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An amiable and modest fancy gives to them all a sweet classic grace. The very atmosphere of these courts, wakened with high metaphysic discourse, seems to lend them a Greek beauty and fineness; and you attach to the prettiest, that your eye can reach, all the charms of some Sciote maiden, and all the learning of her father the professor.
I hear his voice deep-toned and powerful even at that early age finishing the story of Poseidon and his beautiful prize their bridal-bed laid in the hollow of a curling wave "Porphureon d' ara kuma peristathê, oureï ison, Kurtôthen, krupsen de Theon thnêtên te gunaika." And yet they say that the glorious old Sciote was a myth, and the Odyssey a magazine worked out by clever contributors.
To the Fanariote and the Sciote, Wallachia or Trieste were delightful homes, if dollars were plentiful. But the agricultural population of Greece was composed of very different materials.
He has forgotten the savor of Sciote and Chian wine; but were it only for the sake of the carouses they have had together Odysseus will not grudge him another draught out of the black trench. It is so long since be tasted blood! Guy was no more like his former self than the shadow was like the substance of Pelides.
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