Full Text Search Details
...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...

Full Text Search Details
...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...

Full Text Search Details
... 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...

Full Text Search Details
... 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...

Full Text Search Details
...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...

Full Text Search Details
...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. ...

Full Text Search Details
...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 ...

Full Text Search Details
...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...

Full Text Search Details
...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...

Full Text Search Details
...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...

Full Text Search Details
...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...

Full Text Search Details
...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 ...

Full Text Search Details
...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...

Full Text Search Details
...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 ...

Full Text Search Details
... 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 ...

Full Text Search Details
...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 ...

Full Text Search Details
...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...

Full Text Search Details
... 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...

Full Text Search Details
...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...

Full Text Search Details
...— “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...

Full Text Search Details
... 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...

Full Text Search Details
...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...

Full Text Search Details
...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...