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...s [Note: I trust I am justified in employing this as an equivalent for the Greek leschai.] of the old men, and delighted all by the charms of his poet... ... as must be indispensably sup- posed for long manuscripts, among the early Greeks, was thus one of the points in Wolf’s case against the primitive int... ...pe wrecked, seems to prove beyond a doubt, that the pronun- ciation of the Greek language had undergone a considerable change. Now it is certainly dif... ...al. “At what period,” continues Grote, “these poems, or in- deed any other Greek poems, first began to be written, must be matter of conjecture, thoug... ... brings to our view the alterations brought about by two centuries, in the Greek language, the coined money, the habits of writing and reading, the de... ... monarchs without their guards; princes 45 Pope tending their flocks, and princesses drawing water from the springs. When we read Homer, we ought to ...

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...about our keel were enjoying an anerithmon gelasma (this is one of my four Greek quotations:depend on it I will manage to introduce the other three be... ...ree before the tour is done)—seemed to be enjoying, I say, the above-named Greek quotation at our expense. Here is the dismal log of Wednesday, 4th of... ...ed with it is disagreeable in my eyes; and I have the same recollection of Greek in youth that I have of castor-oil. So in coming in sight of the prom... ...f castor-oil. So in coming in sight of the promontory of Sunium, where the Greek Muse, in an awful vision, came to me, and said in a patronising way, ... ...s side to convey us travellers to shore. There were Russian schooners and Greek brigs lying in this little bay; dumpy little windmills whirling round... ...t the head of each coffin rises a slab, with a gilded inscription; for the princesses, the slab is simple, not unlike our own monumental stones. The h...

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...ic—as a faithful picture of the last days of the moyen age, when kings and princesses, brave gentlemen and haughty ladies laughed openly at stories an... ...ible questions, but on the morrow if by chance he met one of the aforesaid princesses dressed out, seated in a litter and escorted by her proud and we... ...Thus she lived beloved and respected, quite as much as the real ladies and princesses, and was called Madame, concerning which the good Emperor Sigism... ... heart’s blood.” And with her trembling hands all joyously she filled with Greek wine the 21 Droll Stories – Vol. 1 golden cup, brought by the Bishop... ...upon the infidels without giving them warn- ing, burning the Saracens, the Greeks, the English, and oth- ers, caring little whether they were friends ... ...upon the said gentleman one of those warm ogles that are only allowable to princesses and harlots, and the false love which her lovely eyes bore witne... ...shes which empurpled his cheeks spoke better than the best speeches of the Greek and Latin orators, and were well understood. At this sweet sight, the... ...of arms has produced splendid characters, as brave as those of the ancient Greeks, Romans, or others… . But this is not my subject; the history of the... ...tan sickness, and that for the future there would be no security even with princesses of the highest birth—the above- named Maille was compelled to qu...

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... stay puzzling. She knew the Latin — that is, ‘the Lord’s prayer,’ And Greek—the alphabet — I ‘m nearly sure; She read some French romances he... ...to boast, Though I acquired — but I pass over that, As well as all the Greek I since have lost: I say that there ‘s the place — but ‘Verbum ... ...e and there; She had a curious crew as well as cargo, Like the first old Greek privateer, the Argo. But man is a carnivorous production, And... ... It is as well to think so, now and then; ‘T was an old custom of the Greek and Roman, And may become of great advantage when Folks are d... ... I ‘ll tell you who they were, this female pair, Lest they should seem princesses in disguise; Besides, I hate all mystery, and that air O... ...hat Turkish trade, By which, no doubt, a good deal may be made. He was a Greek, and on his isle had built (One of the wild and smaller Cyclade...

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...er addressed him except in the language of Virgil and Cicero. The study of Greek took precedence. At six years of age young Montaigne went to the Coll... ... really formidable? Or perhaps he was of the same way of thinking with the Greek poet, of whom Cicero reports this saying: “I do not desire to die; bu... ..., “Surely not; water is the best.” “Ah, yes,” he returned, “doubtless so;—(Greek phrase)—.” He had now become, icy- cold at his extremities, even to h... ...end them when he was dead. In truth, in affairs of the same nature, by the Greek laws, he who made suit to an en- emy for a body to give it burial ren... ...e Arginusian Isles, the most bloody and obstinate engagement that ever the Greeks fought at sea; because (af- ter the victory) they followed up the bl... ...and so high fancies, it is necessary (as a young lady, one of the greatest princesses of the kingdom, said to me once, speaking of a certain person) t...

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...that the British sell powder and munitions of war to all the world,—Turks, Greeks, and the devil, too, if the devil has money? From Zante we were to s... ...sents,—diamonds, ten thousand talari, one thousand gold coins, a beautiful Greek girl for groom, a little Circassian for a mistress, and an Arab horse... ... don’t cultivate at all; that’s their style of farming. The T urks and the Greeks, they eat onions or rise. They get opium from poppies, and it gives ... ... in my bal- cony. In the opposite balcony I saw a woman; oh! such a woman! Greek,—that tells all! The most beautiful creature in the town; almond eyes... ... worth a 60 A Start in Life pound of swagger.’” “And such a costume! pure Greek!” continued Schinner. “Conflagration of soul! you understand? Well, I... ... in- troduced them into Florentine’s salon. There sparkled a bevy of stage princesses, who, having been informed, no doubt, of Frederic’s joke, were a...

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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... ...ng; we could see only that always when the King spoke, the sobbings of the Princesses redoubled, continued for some minutes; and that then the King be... ...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...

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...ice. And gradually he was becoming familiar with his father’s repertory of Greek quotations. There was no breach between them, but each knew that holi... ...mother at his elbow. Sometimes in romantic flashes he was adored by German princesses or eloped with Russian grand-duchesses! But such fancies were ho... ...Lord! how clearly I see it! The intellectual is either a prince or he is a Greek slave in a Roman household. He’s got to hold his chin up or else he b... ...th him in a spirit of instructive association to the Balkans, rub up their Greek together, and settle the problem of Albania. He wanted, he said, a fo... ...mself a cigarette and seated himself upon a deck chair. Save for a yawning Greek sailor busy with a mop the first-class deck was empty. Benham surveye... ...ee churches for the better cultivation of hate and cruelty, the Latin, the Greek and the Mahometan.” “But no one has ever conquered these people.” “An...

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...s, their father’s busi- ness ally and fellow-speculator; Mr. Pericles, the Greek, the man who held millions of money as dust compared to a hu- man voi... ... every possible kind interpretation of his atrocious bad manners. He was a Greek, of Parisian gilding, whose Parisian hat flew off at a moment’s notic... ... a deep final note, and the hearers breathed freely. “Stradella!” said the Greek, folding his arms. The ladies were too deeply impressed to pursue the... ...d, and asked questions, and almost drove Mr. Pericles mad. On a sudden the Greek’s sallow visage lightened. “It is to you! it is to you!” he cried, st... ...g—”Yes, when his feelings are concerned.” “Will you repeat zat?” asked the Greek. “‘T o-to-ri:’ hein? I lose it. ‘T o-to-ru:’ bah! I lose it; ‘T o-ri:... ...gentleman. He said I should make money, if he took me, and grow as rich as princesses. He brought a friend to hear me, another Jew gentleman; and he w...

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... drooped lids, looked straight into the cup. On the base was scratched the Greek word ;aa;gD;gi;gc;ga, Thirst. The figure might have been some beautif... ...a good deal more attention to novels and billiards than to mathematics and Greek. Since then he has been reading law, at the rate of a page a day. If ... ...vid, is rather an exception; you can think of him and treat him as a young Greek. Standing forth there on the plain of battle between the contending a... ...ou ought to make a Judas.” “Never! I mean never to make anything ugly. The Greeks never made anything ugly, and I ‘m a Hellenist; I ‘m not a Hebraist!... ...t up the murderous club with the beautiful movement of the fighters in the Greek friezes who are chopping at their enemies.” “There ‘s no use trying t... ...knew no one but her washerwoman, and now I am told that the cards of Roman princesses are to be seen on her table. She is evidently determined to play... ...the proudest members of the European aristoc- racy were present—duchesses, princesses, countesses, and others distinguished by similar titles. But for...

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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... ...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... ...he is known to be full of common human sympathies. There are many kinds of princesses, but this kind is the most harmful of all, for wherever they go ... ...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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...t-Simon company went to table: it was of horse-shoe shape. The Princes and Princesses of the blood were placed at the right and at the left, according... ...ccurred since I left. During that time some adventures had happened to the Princesses, as the three illegitimate daughters of the King were called for... ... King prohib- ited very severely this familiarity. While at T rianon these Princesses took it into their heads to walk out at night and divert themsel... ...d, that he complained to the King, who made him many excuses (scolding the Princesses), but had great trouble to appease him. His anger lasted a long ... ...to seat yourself?” His napkin being unfolded, he saw all the duchesses and princesses still standing; and rising in his chair, he said to Madame de Sa... ...owever, was against him; his habits were publicly known to be those of the Greeks, whilst his intellect resembled theirs in no way. By his stupidity h... ...to form such marriages he must be of the Catholic religion, from which the Greeks were separated by such a little distance, that he thought his projec... ...ng the Russian nobility. These patriarchs were dependent upon those of the Greek rite of Constantinople but very slightly. They had obtained such grea...

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...rom M. Montalivet, transmitted to the prefect of Bayonne, mystified by two Greek words, tele, graphein. It is the insect with black claws, and the awf... ...- ful to conceal it from every one. After the battle of Navarino, when the Greek government was consolidated, he asked of King Otho a mining grant for... ...be seen without doing so? Elssler was dancing in the ‘Diable Boiteux;’ the Greek princess was in ecstasies. After the cachucha he placed a magnificent... ...rd act, to do honor to the gift, reappeared with it on her finger. And the Greek princess, — will she be here?” “No, you will be deprived of that plea... ... to converse with him?” Monte Cristo turned to Albert. “Do you know modern Greek,” asked he. “Alas, no,” said Albert; “nor even ancient Greek, my dear... ...id Eugenie. “We are rich. With forty-five thousand francs we can live like princesses for two years, and comfortably for four; but before six months —...

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... and quacks that weren’t fit to get their living but by grinding Latin and Greek, and a set of super- cilious dogs that pretended to look down upon Br... ... a table, and the pupil’s progress in each was marked by the professor. In Greek Georgy was pro- nounced aristos, in Latin optimus, in French tres bie... ...Achilles, as remarked by the poet Homer, occasioned a thousand woes to the Greeks— muri Achaiois alge etheke—(Hom. Il. A. 2). The selfishness of the l... ...thene House, 24 April, 1827 “Think of him writing such a hand, and quoting Greek too, at his age,” the delighted mother said. “Oh, William,” she added... ... since the days of the prodigal Victor XIV . All the neighbouring Princes, Princesses, and Grandees were invited to the feast. Beds rose to half a cro... ...y there, though there was a reigning Duke and a Royal Highness, with their princesses, and near his Lordship was seated the beauti- ful Countess of Be...

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...n a car and griffins, like the spiteful Fairy at the christen- ings of the Princesses, to do something dreadful to the mar- riage service. And truly h... ...he conversation; ‘perhaps you’ll explain your meaning, young man, which is Greek to me.— You must have another touch of blue in your trimming, my dear... ...an countries, with the Jews as with other peoples. Men say, ‘This is a bad Greek, but there are good Greeks. This is a bad Turk, but there are good T ...

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...ucate the public taste until it was ripe for tragedies on the model of the Greek drama—like the “Numancia” for instance—and comedies that would not on... ...xote hight, When from his town he came; With maidens waiting on himself, Princesses on his hack- —or Rocinante, for that, ladies mine, is my horse’s... ...ct following our road, nor do we know whether or not there are any captive princesses coming in this coach.” “No soft words with me, for I know you, l... ...ant; for they under- stood about as much of them as if he had been talking Greek, though they could perceive they were all meant for expressions of go... ... and in the same style as that which he had seen in his books of the other princesses who, smitten by love, came with all the adornments that are here... ... I would have returned and done more mischief in reveng- ing thee than the Greeks did for the rape of Helen, who, if she were alive now, or if my Dulc... ... Lucretia come up to her, nor any other of the famous women of times past, Greek, Barbarian, or Latin; and let each say what he will, for if in this I... ...apient foretold it, who likewise left it declared in writing in Chaldee or Greek characters (for I cannot read them), that if this predicted knight, a... ...nd, and battles, and prodigious encoun- ters, splendid costumes, love-sick princesses, squires made counts, droll dwarfs, love letters, billings and c...

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...dow of Mary de Medici, so that Madame never fails to say: ‘Could one believe it possible that Mary de Medici should have escaped from that window — fo... ...d D’Artagnan — we ought not to say arose, but bounded up. In fact, Bazin bounded up, carrying with him his little low chair, which the children tried ... ...g ago,” said Athos, laugh- 238 Ten Years Later – V ol. 1 ing in his turn. “I understand, it was frittered away in satin, precious stones, velvet, and... ...ECIDEDLY,” SAID D’ARTAGNAN to himself, “I have struck a good vein. That star which shines once in the life of every man, which shone for Job and Iris,... ...r all.” “Even for what I have just said to you?” “Listen! would you submit to those who govern ill? Oh! it is written: Cacos politeuousi. You grant me... ...Isle passed to M. Fouquet. The celebrity of the isle did not date from yester- day; its name, or rather its qualification, is traced back to the remot... ...is an abominable drink, unworthy of a man who quenches his thirst at the Hippocrene fountain — is not it so you call your fountain, you poets?” “Yes, ... ...ot you of my opinion, Monsieur de Bragelonne?” “To what circumstance do you allude?” inquired De Bragelonne with an abstracted air. “That the English ... ...nfer a title to beauty on this.” “Sir,” replied De Bragelonne, “I do not like to hear such matters treated so lightly. Gentlemen like ourselves should...

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...o them) of countless princes, monarchs, lords, Medes, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, and barbarians, all these lineages and lordships have ended in a po... ... amuse herself with damsels, 54 Don Quixote – Part II as great ladies and princesses are accustomed to do.” “Senor,” said Sancho, “if your worship wi... ...ng out that you were here with the intention of going to tamper with their princesses and trouble their ladies, were to come and cudgel your ribs, and... ...eighteen years of age; he has been for six at Salamanca studying Latin and Greek, and when I wished him to turn to the study of other sciences I found... ...is reason: the great poet Homer did not write in Latin, be- cause he was a Greek, nor did Virgil write in Greek, because he was a Latin; in short, all... ...at he was called, by way of surname, the Knight of the Lions. All this was Greek or gibberish to the peasants, but not so to the students, who very so... ... their town exulting; and had they been aware of the ancient custom of the Greeks, they would have erected a trophy on the spot. CHAPTER XXVIII Of mat...

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...s. Inchling dreaded Scotchmen as well, and Ameri- cans, and Armenians, and Greeks: latterly Germans hardly less; but his dread of absorption in Jewry,... ...e a woman equalling his Nataly! And their Nesta would have a dowry to make princesses envious:—she would inherit … he ran up an arithmetical column, d... ...me lines of Homer, and beseeches him for the designation of that language. Greek, is it? Greek of the Asiatic ancient days of the beginning of the poe... ...ange!—she partly suspects the Frenchman, the Russian, the attentive silent Greek, to be all of them bound for the Court of Japan. Concurrents? Can it ... ...girl’s funny speculations over the play of Delphica’s divers arts upon the Greek, and upon the Russian, and upon the English curate Mr. Semhians, and ... ...arcase prose: this is epical. In Drink we have Old England’s organic Epic; Greeks and T rojans; Parliamentary Olympus, ennobled brewers, nasal fanatic...

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