...old social garnitures, ways of thinking, rules of existing; and cheerfully dances towards the Ruleless, Unknown, with such hope in its heart, and noth... ...r Spring season. Messidor, Thermidor, Fructidor, that is to say (dor being Greek for gift) Reapidor, Heatidor, Fruitidor, are Republican Summer. These... ...hen the People have lost their reason; ye will die when they recover it.” (Greek,—Plut. Opp. t. iv. p. 310. ed. Reiske, 1776.) No help! Yielding to vi... ... a thing for what we will call Far-writing without the aid of postbags; in Greek, it shall be named Telegraph.—Telegraphe sacre! answers Citoyenism: F... ...ons and Mother Society. Is not here a pretty enough third-act of a natural Greek Drama; catastrophe more uncertain than ever? The hasty Convention rus... ...ose soirees; Editor Freron, Orateur du Peuple; Barras, who has known other dances than the Carmagnole. Grim Generals of the Republic are there; in eno... ...ancers; form as it were a circumambient element round the different contre-dances, yet without deranging them. It is rare, in fact, that a Sultana in ...

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...lately, for instance, with bared bosom and death-defiant eye, as far on as Greek Missolonghi; and, strange enough, old slumbering Hellas was resuscita... ...tood not with one side or with the other, nor in the ever-vexed jarring of Greek with Greek at all,—how unspeakably ominous to dim Royalist participat... ... Human Species at his heels. Swedes, Spaniards, Polacks; Turks, Chaldeans, Greeks, dwellers in Mesopotamia: behold them all; they have come to claim p... ... charger, is here, and all the civic Functionaries; and the Federates form dances, till their strictly military evolu- tions and manoeuvres can begin.... ..., under this nether Moon; speechless nurselings, infants as we call them, (Greek), crow in arms; and sprawl out numb-plump little limbs,—impatient for... ...ter 2.5.XI. The Hereditary Representative. And yet it is not by carmagnole-dances and singing of ca- ira, that the work can be done. Duke Brunswick is...

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...and never writes anything but her an- swers to them. She plays, sings and Dances, but has no taste for either, and excells in none, tho’ she says she... ... the Queen of Scots, was yet an amiable young woman and famous for reading Greek while other people were hunting. It was in the reign of Henry the 7t... ...ter in law the Lady Jane Grey, who has been al- ready mentioned as reading Greek. Whether she really understood that language or whether such a study ... ...conducting to the scaffold, she wrote a sen- tence in Latin and another in Greek on seeing the dead Body of her Husband accidentally passing that way.... ...mined to mortify me, and accordingly when we were sitting down between the dances, she came to me with more than her usual insulting importance attend...

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... pos sess all the erudition which mankind has hoarded up from age to age. Greek and Latin were as familiar to them as the bab ble of their childhood.... ...th is but one of the good offices which are expected from it. Therefore it dances on the hearth, and laughs broadly throughout the room, and plays a t... ...ponderous folios, and quar tos, and little duodecimos, in English, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldaic, and all other languages that either originated at ... ...acted an air of deep erudition, as if its cushion were stuffed with Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and other hard matters. In this chair, from one year’s e...

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...cate measures.” 139 Yo n g e Master Gottfried looked perplexed, for these dances were matters of great punctilio. It was but seven years since the Lo... ...onsented to figure alone with Sir Kasimir in one of the majestic, graceful dances performed by a single couple before a gazing assembly. So she let hi... ...s brother, fencing 182 The Dove in the Eagle’s Nest in the hall, learning Greek with the chaplain, reading or sing- ing to his mother, or carving gra... ...h! there they are. Quick-eyed Vittoria has seen the caval- cade first, and dances off to tell Ermentrude and Stine time enough to prepare their last b...

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...y is the finest thing in nature.” It’s finer than the finest work of art—than a Greek bas relief, than a great Titian, than a Gothic cathedral. It’s very... ...would happen. Suddenly I receive a Titian, by the post, to hang on my wall—a Greek bas relief to stick over my chimney piece. The key of a beautiful e... ...ence. It is impossible, in Rome at least, to look long at a great company of Greek sculptures without feeling the effect of their noble quietude; whic... ...during the second winter at Palazzo Roccanera she began to go to parties, to dances, she always, at a reasonable hour, lest Mrs. Osmond should be tire... ...opose departure. Isabel appreciated the sacrifice CHAPTER 40 339 of the late dances, for she knew her little companion had a passionate pleasure in th... ...ter this she took Pansy to a great party, to which Osmond, who never went to dances, did not accompany them. Pansy was as ready for a dance as ever; w... ...gaged.” “She’s not engaged for everything, and you can reserve yourself. She dances very hard, and you’ll be the fresher.” “She dances beautifully,” s...

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...retation, and refer to his own exquisite art in arranging pageants, morris-dances, May-day festivities, and such-like holiday delights, for which he a... ..., a chapter of the Septuagint, and, moreover, having had his lesson in the Greek T estament.” “Ay,” said his mother, “and I have sewn a sprig of witch... ...planets, curiously intermingled with talismanical characters and scraps of Greek and Hebrew. In the midst were some Latin verses from a cabalistical a... ...look ye, there is another— a very learned man, I promise you, and can vent Greek and Hebrew as fast as I can Thieves’ Latin he has an humour of sympat... ...sequent— raro antecedentem, as Doctor Bircham was wont to say. But this is Greek to you now, honest Lawrence, and in sooth learn- ing is dry work. Han...

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... one piece, pair of gaudy vases of very artificial flowers; between them a Greek warrior with his helmet off, sacrificing a clock to the Genius of Fra... ...d been at school. She had a crowd of cousins and acquaintances, and we had dances at her house, and went out to dances at other houses, and, both at h...

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...his piccolo. He was esteemed a good player: was in request at concerts and dances, also at swell balls. So the vivid piping sound tickled the darkness... ...of your damned modern reform cant. I mean solid sound slavery on which the Greek and the Roman world rested. FAR finer worlds than ours, my dear chap!...

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...age, on the one hand, and, on the other, a work more lasting than brass—a [Greek: chtaema es aei]—a murder such in quality as any murder that he would... ...ed as if built in brick; whereas, had it been so happy as to be written in Greek, then it would have been a palace built in Parian marble. Indeed! tha... ...on, though quite content with it in English, still could have wished it in Greek. That’s No. 2. Bentley, though admiring the blind old poet in the hig... ...arpe, M. P ., twenty-five years ago, well known as River Sharpe, from the [Greek: aperantologia] of his conversation, used to say, that one or both of... ...ual fate, Fox was complimented, whilst living, on his knowledge of Homeric Greek, which was a jest: he knew neither more nor less of Homer, than, fort... ...services? Still it would have been possible to invent solemn and intricate dances, that might have appeared abundantly significant, if expounded by im...

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...nd when she was *Falsely, because poxphuxeos rarely, perhaps, means in the Greek use what we mean properly by purple, and could not mean it in the Pin... ...t the purpureus of the ancients might have been evaded by attending to its Greek designation, namely, porphyry-colored: since, said he, porphyry is al... ...uth is, colors were as loosely and latitudinarially dis- tinguished by the Greeks and Romans as degrees of affinity and consanguinity are everywhere. ... ...passage from Demosthenes—not presented in En- glish, but in sounding Attic Greek. Latin is a privileged dia- lect in parliament. But Greek! It would n... ...But him answering thus addressed the sovereign Agamemnon;” or; in sonorous Greek: “T on d’ apameibomenos prosephé kreion Agamemnon;” or, again, accord... ...that age, were arrang- ing themselves for one of the magnificent Hungarian dances, which the emperor’s court at Vienna had transplanted to the camp of... ...he orchestra in one of the galleries, at this mo- ment proclaimed that the dances were on the point of com- mencing in another half-minute, when sudde... ...g plumes and jewelled caps, glided through the fine mazes of the Hungarian dances. All was one mag- nificent and tempestuous confusion, overflowing wi... ...ily obeyed than at first sight seemed possible. At this time the Hungarian dances, which required a certain number of partners to execute the movement...

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...y for the Encour- agement of Murder; but, according to their own delicate [Greek: euphaemismos], it is styled—The Society of Con- noisseurs in Murder.... ...ose of “Fire—fire!” upon which all of us, master and disciples, Plato and [Greek: hoi peri ton Platona], rushed out, eager for the spectacle. The fire... ... Fifth Book, I think it is, of his Metaphysics) de- scribes what he calls [Greek: kleptaen teleion], i.e., a perfect thief; and, as to Mr. Howship, in... ... it morally. But suppose it 14 over and done, and that you can say of it,[Greek: T etelesai], or (in that adamantine molossus of Medea) [Greek: eirza... ...te most justly, and possibly with a view to my case, placed virtue in the [Greek: to meson] or middle point between two extremes. A golden mean is cer... ...echoes to the de- parting steps of invaders. She mingled not in the festal dances at Vaucouleurs which celebrated in rapture the redemption of France....

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...ance. THE INDIFFERENT . Come to the dance with me, come with me, fair one! Dances a feast-day like this may well crown. If thou my sweetheart art not,... ...we still will dance on. Come to the dance with me, come with me, fair one! Dances a feast-day like this may well crown. THE TENDER. Loved one, without... ...esire, 70 Goethe For thou dost give me Youth, joy, and fire, For new-born dances And minstrelsy. Be ever happy, As thou lov’st me! 1775.* With a Pain... ...the eye at once gleams brightly, See! the infant band with mirth Moves and dances nimbly, lightly, 101 Goethe As the morning gave it birth, Flutt’rin... .... In haste for the sport soon their ankles they twitch, And whirl round in dances so gay; The young and the old, and the poor, and the rich, But the c... ...then, my senses stray, Wonder no longer. 1814. SONG AND STRUCTURE. LET the Greek his plastic clay Mould in human fashion, While his own creation may W... ...mine eye the farewell say, 51 Let no cares now hover o’er us 135 Let the Greek his plastic clay 423 Light and silv’ry cloudlets hover 100 Link’d w...

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...for the destruction of the people, a cer tain terrible composition called Greek Fire, which could not be put out with water, but only burnt the fierc... ...ntence of death, the young King was being vastly entertained by plays, and dances, and sham fights: but there is no doubt of it, for he kept a journal...

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...iard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so on. And when you know the man’s re... ... same. The first actor was a sav age. He reproduced in his theatrical war dances, scalp dances, and so on, incidents which he had seen in real life.... ...e up of the facts of life, not creations. It took centuries to develop the Greek drama. It borrowed from preceding ages; it lent to the ages that came... ...and will fiercely fight for them. As instances, you have all history: the Greeks, the Romans, the Persians, the Egyp tians, the Russians, the German... ...ece! Well, now, that is just astonishing! Born there?” “No.” “Do you speak Greek?” “Yes.” “Now, ain’t that strange! I never expected to live to see th... ...being a great widower haveing lost sev eral wives. Lady Jane Grey studied Greek and Latin and was beheaded after a few days. John Bright is noted for...

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...of spurred on by the lift-shunts; before it, the vacuum where Fleury’s Ray dances in violet-green bands and whirled turbillons of flame. The jointed U... ...tom of his glass. “Does it affect your family much?” “My good lady—she’s a Greek, by the way—and myself are middle-aged. We can bear up against depres...

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... populous; the pulpit remained a mere mossy bank, more suggestive or fairy dances than of Calvinist sermons, and no one remained on the scene save Ber... ... the walls decorated with the glorious paintings collected by Francois I., Greek and Roman statues clustered at the angles, and cabinets with gems and... ... that no one has yet told you of your good mien? Or do they not appreciate Greek noses and blue eyes in the land of fat Englishmen? How have you ever ... ...- ness, ‘is likely to be better known to other persons than this wandering Greek boy.’ Here Philip’s step was heard returning hastily. He was pale, an... ...ld, and under the dominion of a very learned tutor, who taught them Latin, Greek and Hebrew, alternately with an equally precise, stiff old esquire, w...

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... new-gilt carriages): pleasure of the eye, and pride of life! So rolls and dances the Procession: steady, of firm assurance, as if it rolled on ada- m... ... any case, is not this the real death-grapple of war and internecine duel, Greek meeting Greek; whereon men, had they even no interest in it, might lo... ...lks sedition. The lower classes, in this duel of Authority with Authority, Greek throt- tling Greek, have ceased to respect the City-Watch: Police-sat... ... walked in formless immeasurability, having made itself like to the Night (Greek.)! But remark at least, for the first time, the singular empire of Su... ...s not Marquis Valadi hastily quitted his quaker broadbrim; his Pythagorean Greek in Wapping, and the city of Glasgow? (Founders of the French Republic... ...s come forth to meet him: with hand-clappings, with windows flung up; with dances, triumph- songs, as of the Furies! Lastly the Head of Foulon: this a... ...mings in. Intriguing and manoeuvring; Parliamentary eloquence and arguing, Greek meeting Greek in high places, has long gone on; yet still bread comes... ...harger, is here, and all the civic Func- tionaries; and the Federates form dances, till their strictly mili- tary evolutions and manoeuvres can begin.... ...ter 2.5.XI. The Hereditary Representative. And yet it is not by carmagnole-dances and singing of ca-ira, that the work can be done. Duke Brunswick is ...

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...h it has al- ways given when joined with a strong political existence. The Greeks are commercially rich and active; but “Greece” and “Greek” are bywor... ... It is not uncommon to see in front of a square brick house a wooden quasi-Greek portico, with a pedi- ment and Ionic columns, equally high with the h... ...d Ionic columns, equally high with the house it- self. Wooden columns with Greek capitals attached to the doorways, and wooden pediments over the wind... ... her citizens. The fast young men go to clubs, and the fast young women to dances, as fast young men and women do in other places that are wicked; but... ...f the ocean. President Felton’s* name is very familiar to us; and wherever Greek scholarship is held in repute, that is known. So also is the name of ...

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...his hurried dialogue had taken place during the usual interval between two dances, in front of the fireplace of the great drawing-room of Gondreville’... ...hat time women wore their sash tied close under the bosom, in imitation of Greek statues, a pitiless fashion for those whose bust was faulty. As he ca...

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... new-gilt carriages): pleasure of the eye, and pride of life! So rolls and dances the Procession: steady, of firm assur- 47 Thomas Carlyle ance, as i... ... any case, is not this the real death-grapple of war and internecine duel, Greek meeting Greek; whereon men, had they even no interest in it, might lo... ...lks sedition. The lower classes, in this duel of Authority with Authority, Greek throttling Greek, have ceased to respect the City-Watch: Police-satel... ... walked in formless immeasurability, having made itself like to the Night (Greek.)! But remark at least, for the first time, the singular em- pire of ... ...not Mar- quis Valadi hastily quitted his quaker broadbrim; his Pythagorean Greek in Wapping, and the city of Glasgow? (Founders of the French Republic... ...come forth to meet him: with hand-clappings, with win- dows flung up; with dances, triumph-songs, as of the Fu- ries! Lastly the Head of Foulon: this ... ...mings in. Intriguing and manoeuvring; Parliamentary eloquence and arguing, Greek meeting Greek in high places, has long gone on; yet still bread comes...

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... a few days later, lo! it has arranged its affairs and is giving fetes and dances. One day it eats barley-sugar by the mouthful, by the handful; yeste... ... on all sides the emblems of professions, and every style of art,—Moorish, Greek, Gothic,—friezes, ovules, paintings, vases, guardian-angels, temples,... ...hion?” Among these wandering creations some belong to the spe- cies of the Greek Hermae; they say nothing to the soul; they are there, and that is all...

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...onourably and virtuously instructed to fondle and ca- ress men; are taught dances of a very polite and effeminate kind; and how to heighten by the mos... ... arts were invented by uncultivated, savage men. What a prodigious use the Greeks and Romans made after- wards of mechanics! Nevertheless, they believ... ...nd three hundred and forty years from Menes’s reign to that of Sethon. The Greeks before they counted by Olympiads followed the method of the Egyptian... ... forty years. 68 Letters on England Now, here, both the Egyptians and the Greeks made an erroneous computation. It is true, indeed, that, according t... ...n that we say that the sun turns round. Hipparchus was the first among the Greeks who observed some change in the constellations with regard to the eq... ...which make five hundred and four years, and not seven hundred years as the Greeks computed. Thus in comparing the position of the heav- ens at this ti...

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... light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden dances, Mingling hands and mingling glances Till the moon has taken flight; ... ... know where a dim moon drifts, where the Danaan kind Wind and unwind their dances when the light grows cool IN THE SEVEN WOODS 75 On the island lawns... ...courteous to the worst; much falling he Brooded upon sanctity Till all his Greek and Latin learning seemed A long blast upon the horn that brought A l... ...s because I lay about me with the taws That night and morning I may thrash Greek Alexander from my flesh, Augustus Caesar, and after these That great r... ...00 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS II Ribh Denounces Patrick An abstract Greek absurdity has crazed the man — Recall that masculine Trinity. Man, wo... ...; Then mock at Death and Time with glances And wavering arms and wandering dances. ‘Men’s hearts of old were drops of flame That from the saffron morni... ... thousand years ago, In islands where the children of Aengus wind In happy dances under a windy moon, And that you’ll bring me there? Forgael. I have ...

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...Palestine, he had sojourned in Constantinople, and learned the arts of the Greek. He is a cogger of dice, I tell thee—a chanter of horseflesh. He won ... ...UCH. I WA S ALWAYS FOND OF BILLIARDS: and, in former days, at Grogram’s in Greek Street, where a few jolly lads of my ac- quaintance used to meet twic... ...ot great people: when he came to be a gentleman, he had to learn Latin and Greek, and had a deal of lost time to make up for, on going to school. 366... ...e living skel- eton! There’s the clowns, the sawdust, the white horse that dances a hornpipe, the candles stuck in hoops, just as in our own dear coun...

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...t George had been at college, (probably a naval one, as he knew no Latin or Greek,) where he learned French and mathe- matics. He was by no means th... ...heir limbs; and on the whole, instead of the spirited, fascinating Spanish dances which I had expected, I found the Californian fandango, on the pa...