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...among us, the shock was not the less appalling because a few stu- dents of Greek history were not surprised by it. Indeed these students threw themsel... ...eak House had seen in my mother’s album photographs of all the great opera singers, mostly in evening dress. In the theatre I found myself before a gi... ...d balcony filled with persons in evening dress whom I took to be the opera singers. I picked out one massive dark lady as Alboni, and wondered how soo... ...sing. I was puzzled by the fact that I was made to sit with my back to the singers instead of facing them. When the curtain went up, my astonishment a... ...ld me that after enduring the trenches for months without a glimpse of the female of his species, it gave him an entirely innocent but delightful plea... ...frivo- lous women paraded in their best clothes; where stories of improper females like Potiphar’s wife, and erotic poetry like the Song of Songs, wer... ...ndow; and I heard him calling out, “Nurse, there is a young and attractive female waiting in the poop. Go and see what she wants.” Are you the nurse? ...

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...equested to Bear in Mind What Wild Creature He Was in His Youth, While the Female Should Marvel Credulously IX. Concerning the Black Goddess Fortune a... ...er Geoffrey for the airs he gave him- self, and crawling on his knees to a female Parleyvoo; and when Geoffrey died, the admiral drank to his rest in ... ... QUESTED TO BEAR IN MIND WHAT WILD CREATURE HE WAS IN HIS YOUTH, WHILE THE FEMALE SHOULD MARVEL CREDULOUSLY. THE YOUNG MAN who fancied he had robed hi... ...- plied, ‘was a merchant’s office in Bremen for some months. I learnt more Greek and Latin in Bremen than business. I was invalided home, and then tri... ...ding boots on his road for a livelihood. He is not a bad scholar, he knows Greek enough to like it. He is a Dissenting preacher. When I strike a truis... ... his vanity to be a mili- tary quite as much as a naval commander like the Greeks and Romans, he says. We took the bruised man into our carriage and d... ... picked musicians’ at the disposal of the Countess of Fleetwood, and Opera singers (Henrietta mentioned reso- nant names) hired for wonderful nights a...

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... a disgusting paper-mill, two churches, and a clergyman’s wife—(what’s the female of whipper-snapper, Lance?)—who treats her as—” “As an extinct volca... ... ready then; meantime, those two books, if you please.” She handed him his Greek T estament and Bishop Andrews, and repaired to the drawing-room, wher... ...ardsman, had shown himself enough disposed to flirt with the pretty little Greek to make the pru- dent very glad that her home was on the Italian moun... ...ckquay could be brought forward, especially as there was no other grown-up female character. “My wife might undertake it,” said Lancelot, “but her voi... ...ed, and the sellers were in commotion, and he had been all day putting the singers one by one through their parts, that as he went to his room at nigh... ..., “that this is my sister’s first ba- zaar, and so dear is the work to the female mind, that she can’t help being sucked into the vortex.” “Is it real... ...ine, what is to be done with that horrid little Maura?” “The pretty little Greek girl—Mrs. Henderson’s sister?” “Oh! it is not Mrs. Henderson’s fault,... ...gnor Menotti, Via San Giacomo, Genoa, or his successors, a man who trained singers and per- formers, and moreover took charge of Benista’s money, and ... ...gnor Menotti, Via San Giacomo, Genoa, or his successors, a man who trained singers and per- formers, and moreover took charge of Benista’s money, and ...

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...them as the means of subsistence. The exorbitant rewards of players, opera-singers, opera-dancers, etc. are founded upon those two principles; the rar... ...ern code. The Roman law is perfectly silent with regard to them. I know no Greek or Latin word (I might venture, I believe, to assert that there is no... ...icians, men of letters of all kinds; players, buf- foons, musicians, opera-singers, opera-dancers, etc. The labour of the meanest of these has a certa... ...s who made no more distinction between elder and younger, between male and female, in the inheritance of lands, than we do in the distribution of move... ...that of sex, and that of age. The male sex is universally preferred to the female; and when all other things are equal, the elder everywhere takes pla... ..., but their slavery was of a milder kind than that known among the ancient Greeks and Romans, or even in our West Indian colonies. They were supposed ... ...hose times, some countries that were opulent and industrious. Such was the Greek empire as long as it subsisted, and that of the Saracens dur- ing the...

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... 75 Dante Behold Tiresias, who his semblance changed, When from a male a female he became, His members being all of them transformed; And afterwar... ...at which thou wishest; for they might disdain Perchance, since they were Greeks, discourse of thine.” When now the flame had come unto that point, ... ...e. One the false woman is who accused Joseph, The other the false Sinon, Greek of T roy; From acute fever they send forth such reek.” And one of t... ...ows it.” “Rueful to thee the thirst be wherewith cracks Thy tongue,” the Greek said, “and the putrid water That hedges so thy paunch before thine ... ... See I his daughter sell, and chaffer for her As corsairs do with other female slaves. 203 Dante What more, O Avarice, canst thou do to us, Sinc... ...hat had addressed me showed how great An artist ’twas among the heavenly singers. To my right side I turned myself around, My duty to behold in Be...

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...est of the branching wood, Jove’s Aesculus, and oaks, oracular Deemed by the Greeks of old. With some sprouts forth A forest of dense suckers from the... ...bowers Of green Alburnus swarms a winged pest Its Roman name Asilus, by the Greeks T ermed Oestros fierce it is, and harshly hums, Driving whole her... ...se in plenteous stalls pen fast at home. For, even through sight of her, the female wastes His strength with smouldering fire, till he forget Both gra... ... POLLIO DAMON ALPHESIBOEUS Of Damon and Alphesiboeus now, Those shepherd singers at whose rival strains The heifer wondering forgot to graze, The ... ...hoots in early Spring. Come, let us rise: the shade is wont to be Baneful to singers; baneful is the shade Cast by the juniper, crops sicken too In sh...

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...e had not two styles of talking at command: it is true that when he used a Greek or Latin phrase he always gave the English with scrupu lous care, bu... ...ife in village charities, patronage of the humbler clergy, the perusal of “Female Scripture Characters,” unfolding the private experience of Sara unde... ...uch—it took me too far; though that sort of thing doesn’t often run in the female line; or it runs underground like the rivers in Greece, you know— it... ...his mind that it was now time for him to adorn his life with the graces of female companionship, to irradiate the gloom which fatigue was apt to hang ... ...ning, early in the time of courtship; “could I not learn to read Latin and Greek aloud to you, as Milton’s daughters did to their father, without unde... ...life. Certainly it might be a great advantage if you were able to copy the Greek character, and to that end it were well to begin with a little readin... ...ist on my singing. But I shall tremble before you, who have heard the best singers in Paris. I have heard very little: I have only once been to London... ...yed that he could not find his hearth free. When he opened the door the two singers went on towards the key note, raising their eyes and looking at him... ... and flung himself into a chair. 476 Book VI — The Widow and the Wife. The singers feeling themselves excused by the fact that they had only three bar...

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...e had not two styles of talking at command: it is true that when he used a Greek or 21 George Eliot Latin phrase he always gave the English with scru... ...ife in village charities, patronage of the humbler clergy, the perusal of “Female Scripture Characters,” unfolding the private experience of Sara unde... ...uch—it took me too far; though that sort of thing doesn’t often run in the female-line; or it runs underground like the rivers in Greece, you know—it ... ...his mind that it was now time for him to adorn his life with the graces of female companionship, to irradiate the gloom which fatigue was apt to hang ... ...time of court- 57 George Eliot ship; “could I not learn to read Latin and Greek aloud to you, as Milton’s daughters did to their father, without unde... ...life. Certainly it might be a great advantage if you were able to copy the Greek character, and to that end it were well to begin with a little readin... ...ist on my singing. But I shall tremble before you, who have heard the best singers in Paris. I have heard very little: I have only once been to London... ...ed that he could not find his hearth free. When he opened the door the two singers went on towards the key-note, raising their eyes and looking at him... ...n a scowl as he walked across the room and flung himself into a chair. The singers feeling themselves excused by the fact that they had only three bar...

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...nd who knows what nameless innumerable multitude of ready Writers, profane Singers, Romancers, Players, Disputators, and Pamphleteers, that now form t... ...r; for did it not employ the working- classes too,—manufacturers, male and female, of laces, es- sences; of Pleasure generally, whosoever could manufa... ... any case, is not this the real death-grapple of war and internecine duel, Greek meeting Greek; whereon men, had they even no interest in it, might lo... ...lks sedition. The lower classes, in this duel of Authority with Authority, Greek throttling Greek, have ceased to respect the City-Watch: Police-satel... ... walked in formless immeasurability, having made itself like to the Night (Greek.)! But remark at least, for the first time, the singular em- pire of ... ...89. Sullen is the male heart, repressed by Patrollotism; vehe- ment is the female, irrepressible. The public-speaking woman at the Palais Royal was no... ...otism 218 The French Revolution: V ol. One represses male Patriotism: but female Patriotism? Will Guards named National thrust their bayonets into th...

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... it would hap- pen that in one evening she would make the round of all her female acquaintances in search of Ryabovsky, and they all understood it. 7... ...ing them. Gnekker and the young ladies talk of fugues, of counterpoint, of singers and pianists, of Bach and Brahms, while my wife, afraid of their su... ...o look far; two months ago a man called Byelikov, a colleague of mine, the Greek master, died in our town. You have heard of him, no doubt. He was rem... ...sheltered himself from real life. “‘Oh, how sonorous, how beautiful is the Greek language!’ he would say , with a sugary expression; and as though to ... ...stic reflection on the ill- behaviour of the young people in both male and female high- schools, the uproar in the classes. “Oh, he hoped it would not... ...54 Anton Chekhov yet one could not say that it was meat. He did not keep a female servant for fear people might think evil of him, but had as cook an ... ...o find an explanation for his depression. ‘It’s beyond anything.’ “And the Greek master, this man in a case — would you believe it? — almost got marri...

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...ing with them to hear their prayers, Jock, on being called for, repeated a Greek declension with two mistakes in it, Bobus showed a long sum in decima... ...eat parallelism of the present tense of the verb “to be” in five languages—Greek, Latin, French, Ger- man, and English. “And Allen—reposing on your ho... ...d had just returned from Asia Minor, and had brought an exquisite bit of a Greek frieze, of which he had become the happy possessor, knowing that Mrs.... ... Who would have thought of his getting the whole set to dress up as nigger singers, with black faces and banjoes, and coming to dance and sing in fron... ...sed by seeing Janet’s relish for such conversation. Nita Ray was the chief female offender in this way, and this was the more unfortunate as Sunday wa... ...“Not both together.” “Yes, I tell you, the whole boiling of them, male and female. There’ s a fat German Countess, who always calls Jock her liebes Ki... ... she wanted to know about the university of Zurich, and its facilities for female study. He was a well-known advocate of woman’s rights, and she scrup...

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...s, beggars, occasionally insolent countesses, admired actresses, applauded singers; she has even given, in the olden time, two quasi- queens to the mo... ... the door originally red. Presently the cough of an old woman, and a heavy female step, shuffling pain- fully in list slippers, announced the coming o... ... on all sides the emblems of professions, and every style of art,—Moorish, Greek, Gothic,—friezes, ovules, paintings, vases, guardian-angels, temples,... ...hion?” Among these wandering creations some belong to the spe- cies of the Greek Hermae; they say nothing to the soul; they are there, and that is all...

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...rejudice, and why should not others? Do you not agree with me, Fanny, that female medical men—I mean medical women—would be an infinite boon?” “It wou... ...re of the boys during the sad weeks of care utter prostration and illness. Female friends were with her, and tended her affectionately, but if exertio... ...aving begun his career with such mortal offence to the native fiddlers and singers as to impel them into the arms of dissent, he could only supply the... ...e Mariolatry?” “Yes; but they are very severe on hybrids between Latin and Greek.” “It is not worth while to boggle at trifles when one has an express... ... an old maid among black savagees.’ That’s the most remarkable instance of female emigration on record, isn’t it?” observed Alick. “What; her dying an... ...seems to me like a mason’s refusing to work at a wall with a man who liked Greek architecture when he pre- ferred Gothic!” If Rachel had been talking ... ...re looked in to ask Alick to refer to a verse in the Psalms, quoting it in Greek as well as English, and after the research had been carried to the He...

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..., Por- tuguese, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolitans, V e- netians, Greeks, Turks, descendants from all the builders of Babel, come to trade at... ...nd travellers for pleasure; officers from India on leave; merchants in the Greek and Turkey trades; a clerical English husband in a meek strait-waistc... ...eman’s waistcoat; ‘supposing a man wanted to leave his property to a young female, and wanted to tie it up so that nobody else should ever be able to ... ...at class of character. In saying the stage, I mean the people on it of the female sex. Therefore, when I heard that my son was supposed to be fascinat... ...ith their heads against a partition of thin canvas, and a page and a young female at high words on the other side, made believe to be sitting in a pri... ... one piece, pair of gaudy vases of very artificial flowers; between them a Greek warrior with his helmet off, sacrificing a clock to the Genius of Fra... ...d not kept, in those days of his youth and prosperity, an idle house where singers, and play- ers, and such-like children of Evil turned their backs o...

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...by his sister was as much as he could stand. The interven- tion of a third female drove him suddenly beyond politeness. He was about to say exactly wh... ...r but he shall be instantly slain, either by bows or by cross- bows, or by Greek fire. Beware, however, of the back bedroom windows. For they are mena... ... note was drowned in a shout of universal joy. So the opera proceeded. The singers drew inspira- tion from the audience, and the two great sextettes w...

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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 ... ...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... ...me to pass in the time when the fools are dead, and when there will be no more singers to stand still and sing the ‘Song of the Bees.’ Bees are not me... ...r women, with his priests and sorcerers, his dancers and flute players and hula singers, and fighting men and servants, and his high chiefs with their w... ... she found him and poked his blue eyes open to recrudescence of her grotesque, female hideous ness, had continued his adorer. Woman she was, and he h... ...idious man. He had never recovered from the initial horror caused by Balatta’s female awfulness. Back in Eng land, even at best, the charm of woman, ... ...on, did it chance to occur, could be purged only by the death of the offending female. It had happened once, since Bassett’s arrival, when a girl of n...

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..., entitles a subscriber—if a male—to an annuity of 16 pounds a year, and a female to 12 pounds a year. Now, bear in mind that this is an institution o... ...me when the old man and his son took their donkey home, which were the old Greek days, I believe, and probably ever since the time when the donkey wen... ...ollected within the scope of its benevolence are all actors and actresses, singers, or dancers, of five years’ standing in the profession. To relieve ... ...nd inexpressibles, whose duty in the family appears to be to listen to the female members of it whenever they sing, and to shake hands with everybody ...

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...assage. The chest in the passage was the place of mourning for the younger female generation in the Rostov household. And there in fact was Sonya lyin... ... Poles—all under the Russian crown—but here they’re all regular Germans.” “Singers to the front “ came the captain’s order. And from the different ran... ...nty men ran to the front. A drummer, their leader, turned round facing the singers, and flourishing his arm, began a long-drawn- out soldiers’ song, c... ...round, the drummer—a lean, handsome soldier of forty—looked sternly at the singers and screwed up his eyes. Then having satisfied himself that all eye... ...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... ...tive or any struggle, but with naive and lighthearted gaiety . Although in female society Anatole usually assumed the role of a man tired of being run... ...was on the first floor. Those in the rooms above were also awake. He heard female voices over- head. “Just once more,” said a girlish voice above him ... ...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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...g with ringing, merry voices, walked behind the hay cart. One wild untrained female voice broke into a song, and sang it alone through a verse, and th... ...ny. In the courtyard the first objects that met Vronsky’s eyes were a band of singers in white linen coats, standing near a barrel of vodka, and 294 A... ... smile would jar on them. “Thou who didst from the beginning create male and female,” the priest read after the exchange of rings, “from Thee woman wa... ...,” she said to herself. It was not merely the sisters, the women friends and female relations of the bride who were following every detail of the cere... ...afterwards, on reading a Catholic writer’s history of the church, and then a Greek orthodox writer’s history of the church, and seeing that the two ch...