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...cus, they say, was ever esteemed a man of the greatest sanctity of all the Greeks; and Cychreus, the Salaminian, was honored at Athens with divine wor... ...ry in Crete; that the Cretans, in former times, to acquit themselves of an ancient vow which they had made, were used to send an offering of the first... ...oddess had the name of Epitrapia. When he arrived at Crete, as most of the ancient histori- ans as well as poets tell us, having a clue of thread give... ...ow husbandry; and from this coin came the expression so frequent among the Greeks, of a thing being worth ten or a hundred oxen. After this he joined ... ...nstituted the games, in emulation of Hercules, being ambitious that as the Greeks, by that hero’s appoint- ment, celebrated the Olympian games to the ... ...place in the city is called the House of Hermus; though by an error in the accent it has been taken for the House of Hermes, 25 Plutarch’s Lives or M... ...ary , which name signifies purification, and the very day of the feast was anciently called Februata; but its name is equivalent to the Greek Lycaea; ... ...him with courage and confidence, he seemed to speak with a more than human accent, and a voice stronger than ordinary; whether it were that he natural...

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...in vain, and the poor wretch within screaming out in the most heartrending accents a last faint desperate “I say!Pasagero-o!” 11 Thackeray We all wen... ...house with a portico which is said to be an imitation of the Parthenon:the ancient re- ligions houses of the Spanish town are gone, or turned into mil... ...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... ...er this wonderful scene, perhaps I get some feeble glimpse or idea of that ancient Greek spirit which peopled it with sublime races of heroes and gods... ...ere. I landed one morn- ing at the Seraglio point from Galata, close by an ancient plea- sure-house of the defunct Sultan; a vast broad-brimmed pavil-...

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... whole social fabric. There’s “virtue” for you if you like!… Of course the accent must be attended to. The right accent. That’s very important. The ca... ...ect, but I have no use for en- gines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world. What a dream—for a writer! Because writte... ...ove the world. What a dream—for a writer! Because written words have their accent too. Yes! Let me only find the right word! Surely it must be lying s... ...inly did nothing of the kind. The whole MS. ac- quired a faded look and an ancient, yellowish com- plexion. It became at last unreasonable to suppose ... ...anguage of the volatile Gauls, is called la vache enragee; I have lived on ancient salt junk, I know the taste of shark, of trepang, of snake, of nond... ...from the house. This justice must be rendered to the parish priests of the Greek Church that, strangers to the country as they were (being all drawn f... ...nt itself to my mind. It was something much more serious, and weird. “This ancient person,” I said to myself, terrified, “is so near his grave that he...

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...f it. I saw an engraving of Hero and Leander, and I said to myself, If the ancients used all that oil on their heads they had some reason for it; for ... ...ents used all that oil on their heads they had some reason for it; for the ancients are the ancients, in spite of all the moderns may say; I stand by ... ...ncients, in spite of all the moderns may say; I stand by Boileau about the ancients. I took my departure from that point and got the oil of nuts, than... ...of Sciences, produces this impor- tant result, sought by the ancients,—the Greeks, the Ro- mans, and all Northern nations,—to whom the preserva- tion ... ...and old alike. We can say to the old man, ‘Ha, monsieur! the ancients, the Greeks and Romans, knew a thing or two, and were not so stupid as some woul... ...passionate, ready to subscribe for the children of General Foy, or for the Greeks, whose piracies it knows nothing about, or the Exiles until none rem... ...sarine. “I’ll go and see him,” cried Cesar, deeply moved by the passionate accents of his wife, who after nineteen years of married life was not yet f... ... in- cluded in the “for him”; for if the innocent girl could mis- take the accent, she could not misunderstand the glance, which wrapped her, as it we... ...a night.” “Do not injure yourself,” said Cesarine, with an inexpress- ible accent and a look in which Popinot was suffered to read her thoughts. “Wife...

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...whole social fabric. There’s “virtue” for you if you like! … Of course the accent must be attended to. The right accent. That’s very important. The ca... ...spect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world. What a dream for a writer! Because writte... ...ove the world. What a dream for a writer! Because written words have their accent, too. Y es! Let me only find the right word! Surely it must be lying... ...anguage of the volatile Gauls, is called la vache enragee; I have lived on ancient salt junk, I know the taste of shark, of trepang, of snake, of nond... ...from the house. This justice must be rendered to the parish priests of the Greek Church that, strangers to the country as they were (being all drawn f... ...ent itself to my mind. It was something much more serious and weird. “This ancient per- son,” I said to myself, terrified, “is so near his grave that ... ...itting in the perpetual gloom of heavily barred windows behind the sombre, ancient counters, beneath lofty ceilings with heavily molded cornices. I al...

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...the Orders held their allotted places in the State; and the naivete of our ancient customs by the pun on “eris,” which word, combined with the “i” at ... ...t family, in the days when the higher nobility of the kingdom lived on the ancient site of the Palais des Tournelles and the hotel Saint-Paul. Toward ... ...Lions, etc. Madame Clapart’s apartment, which was panelled throughout with ancient carvings, consisted of three connecting rooms, a din- ing-room, sal... ...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 ... ...im into a boudoir alone. “What is it, my child?” she said. At the tone and accent of that voice Oscar recognized a motherly kindness which is often fo...

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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... ...sical Art, gave a distinguishing tone to Brookfield, from which his French accentuation of our tongue did not detract. Mr. Pericles grimaced bitterly ... ... 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... ...ar, burst from his cogitation suddenly to cry out, in his harshest foreign accent: “Yeaz!” And thereupon he threw open the folds, and laid out a fore-... ...t on our heads, or, better still, chaplets of flowers; then, like the wise ancients, we should be able to tell to a nicety how far we had advanced in ... ... grey-edged un- der the moon: and Night, that clung like a bat beneath its ancient open palms. The bordering sward about the falls shone silvery. In i... ... duty.” “Have you, indeed!” His tone was severe in the deliberation of its accents. Was it her duty to live an incomplete life? He gave her a definiti... ...dingly, both sets of fin- gers filliping, toward Emilia, with one of those ancient glee— suspensions, “Taia—haia—haia—haia,” etc., which were meant fo...

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...nd I think we noticed that this strange thing was the case in Hamburg, too, and in the villages along the road. Even in the narrow- est and poorest an... ...but he knows what he knows—it is not be- fogged with uncertainty, it is burnt into him so that it will stay. For instance, he does not merely read and... ...roof, so he goes there to add a steeple in the nature of some specialty, such as a particular branch of law, or diseases of the eye, or special study ... ...ed welts, and are permanent and ineffaceable. Some of these scars are of a very strange and dreadful aspect; and the effect is strik- ing when severa... ...spit! broke upon my ear, and in the same instant I was crushed to the earth under a moun- tain of flesh. Bruised as I was, I was still able to catch a... ...wall; they bore inscriptions telling who killed them and how many hundred years ago it was done. One room in the building was devoted to the preservat... ...end’s, now, with the confiding and grateful air of a waif who has been longing for a friend, and a sympathetic ear, and a chance to lisp once more the... ...? Why have you used all this Chinese and Choctaw and Zulu rubbish?” “Because I didn’t know any French but two or three words, and I didn’t know any La... ...and I went ashore, with others, to view the town. I got separated from the rest, and wan- dered about alone, until late in the afternoon, when I en- t...

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...ce to three lands. Mr. Wallace’s Scoto-Circassian will not fail to come before the reader. I have myself met and spoken with a Fifeshire German, whose... ... 13 we all belong to many countries. And perhaps this habit of much travel, and the engendering of scattered friend- ships, may... ...ttle further clean- ing up, to my eyes – there lie scattered thickly various lengths of petrified trunk, such as the one already men- tioned. It is ve... ... seemed as if, were you to drop a stone down the old iron chute at our platform, it would never rest until it hopped upon the Toll House shingles. Sig... ...mind. By their names ye may know them, the women figuring as Loveina, Larsenia, Serena, Leanna, Orreana; the men answering to Alvin, Alva, or Orion, p... ...s to service. Irvine, in the same case, would have sat down and spat, and grumbled curses. He had the soul of a fat sheep, but, regarded as an artist’... ..., a bed-ridden man, and, if I remember rightly, blind. He had more need of the emolu- ments than another, it was explained; and it was easy for him to...

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...ting-house in the Close,’ said he; and his voice, I noticed, had an abrupt accent, probably habitual to him; he spoke also with a gut- tural northern ... ...ou do? Do you know anything besides that useless trash of college learning—Greek, Latin, and so forth?” “I have studied mathematics.” “Stuff! I dare s... ...th the confidence that one would show an unlearned man a letter written in Greek; he might see lines, 18 The Professor and trace characters, but he c... ...in his secret heart he well knew and fully appreciated the distinction his ancient, if not high lineage conferred on him in a mushroom-place like X——,... ...d by every, the most trifling movement, look, or word of mine. My southern accent annoyed him; the degree of education evinced in my language irritate... ...t travel in search of money, man. You can speak French—with a vile English accent, no doubt—still, you can speak it. Go on to the Continent, and see w...

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...ooth-bore.” A short pause followed, and the same voice, but in a different accent, continued. “We shall have good reasons for our thanksgiving to nigh... ...osite order. A roof, Richard contended, was a part of the edifice that the ancients always endeavored to conceal, it being an excres- cence in archite... ...ic equipage shouted aloud “Draw up in the quarry—draw up, thou king of the Greeks; draw into the quarry , Agamemnon, or I shall never be able to pass ... ...lcome, velcome Tchooge,” said the elder of the party, with a strong German accent. “Miss Petsy vill owe me a kiss.” “And cheerfully will I pay It, my ... ...it of the Delawares; and would, at times, lead small parties against their ancient enemies, or such other foes as incurred their resentment. Among the... ...corous so to do, seeing that there was a convocation of the society of the ancient and honorable fraternity “ of the Free and Accepted Masons,’ at the... ...k to ye, and a welcome home, Jooge,” cried the female, with a strong Irish accent; “and I’m sure it’s to me that ye’re always welcome. Sure! and there... ...n knows, in a dozen languages; mayhap in the Bay of State lingo; mayhap in Greek or High Dutch. But dost it know what it means itself? canst answer me... ...ames, monsieur, and are such as, doubtless, you well understand.” “Is this Greek or Latin, Mr. Edwards?” whispered Elizabeth to the youth, who was ope...

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...by Church, Crown, Empire, decorum, respectability, solvency—and compulsory Greek at the Little Go—as his father had done before him. If in his undergr... ...the modern employed,” the chief labour spokesman said, speaking in a broad accent that completely hid from him and the bishop and every one the fact t... ...Bishop of Lon- don to hold open-air services at the front seemed merely to accentuate the tub-rolling. It was rolling the tub just where it was most i... ... trails a scurril- ous fringe. “Who was that young man with a strong Irish accent— who contradicted me so suddenly?” he asked. “The dark young man?” “... ...as old and shriv- elled up, it was the patched-up speculations of vanished Greeks and Egyptians, it was a mummy of ancient disputes, old and dry, that... ...atched-up speculations of vanished Greeks and Egyptians, it was a mummy of ancient disputes, old and dry, that fell to dust as I unwrapped it. And I w... ...rd—shall I say suggestion? To stand by the altar bearing strange names and ancient symbols, speak- ing plainly to all mankind of the one true God—!” 4... ...idents—just as the severance of an Angli- can from a Roman communion and a Greek orthodox com- munion are temporary accidents. You will remark that wi... ... Earth,” he summed it up. “And you want to become a detached and wandering Ancient Mariner from your shipwreck of faith with something to explain—that...

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...uth had manifestly gone from him, since he had ceased to be jealous of the ancients. There was a half- sigh floating through his pages for those days ... ...ourer and a travelling tinker had propounded and discussed one of the most ancient theories of transmundane dominion and influence on mundane affairs.... ...e, a cant phrase, a fatherly man- ner, might have wrecked him, by arousing ancient or latent opposition. The born preacher we feel instinctively to be... ...dition! I think we have in this country what will match the Italian or the Greek.” His mind flutters to Mrs. Doria, Richard blushes before the vision ... ...tion on the criminal, and in the voice of a town-crier, varied by a bitter accentuation and satiric sing-song tone, deliberately read: “VULC... ...r cook …. I did not deserve that noways.” Mrs. Berry thumped her knee, and accentuated up her climax: “I mended his linen. I saw to his adornments—he ... ... remember that his first fancy wasn’t a dairymaid.” Mrs. Doria pitched her accent tellingly. It did not touch her nephew. “Don’t you want Clare ever t... ...ou know.” “And the marriage is valid?” “You can dispute it.” “Yes, and the Greeks and the Trojans can fight. It holds then?” “Both water and fire!” Th... ...n,” said Ri- chard under his breath to Adrian, who was serenely chant- ing Greek hexameters, and answered, in the swing of the caesura, “He might as w...

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...wake From torture for that moment’s sake. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. Upon my heart thy accents sweet Of peace and pity fell like dew ... .... During the years of 1814 and 1815 the list is extensive. It includes, in Greek, Homer, Hesiod, Theocritus, the histories of Thucydides and Herodotus... ... time was given to study than usual. In the list of his reading I find, in Greek, Theocritus, the Prometheus of Aeschylus, several of Plutarch’s Lives... ... Hiding the promise of a lovely birth: 7. 7. 7. 7. 7. By those unpractised accents of young speech, _25 Which he who is a fathe... ...he “Posthumous Poems”. 54 V olume Two His readings this year were chiefly Greek. Besides the “Hymns” of Homer and the “Iliad”, he read the dramas of ... ...gation of his tiny craft with eagerness—or repeating with wild energy “The Ancient Mariner”, and Southey’s “Old Woman of Berkeley”; but those who do w... ...es, as once before it flew, O’er thine isles depopulate, And all is in its ancient state, Save where many a palace gate ... ...e frail bark of this lone being) Pass, to other sufferers fleeing, And its ancient pilot, Pain, Sits beside the helm again. Other flowering isles must... ... _65 One tone, which never can recur, has cast, One accent never to return again. ... The world is full of Woodmen who expel Lo...

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...n a hitherto desolate country under the frowning nail-studded cliffs of an ancient trunk. Then I conquered them and garrisoned their land. (Alas! they... ...ience is the organised conquest of Nature, and I can quite understand that ancient libertine refusing to cooperate in her own undoing. And I can quite... ...me roads rather more carefully tended, the Inns not very much altered, the ancient familiar market-house. The occasional wheeled traffic would have st... ...affordshire, Uncle Minter, my mother’s sister’s husband, with a remarkable accent and re- markable vowel sounds, who had plunged into the Bromstead ho... ...things. We joined in the earnest acquirement of all that was necessary for Greek epigrams and Latin verse, and for the rest played games. We dipped do... .... Within, we were taught as the chief subjects of instruc- tion, Latin and Greek. We were taught very badly because the men who taught us did not habi... ...ow and localised life had lain in those days through Latin, and afterwards Greek had come in as the vehicle of a flood of new and amazing ideas. Once ... ...d good things.” Cossington regarded me abstractedly. Don’t want to put the accent on the City, do we?” said Shoesmith, who had a feeling for county fa... ...n my imagination out of gas lamps and the twilight, a Venus with a cockney accent and dark eyes shining out of the dusk, a Venus who was a warm, pas- ...

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...TER I CHAPTER I “Our court shall be a little Academe.”—Shakespeare. I N AN ANCIENT though not very populous settlement, in a retired corner of one of ... ...stitute a village. These consist principally of farm- houses, of rather an ancient date (for the settlement is much older than the college), and of a ... ...protector. Mr. Langton’s request, therefore, to Dr. Melmoth, was, that his ancient friend (one of the few friends that time had left him) would be as ... ...young men seemed to be directed chiefly to the con- struction of Latin and Greek verse, many copies of which, with a characteristic and classic gallan... ...for conversa- tion. “I have taken but one fish,” replied the angler, in an accent which his hearers could scarcely determine to be foreign, or the con... ... was praying for—Now may the Devil take me if he is!” interrupted Hugh, in accents of alarm, and starting from his seat. He composed his countenance, ... ...a halt. “Dr. Melmoth, am I so fortunate as to meet you?” he ex- claimed in accents expressive of as much surprise and plea- sure as were consistent wi...

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...brother. That was only flattery and compliment. Goddesses were only in the Greek mythol- ogy, and were all over long ago!’ ‘But are we really going to... ...od quality. ‘Did he know any languages?’ ‘French, English, Latin, and some Greek.’ ‘And, Madame,’ added Lord Nithsdale, ‘not only is his French much b... ... Parisian boy. Fortunately he spoke French well, with scarcely any foreign accent, and his answers to the little fellow’s eager questions interspersed... ...es of the lagoons, in the carriage to the seaport of Cette, one of the old Greek towns of the Gulf of Lyon, and with a fine harbour full of ships. Mai... ...sh word nino passed current for child in lingua Franca, uttered it with an accent of despairing anxiety. He was answered with a volley of words that h... ...however, fallen to a low ebb among the popu- lation, and the wisdom of the ancients was chiefly concen- trated among the higher class of Marabouts, wh...

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...gray, gave tones of polished steel to the ice of the fiord. Perchance some ancient eider-duck crossed the expanse, trusting to the warm down beneath w... ...the eyes of his companion. “Yes, Minna,” he said in a voice whose paternal accents were charming from the lips of a being who was still adoles- cent, ... ...lowing sentences escaped her lips, one by one,—all differ- ent in tone and accent, but all melodious, full of a Good- ness that seemed to emanate from... ...ct he studied no science without advancing it. In youth he learned Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, also the oriental languages, with which he became so fami... ...me envoy of death and of oblivion whose dusky mantle covers like a pall an ancient Humanity 102 Seraphita of which the moderns retain no memory. Man ... ...said Monsieur Becker, “who at the age of twelve spoke forty-two languages, ancient and modern; also the history of that monk who could guess thought b... ...odious acclamations which welcomed his entrance into heaven. The celestial accents made the two exiles weep. Suddenly a silence as of death spread lik...

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...a, the Mendozas, Gongora, were all 9 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. men of ancient families, and, curiously, all, except the last, of fami- lies that ... ...though nominally taken from the castle, it was in reality derived from the ancient territorial possession of the family, and as a set-off, and to dist... ...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... ...a knight. “For, how could you expect me not to feel uneasy about what that ancient lawgiver they call the Public will say when it sees me, after slumb... ...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... ...hastened, impelled by my bounden duty, to the quarter whence the plaintive accents seemed to me to proceed, and I found tied to an oak this lad who no... ...ast with tints of rose, With undiminished force my sorrow flows In broken accents and in burning sighs. And when the sun ascends his star-girt throne...

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... noble air of manly but modest independence. NOTE: Phidias = a very famous Greek sculptor of the 5th century B.C. 8 The Lake Gun “Sago,” said Fuller,... ...more than a common education, though it had a slightly foreign or peculiar accent. The intonations of his voice were decidedly those of the Indian. “Y... ...in his trail. The aged chiefs took counsel together. They saw that all the ancient traditions were despised, and that new conduct was likely to come i...