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...is life. But this old affair, scandalous enough to serve as a motive for a Greek tragedy, arose from the similarity of their characters. There are oth... ...when that outlandish bird, attacked by the cat, shrieked for help in human accents, she ran out into the yard stopping her ears, and did not prevent t... ...owly, but when it came it worked like a powerful spell; it was love as the Ancients understood it: an irresistible and fateful impulse— a possession! ... ...ich was ‘a golden heart, and soft to people’s misery,’ he would say in the accents of overwhelming conviction. 24 Amy Foster “He was called Y anko. H...

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...Excerpt: The ancient and famous metropolis of the North sits overlooking a windy estuary from the slope and summit of three hills. No situation could be more commanding for the head city of a kingdom; none better chosen for noble prospect...

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...QUE NOTES by Robert Louis Stevenson EDINBURGH CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. THE ANCIENT AND FAMOUS metropolis of the North sits over- looking a windy estua... ...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... ...smen and retainers. Down in the palace John Knox reproved his queen in the accents of modern democ- racy. In the town, in one of those little shops pl... ...or is this the only memo- rial that the pavement keeps of former days. The ancient burying-ground of Edinburgh lay behind St. Giles’s Church, running ... ...een them in principle; and yet there they sit, enchanted, and in damnatory accents pray for each other’s growth in grace. It would be well if there we... ...ness of the enclosure, which lies apart from the town’s traffic, serves to accentuate the contrast. As you walk upon the graves, you see children scat...

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...rmonious, and flexible dialect, the vowels seeming to admit of very varied accentuation. The other replied by a shake of the head, and added two or th... ...e, I will relate it in German.” But in spite of the elegant terms and good accent of the narrator, the German language had no success. At last, nonplu... ...er to be made. This man expressed himself with perfect ease, with- out any accent. His sentences were well turned, his words clear, and his fluency of... ...nd a small island, recognised in 1801 by Captain Crespo, and marked in the ancient Span- ish maps as Rocca de la Plata, the meaning of which is The Si... ... I recognised some unmistak- able Irishmen, Frenchmen, some Sclaves, and a Greek, or a Candiote. They were civil, and only used that odd lan- guage am... ...iles, its undulating line of mountains being occasionally relieved by some ancient ruin. The 5th of February we at last entered the Gulf of Aden, a pe... ...,” said I, “this sea is quoted as one of the worst, and in the time of the ancients, if I am not mis- taken, its reputation was detestable.” “Detestab... ...t mis- taken, its reputation was detestable.” “Detestable, M. Aronnax. The Greek and Latin histori- ans do not speak favourably of it, and Strabo says... ... blue sea par excellence, “the great sea” of the Hebrews, “the sea” of the Greeks, the “mare nostrum” of the Romans, bordered by orange-trees, al- oes...

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...e, he showed in face that humane look of re- poseful good nature which the Greek sculptor in some instances gave to his heroic strong man, Hercules. B... ... a notable one; the features all except the chin cleanly cut as those on a Greek medal- lion; yet the chin, beardless as Tecumseh’s, had some- thing o... ...life. It might be that he was an Englishman; and yet there lurked a bit of accent in his speech suggesting that possibly he was not such by birth, but... ...ened to light on Billy Budd, a certain grim internal merriment set all his ancient wrinkles into antic play. Was it that his eccentric unsentimental o... ...your pardon again. It is at once imaginative and meta- physical,—in short, Greek. But,” abruptly changing his tone, “there is a case in the sick-bay t... ...cable to his atten- dant—”Billy Budd, Billy Budd.” That these were not the accents of remorse, would seem clear from what the at- tendant said to the ...

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... form—black of a poor texture, ill-fitting, strangely cut. Its long skirts accentu- ated the tubbiness of his body, the shortness of his legs. The whi... ...our theological passions than you can understand the fancies that made all ancient peoples speak of their gods only by circumlocutions, that made sava... ...le images, to printed words and formulae. But why revive the echoes of the ancient logomachies? Suffice it that we lost our tempers very readily in pu... ...led by the giant meteor of the last days. There was at that time a curious accentuation of the com- mon alternation of night and day. They became sepa... ...ooked at my clothes as he listened to my ques- tion and then with a German accent referred me to a gor- geous head porter, who directed me to a prince... ...council, “an undersized Oxford prig with a tenoring voice and a garbage of Greek—the sort of little fool who is brought up on the admiration of his el... ...t lies upon my desk, a dead souvenir of the dead ages of the world, of the ancient pas- sions of my heart. I know we discussed its news, but for the l... ...rom the same school, had gone through an entirely parallel education; some Greek linguistics, some elementary mathematics, some emas- culated “science... ...he thought—”to be skating about over questions that one came to at last in Greek—with variorum readings— in Plato, but which it never occurred to any ...

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...upon the conclusion of the war. I 12 War and the Future think he found my accent and my idioms very refreshing. I had committed myself to a statement... ...d a feeling that if he were to talk En- glish he would do so with a Scotch accent. Perhaps some- where I have met a Scotchman of his type. He sat side... ...po- Formio and saw the white-faced inn at which Napoleon dis- membered the ancient republic of V enice and bartered away this essential part of Italy ... ...nch; the English will never think nor talk clearly until the get clerical “Greek” and sham “humanities” out of their public schools and sincere study ... ...per, the English would have fought on passionately to restore her. That is ancient history now. Now the English still feel fraternal and fraternally p... ...hat the English are doing….” “Have I ever told you the story of compulsory Greek at Oxford and Cambridge?” I asked abruptly. “What has that to do with...

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...ver, his thoughts strayed to a time when he was very young and sat on this same ancient rock with his grandfather. "The warrior is like a hunter who... ... a silvery looking triangular object protruding up at a vertical angle from the ancient river bed. Before picking it up, he studied it carefully fro... ...es. He was now convinced that the partial pattern was probably a piece of some ancient shaman's silver breast plate. Richard wrapped it in a soft c... ... one day he would connect the right stars and see the pathway as clearly as the Greeks had seen Orion, the Hunter, Taurus, the Bull, Aquarius, the W... ...r and showed him into the foyer that was formed in the shape of a rotunda. Huge Greek and Roman stat­ ues were perched in predesigned recesses around... ...i­ dent of International Enterprises." Pierce stood stiff like one of Matloch's Greek statues. An ap­ propriate formation Richard thought, his right ... ...ver one shoulder With a silver star attached to the end. Greene recognized the accent as Indian. "I don't know who you are mister, but we thank you... .... Taranto got the attention of one of the waitresses and with a perfect Iranian accent, "Miss, if you could be so kind as to buy those two men a dri... ...e to him at the bar, preaching how dangerous the Ira­ nians were. He slurred his accent as if he were getting drunk. During it all, Taranto kept a wa...

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...................................................... 269 EXPLANATION OF AN ANCIENT WOODCUT, REPRESENTING HANS SACHS’ POETICAL MISSION.... 269 SONNETS.... ...................................................... 450 THE BEQUEST OF THE ANCIENT PERSIAN FAITH. ....................................................... ...s but yestere’en that thou with fondness Press’ d my hand, and these sweet accents murmured: “Yes, I’ll come, I’ll come when morn approacheth, Come, m... ...ween the East and West To revolve, be my behest! 1833.* EXPLANATION OF AN ANCIENT WOODCUT, REP- RESENTING HANS SACHS’ POETICAL MISSION. [I feel consi... ...nder their toil unavailing?” Cheerfully answer’ d the excellent pastor, in accents of mildness “Steadfastly cling to this faith, and cherish such wort... ...of the presents amongst the poor, their blessings receiving.” Then in calm accents replied the son, with gravity speaking “Whether I’ve laudably acted... ...then, my senses stray, Wonder no longer. 1814. SONG AND STRUCTURE. LET the Greek his plastic clay Mould in human fashion, While his own creation may W... ...mine eye the farewell say, 51 Let no cares now hover o’er us 135 Let the Greek his plastic clay 423 Light and silv’ry cloudlets hover 100 Link’d w...

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... seaman of the last generation, brought into sympathy with the caravels of ancient time by his sailing-ship, their lineal descendant, cannot look upon... ...ndant, cannot look upon those lumbering forms navigating the naive seas of ancient woodcuts without a feeling of sur- prise, of affectionate derision,... ...- mitted to the charge of an Admiral (the Commander- in-Chief at the Nore) accentuates the dreariness and the great breadth of the Thames Estuary. But... ...e was competent to pronounce the funereal ora- tion of a ship, this son of ancient sea-folk, whose na- tional existence, so little stained by the exce... ...arity. The truth must have been that, all unversed in the arts of the wily Greek, the deceiver of gods, the lover of strange women, the evoker of bloo... ... at the sonnets, which she could not but esteem, as at poor Henry’s French accent, which was unique, re- sembling the warbling of birds, if birds ever... ...tion of a smile under Dominic’s piratical moustaches seemed to become more accentuated—quite real, grim, actually almost 148 The Mirror of the Sea vi...

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...— the English—and I have already been pitied for speaking with “an English accent.” The man who pitied me spoke, so far as I was concerned, the langua... ... was concerned, the language of thieves. And they all do. Where we put the accent forward they throw it back, and vice versa where we give the long “a... ...t codfish of the Eastern States, are responsible for what he calls a nasal accent. I know better. They stole books from across the water without payin... ...ed ceiling, is stamped on the note-paper, and hangs on the walls. He is an ancient and honorable bird. Under his wing ’twas my privilege to meet with ... ...gazine, writes, much as Disraeli orated, of “the sub- lime instincts of an ancient people,” the certainty with which they can be trusted to manage the... ...is is not altogether a new type). Item, a girl in a “dive,” blessed with a Greek head and eyes, that seem to speak all that is best and sweetest in th...

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... his downrightness, passed with approval his compliments to France and the ancient high reputation of her army, and, seeing that a loophole was left f... ...ictionary words giving a hand to street- 20 Beauchamp’s Career slang, and accents falling on them haphazard, like slant rays from driving clouds; all... ...of us. Gentlemen, to the exact number of the Graces, dressed in drab of an ancient cut, made a pilgrimage to the icy despot, and besought him to give ... ...ch name rescued him from foreignness. He spoke her language with a piquant accent, unlike the pitiable English. Unlike them, he was gracious, and coul... ...watching above her were still brave emblems. Would Paris leave signs of an ancient vigour standing to vindicate dignity when her fall came? Nevil thou... ...do a little roaring whenever it occurred, and continued with ghastly false accentuation, an intermittent sprightliness and depression of tone in the w... ...t. Both the men laughed at the constant employment she gave them among the Greek islands in furnishing her severely accurate accounts of sea-fights an...

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...ot his gait; And speaking thick, which nature made his blemish, Became the accents of the valiant; For those that could speak low and tardily Would tu... ...ur heart, Fair daughter, you do draw my spirits from me With new lamenting ancient oversights. But I must go and meet with danger there, Or it will se... ...r no, there is nobody cares. [Re enter First Drawer .] First Drawer: Sir, Ancient Pistol’s below, and would speak with you. DOLL TEARSHEET : Hang hi... ...hn: there comes no swaggerers here. FALSTAFF: Dost thou hear? it is mine ancient. MISTRESS QUICKLY : Tilly fally, Sir John, ne’er tell me: your anc... ...ut thirty mile a day, Compare with Caesars, and with Cannibals, And Trojan Greeks? nay, rather damn them with King Cerberus; and let the welkin roar....

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...t Boughs Alone....541 The Dead Emperor............................541 As the Greek’s Signal Flame.............541 The Dismantled Ship.................... ... summ’d, added up, In its eidolon. The old, old urge, Based on the ancient pinnacles, lo, newer, higher pinnacles, From science and the mode... ...y faith is the greatest of faiths and the least of faiths, Enclosing worship ancient and modern and all between ancient and modern, Believing I shall ... ...At the close of his crowded course.) Having studied the new and antique, the Greek and Germanic systems, Kant having studied and stated, Fichte and Sc... ...nd stated, Christ divine having studied long, I see reminiscent to day those Greek and Germanic systems, See the philosophies all, Christian churches ... ... the earth, grass grows upon them and blossoms and corn, I see the tracks of ancient and modern expeditions. I see the nameless masonries, venerable m... ...Persuasions of lovers, curses, gasps of the dying, laughter of young people, accents of bargainers, Underneath these possessing words that never fall....

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...ouri, of Mississippi and Arkansas, and through the State of Louisiana. The ancient province so called, the proudest monument of the mighty monarch who... ...New Zealand fighting, and the rest of it. Such complaints remind one of an ancient pater familias who insists on having his children and his grandchil... ...h it has al- ways given when joined with a strong political existence. The Greeks are commercially rich and active; but “Greece” and “Greek” are bywor... ...bout go through. Yes, sir.” “As for relieving General Fre-mont,” (with the accent always strongly on the “mont,”) “I guess you may as well talk of rel... ...es of life. I very soon abandoned any attempt at drawing a word from these ancient mothers of families; but not the less did I ponder in my mind over ... ... It is not uncommon to see in front of a square brick house a wooden quasi-Greek portico, with a pedi- ment and Ionic columns, equally high with the h... ...d Ionic columns, equally high with the house it- self. Wooden columns with Greek capitals attached to the doorways, and wooden pediments over the wind...

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...ov?” said the newly arrived gen- eral speaking quickly with a harsh German accent, looking to both sides and advancing straight toward the inner door.... ...f in this way,” he added in Russian—but pronouncing the word with a French accent- having noticed that Zherkov could still hear him. He waited a momen... ...ar fellow. Y ou see it’s hurrah for the Tsar, for Russia, for the Orthodox Greek faith! All that is beau- tiful, but what do we, I mean the Austrian c... ...icate that he was about to say something witty. “Buonaparte?” he repeated, accentuating the u: “I think, how- ever, now that he lays down laws for Aus... ...v…,”* said Dolokhov. “Qu’ est-ce qu’il chante?”** asked a Frenchman. “It’s ancient history,” said another, guessing that it referred to a former war. ...

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...as he raved of swimming holes and coon hunts and wa termelon raids. It was as Greek to Ruth, but the Kid understood and felt, — felt as only one can ... ...when Buffalo Bill toured the capitals of Europe. In a corner, two half breeds, ancient comrades in a lost cam paign, mended harnesses and talked of t... ...replying. “They say seventy five mile. So? Maybe two days.” The very slightest accent was perceptible, while there was no awkward hesitancy or groping... ...ld weather had come on with the long nights, and the sun had begun to play his ancient game of peekaboo along the southern snow line ere aught was hea... ...alemute Kid and Prince fell to solving chess problems from the torn page of an ancient magazine. The Kid had just returned from his Bonanza properties... ...If you go down stream, you ’ll fall in with the Russians. There ’s bound to be Greek priests among them, and they ’ll see you safe through to Bering S...

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...el next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before it; his white cassock cascaded across the red, soft cushion. He gently entwined the ebony rosary beads between his fingers, crossed himself in the supplicant tradit...

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...of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before it; his wh... ...voice rose into a cadence of a Gregorian chant, the beauty of the alliterated ancient Latin echoed through the chapel like a spiritual sonnet. As h... ... Antonio?” he asked. “Of course, Holy Father,” he replied and sat down in an ancient wooden chair. “Antonio,” the Pope began with a smile, “tell m... ...t be useful someday. You know how Sicilians are.” “You don’t have a Sicilian accent.” “I do when I need it.” “Do you also speak English?” “Ver... .... It's been a long time, Father, since I thought about God... My parents were Greek Orthodox, they did their best to raise me in the Church, but I a... ...nd talked while wildly waving their hands and arms, which, somehow, seemed to accentuate the loudness of their voices. To an outsider, it would appea... ...dozens of beautiful women dancing in front of the band when he heard a deeply accented Spanish voice whisper in his ear, "Senor, Branderos." Brand... ... intend to wait before you're willing to do something?" "In the words of the Greeks, 'Democracy runs best when the streets run red with blood'," No...

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...me to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now . ” – ANCIENT CHINESE PROVERB www.HawaiianLegacyHardwoods.com For more informatio... ...d around the world. ASTRONOMY World’s best place to study the Universe In ancient times, Polynesian voyagers used navigational knowledge they gaine... ... matter just outside the Milky Way containing about a thousand small and ancient stars. With the greatest collection of ground-based telescopes on ... ...H for Planck’s Constant, multiplied by its frequency, represented by the Greek letter NU, so that HNU describes “the energy of light.” A unit of p... ...rnment in 1893. WRITTEN HAWAIIAN The University of Hawai‘i explains the accents used in the written Hawaiian language: “Hawaiian uses two diacriti...

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... her perilous position, speaking, as he did so, without a shade of foreign accent, though with much more rapid utterance than was usual in England. Sh... ... and the Chevalier also hinted to him that he spoke with a dreadful Norman accent that would never be tolerated at court, even if it were understood b... ... the walls decorated with the glorious paintings collected by Francois I., Greek and Roman statues clustered at the angles, and cabinets with gems and... ... that no one has yet told you of your good mien? Or do they not appreciate Greek noses and blue eyes in the land of fat Englishmen? How have you ever ... ... of all forms, jarred upon one used to a ritual which retained much of the ancient form. In the early years of Elizabeth, every possible diversity pre... ...the Dukes of Normandy and Brittany, but it had since, like most other such ancient feudal fortresses, become the nucleus of walls and buildings for us... ...- ness, ‘is likely to be better known to other persons than this wandering Greek boy.’ Here Philip’s step was heard returning hastily. He was pale, an... ...MADAME LA DUCHESSE A DUCHESSE A DUCHESSE A DUCHESSE A DUCHESSE He found an ancient dame in dim brocade. —T ennyson MADAME LA DUCHESSE DE QUINET had be... ...ou be free, would you but send tidings to my poor father?’ ‘It is a Norman accent!’ cried Berenger. ‘Ah! ah! can it be poor Landry Osbert?’ ‘I am—I am...

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...pened slowly, to show the hound, his nose white with milk, in charge of an ancient of days clad in a blue linen ephod curi- ously gathered on breast a... ...to the dead fields behind. “Somehow,” said Sophie, sitting exhausted on an ancient well-curb—”somehow one wouldn’t insult these lovely old things by f... ... Sophie always feared he would break his neck. The path was undoubtedly an ancient right of way, and at 10.45 P.M. on Saturdays Skim remembered it was... ... three white-painted turbine- trunks, like eel-baskets laid on their side, accentuate the empty perspectives. You can hear the trickle of the lique- f... ...ir vie intime.” It was a short, simple; carefully learned address, and the accent, supervised by Abdul on the steamer, allowed the hearers to guess it... ...tom of his glass. “Does it affect your family much?” “My good lady—she’s a Greek, by the way—and myself are middle-aged. We can bear up against depres...

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...cise their spite in human woe? Against the Tiber’s mouth, but far away, An ancient town was seated on the sea; A T yrian colony; the people made Stout... ...’n were kind, The seat of awful empire she design’d. Y et she had heard an ancient rumor fly, (Long cited by the people of the sky,) That times to com... ... of woes if I should run, The day would sooner than the tale be done! From ancient Troy, by force expell’d, we came If you by chance have heard the T... ... to shun; Never to bless my sight, but thus unknown; And still to speak in accents not your own.” Against the goddess these complaints he made, But to... ...befell. The Aeneid Virgil 29 “By destiny compell’d, and in despair, The Greeks grew weary of the tedious war, And by Minerva’s aid a fabric rear’d,... ...lly stood. The sides, transpierc’d, return a rattling sound, And groans of Greeks inclos’d come issuing thro’ the wound And, had not Heav’n the fall o... ... empire stood. Meantime, with shouts, the Trojan shepherds bring A captive Greek, in bands, before the king; Taken to take; who made himself their pre... ...the day, Her sister first with early care she sought, And thus in mournful accents eas’d her thought: “My dearest Anna, what new dreams affright My la... ...er lab’ring breast. Greater than humankind she seem’d to look, And with an accent more than mortal spoke. Her staring eyes with sparkling fury roll; W...

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...oc- tor, swallowing his r’s, and pronouncing the Latin words with a French accent. “V ery well, very well...” Seeing Anna Mikhaylovna and her son, Pri... ...the reasson, my goot sir,” said he, speaking 36 War & Peace with a German accent, “for the reasson zat ze Emperor knows zat. He declares in ze manife... ...f in this way,” he added in Russian—but pronouncing the word with a French accent-having noticed that Zherkov could still hear him. He waited a moment... ...ar fellow. Y ou see it’s hurrah for the Tsar, for Russia, for the Orthodox Greek faith! All that is beautiful, but what do we, I mean the Austrian cou... .....,”* said Dolokhov. “Qu’ est-ce qu’il chante?”** asked a Frenchman. “It’s ancient history,” said another, guessing that it re- ferred to a former war... ... further initiation a like method of enlightenment. Our Order imitates the ancient societies that explained their teaching by hieroglyphics. A hierogl... ...ho was considered an excellent reader, to read the appeal. “To Moscow, our ancient Capital! “The enemy has entered the borders of Russia with immense ... ...e masses. In- stead of the former divinely appointed aims of the Jew- ish, Greek, or Roman nations, which ancient historians regarded as representing ...

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...a dozen wolfish looking dogs, which may have been lineal descendants from the ancient Indian dogs, which the first voyageurs describe as “their wolves.”... ...ormed by the junction of the two rivers, which is said to be the scene of an ancient battle between the Eastern Indians and the Mohawks, and searched ... ...lized the old fables of the wolves and the sheep, and convinced me that that ancient hostility still existed. Verily, the shepherd boy did not need to... ...did not learn whether this word was Indian or English. It reminded me of the Greek kogche, a conch or shell, and I amused myself with fancying that it... ... after the word too, which word he brought in continually and unnecessarily, accenting and prolonging this sound into m ar sonorously as if it were ne... ... he was obliged to do when he spoke English. There was so much of the Indian accent resounding through his English, so much of the “bow arrow tang” as... ...would sing us a Latin song; but we did not detect any Latin, only one or two Greek words in it, — the rest may have been Latin with the Indian pronunc...

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...ing made a great cawing. At the foot of the hill was a river, with a steep ancient bridge crossing it; and be- yond that a large pleasant green flat, ... ...s indeed—it’s treason, I would lay a wager,” cries the lawyer. “Egad! it’s Greek to me,” says Captain Westbury. “Can you read it, little boy?” “Y es, ... ...eeding, and many accomplishments, that he was not. I am of one of the most ancient families in the empire; I have had my education at a famous school,... ... eagerly about their progress 93 Thackeray in books. Tom had learned some Greek and Hebrew, besides Latin, in which he was pretty well skilled, and a... ...ction, that it was all her guests could do to refrain from laughing in her ancient face. She asked Harry what his profession was to be; and my lord, s... ...h the horrors of war. These are indicated rather than described; as in the Greek tragedies, that, I dare say, you have read (and sure there can be no ... ... for surprise. Frank was further cautioned to speak English with a foreign accent, which task he performed indif- ferently well, and this caution was ...

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...dered as a son of Neptune, with full powers to play tricks upon others. This ancient custom is now seldom allowed, unless there are passengers on boa... ...t George had been at college, (probably a naval one, as he knew no Latin or Greek,) where he learned French and mathe- matics. He was by no means th... ...ifully, spoke the best of Castilian, with a pleasant and refined voice and accent, and had, throughout, the bearing of a man of high birth and figu... ...raulic surface mining, where large mountain streams are diverted from their ancient beds, and made to do the work, beyond the reach of all other agen...

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... -- setting aside the actual intrusion and influence of foreigners, negro, French, or Chinese -- you shall scarce meet with so marked a difference of accent as in the forty miles between Edinburgh and Glasgow, or of dialect as in the hundred miles between Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Book English has gone round the world, but at home we still preserve the racy idioms of our fat...

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... French, or Chinese – you shall scarce meet with so marked a difference of accent as in the forty miles between Edinburgh and Glasgow, or of dialect a... ...ndscape. The warm, habitable age of towns and hamlets, the green, settled, ancient look of the country; the lush hedgerows, stiles, and privy path-way... ...he thin walls and warm colouring of all. We have, in Scot- land, far fewer ancient buildings, above all in country places; and those that we have are ... ... his tongue acquire the Southern knack, he will still have a strong Scotch accent of the mind. CHAPTER II SOME COLLEGE MEMORIES* I AM ASKED TO WRITE s... ... rustic air, sturdy and fresh and plain; he spoke with a ripe east-country accent, which I used to admire; his reminiscences were all of journeys on f... ...again, they have Professor Butcher, and I hear he has a prodigious deal of Greek; and they have Professor Chrystal, who is a man filled with the mathe... ...in the professor’s own hand, I cannot remember to have been present in the Greek class above a dozen times. Professor Blackie was even kind enough to ... ...al of trouble to put in exercise – perhaps as much as would have taught me Greek – and sent me forth into the world and the profession of letters with... ...tranquil aisle, apart from city clamour, among the cats and robins and the ancient effigies and leg- ends of the tomb, he waits the continual passage ...