...ed to be a careful description of his person followed. As if it had been a theatre-bill, crowds were gathered about the announcement, and among them c... ...th a black ribbon. From a square, tableted broach, curiously engraved with Greek characters, he seemed a collegian—not improb- ably, a sophomore—on hi... ...eans, an old man, less slender in purse than limb, happening to attend the theatre 31 Melville one evening, was so charmed with the character of a fa... ...e!” “Hi, hi!” clamored the cripple, like a fellow in the pit of a sixpenny theatre, then said, “don’t know much what you meant, but it went off well.”... ... from an immense hereditary experience—see what Horace and oth- ers of the ancients say of servants—coming to the conclu- sion, I say, that boy or man... ...what do you conjecture him to be?” “I conjecture him to be what, among the ancient Egyp- tians, was called a—— “ using some unknown word. “A——! And wh... ...ok on the theology of Plato, defines as————” coming out with a sentence of Greek. Holding up his glass, and steadily looking through its trans- parenc... ...clearly, because, as before said, I con- jecture him to be what, among the ancient Egyptians—” “Pray, now,” earnestly deprecated the cosmopolitan, “pr...

...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... ... 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... ... 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... ...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 ... ...ess, too, all human beings, how when herded together in the sheepfold of a theatre’s pit, they will, at the slightest alarm of fire, rush helter skelte...

...sputed chief of it; backing his opinion with a score of pat sentences from Greek and Ro- man authorities (of which kind of learning he made rather an ... ...st be owned that Mr. St. John sometimes rather acted like a Turkish than a Greek philosopher, and especially fell foul of one unfortunate set of men, ... ...aces. There were hundreds of men, wits, and pretty fellows frequenting the theatres and coffee-houses of that day—whom “nunc perscribere longum 62 He... ...urdering. Some one said the ill- omened face of Mohun had been seen at the theatre the night before, and Macartney and Meredith with him. Meant to be ... ...g hope of her heart. Esmond took horses to Castlewood. He had not seen its ancient gray towers and well-remembered woods for nearly fourteen years, an... ...s under the blushing morning sky. How well all things were remembered! The ancient towers and gables of the hall darkling against the east, the purple... ...nor Mr. Dragon either. ’Tis not the peerage I care for, for our name is so ancient and famous, that merely to be called Lord Lydiard would do me no go...

...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... ... 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... ...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... ...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 ... ...ess, too, all human beings, how when herded together in the sheepfold of a theatre’s pit, they will, at the slightest alarm of 370 Moby Dick fire, ru...

...ut the ingenious author of the Spectator was principally induced to prefix Greek and Latin mottos to every paper, from the same consideration of guard... ...f which, vul gar spectators of plays very often do great injustice in the theatre; where I have sometimes known a poet in danger of being convicted a... ... light in which they have not hitherto been seen. This word critic is of Greek derivation, and signifies judg ment. Hence I presume some persons wh... ... they are not always), do by no means go to the merit of the whole. In the theatre especially, a single expression which doth not coincide with the ta... ...and no less so to you to travel it over with me. “This seat, then, is an ancient mansion house: if I was in one of those merry humours in which you ... ... is of no manner of use to them. A writer who intermixes great quantity of Greek and Latin with his works, deals by the ladies and fine gentlemen in t... ...grave and solemn air; while tragedy storms aloud, and rends th’ affrighted theatres with its thunders. To soothe thy wearied limbs in slumber, Alderma...

...as become old-fashioned— was a girl of ten or twelve in the chorus of some theatre, more particularly at the opera, who was trained by young roues to ... ... natural. I met him by chance, three months ago, at the Porte-Saint-Martin theatre, where I went one day when I had leave, for we had a day a week at ... ...nto my heart, and had so completely changed me, that on my return from the theatre I did not know myself: I had a horror of myself. Lucien would never... ...etus among police agents. The name of Contenson, alas! hid one of the most ancient names of feudal Normandy. “Well, there is something like ten thousa... ...of sunshine. The Baron, a clerk by the time he was twelve years old in the ancient house of Aldrigger at Strasbourg, had never set foot in the world o... ...d by means of which your brother has stolen a march on the beliefs of that ancient family. Beware now of allowing it to be supposed that you have give... ...uage of Panurge, a name symbolizing the people, for it is derived from two Greek words signifying All-working. Science is changing the face of the wor...

...ked them down, was the mill that grinds young people old; the children had ancient faces and grave voices; and upon them, and upon the grown faces, an... ...the worse and by lighted shops, gay crowds, illuminated coffee houses, and theatre doors, to one of the city gates. Soldiers with lanterns, at the gu... ...es to have a messenger at hand. This is to tell him you are there.” As the ancient clerk deliberately folded and superscribed the note, Mr. Cruncher, ... ...That’s quartering,” said Jerry. “Barbarous!” “It is the law,” remarked the ancient clerk, turning his surprised spectacles upon him. “It is the law.” ... ...who drove a contraband trade in European lan guages, instead of conveying Greek and Latin through the Custom house. The rest of his time he passed in... ...d its head in red nightcaps, and put on heavy shoes, and trudged. But, the theatres were all well filled, and the people poured cheerfully out as he p... ... poured cheerfully out as he passed, and went chatting home. At one of the theatre doors, there was a little girl with a mother, looking for a way acr...

...nty copies had been sold; and though his essay on “Chi- nese Influences in Greek Art” had created a passing stir, it had resulted in controversial cor... ...tland, I’ll thank you to remember that you are a member of one of the most ancient houses in the United Kingdom—and not to get found out.’” Susy laugh... ...mportant people that he hasn’t had time to go about with us; and as so few theatres are open, and there’s so little music, I’ve taken the opportunity ... ...med her: it was too vast, too venerable, too like a huge monument built of ancient territorial traditions and obligations. Perhaps it had been lived i... ...ar clearly when several people were talking at once, or when he was at the theatre; and he developed a habit of saying over and over again: “Does so-a... ...ght she wrote. At the last moment it might have been impossible, if at the theatre little Breckenridge had not bobbed into her box. He was just back f...

...shion introduced as much by David’s school of painting as by the mania for Greek and Roman styles which characterized the early years of this century.... ...n the quarries. The head of the Guillaume family was a notable upholder of ancient practices; he might be heard to regret the Provost of Merchants, an... ...they made up their mind to exert the right acquired by taking a box at the theatre to command a piece which Paris had already forgotten. As to the oth... ...s lost to the sight of his most intimate friends forgetting the world, the theatre, poetry, music, and all his dearest habits. One morning Girodet bro... ...because, above everything, they must understand each other; if a man spoke Greek and his wife Latin, they might come to die of hunger. He had himself ... ...lappets, her mother had found in Virginie a successor who could uphold the ancient honor of the Cat and Racket. At breakfast she observed certain chan... ... visible till that hour. Madame de Sommervieux had not yet seen any of the ancient and mag- nificent mansions of the Faubourg Saint-Germain. As she ma... ...taste, enhanced this sort of dais, under which the Duchess reclined like a Greek statue. The dark hue of the velvet gave relief to every fascinating c...

...ondemn this essay, intended for a good de- sign, to cultivate and improve an ancient art, long in disgrace, by having fallen into mean and unskilful h... ...nces and nobles appear in night- rails and petticoats; men shall squeak upon theatres with fe- male voices, and women corrupt virgins; lords shall kno... ...t virgins; lords shall knot and cut paper; and even the northern people : A Greek phrase (which for modesty s sake I forbear to translate) which de- ...

... stood by their bedside in the morning when they woke; and all about their ancient cities, where they bought and sold, or where they piped and wrestle... ...careering in the windy, bottomless inane, or read about like characters in ancient and rather fabulous annals. Our offspring would no more think of co... ...ite halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani. There is some meaning in the old theory about w... ...some one branch or another of accepted lore, come out of the study with an ancient and owl-like demeanour, and prove dry, stockish, and dyspeptic in a... ...t, most virtuous, and most beneficent parts that are to be played upon the Theatre of Life are filled by gratuitous performers, and pass, among the wo... ...rs, and pass, among the world at large, as phases of idleness. For in that Theatre, not only the walking gentlemen, singing chambermaids, and diligent... ...a precipice, than miserably straggling to an end in sandy deltas? When the Greeks made their fine saying that 77 Virginibus Puerisque & Other Papers ... ...do all our fiddling, and hold domestic tea-parties at the arbour door. The Greeks figured Pan, the god of Nature, now terribly stamping his foot, so t... ...lling on his pipe until he charmed the hearts of upland ploughmen. And the Greeks, in so figuring, uttered the last word of human ex- perience. To cer...

...e were seven at Vivian-place. And me that morning Walter showed the house, Greek, set with busts: from vases in the hall Flowers of all heavens, and ... ... and calumets, Claymore and snowshoe, toys in lava, fans Of sandal, amber, ancient rosaries, Laborious orient ivory sphere in sphere, The cursed Malay... ...let, like a girl, For on my cradle shone the Northern star. There lived an ancient legend in our house. Some sorcerer, whom a far-off grandsire burnt ... ...Oasis, lapt In the arms of leisure, sacred from the blight 17 Tennyson Of ancient influence and scorn. At last She ros... ... And then we strolled For half the day through stately theatres Benched crescent-wise. In each we sat, we heard The grave Profess...

...Milton: Paradise Regained With looks agast and sad he thus bespake. O ancient Powers of Air and this wide world, For much more willingly I me... ... hill Sometimes, anon in shady vale, each night Under the covert of some ancient Oak, 305 Or Cedar, to defend him from the dew, Or harbour’d in... ...y he requires, and glory he receives Promiscuous from all Nations, Jew, or Greek, Or Barbarous, nor exception hath declar’d; From us his foes pr... ...roudly elevate On seven small Hills, with Palaces adorn’d, 35 Porches and Theatres, Baths, Aqueducts, Statues and Trophees, and Triumphal Arcs, ...

...make no protestation. Let us up. There is comfort in exercise, even for an ancient creature such as I am. This mountain is my brother, and flatters me... ...covered it when she was in England, and is a connoisseur, a millionaire, a Greek, a rich scoundrel, with one indubitable passion, for which I praise h... ...he Piazza de’ Mercanti. He entered a narrow court, one of those which were anciently built upon the Oriental principle of giving shade at the small co... ...r, and it’ll honey your legs in purgatory? You’re the shooting-dog of that Greek, and you nose about the bushes for his birds, and who cares if any fe... ... and had called upon Antonio-Pericles to extract her address from him; the Greek had denied that she was in Milan. Luigi could tell no more. He descri... ...’s horizon was within five feet of her. She saw neither splendid earth nor ancient heaven; nothing save a breach to be stepped over in defiance of foe... ...hink you can do something, because you read books and frequent the talking theatres—fourteen syllables to a word. Mother of heaven! will you never lea... ...ens the skies!’ and immediately appended: ‘It is destined to suffocate the theatres!’ Pausing as before a splendid vision: ‘Money—let it go like dust!... ...the general vomitorium, but Carlo and Luciano held her firmly by them. The theatre was a rageing darkness; and there was barely a light on the stage. ...

.................................................... 65 GO, LITTLE BOOK – THE ANCIENT PHRASE ............................................................... ...r near to Grez, A river deep and clear? Among the lilies all the way, That ancient river runs to-day From snowy weir to weir. Old as the Rhine of grea... ...Thus they, the venal Muses Arabian, Unlike, indeed, the nobler divinities, Greek Gods or old time-honoured muses, Easily proffer unloved caresses. Los... ..., revive me, Sun-God, teach me, Apollo, Measures descanted before; Since I ancient verses, I emulous follow, Prints in the marbles of yore. Still stra... ...n are Heaven’s piers; they evermore Unwearying bear the skyey floor; Man’s theatre they bear with ease, Unfrowning cariatides! I, for my wife, the sun...

...he conversation; ‘perhaps you’ll explain your meaning, young man, which is Greek to me.— You must have another touch of blue in your trimming, my dear... ...tting alone in my garden on the housetop, that I was doing dishonour to my ancient faith and race. I reflected—clearly reflected for the first time—th... ...an countries, with the Jews as with other peoples. Men say, ‘This is a bad Greek, but there are good Greeks. This is a bad Turk, but there are good T ... ... before me, face to face, and seeing the thing visibly presented as upon a theatre. Wherefore I perceived that the obligation was upon me to leave thi...

...d it Silver’s Theayter. You know that, sure!’ 46 Soldiers Three ‘Silver’s Theatre—so ’twas. A gut betune two hills, as black as a bucket, an’ as thin... ... Dublin dock-rat he was— wan av the bhoys that made the lessee av Silver’s Theatre gray before his time wid tearin’ out the bowils av the benches an’ ... ...m Kelly.” ‘“Eyah!” sez the man, “was you there too? We’ll call ut Silver’s Theatre.” Half the Tyrone, knowin’ the ould place, tuk it up: so we called ... ...usketeers gathered round it with dry lips. They drank my health in due and ancient form, and thereafter tobacco tasted sweeter than ever. They absorbe... ...odiment—all this trouble would have been averted. They compared him to the Ancient Mariner, but none the less they were proud of him and proud of the ... ... she dwelt upon the wall. —Joshua ii. 15 LALUN IS A MEMBER of the most ancient profession in the world. Lilith was her very-great-grandmamma, and ... ...lun’s little white room was always large and talked more than before. ‘The Greeks,’ said Wali Dad who had been borrowing my books, ‘the inhabitants of... ... of the heterodox women—is it not?—who were amusing and not fools. All the Greek philosophers delighted in their company. Tell me, my friend, how it g...

...ocratic portion of the community. It was like Paris when the audience of a theatre disperses. Certain persons who talk much of poesy and know noth- in... ...lic, apostolic, and Roman religion is still erect in Brit- tany and in the ancient duchy of Alencon. Faith and piety admit of no subtleties. Mademoise... ...this:— Under the secret inspiration of du Bousquier the idea of building a theatre had dawned on Alencon. The henchmen of the purveyor did not know th... ...wn concep- tion. Athanase Granson was one of the warmest partisans for the theatre; and of late he had urged at the mayor’s office 67 Balzac a cause ... ...would be true. Don’t you understand me?” “No more than if you were talking Greek,” replied Made- moiselle Cormon, who opened her eyes wide, and strain... ...or this episcopal salon; she dreaded the cold look he might cast over that ancient din- ing-room; in short, she feared the frame might injure and age ... ...taste of the money- changer,—for instance, columns in stucco, glass doors, Greek mouldings, meaningless outlines, all styles conglomerated, magnificen... ... outstrips us? Modern myths are even less understood 124 An Old Maid than ancient ones, harried as we are with myths. Myths are pressing us from ever...

...ck-towers and sundry modern turrets, with galleries and vases more or less Greek. No harmony there, my dear Nathan! These heterogeneous erections are ... ...ws no love but barrack love,— the love which those clever myth-makers, the ancients, placed under the patronage of Eros, son of Mars and Venus. Those ... ... is what I desire for you and for me and the rest of us in the name of the theatre, and of the press, and of book- making! Amen! Will Florine be jealo... ...but the arrival of two sons and three daughters kept him poor. His family, ancient and formerly powerful, now consisted of the Marquis de T roisville,... ...spoke a shameful want of care,—the seal set by mere life-possessors on the ancient glories that they pos- sess. Two windows on the first floor were st... ...erests of Blangy, enabled him partially to understand a third idyll in the Greek style, which poor villagers like Tonsard, and middle-aged rich men li... ... bows were depicted smoking bowls of punch, the bowls being in the form of Greek vases. The words “Cafe de la Paix” were over the door, brilliantly pa... ...where the horse reared (which might be called, in judi- cial language, the theatre of the crime) with remarkable sa- gacity, but without obtaining any...

...lackguard!” he thought to himself. Nejdanov he had come across in a little Greek restaurant, where he was in the habit of taking his dinner, and where... ...ed everyone that the main cause of his democratic turn of mind was the bad Greek cooking, which upset his liver. “I wonder where our host has got to? ... ...ng to you, Mr. Nejdanov, the day before yesterday, if you remember, at the theatre.” (The visitor paused, as though waiting for Nejdanov to make some ... ...an with modest pride. We must first relate how Nejdanov had met him at the theatre. There had been a performance of Ostrovsky’s play “Never Sit in Ano... ... Turgenev parts. Just before dinner on that day, Nejdanov went down to the theatre to book a ticket, but found a large crowd al- ready waiting there. ... ...ilway. 30 Virgin Soil V IN THE DRAWING ROOM of a large stone house with a Greek front—built in the twenties of the present century by Sipiagin’s fath... ... days and were consequently allowed to remain. The Subotchevs had only two ancient shaggy saddle horses, one of which, called the Immovable, had turne... ...e time of the Empress Elisabeth! The Subotchev’s coachman, too, was old—an ancient, ancient old man with a constant smell of tar and cart-oil about hi... ... soon managed to put them in an excellent humour. Fomishka produced a very ancient carved wooden snuff- box and showed it to the visitors with great p...