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...eat of the British Empire, and the chamber of the English kings. This most ancient city is the the county of Middlesex, the fruitfullest and wholesome... ...e nation, or parliament, is held. The government of the city is lodged, by ancient grant of the Kings of Britain, in twenty-four aldermen—that is, sen... ...y of Sir Christopher Hatton, son of William, grandson of John, of the most ancient family of the Hattons; one of the fifty gentlemen pensioners to Her... ...tters: Thomas Linacre, physician to King Henry VIII., a man learned in the Greek and Latin languages, and particularly skilful in physick, by which he... ...ord Russell, son of the Earl of Bedford, whose lady composed the following Greek and Latin verses, and had them engraved on the marble:- How was I sta... ...wing things worthy of observation:- I. The Royal Library, well stored with Greek, Latin, Italian and French books; amongst the rest, a little one in F... ...a week, corn, wool, cloth, fruits, and the like. Without the city are some theatres, where English actors represent almost every day tragedies and com... ...he excessive applause of those that are present. Not far from one of these theatres, which are all built of wood, lies the royal barge, close to the r... ...red from the weather. There is still another place, built in the form of a theatre, which serves for the baiting of bulls and bears; they are fas- 22...

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... pal design of wisdom; for to comprise it all in one word, says one of the ancients, and to contract all the rules of human life into one, “it is to w... ...e swords of the enemy, the action is commendable, not the man. Many of the Greeks, says Cicero,—[Cicero, T usc. Quaes., ii. 27.]—cannot endure the sig... ...dent,” as the motto of our Talebot has it. ’Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chanc... ... discourse; for besides that I easily submit my belief to the authority of ancient opinions, I look upon it indeed as an unmanly and stupid vice, but ... ...t least, I seldom taste the first glass well. Anacharsis wondered that the Greeks drank in greater glasses towards the end of a meal than at the be- g... ... an author (for let people tell me what they will, I understand nothing of Greek; but I meet with sense so well united and maintained throughout his w... ...f their man- ners nor of themselves, by the writings they exhibit upon the theatre of the world. I have a thousand times lamented the loss of the trea... ...what he and his people had before agreed upon. 206 Book the Second At the theatre at Rome masters of families carried pigeons in their bosoms to whic... ...xander, the tyrant of Pheres, durst not be a spectator of tragedies in the theatre, for fear lest his citizens should see him weep at the misfortunes ...

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...without many words. We find, then, in Goethe, an Art- ist, in the high and ancient meaning of that term; in the mean- ing which it may have borne long... ... the high vocation of the poet; on this ground of universal hu- manity, of ancient and now almost forgotten nobleness, to take his stand, even in thes... ...ss, we can here say nothing. But in every department of Literature, of Art ancient and modern, in many provinces of Science, we shall often meet him; ... ...le which, in the hands of a master, compels a language which is as rich as Greek to be also as musical. The spring of 1773, which witnessed the public... ...n my gable-room; while the persons managing and performing, as well as the theatre itself as far as the proscenium, found a place in the room adjoinin... ...hes. I made gestures, and leaped, as I had seen the dancers do at the fair-theatre. In the midst of this I looked in the glass, and saw by chance the ... ...ttiest sight in the world; and I was on the point of sending all the other Greeks after him, when suddenly hissing waters spurted at me on all sides, ... ...exclusively for the citizens of Frankfort, a botanic garden, an anatomical theatre, a chemical laboratory, a considerable library, and a house for the... ...lly into a small academy, in which every thing necessary, and at last even Greek and Latin, were taught. The extensive connections of Frankfort caused...

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...rne, Captain T ait, hunting pirates and keeping a watch on the Turkish and Greek squadrons in the Archipelago. Captain T ait was a favourite with Sir ... ...ind there is another there to-morrow.’ And sure enough there was an- other Greek dangling the next day. ‘Captain Hamilton, of the Cambrian, kept the G... ...e first Protestant student was moved to thank his stars: that there was no Greek required for the degree. Little did he think, as he set down his grat... ...idays were spent in sketch- ing; his evenings, when they were free, at the theatre. Here at the opera he discovered besides a taste for a new art, the... ...d Alps, the Mole, the blue Mediterranean, the humming lanes and the bright theatres of Genoa, he fell – and he was sharply conscious of the fall – to ... ...is hurly-burly once more. There are awnings all along the ship, and a most ancient, fish-like smell beneath. ‘1 O’CLOCK. – Suddenly a great strain in ... ...k still stands upon a gate, and has left the mark of his strong clutch. Of ancient times when Crete was Crete, not a trace remains; save perhaps in th... ...ar- ing above our heads; old tanks, ruins, and desolation at our feet. The ancient Arsinoe stood here; a few blocks of marble with the cross attest th... ...nce from Norwich, from Edward Barron, and from Enfield of the Speaker. The theatre was one of Edward Barron’s 108 Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin elegant h...

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...unt,) births and deaths be- came ordinary events, which, in a small modern theatre, are rare and memorable; and exactly as these prodigious acci- 7 T... ... thyself be heralded by the pangs of martyrdom? Sainted love, if, like the ancient children of the Hebrews, like Meshech and Abednego, thou wert calle... ...h seems too perfect and unalloyed—[a spirit of restless distrust, which in ancient times often led men to throw valuable gems into the sea, in the hop... ...in, accom- panied by Hannah, to the police court and to the prison—a vast, ancient, in parts ruinous, and most gloomy pile of build- ing. In those day... ...le of our modern representative powers, as often called into action in the theatres both of Paris and Lon- don; and the series of situations unfolded,... ...of the T en Thousand. Xenophon affirms that there were ‘many’ women in the Greek army—pollai aesun etairai en tosratenaeazi; and in a late stage of th... ...an honest answer, as his modern successor; or else it refers simply to the Greek form of Christianity professed by the Russian Emperor and Church. *Th... ...Rosse has revealed? Answer: he has revealed more by far than he found. The theatre to which he has introduced us, is im- measurably beyond the old one... ...isfortune, like a poor Negro of Koromantyn who is the victim of Obi.* As a Greek word, which it was, the name imported no ill; but for a Roman to say ...

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...omething in me to be credible or intelligible. We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten... ...e same character! Observe the sources of our information in respect to the Greek genius. We have the civil history of that people, as Herodotus, Thucy... ... sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon and the remains of the earliest Greek art. And there are compositions of the same strain to be found in the... ... honor and such lax discipline as great boys have? The costly charm of the ancient tragedy, and indeed of all the old literature, is that the persons ... ...s’s eye. Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemera. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day because it is not of to-day. We love i... ...al; that in nature nothing can be given, all things are sold. This is that ancient doctrine of Nemesis, who keeps watch in the universe and lets no of... ...oman his mien and manners, if his heart and aims are in the senate, in the theatre and in the billiard-room, and she has no aims, no conversation that... ... is a certain appearance of paltriness, as of toys and the trum- pery of a theatre, in sculpture. Nature transcends all our moods of thought, and its ... ...tion and beauty in modern society are all but dried up. A popular novel, a theatre, or a ball-room makes us feel that we are all pau- pers in the alms...

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...f an Indian warrior, making haste from the high places of the earth to its ancient reservoir. The murmurs of many a famous river on the other side of ... ...Above the petty Province here, And Britain far away; Some hero of the ancient mould, Some arm of knightly worth, Of strength unbought, and f... ...imackRivers the dog. This natural bugle long resounded in the woods of the ancient world before the horn was invented. The very dogs that sullenly bay... ...y to day without the aid of posterity. In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sente... ... exert so intimate and genial an influence on nature, as many a god of the Greeks. I should fear the infinite power and inflexible justice of the almi... ...truly strange, and heretical, and un popular. To Christians, no less than Greeks and Jews, it is foolishness and a stumbling block. There are, indeed... ...ed, And mighty woods, which did the valley shade, And like a stately theatre it made, Spreading itself into a spacious plain; And in the m... ...ce a constrained and partial and merely well bred man,—a magnifying of the theatre till life itself is turned into a stage, for which it is our duty t... ... city boy, whose toys are pictures and works of art, whose wonders are the theatre and kingly processions and crownings. As the youth studied minutely...

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..., it was received as a grace of Heaven. (Campan, i. 11- 36.) Poor withered ancient women! in the wild tossings that yet await your fragile existence, ... ...ucleus of a comet; whose train fills whole streets:’ they crown him in the theatre, with immortal vivats; ‘finally stifle him under roses,’—for old Ri... ..., and with- draw. Let him walk silent by the shore of the Bodensee, by the ancient town of Constance; meditating on much. For so, under the strangest ... ... thou art departed, and the wages thou hadst are all consumed; nay, as the ancient wise have written,—through Eternity itself, and is verily marked in... ... hell-dogs, in the Parlement Maupeou; and fi- nally crowned Orpheus in the Theatre Francais, Beaumarchais has now culminated, and unites the attribute... ... 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... ...desperate Prime Minister do? He has grasped at the strongbox of the King’s Theatre: some Lottery had been set on foot for those sufferers by the hails... ... 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...

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...s a bookseller and stationer. His mother was Sa- rah Ford, descended of an ancient race of sub- stantial yeomanry in Warwickshire. They were well adva... ...his superiority was perceived and acknowledged. He was from the beginning [Greek text omitted], a king of men. His school- fellow, Mr. Hector, has obl... ... of mere amusement, ‘not voyages and travels, but all literature, Sir, all ancient writers, all manly: though but little Greek, only some of Anacreon ... ...but all literature, Sir, all ancient writers, all manly: though but little Greek, only some of Anacreon and Hesiod; but in this irregular manner (adde... ...ed his Epistles and Satires. He told me what he read solidly at Oxford was Greek; not the Gre- cian historians, but Homer and Euripides, and now and t... ...was not acted till 1749, when his friend David Garrick was manager of that theatre. The Gentleman’s Magazine, begun and car- ried on by Mr. Edward Cav... ...d, David Garrick, having become joint pat- entee and manager of Drury-lane theatre, Johnson honoured his opening of it with a Pro- logue, which for ju... ... left with- out a shilling. Johnson wrote for him a Preface to A System of Ancient Geography; and, by the favour of Lord Thurlow, got him admitted a p... ...rick being now vested with theatrical power by being manager of Drury-lane theatre, he kindly and generously made use of it to bring out Johnson’s tra...

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... was now ending his days as the con- ductor of an orchestra in a boulevard theatre, and a music master in several young ladies’ boarding-schools, a po... ...ost defies the ambitious modern scientific investigator. In the second—the ancient Egyptians (we are told) invented incu- bator-stoves for hatching eg... ...s still composing, on scanty pay, for his own orchestra or for neighboring theatres. And yet, the worthy man did justice to the great masters of our d... ...the pianoforte, he brought them or- ders for boxes at the Feydeau, his own theatre, he organized concerts, he was not above taking the fiddle himself ... ...eir ideas, and said the obvious thing, after the manner of a cho- rus in a Greek play. He did not dare to give free play to the artist’s originality, ... ...owers of the prose writer; Pindar alone could give it forth to humanity in Greek that should rekindle the dying warmth of friendship in the world. Put... ....—”And you, Mademoiselle Cleopatre!—attention!” she continued, tapping the ancient fowl on the beak. Then Mme. Fontaine began to think; for several se... ...n over a pair of angular knees encased in threadbare felt. The robe was an ancient printed cotton garment, lined with wadding which took the liberty o... ...ustice of the peace said gently, addressing Schmucke. But the re- mark was Greek to Schmucke; he gazed in dismay at his three visitors. “We have come ...

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...acter of the general effect. Carpets are better understood of late than of ancient days, but we still very frequently err in their patterns and colour... ... both hands, and wore watches, with short gold chains of a substantial and ancient pattern. Theirs was the affectation of respectability;—if indeed th... ...iety of devious ways, came out, at length, in view of one of the principal theatres. It was about being closed, and the audience were thronging from t... ...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!... ...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... ... the fashion of a modern clerk, an instrument resembling the stylus of the ancients. In a breast- pocket of his coat appeared conspicuously a small bl... ...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... ...angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit in a theatre, to see A play of hopes and fears, While the orchestra breathes f...

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...ers and Sisters . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre . . 172 To an Unfortunate Woman whom the Author had known in the ... .... . . . . . . . . 182 The Dungeon . . . . . . . . . . . 183 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in seven parts . . . . . . . . 201 Sonnets Attempted in ... ...l thee low, Or Envy blast the laurels on thy brow. To such poor joys could ancient Honour lead When empty fame was toiling Merit’s meed; To Modern... ...itted power impressed, I deem those legends terrible, with which The polar ancient thrills his uncouth throng: Whether of pitying Spirits that make... ...Little Brothers and Sisters Coleridge: Poems To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre 1779 Maiden, that with sullen brow Sitt’st behind those vi... ...ing, And embathe in heavenly light. - 171 - To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre Coleridge: Poems To an Unfortunate Woman whom the Author had kno... ... Coleridge: Poems The name were else a mere misnomer, Since Planet is but Greek for Roamer. The atmosphere, too, can do no less Than ventilate h... ... he could subscribe In fullest sense his name ’´E s t h s e ; (’Tis Punic Greek for ‘‘he hath stood!’’) Whate’er the men, the cause was good; And... ... Yet, somewhat the broad freedoms to excuse, They had allured the audacious Greek to use, Swore they mistook him for their own good man. This Momus...

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...eat motive of action is political ambition; in this he is characteristically Greek. Like Anytus in the Meno, he is the enemy of the Sophists; but favo... ...s. Nor must we forget that the side of ethics which regards others is by the ancients merged in politics. Both in Plato and Aristotle, as well as in t... ...compared with the analogous notion, which occurs in the Protagoras, that the ancient poets were the Sophists of their day. In some other respects the ... ...of stating the question is really opposed both to the spirit of Plato and of ancient philoso- phy generally. For Plato is not asserting any abstract r... ...ce to Orissa.) Fourth Thesis: To be and not to seem is the end of life. The Greek in the age of Plato admitted praise to be one of the chief incentiv... ...herited them, and they have become a part of us. The sophistry of an ancient Greek sophist is nothing compared with the soph- istry of a religious ord... ...s a sort of rhetoric? CALLICLES: True. SOCRATES: And do not the poets in the theatres seem to you to be rhetoricians? 127 Plato s Gorgias CALLICLES: ...

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...he limits, trying to get into business and trying to get out of debt, a very ancient slough, called by the Latins æs alienum, another’s brass, for som... ...ver too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What every body echoes or in silen... ... the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class t... ... life than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, no... ...e, with Nature herself. I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks. I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exerc... ...here it was then that I lived. The student may read Homer or Æschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that... ...over those who were obliged to look abroad for amusement, to society and the theatre, that my life itself was become my amusement and never ceased to ...

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...Greece no more.’ Plato has seized by anticipation the spirit which hung over Greek literature for a thousand years afterwards. Y et doubtless there we... ...he truth. To understand him, we must make abstraction of morality and of the Greek man ner of regarding the relation of the sexes. In this, as in his... ...f of him when we regard his Dialogues merely as literary com positions. Any ancient work which is worth read ing has a practical and speculative as ... ...ulative as well as a literary interest. And in Plato, more than in any other Greek writer, the local and transitory is inextricably blended with what ... .... Few persons will be inclined to suppose, in the superficial manner of some ancient critics, that a dialogue which treats of love must necessarily ha... ...aedrus). It is the in terval which separates Sophists and rhetoricians from ancient famous men and women such as Homer and Hesiod, Anacreon and Sapph... ...ue. SOCRATES: And if the law is finally approved, then the author leaves the theatre in high delight; but if the law is rejected and he is done out of...

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... ing to get into business and trying to get out of debt, Walden 6 a very ancient slough, called by the Latins aes alienum, another’s brass, for some... ...r too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence ... ...ave ever Walden 13 lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class tha... ...ife than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none... ... with Nature herself. I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks. I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercis... ...it was then that I lived. The student may read Homer or Aeschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that h... ... those who were obliged to look abroad for amuse ment, to society and the theatre, that my life itself was become my amusement and never ceased to be...

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...t Boughs Alone....541 The Dead Emperor............................541 As the Greek’s Signal Flame.............541 The Dismantled Ship.................... ... summ’d, added up, In its eidolon. The old, old urge, Based on the ancient pinnacles, lo, newer, higher pinnacles, From science and the mode... ...y faith is the greatest of faiths and the least of faiths, Enclosing worship ancient and modern and all between ancient and modern, Believing I shall ... ...At the close of his crowded course.) Having studied the new and antique, the Greek and Germanic systems, Kant having studied and stated, Fichte and Sc... ...nd stated, Christ divine having studied long, I see reminiscent to day those Greek and Germanic systems, See the philosophies all, Christian churches ... ... the earth, grass grows upon them and blossoms and corn, I see the tracks of ancient and modern expeditions. I see the nameless masonries, venerable m... ...uch for me! O an intense life, full to repletion and varied! The life of the theatre, bar room, huge hotel, for me! The saloon of the steamer! the cro... ...g paved avenues, amid temples, palaces, factories, libraries, shows, courts, theatres, wonderful monuments. Are those billions of men really gone? Are...

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...in’s Isle of Gramarye, Where you and I will fare. THE CHILDREN were at the Theatre, acting to Three Cows as much as they could remember of Midsummer N... ...tom. Una was Titania, with a wreath of columbines and a foxglove wand. The Theatre lay in a meadow called the Long Slip. A little mill-stream, carryin... ... Down saw New T roy T own (From which was London born); Witness hereby the ancientry Of Oak and Ash and Thorn! Yew that is old in churchyard mould, He... ...the west of the wood. They had named the place out of the verse in Lays of Ancient Rome: From lordly Volaterrae, Where scowls the far-famed... ...We hid among the cliffs.’ ‘Did you have a governess, then?’ ‘Did we not? A Greek, too. She had a way of clutching her dress when she hunted us among t... ...Rudyard Kipling ‘But what lessons did you do—when—when you were little?’ ‘ Ancient history, the Classics, arithmetic and so on,’he answered. ‘My siste... ... I have not heard from him for some time. ‘My eldest brother came across a Greek philosopher, and told my Father that he intended to settle down on th... ...taught us the his- tory of our own country. She was so full of her ancient Greeks. “‘There is no hope for Rome,” said the Pater, at last. “She has for... ...nder it, also as far as the eye can stretch, houses and temples, shops and theatres, barracks and granaries, trickling along like dice behind—always b...

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...t, it was received as a grace of Heaven. (Campan, i. 11-36.) Poor withered ancient women! in the wild tossings that yet await your fragile existence, ... ...ucleus of a comet; whose train fills whole streets:’ they crown him in the theatre, with immortal vivats; ‘finally stifle him under roses,’—for old Ri... ...ey, and withdraw. Let him walk silent by the shore of the Bodensee, by the ancient town of Constance; meditating on much. For so, under the strangest ... ... thou art departed, and the wages thou hadst are all consumed; nay, as the ancient wise have written,—through Eternity it- self, and is verily marked ... ...of hell-dogs, in the Parlement Maupeou; and finally crowned Orpheus in the Theatre Francais, Beaumarchais has now culminated, and unites the attribute... ... 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 throttling Greek, have ceased to respect the City-Watch: Police-satel... ...desperate Prime Minister do? He has grasped at the strongbox of the King’s Theatre: some Lottery had been set on foot for those sufferers by the hails... ... walked in formless immeasurability, having made itself like to the Night (Greek.)! But remark at least, for the first time, the singular em- pire of ...

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... late, smoking long porcelain pipes, not coming in at night till after the theatre, and haunting cafes. The father-in-law died, leaving little; he was... ...aubert ried man, lying in his bed as but now, and crossing the opera- tion theatre as of old. The warm smell of poultices mingled in his brain with th... ... to mend the linen. Patronized by the clergy, be- cause she belonged to an ancient family of noblemen ruined by the Revolution, she dined in the refec... ...ining beneath arbours in the arms of Bayaderes; Djiaours, T urkish sabres, Greek caps; and you especially , pale 35 Flaubert landscapes of dithyrambi... ...d never had the curiosity , he said, while he lived at Rouen, to go to the theatre to see the actors from Paris. He could neither swim, nor fence, nor... ...wn hall, constructed “from the designs of a Paris architect,” is a sort of Greek temple that forms the corner next to the chemist’s shop. On the groun... ... in a wood, in a field, or even contemplat- ing the eternal vault like the ancients. My God! Mine is the God of Socrates, of Franklin, of Voltaire, an...