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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Volume I.

By: George Gilfillan

...the care of the family priest, one Bannister, who taught him the Latin and Greek grammars together. He was next removed to a Catholic semi- nary at Tw... ...but only seem to be such, they have a wonderful variety in them, which the Greek was a stranger to. He exceeds him in regularity and brevity, and fall... ...ling fury glow, Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow: Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found, 380 And the world’s victor s... ... perhaps, then mourn a year, And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances, and the public show? What, though no weeping loves thy ashes grace,... ...leon:’ The name taken from a foolish poet of Rhodes, who pretended much to Greek.—P . 203 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope – V olume One Keep clo... ...asure: none deny Scarsdale his bottle, Darty his ham-pie; Ridotta sips and dances, till she see The doubling lustres dance as fast as she; F—— loves t... ...ophy aside; Not when from plate to plate your eyeballs roll, And the brain dances to the mantling bowl. Hear Bethel’s sermon, one not versed in school... ... but mature the praise: Great friend of liberty! in kings a name Above all Greek, above all Roman fame: Whose word is truth, as sacred and revered, As...

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Amelia

By: Henry Fielding

...fy any the least unnecessary expence. Simply to be poor, says my favourite Greek historian, was not held scandal- ous by the wise Athenians, but highl... ... Fielding familiarity, as he was truly possessed of that quality which the Greeks considered in the highest light of honour, and which we term modesty... ...tty good mistress of the Latin language, and had made some progress in the Greek. I believe, madam, I have formerly acquainted you, that learn- ing wa... ...rd joined us, and continued with me all the evening; and we danced several dances together. “I need not, I believe, tell you, madam, how engaging his ... ...lockhead. He did not, perhaps, imagine that a competent share of Latin and Greek would make his son either a pedant or a coward. He considered likewis... ...and, if Rabelais was his master, I think he proves the truth of the common Greek proverb—that the scholar is often superior to the master. As to Cerva...

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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

By: Thomas de Quincey

...s, &c., of this drug, expresses himself in the following mysterious terms [Greek text]: “Perhaps he thought the subject of too delicate a nature to be... ...stinguished for my clas- sical attainments, especially for my knowledge of Greek. At 9 Thomas de Quincey thirteen I wrote Greek with ease; and at fif... ...teen my com- mand of that language was so great that I not only com- posed Greek verses in lyric metres, but could converse in Greek fluently and with... ...as owing to the practice of daily reading off the newspapers into the best Greek I could furnish extempore; for the necessity of ransacking my memory ... ...rink- ing with the sensitiveness of a gouty man from all contact with the [Greek text]. Doubtless, a powerful understanding, 15 Thomas de Quincey or ... ... of rehearsal whilst waking, a crowd of ladies, and perhaps a festival and dances. And I heard it said, or I said to myself, “These are English ladies...

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

...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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Letters of Two Brides

By: Honoré de Balzac

...oot of a gazelle! My 21 Balzac joints are finely turned, my features of a Greek correctness. It is true, madame, that the flesh tints do not melt int... ...y dress is white muslin, and on my head I wear a garland of white roses in Greek style. I shall put on my Madonna face; I mean to play the simpleton, ... ...press jealousy so well! What a cry in “Il mio cor si divide!” I’m speaking Greek to you, for you never heard Garcia, but then you know how jealous I a... ... noticed that my brother comes to the theatre only when 39 Balzac T ullia dances there; he applauds the steps of this creature, and then goes out. T ... ...am on me.” “He did more,” he replied. “It was an epithalamium.” “You speak Greek to me,” I said, rewarding him with a smile and a certain look which a... ...n’ t answer for the consequences. Medea may have been right after all. The Greeks had some good notions!” And he laughed. So, my sweetheart, you have ...

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The French Revolution a History Volume Two

By: Thomas Carlyle

...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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Don Quixote

By: Miquel de Cervantes

...o them) of countless princes, monarchs, lords, Medes, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, and barbarians, all these lineages and lordships have ended in a po... ...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... ... ing raised benches from which people might conveniently see the plays and dances that were to be performed the next day on the spot dedicated to the ... ...rns and so great dexterity, that although Don Quixote was well used to see dances of the same kind, he thought he had never seen any so good as this. ... ...llowing these there came an artistic dance of the sort they call “speaking dances.” It was composed of eight nymphs in two files, with the god Cupid l... ... and 129 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. from which they were to behold the dances and plays; but at the moment of their arrival at the spot they heard... ... 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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Don Quixote

By: Miquel de Cervantes

...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... ...nday, all I care is Thou shouldst see me in my best. No account I make of dances, Or of strains that pleased thee so, Keeping thee awake from midnig... ...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... ... 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... ... ing raised benches from which people might conveniently see the plays and dances that were to be performed the next day on the spot dedicated to the ... ...rns and so great dexterity, that although Don Quixote was well used to see dances of the same kind, he thought he had never seen any so good as this. ... ...llowing these there came an artistic dance of the sort they call “speaking dances.” It was composed of eight nymphs in two files, with the god Cupid l...

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One of Our Conquerors

By: George Meredith

...s. Inchling dreaded Scotchmen as well, and Ameri- cans, and Armenians, and Greeks: latterly Germans hardly less; but his dread of absorption in Jewry,... ...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 ... ...e and small of the visible; and along the downs went stateliest of flowing dances; a copse lengthened to forest; a pool of cattle-water caught grey fo... ...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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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

... 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... ... of Castle Hoggarty) he is the first man of his county. Her Ladyship still dances jigs, and insisted on standing up with the Master of the Horse at th...

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Plain Tales from the Hills

By: Rudyard Kipling

...is worth traveling fifty miles over bad ground to look upon. Lispeth had a Greek face—one of those faces people paint so often, and see so seldom. She... ...sbee on his arm. That made her flush, and as the men crowded round her for dances she looked magnificent. She filled up all her dances except three, a... ... breakfast. Mrs. Hauksbee did her best to hold him in play, but, after two dances, he crossed over to his wife and asked for a dance. 13 Rudyard Kipl... ...ce, which is a religious can-can of a startling kind. When a man knows who dances the Halli-Hukk, and how, and when, and where, he knows something to ... ...ich Mrs. Reiver had no intention of keeping. He learned to take thankfully dances which Mrs. Reiver had no intention of giving him. He learned to shiv... ...as never sent on out-post duty after ‘rickshaws any more, nor was he given dances which never came off, nor were the drains on his purse continued. Mr... ... swing of the verse with a bedstead-leg. But he did most of his ravings in Greek or German. The man’s mind was a perfect rag-bag of useless things. On... ...ten or twelve breaths, and then he began mumbling a prayer of some kind in Greek. The native woman cried very bitterly. Lastly, he rose in bed and sai... ... to judge for yourself. The bundle needed much expurgation and was full of Greek nonsense, at the head of the chapters, which has all been cut out. If...

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Paz

By: Honoré de Balzac

...h had offered hospital- ity, for whom fetes had been given (with songs and dances by subscription), above all, a nation which in the Napole- 5 Balzac... ...h a gold edge, and a knitted silk bodice that makes her look like a living Greek statue, and when I see her carrying those flags in her hand to the so... ...maculate image in his heart, proposed to Malaga, the queen of the carnival dances, to spend an evening at the Musard ball; because he knew the countes...

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Soldiers Three: The Story of the Gadsbys, In Black and White

By: Rudyard Kipling

... for I knew that it was better to sit out with Mulvaney than to dance many dances. ‘Goose liver is ut?’ said Mulvaney. ‘Faith, I’m thinkin’ thim that ... ...you spare me one? MISS T. (Shortly.) No! I don’t want any of your charity- dances. You only ask me because Mamma told you to. I hop and I bump. You kn... ... them both waltzes. Won’t you write them down? MISS T. I don’t get so many dances that I shall confuse them. You will be the offender. CAPT . G. Wait ... ...lun’s little white room was always large and talked more than before. ‘The Greeks,’ said Wali Dad who had been borrowing my books, ‘the inhabitants of... ... of the heterodox women—is it not?—who were amusing and not fools. All the Greek philosophers delighted in their company. Tell me, my friend, how it g...

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A Little Tour in France

By: Henry James

...ate pleasures, as the French say,—walks in pairs, on rainy days; games and dances on autumn nights; together with as much as may be of moon- lighted d... ...fatal progres- sion, the dark rigidity, of one of the tragic dramas of the Greeks. Jean Calas, advanced in life, blameless, bewil- dered, protesting. ... ... is so associated with a charming facial oval, a dark mild eye, a straight Greek nose, and a mouth worthy of all the rest, that it conveys a presumpti...

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Edingburgh Picturesque Notes

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...nently Gothic, and all the more so since she has set herself off with some Greek airs, and erected classic temples on her crags. In a word, and above ... ...f the ground, buildings in almost every style upon the globe. Egyptian and Greek temples, Venetian palaces and Gothic spires, are huddled one over ano... ...ws, overthrew crockery in the dead hours of the morning, and danced unholy dances on the roof. Every kind of spiritual disinfectant was put in requisi... ...hill between two exer- cises, as couples visit the supper-room between two dances of a modern ball. In the Forty-Five, some foraging High- landers fro...

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The Holy Bible

By: Various

...BLE TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN VULGATE DILIGENTLY COMPARED WITH THE HEBREW, GREEK, AND OTHER EDITIONS IN DIVERS LANGUAGES DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSION 1609, 15... ...in her hand: and all the women went forth after her with timbrels and with dances. 21 And she began the song to them, saying: Let us sing to the Lord,... ...of singers. 19 And when he came nigh to the camp, he saw the calf, and the dances: and being very angry, he threw the tables out of his hand, and brok... ...nto Maspha, to his house, his only daughter met him with timbrels and with dances: for he had no other children. 35 And when he saw her, he rent his g... ...Is not this David, the king of the land? Did they not sing to him in their dances, saying: Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?... ...the king of the Medes and Persians. 21 And the he goat, is the king of the Greeks, and the great horn that was between his eyes, the same is the rst ... ...rince of the Persians. When I went forth, there appeared the prince of the Greeks coming. 21 But I will tell thee what is set down in the scripture of... ... Juda, and the children of Jerusalem, you have sold to the children of the Greeks, that you might remove them far o from their own country. 7 Behold,... ...nd he reigned in the hundred and thirty-seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks. 12 In those days there went out of Israel wicked men, and they pers...

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The Holy Bible

By: Various

...l in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. 21 And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath trium... ...use, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daugh... ...; 21 And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife... ...his David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?... ...heard of him, and came and fell at his feet: Mark 1135 26 The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast f... ...e thyself. 38 And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS. 39 And one of t... ... nothing? be- hold, the world is gone after him. 20 And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: 21 The same came th... ...Jesus was cruci ed was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin. 21 Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Wri... ...ews, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed. 2 But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gen- tiles, and ...

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The New Atlantis

By: Francis Bacon

...foremost man. In which scroll were written in ancient Hebrew, and in ancient Greek, and in good Latin of the school, and in Spanish these words: “Land... ...wear in the front of their turban, or hat; this done, they fall to music and dances, and other recreations, after their manner, for the rest of the da...

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George Silverman's Explanation

By: Charles Dickens

...erily believe, the most extraordinary girl in this world. Already knows more Greek and Latin than Lady Jane Grey. And taught herself! Has not yet, rem... ...hich was literally true; for I had availed myself of my many business atten dances on, and conferences with, my lady, to take Mr. Granville to the ho...

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Of Human Bondage

By: Somerset Maugham

... hall. It was paved with red and yellow tiles, on which alternately were a Greek Cross and the Lamb of God. An imposing staircase led out of the hall.... ...to the upper forms and German to anyone who cared to take it up instead of Greek. Another master was engaged to teach mathematics more systematically ... ...f which the nail had a little black edge to it, was point- ing out how the Greek ships were placed and how the Persian. 78 Of Human Bondage XVII PHIL... ...a graduate of Harvard; and when by chance the conversation turned upon the Greek tragedians, a subject upon which Hayward felt he spoke with authority... ...ly and Weeks proved that he was absurd: Weeks confessed that he had taught Greek Lit- erature at Harvard. Hayward gave a laugh of scorn. “I might have... ...temptuous amusement. “Oh, I don’t know , one just knows them. If you go to dances you soon get to know as many people as you can do with.” Philip hate... ...at the Portman Rooms had the best floor in London and she always liked the dances there; they were very select, and she couldn’t bear dancing with all...

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