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...fe on the Mississippi. In My Mark Twain, Howells pens a literary memoir that includes such fascinating scenes as their meetings with former president Ulysses Grant who was then writing the classic autobiography that Twain would underwrite in the largest publishing deal until that time. But it is also notable for its affectionate descriptions of his friend's family life dur...

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...all who escaped death in battle or by ship wreck had got safely home except Ulysses, and he, though he was longing to return to his wife and country ... ... else who does as he did; but Aegisthus is neither here nor there; it is for Ulysses that my heart bleeds, when I think of his sufferings in that lone... ...eaven and earth asunder. This daughter of Atlas has got hold of poor unhappy Ulysses, and keeps trying by every kind of blandishment to make him forge... ... the smoke of his own chimneys. You, sir, take no heed of this, and yet when Ulysses was before Troy did he not propitiate you with many a burnt sacri... ...him?” And Jove said, “My child, what are you talking about? How can I forget Ulysses than whom there is no more capable man on earth, nor more liberal... ...seem to have given you lessons in bluster and tall talk ing; may Jove never grant you to be chief in Ithaca as your father was before you.” Telemachu... ... of public moment? I am sure he is an excellent person, and I hope Jove will grant him his heart’s desire.” T elemachus took this speech as of good om... ...ly to Neptune. “O thou,” she cried, “that encirclest the earth, vouchsafe to grant the prayers of thy servants that call upon thee. More especially we... ... some handsome return for the goodly hecatomb they are offering you. Lastly, grant T elemachus and myself a happy issue, in respect of the matter that...

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... MAJOR-GENERAL BURNSIDE, Knoxville, Tenn.: Have seen dispatch from General Grant about your loss at Rogersville. Per contra, about the same time, Aver... ...NCOLN. 23 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven TELEGRAM TO GENERAL GRANT. WASHING- TON, November 25, 1863. 8.40 A.M. MAJOR-GENERAL U.S. GRANT... ...f the United States it is provided that the President “shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except ... ...ng rebellion, except as hereinafter excepted, that a full pardon is hereby granted to them and each of them, with restoration of all rights of propert... ...taken up under the homestead law, and the residue dis- posed of under laws granting lands for military bounties, for railroad and other purposes. It ... ... in the United States Army, approved February 29, 1864, Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant, United States Army, is assigned to the command of the Arm...

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..., thy tresses gray,— That pleading look, what can it say But what I own?—I grant him brave, But wild as Bracklinn’s thundering wave; And generous, —sa... ...nd generous, —save vindictive mood Or jealous transport chafe his blood: I grant him true to friendly band, As his claymore is to his hand; But O! tha... ...s hand; But O! that very blade of steel More mercy for a foe would feel: I grant him liberal, to fling Among his clan the wealth they bring, When back... ...de in danger part The lineage of the Bleeding Heart! Hear my blunt speech: grant me this maid T o wife, thy counsel to mine aid; T o Douglas, leagued ... ...o, When, if thou wilt be still his foe, Or if the King shall not agree T o grant thee grace and favor free, I plight mine honor, oath, and word That, ... ...the author:— After the success of Marmion, I felt inclined to exclaim with Ulysses in the Odyssey: Odys. X. 5. “One venturous game my hand has won t...

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...en half a century before in that of Alfonso VI, and was rewarded by divers grants of land in the neighbourhood of Toledo. On one of his acquisitions, ... ... swept away, and the only function that remained to the Cortes was that of granting money at the King’s dictation. The transition extended to literatu... ... immediately strike a reader now-a- days, and Cervantes often takes it for granted that an allusion will be generally understood which is only intelli... ...uire, then.”— R. “Why, what’s the good? I might indeed complain of him,I grant ye, But, squire or master, where’s the difference? They’re both as... ...m, saying, “From this spot I rise not, valiant knight, until your courtesy grants me the boon I seek, one that will redound to your praise and the ben... ...rn a state; thus must he who would be esteemed prudent and patient imitate Ulysses, in whose person and labours Homer presents to us a lively picture ... ...ming forward as a magician if he likes. He can set forth the craftiness of Ulysses, the piety of AEneas, the valour of Achilles, the misfortunes of He...

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...rs again, to Ascanius, Aeneas’s son. Some tell us that Romanus, the son of Ulysses and Circe, built it; some, Romus the son of Emathion, Diomede havin... ...n army who with his own hand kills his enemies’ general that this honor is granted of offering the opima spolia. And three only of the Roman cap- tain... ...ich is somewhat severe, which suffers not a wife to leave her husband, but grants a husband power to turn off his wife, either upon poisoning her chil... ... sitting after wor- ship was to be by way of omen of their petitions being granted, and the blessing they asked assured to them. Again, as dif- ferent... ...n that Numa was by a great deal the more humane and Greek-like legislator, grant- ing even to actual slaves a license to sit at meat with their master... ... close to him, said, “This, O son of Hippocrates, is a bad copy of Homer’s Ulysses; you do, to trick your countrymen, what he did to deceive his enemi... ... Andocides the orator, whose descent the historian Hellanicus deduces from Ulysses. He was always supposed to hate popu- lar government, and to suppor... ...ppear to any whom he might meet most unlike what he really was, thus, like Ulysses, — The town he entered of his mortal foes. His arrival at Antium wa... ...ed with the names of Meriones, and (with the same spelling as in Latin) of Ulysses, who consecrated them to the goddesses. This city highly favoring t...

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... right!’ ‘Why so, sister? Why should I be called by so ugly a name? I like Ulysses much better; and it is also the name of my papa.’ ‘That is the very... ... and it is also the name of my papa.’ ‘That is the very thing. His name is Ulysses, and we are going to seek for him.’ ‘Oh! I hope that cruel old Ment... ...eyes. Estelle could not think her as beautiful as Calypso inconsolable for Ulysses, or Antiope receiving the boar’s a head. ‘I know she is better than... ...er.’ ‘Madame may reckon on me for whatever she would command.’ ‘If you can grant it—oh! Madame,’ cried the Scottish Count- ess, beginning to drop her ... ...he town of Algiers, and destroyed all the fortifications, peace being only granted on condition that a French Consul should reside at Algiers, and tha... ... and build were not yet discernible. ‘Mashallah! I beg pardon. I mean, God grant she pass us not by!’ The mast was hastily raised, with Tam’s turban u... ...hore, and which floundered into the sea like Proteus’ flock of yore before Ulysses. Would that Proteus himself had still been there to be captured and... ...two or three officers, all in full uniform; and the audi- ence having been granted, the whole party—consuls, M. Dessault, and their attendants—mounted...

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... shreds They vented their complainings; which being answer’d, And a petition granted them, a strange one— To break the heart of generosity, And make b... ...e moon, Shouting their emulation. MENENIUS: What is granted them? MARCIUS: Five tribunes to defend their vulgar wisdoms, Of ... ...RIA: You would be another Penelope: yet, they say, all the yarn she spun in Ulysses’ absence did but fill Ithaca full of moths. Come; I would your ca... ...y, I warrant you, and not with out his true purchasing. VIRGILIA: The gods grant them true! VOLUMNIA: True! pow, wow. MENENIUS: True! I’ll be sw... ..., But by your voices, will not so permit me; Your voices therefore.’ When we granted that, Here was ‘I thank you for your voices: thank you: Your mos... ...say, Honor and policy, like unsever’d friends, I’ the war do grow together: grant that, and tell me, In peace what each of them by the other lose, Th...

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...gs can frenzied dreams dispel, And the crazed brain restore: Saint Mary grant that cave or spring Could back to peace my bosom bring, Or bid it ... ...re, My cause with many-languaged lore, This may I say:- in realms of death Ulysses meets Alcides’ wraith; AEneas, upon Thracia’s shore, The ghost of m...

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...ers and the meaner class of persons are not always voluntarily disposed to grant him.” “O my Friends, we are [in Yorick Sterne’s words] but as ‘turkey... ...d gray austere yet hearty patriarchal aspect, could not but appear another Ulysses and ‘much-enduring Man. ’ Ea- gerly I hung upon his tales, when lis... ..., if Cherubim and a Flaming Sword divide it from all footsteps of men; and grant him, the imaginative stripling, only the view, not the entrance. Happ... ...l, reasonable Activity, essential to the former as Food to Hunger, nothing granted: till at length, in this wild Pilgrimage, he must forcibly seize fo... ...yet for the seeing eye sights enough in these so boundless Travels of his, granting that the Sa- tanic School was even partially kept down, what an in... ...s have all been sniffed aside, thought I: but what, had they even been all granted! Did not the Boy Alexander weep because he had not two Planets to c...

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...ject between the two windows is the banquet given by Calypso to the son of Ulysses, displayed thereon for the admiration of the board- ers, and has fu... ... reward for their toil—God Almighty’s outcasts, I call them. Among them, I grant you, is virtue in all the flower of its stupidity, but poverty is no ... ... to you! I have mine already made for me by that message from her. May God grant you all your desires! You have come in like a good angel on me to-nig... ...Maison Vauquer—an exceedingly respect- able boarding-house in every way, I grant you, but an estab- lishment that, none the less, falls short of being... ...ess, “how is my father?” “Very dangerously ill,” he answered; “if you will grant me a proof of your affections, we will just go in to see him on 221 ...

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...We can seat seventy persons,” she said to her brother tri- umphantly. “God grant that we may have seventy friends!” replied the colonel. 5 Balzac “If... ...nephew from marrying the heiress whose hand had been refused to them. “God grant that I may be master of this election,” said Goulard, “and that the C... ...to bring you. This is the third time he has put us off three months; don’t grant him any more delays; if he can’t pay now, give his note to Courtet, t... ...note said:— Monsieur le Comte,—I think I observed that Madame la comtesse granted me rather reluctantly her permission to profit by the audacious lar... ...father who will regard it as the finest day of his life when at last it be granted to him to reveal himself to his son. P .S. Y our statue, which is i... ...ssey has been thus evoked, I shall ask the Chamber to kindly remember that Ulysses, though disguised as a beggar and loaded with in- sults, was yet ab...

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...sida. AGAMEMNON: the Grecian general. MENELAUS: his brother. ACHILLES, AJAX, ULYSSES, NESTOR, DIOMEDES , and PATROCLUS: Grecian princes. THERSITES: a ... ...The Grecian camp. Before Agamemnon’s tent. [Sennet. Enter AGAMEMNON, NESTOR, ULYSSES, MENELAUS, and others .] AGAMEMNON: Princes, What grief hath set... ...athize, And with an accent tuned in selfsame key Retorts to chiding fortune. ULYSSES: Agamemnon, Thou great commander, nerv... ...pirit. In whom the tempers and the minds of all Should be shut up, hear what Ulysses speaks. Besides the applause and approbation To which, [To AGAMEM... ...is experienced tongue, yet let it please both, Thou great, and wise, to hear Ulysses speak. AGAMEMNON: Speak, prince of Ithaca; and be’t of less expe... ... fineness of their souls By reason guide his execution. NESTOR: Let this be granted, and Achilles’ horse Makes many Thetis’ sons. [A tucket.] AGAMEMN... ...ssida, how often have I wished me thus! CRESSIDA: Wished, my lord! The gods grant,— O my lord! TROILUS: What should they grant? what makes this pret... ...hall not speak of your pretty encounters, press it to death: away! And Cupid grant all tongue tied maidens here Bed, chamber, Pandar to pro vide this...

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... host, Melesigenes rapidly became ac quainted with the legends respecting Ulysses, which after wards formed the subject of the Odyssey. The inhabita... ...in the Odyssey, whose name he has inserted in his poem as the companion of Ulysses, in return for the care taken of him when afflicted with blind nes... ...tinue to enter, every breast which cherishes the same sympathies. If it is granted to his immortal spirit, from another heaven than any of which he dr... ...HA CA CA CA CA CA The poem opens within forty eight days of the arrival of Ulysses in his dominions. He had now remained seven years in the Island of ... ...hians; in which she ad vises him to take a journey in quest of his father Ulysses, to Pylos and Sparta, where Nestor and Menelaus yet reigned; then, ... ...wars of ten long years survived; And ‘scaped the perils of the gulfy main. Ulysses, sole of all the victor train, An exile from his dear paternal coas... ...n the helpless orphan dread a foe. But come it will, the time when manhood grants More powerful advocates than vain complaints. Approach that hour! in... ...sh, and let thy glory shine On Nestor first, and Nestor’s royal line; Next grant the Pylian states their just desires, Pleased with their hecatomb’s a... ...labours of the day refrain, For them to form some exquisite repast? Heaven grant this festival may prove their last! Or, if they still must live, from...

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...Atreus,” he cried, “and all other Achæans, may the gods who dwell in Olympus grant you to sack the city of Priam, and to reach your homes in safety; b... ...r temple with garlands, or burned your thigh bones in fat of bulls or goats, grant my prayer, and let your arrows avenge these my tears upon the Danaa... ...e been made already. Give this girl, therefore, to the god, and if ever Jove grants us to sack the city of T roy we will requite you three and fourfol... ...change to my liking, or I will come and take your own, or that of Ajax or of Ulysses; and he to whomsoever I may come shall rue my coming. But of this... ...t be lord of all, king of all, and captain of all, and this shall hardly be. Granted that the gods have made him a great warrior, have they also given... ... He escorted Chryseis on board and sent moreover a hecatomb for the god. And Ulysses went as captain. These, then, went on board and sailed their ways... ...im, still furious at the loss of her that had been taken from him. Meanwhile Ulysses reached Chryse with the hecatomb. When they had come inside the h... ... shore and landed the hecatomb for Apollo; Chryseis also left the ship, and Ulysses led her to the altar to deliver her into the hands of her father.... ...lympus, and in a moment she was at the ships of the Achæans. There she found Ulysses, peer of Jove in counsel, standing alone. He had not as yet laid ...

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... host, Melesigenes rapidly became ac- quainted with the legends respecting Ulysses, which after- wards formed the subject of the Odyssey. The inhabita... ...in the Odyssey, whose name he has inserted in his poem as the companion of Ulysses, [Note: A more probable reason for this companionship, and for the ... ...s, viz.: the assumption of Mentor’s form by the guardian deity of the wise Ulysses, Minerva. The classical reader may com- pare Plutarch, Opp. t. ii. ... ...tinue to enter, every breast which cherishes the same sympathies. If it is granted to his immortal spirit, from another heaven than any of which he dr... ...- ing them. Of this sort is the main story of an epic poem, “The return of Ulysses, the settlement of the T rojans in Italy,” or the like. That of the... ...n omit them) destroys the unity of his actions for those of Archemorus. If Ulysses visit the shades, the Æneas of Virgil and Scipio of Silius are sent... ... of the wrong done to her son, by giving victory to the T rojans. Jupiter, granting her suit, incenses Juno: between 57 Pope whom the debate runs hig... ...s a king might ask; and let it be A treasure worthy her, and worthy me. Or grant me this, or with a monarch’s claim This hand shall seize some other c... ...r hosts, our chiefs, ourself obey? What king can bear a rival in his sway? Grant that the gods his matchless force have given; Has foul reproach a pri...

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...en half a century before in that of Alfonso VI, and was rewarded by divers grants of land in the neighbourhood of Toledo. On one of his acquisitions, ... ... swept away, and the only function that remained to the Cortes was that of granting money at the King’s dictation. The transition extended to literatu... ... immediately strike a reader now-a- days, and Cervantes often takes it for granted that an allusion will be generally understood which is only intelli... ...uire, then.”— R. “Why, what’s the good? I might indeed complain of him,I grant ye, But, squire or master, where’s the difference? They’re both as... ...m, saying, “From this spot I rise not, valiant knight, until your courtesy grants me the boon I seek, one that will redound to your praise and the ben... ...rn a state; thus must he who would be esteemed prudent and patient imitate Ulysses, in whose person and labours Homer presents to us a lively picture ... ...ming forward as a magician if he likes. He can set forth the craftiness of Ulysses, the piety of AEneas, the valour of Achilles, the misfortunes of He... ...AEneas was not in truth and earnest so pious as Virgil represents him, nor Ulysses so wise as Homer describes him.” “That is true,” said Samson; “but ...

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...not one of the whole bri- gade but excelled myself in personal advantages. Ulysses even, with the unfair advantage of his accursed bow, could hardly h... ...throat cut in sup- port of France; which favour accordingly was cheerfully granted to him in three great successive battles: twice by the English, viz... ...er, had long since persuaded her mind that for her no such prayer could be granted. T oo well she felt that her mission must be worked out to the end,... ...does us, and the very indig- nant admiration which, under some aspects, he grants to us. 1. Our English literature he admires with some gnashing of te... ...m the savage delight I found in laughing at T om’s Latinity that, I freely grant to M Michelet, is inimi- table. Yet, after all, it is not certain whe... ...s twenty-seven miles east of Bath, where De Quincey attended school. 18 18 ULYSSES, ETC.: The allusion is, of course, to the slaughter of the suitors ... ...n is, of course, to the slaughter of the suitors of Penelope, his wife, by Ulysses, after his return. Cf. Odyssey, Books XXI-XXII. 19 3 ABOUT WATERLOO... ...Æneid, III, 658. Polyphemus, one of the Cyclopes, whose eye was put out by Ulysses, is meant. Cf. Odyssey, IX, 371 et seq.; Æneid, III, 630 et seq. 40...

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...AEneas was not in truth and earnest so pious as Virgil represents him, nor Ulysses so wise as Homer describes him.” “That is true,” said Samson; “but ... ...k at my disposi- tion, is that likely to show ingratitude to anyone?” “God grant it,” said Don Quixote; “we shall see when the govern- ment comes; and... ...r and mirror of the Spanish nation! may God Almighty in his infinite power grant that any person or persons, who would impede or hinder thy third sall... ...t have ever been in the world have left or may leave behind them?” “That I grant, too,” said Don Quixote. “Then this fame, these favours, these privil... ...’s the church we have lit upon, Sancho.” “So I see,” said Sancho, “and God grant we may not light upon our graves; it is no good sign to find oneself ... ...f it he let go Rocinante’s bridle, and he, perceiving the liberty that was granted him, stopped at every step to crop the fresh grass with which the p...

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...e fossils, and ending his days among them, content, like the companions of Ulysses, in his gross envelope. One evening Gaston de Nueil was seated betw... ...e Deserted Woman “Ah! madame, do not punish me for my heedlessness. If you grant me but one evening, vouchsafe not to shorten it.” She smiled at the p... ...! Should I have told you that my love was boundless, while I prayed you to grant me friendship, if I had any hope of your sharing this feeling in the ...