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...ted more to the intellectual enlightenment of mankind than any other three writers who could be named, and yet the history of all three has given rise... ...s as the enunciator of opinions as different in their tone as those of the writers who have handed them down. When we have read Plato or Xenophon, we ... ...s [Note: I trust I am justified in employing this as an equivalent for the Greek leschai.] of the old men, and delighted all by the charms of his poet... ... Mr. Mackenzie has given three brief but elaborate papers on the different writers on the subject, which deserve to be consulted. See Notes and Querie... ... as must be indispensably sup- posed for long manuscripts, among the early Greeks, was thus one of the points in Wolf’s case against the primitive int... ...pe wrecked, seems to prove beyond a doubt, that the pronun- ciation of the Greek language had undergone a considerable change. Now it is certainly dif... ...red either a greater smoothness or strength. What he most affected was the Ionic, which has a peculiar sweetness, from its never using contractions, a...

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...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... ...yonder rocks crowned by the Doric col- umns of the Parthenon, and the thin Ionic shafts of the Erechtheum, to a man who has had little rest, and is bi... ...moke had darkened the whole city with soot, and when, according to the old writers, there really was bright weather. The fleets of caiques bustling al... ...lling languidly, on the cool benches here, and pouring compliments (in the Ionic dialect) into the rosy ears of Neaera?Instead of Jones, your name sho... ...mo- rial accorded to the Christians of the Latin rite in Syria. All French writers and travellers speak of this protection with de- lightful complacen... ...I would urge, humbly, however, is this—Do not let us be led away by German writers and aes- thetics, Semilassoisms, Hahnhahnisms, and the like. The l...

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... the word pity; and hence, instead of saying “sympathy with another,” many writers adopt the monstrous barbarism of “sympathy for another.” 7 ably di... ...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... ... France has produced, one of the reputed leaders is M. Michelet. All these writers are of a revolutionary cast; not in a political sense merely, but i... ... to read, may introduce you, that have not, to two or three dozen of these writers; of whom I can assure you beforehand that they are often profound, ... ...in churches I have seen, of woman bursting her sepulchral bonds—of woman’s Ionic form bending forward from the ruins of her grave with arching foot, w...

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...ever so insignificant in- trinsically, have for most part plenty of Memoir-writers; and the curious, in after-times, can learn minutely their goings o... ...een grapes, and produce 51 Thomas Carlyle colic, pestilential dysentery, (Greek). And the Peasants as- sassinate us, they do not join us; shrill wome... ...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... ..., ’ as Mercier called them ‘precursors of storm and destruction:’ no, soft Ionic motions; fit for the light sandal, and antique Grecian tunic! Efflore... ...lly, we hear. What utmost Republican grimness can resist Greek sandals, in Ionic motion, the very toes covered with gold rings? (Ibid. Mercier (ubi su...

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...on of a mine of results. … Taylor led him into political economy, into the Greek and Latin accents, into antiquities, Roman roads, old castles, the or... ...with regard to Shakespeare’s sonnets, Spenser’s minor poems, and the great writers and characters of Elizabeth’s age and those of Cromwell’s time.” Fr... ...y by the poet. In reality his style owed much to the seven- teenth-century writers, such as Milton and Sir Thomas Browne. He took part with Coleridge,... ...ative skill of De Quincey that has secured for him, in preference to other writers of his class, the favor of youthful readers. It would be too much t... ...—leading right across the bottomless gulf. Under this eminent man, whom in Greek I cognominated Cyclops Diphrélates (Cy- clops the Charioteer), I, and... ...in churches I have seen) of woman bursting her sepulchral bonds—of woman’s Ionic form bending forward from the ruins of her grave with arching foot, w... ...- 42 11 THE WHOLE PAGAN PANTHEON: i.e. all the gods put together; from the Greek Pantheion, a temple dedi- cated to all the gods. 43 2 SEVEN ATMOSPHER... ...WHENCE THE SOUND,” ETC.: Paradise Lost, Book XI, 11. 558-563. 54 3 WOMAN’S IONIC FORM: In thus using the word Ionic, De Quincey doubtless has in mind ... ...us using the word Ionic, De Quincey doubtless has in mind the character of Ionic architecture, with its tall and graceful column, differ- ing from the...

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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... ...ld woman did by reprimand and interdiction. “Motus doceri gaudet Ionicos Matura virgo, et frangitur artibus; 81 Montaigne ... ...e tenero, meditatur ungui.” [“The maid ripe for marriage delights to learn Ionic dances, and to imitate those lascivious movements. Nay, already from ... ...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... ...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... ...im on a par with Marius and Sylla, excepting that he was more close. Other writers have not acquitted his intention in the government of affairs from ...

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...rincipal object was, to rear up pious and learned ministers; and hence old writers call Harvard College a school of the prophets.” “Is the college a s... ... pos sess all the erudition which mankind has hoarded up from age to age. Greek and Latin were as familiar to them as the bab ble of their childhood.... ...ponderous folios, and quar tos, and little duodecimos, in English, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldaic, and all other languages that either originated at ... ...acted an air of deep erudition, as if its cushion were stuffed with Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and other hard matters. In this chair, from one year’s e... ...atch, which hung within a beautiful little ebony temple, supported by four Ionic col umns. He then laid his hand on the golden locks of little Alice,... ...nt governor’s splendid mansion. It was a large brick house, decorated with Ionic pilasters, and stood in Garden Court Street, near the North Square. W... ...istance. “It is marvellous,” said Grandfather, “to see how many pow erful writers, orators, and soldiers started up just at the time when they were w...

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...IFE and History of Aesop is involved, like that of Homer, the most famous of Greek poets, in much obscu rity. Sardis, the capital of Lydia; Samos, a ... ...ted to his memory at Athens, the work of Lysippus, one of the most famous of Greek sculptors. Phaedrus thus immortalizes the event: Aesopo ingentem st... ...cription) as to secure to himself the right to be con sidered the father of Greek fables, and the founder of this class of writing, which has ever si... ... He is generally supposed to have been a Greek of Asia Minor, of one of the Ionic Colonies, but the exact period in which he lived and wrote is yet u... ... at that time so popular in France, had no sanction from the ancient classic writers. Francisci Vavassoris opera omnia. Amsterdam. 1709. 16 The clai...

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...arn artistic. Probably the lum- ber-yard isn’t as scrumptious as all these Greek temples. But go to it! Make us change!” “I would like to. Some day!” ... ...king to pieces, 37 Sinclair Lewis then recovered and rattled away. In the Greek candy- store was the whine of a peanut-roaster, and the oily smell of... ...Street The State Bank, stucco masking wood. The Farmers’ National Bank. An Ionic temple of marble. Pure, exquisite, solitary. A brass plate with “Ezra... ...resting sym- bols of prosperity. In all the town not one building save the Ionic bank which gave pleasure to Carol’s eyes; not a dozen build- ings whi... ...,’ for us,” demanded Sam. Miss Ella Stowbody, the spinster daughter of the Ionic bank, scratched her dry palms and blushed. “Oh, you don’t want to hea... ...ntlemen that one of them had become an Omaha bartender, one a professor of Greek, and one, Cyrus N. Bogart, a boy of fourteen who was still at home, t... ..., Lamb, De Quincey, and Mrs. Humphry Ward, who, it seemed, constituted the writers of English Fiction and Es- says. Not till she inspected the rest-ro... ... I guess the feminine mind is too innocent to understand all these immoral writers. I’m sure I don’t want to criticize Bernard Shaw; I understand he i...

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... to the street, and the whole length is ornamented with an exterior row of Ionic columns raised high above the foot- way. This is perhaps the pretties... ...ghts is picturesque, but nei- ther large nor good. It has before it a high Greek colon- nade, which seems to be almost bigger than the house itself. H... ...s expressed in my first volume, be- cause I still see it stated by English writers that the se- cession ordinance of South Carolina should have been a... ...American of- fice has not taken upon itself the task of returning to their writers undelivered and undeliverable letters. This it is now going to do. ... ...uch inclined to regard the question as one appertaining exclusively to the writers of books—not ac- knowledging as we should do that the literary char...

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...ch one of these two friends, for each of them almost immediately sat down by himself at an end of the tent and began to write. The letters were long—t... ... get some light on his present situation. 639 Dumas Chapter 83 Strength and Sagacity. NOW LET US PASS the orangery to the hunting lodge. At the extre... ...r. “Ah! Mother Nanette!” cried Friquet, suffocating; “ah! Mother Nanette!” He could say no more; but though he hadn’t strength to speak he had enough ...

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...................................................................... 19 The Ionic School ................................................................. ..., The Battle of Frogs and Mice, and The Contest of Homer and Hesiod. NOTE: Greek words at times appear in ALL CAPS. In text notations are in red and s... ...e, Rampton, NR. Cambridge. Sept. 9th, 1914. INTRODUCTION General The early Greek epic — that is, poetry as a natural and popu- lar, and not (as it bec... ...st be added traditions concerning his death and burial gathered from later writers. Hesiod’s father (whose name, by a perversion of Works and Days, 29... ...ection of the “Works and Days,” but longer. Possible refer- ences in Roman writers (6) indicate that among the subjects dealt with were the cultivatio... .... Hellen had three sons, Dorus, Xuthus, and Aeolus, parents of the Dorian, Ionic and Aeolian races, and the offspring of these was then de- tailed. In... ...hessalian (while the heroines of the Catalogues belong to all parts of the Greek world), believes the author to have been either a Boeotian or Thessal... ...assic form, and his grave, and yet child-like, outlook upon his world. The Ionic School The Ionic School of Epic poetry was, as we have seen, domi- na... ... any preconceived intention, a body of epic poetry was built up by various writers which covered the whole T rojan story. But the entire range of hero...

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...mself into it with enthusiasm, and Latin antiquity was not enough for him. Greek, a study discountenanced by the Church, which looked on it as dangero... ...riendship of Pierre Amy and of the celebrated Guillaume Bude. In fact, the Greek letters of the latter are the best source of information concerning t... ...uct and vice, or is he ever the apologist of these? Many poets and romance writers, under cover of a fastidious style, without one coarse expression, ... ...g fashion. The Pleiad School he evidently knew nothing of, but kept to the writers of the fifteenth and the first half of the sixteenth century. Thus ... ... from his ancestor Esormon, Prince of Achaia, 2139 B.C., who was surnamed (Greek), that is to say the Fortunate and the Well-beloved. A Gascon could n... ... Aristophanes and of Lucian, his intimate acquaintance with nearly all the writers of antiquity, Greek as well as Latin, with whom Rabelais is more pe... ... was the mys- tical beginning of man’s nature; and about it was written in Ionic letters, Greek, or rather, Greek, that is, Vir et mulier junctim prop... ...ons and epitaphs; some of them in hi- eroglyphic characters; others in the Ionic dialect; some in the Arabic, Agarenian, Slavonian, and other tongues;... ...t Paris. Let’s go and dredge for cock-oysters. Old Macrobius asked, in the Ionic tongue, How, and by what industry and labour, Pantagruel got to their...

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...d mind were always pleasures, and babies, like tough steaks, or the modern Greek olive trees, are invari- ably the better for beating—but, poor woman!... ...e obstinate oils and waters of ethical discussion. Not at all. Bon-Bon was Ionic— Bon-Bon was equally Italic. He reasoned à priori—He rea- soned also ... ...isagreed with the Chinese, who held that the soul lies in the abdomen. The Greeks at all events were right, he thought, who employed the same words fo... ...in pure good humor, on a fork. But they want flavor, these Romans. One fat Greek is worth a dozen of them, and besides will keep, which cannot be said... ...of his school-for we may as well designate in this way the entire class of writers whose poems are bound up in the volume before us, and throughout al... ...is preface :— “‘Those who have been accustomed to the phraseology of modem writers, if they persist in reading this book to a conclu- sion (impossible...

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...s, Philosophie, and who knows what nameless innumerable multitude of ready Writers, profane Sing- ers, Romancers, Players, Disputators, and Pamphletee... ... any case, is not this the real death-grapple of war and internecine duel, Greek meeting Greek; whereon men, had they even no interest in it, might lo... ...lks sedition. The lower classes, in this duel of Authority with Authority, Greek throt- tling Greek, have ceased to respect the City-Watch: Police-sat... ...res);’ flooded and eddying again. Hot deluge,—from so many Pa- triot ready-writers, all at the fervid or boiling point; each ready- writer, now in the... ... walked in formless immeasurability, having made itself like to the Night (Greek.)! But remark at least, for the first time, the singular empire of Su... ... pounds sterling, per month; what he calls ‘a staff of genius:’ Paragraph- writers, Placard-Journalists; ‘two hundred and eighty Applaud- ers, at thre... ...s,’ as Mercier called them ‘precursors of storm and destruction:’ no, soft Ionic motions; fit for the light sandal, and antique Grecian tunic! Efflore... ...y, we hear. What utmost Republican grimness can resist Greek san- dals, in Ionic motion, the very toes covered with gold rings? (Ibid. Mercier (ubi su...

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...h it has al- ways given when joined with a strong political existence. The Greeks are commercially rich and active; but “Greece” and “Greek” are bywor... ...so that it would be found that many more of the Americans were readers and writers by habit. In any large town in England it is probable that a higher... ... It is not uncommon to see in front of a square brick house a wooden quasi-Greek portico, with a pedi- ment and Ionic columns, equally high with the h... ...f a square brick house a wooden quasi-Greek portico, with a pedi- ment and Ionic columns, equally high with the house it- self. Wooden columns with Gr... ...d Ionic columns, equally high with the house it- self. Wooden columns with Greek capitals attached to the doorways, and wooden pediments over the wind... ...rnamentation, would be simple, unpretentious, square, roomy residences. An Ionic or Corinthian capital stuck on to a log of wood called a column, and ... ...id, to an elderly female at New York, who had quoted to me some half dozen writers on international law, thinking thereby that I should trump her last...

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...been assured that Suky is but a vulgar corruption of Psyche, which is good Greek, and means “the soul” (that’s me, I’m all soul) and some- times “a bu... ...s me the Queen of the Hearts)—and that Zenobia, as well as Psyche, is good Greek, and that my father was “a Greek,” and that consequently I have a rig... ...ry of a Late Physician,’ where the merit lay in good rant, and indifferent Greek—both of them taking things with the public. And then there was ‘The M... ...d one. If you know any big words this is your chance for them. Talk of the Ionic and Eleatic schools—of Archytas, Gorgias, and Alcmaeon. Say something... ... Time, would not walk against him. Windham and Allbreath were his favorite writers,—his favorite artist, Phiz. He died gloriously while inhaling gas—l... ...ever beyond a mere statement, we believe, that such is the fact. The early writers of treatises on the Automaton, seem not to have observed the matter...

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...le, and kissing his niece’s forehead as he left the room. CHAPTER XII WHEN GREEK MEETS GREEK, THEN COMES THE TUG OF WAR The doctor, that is our doctor... ...like another building of a greater altitude. This portico was supported by Ionic columns, and was in itself doubtless a beautiful structure. It was ap... ...o as to be near the lawyers. It has been suggested that the modern English writers of fiction should among them keep a barrister, in order 524 Dr Tho...