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... hall. It was paved with red and yellow tiles, on which alternately were a Greek Cross and the Lamb of God. An imposing staircase led out of the hall.... ...to the upper forms and German to anyone who cared to take it up instead of Greek. Another master was engaged to teach mathematics more systematically ... ...Philip what he saw . The ruin grew vivid with his words. He showed him the theatre of Dionysus and explained in what order the people sat, and how bey... ...f which the nail had a little black edge to it, was point- ing out how the Greek ships were placed and how the Persian. 78 Of Human Bondage XVII PHIL... ... his vivid fancy he seemed to see the surging throng round the pit-door of theatres, and the glitter of cheap restaurants, bars where men, half drunk,... ... did not know whether he was more bored or nauseated. If that was what the theatre was coming to, then it was high time the police stepped in and clos... ... from Rome to put a subtle fragrance of Italy . He thought the city of the ancient Romans a little vulgar , finding distinction only in the decadence ... ..., and whether a similarity of surname was not his only connection with the ancient family whose tree he was displaying. LXXXVIII There was a knock at ...

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... of civiliza- tion which stretches from the Arc de Triomphe to the Gymnase theatre. It had already been intimated to the author of these light pages t... ... is contradictory. If the tenement se- lected for this honour could not be ancient and embrowned, it should at least have been detached. There is a ch... ... barrack which is ornamented with a rugged mediaeval tower, a relic of the ancient fortifications, known to the Tourangeaux of today as the Tour de Gu... ...re de Tours. All this part of the exterior of the cathedral is very brown, ancient, Gothic, grotesque; Balzac calls the whole place “a desert of stone... ...ved with gold figures; and each of them looks more like the royal box at a theatre than like the aperture of a palace dark with memories. For all this... ...square, surrounded with other tall houses, and occupied on one side by the theatre, a pompous build- ing, decorated with columns and statues of the mu... ...fatal progres- sion, the dark rigidity, of one of the tragic dramas of the Greeks. Jean Calas, advanced in life, blameless, bewil- dered, protesting. ... ... is so associated with a charming facial oval, a dark mild eye, a straight Greek nose, and a mouth worthy of all the rest, that it conveys a presumpti...

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... 13 we all belong to many countries. And perhaps this habit of much travel, and the engendering of scattered friend- ships, may... ...ttle further clean- ing up, to my eyes – there lie scattered thickly various lengths of petrified trunk, such as the one already men- tioned. It is ve... ...ruck a triangular platform, filling up the whole glen, and shut in on either hand by bold projections of the mountain. Only in front the place was ope... ... seemed as if, were you to drop a stone down the old iron chute at our platform, it would never rest until it hopped upon the Toll House shingles. Sig... ...s to service. Irvine, in the same case, would have sat down and spat, and grumbled curses. He had the soul of a fat sheep, but, regarded as an artist’... ...regarded as an artist’s model, the exterior of a Greek God. It was a cruel thought to persons less favoured in their birth, that this creature, endowe... ...ll in talk with another of these flitting strangers – like the rest, in his shirt- sleeves and all begrimed with dust – and the next minute we were di...

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...rom M. Montalivet, transmitted to the prefect of Bayonne, mystified by two Greek words, tele, graphein. It is the insect with black claws, and the awf... ... go and read the papers in a cafe. Then, in the evening, I shall go to the theatre; I shall look like some retired baker. That is what I want.” “Come,... ...under the celebrated baritone who made such a successful appearance at the Theatre Italien; at the same time I felt inclined to learn dancing of the d... ...Well, and it is that” — “My opinion is, that all these old podestas, these ancient condottieri, — for the Cavalcanti have commanded armies and gov- er... ...- ful to conceal it from every one. After the battle of Navarino, when the Greek government was consolidated, he asked of King Otho a mining grant for... ...be seen without doing so? Elssler was dancing in the ‘Diable Boiteux;’ the Greek princess was in ecstasies. After the cachucha he placed a magnificent... .... “Do you know modern Greek,” asked he. “Alas, no,” said Albert; “nor even ancient Greek, my dear count; never had Homer or Plato a more unworthy scho... ...Then, turning towards Albert, — “It is a pity you do not understand either ancient or modern Greek, both of which Haidee speaks so fluently; the poor ... ...on for the impresari; I gave her a few lines for the director of the Valle Theatre, who is under some obligation to me. But what is the matter, Albert...

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... Of such as these I should not care to vaunt, I ‘ll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan— We all have seen him, in the pantomime, Sent... ... stay puzzling. She knew the Latin — that is, ‘the Lord’s prayer,’ And Greek—the alphabet — I ‘m nearly sure; She read some French romances he... ...l too (it was the family Missal) Was ornamented in a sort of way Which ancient mass books often are, and this all Kinds of grotesques illumi... ...to boast, Though I acquired — but I pass over that, As well as all the Greek I since have lost: I say that there ‘s the place — but ‘Verbum ... ...e and there; She had a curious crew as well as cargo, Like the first old Greek privateer, the Argo. But man is a carnivorous production, And... ...sorrow through her heart re sent; And he begun a long low island song Of ancient days, ere tyranny grew strong. Anon her thin wan fingers beat t... ...glish evening pass; Though certes by no means so grand a sight As is a theatre lit up by gas. I pass my evenings in long galleries solely, A...

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...a Dominant Jew clean gone to the fleshpots and effeminacy. Aldermen of our ancient conception, they may teach him that he has been backsliding once mo... ...s. Inchling dreaded Scotchmen as well, and Ameri- cans, and Armenians, and Greeks: latterly Germans hardly less; but his dread of absorption in Jewry,... ... the promoting of the state of reverential wonderment in rapture, which an ancient wine will lead to, well you wot. The silly girly sugary crudity his... ... to no one as yet. Nataly thought that; not-withstanding the outcry of the ancient and withered woman who bore Victor Radnor’s name: for whom, in con-... ...me lines of Homer, and beseeches him for the designation of that language. Greek, is it? Greek of the Asiatic ancient days of the beginning of the poe... ...ange!—she partly suspects the Frenchman, the Russian, the attentive silent Greek, to be all of them bound for the Court of Japan. Concurrents? Can it ... ...es. Visibly, that man Jarniman was disposed of with ease. As in the street-theatres of crowing Punch, distance enlisted pan- tomime to do the effectiv... ...ext day at eight of the evening I shall be address- ing our meeting in the Theatre. Simeon speaks. Beaves Urmsing insists on coming, T ory though he i... ...r lips—too much a resurrection smile. There was talk of the Meeting at the theatre: Simeon Fenellan had spoken there in the cause of the deceased Mem-...

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...do, Calderon, Garcilaso de la Vega, the Mendozas, Gongora, were all men of ancient families, and, curiously, all, except the last, of fami- lies that ... ...though nominally taken from the castle, it was in reality derived from the ancient territorial possession of the family, and as a set-off, and to dist... ...ucate the public taste until it was ripe for tragedies on the model of the Greek drama—like the “Numancia” for instance—and comedies that would not on... ...a knight. “For, how could you expect me not to feel uneasy about what that ancient lawgiver they call the Public will say when it sees me, after slumb... ...ant; for they under- stood about as much of them as if he had been talking Greek, though they could perceive they were all meant for expressions of go... ... I would have returned and done more mischief in reveng- ing thee than the Greeks did for the rape of Helen, who, if she were alive now, or if my Dulc... ...all the rest of them, that the books, the ballads, the barber’s shops, the theatres are full of, were really and truly ladies of flesh and blood, and ... ...ng themselves out for their wedding on the morrow. They advanced towards a theatre that stood on one side of the meadow decked with carpets and boughs...

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... that the Marquesan is conscious of achievement, his life all rounded in, his robes (like Caesar’s) adjusted for the final act. Praise not any man til... ...e first foundation, only by propitiatory 27 Robert Louis Stevenson feasts, and, so soon as the fire of life went out upon the hearth, swarmed back in... ...certain date a new god was added to the Society-Island Olympus, or an old one refurbished and made popular. Oro was his name, and he may be compared w... ...both of these feasters and their meat; he clapped his hands, and gave me a stave of one of the old, ill-omened choruses. Centuries might have come and... ... above upon a woody valley: a little French fort, now disused and deserted, over- hangs the valley and the inlet. Atuona itself, at the head of the ne... ...and it was not fitting that his guests should countenance a festival of which he disapproved. So might some strict clergyman at home ad- dress a world... ...s and eggs and fish of his own more favoured island. And as for his parishioners, they did not think one hair the less of him. A schoolboy, mulcted in...

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...love of his country, I was fired with these examples; could fancy myself a Greek or Roman, and readily give into the character of the personage whose ... ...ty, I thought everything attainable: I entered with confidence on the vast theatre of the world, which my merit was to capti- vate: at every step I ex... ...ass, I will speak to you.” Louisa—Eleanora de Warrens was of the noble and ancient family of La T our de Pit, of Vevay, a city in the country of the V... ...mmon with all Genevese) by these two lines of the Henriade: Soit qu’ un ancient respect pour le sang de leurs maitres, Parlat encore pour lui da... ...ops formerly thought it an honor to be seated, though in exile it lost its ancient splendor, retained (without any dimi- nution) its pride. T o be adm... ...ion in the world to become inseparable companions. He informed me he was a Greek prelate, and ‘ Archimandrite’ of Jerusalem; that he had undertaken to... ...d of German, Latin, or French, he had been obliged to have recourse to his Greek, Turkish Lingua Franca, which did not procure him much in the coun- t... ... retrenching it; going to the coffee-house but every other day, and to the theatre but twice a week. With respect to the expenses of girls of easy vir... ... regularly dedicated, at Maugis, the evenings on which I did not go to the theatre. I became acquainted with M. de Legal, M. Husson, Philidor, and all...

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...ove his way unfairly through a crowd of Englishmen at the door of a London theatre. We did shove unfairly, and we did make progress, till we found our... ...ess was considered necessary after the ceremony. To these mem- bers of the Greek Christian Church it had been handed 17 Anthony Trollope down from fa... ...e dragoman seemed to think nothing of the affair whatever. “Those fools of Greeks do not understand the Christian religion,” he said, being himself a ... ...icho and the wretched collection of huts which still bears the name of the ancient city. Beyond that, but still seemingly within easy distance of us, ...

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...ric, and forming, in a sense, the hieroglyphics of thought? Was it not the ancient mode of representing human ideas as embodied in the forms of animal... ... all the buildings necessary for an institution on that scale: a chapel, a theatre, an infirmary , a bakehouse, gardens, and water supply. This colleg... ...ore the stamp of monastic rule. I well remember, among other relics of the ancient order, the inspection we went through every Sunday. We were all in ... ...ee hundred pupils lodged in the establish- ment were divided, according to ancient custom, into the minimes (the smallest), the little boys, the middl... ...taken for its share the new humanity. He thought that the mythology of the Greeks was borrowed both from the Hebrew Scriptures and from the sacred Boo... ...ible effect on Lambert’s soul and senses, that he was obliged to leave the theatre. If he had not been controlled by some re- maining glimmer of reaso... ...he works of the man. This letter connects itself with the adventure at the theatre. The incident and the letter throw light on each other, body and so...

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...n. A few lean hydran- geas and geraniums pined in the flower-beds, and the ancient house looked down on them indifferently. Its garden side was plaine... ...t was dated about four weeks back, under the letter-head of “The Diversity Theatre.” “My Dear Mr . Granice: “I have given the matter my best considera... ... carried all the expenses of production yourself, and we couldn’t fill the theatre for a week. Y et ‘The Lee Shore’ was a modern prob- lem play—much e... ...ter droned through the evening paper. Sometimes he spent an evening at the theatre; or he dined out, or, more rarely, strayed off with an acquaintance... ...ess. The long thoroughfare stretched before him, dim and deserted, like an ancient avenue of tombs. But from Denver’s house a friendly beam fell on th... ...nd a roll of music, a platter heaped with grapes and roses, the torso of a Greek statuette, and a bowl overflowing with coins and jewels; behind her, ... ...th his mother’s property; the paternal estate being near Orvieto, of which ancient city his father was syndic. Soon after his arrival in Siena the you...

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...e represented by some small slender tables of dark wood, a delicate little Greek bronze on the chimney-piece, and a stretch of red damask nailed on th... ... eloquence of the inarticulate. XIII. IT WA S A CROWDED night at Wallack’s theatre. The play was “The Shaughraun,” with Dion Boucicault in the title r... ...of the two actors his eyes filled with tears, and he stood up to leave the theatre. 83 Edith Wharton In doing so, he turned to the side of the house ... ...an agitated pleasure. “I was thinking of that too—I was going to leave the theatre in order to take the picture away with me,” he said. To his surpris... ...ers still gleamed in the kitchen chimney, un- der an iron pot hung from an ancient crane. Rush-bottomed arm-chairs faced each other across the tiled h... ...a person; as if she might have been chosen to pose for a Civic Virtue or a Greek goddess. The blood that ran so close to her fair skin might have been... ... sured her. “Then we’re safe!” she sighed; and smiling on him with all her ancient cunning she added, as she settled her head among the cushions: “I a...

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...r. [Long the oracle of the country gentle- men of the high Tory party. The ancient News-Letter was written in manuscript and copied by clerks, who add... ...ans Lache. ‘May our name rather perish,’ exclaimed Sir Everard, ‘than that ancient and loyal symbol should be blended with the dishonoured insignia of... ...to live at Waverley-Honour in the style of an old English gentleman, of an ancient descent and opulent fortune. His sister, Miss Rachel Waverley, pres... ...h! I’ll tell you, though, doctor, you must knock out some of the Latin and Greek; heavy, doctor, damn’d heavy—(beg your pardon) and if you throw in a ... ...a crowd, or for pushing you up to the wall, or for taking your seat in the theatre; but the modern code of honour will not permit you to found a quarr... ... &c. ‘Change we our shields, and for ourselves assume the trappings of the Greeks.’ Neb, nose. Nebulones nequissimi, worthless scamps. Nec naturaliter...

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... the Old Man should be roused. All the world over, even to this day, these ancient inevitable taboos can be traced.) And now instead of caves came hut... ...d a very considerable amount of attention. He gave them in a small lecture-theatre that had become more and more con- gested as his course proceeded. ... ...windows of all the little shops, spent hours in the vanished cinematograph theatre, and marvelled at the high-flung early Georgian houses upon the wes... ...aths, walks in the summer sunlight and tales by the winter fire- side, the ancient sequence of hope and acts and age perenni- ally renewed, eddying on... ...licately beautiful facade, along the South Bank of the Thames opposite the ancient dignity of Somerset House. Such thought was interwoven with the ver... ...t out of this great institution in favour of modern methods; and he learnt Greek and Latin as well as he had learnt German, Spanish, and French, so th... ...n’ who ‘spoke Latin with a Wiltshire accent and manifest discomfort, wrote Greek letters with his tongue out, and seemed to think a Greek sentence a c... ...e the two historical mu- sic halls of this place, the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, in 44 The World Set Free which the municipal players revolved per...

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...t of a Lady which she currently alluded; they bore upon minor points of that ancient order, but for Mrs. Touchett they amply justified non residence. S... ...y is the finest thing in nature.” It’s finer than the finest work of art—than a Greek bas relief, than a great Titian, than a Gothic cathedral. It’s very... ...would happen. Suddenly I receive a Titian, by the post, to hang on my wall—a Greek bas relief to stick over my chimney piece. The key of a beautiful e... ... thatched and timbered, past ale houses latticed and sanded, past patches of ancient common and glimpses of empty parks, between hedgerows made thick ... ... was a nobleman of the newest pattern, a reformer, a radical, a contemner of ancient ways. His other brother, who was in the army in India, was rather... ... and interpreter. They had breakfasted together, dined together, gone to the theatre together, supped to gether, really in a manner quite lived toget... ...fashion; and when he had obtained his admittance—it was one of the secondary theatres—looked about the large, bare, ill lighted house. An act had just... ...ry for being angry. Verdi’s music did little to comfort him, and he left the theatre and walked homeward, without knowing his way, through the tortuou... ...ence. It is impossible, in Rome at least, to look long at a great company of Greek sculptures without feeling the effect of their noble quietude; whic...

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..., courteous to all, without seeking to vie with those whose nobility is of ancient date, depend upon it, Teresa, no one will remember what he was, and... ...o them) of countless princes, monarchs, lords, Medes, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, and barbarians, all these lineages and lordships have ended in a po... ...e, well and good; but to suppose that I am going to disturb or unhinge the ancient usage of knight-errantry, is all nonsense. And so, my Sancho, get y... ...he emperor was anxious to see that famous temple of the Rotunda, called in ancient times the temple ‘of all the gods,’ but now-a-days, by a better nom... ...eighteen years of age; he has been for six at Salamanca studying Latin and Greek, and when I wished him to turn to the study of other sciences I found... ...is reason: the great poet Homer did not write in Latin, be- cause he was a Greek, nor did Virgil write in Greek, because he was a Latin; in short, all... ...ng themselves out for their wedding on the morrow. They advanced towards a theatre that stood on one side of the meadow decked with carpets and boughs...

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...for it to which she currently alluded; they bore upon minor points of that ancient order, but for Mrs. Touchett they amply justified non-residence. Sh... ...he finest thing in na- ture. It’s finer than the finest work of art—than a Greek bas-relief, than a great Titian, than a Gothic cathedral. It’s very p... ... happen. Sud- denly I receive a Titian, by the post, to hang on my wall— a Greek bas-relief to stick over my chimney-piece. The key of a beautiful edi... ...hatched and timbered, past ale-houses latticed and sanded, past patches of ancient common and glimpses of empty parks, between hedgerows made thick by... ...as a nobleman of the newest pattern, a reformer, a radical, a contemner of ancient ways. His other brother, who was in the army in India, was rather w... ...nd interpreter. They had breakfasted together, dined together, gone to the theatre together, supped together, really in a manner quite lived together.... ...shion; and when he had obtained his admittance—it was one of the secondary theatres—looked about the large, bare, ill-lighted house. An act had just t... ... for being angry. Verdi’s music did little to comfort him, and he left the theatre and walked home- ward, without knowing his way, through the tortuou... .... It is impossible, in Rome at least, to look long at a great com- pany of Greek sculptures without feeling the effect of their noble quietude; which,...

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...a, the Mendozas, Gongora, were all 9 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. men of ancient families, and, curiously, all, except the last, of fami- lies that ... ...though nominally taken from the castle, it was in reality derived from the ancient territorial possession of the family, and as a set-off, and to dist... ...ucate the public taste until it was ripe for tragedies on the model of the Greek drama—like the “Numancia” for instance—and comedies that would not on... ...a knight. “For, how could you expect me not to feel uneasy about what that ancient lawgiver they call the Public will say when it sees me, after slumb... ...ant; for they under- stood about as much of them as if he had been talking Greek, though they could perceive they were all meant for expressions of go... ... I would have returned and done more mischief in reveng- ing thee than the Greeks did for the rape of Helen, who, if she were alive now, or if my Dulc... ...all the rest of them, that the books, the ballads, the barber’s shops, the theatres are full of, were really and truly ladies of flesh and blood, and ...

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...on, however, that it actually occurs only in the Slavonic version from the Greek, and not in the Russian translation made direct from the Hebrew. 10 ... ... bib with which the footman had encircled it. On hear- ing this distinctly Greek name (to which, for some un- known reason, Manilov always appended th... ... for articles of a smaller nature, such as visiting cards, memorial cards, theatre tick- ets, and things which Chichikov had laid by as souvenirs. Thi... ...ed Nozdrev. “And one for me as well,” added the flaxen-haired man. “At the theatre,” went on Nozdrev, “there was an ac- tress who sang like a canary. ... ...herish a prejudice against the ini- tial character of the word—namely, the Greek theta, or th. 93 Gogol “Do not insult me with the term Thetuk,” reto... ...tiating upon the immensity of the same, and saying that even the Empire of Ancient Rome had been of considerably smaller dimensions. Meanwhile Sobakev... ... finely written manuscript, an overturned marble press (turning green), an ancient book in a leather cover with red edges, a lemon dried and shrunken ... ...r luncheon, and how he called for a bottle of wine, and how he went to the theatre in the evening! In short, he did himself thoroughly well. Next, he ... ...m, as his estate, four waistcoats completely worn out, two 214 Dead Souls ancient frockcoats, and a small sum of money. Apparently he had been skille...