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...ie of our Judgement XLVIII. Of Steeds, called in French Destriers XLIX. Of ancient Customes L. Of Democritus and Heraclitus LI. Of the Vanitie of Word... ...rvaunt, but bade him fight and conquere, or die (Lib. i. c. 41): Like the Spartane imperious Mother, a shield indeede you gave mee, but with this Wo... ...is it the World knowes not his worth better; for as the Prince of Italian poets saide of Valerius Corvinus, Non so se migior Duce o Calliero (Pet. t... ...I flatter, when I forbeare not to tell all. Yet more I must needs say, if Poets be inspired by http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/montaigne/index.htm (8 ... ... all mens hearts, If bounties hand with all her beauteous parts, Poets, or Painters would to pourtray prove, Should they seeke earth below,... ... than the best, disclaimeth all memorie, authorities, or borrowing of the ancient or moderne; whereas in course of his discourse he seemes acquainte... ...all meanes and compass to bee expressed by teares.' The invention of that ancient Painter might happily fit this purpose, who in the sacrifice of Ip... ...weene them, ascribed the pre- excellencie of valor in that conflict to the Spartane nation. The Spartines, impartiall Judges of vertue, when they cam... ...rita Laconum. --Cic. Tusc. Qu. v. By our complots the haught renowne, Of Spartan Gallants was brought downe. And Africanus of that other; A sole ex...

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...le task of reconstructing the personality of Sappho and her background in ancient Lesbos. To my happy surprise he did so, in a work which is at once... ...eeling separate. How does one forget the battlefield? I heard the burr of ancient Egyptian. Persian was spoken by men from Ablas. Women gathered abo... ...they remained weighted to his lap. I ate supper there, lingering with the ancientness of his rooms, dark mosaics, the crowning of a king behind him,... ...he read to me at the same table, eatables cleared, read me from the Greek poets, Pindar’s ode on boxing, Simonides and his Perseus imprisoned in a c... ...rn again. Here is a book, on my desk, entitled Sparta. I believe that the Spartans were often respected for their courage. What is it men fear mos... ...en fear most? Death? Ten men will have ten answers. From the days of the Spartans men have floundered over freedom—spelling it a hundred different ... .... The White House Library Here I attempt to find sanctuary, among the poets. Now I realize that Mary is going insane. Only imbalance could bri... ...s of international poetry that honor the work of outstanding contemporary poets. Paul and Elizabeth’s son, Steven, edited and designed this volume....

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...torical evidence we have to account for the bias of the author. Then with ancient historical documents we have to be concerned with the biases of th... ...cism is also made of the Bible, of the works of Josephus and of all other ancient texts. Sometimes it is a question as to whether the authors to whic... ...on that there is uniformity in nature. Science cannot give certainty. The ancient Greek "scientists" could look at the sky and realize that the sun ... ... couldn‘t have foreseen and probably would disapprove. ―One of our poets put it this way: Is there heaven or is there hell? No book nor sage... ...t to a woman‘s life?‖ --―Is all life equally valuable? The ancient Spartans placed their babies on a hill to see which would survive. The sur... ...ables, especially the criminals, by killing them. And as with the ancient Spartans and many other societies, killing of undesirable infants is good ...

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.............................................................................................................................. 115 IMITATIONS OF ENGLISH POETS .................................................................................................................. 116 I. CHAUCER ............................................................................................

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............................................. 115 IMITATIONS OF ENGLISH POETS ........................................................................ ...gether idle. In 1740, he did nothing but edit an edition of select Italian Poets. This year, Crousaz, a Swiss professor of note, having attacked (we t... ..., or erred in any particular point: and can it then be wondered at, if the poets in general seem resolved not to own them- 2 ‘Preface:’ to the miscel... ...y one should imagine I am not in earnest, I desire him to reflect that the ancients (to say the least of them) had as much genius as we: and that to t... ...ll that is left us is to recommend our productions by the imitation of the ancients; and it will be found true, that, in every age, the highest charac... ...ore they who say our thoughts are not our own, be- cause they resemble the ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like ... ...ll: Here his abode the martyr’d Phocion claims, With Agis, not the last of Spartan names: Unconquer’d Cato shows the wound he tore, And Brutus his ill... ...lus: And as for courts, forgive me, if I say No lessons now are taught the Spartan way: Though in his pictures lust be full display’d, Few are the con...

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...here is nothing but prodigies and fictions, the only in- habitants are the poets and inventors of fables; there is no credit, or certainty any farther... ...ry in Crete; that the Cretans, in former times, to acquit themselves of an ancient vow which they had made, were used to send an offering of the first... ...oddess had the name of Epitrapia. When he arrived at Crete, as most of the ancient histori- ans as well as poets tell us, having a clue of thread give... .... When he arrived at Crete, as most of the ancient histori- ans as well as poets tell us, having a clue of thread given him by Ariadne, who had fallen... ...ra and this son, since none of the historians have contradicted the tragic poets that have written of them, we must suppose happened as represented un... ...ary , which name signifies purification, and the very day of the feast was anciently called Februata; but its name is equivalent to the Greek Lycaea; ... ...dorus and other chronologers, computing the time by the successions of the Spartan kings, pretend to demon- strate that he was much more ancient than ... ...inly was the most renowned of all his ancestors, under whose con- duct the Spartans made slaves of the Helots, and added to their dominions, by conque... ...at he him- self exercised the regal jurisdiction only as his guardian; the Spartan name for which office is prodicus. Soon after, an overture was made...

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...to his share; hence it was that he proved the most popular-tempered of the Spartan kings, his early life having added to his natural kingly and comman... ...her was not the effect of his love but of his ambition, that he might have Spartan kings of his posterity. This affair being grown public, it became n... ... there was a man, named Diopithes, at Sparta, who had a great knowledge of ancient oracles, and was thought particularly skillful and clever in all po... ... ensue. But Lysander was not wanting with an evasion, alleging that if the Spartans were really apprehensive of the oracle, they must have a care of L... ...ian expeditions against them. Out of the fore- sight of which it was, that anciently Lycurgus, in three sev- eral laws, forbade them to make many wars... ...ficient to recover the glory of it, and to raise it to 82 V olume Two its ancient greatness. For as we see in human bodies, long used to a very stric... ...ophanes, and was present at the contest, there periodi- cally held, of the poets, who took at that time no other theme or subject than the actions of ... ...gnified he should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labor and sweat to describe and cel- ebr... ...e a small eye-sore, from the port of Piraeus, should breed good actors and poets, and yet should never be able to produce a just, temperate, wise, and...

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... of pluralist sinecures in the Church. History and tradi- tion, whether of ancient or comparatively recent times, are subjected to very different hand... ...e. both of composing and reciting verses for as Blair observes, “The first poets sang their own verses.” Sextus Empir. adv. Mus. p. 360 ed. Fab- ric. ... ...mprovisation of Italy, can easily form an idea of Demodocus and Phemius.”— Ancient Greece, p. 94.] But poverty soon drove him to Cumæ. Having passed o... ... aside the fact that we must not expect consistency in a mere romance, the ancients had a superstitious belief in the great age of trees which grew ne... ...re taken.” Lit of Greece, pp. 38 in Encycl. Metrop. Cf. Coleridge, Classic Poets, p. 317.] But poverty still drove him on, and he went by way of Laris... ...d Odyssey the result of an ingenious arrangement of fragments by ear- lier poets? Well has Landor remarked: “Some tell us there were twenty Homers; so... ...orical probability must be measured by that of many others relating to the Spartan Confucius. I will conclude this sketch of the Homeric theories, wit... ...oves along the main. His brother follows, and to vengeance warms The hardy Spartans, exercised in arms: Phares and Brysia’s valiant troops, and those ... ... Say, was it thus, with such a baffled mien, You met the approaches of the Spartan queen, Thus from her realm convey’d the beauteous prize, And both h...

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...ods of existence, returning into this world when she has paid the penalty of ancient crime, and, having wandered over all places of the upper and unde... ...hilosophy says that all things in nature are de pendent on one another; the ancient philosopher had the same truth latent in his mind when he affirme... ...shrewd reflection, which may admit of an application to modern as well as to ancient teachers, that the Sophists having made large fortunes; this must... ...how they might be able to give a reason of their profession: there have been poets also, who spoke of these things by inspiration, like Pindar, and ma... ... just now speaking of as diviners and prophets, including the whole tribe of poets. Y es, and statesmen above all may be said to be divine and illumin... ...SOCRATES: And the women too, Meno, call good men divine—do they not? and the Spartans, when they praise a good man, say ‘that he is a divine man.’ MEN...

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......................................................... 381 CHAPTER XLIX OF ANCIENT CUSTOMS .............................................................. ..................................... 400 CHAPTER LII OF THE PARSIMONY OF THE ANCIENTS...................................................................... ...rent from all others which were at that date in the world. It diverted the ancient currents of thought into new channels. It told its readers, with un... ...s, as, for example, in my use of the word fortune, in quot- ing historical poets, in my apology for Julian, in my animad- version on the theory that h... ... of expressing such a degree of sorrow. Which is also the rea- son why the poets feign the miserable mother, Niobe, hav- ing first lost seven sons, an... ...overeign virtue, namely, that the public opin- ion condemns them; that the poets, and all other sorts of writers, relate horrible stories of them; a r... ... coming to divide amongst them the glory of the exploit, attributed to the Spartan nation the pre-eminence of valour in the en- gagement. The Spartans... ...ise, “Consiliis nostris laus est attrita Laconum;” [“The glory of the Spartans is extinguished by my plans. — ”Cicero, Tusc. Quaes., v. 17.] 373...

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...ivil disobedience or revolt. Now, when we con- sider how intimate, and how ancient, was the connection 9 Thomas de Quincey press voice of God. Such a... ...lating general expres- sions (such as recorded a moral indignation against ancient fallacies or evasions connected with the dispute) into direct ebull... ... saw young Mrs. Harvey, as well as Colonel Watson. And amongst them was an ancient German gentle- man, to what century belonging I do not know, who ha... ...have lost a day. But what came of the London lady’s or of Mrs. Schreiber’s Spartan discipline? Did the little blind kittens of Gracechurch-street, who... ...le. Already, at fifteen, I had made myself familiar with the great English poets. About sixteen, or not long af- ter, my interest in the story of Chat... ...rymen. With this knowl- edge, and this enthusiastic knowledge of the elder poets—of those most remote from easy access—I could not well be a stranger ... ...on occasion of some question arising about poetry in general, or about the poets of the day, that it became diffi- cult to dissemble. For my part, hat... ...cted in a spirit of religious indifference, though it is remarkable of the Spartans, that of all Greek tribes they were the most facile and numerous d... ... which measures the degree of unnatural con- straint and tension which the Spartan usages involved; but in this case we rather account for the public ...

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...ling up through smoke and thousand- fold exhalation, some fathoms into the ancient reign of Night, what thinks Bootes of them, as he leads his Hunt- i... ...sary of life, and would not be flatly gainsayed. We can still remember the ancient woman; so silent that some thought her dumb; deaf also you would of... ...ng by the light of Oriental, Pelasgic, Scandinavian, Egyptian, Otaheitean, Ancient and Modern researches of every conceivable kind, he strives to give... ...st can find the kernel.” In such rose-colored light does our Professor, as Poets are wont, look back on his childhood; the historical de- tails of whi... ...itual sort on Europe: I mean the epidemic, now endemical, of View-hunting. Poets of old date, being privileged with Senses, had also enjoyed external ... ..., imparted to all?” Quite in an opposite strain is the following: “The old Spartans had a wiser method; and went out and hunted down their Helots, and... ...ed Destiny, under that ink-sea of vapor, black, thick, and multifarious as Spartan broth; and was one lone soul amid those grinding millions;—often ha... ...e been of- ten irrefragably evinced, of the Tailor alone?—What too are all Poets and moral Teachers, but a species of Meta- phorical Tailors? Touching...

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...ains to be so much historical, as will serve to show what hath been done by ancient and famous common- wealths against this disorder, till the very... ...rks of Homer, and sent the poet Thales from Crete to prepare and mollify the Spartan surliness with his smooth songs and odes, the better to plant am... ...hall therefore deem to have been large enough, in producing what among the ancients was punishable to write; save only which, all other arguments ... ...as lineally as any pedigree. We have it not, that can be heard of, from any ancient state, or polity or church; nor by any statute left us by our an... ...t no defilement to insert into Holy Scripture the sentences of three Greek poets, and one of them a tragedian; the question was notwithstanding ...

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...ng as he made thee swear. 7 So he went up, and there went with him all the ancients of Pharao’s house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt. 8 And ... ...nd this is my memorial unto all generations. 16 Go and gather together the ancients of Is- rael, and thou shalt say to them: The Lord God of your fath... ... he had commanded. 29 And they came together, and they assem- bled all the ancients of the children of Israel. 30 And Aaron spoke all the words which ... ..., to con rm and to renew the amity with them: 2 And he sent letters to the Spartans, and to other places, according to the same form. 3 And they went ... ...ith peace. 5 And this is a copy of the letters which Jonathan wrote to the Spartans: 6 Jonathan, the high priest, and the ancients of the nation, and ... ...he nation, and the priests, and the rest of the people of the Jews, to the Spartans, their brethren, greeting. 7 There were letters sent long ago to O... ... of us: 28 For in him we live, and move, and are; as some also of your own poets said: For we are also his o spring. 29 Being therefore the o spring o...

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... does better, he esteems him. And notably the cause of the laws and of the ancient government of a kingdom, has this always annexed to it, that even t... ..., and too much imprinted in my fancy that it is a beast of company, as the ancient said, but not of the herd.—[Plutarch, On the Plurality of Friends, ... ...me. I there scalded myself in my youth, and suffered all the torments that poets say befall those who pre- cipitate themselves into love without order... ...ent to youth, but a reproach to old age.” These verses are preached in the ancient school, a school that I much more adhere to than the modern: its vi... ...les of this kind; thy life is full of them. Whilst the verses of these two poets, treat so reservedly and discreetly of wantonness as they do, methink... ...who expressed his critical opinions with too great a freedom to please the poets of his day.” D.W .] The network also that was set before the people t... ...re held in great con- tempt.] would have laughed at it, so little does the Spartan inno- cence resemble that of France. We are not without virtuous me...

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...ing hours in discussing Italian politics. We were, most of us, paint- ers, poets, novelists, or sculptors;—perhaps I should say would-be painters, poe... ...ertain bust, supposed by his admirers to be un- surpassed by any effort of ancient or modern genius. I am no judge of sculpture, and will not, therefo... ...might be united and Rome immortal. Here, standing on the Capitolium of the ancient city, I say that it shall be so; and thou, Mackinnon, who hearest m... ...on. “I believe she thinks,” said Mrs. Mackinnon, “that her virtue is quite Spartan and unique; and if she remains in Rome she’ll boast of it through t...

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...air Lewis therefore taboo, but he had come from Boston, he had lived among poets and socialists and Jews and million- aire uplifters at the University... ...s—the light of the library, an authority on books, invited to dinners with poets and explorers, read- ing a paper to an association of distinguished s... ... The sharp scent of oranges cutting the soggy smell of unbathed people and ancient baggage. Towns as planless as a scattering of pasteboard boxes on a... ... again. The bag is full of treasures and of memories: a leather buckle, an ancient band-concert program, scraps of ribbon, lace, satin. In the aisle b... ...lace was crowded with Scandinavian farmwives, standing aloof in shawls and ancient fawn-colored leg o’ mutton jackets, awaiting the return of their lo... ...umber of very interesting papers, this is such an interesting subject, the poets, they have been an inspiration for higher thought, in fact wasn’t it ... ...’s, a photographer’s “studio,” the lodge- rooms of the Affiliated Order of Spartans and, at the back, the Perrys’ apartment. They received her (their ... ...out of town with the other officers of the Ancient and Affiliated Order of Spartans, to inaugurate a new chapter at Wakamin. Vida had come to the hous... ... quite know what she thought about Kennicott’s going. Certainly she was no Spartan wife. She knew that he wanted to go; she knew that this longing was...

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... hour I am, that, amidst luxuries in all things else, we were trained to a Spartan simplicity of diet—that we fared, in fact, very much less sumptuous... ...rnings I went with the rest of my family to church: it was a church on the ancient model of England, having aisles, galleries, 12 organ, all things a... ...in this instance greatly aided to my own feelings by the alliance with the ancient phantom of the forest mountain in North Germany. The playfulness of... ...ne that the hand of man has cre- ated, is represented, on the authority of ancient traditions, to have uttered at sunrise, or soon after as the sun’s ... ... aloud to Mrs. Evans, indirectly, there- fore, to me. It communicated with Spartan brevity, the sad intelligence (but not sad to Mrs. E.) “that the ma... ...ed, I knew, and I know that, had I chosen to enlist amongst the soi disant poets of the day ,—amongst those, I mean, who, by mere force of talent and ... ...I also could have taken and sustained a place taliter qualiter amongst the poets of the time. Why not then? Simply because I knew that me, as them, wo... ...and legitimate diction of genuine emotion. Rarely, indeed, are the reputed poets of any age men who groan, like prophets, under the burden of a messag...

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...of pluralist sinecures in the Church. History and tra dition, whether of ancient or comparatively recent times, are subjected to very different hand... ...ey the result of an ingenious arrangement of fragments 11 Pope by earlier poets? Well has Landor remarked: “Some tell us there were twenty Homers; so... ... comparative inferiority of the Odyssey to the Iliad; and, among a mass of ancient authors, whose very names it would be tedious to detail, no suspici... ...lly put it; and it has been considered incumbent on those who defended the ancient aggregate character of the Iliad and Odyssey, to maintain that they... ... and harmonious form by the directions of the Athenian ruler. If the great poets, who flour ished at the bright period of Grecian song, of which, ala... ...e find no contradictions warranting this belief, and the so called sixteen poets concur in getting rid of the following leading men in the first battl... ...orical probability must be measured by that of many others relating to the Spartan Confucius. I will conclude this sketch of the Homeric theories with... ...e; Of Nestor, hoary sage, his doom demand: Thence speed your voyage to the Spartan strand; For young Atrides to the Achaian coast Arrived the last of ... ...isle. However, my friend, indulge one labour more, And seek Atrides on the Spartan shore. He, wandering long a wider circle made, And many languaged n...

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...ation and polish, and the art of conversing. He had read the French tragic poets and Moliere; he could even relish the Gallic- classic—’Qu’il mourut!’... ... his downrightness, passed with approval his compliments to France and the ancient high reputation of her army, and, seeing that a loophole was left f... ...of us. Gentlemen, to the exact number of the Graces, dressed in drab of an ancient cut, made a pilgrimage to the icy despot, and besought him to give ... ...watching above her were still brave emblems. Would Paris leave signs of an ancient vigour standing to vindicate dignity when her fall came? Nevil thou... ...to have stuck to their posts. Surely there was a conscious weakness in the Spartans, who were always at pains to discipline their 75 George Meredith ... ...t, to re- lease your shoulders in a trice. Mr. Timothy felt for his art as poets do for theirs, and considered what was best adapted to speaking, pure... ... Tory’s mentor and his cordial, with other great ancient comic and satiric poets, his old Port of the classical cellarage, reflecting veneration upon ... ...d with a vengeance: all the rest of the country being base members indeed; Spartans—helots. Criticism, now so help- ful to us, would wither to the roo... ...hatsoever was of service to Lord Avonley’s victim: and he was not like the Spartan boy with the wolf at his vitals; he betrayed it in the hue his uncl...

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... de FRENCH WAYS AND THEIR MEANING 3 tached from the lingering spell of the ancient shadowy world in which trees and animals talked to each other, an... ... to birds and insects because in some remote and perhaps prehistoric past an ancient Gaul once decreed that “blackberries give the fever.” An hour awa... ...innocent self. Yet the blackberry has been condemned untried because of some ancient taboo that the French peasant dares not disregard. FRENCH WAYS A... ...stic art) was something apart from life, as dangerous to it as Plato thought Poets in a Republic, and to be tolerated only when it was so lofty, unapp... ...arther south idle and improvi dent: France offered the happy mean which the poets are forever celebrating, and the French were early aware that the p... ..., the body obeys it with a dash and an endurance that no discipline, whether Spartan or Prussian ever succeeded in outdoing. This fearless and joyful ...