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These, however, were far less interesting than the four great public games, sacred to the gods, which were the Pythian, at Delphos, sacred to Apollo; the Isth'mian, at Corinth, to Neptune; the Nemean, at Nemea, to Hercules; and the Olympic, at Olympia in E'lis, to Jupiter.
"What, Olympia! you think Southern men do not hold marriage to be sacred?" "I think that the Southern man has a good deal of the knight you spoke of in him, and, like the Frenchman, marries inconsiderately, and does penance in infidelity, at least to the form, if not the fact, of the relation." "O Olympia! where do you get such repulsive ideas of us; who has been traducing us to you?"
They are preserved for thee, to be sent in to Persia, if thou dost not return to Greece, as I hope thou wilt. I am now the wife of Paralus; and Pericles has brought us into the neighbourhood of Olympia, seeking medical aid for my husband, not yet recovered from the effects of the plague.
We read of Thucydides, on hearing Herodotus read his history at Olympia, being incited to attempt a similar work, though of an entirely different and of an original structure. Gibbon, in like manner, writing of Hume and Robertson, says: “The perfect composition, the nervous language, the well-turned periods of Dr.
Ah, Clara, it seemed like an opening from Paradise when you wrote me to come here! Heaven knows where I should have been now but for that blessed note!" "But you are here, safe and well, for which the good God be thanked! Everything has happened without disappointment to any one, unless it may be Caroline's mother, the handsome Olympia. She is furious, Lord Hilton tells me.
"We were paid to insult you and to refuse you post-horses." "Well, then," returned Olympia, with one of her most enchanting smiles, "I, too, will give you money, but it shall not be to bribe you to resent my injuries. It will be to dispose of as your kind hearts deem best."
Even Mrs. Rapkin could not succeed in making anything of them except camels. "What the deuce does a caravan of camels want in Vincent Square?" said Horace, with a sudden qualm for which he could not account. "Most likely they belong to the Barnum Show, sir," suggested his landlady. "I did hear they were coming to Olympia again this year." "Why, of course," cried Horace, intensely relieved.
All the vessels of our fleet were out in the bay, but, as soon as the Spaniards began to fire, our fighting ships started forward. They did not answer the Spanish fire at first, but steamed up the bay, in a wide circle, toward the city of Manila, then turned and came back toward Cavité. The Olympia led the way. After her came the Baltimore, Raleigh, Concord, Petrel, and Boston.
Olympia, also, became much depressed, and we both slumbered and woke cross, and still the gentleman was going on in the dark whether up in the stars, or down on the stage, it would have been hard to make out, if it had been worth trying cyphering away about planes of orbits, to such an infamous extent that Olympia, stung to madness, actually kicked me. A pretty birthday speech when Dr.
The curtain was flung back, revealing what seemed a crowd in the hall, which soon came forward, with little ceremony, and some rather riotous noise. Olympia was in her element now.
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