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...ced under the care of the family priest, one Bannister, who taught him the Latin and Greek grammars together. He was next removed to a Catholic semi- ... ... not good rhymes.” His prin- cipal favourites were Virgil’s “Eclogues,” in Latin; and in English, Spencer, Waller, and Dryden—admiring Spencer, we pre... ...n his own grounds to her memory, with a simple but striking inscription in Latin. During this year, he pub- 19 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope –... ...d, Licence repress’d, and useful laws ordain’d. Learning and Rome alike in empire grew; And arts still follow’d where her eagles flew; From the same f... ...nd long’d for more: Fancy’s wild regions yet unvanquish’d lay, A boundless empire, and that own’d no sway. Poets, &c. Between ver. 691 and 692, the au... ... – V olume One Shall tend the flocks, or reap the bearded grain; The shady empire shall retain no trace Of war or blood, but in the sylvan chase; ... ...d scarce detested in his country’s fate. But chief were those, who not for empire fought, But with their toils their people’s safety bought: ... ... gland, and Dean of St Paul’s,—a vigorous although rude sati- rist, a fine Latin versifier, the author of many powerful ser- mons, and of a strange bo... ...e’s, and then Hervy’s once again. Oh come, that easy, Ciceronian style, So Latin, yet so English all the while, As, though the pride of Middleton and ...

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... this avowal nor frown; for, not to remind my classical readers of the old Latin proverb, “Sine cerere,” &c., it may well be sup- posed that in the ex... ...nties of M— and Sl— since I had been there, sometimes upon the merits of a Latin poet, and at other times suggesting subjects to me on which he wished... ... personal beauty, or that the witchcraft of angelic smiles lies within the empire of any earthly pencil. Pass then, my good painter, to something 62 ... ...life, the great officina gentium. Man is a weed in those regions. The vast empires also in which the enormous population of Asia has always been cast,...

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...ainst Louis XIV . At another period England, Holland, and the Holy Ro- man Empire would not have welcomed banished Frenchmen and encouraged revolt in ... ...ge, a rhymester of Cham- pagne named Jean Voute, published a collection of Latin 36 Catherine dé Medici verses in which were three epigrams upon her.... ...the death of the king passing into the hands of the Guises, alarmed at the empire of the young queen, Mary, niece of the Lorrains and their auxiliary,... ... tutor of the Duc d’Orleans. “Ah, madame,” he replied, “I know nothing but Latin.” This answer made all who were within hearing of it smile. The seduc... ...enjoyed the prettiest fete in the world last night— if it were not for the Latin words those gentlemen will put into our French.” “Ah!” said Mary, “yo... ...We!” said Catherine, with an air of astonishment. “But I do not understand Latin, myself.” “You think me very learned,” cried Mary Stuart, laughing, “... ... secretly to the queen-mother, whom the ambassadors of Spain, England, the Empire, and Poland, hastened to meet on the staircase, brought thither by C... ...en of thought and action, all three of whom made or laid the foundation of empires, each left over three hundred mil- *Momerie. 178 Catherine dé Medi... ...ental form under the Great Monarch, for it was introduced from the Eastern Empire, which derived it from Persia. In 1573 few persons had the right to ...

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... of the Seine had long injured the sale of property in what is called the “Latin quarter,” when reasons, which will be given when we come to treat of ... ... that the front building on the street had been erected in the days of the Empire, to utilize a part of the courtyard of the vast old mansion, built a... ...ormerly painted and gilt, but which had since received, probably under the Empire, a coat of plain white paint. The three doors of the study, salon an... ...le the white enamelling is yellow, cracked, and peeling off. Never did the Latin saying “Otium cum dignitate” have a greater commentary to the mind of... ...n bourgeoisie. Have you re- marked the card-tables and the consoles of the Empire, the tea-table supported by a lyre, and that species of sofa, of gna... ...one? On the chimney-piece, with the clock (representing the Bellona of the Empire), are candelabra with fluted columns. Curtains of woollen damask, wi... ...onsieur Thuillier’s very lim- ited scope and knowledge. He had learned the Latin, math- ematics, history, and geography that are taught in schools, bu... ...to pass the rest of your days in this ‘aurea mediocritas,’ the wish of the Latin poet, surrounded by family joys. Your antecedents, my dear Mon- sieur... ...he ancient residence of the court and the church, the Lux- embourg and the Latin quarter, have become what they are to-day, in spite of the presence o...

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... have I searched through all the Herald’s Books, in and without the German Empire, and through all manner of Subscriber-Lists (Pranumeranten), Militia... ...ve all Eternity to rest in? ‘ Celestial Nepenthe! though a Pyrrhus conquer empires, and an Alexander sack the world, he finds thee not; and thou hast ... ... to its breadth? 76 Sartor Resartus We find, moreover, that his Greek and Latin were “me- chanically” taught; Hebrew scarce even mechanically; much e... ...s there were in me to give battle, in some small degree, against the great Empire of Darkness: does not the very Ditcher and Delver, with his spade, e... ...ne announces himself, I doubt not, there runs a shudder through the Nether Empire; and new Emissaries are trained, with new tactics, to, if possible, ... ...n rules, pro- duced the following; which however, for an alleged defect of Latinity, a defect never yet fully visible to myself, still remains unengra... ...still remains unengraven;”—wherein, we may predict, there is more than the Latinity that will surprise an English reader: HIC JACET PHILIPPUS ZA... ...the wisest Soul lies a whole world of internal Madness, an authentic Demon-Empire; out of which, in- deed, his world of Wisdom has been creatively bui...

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...tended, advanced on Graham. Then he stopped, with his hand slowly gesticu- lating, and looked about him. “A seat,” said Howard impatiently, and in a m... ...hole world dwelt in cities; the whole world was property. Over the British Empire and throughout America his ownership was scarcely disguised, Congres... ...ere usu- ally regarded as antique, curious gatherings. And even in the two Empires of Russia and Germany, the influence of his wealth was conceivably ... ...financed the machines. A time came when the real power and interest of the Empire rested visibly between the two party councils, ruling by newspapers ... ...e Council bought and organised China, drilled Asia, crippled the Old World empires, under- mined them financially, fought and defeated them. And this ... ...city of robing and subtlety of fold, after the fashion of the First French Empire, and flashed conquering arms and shoulders as Graham passed. Others ... ... afford to wait,” said Graham; “they can afford to wait. I know. I’m not a Latin. There’s questions I want to ask some expert—about your machinery. I’...

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...forgot- ten. Over all this hung the oppressive shadow of the great Russian empire—the shadow lowering with the darkness of a new-born national hatred ... ...eing a separate organization, it took no part in the wars of the Rus- sian Empire against either Persia or Turkey. Its first campaign, against Russia ... ...ussia proper. From there they were dispersed to the dis- tant parts of the empire. On this occasion poor Mr. Nicholas B. penetrated into Russia much f... ... be regarded as seriously dangerous, even for the largest of con- ceivable empires saddled with the most sacred of responsibili- ties. And this good m... ...e breath of life that had to be blown into the shapes of men and women, of Latin and Saxon, of Jew and Gentile. These are, perhaps, strong words, but ...

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...all this hung the oppressive shadow 31 Joseph Conrad of the great Russian Empire—the shadow lowering with the darkness of a new-born national hatred ... ... being a separate organisation, it took no part in the wars of the Russian Empire against Persia or Tur- key. Its first campaign, against Russia itsel... ... Russia proper. From there they were dispersed to the distant parts of the Empire. On this occasion poor Mr. Nicholas B. penetrated into Russia much f... ...t be re- garded as seriously dangerous even for the largest of conceivable empires saddled with the most sa- cred of responsibilities. And this good m... ...e breath of life that had to be blown into the shapes of men and women, of Latin and Saxon, of Jew and Gentile. These are, perhaps, strong words, but ...

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...and file—that can- vas of men on which Napoleon painted the picture of the Empire. While in Siberia, the lieutenant-colonel, to kill time, taught writ... ...mall hole in his cash-box, the value of money being then very low. But the Empire, pursuing a policy often attempted by other debtors, rarely paid its... ...by his dying bed. Old Wallenrod was unable to survive the disasters of the Empire. At seventy years of age he speculated in cottons, relying on the ge... ...e near killing the tender German flower. After that the second fall of the Empire and the proposed expatriation acted on her feelings like a renewed a... ...lti- vated flowers, and compiled and published “The Flora of Piedmont,” in Latin, a labor of ten years. “I’ll master De Marsay some of these days!” th... ... Houses may burn, fortunes be engulfed, fathers return from distant lands, empires may crumble away, the cholera may ravage cities, but a maiden’s lov...

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... that his Puppets have given satisfaction to the very best company in this empire. The famous little Becky Puppet has been pronounced to be un- common... ...nge, torture, for the sake of a little loose arithmetic, and miserable dog-latin? Now, William Dobbin, from an incapacity to acquire the ru- diments o... ...the above language, as they are propounded in that wonderful book the Eton Latin Grammar, was compelled to remain among the very last of Doctor Swisht... ...al actors, preferring Mr. Kean to Mr. Kemble. He could knock you off forty Latin verses in an hour. He could make French poetry. What else didn’t he k... ...e condescension Dobbin could only blush and wonder, helped him on with his Latin verses; “coached” him in play-hours: carried him triumphantly out of ... ..., and those mutations which age produces 64 V anity Fair – V olume One in empires, cities, and boroughs, Queen’s Crawley was no longer so populous a ... ...ent or opinion which was not perfectly trite and stale, and supported by a Latin quotation; yet he failed somehow, in spite of a mediocrity which ough... ...y—a stirring place in those days, when war was raging all over Europe, and empires were being staked; when the “Courier” newspaper had tens of thousan... ... believed her lover to be one of the most gallant and brilliant men in the empire: and it is possible Lieutenant Osborne thought so too. 120 V anity ...

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... begin to talk of scientific languages, of Esperanto, La Langue Bleue, New Latin, V olapuk, and Lord Lytton, of the philosophical language of Archbish... ...nguage; it is a coalescence of Anglo-Saxon and Norman French and Scholar’s Latin, welded into one speech more ample and more powerful and beautiful th... ...lous astonishment. Except for the habits of the very rich during the Roman Empire, there was never the slightest precedent for this mod- ern detachmen... ...shman must needs stipulate that Westminster shall still be a seat of world Empire, one of several seats, if you will—where the ruling council of the w... ...sive year. Jesus Christ had been born into a liberal and progressive Roman Empire that spread from the Arctic Ocean to the Bight of Benin, and was to ... ...tellectual horizon al- ready nearly as wide as the world. And through this empire the flow of thought, the flow of intention, poured always more abund... ...e shock of the Reformation had liberated men from the great tradition of a Latin-speaking Christendom, a tradition the Roman Catholic Church has susta... ...ion the Roman Catholic Church has sustained as its modification of the old Latin-speaking Imperialism in the rule of the pontifex maximus. There was, ... ...and. It is that, I suppose, as much as his hair, that recalls the Quartier Latin to my mind. S S S S Section 4 ection 4 ection 4 ection 4 ection 4 I h...

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...t maritime expedition of western Greece against the rival and half-kindred empire of the Laomedontiadæ, the chieftain of Thessaly, from his valour and... ...or, active and vigilant: the courage of Agamemnon is inspirited by love of empire and ambition; that of Menelaus mixed with softness and tenderness fo... ...gil himself, though they are so just as to ascribe it to the nature of the Latin tongue: indeed the Greek has some advantages both from the natural so... ...same power in his benevolence, counselling with the gods, laying plans for empires, and regu- larly ordering his whole creation. But after all, it is ... ...y few: I only know of Homer eminent for it in the Greek, and Virgil in the Latin. I am sensible it is what may sometimes happen by chance, when a writ... ...e the skies: Let great Achilles, to the gods resign’d, To reason yield the empire o’er his mind. By awful Juno this command is given; The king and you... ...lory lost. So Jove decrees, resistless lord of all! At whose command whole empires rise or fall: He shakes the feeble props of human trust, And towns ...

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...e of his terrible stings. Matey was good at lessons, too—liked them; liked Latin and Greek; would help a poor stumbler. Where he did such good work wa... ...n his handful to be the advance of regiments. These are the deeds that win empires! the argument in his favour ran. Are they of a char- acter to maint... ...res! the argument in his favour ran. Are they of a char- acter to maintain empires? the counter-question was urged. Men of a deliberative aspect were ... ...e as a special army corps for the perfect security of our priceless Indian Empire, instanced the danger likely to result from their panic fear of cann... ...acy vernacular, which a society nourished upon Norman- English and English-Latin banishes from print, largely to its impoverishment, some think. By th... ...er who did it eminent service at a crisis of the desti- nies of our Indian Empire! He could not condone the injury done to him by entering among them ... ...d celebrated it among his comrades when a boy at school. ‘You ‘re to teach Latin and Greek, you said. For you ‘re right: we English can’t understand t... ...’t understand the words we ‘re speak- ing, if we don’t know a good deal of Latin and some Greek. “Conversing in tokens, not standard coin,” you said, ...

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... and came back from the East after the Peace of Amiens. In the time of the Empire he was incorporated in the Pontoon Troop of the Guard, and was const... ...ther parts of France, there is an old custom, dating from the times of the Latin civilization, in virtue of which a woman takes her husband’s name, wi... ...la, and after the time of Julius Caesar, Tiberius raised it into the Roman Empire; the system was embodied in one man, and all authority was centered ... ...he peace laughed softly. “Captain,” he said, “an old lawyer once said that empires began with the sword and ended with the desk; we have reached the d... ...neral. Ah! and it was a funeral, I can tell you; it was the funeral of the Empire; those smart armies of his were nothing but skeletons now.) So he st... ...e kingdom of France and Navarre, which by March 20th had become the French Empire again. On that day he found himself in Paris, and a clean sweep had ... ... father found lodgings for me with some quiet, middle- class people in the Latin Quarter, and my room was fur- nished nicely enough; but this first ta... ...ecepts of the life that I had meant to lead were there, summed up in three Latin words—Fuge, late, tace.” Genestas bent his head as if he understood. ...

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... Wells to oust it. She saw her son a diplomat, a prancing pro-con- sul, an empire builder, a trusted friend of the august, the bold leader of new move... ...of Parliament and abroad. There’s the army, there’s diplomacy. There’s the Empire. You can be a Cecil Rhodes if you like. You can be a Winston….” 47 ... ... passion for great unities. It was still possible for Benham to regard the empire as a splen- did opportunity, and London as the conceivable heart of ... ...begun to dream of possibilities that went beyond the accidental states and empires of to-day. Prothero’s mind, replete with histori- cal detail, could... ...r of world dominion rested wonderfully on the slack and straggling British Empire of Edward the Seventh—and Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Mr. Chamberlain. H... ...… . The extra horse involved the addition of its owner, a small suspicious Latin Christian, to the company, and of another horse for him and an ugly a... ...ere are three churches for the better cultivation of hate and cruelty, the Latin, the Greek and the Mahometan.” “But no one has ever conquered these p...

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...al Forces—forces which had always previously, even in the growth of races, empires, planetary systems, and worlds, gone so:— And even in some cases so... ...subject—a very high-class, well-written leader, with three pieces of Times Latin—status quo is one—and it reads like the voice of Some- body Impersona... ...ky and the mystery of the sea; he shall have histories and maps of all the empires the world has seen, pictures and stories of all the tribes and habi... ...belief that a certain power of intervention was the creative control of an empire…. The more he talked the more certain Redwood’s sense of stupendous ...

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...s composed of individual heroisms; it stands to them as the victorious war which subdued an empire stands to the personal act of brav- ery which spike... ...mpty continents swarm, as at the bo’s’un’s whistle, with in- dustrious hands, and whole new empires are domesticated to the service of man. This is th... ... Stevenson For many years America was to me a sort of promised land; ‘westward the march of empire holds its way’; the race is for the moment to the y... ...y father’s library was a spot of some austerity; the proceedings of learned societies, some Latin divinity, cyclopaedias, physical science, and, above... ...nd the whole invalid world huddles into its pri- vate chambers, and silently recognises the empire of the Fohn. CHAPTER XI—ALPINE DIVERSIONS THERE WIL...

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...muslin, And other stuffs, with which I won’t stay puzzling. She knew the Latin — that is, ‘the Lord’s prayer,’ And Greek—the alphabet — I ‘m n... ... wilderness as this, Where transport and security entwine, Here is the empire of thy perfect bliss, And here thou art a god indeed divine.’ ... ...tes Change horses, making history change its tune, Then spur away o’er empires and o’er states, Leaving at last not much besides chronology, ... ...s, The only hope of courage dwells; But Turkish force, and Latin fraud, Would break your shield, however broad. Fill... ... she laid Her hand on his, and bending on him eyes Which needed not an empire to persuade, Look’d into his for love, where none replies: H... ...ey’d fifty miles, and found No sign that it was circular anywhere; His empire also was without a bound: ‘T is true, a little troubled here a... ... Who still have shown themselves more brave than witty. I know its mighty empire now allures Much flattery — even Voltaire’s, and that ‘s a pit...

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... that his Puppets have given satisfaction to the very best company in this empire. The famous little Becky Puppet has been pronounced to be un- common... ...nge, torture, for the sake of a little loose arithmetic, and miserable dog-latin? Now, William Dobbin, from an incapacity to acquire the ru- diments o... ...the above language, as they are propounded in that wonderful book the Eton Latin Grammar, was compelled to remain among the very last of Doctor Swisht... ...al actors, preferring Mr. Kean to Mr. Kemble. He could knock you off forty Latin verses in an hour. He could make French poetry. What else didn’t he k... ...e condescension Dobbin could only blush and wonder, helped him on with his Latin verses; “coached” him in play-hours: carried him triumphantly out of ... ... lapse of time, and those mutations which age produces 64 V anity Fair in empires, cities, and boroughs, Queen’s Crawley was no longer so populous a ... ...ent or opinion which was not perfectly trite and stale, and supported by a Latin quotation; yet he failed somehow, in spite of a mediocrity which ough... ...y—a stirring place in those days, when war was raging all over Europe, and empires were being staked; when the “Courier” newspaper had tens of thousan... ... believed her lover to be one of the most gallant and brilliant men in the empire: and it is possible Lieutenant Osborne thought so too. 120 V anity ...

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...on with my father.” Willoughby, as usual, loved his business and built his Empire, and between them all she would be consider- ably bored. Being a wom... ...oing the best he could to serve it out of Parliament. For that purpose the Latin countries did very well, although the East, of course, would have don... ...g over the waves, still sought the land meditatively, “or about navies, or empires, or any- thing.” So saying she opened the book and began to read: “... ...gree with you. I can conceive no more exalted aim—to be the citizen of the Empire. Look at it in this way, Miss Vinrace; conceive the state as a compl... ...imported; children grew. All seemed to favour the expansion of the British Empire, and had there been men like Richard Dalloway in the time of Charles... ...the part of hoarse energetic sheep-dog. By means of a few words of caustic Latin he had the animals marshalled, and by inclining a sharp shoulder he l... ...picked flowers, and sent stones bounding before them. “Who writes the best Latin verse in your college, Hirst?” Mr. Elliot called back incongruously, ... ...ted her more than personalities, but Mrs. Elliot would only talk about the Empire in a less abstract form. “I hear there are dreadful accounts from En... ... Symposium,” said Ridley grimly. “Symposium?” cried Mrs. Flushing. “That’s Latin or Greek? Tell me, is there a good translation?” “No,” said Ridley. “...