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The Baron goes to Petersburgh, and converses with the Empress Persuades the Russians and Turks to cease cutting one another's throats, and in concert cut a canal across the Isthmus of Suez The Baron discovers the Alexandrine Library, and meets with Hermes Trismegistus Besieges Seringapatam, and challenges Tippoo Sahib to single combat They fight The Baron receives some wounds to his face, but at last vanquishes the tyrant The Baron returns to Europe, and raises the hull of the "Royal George."
Herophilus, one of the first scholars of the Alexandrine Museum, studied not only the bodies of executed criminals, but made his experiments also on living malefactors. The physician took the reed, moistened it with black color prepared from burnt papyrus, and in elegant hieratic characters
Distinct and separate, indeed, are the inquiries whether Greece might produce, at certain intervals of time, two great epic poets, selecting opposite subjects and whether Greece produced a score or two of great poets, from whose desultory remains the mighty whole of the Iliad was arranged. Even the ancients of the Alexandrine school did not attribute the Odyssey to the author of the Iliad.
"What can be the matter? She was well enough three hours ago." "O, do not be uneasy. It is nothing serious. A headache, I think. She will be well after a night's rest. Cannot I prevail on you to sit down?" "I think not, to-night, thank you. I will call to-morrow. Give Margie my best love, and tell her how sorry I am that she is ill." Alexandrine promised, and Mr. Trevlyn bowed himself out.
It is not etiquette for the groom to see the bride on the day of their marriage, until they meet at the altar; but you look so charming, dear! I would like him to admire you. He has such exquisite taste." Margie's uplifted eyes had a half-frightened look, which Alexandrine did not understand. "No, no!" she said, hurriedly; "do not bring him here!
Its learning, however, prevented it from being neglected. Until the Aeneid appeared, it was considered the fullest repository of choice mythological lore. It was perhaps the nearest approach ever made in Rome to an original Alexandrine poem. Cicero pays him the compliment of honourable mention in the Brutus, praising his parts and lamenting his early death.
The odd part of it is that the Royalist-Romantics are all for liberty in literature, and for repealing laws and conventions; while the Liberal-Classics are for maintaining the unities, the Alexandrine, and the classical theme. So opinions in politics on either side are directly at variance with literary taste. If you are eclectic, you will have no one for you. Which side do you take?"
It is by no means accidental that Scherenberg is unable to get away from the most arbitrary crabbed versification in his historical genre poems celebrating Frederick the Great. The capricious heroes with pigtails do not tolerate smooth verses. The favorite verse-form of their day, however, the stiff alexandrine, characterizes the Pigtail exclusively, not the Rococo.
Long after our poetry had again begun to take a higher flight, Gotter, in his translation of French tragedies, made the last attempt to ennoble the Alexandrine and procure its re-admission into Tragedy, and, it appears to me, proved by his example that we must for ever renounce the idea.
You stooped and pressed your lips where his had been! Whose?" "I do not know indeed I do not! Why do you torture me so, Alexandrine?" "My poor child, I will say no more. Good-night, Margie. I trust you will have a pleasant evening with Mr. Trevlyn." Margie caught the flowing skirt of Miss Lee's dress. "You shall tell me all! I must know.
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