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...all the other gifts appertinent to man 433 (as the malice of this Age shapes them) are not woorth a 434 Gooseberry. You that are old, consid... ...ire Daughter) you doe draw my Spirits from me, 1006 With new lamenting ancient Ouer- sights. 1007 But I must goe, and meet with Danger there, ... ...s no body 1094 cares. 1095 Enter Drawer. 1096 Drawer. Sir, Ancient Pistoll is below, and would 1097 speake with you. 1098 ... ...o Swaggerers heere. [g5 1110 Falst. Do’st thou heare? it is mine Ancient. 1111 Host. Tilly- fally (Sir Iohn) neuer tell me, your an... ...miles a day, compare with Caesar, and 1188 with Caniballs, and Troian Greekes? nay, rather damne 1189 them with King Cerberus, and let the W... ...nsiue, quicke, forge-tiue, 2337 full of nimble, fierie, and delectable shapes; which 2338 deliuer’d o’re to the Voyce, the Tongue, which is th... ...u not 3089 M[aster]. Bardolfe? 3090 Bar. Yes Sir, in a pottle pot. 3091 Shal. I thanke thee: the knaue will sticke by thee, I 30...

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...’—kissed’— ’ dressed’ (5 53). Shelley may have first seen the word in “The Ancient Mariner”; but he employs it more correctly than Coleridge, who seem... ...55 Like animated frenzies, dimly moved Shadows, and skeletons, and fiendly shapes, Thronging round human graves, and o’er the dead Sculpturing records... ... their thin shadows down the rugged slope, And nought but gnarled roots of ancient pines* _530 Branchless and blasted, clenched... ...ated thresholds. I have conversed with living men of genius. The poetry of ancient Greece and Rome, and mod- ern Italy, and our own country, has been ... ...ume. 231 Shelley PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE. CE. CE. CE. CE. The Greek tragic writers, in selecting as their subject any portion of their na... ...: Dante indeed more than any other poet, and with greater success. But the Greek poets, as writers to whom no resource of awakening the sympathy of th... ...race remains among his papers. The third was the “Prometheus Unbound”. The Greek tragedians were now his most familiar companions in his wanderings, a... ...er enter. 417 Shelley 8. 8. 8. 8. 8. He had as much imagination As a pint-pot;—he never could Fancy another situation, ... ... half Leaves legible. At length I rose, and went, Visiting my flowers from pot to pot, and thought _155 To set new cuttings in the empty urns, ...

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... jug from which, every now and then, he poured a few drops into his coffee-pot. The um- brella-man, anxious not to disturb his landlord, had gone to t... ...f it. I saw an engraving of Hero and Leander, and I said to myself, If the ancients used all that oil on their heads they had some reason for it; for ... ...ents used all that oil on their heads they had some reason for it; for the ancients are the ancients, in spite of all the moderns may say; I stand by ... ...ncients, in spite of all the moderns may say; I stand by Boileau about the ancients. I took my departure from that point and got the oil of nuts, than... ...al people, virtuous people; and you are not to scare them with any of your pot-house principles.” This lecture produced upon the mind of Charles Clapa... ...Balzac is a sauce you’ll never find except at a tradesman’s table, for the pot-houses—” Here the flowers in Madame Ragon’s cap skipped like young rams... ...of Sciences, produces this impor- tant result, sought by the ancients,—the Greeks, the Ro- mans, and all Northern nations,—to whom the preserva- tion ... ...and old alike. We can say to the old man, ‘Ha, monsieur! the ancients, the Greeks and Romans, knew a thing or two, and were not so stupid as some woul... ...passionate, ready to subscribe for the children of General Foy, or for the Greeks, whose piracies it knows nothing about, or the Exiles until none rem...

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...alls like a fine rain, wetting us, soak- ing into us, and dissolving those ancient customs which make the people to reap public amusement from the Rep... ... such manner that I fear greatly to see these illustrious fragments of the ancient breviary spat upon, staled upon, set at naught, dishonoured, and bl... ... heart’s blood.” And with her trembling hands all joyously she filled with Greek wine the 21 Droll Stories – Vol. 1 golden cup, brought by the Bishop... ...upon the infidels without giving them warn- ing, burning the Saracens, the Greeks, the English, and oth- ers, caring little whether they were friends ... ...ses them.” Thereupon the foolish fellow—as firmly fixed as a fly in a glue pot—went away, made his preparations, spoke at the Palace, ran to the High ... ...shes which empurpled his cheeks spoke better than the best speeches of the Greek and Latin orators, and were well understood. At this sweet sight, the... ..., as indeed she was. As this book should, according to the maxims of great ancient authors, join cer- tain useful things to the good laughs which you ... ...beast finds a mate, and from the same fact comes the proverb, “There is no pot, however ugly, that does not one day find a cover.” Now the lord of Val... ...n the dyer, seeing by the light of the moon a man at the door, threw a big pot of cold water over him, and cried out, “Thieves! thieves!” in such a ma...

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...d me strangely; they spoke of so tranquil a despair. Meanwhile the husband 21 Robert Louis Stevenson smilingly made his sack; and the unconscious bab... ... that the Marquesan is conscious of achievement, his life all rounded in, his robes (like Caesar’s) adjusted for the final act. Praise not any man til... ...e first foundation, only by propitiatory 27 Robert Louis Stevenson feasts, and, so soon as the fire of life went out upon the hearth, swarmed back in... ...certain date a new god was added to the Society-Island Olympus, or an old one refurbished and made popular. Oro was his name, and he may be compared w... ...s; his scientific papers, lives of saints, and devotional poetry. He cast about for a new in- terest: pitched on gardening, and was to be seen all day... ...the chieftaincy; and he lived, at the time of our visit, in the shoreward part of the village in a good house, and with a strong following of young me... ...s and eggs and fish of his own more favoured island. And as for his parishioners, they did not think one hair the less of him. A schoolboy, mulcted in... ...guishes Paumotuan man. The archipelago is divided between two main religions, Catholic and Mormon. They front each other proudly with a false air of p... ...s; he dared not longer stay alone, he was afraid of ‘spirits in the bush.’ It seems these are the souls of the unburied dead, haunting where they fell...

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...ian, to roll, to wallow.” Richardson’s Dictionary. tan, Hebrew. ^ o& , Greek. CETUS, Latin. WHAEL, Anglo Saxon. HV AL, Danish. WAL, Dutch. HWAL, S... ...hese extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extra... ...did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did Chapter 1 Loomings 17 the Greeks give it a separate deity, and make him the own brother of Jove? Sure... ...tes. And more than all, if just previous to putting your hand into the tar pot, you have been lording it as a country schoolmaster, making the tallest... ... as far by water, from Joppa, as Jonah could possibly have sailed in those ancient days, when the Atlantic was an almost unknown sea. Because Joppa, t... ... In short, he plainly hinted that we could not possibly do better than try pot luck at the Try Pots. But the directions he had given us about keeping ... ... name of a cele brated tribe of Massachusetts Indians, now extinct as the ancient Medes. I peered and pryed about the Devil Dam; from her, hopped ove... ...owards the kitchen, I following. Mrs. Hussey soon appeared, with a mustard pot in one hand and a vinegar cruet in the other, having just broken away ... ...ers, the white forked flame being held the holiest on the altar; and in the Greek mythologies, Great Jove himself being made incarnate in a snow white ...

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...llen; a.s. walw-ian, to roll, to wallow.” —Richardson’ s Dictionary KETOS, GREEK. CETUS, LA TIN. WHOEL, ANGLO-SAXON. HV ALT, DANISH. W AL, DUTCH. HW A... ...hese extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extra... ... of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this i... ...s. And more than all, if just previ- ous to putting your hand into the tar-pot, you have been lord- ing it as a country schoolmaster, making the talle... ... as far by water, from Joppa, as Jonah could possibly have sailed in those ancient days, when the Atlantic was an almost unknown sea. Because Joppa, t... ... In short, he plainly hinted that we could not possibly do better than try pot-luck at the Try Pots. But the directions he had given us about keeping ... ...he name of a celebrated tribe of Massachusetts Indians; now extinct as the ancient Medes. I peered and pryed about the Devil-dam; from her, hopped ove... ...owards the kitchen, I following. Mrs. Hussey soon appeared, with a mustard-pot in one hand and a vinegar-cruet in the other, having just broken away f... ...rs, the white forked flame being held the holiest on the altar; and in the Greek mythologies, Great Jove himself being made incarnate in a snow-white ...

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...retched from house to house. Bright stuffs and handkerchiefs, curiosities, ancient frames of carved wood, old chairs, ghostly tables, saints, virgins,... ...istian spirit may dictate the observance. Hard by the cathedral stands the ancient Palace of the Popes, of which one portion is now a common jail, and... ... anecdote, quite appropriate to itself, connected with its adventures. ‘An ancient tradition relates, that in 1441, a nephew of Pierre de Lude, the Po... ...Romeo and Juliet. In another there was a collection, under a colonnade, of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan remains, pre sided over by an ancient man who m... ... smartly; and I was fortunate enough to observe one gentleman attired as a Greek warrior, catch a light whiskered brigand on the nose (he was in the v... ... precision that was much applauded by the by standers. As this victorious Greek was exchanging a face tious remark with a stout gentleman in a doorw... ...bare, like a bald place on a man’s head. A cigar merchant, with an earthen pot of charcoal ashes in one hand, went up and down, crying his wares. A pa... ...nd on their heads they wear a stiff white cap, like a large English porter pot, without a handle. Each carries in his hand, a nosegay, of the size of ... ..., see mustard on the table? Sir, will you oblige me! do you see a Mustard Pot?’ The apostles and Judas appearing on the platform, after much expectat...

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..., the tyrant of Syracuse, suspended his inclination in the war betwixt the Greeks and barbarians, keeping a resi- dent ambassador with presents at Del... ... does better, he esteems him. And notably the cause of the laws and of the ancient government of a kingdom, has this always annexed to it, that even t... ..., and too much imprinted in my fancy that it is a beast of company, as the ancient said, but not of the herd.—[Plutarch, On the Plurality of Friends, ... ...ent to youth, but a reproach to old age.” These verses are preached in the ancient school, a school that I much more adhere to than the modern: its vi... ...to flag and languish under you, and there Latin steps in to its relief, as Greek does to others. Of some of these words I have just picked out we do n... ...g to the saying, “Le fourgon se moque de la paele.” [“The Pot and the Kettle.”] CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER VI VI VI VI V... ...seen. Why did not so noble a conquest fall under Alexander, or the ancient Greeks and Romans; and so great a revolution and mutation of so many empire... ... I see some who transform and transubstantiate themselves into as many new shapes and new beings as they undertake new employments; and who strut and ...

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...83.) Unpromising Army! Recruits flow in, filtering through Depot after De- pot; but recruits merely: in want of all; happy if they have so much as arm... ...een grapes, and produce 51 Thomas Carlyle colic, pestilential dysentery, (Greek). And the Peasants as- sassinate us, they do not join us; shrill wome... ...e envelop this present National Convention; as it did those Brennuses, and ancient August Senates in felt breeches? Time surely; and also Eternity. Di... ...de Paris (in Hist. Parl. xxiii. 318).) Nay there is one death-doer, of the ancient Meot sort, who, with effort, has done even less and worse: slain a ... ...the tools and emblems of their crafts; among which we notice a Plough, and ancient Baucis and Philemon seated on it, drawn by their children. Many- vo... ...r Spring season. Messidor, Thermidor, Fructidor, that is to say (dor being Greek for gift) Reapidor, Heatidor, Fruitidor, are Republican Summer. These... ...hen the People have lost their reason; ye will die when they recover it.” (Greek,—Plut. Opp. t. iv. p. 310. ed. Reiske, 1776.) No help! Yielding to vi... ...th they made. To our no- tions, it is not an edifying death. Gay satirical Pot-pourri by Ducos; rhymed Scenes of Tragedy, wherein Barrere and Robespie... ...auce: at these frugal tables, the cook’s gridiron hissing near by, and the pot simmering on a fire between two stones, I have seen them ranged by the ...

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...do, Calderon, Garcilaso de la Vega, the Mendozas, Gongora, were all men of ancient families, and, curiously, all, except the last, of fami- lies that ... ...though nominally taken from the castle, it was in reality derived from the ancient territorial possession of the family, and as a set-off, and to dist... ...ucate the public taste until it was ripe for tragedies on the model of the Greek drama—like the “Numancia” for instance—and comedies that would not on... ...a knight. “For, how could you expect me not to feel uneasy about what that ancient lawgiver they call the Public will say when it sees me, after slumb... ...s the fra- grance that came from some pieces of salted goat simmering in a pot on the fire; and though he would have liked at once to try if they were... ...ld have liked at once to try if they were ready to be transferred from the pot to the stomach, he refrained from doing so as the goatherds removed the... ...ant; for they under- stood about as much of them as if he had been talking Greek, though they could perceive they were all meant for expressions of go... ..., it is said, a bit of looking-glass and a piece of a comb and some little pot or other of paint for her face; but let her carry what she did, I am no... ... I would have returned and done more mischief in reveng- ing thee than the Greeks did for the rape of Helen, who, if she were alive now, or if my Dulc...

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...l, after the fashion of Peacock’s (and Mr. Mallock’s) develop- ment of the ancient dialogue; but this encumbered me with unnecessary characters and th... ...more than schemes for bettering that interplay. At least, that is how life shapes itself more and more to modern perceptions. Until you bring in indiv... ...uality of their group- ing, a change in the quality of their remote, small shapes. 14 A Modern Utopia I should flick a few crumbs from my knee, perha... ...proprietary eye of the man who knows his constellations down to the little Greek letters. I imagine his exclamation. He would at first doubt his eyes.... ... he deadens rather than stimulates.** An infinitude of nonsense about the Greek mind would never have been writ- ten if the distinctive intellectual ... ... its politico- social instability, had been borne in mind. The food of the Greek imagination was the very antithesis of our own nour- ishment. We are ... ... a moment, and seeing we do not understand the electrically heated coffee- pot before us, shows us what to do. Coffee and milk we have, in the Contine... ...the gorge, and old memories turn us off the road down the steep ruin of an ancient mule track towards it. It is our first reminder that Utopia too mus... ...in its ascent. In the Modern Utopia he will have set himself to change the ancient law. No longer will it be that failures must suffer and perish lest...

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... Aldgate Pump, and had got past the Saracen’s Head (with an ignominious rash of posting bills disfiguring his swarthy countenance), and had strolled u... ...ry week, but never change their character of being divided and sub-divided on the ground floor into mouldy dens of shops where an orange and half-a-do... ...ed why not strike up? ‘ Ah, la’ads!’ said a negro sitting by the door, ‘gib the jebblem a darnse. Tak’ yah pardlers, jebblem, for ‘um quad-rill.’ This... ...xpediency of lunching at that establishment. He beheld nothing to eat, but butter in various forms, slightly charged with jam, and languidly frizzling... ...e aunt (a rigor- ous reduced gentlewoman who has the charge of offices), and I perceive that worthy relative to poke him in the side, with the corruga... ...s—the Gipsy- tramp, the Show-tramp, the Cheap Jack—find it impossible to resist the temptations of the place, and all turn the horse loose when they c... ...country-side, for miles and miles, will swarm with hopping tramps. They come in fami- lies, men, women, and children, every family provided with a bun... ...ondly, that he eat a penny ice. Thirdly, that he get himself photographed. Then do I speculate, What have those seam-worn artists been who stand at th... ... see in it?’ The point of the jest immediately became a sting, and stung my conscience. For my mind’s eye saw him stolid, frigid, perchance taking fro...

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...nd I think we noticed that this strange thing was the case in Hamburg, too, and in the villages along the road. Even in the narrow- est and poorest an... ...but he knows what he knows—it is not be- fogged with uncertainty, it is burnt into him so that it will stay. For instance, he does not merely read and... ...roof, so he goes there to add a steeple in the nature of some specialty, such as a particular branch of law, or diseases of the eye, or special study ... ...wall; they bore inscriptions telling who killed them and how many hundred years ago it was done. One room in the building was devoted to the preservat... ... lay the rasped and guttered track which the ancient glacier had made as it moved along upon its slow and tedious journey. This track was perforated b... ...? Why have you used all this Chinese and Choctaw and Zulu rubbish?” “Because I didn’t know any French but two or three words, and I didn’t know any La... ... other six days of the week put together, and it is of a more bitter and malignant character than the week-day profanity, too. It is produced by the c... ...I might have boiled those things to rags, and never found out anything. I hunted up another barometer; it was new and perfect. I boiled it half an hou... ...and I went ashore, with others, to view the town. I got separated from the rest, and wan- dered about alone, until late in the afternoon, when I en- t...

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...cheapness is an old usurers’ age. England before the war was a paradise of ancient usuries; everywhere were great houses and enclosed parks; the multi... ...re to be sent up and wages down, while the old feuds of Wales and Ireland, ancient theological and sec- tarian jealousies and babyish loyalties, and s... ... Great Britain that we are confronted with the spectacle of this great and ancient kingdom reconstructing itself perforce, while it wages the greatest... ...ll sorts, which were flour- ishing in 1914, exist to-day only as names, as shapes, as empty shells. Their staffs have been shattered, scattered, recon... ...an they do now, and they will in many cases be learning Russian instead of Greek or German. More of our boys will be going into the public service, an... ...pe that the Oxford and Cambridge of unphilosophical classics and Little-go Greek for everybody, don’s mathematics, bad French, ignorance of all Europe... ...peak it rather worse than a third-rate Babu speaks English, and of Ancient Greek by teachers who at best half know this fine lost language. They do no... ...al boundaries of south-western Asia for the last three thousand years. The shapes and colours come and go—now it is Persia, now it is Macedonia, now t... ...; the monarchs splash the water and break up the mirror in endless strange shapes; nev- ertheless, always it is tending back to its enduring forms; al...

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...n a hitherto desolate country under the frowning nail-studded cliffs of an ancient trunk. Then I conquered them and garrisoned their land. (Alas! they... ...ience is the organised conquest of Nature, and I can quite understand that ancient libertine refusing to cooperate in her own undoing. And I can quite... ...me roads rather more carefully tended, the Inns not very much altered, the ancient familiar market-house. The occasional wheeled traffic would have st... ...things. We joined in the earnest acquirement of all that was necessary for Greek epigrams and Latin verse, and for the rest played games. We dipped do... .... 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 did not habi... ...ow and localised life had lain in those days through Latin, and afterwards Greek had come in as the vehicle of a flood of new and amazing ideas. Once ... ...ss more. Foot- ball isn’t the place for extreme individualism.’ ‘Ammersham shapes well as half-back.’ Things like that.” “I could do that all right,” ... ...fe, forms that esteemed themselves solid, that were, we knew, no more than shapes painted on a curtain that was presently to be torn aside… . It was H... ... feel like the Arabian fisherman who tried to put the genius back into the pot from which it had spread gigantic across the skies… . I have a very cle...

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...perfect specimen of manly beauty could scarcely be imagined. Lovely as the Greek girls of Cyprus or Chios, Mercedes boasted the same bright flashing e... ...ierce, fiery dragons defend the entrance and approach; and monsters of all shapes and kinds, requiring to be overcome ere victory is ours. I own that ... ...ffianced bride by the hand, and bringing with him remorse, not such as the ancients figured, furious and terrible, but that slow and consuming agony w... ... foundation, and at a sign from the emperor the incon- gruous structure of ancient prejudices and new ideas fell to the ground. Villefort, therefore, ... ... of the ages, bring to life the nations that had perished, and rebuild the ancient cities so vast and stupendous in the light of the imagination, and ... ...ay, Ger- man, French, Italian, English, and Spanish; by the aid of ancient Greek I learned modern Greek — I don’t speak it so well as I could wish, bu... ... were turned to- wards Athens — it was the fashion to pity and support the Greeks. The French government, without protecting them openly , as you know... ...dow of their umbrageous boughs, while fancy pictures a moving multitude of shapes and forms flitting and passing beneath that shade. Here I have a gar...

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...s, their father’s busi- ness ally and fellow-speculator; Mr. Pericles, the Greek, the man who held millions of money as dust compared to a hu- man voi... ... every possible kind interpretation of his atrocious bad manners. He was a Greek, of Parisian gilding, whose Parisian hat flew off at a moment’s notic... ... a deep final note, and the hearers breathed freely. “Stradella!” said the Greek, folding his arms. The ladies were too deeply impressed to pursue the... ...t on our heads, or, better still, chaplets of flowers; then, like the wise ancients, we should be able to tell to a nicety how far we had advanced in ... ... grey-edged un- der the moon: and Night, that clung like a bat beneath its ancient open palms. The bordering sward about the falls shone silvery. In i... ...dingly, both sets of fin- gers filliping, toward Emilia, with one of those ancient glee— suspensions, “Taia—haia—haia—haia,” etc., which were meant fo... ...ed her fingers. “Can you ever believe that, I have called you a ‘simmering pot of Emerald broth’?” “My dear! annything that’s lots o’ words, Ye may ca... ...d on; “‘and to-morrow I’ll pay my respects to what you call your simmering pot of Emerald broth.’ Oh ye hussy! I’d say, if ye weren’t a borrn lady. An... ...dn’t know ye wouldn’t part with it under fifty. And ‘deed I am a simmerin’ pot; for she’ll be a relation, my dear! Go to ‘r. I’ll have your bed ready ...

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...cipality of Amalfi, and a similar title was in use at Venice, justified by ancient inheritance from Facino Cane, Prince of Varese. The Grimaldi, who a... ...any centuries had sculptured the bronze brackets supporting long-necked or pot-bellied Chinese vases, and the candelabra for a thousand tapers. Every ... ...col- umns, the string-courses wrought by so inventive a chisel that no two shapes are alike in the arabesques on the stones. How charming is that door... ... as if wrought in T ur- key, but composed of marbles in endless variety of shapes, inlaid in white marble. You will delight in the charming or- nament... ...d vine- stock throws out canes productive of delicious fruit. This race of ancient rulers still gives birth to kings—Lagrange, Volta, Rasori, Canova, ... ...p after its long torpor? Joy comes in with the day. In what composi- tion, ancient or modern, will you find so grand a passage? The greatest gladness ... ...r me at Florian’s.” 60 Massimilla Doni “I will.” This dialogue, in modern Greek, with which Vendramin and Emilio were familiar, as many Venetians are... ...ese vapors, almost visible, as it seemed to the listeners, like the marble shapes about them in the silver moonlight, angels sat whose wings, devoutly...

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...ght you forth from the land of Egypt. 33 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, ... ...ssel wherein it is sodden shall be broken: and if it be sodden in a brasen pot, it shall be both scoured, and rinsed in water. 29 All the males among ... ... precious things put forth by the moon, 15 And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills, 16 And... ...ourses fought against Sisera. 21 The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength... ...f an ephah of our: the esh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it. 20 And th... ...thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee. 13 As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be... ...heard of him, and came and fell at his feet: Mark 1135 26 The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast f... ...e thyself. 38 And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS. 39 And one of t... ... nothing? be- hold, the world is gone after him. 20 And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: 21 The same came th...