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...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... ...s them all, from A to Z as you say yourself, and then insert the very same alphabet in your book, and though the imposition may be plain to see, becau... ...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... ...nly the four S’s that they say true lovers ought to have, but a com- plete alphabet; only listen to me and you will see how I can repeat it by rote. H... ...ven already; and Z Zealous for your honour.” Camilla laughed at her maid’s alphabet, and perceived her to be more experienced in love affairs than she...

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...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... ...s them all, from A to Z as you say yourself, and then insert the very same alphabet in your book, and though the imposition may be plain to see, becau... ...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... ...nly the four S’s that they say true lovers ought to have, but a com- plete alphabet; only listen to me and you will see how I can repeat it by rote. H... ...ven already; and Z Zealous for your honour.” Camilla laughed at her maid’s alphabet, and perceived her to be more experienced in love affairs than she...

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... died in honour and Lavinia’s cause. Thou art a Roman; be not barbarous: The Greeks upon advice did bury Ajax That slew himself; and wise Laertes’ son... ... Nor wink, nor nod, nor kneel, nor make a sign, But I of these will wrest an alphabet And by still practise learn to know thy meaning. Young LUCIUS : ... ...Dido’s sad attending ear The story of that baleful burning night When subtle Greeks surprised King Priam’s Troy, Tell us what Sinon hath bewitch’d our...

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...any. Then the angels are not learned; then they don’t so much as know their alphabet. And now, my friends and fellow sinners, hav ing brought it to... ...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...

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...htered Gorgon. His name is Perseus, and you may read his story, not in the Greek mythology, but in the memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini. Glancing from one... ...er bonnet straight must have cooled off then. The man didn’t know the very alphabet of drawing! His strong point, he intimated, was his sentiment; but...

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...ity in all that touches dialect; so that in every novel the letters of the alphabet are tor- tured, and the reader wearied, to commemorate shades of m... ...ie speak?” He’ll spier; an’ I, his mou to steik: “No bein’ fit to write in Greek, I write in Lallan, Dear to my heart as the peat reek, Auld as Tantal...

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...or hours, repeat the sen- tence which he had reeled up. He had reduced the alphabet 73 Rudyard Kipling to eleven primitive sounds, and tried to teach... ...r of the British Museum. All I demanded, as politely as possible, was “the Greek antiquity man.” The policeman knew nothing except the rules of the Mu... ...he. “So far as I can ascertain it is an attempt to write extremely corrupt Greek on the part” —here he glared at me with intention— “of an extremely i... ...e the most marvel- ous tale in the world, nothing less than the story of a Greek galley-slave, as told by himself. Small wonder that his dream- ing ha... ...rstand metempsychosis, and a sound commer- cial education does not include Greek. He would supply m~here I capered among the dumb gods of Egypt and la... ... Charlie had spoken nothing that might not lie within the experiences of a Greek galley-slave. But now, or there was no virtue in books, he had talked...

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... the ground-floor 125 Dumas of this house came a noise, or rather a confusion of voices, like the chirping of young birds when the brood is just hatc... ...d D’Artagnan — we ought not to say arose, but bounded up. In fact, Bazin bounded up, carrying with him his little low chair, which the children tried ... ...the children tried to take away, with battles more fierce than those of the Greeks endeavoring to recover the body of Patroclus from the hands of the ... ... did it take place?” “A month back.” “Oh! then there is no time lost. Aramis cannot yet have wanted me. But how is it, Bazin, you do not follow your m... ...ECIDEDLY,” SAID D’ARTAGNAN to himself, “I have struck a good vein. That star which shines once in the life of every man, which shone for Job and Iris,... ...r all.” “Even for what I have just said to you?” “Listen! would you submit to those who govern ill? Oh! it is written: Cacos politeuousi. You grant me... ...Isle passed to M. Fouquet. The celebrity of the isle did not date from yester- day; its name, or rather its qualification, is traced back to the remot... ...is an abominable drink, unworthy of a man who quenches his thirst at the Hippocrene fountain — is not it so you call your fountain, you poets?” “Yes, ...

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...a precipice, than miserably straggling to an end in sandy deltas? When the Greeks made their fine saying that 77 Virginibus Puerisque & Other Papers ... ... can- not so much as take a walk except in character. I could not learn my alphabet without some suitable mise-en-scene, and had to act a business man... ...do all our fiddling, and hold domestic tea-parties at the arbour door. The Greeks figured Pan, the god of Nature, now terribly stamping his foot, so t... ...lling on his pipe until he charmed the hearts of upland ploughmen. And the Greeks, in so figuring, uttered the last word of human ex- perience. To cer... ...at measured inter- vals, knocking another luminous hole into the dusk. The Greeks would have made a noble myth of such an one; how he distributed star...

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..., as it did herself. The unexpected vision of this accusing Captain of the Alphabet, this resplendent and haunting A. fronting him bodily, threw Ripto... ...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 ... ...sir.” Algernon Feverel and Richard came in while he was ham- mering at the alphabet to recollect the first letter of the doctor’s name. They had met i... ...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... ...n enjoyed himself? How likes he the society of Aspasia? I feel like a wise Greek to-night.” Adrian was jolly, and rolled comfortably as he talked. Rip...

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...tures, that she already knows the two first letters in 37 Jane Austen the Alphabet, and that she never tears her frocks—. If I have not now convince... ... the Queen of Scots, was yet an amiable young woman and famous for reading Greek while other people were hunting. It was in the reign of Henry the 7t... ...ter in law the Lady Jane Grey, who has been al- ready mentioned as reading Greek. Whether she really understood that language or whether such a study ... ...conducting to the scaffold, she wrote a sen- tence in Latin and another in Greek on seeing the dead Body of her Husband accidentally passing that way....

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...ways coming and going across the Channel, on errands about the Bourse, and Greek and Spanish and India and Mexican and par and premium and discount an... ...Our Mutual Friend in and out of the City , on questions of the Bourse, and Greek and Spanish and India and Mexican and par and premium and discount an... ... being bound to be made late, by private information about the Bourse, and Greek and Spanish and India and Mexican and par and premium and discount an... ...Miss Peecher’s tuition were half a year ahead of every other letter in the alphabet. And Mental Arithmetic, administered by Miss Peecher, often devote... ...re always loung- ing in and out of the City on questions of the Bourse and Greek and Spanish and India and Mexican and par and pre- mium and discount ... ...he conversation; ‘perhaps you’ll explain your meaning, young man, which is Greek to me.— You must have another touch of blue in your trimming, my dear...

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...tep was to procure a set of metal types, with the different letters of the alphabet cast upon their ends; also a board, in which were square holes, in... ...ase was made, in which it was stated that “she has just learned the manual alphabet, as used by the deaf mutes, and it is a subject of delight and won... ...son. She then holds up her tiny fingers, and spells the word in the manual alphabet; next, she takes her types and arranges her letters; and last, to ... ...hich she could possibly handle; in exercising her in the use of the manual alphabet; in extending in every possible way her knowledge of the physical ... ...r spells out names of things which she has recently learned, in the manual alphabet of the deaf mutes. In this lonely self communion she seems to reas... ... pretty nigh as large as cheese plates (or for thy dear sake, heartiest of Greek Professors!), but because of all kinds of caters of fish, or flesh, o...

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...y shy,” Mrs. Westgate repeated. “But she is a dear good girl; she is a charming species of girl. She is not in the least a flirt; that isn’t at all he... ...ways know more than men about names and dates and that sort of thing,” Lord Lambeth rejoined. “There was Lady Jane Grey we have just been hearing abou...

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...lackguard!” he thought to himself. Nejdanov he had come across in a little Greek restaurant, where he was in the habit of taking his dinner, and where... ...ed everyone that the main cause of his democratic turn of mind was the bad Greek cooking, which upset his liver. “I wonder where our host has got to? ... ...ilway. 30 Virgin Soil V IN THE DRAWING ROOM of a large stone house with a Greek front—built in the twenties of the present century by Sipiagin’s fath... ...What do I hear? 0h ye gods! Is preparation necessary to teach peasants the alphabet?” At this moment Kolia ran into the drawing room shouting “Mamma! ... ...ria, and meanwhile you will be washing a baby here, teaching an- other the alphabet, or handing some sick man his medicine. That will be your beginnin... .... We cannot understand one an- 233 Turgenev other. All he says is so much Greek to me.” “Greek, eh!” Kollomietzev shrieked. “And to set peasants riot... ... “Greek, eh!” Kollomietzev shrieked. “And to set peasants rioting, is that Greek too? Is that Greek too, eh? “What have you here, your excellency? A l...

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...ork. It was a long passage, containing some very useful illustrations of a Greek idiom; useful I call them, because four years after- wards, when I ha... ...four years after- wards, when I had made great advances in my knowledge of Greek, they so appeared to me. 16 But then, being scarcely seven years old... ... knew even then by name the Aoristus Primus, as a respectable tense in the Greek language. It (or shall we say he?) was known to the whole Christian w... ...or it is not amongst the ordinary func- tions of lawyers to take charge of Greek; far less, one might suppose, of lawyers of Scotland, where the gener... ...ard to classical literature. Latin literature was very much neglected, and Greek nearly altogether. The more was the astonishment at finding a rare de... ...s the power, still more unsearchable, of reading in that hasty movement an alphabet of new and infinite symbols; for, in order that the sound of the c...

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...aps troubled with ambitions; why, if he but knew it, he is a hero of the old Greek stamp; and while he thinks he is only earn- ing a profit of a few c... ...e officers of the Pharos, passing narrowly by him, observed his book to be a Greek T estament, our wonder and interest took a higher flight. The catec... ...d a lord he was; a peer of the realm pacing that inhospitable beach with his Greek T estament, and his plaid about his shoulders, set upon doing good,... ...irts of the crowd, some of the town’s children (to whom the whole affair was Greek and Hebrew) profanely playing tigg. The same descent, the same coun... ... phrase; a vague sense of emotion (about nothing) in the very letters of the alphabet: the romance of language. His honest head was very nearly empty,...

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...ent his want of zeal and exertion. Coley was sufficiently forward to begin Greek on his first arrival at Ottery, and always held a fair place for his ... ...ent, viz. general knowl- edge of history, and a thorough acquaintance with Greek and Roman customs, law courts and expressions, and Greek and Roman wr... ...d Roman writers. I do not find myself wanting in making out a stiff bit of Greek or Latin if I have time, but I must read History chiefly this year, a... ...impression to start with. The rest of my papers, with the exception of the Greek prose and the critical paper, I did very fairly, I think.’ A greater ... ...dds, ‘the scholarship has been to me unsatis-factory. I had worked hard at Greek prose, had trans- lated and re-translated a good deal of Xenophon, Pl... ...ver given any explanation about them. All mere matters of memory. The very alphabet shows the rich- ness of the language. There are twenty-nine letter...

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... under stood every word, that was spoken to me. Besides, I had learnt their alphabet, and could make a shift to explain a sentence here and there; fo... ...No law in that country must exceed in words the num ber of letters in their alphabet, which consists only of two and twenty. But indeed few of them e... ... After he had left me, I placed all my words, with their interpretations, in alphabetical order. And thus, in a few days, by the help of a very faithf... ...of horse; L, a fleet at sea; or, secondly, by transposing the letters of the alphabet in any suspected paper, they can lay open the deepest designs of... ... called up into the room: it was with great difficulty that I understood his Greek, and had but little of my own. He assured me upon his honour “that ... ...sions very well, and the words might, with little pains, be resolved into an alphabet more eas ily than the Chinese. I could frequently distinguish t...

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...rce of the words in the Revised Version,” added Agatha, “compared with the Greek.” “That must have been very interesting!” said Magdalen. V era and he... ...s sis- ter, Miss Mohun, pounced upon Miss Prescott as a coadju- tor in the alphabet of good works needed in the neglected district of Arnscombe, where... ... presented with Phoebus, a tabby with a wise face and a head marked like a Greek lyre, to be trans- planted to the Goyle in due time. “If Sister will ... ...pery’s rich brocade, I held my flowing locks to braid.” —Anstice (from the Greek). “EPIDEMICS OF MARRIAGE set in from time to time,” said Jane Mohun. ... ...r any one, but it will really be a relief to me when she is gone, with her Greek coaxing ways. Her uncle is wrapped up in her, and so proud of her bei... ...groom, who looked like an old satyr, all the more because Maura was like a Greek nymph. Mrs. Henderson was much grieved, and had tried remonstrance wi...