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THE TREASON & DEATH OF BENEDICT ARNOLD A PLAY FOR A GREEK THEATRE BY JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

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...THE TREASON & DEATH OF BENEDICT ARNOLD A PLAY FOR A GREEK THEATRE BY JOHN JAY CHAPMAN MOFFAT, YARD & COMPANY 1910 COPYRIG... ...THE TREASON & DEATH OF BENEDICT ARNOLD A PLAY FOR A GREEK THEATRE BY JOHN JAY CHAPMAN MOFFAT, YARD & COMPANY 1910 COPYRIGI~T, 1... ...hters of ether, ye clouds of the mountains ! Rise, sons of the sea, most ancient re- tainers, Flow towards your father's need! the River calls - ... ...ICT ARNOLD We the movers, we the rovers, Come to your eternal dwelling. Ancient father, we will bring News and thought of everything, From the mo... ...se things must be: therefore endure. Lo, thy old trees are as grass; thy ancient summits as fresh ant-hills. Chaldea sends thee this message, fath... ...s; Storm King, and Donderberg, homes of reverberant thunder; Thou steep theatre, where his story trod its stage, And where the circling thought o...

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...om the Odyssey that the author used are from the renowned translation from Greek to Italian done by Rosa Calzecchi Onesti, Published by Einaudi. I h... ...ranslated these passages, instead of utilizing a renowned translation from Greek to English, because there seems to be no translation from Greek int... ... live on bread alone but on bread and…. Beauty”. A.M. PART ONE The Greek gods nourished themselves with nectar and ambrosia and I am firmly ... ...dered objects we can work with creatively. In Cosmo-Art, we face our most ancient traumas and most terrible conflicts so we can transform them into... ...of any other type. However, a language can also become poetry, song, and theatre, and then its content becomes artistic. It begins to possess a ne...

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...In Sappho’s Journal, the author brings the famous Greek poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her sense of beauty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetr...

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...SAPPHO’S JOURNAL: In Sappho’s Journal, the author brings the famous Greek poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her ... ... her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recre... ... "A historical novel that recounts the life, thought, and times of the Greek poet Sappho of Lesbos, based on a study of ancient Greece and Sap... ...ght, and times of the Greek poet Sappho of Lesbos, based on a study of ancient Greece and Sappho's surviving fragments of poetry"--Provided by... ...le task of reconstructing the personality of Sappho and her background in ancient Lesbos. To my happy surprise he did so, in a work which is at once... ...he most distant to the most recent they are: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakes- peare; and Abraham Lincoln. F... ...ve on my bedroom walls seem less clever than they appeared years ago. Our theatre, too, has changed through the years, become more mediocre. Yester... ...ning his wife who was strolling behind us with her friends and servants. Theatre! P Villa Poseidon Atthis, Gyrinno, Anaktoria and I went swimming... ...wings and more wings, bearing me away. P Sometimes, we troop to our old theatre, lost in its bowl of cypress and over- grown with grass and weeds, ...

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...Shops overflowing with goodies, food plentiful and varied, restaurants of every persuasion opening their doors to an increasingly adventurous public; theatres full, film studios on a roll, television had taken off, and best of all, war had exposed religious dogma to rational scrutiny. A god that allowed such a bloodbath was not a god to be followed. The blinkers of faith...

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...s Shawn) felt an empathy as deep as the gods; and the reconstructed walls of ancient buildings that he could see into and imagine long deceased empero... ...yes on someone at a bar called "Trance," around Pagoda Park, or at the movie theatre behind it and off they went to his hotel room. What was it? A str... ...s hormones were boiling to overflow he "hauled [his] ass" to Seoul. There, a theatre existed for meeting and touching men near Chongno Samga Road and ... ... get there and so he looked down at the "chito" (map) a fellow hunter at the theatre had drawn for him on the back cover of his "Expatriate In Korea" ... ...lves on his lap while above the couch was a television showing a drama of an ancient Korean period linked with reverberating melancholic Buddhist melo... ... might have seemed original long after the Great Hymn of Aten was written in Ancient Egypt. In constructing another paragraph she began to ask herself... ... an old man in ancient garb. At the age of four she could not recognize the Greek philosopher, Heraclitus sculpted into the cloud or a cloud shaped o... ...his time. You have a body and garments that I would ascribe as being Ancient Greek and godessesque. So, what is it?" "So haughty and so cold. And I...

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...mary Donnelly Listen With Your Heart 5 Prologue The Victoria Theatre, Dayton, Ohio, 1866 He’s out! Finished. ... ...ght, his audience would clamor for a refund. And the shame of the Victoria Theatre presenting a magician who could not pull a scarf out of his sleev... ...“I just wish I knew how dressing like a sheep-herding strumpet fits in with Greek myth,” she muttered to the darkness. ***** Daniel wished h... ... poetic spells to run away with themselves. Morgan worried her choice of a Greek myth as her theme might tempt her to do that tonight. She’d made ... ... very little. I was fourteen.” “Mmmm.” He stroked his chin and nodded. “Ancient.” “It was only five years ago. And you didn’t think me so litt... ...opers. As it turns out, we met years ago in Ohio.” “Dayton. The Victoria Theatre,” Morgan nodded, relaxing, surprised and delighted with his effo... ...d muddled, her brain bumped through jumbled memories until she extracted an ancient chestnut about one of Rupert’s last successes as Shylock in Merch... ...me meant gapped rock, and it hunched above the sea like the remains of some ancient monster clove in two by an angry god. Nestled in the cleft were ...

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...A TREATISE ON GOVERNMENT TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF ARISTOTLE BY WILLIAM ELLIS, A.M. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS ... ...nity university. 3 Aristotle A TREATISE ON GOVERNMENT TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF ARISTOTLE BY WILLIAM ELLIS, A.M. LONDON &.TORONTO PUBLISHED BY J M... ...ome respects a critical history of the workings of the institutions of the Greek city state. In Books IV ., V ., and VI. the ideal state seems far aw... .... W allace, Outlines of the Philosophy of Aristotle, 1875, 1880; A. Grant (Ancient Classics for English readers), 1877; T. Davidson, Aristotle and Anc... ...strengthen the bands of soci- ety, seems to have been known to some of the ancients; for Solon made a law, as did some others also, to restrain per- s... ...sfortuue has befallen them. They were 55 Aristotle also to preserve their ancient patrimony, which custom be- ing broken through by the Leucadians, m... ... added those who have the care of their gymnastic exercises, [1323a] their theatres, and every other public spectacle which there may happen to be. So... ... harmony and such the music which those who contend with each other in the theatre should exhibit: but as the audience is composed of two sorts of peo... ...e gives pleasure to every one, therefore those who are to contend upon the theatre should be al- lowed to use this species of music. But in education ...

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...ions begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no deputy from Arcis in the Chamber....

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...ovinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Ba... ...om they consulted, advised them to give their son for patron a saint whose Greek name might signify the municipality,—for the child was born at a peri... ... Mademoiselle Mars. By calling to mind the most charming Celimene that the Theatre-Francais ever had, an excellent idea of Severine Grevin’s appearanc... ... that Madame Mollot saw. Maxime had a very handsome forehead, blue eyes, a Greek nose, a pleasant mouth, and a well-cut chin; but the circle of his ey... ...he family of 171 Balzac Sallenauve is, after that of Cinq-Cygne, the most ancient fam- ily in the department of the Aube. I ought to add that the exh... ...llent nun carried it out after her fashion. Instead of something grand and Greek and national, she started in Arcis a secular girl’s-school, and as so... ...nt the servant threw open the door and announced dinner. After dinner, the theatre was proposed; that is one of the amusements that Parisians miss the... ...amily of to-day children have taken the place of the household gods of the ancients, and whoever does not share this worship is not a morose and sour ... ...nded, and has never since been taken up.” “Are you sure of what you say?” “Ancient authors, Strabo and others, all mention these 248 The Deputy of Ar...

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...Excerpt: The author of these Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my ancient and intimate friend; there is likewise some relation between us on the mother?s side. About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a ...

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...he original edition. The author of these Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my ancient and intimate friend; there is likewise some re lation between us... ...tion to my fortune. My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern, being always provided with a good number of books; an... ... mounting on my body. At the place where the carriage stopped there stood an ancient temple, esteemed to be the largest in the whole kingdom; which, h... ...the town on my left hand, which looked like the painted scene of a city in a theatre. I had been for some hours extremely pressed by the necessities o... ... called up into the room: it was with great difficulty that I understood his Greek, and had but little of my own. He assured me upon his honour “that ...

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...Excerpt: In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster. The remains of this extensive wood are still to be seen at the noble s...

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...CT of merry England which is wa- tered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hi... ...te battles during the Civil Wars of the Roses; and here also flourished in ancient times those bands of gallant outlaws, whose deeds have been rendere... ...e reduced to some degree of subjection to the crown, had now resumed their ancient license in its utmost extent; despising the feeble interference of ... ...etter degree than the mere vul- gar, and might be compared to the pit of a theatre. The pro- miscuous multitude arranged themselves upon large banks o... ...siness with him. Isaac at once replaced on the table the untasted glass of Greek wine which he had just raised to his lips, and saying hastily to his ... ...aid Malvoisin apart to Mont- Fitchet, “were it well directed—but, like the Greek fire, it burns whatever approaches it.” The Judges had now been two h...

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...Works, in 20 volumes, with the following modifications: The footnote (there is only one) has been embedded directly into text, in brackets, [thusly]. Greek text has been transliterated into Latin characters with the notation [Gr.] juxtaposed. Otherwise, the punctuation and spelling of the print version have been retained....

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... is only one) has been embedded directly into text, in brackets, [thusly]. Greek text has been transliterated into Latin characters with the notation ... ... poor undevout wrappages, nomenclatures and scientific hearsays,—this, the ancient earnest soul, as yet un- encumbered with these things, did for itse... ...uld do. I consider Hero- worship to be the grand modifying element in that ancient system of thought. What I called the perplexed jungle of Pa- ganism... ...ther- wise as if bottomless and shoreless. So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the... ...- ity, rusticity, so very different from the light gracefulness of the old Greek Paganism, distinguishes this Scandinavian Sys- tem. It is Thought; th... ...l good Thought in all times. Not graceful lightness, half-sport, as in the Greek Paganism; a certain homely truthfulness and rustic strength, a great ... ...men. You remember Genlis’s experience of him. She took Jean Jacques to the Theatre; he bargaining for a strict incognito,— ”He would not be seen there...

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...eived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts, either of ancient or modern times, has ever rivaled this astonishing metropolis in the grandeur of magnitude; and not many--if we except the cities of Greece, none at all--in the grandeur of architectural display. Speaking even of Lond...

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... other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts, either of ancient or modern times, has ever ri- valled this astonishing metropolis in... ...and within that zone she comprehended not only all the great cities of the ancient world, but so per- fectly did she lay the garden of the world in ev... ...for those who survive, no arrears of misery are allowed by this scourge of ancient days;* the total penalty is paid down at once. As respected the ha... ...ome is represented as a very small kind of sparrow, but which, both to the Greeks and the Romans, was known by a name im- plying a regal station (prob... ... oppressive; the establishment of vast and comprehensive public libraries, Greek as well as Latin; the chastisement of Dacia; the conquest of Parthia;... ...is moderation. For upon one occasion, when the whole audience in the Roman theatre had risen upon the entrance of his two adopted sons, at that time n... ... and a fact which we have nowhere seen noticed, that the ancients, whether Greeks or Romans, had no eye for the picturesque; nay, that it was a sense ... ...y or self-indulgence, and he even found spirits for going incognito to the theatre, where he took sufficient interest in the public performances, to s... ...reality, almost daily before their eyes. The amphitheatre extinguished the theatre. How was it possible that the fine and intellectual griefs of the d...

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...Excerpt: The ancient and famous metropolis of the North sits overlooking a windy estuary from the slope and summit of three hills. No situation could be more commanding for the head city of a kingdom; none better chosen for noble prospect...

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...QUE NOTES by Robert Louis Stevenson EDINBURGH CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. THE ANCIENT AND FAMOUS metropolis of the North sits over- looking a windy estua... ...nently Gothic, and all the more so since she has set herself off with some Greek airs, and erected classic temples on her crags. In a word, and above ... ...f the ground, buildings in almost every style upon the globe. Egyptian and Greek temples, Venetian palaces and Gothic spires, are huddled one over ano... ...tricities, this dream in masonry and living rock, is not a drop-scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of every-day reality, connected by railway... ...or is this the only memo- rial that the pavement keeps of former days. The ancient burying-ground of Edinburgh lay behind St. Giles’s Church, running ... ...catch a glimpse of far-away trees upon your walk; and the place is full of theatre tricks in the way of scenery. You peep under an arch, you descend s...

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...Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................. 18 CHAPTER III ENGLAND UNDER THE GOOD SAXON, ALFRE...

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...a State University is an equal opportunity University. Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS................................................ ...MANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................. 1... ...arles Dickens 7 A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS IF YOU LOOK AT A M AP of the World, you ... ...for the destruction of the people, a cer tain terrible composition called Greek Fire, which could not be put out with water, but only burnt the fierc... ...rough his reign. An other merry lady named Moll Davies , a dancer at the theatre, was afterwards her rival. So was Nell Gwyn, first an orange girl ... ...ommons, Sir John Coventry . He made a remark in a debate about taxing the theatres, which gave the King offence. The King agreed with his illegitimat...

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...Excerpt: An ancient leafless stump of a horse-chestnut stood in the middle of a dusty field, bordered on the south side by a row of houses of some pretension. Against this stump, a pretty delicate fair girl of seventeen, whose short lila...

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..., For now foul sluts in dairies May fare as well as they. —BP . Corbet. AN ANCIENT LEAFLESS STUMP of a horse-chesnut stood in the middle of a dusty fi... ...other always answered the children’s inquiries by bidding them prove their ancient blood by resolute independence, and by that true dignity which weal... ... it, and Louis feared Mrs. Ponsonby was seeing through all. ‘ A morning of Greek would be insupportable,’ thought he; and yet he felt as if the fetter... ... would not do to encourage that old skipper—he was waylaying them like the Ancient Mariner, and was actually growing impudent. ‘An old man’s opinion o... ... their departure by exclaiming, ‘Well done, Strasburg system! A high-power Greek-imbibing machine, he may be, but as to comprehend- ing Fitzjocelyn—’ ... ...inently fitted. We would have a library of romance and poetry—at- tend the theatre weekly—and,’—(finishing as if to clench the whole) ‘Charlotte, do y...

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...erpretation of their value. In practice they had long sunk into forms. But ancient forms easily lend themselves to a revivification by meanings and ap... ...n consequence unread,) on the toi- lette and the wardrobe of the ladies of ancient Palestine. Hartmann was a respectable Oriental scholar, and he pub-... ... yields a strong presumption that he has exhausted it. The male costume of ancient Pales- tine is yet to be illustrated; but, for the female, it is pr... ...eans could have been discovered by the learned for putting a stop to him. [Greek Text: Aperantologia] was his forte; upon this he piqued himself, and ... ..., my dear North, and believe me to be always your old friend and admirer, [Greek Text: Cap Omega, Cap Phi] SCENE SCENE SCENE SCENE SCENE THE FIRST THE... ...at well-known under habiliment, which in Hebrew is called Ch’tonet, and in Greek and Latin by words of similar sound. 2 In this stage of its progress... ...gin, if she happened to be aware of it. The reason lurks here:—In the word theatre, is contained an evanescent image of a great audience—of a populous... ...tain degree of human sympathy with the dread tumults going on in that vast theatre—a conscience- haunted mind. So far he stands on common ground; but ... ...; whilst to him the large deputation from female Megara furnished an extra theatre for the inspection of Greek beauty. ‘There was no river mouth visib...

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...age, on the one hand, and, on the other, a work more lasting than brass—a [Greek: chtaema es aei]—a murder such in quality as any murder that he would... ...er to the effort, found a vast auxiliary advantage in a peerage and a very ancient descent. On these double wings he soared into a region of public in... ...ed as if built in brick; whereas, had it been so happy as to be written in Greek, then it would have been a palace built in Parian marble. Indeed! tha... ...on, though quite content with it in English, still could have wished it in Greek. That’s No. 2. Bentley, though admiring the blind old poet in the hig... ...tailor and co. As to ‘Cato,’ Schlosser, as usual, wanders in the shadow of ancient night. The English ‘people,’ it seems, so ‘extravagantly applauded’... ...ed reader knows well what is coming. Fox is ‘formed after the model of the ancients’—Fox is ‘simple’—Fox is ‘natu- ral’—Fox is ‘chaste’—Fox is ‘forcib... ...are quoted or alluded to by Addison. Even these quotations he had from the theatre, or the breath of popular talk. Generally, if you see a line from S... ...e sections) to cite before the reader’s eye the chief pomps of the Grecian theatre, after invoking ‘the magnificent witch’ Medea, I call up Antigone t... ...bject. It is not imparity, but disparity, that divides the two magnificent theatres. Suffer me, reader, at this point, to borrow from my-self, and do ...

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...y for the Encour- agement of Murder; but, according to their own delicate [Greek: euphaemismos], it is styled—The Society of Con- noisseurs in Murder.... ...ose of “Fire—fire!” upon which all of us, master and disciples, Plato and [Greek: hoi peri ton Platona], rushed out, eager for the spectacle. The fire... ... Fifth Book, I think it is, of his Metaphysics) de- scribes what he calls [Greek: kleptaen teleion], i.e., a perfect thief; and, as to Mr. Howship, in... ...etters, L.M. This L.M. had directed the people of the house to purchase an ancient cock, and to have him boiled forthwith, in order that Spinosa might... ....e., diving,] “they discoursed of many things relating to the Baths of the Ancients, and the Origine of Springs. When they had in this manner passed a... ...hen, what wandering thoughts I may have had of at- tempting the life of an ancient ewe, of a superannuated hen, and such “small deer,” are locked up i... ...ipse, we entered at least the skirts of its penum- bra. And the analogy of theatres was urged against us, where no man can complain of the annoyances ... ...boxes. But the soundness of this analogy we dis- puted. In the case of the theatre, it cannot be pretended that the inferior situations have any separ... ... so warm, the glasses are all down; and one may read, as on the stage of a theatre, everything that goes on within the carriage. It contains three lad...

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...R I A FULL AND TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE FOUGHT LAST FRIDAY BETWEEN THE ANCIENT AND THE MODERN BOOKS IN SAINT JAMES’S LIBRARY WHOEVER EXAMINES, W... ...ling from north to south, that is to say, from poverty to plenty. The most ancient and natural grounds of quarrels are lust and avarice; which, though... ..., been time out of mind in quiet possession of certain tenants, called the Ancients; and the other was held by the Moderns. But these disliking their ... ...the world a jest. The same great truth South Sea hath proved On that famed theatre, the ally, Where thousands by directors moved Are now sad monuments... ...rute: That present times have no pretence To virtue, in the noble sense By Greeks and Romans understood, To perish for our country’s good. She named t...

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...house with a portico which is said to be an imitation of the Parthenon:the ancient re- ligions houses of the Spanish town are gone, or turned into mil... ...about our keel were enjoying an anerithmon gelasma (this is one of my four Greek quotations:depend on it I will manage to introduce the other three be... ...ree before the tour is done)—seemed to be enjoying, I say, the above-named Greek quotation at our expense. Here is the dismal log of Wednesday, 4th of... ...ed with it is disagreeable in my eyes; and I have the same recollection of Greek in youth that I have of castor-oil. So in coming in sight of the prom... ... despise such a homely ornament. I have got a map with squares, fountains, theatres, public gar- dens, and Places d’Othon marked out; but they only ex... ...ty which will only bear to be looked at from a distance, like a scene in a theatre. What is the most beautiful nose in the world, if it be covered wit... ...er this wonderful scene, perhaps I get some feeble glimpse or idea of that ancient Greek spirit which peopled it with sublime races of heroes and gods... ... gauze curtains lifted away, one by one, before a great fairy scene at the theatre. This will give idea enough of the fog; the difficulty is to descri... ...ere. I landed one morn- ing at the Seraglio point from Galata, close by an ancient plea- sure-house of the defunct Sultan; a vast broad-brimmed pavil-...