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...itus, the histories of Thucydides and Herodotus, and Diogenes Laertius. In Latin, Petronius, Suetonius, some of the works of Cicero, a large proportio... ...eus of Aeschylus, several of Plutarch’s Lives, and the works of Lucian. In Latin, Lucretius, Pliny’s Letters, the Annals and Germany of Tacitus. In Fr... ..., 1839, 1st edition; in full, “Poetical Works”, 1839, 2nd edition. A tran- script is extant in Mrs. Shelley’s hand. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. The billows on the ... ...a book and with- out implements of writing, I find many such, in his manu- script books, that scarcely bear record; while some of them, broken and vag... ...nd Sophocles, the “Symposium” of Plato, and Arrian’s “Historia Indica”. In Latin, Apuleius alone is named. In English, the Bible was his constant stud... ...ley, “Posthu- mous Poems”, 1824. There is a copy amongst the Shelley manu- scripts at the Bodleian Library, which supplies the last word of the fragme... ...E. O SILENCE. Published by Dr. Garnett, “Relics of Shelley”, 1862. A tran- script by Mrs. Shelley, given to Charles Cowden Clarke, presents one or two... ...ated ‘Florence, December, 1819' in Harvard manuscript (Woodberry). A tran- script exists amongst the Shelley manuscripts at the Bodleian Library. See ... .... Garnett, “Relics of Shelley”, 1862. ‘A very free translation of Brunetto Latini’s “Tesoretto”, lines 81-154.’— A.C. Bradley. And many there were hur...

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...nt of a hundred francs. The next morn- ing was spent in running around the Latin Quarter, recom- mended for its cheapness by David. For a long while h... ...issitudes which depress but cannot overwhelm me. “Plautus, the great comic Latin poet, was once a miller’s lad. Machiavelli wrote The Prince at night,... ...s engraved on many memories. Few indeed were the students who lived in the Latin Quar- ter during the last twelve years of the Restoration and did not... ...o the phases of Nature have no suspicion, and the student penned up in the Latin Quarter is kept accurately informed of the state of the weather and g... ...eing, and suppers played a part. In the early days of Lucien’s life in the Latin Quarter, he behaved like a poor child bewildered by his first experi-... ... deal in books that are ready printed. Go and see somebody that buys manu- scripts. There is old Doguereau in the Rue du Coq, near the Louvre, he is i... ... shall be back again the day after to-morrow. I shall have read your manu- script by that time; and if it suits me, we might come to terms that very d... .... He guessed that the young fellow before him was poor, and kept the manu- script. “Where do you live? I will come and see you.” Lucien, all unsuspici... ... a romance than to find all that money. I have a hundred romances in manu- script, and I have not a hundred and sixty thousand francs in my cash box, ...

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...lained. At first sight some of the officers took him for a recruit or con- script (the words were used indiscriminately) who had out- stripped the col... ...eant armed; “gais” courage; “gas,” force. The word has an analogy with the Latin word “vir” man, the root of “virtus” strength, courage. The present d... ...stile demon- strations, he began to think that the deliverance of the con- scripts might have been the sole object of the ambuscade. “Their cries,” he... ... them on our backs.” These words were overheard by one of the patriot con- scripts, who stepped from the ranks, and said respectfully:— “General, I ha... ...received his own on his knees from the hands of the priests, who recited a Latin prayer as they returned them. After the men had regained their places... ...ust escaped. The man, whose nostrils contracted instead of di- 225 Balzac lating, took the hand of his victim, kissed it with every mark of the deepe...

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...ch as every one knows who has stared into the shop windows of the Quartier Latin, and in which we kept the few books necessary for our studies. The in... ...st entreaties. We had offered to take it in turns to copy a batch of manu- script, so that he should do but a third of his distasteful task; he had be...

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...pt the bricks for church-building and the soldiers for church parade, or a Scriptural use of the remains of the Noah’s Ark mixed up with a wooden Swis... ... elaborately done. Chicago, I must explain, was based upon my father’s de- scription of the pig slaughterings in that city and certain pic- tures I ha... ... the lettuces came the breaking point. I was in the little arbour learning Latin irregular verbs when it happened. I can see him still, his peculiar t... ...n the earnest acquirement of all that was necessary for Greek epigrams and Latin verse, and for the rest played games. We dipped down into some- thing... ...nigo Jones. Within, we were taught as the chief subjects of instruc- tion, Latin and Greek. We were taught very badly because the men who taught us di... ...r of these languages, nobody uses them any more now except perhaps for the Latin of a few Levantine monasteries. At the utmost our men read them. We w... ... utmost our men read them. We were taught these languages because long ago Latin had been the language of civilisation; the one way of escape from the... ...ers’ shops. Pinky Dinkys would like to keep outfitters’ shops with whimsy ‘scriptions on the boxes and make your bill out funny, and not be snobs to c... ...ed galley slips and paged proofs and letters, two or three papers in manu- script, and so forth. In the shadows are chairs and another table bearing p...

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...ub, San Francisco, Cal. DEAR S IR: We return to you by this mail the manu- script of your stories, which we do not consider as avail- able for publica... ...’s the restaurant where you get Mexican dinners; right in the heart of the Latin quarter; quiet little old-fashioned place, below the level of the str...

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... of the Seine had long injured the sale of property in what is called the “Latin quarter,” when reasons, which will be given when we come to treat of ... ...thousand more; in all, the price paid was fifty-two thousand francs. A de- scription of the property given in the style of an advertise- ment, and the... ...le the white enamelling is yellow, cracked, and peeling off. Never did the Latin saying “Otium cum dignitate” have a greater commentary to the mind of... ...onsieur Thuillier’s very lim- ited scope and knowledge. He had learned the Latin, math- ematics, history, and geography that are taught in schools, bu... ...to pass the rest of your days in this ‘aurea mediocritas,’ the wish of the Latin poet, surrounded by family joys. Your antecedents, my dear Mon- sieur... ...he ancient residence of the court and the church, the Lux- embourg and the Latin quarter, have become what they are to-day, in spite of the presence o... ...d. We shall meet again soon, I hope. Come and see us, and bring that manu- script; la Peyrade’s point of view may be a little arbitrary.” With this ba...

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... the walls there were some common coloured pictures, framed and glazed, of scripture sub- jects; such as I have never seen since in the hands of pedla... ...price. The Captain never lost dignity, from having his ears boxed with the Latin Grammar. I did; but the Captain was a Captain and a hero, in despite ... ...d a custom of carving their names. It was completely covered with such in- scriptions. In my dread of the end of the vaca- tion and their coming back,... ...came forth with a whole churchyard-full of skeletons swarming all over his Latin Dictionary. But he had his reward. Steerforth said there was nothing ... ...k a good deal of notice of me; and often got me, I recollect, to decline a Latin noun or adjective, or to conjugate a Latin verb, in his ear, while he... ...ng his grey hair, and cast- ing anything but a confident look at his manu- script. You have been to school? Yes, sir, I answered; for a short tim... ...d Mr. Dick. Do you see this? He showed me that it was covered with manu- script, very closely and laboriously written; but so plainly, that as I loo... ... right hand, he added: There are expressions, you see, Master Copperfield Latin words and terms in Mr. Tidd, that are trying to a reader of my umble ... ... trying to a reader of my umble attainments. Would you like to be taught Latin? I said briskly. I will teach it you with pleasure, as I learn it. ...

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...r fourth form, and still more so in the middle remove.’ The subject of the Latin verses which obtained this distinc- tion was a wreath or garland, and... ...s, on Napoleon e Seylhia profugus, passage of Beresina, and so forth.’ His Latin verses were his strong point, and from this time forward he was frequ... ...riters. I do not find myself wanting in making out a stiff bit of Greek or Latin if I have time, but I must read History chiefly this year, and then I... ...day, three hours in the evening; I thought the papers very hard; we had no Latin elegiacs or lyrics, which was rather a bore for the Eton lot. I am ve... ...te seedy after a whole week without exercise.... The very first paper, the Latin Essay (for which we were in six hours), was the worst of all my paper... ...r you received two letters from Florence, the first of which gave some de- scription of my vetturino journey from Rome to Florence. I little thought w... ...stigation; he intended them only as keys to the better appreciation of the Scriptures and of the doctrines of the Church, unaware as yet that the gift... ...mon there, his uncle, Sir John Coleridge, gives the following touching de- scription from his diary:— ‘October 23, 1853.—Yesterday morning Arthur and ... ...more time to write, but I am too busy in the midst of school, and printing Scripture histories and private prayers, and translations in Nengone, Bauro...

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...ouse and lot? That pretty nearly takes the cake! A boy that can’t pass his Latin examinations, like any other boy ought to, and he expects me to give ... ...o, but I’ll see that you do—why, you’ll want to lay in all the English and Latin you can get.” “Oh punk. I don’t see what’s the use of law-school—or e... ... money as fellows that went to work early. Old Shimmy Peters, that teaches Latin in the High, he’s a what-is-it from Columbia and he sits up all night... ...name of every kind of tree, and some of their 93 Sinclair Lewis Greek and Latin names too! Besides, we owe the Joneses a dinner. Besides, gosh, we go... ...you put this sentence, see here in my manuscript—manu- 141 Sinclair Lewis script now where the deuce is that?—oh, yes, here. Would you say ‘We ought ... ...spoil everything.” It was Ted who most worried Babbitt. With conditions in Latin and English but with a trium- phant record in manual training, basket...

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...abel brought out the prettiest little manu- 66 Dynevor Terrace V olume II script book, tied with blue ribbon, and told him to do as he pleased with i... ...rld for you to do your duty as a clergyman, but hearing Northwold boys the Latin grammar?’ ‘Then, what do you want me to do?’ ‘I don’t want you to do ... ...ation that she had lived in her own house in Northwold, and taught him the Latin grammar, seemed quite a disappointment from the simplic- ity and want... ...ts had alighted on the most guilty heads, strode home with his arm full of Latin exercises, launched them into the study, and was run- ning up to the ... ...ose ears had been boxed for reading Pickwick in school, under cover of his Latin grammar, and Isabel was almost indignant with Miss Faithfull for havi... ...ound herself setting out to breakfast with a girl and three boys, infusing Latin, French, and geography all the forenoon, dining with them, sometimes ...

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... well, man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble, as the Scripture says, and I reckon it’s so. He’ll play hookey this evening (Sou... ... came without sin through virtuous effort. And while she closed with a happy Scriptural flourish, he “hooked” a dough nut. Then he skipped out, and s... ...worship: it began with a prayer built from the ground up of solid courses of Scriptural quota tions, welded together with a thin mortar of originalit... ...ugh, and each got his reward — in small blue tickets, each with a passage of Scripture on it; each blue ticket was pay for two verses of the recitatio... ... gems. Then there were reading exercises, and a spelling fight. The mea gre Latin class recited with honor. The prime feature of the evening was in ... ...d forward to the edge of the platform, cleared her throat, held up her manu script (tied with dainty ribbon), and proceeded to read, with labored att...

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...ronounced the word “science “ with emotion, and finished his speech by the Latin exclamation, laboremus! which he instantly translated into Russian. K... ... off the power of his elo- quence and of calming the rising storm. He knew Latin, and Virgil’s Quos ego was not unfamiliar to him. He did not consciou... ...rench, and read Voltaire in translation; he always kept a translated manu- script of “Candide” in the bible box at the head of his bed. He used to com... ... to tell the children some stories; they had also paid no attention to de- scriptions, personal expressions, personal sensations, they had also demand... ...ed up to them, and began shouting at them, thumping his fists and gesticu- lating for about five minutes. The words “For Freedom! March on! Put the sh... ...sad, aged, dejected eyes! he thought in desperation. And as it says in the scriptures, he “wept bit- terly” as he turned his steps towards the oasis, ...

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...a.” But gener- ally, as I’ve said before, my sojourn on the Conti- nent of Latin America, famed for its hospitality, lasted for about two years. On my... ...ries I have tried to set them down, Aristocracy and People, men and women, Latin and Anglo-Saxon, bandit and politician, with as cool a hand as was po... ...vellanos—the “beautiful Antonia.” Whether she is a possible varia- tion of Latin-American girlhood I wouldn’t dare to affirm. But, for me, she is. Alw... ...ng every minute shrilled above the steady hum of conversations. He was re- lating his discoveries. He was ecstatic. Charles Gould glanced down at him ... ...blocked the doorway in an instant—mozos from the stable, gardeners, nonde- script helpers living on the crumbs of the munifi- cent house—and Charles G... ...ou see the bust of Don Jose Avellanos, ‘Patriot and Statesman,’ as the in- scription says, ‘Minister to Courts of England and Spain, etc., etc., died ...

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...Nibelungenlied ing the Middle Ages is evinced by the great number of Manu- scripts that have come down to us. We possess in all twenty- eight more or ... ...gs to a young phy- sician by the name of J.H. Obereit, who found the manu- script C at the castle of Hohenems in the Tirol on June 29, 1755; but the s... ...e of the poet Otfrid of the ninth century, although some have thought that Latin hymns, others that the French epic verse, may have been of influence.... ...1) “Hagen of T roneg”. T roneg is probably a corruption of the name of the Latin colony, “colonia T rajana”, on the Lower Rhine, which as early as the... ...ich has come from the “Helgi saga.” (3) “Xanten” (M.H.G. “Santen” from the Latin “ad sanctos”) is at present a town in the Rhenish Prussian district o... ...rmed from O.H.G. tarni, ‘secret’ (cf. O.E. “dyrne”), and “kappe” from late Latin “cappa,” ‘cloak.’ It rendered the wearer invis- ible and gave him the... ...full soon.” See Adventure III, note 4. (6) “Paynim” (O F. “paienime,” late Latin “paganismus”), ‘heathen.’ (7) “gold for offerings.” This was the gold...

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...er to Bossey, to board with the Minister Lambercier. Here we were to learn Latin, with all the insig- nificant trash that has obtained the name of edu... ... as well as my condition, to an absolute state of servitude. I for- got my Latin, history, and antiquities; I could hardly recol- lect whether such pe... ...elf a notable preacher; he could even repeat one passage from the Bible in Latin, and it an- swered his purpose as well as if he had known a thousand,... ...rowed learning, I was not sufficiently accustomed to books, and too poor a Latinist to find a passage in a large volume, had I been ever so well assur... ...things, had completed none; but observing that I understood some- thing of Latin, he undertook to teach me more, and appointed me to attend him every ... ...one, and certainly desired to become such, but it appeared to her that the Scriptures were too literally and harshly ex- plained, supposing that all w... ...ve given them back. It was with the former intention I had taken the manu- scripts to the Hermitage, and this was the first work to which I proposed t... ...tuelle’ made its appearance, of this I had the year before given the manu- script to a certain M. de Bastide, the author of a journal called Le Monde,... ...the printing of it by Duchesne, and perhaps to get possession of the manu- script to make such alterations in it as they should think proper, that aft...

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...ch he distributed among such of his own men as he most confided in, stimu- lating the courage of his new soldiers by gifts and honors, and inuring the... ...ian boat drew near, and Septimius standing up first, saluted Pompey in the Latin tongue, by the title of imperator. Then Achillas, saluting him in the... ...as the eighth hour of the day before they were entirely defeated. This de- scription the conqueror himself has left us in his own epistles. Almost all... ...emned, had I dismissed my army.” These words, Pollio says, Caesar spoke in Latin at that time, and that he himself wrote them in Greek; adding, that t... .... This was the time when, according to the story, he had a number of manu- scripts in his hand, which, though he was continually darted at, and forced... ... rapidity of it, he used three words, I came, saw, and conquered, which in Latin having all the same cadence, carry with them a very suitable air of b... ...And both of them at the same time cried out, he that received the blow, in Latin, “Vile Casca, what does this mean?” and he that gave it, in Greek, to... ...digging trenches about them, found a small stone statue, which, by the in- scription, appeared to be the figure of Thermodon, carrying a wounded Amazo...

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..., or the artificial combina- tions of syntax. ‘I can read and understand a Latin author,’ said young Edward, with the self-confidence and rash reason-... ...ts, which ap- peared each to contain a whole ream of closely-written manu- script. They had been the labour of the worthy man’s whole life; and never ... ...on between the Church and Puritans, Presbyterians, or Sectaries of any De- scription; illustrated from the Scriptures, the fathers of the Church, and ... ...terpress—Ah! I’ll tell you, though, doctor, you must knock out some of the Latin and Greek; heavy, doctor, damn’d heavy—(beg your pardon) and if you t... ...e Baron of Bradwardine sang French chansons-a-boire, and spouted pieces of Latin; Killancureit talked, in a steady unal- terable dull key, of top-dres... ...pellation,—a sort of bearing which the French call armoires parlantes; the Latins arma cantantia; and your En- glish authorities, canting heraldry; be... ... prevailed on to join him. There is a monument erected on the spot, with a Latin inscription by the late Dr. Gregory.] O high-minded Moray!—the exiled... ...ments and inheritances, of this wicked world, I could prove to you, by the Scripture, in what a filthy rag ye put your trust; and that your surplices,... ...o abide on the estate, and hunt me like a partridge upon the mountains, as Scripture says of good King David, or like our valiant Sir William Wallace,...

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...ods, in summer. In this spot “Septimius Felton” was written; but the manu script, thrown aside, was mentioned in the Dedicatory Pref ace to “Our Old... ..., to teach him how to live in a European court. No, the fall of man, which Scripture tells us of, seems to me to have its operation in this grievous s... ...r even satisfy himself in what language it was written. There seemed to be Latin words, and some interspersed ones in Greek characters, and here and t... ...nce, as they doubtless were, had been necessary in order to put this manu script into the hands of Septimius, who now pored over it, and could not wi... ...imius now began to comprehend that it was written in a singular mixture of Latin and ancient English, with constantly recur ring paragraphs of what h... ...e was acquainted with them, for most of them had very queer names, some in Latin, some in English. The bluff doctor put on his spectacles, and looked ... ...were sent me by a learned friend in Siberia. The others, divested of their Latin names, are as common as plantain, pig weed, and burdock; and it stand... ...A good deal of the manuscript, as has been said, was in an ancient English script, although so uncouth and shapeless were the characters, that it was ... ...s at the power of the telescope, and became sometimes English, some times Latin, strangely patched together, as if, so accustomed was the writer to u...

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...ynthetic narrative, there is implied a vast amount of both philosophy and wit. The philosophy we clearly see, recognising in the synthetic writer a fa... ...n, the two patterns would coincide, and that opposition which is the life of verse would instantly be lost. We have here a clue to the effect of polys... ...rns measureless to man, (KANLSR) Down to a sunless sea.’ * (NDLS) *Milton. **As PVF will continue to haunt us through our English examples, take, by w... ... in force and poignancy of main design. Our little air is swamped and dwarfed among hardly relevant orchestra- tion; our little passionate story drown... ...g, and solemnly re-delivered for the benefit of Dr. Japp. From that moment on, I have thought highly of his critical faculty; for when he left us, he ...