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...hese he adds to Geoffrey’s narrative two that bear unmistakable signs of a Celtic origin, and that were destined to become important elements in later... ... long lived, abounding in “virtues most good.” Layamon, too, gives a truly Celtic version of Arthur’s disap pearance from earth. Two fairy maidens be... ...e, which is vastly more complete than Wace’s, bear unmistakable marks of a Celtic origin. Layamon, in fact, living as he did near the Welsh border, na... ... most cases conveys the idea of bril liant whiteness, a characteristic of Celtic fairy objects. His ship, for example, is named White Form, his shiel... ...hurian Chronicles:Roman De Brut (Caletvwlch, Caliburn, Excalibur) is a Pan Celtic marvellous object, and is one of Arthur’s most famous possessions. T... ...er this foul treason, knives were long hight seax amongst the English, but names alter as the world moves on, and men recall no more the meaning of th... ...rder the king by craft and poison. They suborned certain evil doers, whose names I do not know, by 63 Wace promises of pennies and of land. These men... ...so great a fellowship of barons that I know not even to rehearse you their names. Yet these must be remembered, whomsoever I forget. Villamus, King of... ...or the quest. At the emperor’s com mandment came many mighty lords, whose names I find written in the chronicles of those times. T o meet Lucius came...

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...’s door Unquestioned turn the banquet o’er At length his rank the stranger names, ‘The Knight of Snowdoun, James Fitz-James; Lord of a barren heritage... ... deep sequestered dell Had sought a low and lonely cell. By many a bard in Celtic tongue Has Coir-nan-Uriskin been sung A softer name the Saxons gave,... ...r c . , Worcester’ s Dictionary (quarto edition). The abbreviations of the names of Shakespeare’s plays will be readily understood. The line-numbers a... ...ccording to Graham, it is “the scene of the death of a wild boar famous in Celtic tradition.” 114. Unbated. Cf. Shakespeare, M. of V . ii. 6. 11: “Whe... ...f. Wb. 504. Here for retreat, etc. Scott has the following note here: “The Celtic chieftains, whose lives were continually exposed to peril, had usual... ...s vines. 526. Clematis. The Climatis vitalba, one of the popular En- glish names of which is virgin-bower. 528. And every favored plant could bear. Th... ...d when he had proceeded to the fourth of fifth stanza, I perceived, by the names of several persons, glens, and mountains, which I had known or heard ... ...821 reads “had harbored.” 319. Beltane. The first of May, when there was a Celtic festi- val in honor of the sun. Beltane = Beal-tein, or the fire of ... ...song! Oh! courteous champion of Montrose! Oh! stately warrior of the Celtic Isles! Thou shalt buckle thy harness on no more!’ “The coronach h...

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...t was a blunder; the site has proved untenable; and, al- though it is still such a young place by the scale of Europe, it has already begun to be dese... ...s are famous; they were the great health resort of the Indi- ans before the coming of the whites. Lake County is dotted with spas; Hot Springs and Whi... ...s, blue, red, or yellow, stamped with crown or coronet, and hailing from such a profusion of clos and chateaux, that a single depart- ment could scarc... ...far country, and, whether we hail from the braes of Manor or the braes of Mar, some ready- made affection joins us on the instant. It is not race. Loo... ...you had been born, for instance, in En- gland. But somehow life is warmer and closer; the hearth burns more redly; the lights of home shine softer on ... ...ble, Irun, Coimbre, Sautander, Almodovar, Sitot qu’on entend le timbre Des cymbales do Bivar.” The redbreasts and the brooks of Europe, in that dry an...

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...Nor did Janet forget the portents which had announced the departure of the Celtic race, and the arrival of the strang- ers. For two years previous to ... ...will be found nearly as genuine as the version of Ossian by his celebrated namesake. “Birds of omen dark and foul, Night-crow, raven, bat, and owl, ... ... the High- land paths. Angus M’Aulay mumbled over a number of hard Gaellic names, descriptive of the difficult passes, precipices, corries, and beals,... ...wis, as part of a deliberate plan, formed to introduce strangers among the Celtic tribes, to destroy by degrees their ancient customs and mode of gove... ...for drops of frozen hail, Are glistening in her hair. The admirers of pure Celtic antiquity, notwithstanding the elegance of the above translation, ma... ...hunder. So that, under the jealous precautions used to secure this ancient Celtic for- tress, a person of weak nerves, and a brain liable to become di... ...n in the most despotic gov- ernment. That which mitigated the power of the Celtic Chiefs, was the necessity which they lay under of conciliat- ing the... ...rd shall be bounden also; but first he must fill up this passport with the names of Major Dugald Dalgetty and his guide, or he is like to have a passp... ...the title; and Milton in his sonnet retaliates upon the barbarous Scottish names which the Civil War had made familiar to English ears:— — why is it h...

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... by the post-office servants, and summoned to draw up, the great ancestral names of cities known to his- tory through a thousand years—Lincoln, Winche... ...ed in the news and its details as gave to her the appearance which amongst Celtic Highlanders is called fey. This was at some little town where we cha... ...htly they did us all the mischief they could (which was really great), are names justly reverenced in England. On the same principle, La Pucelle d’Orl... .... Michael and All Angels, is on September 29. Hilary and Trinity are other names for Lent term and Act term respectively. Act term is the last term of... ...icial an- nouncement, as this of a great victory. 30 17 FEY: This is not a Celtic word; it is the Anglo-Saxon faege retained in Lowland Scotch, which ... ... In some of the romances of the Middle Ages, especially those contain- ing Celtic material, a knight, while hunting, is led by his pursuit of a white ... ...81 3 SHE “PRICKS” FOR SHERIFFS: The old custom was to prick with a pin the names of those chosen by the sovereign for sheriffs. 82 9 AMPULLA: the flas...

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...y hallowed tomb! Deep graved in every British heart, Oh never let those names depart! Say to your sons—Lo, here his grave, Who victor died on Gadit... ... up the noblest of the land, Till through the British world were known The names of Pitt and Fox alone. Spells of such force no wizard grave E’er fram... ...hic harp has o’er you rung; The bard you deigned to praise, your deathless names has sung. Stay yet, illusion, stay a while, My wildered fancy stil... ...faned the God-given strength, and marred the lofty line. Warmed by such names, well may we then, Though dwindled sons of little men, Essay to break... ...hat doublet pied Could make a kirtle rare.” V. Next, Marmion marked the Celtic race, Of different language, form, and face - Avarious race of ma... ...wful summons came: – XXVI. “Prince, prelate, potentate, and peer, Whose names I now shall call, Scottish, or foreigner, give ear! Subjects of him w...

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...to them. The mutes have here and there a sketch or label attached to their names: they are ‘strikingly handsome’; they are ‘very good-looking’; occasi... ...dvertizements of light and easy dentistry. He has no belief, no disbelief; names the pro-party and the con; recites the case, and discreetly, over-dis... ...ved his assent to the proclamation of any English disadvantage. A whiff of Celtic hostility in the atmosphere put him on his mettle. ‘Wherever the man... ...girl had suffered a persecution, it might be an insult. She spelt over the names of the guests at the houses. Lord Wroxeter was of evil report: Captai... ...tune to know I was born an active. I take my chance.’ Once she coupled the names of Lord Larrian and Lord Dannisburgh, remarking that she had a fatal ... ...e higher, bleed as they may, too pressingly feel their debt. Diana had the Celtic vivid sense of country. In England she was Irish, by hereditary, and... ...Mr. Dacier agree?’ ‘Not always. He has the inveterate national belief that Celtic blood is childish, and the consequently illogical disregard of its h... ...n, that’s sure; and Shakespeare’s Plays, tragic and comic; and the Book of Celtic History; and Erin incarnate—down with a cold, no matter where; but w... ...reflection to admit that it came of a sympathy she did not share. But when Celtic brains are reflective on their emotional vessel they shoot direct as...

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...p, nowise endowed it; so that Teufelsdrockh, “rec- ommended by the highest Names,” had been promoted thereby to a Name merely. Great, among the more e... ...lainness; calls many things by their mere dic- 22 Sartor Resartus tionary names. To him the Upholsterer is no Pontiff, nei- ther is any Drawing-room ... ...mydes, togas, Chinese silks, Afghaun shawls, trunk-hose, leather breeches, Celtic hilibegs (though breeches, as the name Gallia Braccata indicates, ar... ...apsburgs; but of Stamped Broad-sheet Dy- nasties, and quite new successive Names, according as this or the other Able Editor, or Combination of Able E... ...ward Force, the ‘phantasy of our Dream;’ or what the Earth-Spirit in Faust names it, the living visible Garment of God:— “‘In Being’s floods, in Act... ...d thee into Life, and for a time suckled and pap-fed thee there, whom thou namest Father and Mother; these were, like mine, but thy nursing-father and...

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... _25 To sage or poet these responses given— Therefore the names of Demon, Ghost, and Heaven. Remain the records of their vain endeavo... ... pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. I called on poisonous names with which our youth is fed; I was not heard—I saw them not— When mus... ...and calls them over, A Youth with hoary hair and haggard eye— They are the names of kindred, friend and lover, Which he so feebly calls—they all are g... ...ll are gone— _5 Fond wretch, all dead! those vacant names alone, This most familiar scene, my pain— These tombs—alone remain. 2... ... _150 In her omnipotence, and shake From the Celtic Anarch’s hold All the keys of dungeons cold, Where a hundred cities ... ... shank, And stifled the air till the dead wind stank. And plants, at whose names the verse feels loath, Filled the place with a monstrous undergrowth,... ...rds, _170 And frowns and fears from thee, Would not more swiftly flee Than Celtic wolves from the Ausonian shepherds.— Whatever, Spirit, from thy star...

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...had already refused several offers of marriage with a grand air, which had got her hard names among the neighbours. For all that she was a good girl, ... ...me of his parishioners. This was a family – but you are ignorant of Spain, and even the names of our grandees are hardly known to you; suffice it, the... ...d upon the torturer, spoke to him long out of the heat of my indignation, call- ing him names at which he seemed to wither; and at length, pointing to... ...lashes of excitement, and felt his head all over from an ethnologi- cal point of view. ‘Celtic, Celtic!’ he said. ‘Celtic!’ cried Madame Tentaillon, w...

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...ourable to the memory of both parties, we have no hesitation to give their names at length. When the Highlanders, on the morning of the battle of Pres... ...a positive goddess, or elevated her at least to a level with the saint her namesake, Mrs. Rachel Waverley gained some intimation which determined her ... ... the houses of genuine loyalty, Mordaunts, Granvilles, and Stanleys, whose names were to be found in that military record; and, calling up all his fee... ...illage poet, Who, noteless as the race from which he sprung, Saved others’ names, but left his own unsung. The sweetness of her voice, and the simple ... ...k to the health and prosperity of Mac-Ivor of Glennaquoich; upon which the Celtic ambassador, to requite his politeness, turned down a mighty bumper o... ...tremendous war-tune; and the echoing of the vaulted roof, and clang of the Celtic tongue, produced such a Babel of noises, that Waverley dreaded his e... ...the hint, and began to chant, with low and rapid utterance, a profusion of Celtic verses, which were received by the audience with all the applause of... ... forefathers, I must tell you that Captain Waverley is a worshipper of the Celtic muse, not the less so perhaps that he does not understand a word of ... ...s equally amused and surprised with the account which the lady gave him of Celtic poetry. ‘The recitation,’ she said, ‘of poems, recording the feats o...

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... other but himself. There were doubtless a few outlying rulers, of unknown names and titles upon the margins of his empire, there were tributary lieut... ...he de- cencies of external form, and the prescriptive reverence of ancient names. But neither senate nor people could enforce their claims, whatever t... ...mmer heat nor in winter’s cold, did he cover his head; but, as well in the Celtic snows as in Egyptian heats, he went about bareheaded.” This anecdote... ...ices of such an assessor; for the office imposed a twofold memory, that of names and of persons; and to estimate the immensity of the effort, we must ... ...ms and military appointments (supellectilis) were revised; the register of names was duly called over; and none suffered to remain in the camps who wa... ...est choice, was Lucius Aurelius Verus, the son of Cejonius Commodus. These names were borne also by the son; but, after his adoption into the Ælian fa...

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...ed, eked it out with invention. I believe that in some cases, where actual names are affixed to the supposed quota- tions, it would be to little purpo... ... present age—notwithstanding that the page of our history was studded with names destined also for the page of immortality—that the genius of Shakespe... ...bear him out in denying the truth of the proposition. After eulogizing the names of Baillie, Byron, Coleridge, Maturin, and others, he begged to have ... ...duced many worship- ful and famous patriots, of quhom I now praetermit the names; it being my purpose, if God shall spare me life for sic ane pious of... ...al letters, which ornamented the com- mencement of each paragraph, and the names of his family and of his ancestors whenever these occurred in the pag... ... upon her, expressed herself almost poetically, owing to the genius of the Celtic language in which she thought, and in which, doubtless, she would ha... ...rfae, and tribute from meaner men. [Caberfae—anglice, the Stag’s-head, the Celtic designation for the arms of the family of the high Chief of Seaforth...

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...y, by an appeal to public opinion through you, than by such an exposure of names as would follow an appeal to Bow Street; which last appeal, however, ... ... can allow himself to call murders. I could mention some people (I name no names) who have been murdered by other people in a dark lane; and so far al... ...een corpses; creditor by forty-five bandages, two of which damaged.’ Their names unfortunately are lost; but I conceive they must have been Quintus Bu... ...htly they did us all the mischief they could, [which was really great] are names justly reverenced in England. On the same principle, La Pucelle d’Orl... ... ring. I presume, therefore, that La Pacelle must have borne the baptismal names of Jeanne Jean; the latter with no reference to so sublime a person a... ... in the news, and its details, as gave to her the appearance which amongst Celtic Highlanders is called fey. This was at some little town, I forget wh...

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...gonauts had been told often be fore in verse and prose, and many authors’ names are given in the Scholia to Apollonius, but their works have perished... ...wrought by the guidance of Athena. But now I will tell the lineage and the names of the heroes, and of the long sea paths and the deeds they wrought i... ...hat busi ness bids you sail across the sea, and tell me your own glorious names and lineage.” (ll. 1140 1156) And him Argus, helpless in his evil pl... ...s to take the possessions of Athamas. And if thou dost desire to learn our names, this is Cytissorus, this Phrontis, and this Melas, and me ye may. ca... ...e, and he will subdue them to thy sway. And if thou desirest to know their names and lineage I will tell thee all. This man on whose ac count the res... ... And from Rhodanus they entered stormy lakes, which spread throughout the Celtic mainland of wondrous size; and there they would have met with an ing...

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...ion of about 50,000, fully three- fourths of whom had a strong infusion of Celtic blood in them. The mode of life was, and is, rather pastoral than au... ...the third face, hearing, speech, and eyesight. They gave them clothing and names; the man Ask and the woman Embla; thence was mankind begotten, to who... ...entive folk, possessed of high culture and great learning. The infusion of Celtic blood, however slight it may have been, had also something to do wit... ...in kin, and some there are who are daughters of Dvalin.” Said Sigurd, “How namest thou the holm whereon Surt (3) and the Aesir mix and mingle the wate...

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...bly of a quarrel, together with the natural inter- est in seeing men whose names had been long before the public in books and periodical journals. The... ...synodos. Rarely, indeed, can we applaud the Seceders in the fabrication of names. They distinguish as quoad sacra par- ishes those which were peculiar... ...ng drawn aside mankind from a pure wor- ship. As ruined angels under other names, they are no less real than the faithful and loyal angels of the Chri... ...oo narrow a scale and under too monotonous an aspect; that under different names, and in connection with different dates and regions, events virtually... ...ar, in passages of history taken from periods widely re- mote, affects the names only, and circumstances that are ex- tra-essential; that the passions... ...blood was different; and by a wider difference, perhaps, than that between Celtic and T eutonic. The garru- lous Athenian despised the hesitating (but...

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...d in the midland and southern coun- ties, where there was less infusion of Celtic blood. Anne was a good deal shocked at the doctrine propounded by th... ...he shepherd’s name? Who was his master? Anne did not know—she had heard no names save Hob and Hal, she had seen no arms, she had heard nothing southla... ...ide as herd boy to Halbert Halstead here; only thou must forget both their names, and know them only as Hal and Hob.’ With a gesture of obedience, Sim... ...tched, he observed, and he dreamt, and came to conclusions that his King’s namesake cousin, Enrique of Portugal, the discoverer, in his observatory at... ...as to the persons brought to him, generally calling them by their fathers’ names, if he recognised them at all, but still to his nearest attendants, a... ...e 119 Yo n g e with her, and pay homage to the new sovereign in their own names, and rode with them to Westminster. There a very different monarch fr...

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...scent, doubt it not; though no Moniteur has reported them. They scolded in Celtic Welsh, those 68 The French Revolution - V olume Three Brennuses; ne... ...hlet, with what eloquence it can: President’s List swells ever higher with names claim- 89 Thomas Carlyle ing to speak; from day to day, all days and... ... alive over France! In Paris and all Towns, every house-door must have the names of the inmates legibly printed on it, ‘at a height not exceeding five... ...; for the number first given by Section Bonconseil still holds, though the names should even vary. Other Sections, of the wealthier kind, come denounc... ... what are the Traitors doing at Caen? What Deputies are at Caen?—Charlotte names some Deputies. “Their heads shall fall within a fortnight,” croaks th... ...lplessly enough. But what if History were to admit, for once, that all the Names and Theorems yet known to her fall short? That this grand Product of ...

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...dreaded hypoth- esis! Why, then you see the insurgent Saxon seamen (of the names in two syllables with accent on the first), and their Danish captains... ...Septimus Barmby. Groseman Buttermore—Septimus Barmby. Is there anything in names? Truly, unless these clerical gentlemen take them up at the crossing ... ... gentlemen take them up at the crossing of the roads long after birth, the names would appear the active parts of them, and themselves mere marching s... ...seman Buttermore, and beyond the fact that Reverend starts up before their names without mention, I wager it’s about all we do know of them. They’re S... ...ympathetic. Only the Welsh and pure Irish are quick at the feelings of the Celtic French. Nataly came of a Yorkshire stock; she had the bravery, human... ...s in signs, Skepsey drew from his friend a course of instruction in French names, for our necessities on a line of march. The roads to Great Britain’s...

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...t, a mechanical ex- pert of some sort, a railway peer, geniuses, hairy and Celtic, people of no clearly definable position, but all quite unequal to t... ...iar his resolution to be successfully inti- mate made him. He put down the names and brief charac- teristics of their sons and daughters in a little n... ...e her hesitate over the bishop’s telegram, was derived. She ran over their names as she sat considering her reply. What was there for a bishop to obje... ...you have in those cases of people who are found wandering unaware of their names, unaware of their places of residence, lost altogether from themselve... ... Bishop the same story and the same perplexity cropping up under different names, the story of one being who stirs us, calls to us, and leads us, and ... ...shioned word—shall I say suggestion? To stand by the altar bearing strange names and ancient symbols, speak- ing plainly to all mankind of the one tru...

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...desolate in their disorder, yet twinkled with the lonely homeliness of the Celtic night. He tramped steadily on, always watchful with curiosity. He wa... ...ll-drawn brows, and the immature softness and mindlessness of the sensuous Celtic type. ‘Ho, Maryann! Evenin’, Maryann! How’s Maryann, now?’ came the ... ... didn’t call it anything, as I know of. It’s no good calling things by any names whatsoever, as I know of.’ She watched him in his actions. There was ...

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...tace. “Le Borgne Basque, I know no other,” said Gaston. “We reck little of names here, especially when it may be conve- 25 Yo n g e nient to have the... ...tter? Down with that sword, and follow me! Dost not hear, froward boy? Our names will be called in question! Leonard, on your duty—Ha! have a care! th... ... years a mark for plots and conspiracies; and the vindictive temper of the Celtic race leading him to avenge the death of his brother upon every Engli...

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...the various weak and scattered compa- nies. These legions were to bear the names of the depart- ments,—Sarthe, Orne, Mayenne, Ille-et-Vilaine, Morbiha... ...g of, was often sublime. The word “gars” pronounced “ga” is a relic of the Celtic language. It has passed from low Breton into French, and the word in... ...oes by. All those beasts,” he added, pointing to Marche-a-Terre, “stick on names which would give a stom- ach-ache to honest patriots if they bore the... ...igned by Laplace, and counter-signed by Dubois, minister of war.” At these names several heads were turned to her. “Listen to the wording of it,” she ... ...ains that hem in the broad valley of Couesnon to the west and take various names according to their localities. The town is separated from the mountai... .... Before beginning the ceremony the priest asked, in the dead silence, the names of the bride. “Marie-Nathalie, daughter of Mademoiselle Blanche de Ca...

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...ng men of Athens, that accompanied him in this voyage, all brothers, whose names were Euneos, Thoas, and Soloon. The last of these fell desperately in... ...all but in the city is certain, and may be suf- ficiently confirmed by the names that the places thereabout yet retain, and the graves and monuments o... ...the sacred places which the city had set apart for himself, changing their names from Thesea to Heraclea, four only excepted, as Philochorus writes. A... ... of the steadfast and immovable power of this god, who from thence has the names of Asphalius and Gaeiochus, that is, the establisher and stayer of th... ...l. And a little after, speaking of her death:— The numerous nations of the Celtic foe Bore her not living to the banks of Po; Their heavy shields upon... ...tribe con- tained ten curiae, or brotherhoods, which, some say, took their names from the Sabine women; but that seems to be false, because many had t... ...story, and a little after came Camillus’s banishment. The Gauls are of the Celtic race, and are reported to have been compelled by their numbers to le...

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...nt from Brittany for over a year, and people had ceased to associate their names. The witnesses who made this statement were not of a very reputable s... ...f warm blood in him that can’t picture the deadly horrors of remorse—” The Celtic imagination was aflame, and Granice mutely thanked him for the word....

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.... His many capitals—Babylon the great, Susa, Persepolis, and the like—were names of dreamy splendor to the Greeks, described now and then by Ionians f... ...oming death foreknew, Yet scorn’ d he to forsake his Spar- tan lords’. The names of the 300 were likewise engraven on a pillar at Sparta. Lions, pilla... ...ir records were destroyed; but even when place and period are misty, great names and the main outline of their actions loom through the cloud, perhaps... ... years as justly to regard them as their inheritance, were Gaul. There the Celtic race had had their abode ever since history has spoken clearly, and ... ...me as much like Romans themselves as they could accomplish; they had Latin names, spoke the Latin tongue, all their personages of higher rank were enr... ...off for a town, Hai Luli! For a fine, fine town, Hai Luli! But I name no names, Hai Luli! Courage, courage, master dear, Hai Luli! Never, never, d...

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... cigarshops to a smoker in ours. The painter ran along, reading the street names upon the lamps. When he asked the passers-by to show him a lottery-of... ...e ruins of the basilica, which itself stood above the Roman temple and the Celtic Dun. These ruins, each of which represents a period of sev- eral cen... ...articular moment Francois and Baruch (we will call them by their Christian names for the sake of clearness) were sitting, one on each side of Max, at ... ...s,” said old Hochon. “I shall succeed, monsieur. First of all, give me the names of the officers of the old army now living in Issoudun, who have not ... ...on’t mince matters,” remonstrated Flore; “he’ll call things by their right names.” “Listen to me,” said Maxence in a harsh voice. “Do you think I’ve n...

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...te for flowers, and for horticulture. But instead of murdering bo- tanical names, I will rather conduct you to the policy, or plea- sure-garden, which... ...Some mistake, madam, I presume, betwixt my father and myself—our Christian names have the same initials, though the terminations are different. I—I—I ... ...said Mr. Saunders; ‘now, or never, Peter, do me a good turn. Yonder’s your namesake, Peter Peebles, will drive the swine through our bonny hanks of ya... ... I asked him whether his name was not Cristal Nixon. ‘What is other folk’s names to you,’ he replied, gruffly, ‘who cannot tell your own father and mo... ...r—we—eh—know, and are aware—that—poof— you do not like to hear some folk’s names; and that—eh— you understand me—there are things, and sounds, and mat... ...ring down all before me. I heard the cry of “Seize the madman!” echoed, in Celtic sounds, from the City Guard, with “Ceaze ta matman!”—but pur- suit a...

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...illiancy and unity of effect amongst all varieties of the chase.* *If mere names were allowed to dazzle the judgment, how magnificent to a gallant you... ...land, about the year 1644, &c. Connected with these negotiations were many names amongst Lord Massey’s own ancestors; so that here he suddenly alighte... ...- ance, of that native Lancashire population, as yet not much alloyed with Celtic adulteration. My feelings towards them are the same as were eloquent... ...m being exhausted. There are now, I believe, between five and six thousand names upon the Oxford books; and more than four thousand, I understand, of ... ...he first question was couched the following latitude of choice: I give the names of the colleges, and the numerical account of their numbers, as it st... ................................... 96 109 Thomas de Quincey Such being the names, and general proportions on the scale of local importance, attached t...

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... was a rack filled with books. glanced over them, noting with astonishment such names as Shake speare, Tennyson, Poe, and De Quincey. There were scien... ... it ye can get men to do anything on God’s earth an’ sea?” Louis demanded with Celtic fire. “How d’ye find me aboard if ’twasn’t that I was drunk as a p... ...ith a thoroughness that Mugridge had not forgiven, for words followed and evil names involving smirched ancestries. Mugridge menaced with the knife he... ... night, Maud,” I said. “Good night, Humphrey,” she said. This use of our given names had come about quite as a matter of course, and was as unpremedit...

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... history witnesses that vast convulsions have rent and weakened it and the Celtic feeling towards the Stuarts has been rekindled in our own days towar... ...os paramenei to megethos] and, among a mass of ancient authors, whose very names [Note: See Tatian, quoted in Fabric. Bibl. Gr. v. II t. ii. Mr. Macke... ...e Bible—even the obscurest and most unimportant enumeration of mere proper names not excepted. We do not mention these facts as touching the more diff... ...n the nature of surnames, and re- peated as such; for the Greeks having no names derived from their fathers, were obliged to add some other distinctio... ..., indeed, we have something parallel to these in modern times, such as the names of Harold Harefoot, Edmund Ironside, Edward Longshanks, Edward the Bl... ... who had led me the way in translating some parts of Homer. I must add the names of Mr. Rowe, and Dr. Parnell, though I shall take a further opportuni...

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...r and design; they observe, for example, that two eminent per- sons, whose names were Attis, the one a Syrian, the other of Arcadia, were both slain b... ...n, the other of Arcadia, were both slain by a wild boar; that of two whose names were Actaeon, the one was torn in pieces by his dogs, the other by hi... ...t they could not shut them soon enough; and of two cities which take their names from the most agree- able odoriferous plants, Ios and Smyrna, the one... ...rtook, while Marius led the army, to spy out the enemy’s camp. Procuring a Celtic dress, and acquainting himself with the ordinary expressions of thei... ... caused Perpenna immediately to be put to death, lest by discovering their names, further troubles and revolu- tions might ensue. Of the rest of the c... ...or any of the celebration of the festival abate; but privately sending the names of the slain to each family, out of which they were lost, they contin... ...erson, he singled out and bent all his forces against Brutus, and when the Celtic horsemen from the enemy’s side rode out to meet him, Pompey himself ...

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... slightest vexa- tion. His talk of renowned prime-donne by their Christian names, and the way that he would catalogue emperors, states- men, and noble... ...at at harp or piano, and then ran out to gather wild flowers and learn the names of trees and birds. On almost all occasions Wilfrid was her companion... ...derick—it began with G something. O me! have I really forgotten? Christian names are always easier to re- member. A captain he was—a riding one; just ... ...ful that all our nobility don’t go to the dogs. We must preserve our great names. I speak against my own interest.” He lifted Adela’s chin on his fore... ...ould stop, that, I am ready to say, ladies have no right to call us horrid names, and complain of us, till they have helped us to some such trust- wor... ...r the sum she had received, stuck infamy upon the whole list of them. “The Celtic nature,” murmured Cornelia. And the ladies maintained that their ser...

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.... Meadows said. ‘I do not like calling servants by anything but their true names,’ answered Albinia; ‘it does not seem to me treating them with proper... ... ‘it does not seem to me treating them with proper respect to change their names, as if we thought them too good for them. It is using them like slave... ...oast, and the O’Mores of Ballymakilty, till Albinia grew quite sick of the names of the whole clan of thirty-six cousins, and thought, with her aunts,... ... believed it, but to ascertain.—For Mrs. Drury had been told—mentioning no names—oh, no! for fear of making mischief—she had been told that Mrs. Kenda... ...; and gratifying Winifred by a great deal more notice of the new niece and namesake than she had ever bestowed on either of her predecessors in their ... ...ose it is a great thing to have one in the way of money-making.’ ‘Hem! The Celtic blood is all in commotion! This boy’s business was to ask my candid ...

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...der strongly marked, prominent and mobile eyebrows, indicated a mixture of Celtic blood. The face was large and roughly hewn, and when in repose had n... ... ornaments condemned not only by the Methodists, but by her own cousin and namesake Timothy’s Bess, who, with much cousinly feeling, often wished “the... ... said as I was a blind Pharisee—a-usin’ the Bible i’ that way to find nick-names for folks as are his elders an’ betters!—and 54 Adam Bede what’s wor... ...s doctrines and notions. I look at it as if the doctrines was like finding names for your feelings, so as you can talk of ‘em when you’ve never known ... ...ou’ve never known ‘em, just as a man may talk o’ tools when he knows their names, though he’s never so much as seen ‘em, still less handled ‘em. I’ve ... ...- ment in farming practice, some reform of parish abuses, with which their names are associated by one or two generations after them. Their employers ...

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... SAXON By George Meredith 1910 CHAPTER I WHEREIN AN EXCURSION IS MADE IN A CELTIC MIND A YOUNG IRISH GENTLEMAN of the numerous clan O’Donnells, and a ... ...d. Or, if you insist, the condition shall be said to belong exclusively to Celtic nature, seeing that it had been drawn directly from a scion of one o... ...would have bowed more cordially on his introduction to her, for these were names with portraits and vistas beyond, that shook leaves of recollection o... ...ep in richness. Nor would he have throbbed had one of any of his favourite names appeared in the place of Caroline Adister. They had not moved his hea... ...osed for her, to satisfy her pleasure in a fine sound. En- glish Christian names are my preference. I conceded Arthur to her without difficulty. She h... ...e off to decipher a bit of Egyptian on baked brick,’ he thought, incurably Celtic as he was. From the moment when he beheld Mr. Adister’s phaeton moun... ...try.’ The captain holloaed. ‘Do they hear that? Lord! but wouldn’t our old Celtic fill the world with poetry if only we were a free people to give our... ...for pay,’ said he. ‘It seems to me a cry of the streets to call us by hard names. The question is what we fight for.’ He spoke with a witless moderati... ...nt mixture. 125 George Meredith CHAPTER XVI OF THE GREAT MR. BULL AND THE CELTIC AND SAXON VIEW OF HIM: AND SOMETHING OF RICHARD ROCKNEY MEANWHILE I ...

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...t part I went there solitary and, with irrevo- cable emotion, pored on the names of the forgotten. Name after name, and to each the conventional attri... ...d throwing wide the grating; and they carried in their minds a calendar of names and dates. It would be “in fifty-twa” that such a tomb was last opene... ...he Vanity of Knowledge; and as I had neither morality nor scholarship, the names were apt; but the second part was never attempted, and the first part... ..., and not yet begin to be breathed; Shearer’s Knowe and Halkerside are but names of adjacent cantons on a single shoulder of a hill, as names are squa... ...rary for the dogs, so that you saw at last the use of that great wealth of names for every knowe and howe upon the hillside; and the dogs, having hear... ...fe or his own character; and his inmost thoughts were ever tinged with the Celtic melancholy. Cases of conscience were sometimes grievous to him, and ... ...unfinished rather than finish it without propriety. It was perhaps another Celtic trait that his affections and emotions, passionate as these were, an...

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...secutors at last fell on the method of calling a roll of the parishioners’ names every Sabbath, and marking a fine of twenty shillings Scots to the na... ... the oath of alle- giance, and all lodgers were commanded to give in their names. Sharpe, surrounded with all these guards and pre- cautions, trembled... ...OF NOMENCLATURE ‘How many Caesars and Pompeys, by mere inspirations of the names, have been rendered worthy of them? And how many are there, who might... ... of nuts and sweetmeats. This feeling, I own, wears off in later life. Our names lose their freshness and interest, become trite and indifferent. But ... ...ure with advancing years; it affords no weapon against the phi- losophy of names. In after life, although we fail to trace its working, that name whic... ... antiquity older perhaps than any, and still living and active– a complete Celtic nomenclature and a scarce-mingled Celtic population. These rugged an... ...rance. And the legend of his slumber seems to body forth the story of that Celtic race, deprived for so many centuries of their authentic speech, surv...

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...p, nowise endowed it; so that Teufelsdr¨ ockh, “recom mended by the highest Names,” had been promoted thereby to a Name merely. Great, among the more... ...aks out with a strange plainness; calls many things by their mere dictionary names. To him the Upholsterer is no Pontiff, neither is any Drawing room ... ...lamydes, togas, Chinese silks, Afghaun shawls, trunk hose, leather breeches, Celtic hilibegs (though breeches, as the name Gallia Braccata indi cates... ...nd Hapsburgs; but of Stamped Broad sheet Dynasties, and quite new successive Names, according as this or the other Able Editor, or Com bination of Ab... ... inward Force, the ‘phantasy of our Dream;’ or what the Earth Spirit inFaust names it, the living visible Garment of God:— In Being’s floods, in Action... ...led thee into Life, and for a time suckled and pap fed thee there, whom thou namest Father and Mother; these were, like mine, but thy nursing father a...

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...ties, And Powers that earst in Heaven sat on Thrones; 360 Though of their Names in heav’nly Records now Be no memorial, blotted out and ras’d B... ...m the Books of Life. Nor had they yet among the Sons of EVE Got them new Names, till wandring ore the Earth, 365 Through Gods high sufferance for... ... And Devils to adore for Deities: Then were they known to men by various Names, And various Idols through the Heathen World. 375 Say, Muse, the... ... Names, And various Idols through the Heathen World. 375 Say, Muse, their Names then known, who first, who last, Rous’d from the slumber, on that... ...EUPHRATES to the Brook that parts 420 EGYPT from SYRIAN ground, had general Names Of BAALIM and ASHTAROTH, those male, These Feminine. For Spirit... ... with SATURN old Fled over ADRIA to th’ HESPERIAN Fields, 520 And ore the CELTIC roam’d the utmost Isles. All these and more came flocking; but w...

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...st of harmonious contrasts in colours. And now you know how it is that the names of Captain Kirby and Curtis Fakenham are alive to the present moment ... ...to him, she added, to seem reasonable: ‘You have not told me the Christian names of those ladies.’ He made queer eyes over the puzzle to connect the f... ...equeathed, between herself, igno- rant as she was, and those ladies. Their names, Livia and Henrietta, soared above her and sang the music of the sple... ...ther!’ exclaimed Carinthia on her swift inward breath, for this one of the names he had used to give to her old home revived him to her thoughts and s... ...atzmann, and saluted him. ‘Splendid,’ said Lord Fleetwood; ‘but don’t clap names on the mountains. —I saw written in your book: “A text for Dada.” Y o... ...ontact with her spir- ited him out of his mooniness. He had the Cymric and Celtic respect of character; which puts aside the person’s environments to ...

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...soldier’s life. Y oung Sir Willoughby was fond of talking of his “military namesake and distant cousin, young Patterne—the Marine”. It was funny; and ... ...e Marine”. It was funny; and not less laughable was the description of his namesake’s deed of valour: with the rescued British sailor inebriate, and t... ... begged her to distribute a gold coin among the little ones; asked for the names of some of them, and repeated: “Mary, Susan, Charlotte—only the Chris... ... of some of them, and repeated: “Mary, Susan, Charlotte—only the Christian names, pray! Well, my dears, you will bring your garlands to the Hall to- m... ...ays be 35 George Meredith good to him; be my son’s friend; his Egeria, he names you. Be what you were to him when that girl broke his heart, and no o... ...ctor’s arm to check him on the way to the station in view. Dr Corney had a Celtic intelligence for a meaning behind an illogical tongue. He drew up, o... ...e it held him silent as if under a law, heaped stores of insurgency in the Celtic bo- som. Corney contemplating Sir Willoughby, and a trotting kern go...

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...aladi, inflamed with ‘violent motions all night at the Palais Royal?’ Fame names him, ‘Young M. Meillar’; (Tableaux de la Revolution, Prise de la Bast... ... I should for ever bless the greatness of Monseigneur.’ Poor Prisoner, who namest thyself Queret Demery, and hast no other history,— she is dead, that... ...mrades hardly snatched him in again alive. Miomandre and Tardivet: let the names of these two Body- guards, as the names of brave men should, live lon... ... that Hall of the Jacobins! The general ear is filled with Federation. New names of Patriots emerge, which shall one day become familiar: Boyer-Fonfre... ...Eternity; beautiful and terrible, not to be comprehended: this is what man names Existence and Universe; this thousand-tinted Flame- image, at once ve... ...scent, doubt it not; though no Moniteur has reported them. They scolded in Celtic Welsh, those Brennuses; neither were they Sansculotte; nay rather br...