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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... ...ity Which once Oenopion, son of Theseus, built. But the more famous of the legendary stories everybody (as I may say) has in his mouth. In Paeon, howe... ...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 ... ...-wolf nursed them, and a woodpecker constantly fed and watched them; these creatures are esteemed holy to the god Mars, the woodpecker the Latins stil... ... species, whereas eagles, owls, and hawks mangle and kill their own fellow-creatures; yet, as Aeschylus says,— What bird is clean that preys on fellow... ...me on this side, some on that, with miserable cries and lamentations, like creatures possessed, in the midst of the army, and among the dead bodies, t...

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...e were seven at Vivian-place. And me that morning Walter showed the house, Greek, set with busts: from vases in the hall Flowers of all heavens, and ... ...upon she took A bird’s-eye-view of all the ungracious past; Glanced at the legendary Amazon As emblematic of a nobler age; Appraised the Lycian custom... ...Look you, Sir! Man is the hunter; woman is his game: The sleek and shining creatures of the chase, We hunt them for the beauty of their skins; They lo... ... treble; and to and fro With books, with flowers, with Angel offices, Like creatures native unto gracious act, And in their own clear element, they mo...

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... a hum in its chatter, and the shot of incurious half-eyes the petticoated creatures—all so much of a swarm unless you stare at them like lanterns. Th... ...errible stings. Matey was good at lessons, too—liked them; liked Latin and Greek; would help a poor stumbler. Where he did such good work was in sharp... ...ly, from the fact that they were neither mysteries nor terrors to her; but creatures of importunate appetites, humorous objects; very manageable, if w... ... had therewith a sharp vision of his features, re- pellent in correctness, Greek in lines, with close eyes, hollow temples, pressed lips—a face indica... ...- mining the fringes of their storm, ask themselves whether they are God’s creatures or man’s. The question deals a sword- stroke of division between ... ...o the standing up boarders and day-scholars alike, vilifying the in- fidel Greek word ‘antagonist.’ ‘Do you remember the offender’s name?’ the Countes... ...n on his return. The deeds of the preceding reign had bequeathed a sort of legendary credence to the wildest tales gossip could invent under a demurre...

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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... ...ur lies in making Don Quixote take inns for castles and fancy himself some legendary or historical personage, and Sancho mistake words, invert proverb... ...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... ...with a host of snakes and serpents and lizards, and ferocious and terrible creatures of all sorts swimming about in it, while from the middle of the l...

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...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’... ...uzz. One dwelt habitually in the wood-pile, and sometimes, when we came for fire- wood, thrust up his small head between two logs, and hissed at the i... ...ir idle, happy, deaf- ening vociferations rise and fall, like the song of the crickets. I used to sit at night on the platform, and 80 ...

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...iry tales have given these an added charm. They have peopled all that region with gnomes, and dwarfs, and all sorts of Mark Twain 10 mysterious and u... ...le from the hotel, and presently fell into a train of dreamy thought about animals which talk, and kobolds, and enchanted folk, and the rest of the pl... ...among birds and beasts. Said he: “There’s more to a bluejay than any other creature. He has got more moods, and more different kinds of feelings than... ...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... ... tering and chattering foreign birds, and other great cages and greater wire pens, populous with quadrupeds, both na- tive and foreign. There were som... ...? 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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...o use. And earlier still was Archimedes of Syracuse, and still earlier the legendary Daedalus of Cnossos. All up and down the record of history whenev... ...t out of this great institution in favour of modern methods; and he learnt Greek and Latin as well as he had learnt German, Spanish, and French, so th... ...n’ who ‘spoke Latin with a Wiltshire accent and manifest discomfort, wrote Greek letters with his tongue out, and seemed to think a Greek sentence a c... ...ight in a darkened room,’ he says. ‘These men were praying to their fellow creatures as once they prayed to God! The last thing that men will realise ...

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...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... ...r several vain attempts to comprehend the mo- tives of these two droll old creatures for inviting me to join them at their gouter, I at last fairly ga... ...but tell me now, were you not a little abashed before these blooming young creatures? “At first, yes; but I rallied and got through with all due sang-... ...e blonde superbe, une jolie espiegle, une belle brune.” “Exactly.” “Lovely creatures all of them—heads for artists; what a group they would make, take... ... his very mansion too is interesting, the rooms look storied, the passages legendary , the low-ceiled chambers, with their long rows of diamond-paned ...

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...the artisans of the New Era, the true creators of the New State; he by his legendary and daring feat, she, like a woman, simply by the force of what s... ...a Christian would have renounced and been re- leased. These, then, are the legendary inhabitants of Azuera guarding its forbidden wealth; and the shad... ...y sav- ages, devoid of human compassion or worship of any kind. Rumours of legendary proportions told of his successes as a missionary beyond the eye ... ... been at a loss how to inflict mental and bodily anguish upon their fellow-creatures. This aptitude came to them in the growing complexity of their pa... ...chooner was anchored opposite the New Custom House, with its sham air of a Greek temple, flatroofed, with a colonnade, Captain Fidanza went pulling hi...

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...ian, to roll, to wallow.” Richardson’s Dictionary. tan, Hebrew. ^ o& , Greek. CETUS, Latin. WHAEL, Anglo Saxon. HV AL, Danish. WAL, Dutch. HWAL, S... ...im the ocean stream.” Paradise Lost. —— “There Leviathan, Hugest of living creatures, on the deep Stretched like a promontory sleeps or swims, And see... ...did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did Chapter 1 Loomings 17 the Greeks give it a separate deity, and make him the own brother of Jove? Sure... ...on broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake houses the pyramids. No, when I go to sea, I g... ...e tablets stand in the cave of Elephanta as here. In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included; why it is that a universal pro... ...hich stem him. And as if the now tested reality of his might had in former legendary times thrown its shadow before it; we find some book naturalists —... ...ers, the white forked flame being held the holiest on the altar; and in the Greek mythologies, Great Jove himself being made incarnate in a snow white ... ... trembling reverence and awe. Nor can it be questioned from what stands on legendary record of this noble horse, that it was his spiritual whiteness c... ... the young widow had a delicious grief, and her orphans a truly venerable, legendary sire to dream of in their after years; and all of them a care kil...

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...llen; a.s. walw-ian, to roll, to wallow.” —Richardson’ s Dictionary KETOS, GREEK. CETUS, LA TIN. WHOEL, ANGLO-SAXON. HV ALT, DANISH. W AL, DUTCH. HW A... ...im the ocean stream.” —Paradise Lost. — “There Leviathan, Hugest of living creatures, in the deep Stretched like a promontory sleeps or swims, And see... ... of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this i... ...on broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake- houses the pyramids. No, when I go to sea, I ... ...e tablets stand in the cave of Elephanta as here. In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included; why it is that a universal pro... ...hich stem him. And as if the now tested reality of his might had in former legendary times thrown its shadow before it; we find some book naturalists—... ...rs, the white forked flame being held the holiest on the altar; and in the Greek mythologies, Great Jove himself being made incarnate in a snow-white ... ...rembling reverence and awe. Nor can it be ques- tioned from what stands on legendary record of this noble horse, that it was his spiritual whiteness c... ...a 463 Herman Melville delicious grief, and her orphans a truly venerable, legendary sire to dream of in their after years; and all of them a care- ki...

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... be. It is a pity there are no longer any of this congenial race of rustic creatures for our friend to consort with!” “Hush, naughty one!” returned Hi... ...e, downy fur. In the coarser representations of this class of mythological creatures, there is another token of brute kindred,—a certain caudal append... ...e pleasantness of sylvan life, all the genial and happy characteristics of creatures that dwell in woods and fields, will seem to be mingled and knead... ...ed, a flight of a dozen steps gave access to the roof of the tower and the legendary shrine. On the other side was a door, at which Miriam knocked, bu... ... The marble inevitably loses its chastity under such circumstances. An old Greek sculp- tor, no doubt, found his models in the open sunshine, and amon... ...ace front, with niches and many bas-reliefs, out of which looked Agrippa’s legendary virgin, and several of the allegoric sisterhood; while, at the ba... ...he case, he would have judged it well to go. He made parting visits to the legendary dell, and to other delightful spots with which he had grown famil... ...d had a slightly corroded surface, but at once impressed the sculptor as a Greek production, and wonderfully delicate and beauti- ful. The head was go...

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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... ...ur lies in making Don Quixote take inns for castles and fancy himself some legendary or historical personage, and Sancho mistake words, invert proverb... ...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... ...with a host of snakes and serpents and lizards, and ferocious and terrible creatures of all sorts swimming about in it, while from the middle of the l...

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...eration or two ago by a man who believed he should never die.” It was this legendary personage whom he now proceeded to revive and embody as Septimius... ...y in so short a life? What matters a form of government for such ephemeral creatures?” As morning brightened, these sounds, this clamor,—or 18 Septim... ...wild passion that nature has implanted in us to be the death of our fellow creatures, and which coexists at the same time with horror! Septimius level... ...was written. There seemed to be Latin words, and some interspersed ones in Greek characters, and here and there he could doubtfully read an English se... ...ght himself whether he would have a right to take the life of one of those creatures, without their own consent, in order to prolong his own; and afte... ...ously with the vernacular, or used both indiscrimi nately. There was some Greek, too, but not much. Then fre quently came in the cipher, to the stud... ...arch; it might be that, with her sources of mysterious knowledge among her legendary lore, she knew of this. Then, oh, to think of those dreams which ... ...red to tell no one else? kept up your hopes; suggested; helped you with my legendary lore to useful hints; helped you, also, in other ways, which you ...

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...on of a mine of results. … Taylor led him into political economy, into the Greek and Latin accents, into antiquities, Roman roads, old castles, the or... ...nks of natural associa- tion she brings along with her a troop of dreadful creatures, fabulous and not fabulous, that are more abominable to the heart... ...e, being the granddaughter of a crocodile, awakens a dreadful host of semi-legendary animals—grif- fins, dragons, basilisks, sphinxes—till at length t... ...—leading right across the bottomless gulf. Under this eminent man, whom in Greek I cognominated Cyclops Diphrélates (Cy- clops the Charioteer), I, and... ... find out the royal personage amongst the whole ark of clean and un- clean creatures. Failing in this coup d’essai, she would not simply disappoint ma... ...hat everybody hated her and thirsted for her blood; nay, many kind-hearted creatures that would have pitied her profoundly, as regarded all political ... ...- 42 11 THE WHOLE PAGAN PANTHEON: i.e. all the gods put together; from the Greek Pantheion, a temple dedi- cated to all the gods. 43 2 SEVEN ATMOSPHER...

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... were thus amply supplied with the means they use for digestion. All these creatures seemed to recognize the presence of their mistress, and some espe... ...sking the trying question, how she could order the execution of any of the creatures of which she seemed so careful. ‘It was painful,’ she said, ‘but ... ...orse strait than Falkirk field yet. God guide us, we are poor inconsistent creatures! To think the lad should have made so able an appearance, and the... ...the captain of the Jumping Jenny; ‘my handful of Latin, and small pinch of Greek, were as use- less as old junk, to be sure; but my reading, writing a... ...e by either vigour or resolution. They pretend to trace this fatality to a legendary history, which I may tell you at a less busy moment.’ Darsie inti... ...corched. AE, one. AFFLATUS, breath, inspiration. AIRT, direct. ALCANDER, a Greek soothsayer. ALDEBORONTIPHOSCOPHORNIO, a courtier in H. Carey’s burles... ...ld. HAP , to hop, turn from. HARPOCRATES, an Egyptian god, supposed by the Greeks to be the god of silence. HAUGH, holm, low-lying flat ground. HAULD,...

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...ld be useful to you both. I had rather you did so than that you read it in Greek, though that is very nice too,” she added, smiling, as she put her ha... ...hat is very nice too,” she added, smiling, as she put her hand on a little Greek Testament, in which Ethel had been reading it, within her English Bib... ...ything but her books! I’ve a great mind to put an end to all the Latin and Greek! She cares for nothing else.” Ethel could little brook injustice, and... ...t surely, Norman, it is better they should do what they can for those poor creatures, than for Ethel to learn Greek.” “I don’t know that. Let those wh... ...f liberalism and the rights of the poor! He who cut off Randall’s poor old creatures in the almshouses from their short way! and then came some storie... ...g of a free heart is the thing. To offer praise is the great object of all creatures in heaven and earth. If the happier we are, the more we praise, t... ...ould not be denied choosing that for his sub- ject. We reproached him with legendary saints, and over- whelmed him with antiquarianism, to show that t...

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...eans could have been discovered by the learned for putting a stop to him. [Greek Text: Aperantologia] was his forte; upon this he piqued himself, and ... ..., my dear North, and believe me to be always your old friend and admirer, [Greek Text: Cap Omega, Cap Phi] SCENE SCENE SCENE SCENE SCENE THE FIRST THE... ...at well-known under habiliment, which in Hebrew is called Ch’tonet, and in Greek and Latin by words of similar sound. 2 In this stage of its progress... ...s to the combination, by a painter or a sculptor, of real flesh- and-blood creatures with allegoric abstractions. This is the objection to such combin... ... case the water cups, in which the bed-posts rest, for- bid the transit of creatures not able to swim or to fly. A flea indeed leaps; and, by all repo... ... endary superstition, in the other half it wears the grace of chivalry and legendary romance. Any malignant scoff, there- fore, against the peerage of... ... readers, he did not scruple to give birth and currency to the grossest of legendary lies. The Duke’s death happened a few months before Pope’s birth....

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...then his fury would gradually abate. Now in mineralogy there are many half-Greek and half- Latin terms, very hard to articulate, and which would be mo... ...s; “but, in addition to all this, the Icelandic has three numbers like the Greek, and irregular declensions of nouns proper like the Latin.” “Ah!” sai... ...y; I mean Latin. If I am mistaken, I can but try Spanish, French, Italian, Greek, or Hebrew. But the savants of the sixteenth century gener- ally wrot... ... edge of the crater before the kalends of July; he may even have heard the legendary stories told in his day about that crater reaching to the centre ... ...our feminine hearts! When you are not the timidest, you are the bravest of creatures. Reason has nothing to do with your actions. What! did this child... ...rne frame of mind I expected to see the ghost of Hamlet wan- dering on the legendary castle terrace. “Sublime madman!” I said, “no doubt you would app... ...- mans with pensive eyes, conscious of being far removed from their fellow creatures, poor exiles relegated to this land of ice, poor creatures who sh... ...down sud- den openings.” “That may be,” I replied; “but if there have been creatures now extinct in these underground regions, why may not some of tho...

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...- dable sharks which threatened us. It was a couple of tintoreas, terrible creatures, with enormous tails and a dull glassy stare, the phosphorescent ... ... and more as a possible victim than as a naturalist. Happily the voracious creatures do not see well. They passed without seeing us, brushing us with ... ... 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... ...ome. I see no reason for hindering them. After all, these Papuans are poor creatures, and I am unwilling that my visit to the island should cost the l... ...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... ...ent denied by Origen and Humbolt, who placed its disappearance amongst the legendary tales. I had it there now before my eyes, bearing upon it the une...

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...the care of the family priest, one Bannister, who taught him the Latin and Greek grammars together. He was next removed to a Catholic semi- nary at Tw... ...but only seem to be such, they have a wonderful variety in them, which the Greek was a stranger to. He exceeds him in regularity and brevity, and fall... ...ling fury glow, Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow: Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found, 380 And the world’s victor s... ...; but the Sylphs, whose habitation is in the air, are the best-conditioned creatures imaginable. For they say, any mortals may enjoy the most intimate... ...ism. See Bulwer’s ‘Zanoni.’ Pope has blended some of its elements with old legendary stories about guardian angels, fairies, &c. 75 The Poetical Work... ...observed, which causes a subordination of creature to creature, and of all creatures to Man. The gradations of sense, instinct, thought, reflection, r... ...s, ver. 207. VIII. How much further this order and subordination of living creatures may extend, above and below us; were any part of which broken, no...

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...for its murdered mate. But deeper doth the secret prove, Uniting those sad creatures so; Humanity’s great link of love, The common sympathy of woe. We... ...reat Poseidon’s sudden-veering wrath Scattered the happy homeward-floating Greeks Like foam-flakes off the waves, the King of Crete Held lofty commune... ...’d domain; Mingling the screams of birds, the cries of brutes, The wail of creatures in the covert pent, Howls, yells, and shrieks of agony, the hiss ... ...f spray, Clothed in majestic splendour; girt about With Sea-gods and swift creatures of the sea; Their briny eyes blind with the showering drops; Thei... ...land as true a symbol shows, While o’er it like a mellow sunset strays The legendary splendour of old days, In visible, inviolate repose. II About a m... ...and sudden flower; Or haply with a twilight on the brow, T o muse upon the legendary hour, And Roland’s lonely love and Hildegard’s sad vow. V Hark! h... ...n’s topmost tower, Ilion’s fierce prophetic flower Cried the coming of the Greek! Black in Hades sits the hour. IV Eyeing phantoms of the Past, Folded... ...n’s topmost tower, Ilion’s fierce prophetic flower Cried the coming of the Greek! Black in Hades sits the hour. X Still upon her sunless soul Gleams t...

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... felt to be a remedy, But in truth it was difficult to see these two human creatures together, without feeling their incompatibility; without having a... ... There were also the two chil dren, fresher than the morning itself, rosy creatures, with newly scrubbed cheeks, made over again for the new day, tho... ...pture of wood, like what we have seen on the marble sarcophagus of the old Greeks. It has, too, a lock, elaborately ornamented and in laid with silve... ...oric; there was a volume of trans lations of Mother Goose’s Melodies into Greek and Latin, printed for private circulation, and with the Warden’s nam... ...lt. But he had greater pleasure in drawing out some of the old gentleman’s legendary lore, some of which, whether true or not, was very curious. 2 As ... ...ine it more closely, “a good thing to make a legend out of; and, like most legendary lore, not capable of bearing close examination. I should decidedl... ...w others had read, and from that of his beloved Uni versity, crabbed with Greek, rich with Latin, drawing into itself, like a whirlpool, all that men...

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... be. It is a pity there are no longer any of this congenial race of rustic creatures for our friend to consort with!” “Hush, naughty one!” returned Hi... ...e, downy fur. In the coarser representations of this class of mythological creatures, there is another token of brute kindred,—a certain caudal append... ...e pleasantness of sylvan life, all the genial and happy characteristics of creatures that dwell in woods and fields, will seem to be mingled and knead... ...ed, a flight of a dozen steps gave access to the roof of the tower and the legendary shrine. On the other side was a door, at which Miriam knocked, bu... ... The marble inevitably loses its chastity under such circumstances. An old Greek sculp- tor, no doubt, found his models in the open sunshine, and amon... ...ace front, with niches and many bas-reliefs, out of which looked Agrippa’s legendary virgin, and several of the allegoric sisterhood; while, at the ba...

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...aid these humble friends, the playmate not only of all mortal kind, but of creatures of the woods; al- though, when Kenyon pressed them for some parti... ...quaintances; for, from my earliest childhood, I was familiar with whatever creatures haunt the woods. You would have laughed to see the friends I had ... ...when first the idea was suggested of living for the welfare of his fellow- creatures, the original beauty, which sorrow had partly ef- faced, came bac... ...he case, he would have judged it well to go. He made parting visits to the legendary dell, and to other delightful spots with which he had grown famil... ...er in utter darkness. For the first time in centuries, the consecrated and legendary flame before the loftiest shrine in Rome had ceased to burn. 147... ...d had a slightly corroded surface, but at once impressed the sculptor as a Greek production, and wonderfully delicate and beauti- ful. The head was go...

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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... ... 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 ... ...and child martyrs, Magdalen hesitating a little over those that seemed too legendary; while old Lady Flight, portly and sentimental, declared them so ... ...- proaching with his mother, whereupon the two girls fled away like guilty creatures. Presently Vera exclaimed, “Oh, Polly dear, what a compli- cation... ...ith Magdalen, as an old friend, and trying to think of the two as innocent creatures, engulfed like mayflies in the stream. Sister Mena came over, wan... ...tinually called off to admire the receding French coast, or to look at the creatures brought up by dredging. She al- ways took care to call Vera, and ... ...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. ...

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...me, the actor boasts the slenderest claim of all—the sport of fortune, the creatures of fashion, and the victims of caprice, they are seen, heard, and... ...ss as affording the rude materials out of which a certain inferior race of creatures, called tenants, were bound to produce (in a greater quantity tha... ...en ower mony of them, Mr. Croftangry. Och, ay. ‘There is the puir Highland creatures frae Glenshee, that cam down for the harvest, and are lying wi’ t... ...ity in the man’s hab- its of thinking and expressing himself, his turn for legendary lore strangely contrasting with a portion of the knowing shrewdne... ...on Elspat MacTavish, or the Woman of the T ree, as they called her, as the Greeks considered those who were pursued by the Furies, and endured the men... ...other. Her memory carried her far back into former days, and her stores of legendary history, which furnish at all times a principal amusement of the ...

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...a forgotten argument. He waved an arm. “Ach, der pipe-line bei der Mission Greek, und der waater-hole for dose cettles. Say, he doand doo ut himselluf... ...ther Sarria. He remained always a mys- tery, living a life half-real, half-legendary. In all those years he did not seem to have grown older by a sing... ...Angele had loved him with a love no less than his own. It was one of those legendary passions that sometimes occur, idyl- lic, untouched by civilisati... ..., I assure you,” she said. “Such a movement as we have started. Those poor creatures. The photographs of them are simply dreadful. I had the com- mitt...

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...essed themselves followers in the retinue and equipage of the ancients, as creatures of a lower race. Boileau, as a mere imitator and propagator of Ho... ...ly in talking Latin, to which afterwards he added a competent study of the Greek; and finally he became unusually learned for his rank, but the most a... ...clothed in English; but present him with the most trivial common-places in Greek, and he unaffectedly fancied them divine; mistaking the pleasurable s... ...erility upon the name Desdemona, as though in- tentionally formed from the Greek word for superstition. In fact, he had evidently read little beyond t... ...t court to try the amount of power lodged in a poor desolate pair of human creatures for facing the very anar- chy of storms—this obscure life of the ... ...re of Germany, and very much more than the V oltaire; for his romantic and legendary poems are above the level of V oltaire. But, on the other hand, h...

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...art stood And preach’d of Penitence by Jordan’s Flood; On War; or else the legendary lays In simplest measures hymn’d to Alla’s praise; Or what th... ...e sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony. He despiseth the creatures of the calm, The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead di... ...lway A still and awful red. By the light of the Moon he beholdeth God’s creatures of the great calm. Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched ... ... Poems The old man paused — May he who, sternly just, Lays at his will his creatures in the dust; Some ere the earliest buds of hope be blown, And... ... Coleridge: Poems The name were else a mere misnomer, Since Planet is but Greek for Roamer. The atmosphere, too, can do no less Than ventilate h... ... he could subscribe In fullest sense his name ’´E s t h s e ; (’Tis Punic Greek for ‘‘he hath stood!’’) Whate’er the men, the cause was good; And... ... Yet, somewhat the broad freedoms to excuse, They had allured the audacious Greek to use, Swore they mistook him for their own good man. This Momus...

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...ion, is the same in kind, (though different in degree,) amongst all living creatures; this instinct therefore, because it annihilates all distinctions... ...., the di- vine nature of love and mercy, spread through the hearts of all creatures, and seldom utterly withdrawn from man,— was gone, vanished, exti... ...y for the Encour- agement of Murder; but, according to their own delicate [Greek: euphaemismos], it is styled—The Society of Con- noisseurs in Murder.... ...ose of “Fire—fire!” upon which all of us, master and disciples, Plato and [Greek: hoi peri ton Platona], rushed out, eager for the spectacle. The fire... ... Fifth Book, I think it is, of his Metaphysics) de- scribes what he calls [Greek: kleptaen teleion], i.e., a perfect thief; and, as to Mr. Howship, in... ...to find out the royal personage amongst the whole ark of clean and unclean creatures. Failing in this coup d’essai, she would not simply disappoint ma... ...ing the granddaughter of a crocodile, awakens a dreadful host of wild semi-legendary ani- mals,—griffins, dragons, basilisks, sphinxes,—till at length... ...veller. That which really is a lie in the account of the unicorn—viz., his legendary rivalship with the lion—which lie may God preserve, in preserving... ... sea-lions, &c. The mermaid has been discredited by her human name and her legendary human habits. If she would not coquette so much with melancholy s...

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...nd when she was *Falsely, because poxphuxeos rarely, perhaps, means in the Greek use what we mean properly by purple, and could not mean it in the Pin... ...t the purpureus of the ancients might have been evaded by attending to its Greek designation, namely, porphyry-colored: since, said he, porphyry is al... ...uth is, colors were as loosely and latitudinarially dis- tinguished by the Greeks and Romans as degrees of affinity and consanguinity are everywhere. ... ...y woods, and sunny plains, And liquid lapse of murmuring streams; by these Creatures that lived and moved, and walked or flew; Birds on the branches w... ... past generations of eminent persons, who re- tained only a traditional or legendary importance in the eyes of most who were now reviewing them, all t... ...crowd; but they were drowned in a tumult of conflicting feelings. As human creatures, fallen under the displeasure of a despot with a ju- dicial power... ... calamities, and the enlarged sympathy which that had bred with her fellow-creatures of every rank. But she felt that, in this superfluous expression ...

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...h is daily contrasted with the happiness and power of some of their fellow-creatures, excites in their hearts at the same time the sentiments of anger... ...h is daily contrasted with the happiness and power of some of their fellow-creatures, excites in their hearts at the same time the sentiments of anger... ...n acquires a kind of preternatural power over the future lot of his fellow-creatures. When the legislator has regulated the law of inheritance, he may... ...r- son wholly ignorant of them is a sort of phenomenon. When I compare the Greek and Roman republics with these American States; the manuscript librar... ...er authors are aliens; they are to the Americans what the imitators of the Greeks and Romans were to us at the revival of learning – an object of curi... ...dorn it you may reckon thousands of idea-mongers. Chapter XV: The Study of Greek and Latin Literature Peculiarly Useful in Democratic Com- munities Wh... ...tion of his being. Amongst a democratic people poetry will not be fed with legendary lays or the memorials of old traditions. The poet will not attemp...

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...re we venture to receive it as offered in good faith and loyalty. Even the Greeks are nearly in the same [Greek text], when they wish to speak of reli... ...erious praise. Some circuitous form, commending the correctness of a man, [Greek text], in respect of divine things, becomes requisite; for all the di... ...ing the religious tem- per, are preoccupied by a taint of scorn. The word [Greek text], means pious,—not as regards the gods, but as regards the dead;... ... overlook and pardon, as being a fault essential to the religion: the poor creatures did the best they could to praise their god, lying under the curs... ...ly before that Olympus in London, which rains rarities upon us poor abject creatures in the provinces, you must enclose ‘an order on the Post- Office ... ...re was nothing at all; nothing to believe, nothing to understand. A set of legendary tales undoubtedly there was, connected with the mythologic histor... ...t the less present locally. He is at a distance unap- proachable by finite creatures; and yet, without any contra- diction, (as the profound St. Paul ...

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... was needed, for the servants, two of whom at the least were most faithful creatures, and devotedly attached to their young mistress, stood ready of t... ...w of the case as herself; and, though otherwise the gentlest of all gentle creatures, yet here, from the generous fervor of her reverence for justice,... ...mposed of men seeking indeed for truth, but themselves erring and fallible creatures; the witnesses had been full of lies, the judges of darkness. But... ...of the T en Thousand. Xenophon affirms that there were ‘many’ women in the Greek army—pollai aesun etairai en tosratenaeazi; and in a late stage of th... ...an honest answer, as his modern successor; or else it refers simply to the Greek form of Christianity professed by the Russian Emperor and Church. *Th... ...and Miscellaneous Papers yet, perhaps, both alike would bend so far to the legendary faith as to allow a child to believe, and would perceive a pure c... ...isfortune, like a poor Negro of Koromantyn who is the victim of Obi.* As a Greek word, which it was, the name imported no ill; but for a Roman to say ...

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...heMagician youth, a rare dignity. Susie smiled mockingly. ‘You look like a Greek goddess in a Paris frock,’ she said. ‘What have you to say to me?’ as... ...ed, not without deference, to her outbursts. He admired the correctness of Greek anatomy, and there was one statue of an athlete which attracted his p... ...precision of a plate in a surgical textbook. When Marga ret talked of the Greeks’ divine repose and of their blitheness, he thought it very clever be... ... human arms. It became a monstrous, goat legged thing, more vast than the creatures of nightmare. She saw the horns and the long beard, the great hai... ...tely she felt herself again surrounded by a hurrying throng. Then came all legendary monsters and foul beasts of a madman’s fancy; in the darkness she... ...oads, with paws pressed to their flanks, and huge limping scarabs, shelled creatures the like of which she had never seen, and noisome brutes with hor... ...ars in Monte Carlo. ‘They said there that he was attempting to make living creatures by a magical operation.’ She glanced at the doctor, but spoke to ...

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...es: That man was a hater of women and the clergy. He was one of the horrid creatures who write with a wink at you, which sets the wicked part of us on... ...- 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... ...e perfect repose which is rocked to a slumber by gales. She was not of the creatures who are excited by an atmo- sphere of excitement; she took it as ... ...huck farthing of street urchins has quite as much dignity. He compared the creatures dabbling, over the board to summer flies on butcher’s meat, perio... ... 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... ...m creditably. It had to be wit- nessed, for faith in it. He reverenced our legendary good women, and he bowed to noble deeds; and he ascribed the form...

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... at the mouth and along the brows, even in men. He was tall, and had clear Greek outlines: the lips were locked metal, thin as edges of steel, and his... ...d thought. Her lover, in the consideration of a real soul among the shifty creatures, is her husband; and have we not the word of heaven directing her... ...ose forms of faith the princess had embraced. She answered that it was the Greek Church. ‘The Greek,’ said he, gazing harder at the portrait. Presentl... ...ttled away sympathetically with his posture in melancholy: ‘Ay, we’re poor creatures; pigs and prophets, princes and people, victors and vanquished, w... ...ions was burlesqued by them, and it came into collision with Mr. Rumford’s legendary forefinger threat. She excused herself for laughing: 93 George M... ... the credit of his artfulness were it not notorious our sensations are the creatures and born doctors of art in discovering unguents for healing their...

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...ugh the ageing and whitening of the realistically coloured statuary of the Greeks and Romans. Much of the charm of the old furniture and needlework, a... ..., is, I admit, at the first blush stronger. You may say: Why give us these creatures of a novelist’s imagination, these phantom and fantastic thinking... ...n exception or so, it does not signify at all. He would set almost all the Greek and Roman literature in well-printed translations and with luminous i... ...In- dividualist soul. The hands are the hands of Plato, the wide- thinking Greek, but the voice is the voice of a humane, pub- lic-spirited, but limit... ...osophical interest, therefore, in a note or so upon the attributes of this legendary being. I write “leg- endary,” but thereby I display myself a scep... ...t, and grasps the sceptre of the world. Before man the great and prevalent creatures followed one another processionally to extinction; the early mons...

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...— “Once-born” and “twice-born” charac- ters— Walt Whitman— Mixed nature of Greek feel- ing—Systematic healthy-mindedness— Its reason- ableness— Libera... ...in success of every life—Pessimism of all pure naturalism— Hopelessness of Greek and Ro- 6 The V arieties of Religious Experience man view— Pathologi... ... been subject to abnormal psychical visitations. Invariably they have been creatures of exalted emotional sensibility. Often they have led a discordan... ...leth into such a deep abasement that it seemeth to him reasonable that all creatures in heaven and earth should rise up against him. And therefore he ... ... as objective facts to be revered. A brilliant school of interpretation of Greek mythology would have it that in their origin the Greek gods were only... ...s for some hours after I had gone to my bed. I was one of the most unhappy creatures on earth. “Sometimes I would leave the company (often speaking to... ...278 The V arieties of Religious Experience and the Buddhistic examples are legendary,[168]— what the effects might be: they might conceivably transfor...

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... have been gathered as food for the cu- riosity of the public. I leave the legendary side, which is always in evi- dence in the case of a celebrated m... ... his best pages, is always strained. To use the expressive metaphor of the Greek athletes, he “smells of the oil.” When one recalls that when attacked... ...ies, affording an en- trance to two schools, opened, and a flood of little creatures, boys on one side, girls on the other, poured out and began playi... ...?’ And they began to explain, and then they came to words. Oh! Lord! those creatures know some good ones. They shouted so loud, that our two witnesses... ...separate them, and all I received was scratches and bites. Good Lord, what creatures! Well, it took me five minutes, and perhaps ten, to separate thos... ...country celebrated for its scenery and its monuments, rel- ics left by the Greeks and the Normans. Passing over into Africa, I traversed at my ease th... ...till black, but he had a magnificent, full, black beard; he had be- come a Greek prince, and his name was Anastasio Maurokordatos. She met him once in...

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...s discovered in the deep, Where only body’s laid asleep. For the elemental creatures go About my table to and fro, That hurry from unmeasured mind To ... ...ous wings. THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE 127 I have looked upon those brilliant creatures, And now my heart is sore. All’s changed since I, hearing at twil... ...courteous to the worst; much falling he Brooded upon sanctity Till all his Greek and Latin learning seemed A long blast upon the horn that brought A l... ...is fed with light and heaven is bare. Robartes. When the moon’s full those creatures of the full Are met on the waste hills by countrymen Who shudder ... ...s because I lay about me with the taws That night and morning I may thrash Greek Alexander from my flesh, Augustus Caesar, and after these That great r... ...00 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS II Ribh Denounces Patrick An abstract Greek absurdity has crazed the man — Recall that masculine Trinity. Man, wo... ... man Old William pollexfen, The smuggler Middleton, Butlers far back, Half legendary men. Infirm and aged I might stay In some good company, I who have...

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...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... ...t strik- ing sentences had the bees for text. “They are indeed wonder- ful creatures, mem,” he said once. “They just mind me o’ what the Queen of Sheb... ...doubt it added to the fear in which men stood of John a touch of something legendary. For my own part, he was at first my enemy, and I, in my characte... ...er how they could follow and retain so long a story. But John denied these creatures all intelligence; they were the constant butt of his passion and ... ...s the faculties of man – that be- cause vain glory finds no vent in words, creatures supplied with eyes have been unable to detect a fault so gross an...