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Milton, in his Hymn for the Nativity, thus alludes to the fable of the Halcyon: "But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of light His reign of peace upon the earth began; The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kist, Whispering new joys to the mild ocean Who now hath quite forgot to rave While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave."
The nation which he alludes to is Gallia; and he then proceeds to give the letter of the churches of Vienna and Lugdunum. It is probable that he has assigned the true cause of the persecutions, the fanaticism of the populace, and that both governors and emperor had a great deal of trouble with these disturbances.
Be that as it may, the name had been well established before the orator's time. Cicero's mother was one Helvia, of whom we are told that she was well-born and rich. Cicero himself never alludes to her as neither, if I remember rightly, did Horace to his mother, though he speaks so frequently of his father.
Reed, we learn, was a Boston bank clerk, and a Swedenborgian, who wrote a book on the growth of the mind, from which Emerson quotes, and to which he often alludes, a book that has long been forgotten; and is not Bettina forgotten also? Emerson found more in Jones Very than has any one else; the poems of Very that he included in "Parnassus" have little worth.
This alludes to a medicine bowl, not to one of the handled kind, but I will apply it as far as it goes to the latter. Now the decorations are a trifle more complex.
But what is still more conclusive is that which she attributes to Monsieur de Camors for I suppose it alludes to him and to his private prospects and calculations. This can not have failed to strike you, as it has me, I suppose?" "If I thought this vile letter was her work," cried the General, "I never would see her again during my life." "Why not? It is better to laugh at it!"
He alludes several times to the importance of getting command of the sea. This country would have been saved some disasters and been less often in peril had British writers taken as guides by the public possessed the same grasp of the true principles of defence as Thucydides exhibited. One passage in his history is worth quoting.
In "The Jewish State" Herzl alludes to the language of The Jewish State and passes Hebrew by as a manifestation of no great significance. He has a poorer opinion of Yiddish, the common language of Jews, which he regards as "the furtive language of prisoners." This was obviously an oversight. With the advent of Herzl, however, Zionism was no more a matter of domestic concern only.
Wallack also alludes to a dinner which Thackeray gave at the old Delmonico's, at the corner of Broadway and Chambers Street, at the end of his first visit to this country. He had been most warmly received, and he had given universal delight by his lectures upon the English Humorists. The charm of these lectures is evident in the reading, but the pleasure of hearing them is quite indescribable.
Gerarde also alludes to an old belief that cats, "Are much delighted with catmint, for the smell of it is so pleasant unto them, that they rub themselves upon it, and swallow or tumble in it, and also feed on the branches very greedily." And according to an old proverb they have a liking for the plant maram: "If you set it, the cats will eat it; If you sow it, the cats won't know it."
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