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...the Hebrew Bedouins, this custom passed to all the nations of Asia; Medes, Persians, Lydians, Arabs, &c., and is dwelt on with peculiar delight by the... ...mas de Quincey that represented a halo, and still keep their ground on the Persian and T urkish toilette, as a favorite ornament. III. The GOLDEN SNAK... ...dal hom- age to our great suzerain, the reader—having propitiated him with Persian adorations and with Phrygian genuflexions, let us now crave leave t... ...s to the combination, by a painter or a sculptor, of real flesh- and-blood creatures with allegoric abstractions. This is the objection to such combin... ... case the water cups, in which the bed-posts rest, for- bid the transit of creatures not able to swim or to fly. A flea indeed leaps; and, by all repo... ... endary superstition, in the other half it wears the grace of chivalry and legendary romance. Any malignant scoff, there- fore, against the peerage of... ... readers, he did not scruple to give birth and currency to the grossest of legendary lies. The Duke’s death happened a few months before Pope’s birth....

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...ity Which once Oenopion, son of Theseus, built. But the more famous of the legendary stories everybody (as I may say) has in his mouth. In Paeon, howe... ...-wolf nursed them, and a woodpecker constantly fed and watched them; these creatures are esteemed holy to the god Mars, the woodpecker the Latins stil... ... species, whereas eagles, owls, and hawks mangle and kill their own fellow-creatures; yet, as Aeschylus says,— What bird is clean that preys on fellow... ...me on this side, some on that, with miserable cries and lamentations, like creatures possessed, in the midst of the army, and among the dead bodies, t... ...live, condemned to be burnt, and laid bound upon the pile be- fore all the Persians and Cyrus himself, he cried out as loud as possibly he could three... ...ified it with pictures and other ornaments, after it had been burnt by the Persians. It is confessed by all that from his youth he was of a vehe- ment... ...ough he was still young when the battle of Marathon was fought against the Persians, upon the skillful conduct of the general, Miltiades, being everyw...

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...es with sparkling fury glow, Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow: Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found, 380 And the wor... ...; but the Sylphs, whose habitation is in the air, are the best-conditioned creatures imaginable. For they say, any mortals may enjoy the most intimate... ...ism. See Bulwer’s ‘Zanoni.’ Pope has blended some of its elements with old legendary stories about guardian angels, fairies, &c. 75 The Poetical Work... ...re Ninus shone, who spread the Assyrian fame, And the great founder of the Persian name: There in long robes the royal Magi stand, Grave Zoroaster wav... ...observed, which causes a subordination of creature to creature, and of all creatures to Man. The gradations of sense, instinct, thought, reflection, r... ...s, ver. 207. VIII. How much further this order and subordination of living creatures may extend, above and below us; were any part of which broken, no... ...fy for who can guess? The bard whom pilfer’d Pastorals renown, Who turns a Persian tale 102 for half-a-crown, 180 Just writes to make h...

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...im the ocean stream.” Paradise Lost. —— “There Leviathan, Hugest of living creatures, on the deep Stretched like a promontory sleeps or swims, And see... ...told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did Chapter 1 Loomings 17 the Greeks give ... ...on broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake houses the pyramids. No, when I go to sea, I g... ...e tablets stand in the cave of Elephanta as here. In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included; why it is that a universal pro... ... ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up — flaked up, with rose water snow. The starred an... ...hich stem him. And as if the now tested reality of his might had in former legendary times thrown its shadow before it; we find some book naturalists —... ...s it has been made the symbol of the divine spotlessness and power; by the Persian fire worshippers, the white forked flame being held the holiest on th... ... trembling reverence and awe. Nor can it be questioned from what stands on legendary record of this noble horse, that it was his spiritual whiteness c... ... the young widow had a delicious grief, and her orphans a truly venerable, legendary sire to dream of in their after years; and all of them a care kil...

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...im the ocean stream.” —Paradise Lost. — “There Leviathan, Hugest of living creatures, in the deep Stretched like a promontory sleeps or swims, And see... ...told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, an... ...on broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake- houses the pyramids. No, when I go to sea, I ... ...e tablets stand in the cave of Elephanta as here. In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included; why it is that a universal pro... ...ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up—flaked up, with rose-water snow. The starred and... ...hich stem him. And as if the now tested reality of his might had in former legendary times thrown its shadow before it; we find some book naturalists—... ...s it has been made the symbol of the divine spotlessness and power; by the Persian fire worship- pers, the white forked flame being held the holiest o... ...rembling reverence and awe. Nor can it be ques- tioned from what stands on legendary record of this noble horse, that it was his spiritual whiteness c... ...a 463 Herman Melville delicious grief, and her orphans a truly venerable, legendary sire to dream of in their after years; and all of them a care- ki...

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...upon she took A bird’s-eye-view of all the ungracious past; Glanced at the legendary Amazon As emblematic of a nobler age; Appraised the Lycian custom... ... custom, spoke of those That lay at wine with Lar and Lucumo; Ran down the Persian, Grecian, Roman lines Of empire, and the woman’s state in each, How... ...Look you, Sir! Man is the hunter; woman is his game: The sleek and shining creatures of the chase, We hunt them for the beauty of their skins; They lo... ... treble; and to and fro With books, with flowers, with Angel offices, Like creatures native unto gracious act, And in their own clear element, they mo...

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...ion, is the same in kind, (though different in degree,) amongst all living creatures; this instinct therefore, because it annihilates all distinctions... ...., the di- vine nature of love and mercy, spread through the hearts of all creatures, and seldom utterly withdrawn from man,— was gone, vanished, exti... ...he says— “They tooled with small scymetars not much 47 different from the Persian acinacæ, but more curved, and for all the world most like the Roman... ...to find out the royal personage amongst the whole ark of clean and unclean creatures. Failing in this coup d’essai, she would not simply disappoint ma... ...ing the granddaughter of a crocodile, awakens a dreadful host of wild semi-legendary ani- mals,—griffins, dragons, basilisks, sphinxes,—till at length... ...veller. That which really is a lie in the account of the unicorn—viz., his legendary rivalship with the lion—which lie may God preserve, in preserving... ... sea-lions, &c. The mermaid has been discredited by her human name and her legendary human habits. If she would not coquette so much with melancholy s...

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...- dable sharks which threatened us. It was a couple of tintoreas, terrible creatures, with enormous tails and a dull glassy stare, the phosphorescent ... ... and more as a possible victim than as a naturalist. Happily the voracious creatures do not see well. They passed without seeing us, brushing us with ... ...ome. I see no reason for hindering them. After all, these Papuans are poor creatures, and I am unwilling that my visit to the island should cost the l... ... between Arabia and the Indian Peninsula, which serves as an outlet to the Persian Gulf. It was evidently a block without any possible egress. Where w... ...s- ter Ned.” “His fancy cannot take us far, then,” said the Canadian. “The Persian Gulf has no outlet: and, if we do go in, it will not be long before... ...” “Very well, then, we will come out again, Master Land; and if, after the Persian Gulf, the Nautilus would like to visit the Red Sea, the Straits of ... ...ent denied by Origen and Humbolt, who placed its disappearance amongst the legendary tales. I had it there now before my eyes, bearing upon it the une...

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...y woods, and sunny plains, And liquid lapse of murmuring streams; by these Creatures that lived and moved, and walked or flew; Birds on the branches w... ...ith him to England some Arabian horses, and amongst them a beautiful young Persian mare, called Sumroo, the gentlest of her race. Sumroo it was that h... ... consequence of that event, were the Jews inoculated with this Babylonian, Persian, and Me- dian superstition. Now, if Eichhorn and others are right, ... ...racle of the Branchides, in Asia Minor. But this had been destroyed by the Persians, in retaliation of the Athenian out- rages at Sardis. 191 Thomas ... ... past generations of eminent persons, who re- tained only a traditional or legendary importance in the eyes of most who were now reviewing them, all t... ...crowd; but they were drowned in a tumult of conflicting feelings. As human creatures, fallen under the displeasure of a despot with a ju- dicial power... ... calamities, and the enlarged sympathy which that had bred with her fellow-creatures of every rank. But she felt that, in this superfluous expression ...

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...for its murdered mate. But deeper doth the secret prove, Uniting those sad creatures so; Humanity’s great link of love, The common sympathy of woe. We... ...’d domain; Mingling the screams of birds, the cries of brutes, The wail of creatures in the covert pent, Howls, yells, and shrieks of agony, the hiss ... ...f spray, Clothed in majestic splendour; girt about With Sea-gods and swift creatures of the sea; Their briny eyes blind with the showering drops; Thei... ...land as true a symbol shows, While o’er it like a mellow sunset strays The legendary splendour of old days, In visible, inviolate repose. II About a m... ...and sudden flower; Or haply with a twilight on the brow, T o muse upon the legendary hour, And Roland’s lonely love and Hildegard’s sad vow. V Hark! h... ...nd raged a plague; to prove on free Hellenes How prompt the Tyrant for the Persian dye; How black his Gods behind their marble screens. 295 SOLON I T... ...rs bright: Forgetful of the growth of men to light, As creatures reared on Persian milk they bow. Unripe! unripe! The times are overcast. But still m...

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...about the streets, where crowds of people of many nationalities—Europeans, Persians with pointed caps, Banyas with round turbans, Sindes with square b... ... a scurvy dog. The prospect of so frightful an existence drives these poor creatures to the sacrifice much more than love or religious fanaticism. Som... ...hey were in a smoking-house haunted by those wretched, cadaverous, idiotic creatures to whom the English merchants sell every year the miserable drug ... ... Passepartout was surprised at all he saw. San Francisco was no longer the legendary city of 1849—a city of banditti, assassins, and incendiaries, who... ...a- dies are not admitted to the possession of its highest joys. These poor creatures seemed to be neither well off nor happy. Some—the more well-to-do...

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...gth we are wont to associate with things primitive, with wild animals, and the creatures we imagine our tree dwelling prototypes to have been — a str... ...ou have sinned. You have no right to put temptation in the way of your fellow creatures. You tempted Cooky, and he fell. You have placed his immortal... ...y’ll come to it, an’ be sorry the day they was born. I could weep for the poor creatures, did I but forget poor old fat Louis and the troubles before ... ...upon the one born of an instant’s irritability, and quite at variance with the Persian’s complacent philosophy and genial code of life: — “What, witho... ...added power. I remembered Michelet’s “To man, woman is as the earth was to her legendary son; he has but to fall down and kiss her breast and he is st...

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...um of it, such as boys have, from the little boy; or perhaps it was from a Persian kitten, which had grown to be a cat in her arms, and slept in her l... ...ly learned to respect them, and, at other times as free and playful as her Persian kitten, she never in such circumstances ventured on any greater fre... ... felt to be a remedy, But in truth it was difficult to see these two human creatures together, without feeling their incompatibility; without having a... ... There were also the two chil dren, fresher than the morning itself, rosy creatures, with newly scrubbed cheeks, made over again for the new day, tho... ...lt. But he had greater pleasure in drawing out some of the old gentleman’s legendary lore, some of which, whether true or not, was very curious. 2 As ... ...ine it more closely, “a good thing to make a legend out of; and, like most legendary lore, not capable of bearing close examination. I should decidedl...

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...ur lies in making Don Quixote take inns for castles and fancy himself some legendary or historical personage, and Sancho mistake words, invert proverb... ...ms of the golden Pactolus, the Numidians, faithless in their promises, the Persians renowned in archery, the Parthians and the Medes that fight as the... ...with a host of snakes and serpents and lizards, and ferocious and terrible creatures of all sorts swimming about in it, while from the middle of the l...

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...ur lies in making Don Quixote take inns for castles and fancy himself some legendary or historical personage, and Sancho mistake words, invert proverb... ...ms of the golden Pactolus, the Numidians, faithless in their promises, the Persians renowned in archery, the Parthians and the Medes that fight as the... ...with a host of snakes and serpents and lizards, and ferocious and terrible creatures of all sorts swimming about in it, while from the middle of the l... ...h a word to them) of countless princes, monarchs, lords, Medes, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, and barbarians, all these lineages and lordships have end...

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... overlook and pardon, as being a fault essential to the religion: the poor creatures did the best they could to praise their god, lying under the curs... ...ly before that Olympus in London, which rains rarities upon us poor abject creatures in the provinces, you must enclose ‘an order on the Post- Office ... ...re was nothing at all; nothing to believe, nothing to understand. A set of legendary tales undoubtedly there was, connected with the mythologic histor... ...t the less present locally. He is at a distance unap- proachable by finite creatures; and yet, without any contra- diction, (as the profound St. Paul ... ...his career. His literary fate was what might have been expected. After the Persian war, the reputation of his verses rapidly decayed. Wits arose in At... ...the other side of that region: none of other great cities—Roman, Parthian, Persian, Median, in that same region or adjacent regions. Babylon only is c... ...eed well he might have this feeling by comparison with his own countrymen: Persians have no principles apparently on this point—all is impulse and acc...

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...s discovered in the deep, Where only body’s laid asleep. For the elemental creatures go About my table to and fro, That hurry from unmeasured mind To ... ...ous wings. THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE 127 I have looked upon those brilliant creatures, And now my heart is sore. All’s changed since I, hearing at twil... ...is fed with light and heaven is bare. Robartes. When the moon’s full those creatures of the full Are met on the waste hills by countrymen Who shudder ... ... man Old William pollexfen, The smuggler Middleton, Butlers far back, Half legendary men. Infirm and aged I might stay In some good company, I who have... ...ers that welcomed in their tents What great Harun Al Rashid, occupied With Persian embassy or Grecian war, Must needs neglect, I cannot hide the truth...

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...m, your laughter is more soft in mine ears than the singing of Bulbul in a Persian garden.’ Dr Porhoët interposed with introductions. The magician bow... ...t gravely. ‘ An odd thing happened once when he came to see me. I have two Persian cats, which are the most prop erly conducted of all their tribe. T... ... human arms. It became a monstrous, goat legged thing, more vast than the creatures of nightmare. She saw the horns and the long beard, the great hai... ...tely she felt herself again surrounded by a hurrying throng. Then came all legendary monsters and foul beasts of a madman’s fancy; in the darkness she... ...oads, with paws pressed to their flanks, and huge limping scarabs, shelled creatures the like of which she had never seen, and noisome brutes with hor... ...ars in Monte Carlo. ‘They said there that he was attempting to make living creatures by a magical operation.’ She glanced at the doctor, but spoke to ...

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...Putois lives in his strength and malevolence. He lives after the manner of legendary heroes, of the gods of Olympus. He is the creation of the popular... ...here only to frame the deeds of the Service. His novels, like amphibi- ous creatures, live on the sea and frequent the shore, where they flounder depl... ...it be lovely if what he says were true!” Here you have Woman! The charming creatures will neither strain at a camel nor swallow a gnat. Not publicly. ... ...a qualm at the awful thought that he may be shutting up some of his fellow creatures in a death-trap; that he may be sacrificing the lives of men who,... ...ven opening by some mechanical means. And if there were a law of Medes and Persians that a water-tight door should always slide downwards and never ot...

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... was needed, for the servants, two of whom at the least were most faithful creatures, and devotedly attached to their young mistress, stood ready of t... ...w of the case as herself; and, though otherwise the gentlest of all gentle creatures, yet here, from the generous fervor of her reverence for justice,... ...mposed of men seeking indeed for truth, but themselves erring and fallible creatures; the witnesses had been full of lies, the judges of darkness. But... ...and Miscellaneous Papers yet, perhaps, both alike would bend so far to the legendary faith as to allow a child to believe, and would perceive a pure c... ...m the reckless folly, under severe illness, from indigestion, of the three Persian princes, who visited this country, as stated by their official mehm... ...war. I remem- ber, in Xenophon, some passage where he describes a class of Persian gentlemen, who were called the ophthalmoi, or eyes of the king; but...

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... been subject to abnormal psychical visitations. Invariably they have been creatures of exalted emotional sensibility. Often they have led a discordan... ...leth into such a deep abasement that it seemeth to him reasonable that all creatures in heaven and earth should rise up against him. And therefore he ... ...e writes may be its ministers. Every one who is at all acquainted with the Persian mystics knows how wine may be regarded as an instrument of religion... ...s for some hours after I had gone to my bed. I was one of the most unhappy creatures on earth. “Sometimes I would leave the company (often speaking to... ...278 The V arieties of Religious Experience and the Buddhistic examples are legendary,[168]— what the effects might be: they might conceivably transfor... ... quote a Moslem document, and pass away from the sub- ject. Al-Ghazzali, a Persian philosopher and theologian, who flourished in the eleventh century,...

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...t surely, Norman, it is better they should do what they can for those poor creatures, than for Ethel to learn Greek.” “I don’t know that. Let those wh... ...f liberalism and the rights of the poor! He who cut off Randall’s poor old creatures in the almshouses from their short way! and then came some storie... ...g of a free heart is the thing. To offer praise is the great object of all creatures in heaven and earth. If the happier we are, the more we praise, t... ...two pretty meanings, the pearl and the daisy,” said Ethel. “It is from the Persian Mervarid, child of light,” said Norman; and, with a sudden flush of... ...ould not be denied choosing that for his sub- ject. We reproached him with legendary saints, and over- whelmed him with antiquarianism, to show that t...