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But it was not until the beginning of the sixteenth century that Shino Soshin converted the pastime into something like a philosophy. From his days no less than sixty-six distinct kinds of incense were recognized and distinguished by names derived from literary allusions. This pastime is not so elaborate as the cha-no-yu, nor does it furnish, like the latter, a series of criteria of art-objects.
Edward, however, was only caught by Adam's incidental allusions to the application of his principle to ships. The merchant-king suddenly roused himself to attention, when it was promised to him that his galleys should cross the seas without sail, and against wind and tide. "By Saint George!" said he, then, "let the honest man have his whim.
Such being the case, we might readily acquiesce in its use, and pass it by without comment, trusting that the author understood himself when he adopted it, were it not that by incidental references, and especially by his allusions to the legendary literature of the Jews, Mr. Gladstone shows that he means more by the title than it can fairly be made to express.
There are other hints and allusions in the story which, I think, show that it could scarcely have been begun while Philip II was alive. From Wilhelm Meister, Lehrjahre, chapter xii, thus Englished by Thomas Carlyle: "Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping and watching for the morrow, He knew you not, ye unseen Powers."
The Arabian poets make frequent allusions to Shab Aamer; thus Ibn el Faredh says: "Is Shab Aamer, since we left it, still inhabited? Opposite to this building, a paved causeway leads towards the western hills, through which is an opening that seems artificial.
Temple, he would make no allusions to the circumstance, especially as she was at the period in question not far from her confinement, and it was impossible to say what unpleasant or dangerous effects an abrupt mention of so dreadful a circumstance might have upon her. In a few minutes Purcel and his patron were on their way to Longshot Lodge, the residence of the proctor.
The names of the three children are a play upon the names of the first three kings of the Vth Dynasty. User-kaf is made into User-ref; Sahu-ra is written Sah-ra; and Kaka is Kaku; thus making allusions to their births.
The Judge, because he had the historical background and knew his modern Europe as he knew his chessboard; and Alexina because she recalled conversations she had had in France the summer before with people close to the Government, to say nothing of mysterious allusions in the letters of Olive de Morsigny; who may have thought it wise not to trust all she knew to the post, or may have been too busy with her intensive nursing course to enter into particulars.
Mrs Millett had been disposed to look at Dexter from the point of view suggested by Maria, who had been making unpleasant allusions to the boy's birth and parentage, and above all to "Master's strange goings on," ever since Dexter's coming.
There are certain bills and memoranda, with his signature attached, relating to levies of men and great purchases of arms, which look as if he had plunged into some desperate enterprise, doubtless at her instigation; and in his sonnets there are frequent allusions to 'winning her by the sword, 'loving her to the death, and such Quixotic protestations, that look as if he had at one time meditated an unusually daring stroke.
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