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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ... three or four dandies, dressed smartly in the French fashion, with strong Jewish physiognomies. There was one, a solemn lean fellow in black, with hi... ...aces of worship, like French philoso- phers as they were. A friend, with a classical turn of mind, was bent upon seeing the aqueduct, whither we went ... ...dear parents, instead of giving me the inestimable benefit of a ten years’ classical education, had kept me at home with my dear thir- teen sisters, i... ...e moored everywhere, showing their flags, Rus- sian and English, Austrian, American, and Greek; and along the quays country ships from the Black Sea o... ...oney to make the pilgrimage to Jerusa- lem. There were several families of Jewish Rabbis, who cel- ebrated their “feast of tabernacles” on board; thei... ...ould never pay for cabins); And each man moaned and jabbered in His filthy Jewish gaberdine, In woe and lamentation, And howling consternation. And t... ...issaries, with silver maces shining in the sun. ’Twas the party of the new American Consul-General of Syria and Jerusalem, hastening to that city, wit... ...lem, so as to be on the spot in readiness. When the diachylon Arab saw the American Arab, he straightway galloped his steed towards him, took his pipe...

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...File produced as part of an ongoing student publica- tion project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...more favored individuals did credit to Miriam’s selection. One was a young American sculptor, of high promise and rapidly increasing celebrity; the ot... ...was said, for example, that Miriam was the daughter and heiress of a great Jewish banker (an idea perhaps sug- gested by a certain rich Oriental chara... ...adle. According to a third statement, she was the off-spring of a Southern American planter, who had given her an elabo- rate education and endowed he... ... time, leaving it to be the thoroughfare of ambassadors, English noblemen, American millionnaires, artists, tradesmen, washerwomen, and people of ever... ...ome there. She was very youthful, and had what was usually thought to be a Jewish aspect; a complexion in which there was no roseate bloom, yet neithe... ... the vulgar glossiness of other women’s sable locks; if she were really of Jewish blood, then this was Jewish hair, and a dark glory such as crowns no... ... to spread itself instead of cushions. On one of the stone benches sat the musicians, whose strains had enticed our wild couple thitherward. They prov... ...y other pastime. As Miriam and Donatello emerged from among the trees, the musicians scraped, tinkled, or blew, each according to his various kind of ...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...lin Avenue & 3d St., N.E Zenith Omar Gribble, Esq., 376 North American Building, Zenith. Dear Mr. Gribble: Your letter of the twentieth t... ...ompson, the old-fashioned, lean Yankee, rugged, traditional, stage type of American business man, and Babbitt, the plump, smooth, efficient, up-to-the... ...uch amused by the antiquated provincialism as any proper Englishman by any American. He knew himself to be of a breeding altogether more esthetic and ... ...perous grocer, one a Yankee carpenter, one a soda-clerk, and one a Russian Jewish actor The Russian Jew quoted Kautsky, Gene Debs, and Abraham Lincoln... ...One the other day about a coupla Swedes and their wives,” and, in the best Jewish accent, he resolutely carried the Good One to a slightly disinfected... ...randams swung their legs in the more elementary cho- rus-evolutions, and a Jewish comedian made vicious fun of Jews. In the entr’actes they met other ... ...where a lot of you make your mistake is in assuming that if you don’t like classical music and all that junk, you ought to oppose it. Now, I want to c... ... Babbitt?” “You bet I do! Only I don’t know ‘s I care so much for all this classical stuff.” “Oh, I do! I just love Chopin and all those.” “Do you, ho...

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...File produced as part of an ongoing student publica- tion project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...more favored individuals did credit to Miriam’s selection. One was a young American sculptor, of high promise and rapidly increasing celebrity; the ot... ...was said, for example, that Miriam was the daughter and heiress of a great Jewish banker (an idea perhaps sug- gested by a certain rich Oriental chara... ...adle. According to a third statement, she was the off-spring of a Southern American planter, who had given her an elabo- rate education and endowed he... ... time, leaving it to be the thoroughfare of ambassadors, English noblemen, American millionnaires, artists, tradesmen, washerwomen, and people of ever... ...ome there. She was very youthful, and had what was usually thought to be a Jewish aspect; a complexion in which there was no roseate bloom, yet neithe... ... the vulgar glossiness of other women’s sable locks; if she were really of Jewish blood, then this was Jewish hair, and a dark glory such as crowns no... ... to spread itself instead of cushions. On one of the stone benches sat the musicians, whose strains had enticed our wild couple thitherward. They prov... ...y other pastime. As Miriam and Donatello emerged from among the trees, the musicians scraped, tinkled, or blew, each according to his various kind of ...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...he required assurance. Tom Perkins continued to triumph, he was the finest classical scholar that Dr. Fleming remembered, and on leaving the school to... ...day for his mar- riage; and he hated the attitude the head adopted towards classical literature. There was no doubt that he was a fine scholar, and he... ... , and his almond eyes almost closed as he did so. There were two or three American men, in black coats, rather yellow and dry of skin: they were theo... ... tall and slim. He held himself with a deliberate grace. Weeks, one of the American students, seeing him alone, went up and began to talk to him. The ... ...one, went up and began to talk to him. The pair were oddly contrasted: the American very neat in his black coat and pepper-and-salt trou- sers, thin a... ...n- ess in the family of a fashionable portrait-painter , who had married a Jewish wife of means, and in their house she had met many distinguished peo... ...Philip, brooding over these mat- ters, that in the true painters, writers, musicians, there was a power which drove them to such complete absorption i... ...acetious remarks. The house opposite, six storeys high, was a workshop for Jewish tailors who left off work at eleven; the rooms were brightly lit and...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of tho... ...cks was very red, the mangle with its put-up board was white-scrubbed, the American oil-cloth on the table had a gay pattern, there was a warm fire, t... ...She was a large, stout, high-coloured woman, with a fine profile, probably Jewish. She had chestnut-coloured eyes, quick, intelligent. Her movements w... ...o quiet, they had the dangerous impassivity of the Bohemian, Pari- sian or American rather than English. “Cigarette, Julia?” said Robert to his wife. ... ...ing that proud, rather stiff bend of her head was. She had some aboriginal American in her blood. But as she looked, she pursed her mouth. The artist ... ... was the long interval. Jim and Josephine gazed down at the orchestra. The musicians were laying aside their instruments and rising. The ugly fire-cur... ...ertingly round the room as if he were quite calm and col- lected. The deaf Jewish Rosen was smiling down his nose and saying: “What was that last? I d... ... “That’s nice of you, anyhow—But you are a musician too.” “Yes—we are both musicians—my wife and I.” Manfredi looked at his wife. She flicked the ash ... ...ds, sat at the near end of the room, or in the smaller salotta, whilst the musicians performed at the further end of the room. The Lillys were there, ...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...dropped;’ like ostrich-egg, to be hatched of Chance—into an ostrich-eater! Jewish or Ger- man Freys do business in the great Cesspool of Agio; which C... ... sea cockfight it is, and of the hottest; where British Serapis and French-American Bon Homme Richard do lash and throttle each other, in their fashio... ...amp-de-Mars Federation, with three hundred drummers, twelve hun- dred wind-musicians, and artillery planted on height after height to boom the tidings... ...f, those Thirteen most poor mean- dressed men, at frugal Supper, in a mean Jewish dwelling, with no symbol but hearts god-initiated into the ‘Divine d... ...s of Federates, of this Fed- eration, will have enough to do! Harangue of ‘American Committee, ’ among whom is that faint figure of Paul Jones ‘as wit... ...ing and perorat- ing there; cars drawn by eight white horses, goadsters in classical costume, with fillets and wheat-ears enough;— though the weather ... ...ournalist Carra, Camille Desmoulins, Alsatian Westermann friend of Danton, American Fournier of Martinique;—a Committee not unknown to Mayor Petion, w...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ... outward means for lead- ing an agreeable life in the old villa. Wandering musicians haunted the precincts of Monte Beni, where they seemed to claim a... ...r worth his pencil than the newly painted pine boxes, in which—if he be an American—his countrymen live and thrive. But there is reason to suspect tha... ...the V atican, with my palette and my brushes, and shall look for my little American artist that sees into the very heart of the grand pictures! And wh... ...rom English parentage, on the mother’s side, but with a vein, likewise, of Jewish blood; yet connected, through her father, with one of those few prin... ... overstepped the mark, it was sure to be no Roman, but an Englishman or an American; and even the rougher play of this Gothic race was still soft- ene...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...ugh to the finger. In three minutes she was deep in a very difficult, very classical fugue in A, and over her face came a queer 50 The Voyage Out rem... ...o be recognised, and held in respect. Meanwhile as they stood talking, the musicians were unwrapping their instruments, and the violin was repeating a... ...“which shall it be?” “Balzac,” said Rachel, “or have you the Speech on the American Revolution, Uncle Ridley?” “The Speech on the American Revolution?... ...earance, I expect,” he continued, “though it’s an absolute lie to say I’ve Jewish blood in me—as a matter of fact we’ve been in Norfolk, Hirst of Hirs... ... 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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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...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... ...of them in the end. Robert Brown- ing used to say that every great man has Jewish blood in him, and we must try to look at it in that light. And, afte... ...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 ... ...ut on their coats, others stood upright to salute “God Save the King,” the musicians folded their music and encased their instru- ments, and the light...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of tho... ...gation—but nega- tively something, at any rate.’ ‘What are they?—painters, musicians?’ ‘Painters, musicians, writers—hangers-on, models, ad- vanced yo... ...y syllable distinctly. She looked at the cover, to verify herself. ‘An old American edition,’ said Birkin. ‘Ha!—of course—translated from the French,’... ... ideal utterly, yet it still domi- nates him. I expect he is a Jew—or part Jewish.’ ‘Probably,’ said Gerald. ‘He is a gnawing little negation, gnawing... ...iked the West Afri- can wooden figures, the Aztec art, Mexican and Central American. He saw the grotesque, and a curious sort of me- chanical motion i...

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... be no better place to describe the duties, regulations, and customs of an American merchantman, of which ours was a fair specimen. The capta... ...ming out. She hailed us, and an officer on board, whom we supposed to be an American, advised us to run in before night, and said that they were boun... ... board, and soon after, the governor, dressed in a uniform like that of an American militia officer, the Padre, in the dress of the grey friars, wit... ...o come back by way of Capitan Noriego’s and take a look into the booth. The musicians were still there, upon their platform, scrap- ing and twangi... ...Tom Bowline,’’ ‘‘The Bay of Biscay,’’ ‘‘List, ye Landsmen!’’ and all those classical songs of the sea, still held their places. In addition to thes... ... Congregational, a Chinese Mission Chapel, and on the Sabbath (Saturday) a Jewish synagogue. The Jews are a wealthy and powerful class here. The C...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ... as that of Christ, ought to abstain to the utmost of their power from the Jewish ceremonies.” “O unaccountable!” say I: “what! baptism a Jewish cerem... ...I: “what! baptism a Jewish ceremony?” “Yes, my friend,” says he, “so truly Jewish, that a great many Jews use the bap- tism of John to this day. Look ... ...hat country. The first step he took was to enter into an alliance with his American neighbours, and this is the only treaty between those people and t... ...in his native country, went back to Penn- sylvania. His own people and the Americans received him with tears of joy, as though he had been a father wh... ...endeavoured to lessen the character of that great comic poet. Such Italian musicians as despise Lully are themselves persons of no char- acter or abil...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ..., and 16 Thackeray struggle, Jerusalem agonized and died. . . . Y es, the Jewish city is lost to Jewish men; but have they not taken the world in exc... ...p, pro- posed to the Empress to drop in on the party. He made signs to the musicians to continue: and the conqueror of Marengo and Friedland watched w... .... I have seen no grandee of V ersailles that has the noble bearing of this American envoy and his suite. They have the refinement of the Old W orld, w... ...ne good service elsewhere than at Quebec,” the King said, appealing to the American Envoy: “at Bunker’s Hill, at Brandywine, at Y ork Island? Now that... ...ely Antoinette flashed fire, but it played round the head of the dauntless American Envoy harmless as the lightning which he knew how to conjure away.... ... herself? The Lady Rowena did certainly say with mighty magnanimity to the Jewish maiden, “Come and live with me as a sister,” as the former part of t... ...ould raise the dead up, did his Highness think it meet. “‘Did not once the Jewish captain stay the sun upon the hill, And, the while he slew the foeme... ...n the humane countenance,)—I say, be- ing thus curtailed and cut off in my classical learning, I must confess I managed to pick up a pretty smattering...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...d may we not regret that such conflict,—which, after all, is but like that classical one of ‘hate-filled Amazons with he- roic Youths,’ and will end i... ...s, it is said, What a spec- tacle! Now too behold our Deane, our Franklin, American Pleni- potentiaries, here in position soliciting; (1777; Deane som... ...ly cannot squirt so high; but produce only clouds of spray. Individuals of classical knowledge propose catapults. Santerre, the sonorous Brewer of the... ...essure from him;’ for all Versailles is crowding and shouting. The Chateau Musicians, with a felicitous promptitude, strike up the Sein de sa Famille ... ...ant glances on the Bust of Lafayette, which has stood there ever since the American War of Liberty. Whereupon, by acclamation, Lafayette is nominated.... ...ning forth perpetual pamphlets: and no man to gag them! Neither, as in the American Con- gress, do the arrangements seem perfect. A Senator has not hi... ...ropped;’ like ostrich-egg, to be hatched of Chance—into an ostrich- eater! Jewish or German Freys do business in the great Cess- pool of Agio; which C... ..., those Thir- teen most poor mean-dressed men, at frugal Supper, in a mean Jewish dwelling, with no symbol but hearts god-initiated into the ‘Divine d...