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... Leos. Theseus, longing to be in action, and desirous also to make himself popular, left Athens to fight with the bull of Mara- thon, which did no sma... ...ch’s Lives was the first, who, as Aristotle says, out of an inclination to popular government, parted with the regal power, Homer also seems to testif... ...at-grandson to Erechtheus, the first man that is recorded to have affected popularity and ingratiated himself with the multitude, stirred up and exasp... ...on his own great actions, and growing of an haughtier mind, he forsook his popular behavior for kingly arrogance, odious to the people; to whom in par... ...ed up to the true character of a king, but fell off, and ran, the one into popularity, the other into tyranny, falling both into the same fault out of... ...on is a river, and Babyca a bridge. Betwixt this Babyca and Cnacion, their assemblies were held, for they had no council-house or building, to meet in... ...monians made it a rule never to carry so much as a staff into their public assemblies. But to return to their public repasts;—these had several names ... ...th, giving him the entire power over everything, their magistracies, their assemblies, courts, and councils; that he should appoint the number, times ... ...tion, sometimes in private upon individuals, and sometimes in their public assemblies, were met, on the other hand, by laments and protestations of di...

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...reeable voice; likewise ‘delicate extremities.’ The writer was created for popularity, had he chosen to bring his art into our literary market. Perry ... ... formed rank and file marching to drum and fife as gallant interpreters of popular appetite, and going or gone to soundlessness and the icy shades. To... ...ck to the General, who must not totally absorb you, or he will forfeit his popularity.’ Diana instantly struck a treaty with the pertinacious advo- ca... ...h evil—by no means of the order of those ninny young women who realize the popular conception of the purely innocent. She had fenced and kept her guar... ...ess intrepid nature to take advan- tage of the opportunity for playing the popular innocent, who runs about with astonished eyes to find herself in so... ...rsational breakfasts, private afternoon concerts, all the humming season’s assemblies. Mr. Warwick’s treat- ment of his wife was taken by implication ... ...nation to the sack. There was talk in the feminine world, at Lady Wathin’s assemblies. The elevation of her husband had extended and deepened her infl... ...ws. She had it from a lady who had come across Miss Asper at Lady Wathin’s assemblies, and considered the great heiress extraordinarily handsome. ‘ A ...

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...rec- tory despaired of immediately subduing it. Consequently, it asked the Assemblies to pass certain special measures relat- ing to the independent c... ...mong them are on Sundays and feast-days in the parish church. These silent assemblies, under the eye of the rector (the only ruler of these rough mind... ...les of lib- erty, independence, and rights of human reason awakened by our Assemblies and gaining strength, as I believe, from day to day. France is l... ...cted that she would make difficulties, and he left the room, hum- ming the popular song, “Guard the nation’s safety,” and went to that of Mademoiselle... .... On the pedestal of the statuette were two lines of a religious poem very popular in Brittany:— 175 Balzac “I am the mother of God, Protectress of t... ...er boy by the hand. A peasant- woman never listens coldly to that song, so popular is it in 244 The Chouans the West of France, and Barbette began, u...

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... anity Fair, or how should schoolboys brag of their amours, or Don Juan be popular? So Mr. Osborne, having a firm conviction in his own mind that he w... ... His eloquence was palsied at the missionary meetings, and other religious assemblies in the neighbourhood, where he had been in the habit of presidin... ...urs. Instances might be multiplied of this easily gained and un- conscious popularity. Did not Mr. Binny, the mild and genteel curate of the district ... ...oyed before. They appeared perseveringly at the Winchester and Southampton assemblies; they penetrated to Cowes for the race-balls and regatta-gaietie... ...kness, defends in all their scrapes, and with whom Lady Peggy is immensely popular. But the Subalterns’ and Captains’ ladies (the Major is unmarried) ... ... Crawley estate. Like a wise man he had set to work to rebuild the injured popularity of his house and stop up the gaps and ruins in which his name ha... ...minded her of her absent friend. A great part of the altered demeanour and popularity of Sir Pitt Crawley might have been traced to the counsels of th... ...e may have seen—we who wear stars and cor- dons and attend the St. James’s assemblies, or we, who, in muddy boots, dawdle up and down Pall Mall and pe...

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...Bonny lad, march over hill and furrow,” or “My art and lute,” or any other popular piece of the day. And the dear girl sang with very considerable ski... ... and her charms of manner and person were of that showy sort which is most popular in this world, where people are wont to admire most that which give... ...entleman as ever wore knee-buckles, he does not neglect the little arts of popularity, and can condescend to receive very queer com- pany if need be. ... ...e honour to dine. What other repasts Sir George Thrum may have given, what assemblies of men of mere science he may have invited to give their opinion... ...ll as much; hence endless ingenuity must be practised in order to keep the popular attention awake. Sup- pose a great actor moves from London to Winds... ...enswing strongly at heart, and being amongst his brethren an exceed- ingly popular fellow, he managed matters so that never a day 109 Thackeray passe...

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...bourgeois. In a coach there is no police to check tongues, and legislative assemblies have set the fash- ion of public discussion. When a young man of... ...t home. This little old man—fat, rosy, squat, and strong—always looked, in popular speech, as if he had stepped from a bandbox. He appeared in black s... ...ghters, Madame Camusot and Madame Protez, and his two sons would, to use a popular expression, have been flabbergasted if any one had explained to the...

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...takes his freedoms with their names. But Machiavelli, more recent and less popular, is still all human and earthly, a fallen brother—and at the same t... ... but boys’ books—which I detested—and fiction. I read his- tories, travel, popular science and controversy with particu- lar zest, and I loved maps. S... ... off to find some readable book in the place, but apart from miscellaneous popular novels, some veterinary works, a number of comic books, old bound v... ...mic books, old bound volumes of The Illus- trated London News and a large, popular illustrated History of England, there was very little to be found. ... ...lences of home by the conversation of schoolfellows and the suggestions of popular fiction. They had to make what they could out of life with such hin... ...res of Liberals and of Socialists I have given, I recall one of those huge assemblies the Duchess of Clynes inaugurated at Stamford House. The place i...

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...t, famed for his ruthless and cruel tyranny, readied his apotheosis in the popular legend of a sanguinary land-haunting spectre whose body had been ca... ...he world. His way would lie along the old Spanish road— the Camino Real of popular speech—the only re- maining vestige of a fact and name left by that... ...is piece of land belongs now to the Railway Company. There will be no more popular feasts held here.” Mrs. Gould was rather sorry to think so. She too... ...t of intellect— imposed upon his imagination. The victor of Rio Seco was a popular hero. His services were so re- cent that the President-Dictator qua... ...ing in the name of “a justly incensed democracy” upon all the Pro- vincial Assemblies of the Republic to suspend their sittings till his sword had mad... ...se into the prison of the Cabildo. The chief magistrate, an easy-going and popular of- ficial, visited the Casa Gould, walking over after sunset from ...

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...s. About the period when the churches convene at Edinburgh in their annual assemblies, he was to be seen descending the Mound in the company of divers... ...of his employer. But Mr. K- was then at the top of his vogue; he enjoyed a popularity due partly to his own talent and address, partly to the incapaci... ...se her. One afternoon, when his day’s work was over, Fettes dropped into a popular tavern and found Macfarlane sit- ting with a stranger. This was a s...

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...ecom- ing accustomed here, in this limited meeting, to the usages of great assemblies. We shall be all the more able to decide 24 The Deputy of Arcis... ...ns of which did not seem to them contrary to the government created by the popular will in July, 1830), came as usual, possessed by curi- osity to see... ...bout all things. This apparent indiffer- ence, which enabled him to abet a popular sedition for the purpose of strengthening the authority of a prince... ...) encouraged his retaining that political tint, which was clearly the most popular in that region. But whatever baggage of political convictions the i... ... Becoming the abbess of a convent of unmarried women, who were called with popular naivete the Eleven Thousand Virgins, she was martyred by the Huns i... ...their oratory open to all comers for this whole day. Is not that likely to popularize our candidacy? 188 The Deputy of Arcis This evening, to crown t...

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...e disapprobation. Birkin decided that he detested toasts, and footmen, and assemblies, and man- kind altogether, in most of its aspects. Then he rose ... ... F . Loerke. ‘That is quite an early thing—not mechanical,’ he said, ‘more popular.’ The statuette was of a naked girl, small, finely made, sit- ting ...

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... ‘Shame’ till he is hoarse, and then inquires with a sneer what you think of popular moderation NOW; in short, the people form a never failing theme f... ...thoroughly persuaded that he has got the better of the other. In society, at assemblies, balls, and playhouses, these po litical young gentlemen are ... ...ed, upon the whole, it struck us that among the ladies he seemed rather more popular than be fore! T o recount all the drollery of Mr. Griggins at su... ... he always looks with a curious and searching eye. If he can only identify a popular actor in the street, he is in a perfect transport of delight; and... ...e nods his head in a mysterious manner, and whistling the first part of some popular air, thinks perhaps it will be better to change the subject. Ther...

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...orm materials for wise and able men to im prove into useful matter. LET the assemblies be annual, with a President only. The representation more equa... ...grand prin ciples of business KNOWLEDGE and POWER. The members of Congress, Assemblies, or Conventions, by having had experience in national concerns... ...ce of a day became king.] Massanello may hereafter arise, who laying hold of popular disquietudes, may collect together the desper ate and the discon...

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...cred edifices being nearly (not quite) blown out to sea from the same accursed locality, than I have read of practised thieves with the appearance and... ...d myself with dwelling beforehand, on the great accounts of their personal treatment which these men would carry into their various towns and villages... ...of look- ers-on, chair-mending may take a station in the first rank. When we sat down with our backs against the barn or the public-house, and began t... ...e hundred and seventy (presented copies mostly), seething their edges in damp plas- ter—there was such a painfully apologetic return of 62 of- fenders... ...King’s Bench prison, and it had car- ried him out with his feet foremost. He was a likely man to look at, in the prime of life, well to do, as clever ... ..., dancing, blowing shells, and (in cases where they are familiar with fire-arms) flying out into open places and letting off guns. It is questionable ...

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...bled at libraries, read books in balconies, sold at fancy fairs, danced at assemblies, talked sentiment—in short, they had done all that in- dustrious... ... who come on in pantomimes for the sole purpose of being knocked down. The popular Mr. Hilton was the next arrival; and he having, at the request of t... ...and shouts of ‘bravo!’ which greeted her appearance, proceeded to sing the popular cavatina of ‘Bid me discourse, ’ accompanied on the pi- ano by Mr. ... ... offering his snuff-box to his new acquaintance, ‘that I don’t enjoy these assemblies half so much as the comfort—I had almost said the luxury—of Oak ... ...leman.’ He was an Astley-Cooperish Joe Miller—a practical joker, immensely popular with married ladies, and a general favourite with young men. He was... ...chair near the door, where he proceeded to beguile the time by whistling a popular air with great apparent satisfaction. ‘What do you want here, you s... ... gross humours, and to render you an agreeable child, and one who might be popular with society in gen- eral,—to dilate on the steadiness with which I...

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...of advanced standing and established reputation. Yet, notwithstanding this popularity, when he stood to be tribune of the people, he was disappointed,... ...pinion of the people by remitting their taxes. But that which won him most popularity, was his exempting them from finding lodg- ings for the soldiers... ...y, proportionably to every man’s arrears. By this Eumenes came again to be popular, so that when letters were found thrown about the camp by the enemy... ...ern- ment, when it fell to his share; hence it was that he proved the most popular-tempered of the Spartan kings, his early life having added to his n... ...ut miserably poor. T o them he gave half his brother’s estate, and by this popular act gained general good-will and reputation, in the place of the en... ...to render them more odious to the people, absented himself from the public assemblies, and lived qui- etly in his own house, as if he were not only re... ...themselves to Demosthenes, and observed his directions. He managed all the assemblies of the Thebans, no less than those of the Athenians; he was belo...

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...f gold That only death unbinds: “You will go no more to balls or gay assemblies; You must stay at home While we shall go. “Have you th... ...ies by a familiar and sometimes lively ditty , is the privi- lege of those popular songs which are the superstitions of music,—if we may use the word ... ...alists of Provins and form an oppo- sition to them. You would soon see how popular that would make you; you would have a society about you at once. Th...

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...ocial tact and readiness of wit enabling her to hold her own with the most popular married women of the “younger set,” in which it was the recognised ... ...t when she returned with her little orphaned niece, whose parents had been popular in spite of their regret- table taste for travel, people thought it... ...cault in the title role and Harry Montague and Ada Dyas as the lovers. The popularity of the admirable English company was at its height, and the Shau... ...If I’d only been as prudent at your age May would have been dancing at the Assemblies now, instead of spending her winters in a wilderness with an old... ...undoubtedly gratifying to be the husband of one of the handsomest and most popular young married women in New Y ork, especially when she was also one ... ...ed. It would be the same with the Beauforts, in spite of his power and her popularity; not all the leagued strength of the Dallas connection would sav...

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...she was welcomed by great people; and from the fine dinner parties to fine assemblies, whither the same people came with whom she had been dining, who... ...ishes—civilization advances; peace is kept; new dresses are wanted for new assemblies every week; and the last year’s vintage of Lafitte will remuner-... ...ight. CHAPTER LVIII Our Friend the Major OUR MAJOR HAD RENDERED HIMSELF so popular on board the Ramchunder that when he and Mr. Sedley descended into ...

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...ed that we are some thing worse than ignorant. It has been an easy, and a popular expedient of late years, to deny the personal or real existence of ... ...sistence, visiting the houses of the rich, with whose children he was very popular. In the spring he sailed for Athens, and arrived at the island of I... ... of their own great ancestor were, no doubt, of far inferior sublimity and popularity, or, at first sight, a Theseid would have been much more likely ... ...es and corruptions, by the people who took to singing them in the streets, assemblies, and ago ras. However, Solon first, and then Peisistratus, and... ...what bad taste and tedium will not be the infallible result? A blending of popular legends, and a free use of the songs 24 The Odyssey of Homer of ot... ...much more refined and permanent than that described in the Iliad, that any popularity would attend such a ridicule of war and the gods as is contained... ...heaven’s abodes Himself resides, a god among the gods; There in the bright assemblies of the skies. He nectar quaffs, and Hebe crowns his joys. Here h...