...s many ideas of what we are and what approaches to life we need to take to be happy. Philosophers have added to the mix. As have playwrights, poets,... ...ms. In boys this is often called the Oedipus complex, in girls, the Electra situation. Both of these ideas come to us from the ancient Greek poets ... ...ove can be based primarily on the knowledge of science, but is tempered by insights and speculations of philosophers, religious thinkers, and poets.... ...t that he or she can be. It is a psychological intimacy between people. Here we find in the understandable terms of science that feeling which poets ... ...on finds meaning in life, or searches for meaning, it is a sign of being psychologically healthy and happy. One might look at the artists and poets,... ...hens, exhorting the Athenians to democracy and greatness. I saw the Parthenon evolve from a temple to Athena, to a Christian church then to an Ottoma...

...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,... ...ell tracked, would be found in their footsteps, whose verie garbage lesse Poets are noted to have gathered. Why but that Scaliger thinkes that Ficin... ...ow, he drew him with a vaile over his face. And that is thereason why our Poets faine miserable Niobe, who first having lost seven sonnes and immedi... ... meanes of negotiation by the example of this infidelitie. Soliman of the Ottomans race (a race little regarding the keeping of promises or performa...

... centre of the Salon Carre, in the Museum of the Louvre. This com- modious ottoman has since been removed, to the extreme regret of all weak-kneed lov... ... me.” 36 The American “You remind me of the heroes of the French romantic poets, Rolla and Fortunio and all those other insatiable gentlemen for whom... ...Yes, but when the six months were over, she had a plum-cake as big as that ottoman,” said Madame de Cintre. “That quite set her up again.” “What a che... ...ded, “It’s a relief.” She was sitting on a low chair, and Newman was on an ottoman, near her. He leaned a little and took her hand, which for an insta...

...ing at his ease on the great circular divan which at that period occupied the centre of the Salon Carre, in the Museum of the Louvre. This commodious ottoman has since been removed, to the extreme regret of all weak-kneed lovers of the fine arts, but the gentleman in question had taken serene possession of its softest spot, and, with his head thrown back and his legs outst...

...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... ...haps the reader will thank us for rehears- ing the main steps by which the Ottoman power had flowed and ebbed. The foundations of this empire were lai... ...inople, put an end to the Roman empire; and before his death he placed the Ottoman power in Europe pretty nearly on that basis to which it had again f... ...George came forward as the asserter of Servian independence, and drove the Ottomans out of that prov- ince. Personally he was not finally successful. ... ...een partially kept alive by the existence of a native militia, to whom the Ottoman government, out of mere necessity, had commit- ted the local defenc... ...ke; next a cannonade announcing the approach of the Pacha; and, lastly, an Ottoman brig of war, which saluted the fort and cast anchor before the town... ...he Greek sensibilities with religious awe, or was felt by the great tragic poets to be so supremely fitted for scenical representation. In one of its ...

...gy. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extracts are solely valuable or entertaining, a... ...le generally, were in the custom of fattening some of the lower orders for ottomans; and to furnish a house comfortably in that respect, you had only ... ...y complete. Reference to nearly all the leviathanic allusions in the great poets of past days, will satisfy you that the Greenland whale, without one ... ...kes a man who regards them both with equal eye. CHAPTER 86 The Tail O THER POETS HA VE WARBLED the praises of the soft eye of the antelope, and the lo... ...covering the flight of his ladies. In truth, this gentleman is a luxurious Ottoman, swimming about over the watery world, 377 Herman Melville surroun... ...by all the solaces and endearments of the harem. The contrast between this Ottoman and his con- cubines is striking; because, while he is always of th... ...d Turk; then a love of ease and virtue supplants the love for maidens; our Ottoman enters upon the impotent, repentant, admonitory stage of life, fors... ...but some have surmised that the man who first thus en- titled this sort of Ottoman whale, must have read the memoirs of Vidocq, and informed himself w...

...gy. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extracts are solely valuable or en tertaining,... ...ple generally,were in the custom of fattening some of the lower orders for ottomans; and to furnish a house comfortably in that respect, you had only ... ...com plete. Reference to nearly all the leviathanic allusions in the great poets of past days, will satisfy you that the Greenland whale, without one ... ...es a man who regards them both with equal eye. Chapter 86 The Tail O ther poets have warbled the praises of the soft eye of the antelope, and the lov... ... covering the flight of his ladies. In truth, this gentleman is a luxurious Ottoman, swimming about over the watery world, surroundingly accompanied by... ...by all the solaces and endearments of the harem. The contrast between this Ottoman and his concubines is striking; because, while he is always of the ... ...d Turk; then a love of ease and virtue supplants the love for maidens; our Ottoman enters upon the impotent, repentant, admonitory stage of life, for ... ...f, but some have surmised that the man who first thus entitled this sort of Ottoman 378 Chapter 88 Schools and Schoolmasters whale, must have read the...

... which were so extremely successful, that one stout gentleman rolled upon an ottoman in a paroxysm of delight, protesting, with many gasps, that if so... ...pens stanzas, which sometimes find their way into a Lady’s Magazine, or the ‘Poets’ Corner’ of some country newspaper; or which, in default of either ... ...a!’ With this, the poetical young gentleman laughs a laugh belonging only to poets and Mr. O. Smith of the Adelphi Theatre, and sits down, pen in hand...

...ere screens. We should do better to turn rhymes, and translate the antique poets! There is more glory to be looked for there than from our luckless ca... ...ed by romantic spirits, to excite each other’s enthusiasm for one of their poets. In the evening Guillaume, shut up with his assistant and his wife, b... ...e end of the dainty boudoir she saw the Duchess lounging luxuriously on an ottoman covered with brown velvet and placed in the centre of a sort of aps...

...Wordsworth has his place in the Excise. You’re shabby fellows — true — but poets still, And duly seated on the immortal hill. Your bays may hide... ...for my new one); So, as I said, I ‘ll take my friend Don Juan. Most epic poets plunge ‘in medias res’ (Horace makes this the heroic turnpike ... ...n the leafy nooks Where the wild branch of the cork forest grew; There poets find materials for their books, And every now and then we read ... ...’ve told you fifty times,’ They mean to scold, and very often do; When poets say, ‘I’ve written fifty rhymes,’ They make you dread that they... ...o’er the controulless core Of human hearts, than all the long array Of poets and romancers: You ‘re a bore, A charlatan, a coxcomb and... ...as open’d wide, And a magnificent large hall display’d The Asian pomp of Ottoman parade. I won’t describe; description is my forte, But ever... ...nderneath her chair, Or rather sofa (for it was all pillow, A low soft ottoman), and black despair Stirr’d up and down her bosom like a bill... ...oping Conceal’d her features better than a veil; And one hand o’er the ottoman lay drooping, White, waxen, and as alabaster pale: Would th...

...niscences of those who insist on talking about V enice after so many great poets and petty travelers. The interest of the tale requires only this reco... ...netian conqueror. He returns to restore his palazzo with the spoils of the Ottoman Empire. He can quit the women of the East for the doubly masked int... ...s land—pitied for its fallen state by traveled simpletons and hypocritical poets, while its character is traduced by politicians—in this land, which a... ...tion of the ecstatic joys of which Cataneo and Capraja were speaking; both poets, each for himself alone. Only, in matters of the intellect, as soon a... ...nce, seated next la Tinti, was keenly alive, all through the meal, to what poets in every language call the darts of love. The transcendental vision o...

...r, are you not charmed to be in this famous neighbourhood, in this land of poets and heroes, of whose history your classical edu- cation ought to have... ...to me, that I can’t at present reconcile myself to you in age. I read your poets, but it was in fear and trembling; and a cold sweat is but an ill acc... ...er four were playing with a dirty pack of cards, at a barrack that English poets have christened the “Half-way House. ”Does external nature and beauty... ...erly to the people before him, whose devotions he had marked; quotes their poets, to bring them to think of the God unknown, whom they had ignorantly ... ...folio, and remove the cause of the disturbance, and lost my drawing of the Ottoman Porte. I don’t think I have anything more to say about the city whi... ...en in the spelling-books; else I would tell you that the government of the Ottoman Porte seems to be as rotten, as wrinkled, and as feeble as the old ... ...le to destroy. —No: be that work for great geniuses, great painters, great poets!This quill was never made to take such flights; it comes of the wing ...

...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 ... ...‘A Dressing-room splendidly furnished; violet-colored curtains, chairs and ottomans of the same hue. Two full- length Mirrors are placed, one on each ... ...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...

...rite some language or other; Bogota with a population of a million, mostly poets; Hayti with a population of a mil- lion and a third, almost entirely ... ...urs turn their backs with an equal resolution, and that is the fate of the Ottoman Empire. What in plain English are we up to there? Whatever happens,...

..., all would have chilled love to death had not Paquita been there, upon an ottoman, in a loose voluptuous wrapper, free to scatter her gaze of gold an... ...ing, cadaverous, mon- strous, savagely ferocious, which the imagination of poets and painters had not yet conceived. In effect, no rendezvous had ever...

...of France was a little disturbed also, on account of the inventions of the poets, who at that time, as at this, used each to make a language for himse... ...ction; the admiral, Montgomery, the officers of the household, and certain poets, such as Melin de St. Gelays, Philibert de l’Orme, and the Sieur Bran... ...nd placed him on the door the granary, after the 84 Balzac fashion of the Ottoman Porte, where my good Panurge was within an ace of being spitted. At... ...e, play, and amuse himself, listen to the roundelays and ballads which the poets composed in his honour, play the lute and the mandore, make acrostics...

...g forest, your London citizen of good estate has reproached his country’ s poets for not pouring out, succinctly and melodiously, his multitudinous la... ... the tablets of the quotable at festive boards. This he can promise to his poets. As for otherwhere than at the festive, Commerce invoked is a Goddess... ...ing our despot-king of Commerce? In that case, we do not ask our country’s poets to compose a single stanza of eulogy’s rhymes—far from it. Far to the... ...he feminine; that for the glass, this for the widow-branded bottle: not as poets hymning; it was done in the City man- ner, briefly, part pensively, l... ... classes. They are shown by example how to look, think, speak; what to do. Poets are disturbing; they cannot be comfort- ably imitated, they are unsaf... ...rand piano, the ebony inlaid music-stands, the firegrates and plaques, the ottomans, the tone of neutral colour that, as in sound, muted splendour. He...

...t: they have not yet doubled Cape T urk.’ It is war, and on the male side, Ottoman war: her experi- ence reduced her to think so positively. Her main ... ...n…. ‘I could call him my poet also,’ Mr. Redworth agreed with her taste in poets. ‘His letters are among the best ever writ- ten—or ever published: th... ...onth to have sight of an Irish Beauty …. ‘Think war the finest subject for poets?’ he exclaimed. ‘Flatly no: I don’t think it. I think exactly the rev... ...she wished to see that he held an image of Diana:—surely a woman to kindle poets and heroes, the princes of the race; and it was a curious perversity ... ... our flying minds cannot contain a protracted description. That is why the poets, who spring imagination with a word or a phrase, paint lasting pictur... ...s this—I wish I had a word!—touch … whisper … gleam … beat of wings—I envy poets now more than ever!—of Eden, I was going to say. Prose can paint even...

...d it is plain that he was equally obnoxious to the other clique, the culto poets who had Gongora for their chief. Navarrete, who knew nothing of the l... ...he chivalry- romance readers, the sentimentalists, the dramatists, and the poets of the period all against him, it was because “Don Quixote” was what ... ...obably due to the influ- ence of those masters of hyperbole, the Provencal poets. When a troubadour professed his readiness to obey his lady in all th... ...ets whose authors are dukes, marquises, counts, bishops, ladies, or famous poets. Though if I were to ask two or three obliging friends, I know they w... ...m- peror of Trebizond, who, to my knowledge, were said to have been famous poets: and even if they were not, and any pedants or bach- elors should att... ...agining the Turks to be invincible on sea-on that day, I say, on which the Ottoman pride 306 Don Quixote and arrogance were broken, among all that we... ...em only four surnames belonging to families tracing their descent from the Ottoman house, and the others, as I have said, take their names and surname... ...at had an humble origin and rose to the greatness they still preserve, the Ottoman house may serve as an example, which from an humble and lowly sheph...

...d it is plain that he was equally obnoxious to the other clique, the culto poets who had Gongora for their chief. Navarrete, who knew nothing of the l... ...he chivalry- romance readers, the sentimentalists, the dramatists, and the poets of the period all against him, it was because “Don Quixote” was what ... ...obably due to the influ- ence of those masters of hyperbole, the Provencal poets. When a troubadour professed his readiness to obey his lady in all th... ...ets whose authors are dukes, marquises, counts, bishops, ladies, or famous poets. Though if I were to ask two or three obliging friends, I know they w... ...d. peror of Trebizond, who, to my knowledge, were said to have been famous poets: and even if they were not, and any pedants or bach- elors should att... ...agining the Turks to be invincible on sea-on that day, I say, on which the Ottoman pride and arrogance were broken, among all that were there made hap... ...em only four surnames belonging to families tracing their descent from the Ottoman house, and the others, as I have said, take their names and surname...

...bye.” 51 Melville CHAPTER X. In the Cabin STOOLS, settees, sofas, divans, ottomans; occupying them are clusters of men, old and young, wise and simpl... ...k men sent out into the coun- try; sent out to natur and grass?” “Aye, and poets send out the sick spirit to green pastures, like lame horses turned o... ...hod to the turf to renew their hoofs. A sort of yarb-doctors in their way, poets have it that for sore hearts, as for sore lungs, nature is the grand ...