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Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Bella Mollita — soft war. (search)
Bella Mollita — soft war. when Osric, the water-fly, called upon Hamlet to arrange the tilt with Laertes, he did not forget to speak in high terms of the latter as an absolute gentleman, full of most excellent differences, of very soft society and great showing — the card or calendar of gentry. There are some men, and some of them are journalists, who, having all their lives been accustomed to speak of slaveholders and slaveholding in their mealy-mouthed way, cannot now, in the very tempest of the national danger, change to something like a masculine tone. The Northern corpses upon the fields of Virginia appeal to them in vain. Men and women driven from their Southern homes because of their Northern birth and blood, appeal to them in vain. They shut their eyes to things vulgarly dishonest — to ignoble repudiations and gratuitous bank-ruptcies, and to an official treachery almost without a precedent in history. Fight! they say to our noble volunteers--but fight with foils! <
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 14 (search)
days ago, thanking him for the kind manner of his transmitting to me the appointment of brigadier-general. I know that in Washington I am incomprehensible, because at the outset of the war I would not go it blind and rush headlong into a war unprepared and with an utter ignorance of its extent and purpose. I was then construed unsound; and now that I insist on war pure and simple, with no admixture of civil compromises, I am supposed vindictive. You remember what Polonius said to his son Laertes: Beware of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in, bear it, that the opposed may beware of thee. What is true of the single man, is equally true of a nation. Our leaders seemed at first to thirst for the quarrel, willing, even anxious, to array against us all possible elements of opposition; and now, being in, they would hasten to quit long before the opposed has received that lesson which he needs. I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), H. (search)
nce in Palestine. The relevancy of the subject here arises from the fact that tools and machines are made for planting, training, and trimming hedges. Thorns for hedges were used by the Greeks 1000 B. C. Homer represents Ulysses as finding Laertes digging, and preparing to plant a row of quick-sets. The art of clipping trees, says Pliny, was invented by C. Martius, a friend of the late Emperor Augustus, within the last eighty years (A. D. 79). He had not seen the beautiful gardens of Eand not unfrequently the seed was buried by driving herds of sheep or goats over the land. The bidens or two-pronged hoe was a common tool in Roman agriculture. It was also common in Greece in the form shown at h (Fig. 2517). Homer describes Laertes as hoeing when found by Ulysses. The Romans hoed their grain crops, wheat, spelt, and barley. Once in early winter, a second time in spring, before jointing. The wheat was sowed on the top of ridges made by a double mold-board plow, and was
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Centennial Contributions (search)
the azure dome; The wise man carries rest and contentment in his own mental life, and is equally himself at the Corona d'italia and on a western ranch; while the weakling runs back to earlier associations like a colt to its stable. But Homer is also Emersonian at times. What could be more so than Achilles's memorable saying, which is repeated by Ulysses in the Odyssey: More hateful to me than the gates of death is he who thinks one thing and speaks another; or this exclamation of old Laertes in the last book of the Odyssey: What a day is this when I see my son and grandson contending in excellence! It seems a long way from Dante to Emerson, and yet there are Dantean passages in Woodnotes and Voluntaries. They are not in Dante's matchless measure, but they have much of his grace, and more of his inflexible will. This warning against mercenary marriages might be compared to Dante's answer to the embezzling Pope Nicholas III. in Canto XIX. of the Inferno: He shall be h
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 9: going to Europe.—December, 1837.—Age, 26. (search)
he and Richter and Luther will cry in my ears, trumpet-tongued. I would give Golconda or Potosi or all Mexico, if I had them, for your German tongue. What I shall write abroad I know not. I shall keep a journal, probably a full one, and shall trust to circumstances to suggest and bring out a subject. I shall remember your suggestions; treasure them all. All your requests I shall remember, and let you know that I shall not forget you. Your good advice I shall ponder well. Ante, p. 198. Laertes did not receive better instructions from old Polonius, when he was about going abroad, than you have given me. My heart is full on account of your kindness. It is now Oct. 21, and I shall be more than a week longer in Boston. I shall leave my home Nov. 1. My business is not all closed yet, and I sometimes fear that I may lose another week; but I must tear away. Then for New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington. You will hear from me often before I go, and I shall send longin
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 24: (search)
be; and the King was a bold, bad man, indeed, but had that force of character which his very crimes imply, and by which it is plain he overawes Hamlet, and checks Laertes. The ceremonies of a Court were well observed; and whatever belonged to the mechanism, scenery, dresses, and costumes of the piece was nicely considered and exceitting the whole time; and in changing the foils he did it evidently because he felt himself wounded treacherously, threw down his own weapon and grasped that of Laertes, which he wrenched from him, while Laertes in turn caught up Hamlet's and defended himself as well as he could. Indeed, the piece was acted with great effect. MLaertes in turn caught up Hamlet's and defended himself as well as he could. Indeed, the piece was acted with great effect. Many wept bitterly, and all seemed deeply interested. The royal family were all out to see it, which was quite remarkable; and, what seemed very curious to me, it was, for the sake of convenience in making the stage arrangements, divided into six acts. Every now and then the want of the English came over me with a strange power.
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 1: (search)
society. Composed of the higher classes, educated by the advantages of travel and favorable contact with the learned and gifted of the older States at the Federal capital, they were trained through an intercourse which made courtesy, forbearance and superior attainments the indispensable elements of success and happiness. No spot of earth ever surpassed it in the generous and unrestricted hospitality of its citizens, which may be compared to that extended by renowned Alcinous, host of old Laertes' son, in the Homeric romance. It is needless to say that the results of the war and the commercial growth of the place have obliterated many of these ancient customs and greatly transformed all this. In the latter part of January, or first of February, after the legislature had taken a recess until March, Maj. H. A. Montgomery, of Memphis, completed his line of magnetic telegraph from that city to Little Rock. A line had already given communication from Memphis to Helena, Ark., on the
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 35: (search)
Chapter 35: The Wanderings of Ulysses. The modern Ulysses traveled further than his classic namesake; and his Penelope accompanied him. They once came upon the course of the ancient hero, and sailing along the Italian and Sicilian shores the story of the Odyssey was told again. Mrs. Grant liked to be shown where the son of Laertes had landed, where he escaped from Calypso, or avoided Scylla or Charybdis. But the practical General was more curious about geography than mythology. The coasts and channels he inspected closely, but cared nothing for the fables of Homeric origin. Ancient history itself hardly interested him. I remember that in Rome, when I talked of the Forum and the Capitol, he replied that they seemed recent to him after Memphis and the Sphinx, which he had seen. Remote antiquity impressed him; but the venerable associations that scholars prize had no charm for Grant. There was little room in his nature for sentiment, though abundance of genuine feeling.
The Daily Dispatch: April 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Missouri's response to Lincoln's Proclamation. (search)
Stage Innovations. --Fechter, the French actor, who plays so splendidly in English, and whose Hamlet has been enthusiastically praised by the critics, innovates very much on the traditional business of the stage. In that character he wears a scull-cap of crape, and long flaxen hair, after Delacroix's famous picture; he sits cross-legged on a tomb when conversing with the grave digger; he stands at the back of the stage leaning on a balustrade when he confronts the ghost; he kills Laertes in the most superb manner, and in short does everything in an original and effective style.
The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], Death of an old actor. (search)
the age of seven, and, after playing boys' parts for some time, passed to the Academic Theatre, established by Queen Charlotte, in Leicester street, Leicester Square, where English and German children appeared on alternate nights.--Here he attracted the attention of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, who gave him an engagement at Drury Lane. That theatre being subsequently burned down, he went to Ireland; but in 1839 returned to England, and on the opening night at the New Drury Lane appeared as "Laertes" in Hamlet. "At the age of twenty-two he replaced Mr. Booth in playing 'lago' to Kean's 'Othello.' About this time he received very tempting offers from New York, and having, by the intervention of Lord Byron, who was his personal friend, obtained two years leave of absence from the management of Drury Lane, he made his first appearance in America at the Park Theatre, of this city, September 7, 1818, in the character of 'Macbeth.' --After two years of remarkable success here, he retur