... What, again, would a child learn by being told that Spenser was full of Christianized platonism ? On page 73 Mr. Brooke speaks of some of the love poems of the latter part of the sixteenth century as possessing a passionate reality, others a quaint ...

... estimate which he forms of his character or of special events; but there is no doubt about his honesty and conscientiousness. He speaks because necessity is laid upon him ; he writes, not to increase the number of books, but because he believes he has a message ...

... land. For my own part I have, in the House of Comnna's and else- vhere, whatever miy inward impression might be, declined to speak sirongly oa these atrocities, until there was both clear and responsible evidence before in I Fo tranS of this evidence, I ...

... times at their command can hardly go far wrong in the meaning of a Latin author; and even if they do, the notes, generally speaking, will give us other versions to choose from. A work of this nature must really, therefore, be judged by its nearness to, ...

... forms but one picture. Nor does the music in the one compartment interfere with the music in the other, as speaking would interfere with speaking in the case of ordinary dialogue. The -contrast between the mystical, half-voluptuous, half-religious chants ...

... times at their command can hardly go far wrong in the meaning of a Latin author; and even if they do, the notes, generally speaking, will give us other versions to choose from. A work of this nature must really, therefore, be judged by its nearness to, ...

... morning in February, and nothing more; then we are introduced concisely to a ghost (Marsyas), and to others in succession; they speak for themselves, and the spectator remains mostly in the background. The more incredible adventures, as that of Narcissus, are ...

... two centuries and a half before its time. Three hundred years before the Spaniard's doubtful discovery, our own Roger Bacon speaks of a vessel which, being almost wholly submerged, would run faster through the water against waves and winds than the fastest ...

... moreover, Mr. Van Laun wished to speak of Da Ponte's libretto at all, he should have pointed out that he has very judiciously omitted the return supper given in all previous versions by the statue to Don Juan. Speaking of the scandal caused by Sganareile's ...

... as a language that Mr. Leland gives it in his preface. It is abundantly plain that he has never mixed among Pidgin-English-speaking Chinamen, or he would be aware of the extremely limited power of expres. sion of which it is capable. Anything like a sustained ...

... experience or belief. :EBlotted Out is a stupid novel, with an evil-favoured heroine; there is little incident, no plot to speak of, the characters are unreal and unlifelike, and there is neither sequence nor probability in anything that is supposed to ...

... understanding and answering their inquiries. Only when Lucian comes to speak of visitors coming from a distance, people from Italy, barbarians, Scythians, he mentions those who speak Celtic, and dwells on the difficulty there was in understanding and answering ...