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If you were a little older you would go to prison for calling him Father Schneider many a man has died for less;" and he pointed to a picture of a guillotine, which was hanging in the room. I was in amazement. "What is he? Is he not a teacher of Greek, an abbe, a monk, until monasteries were abolished, the learned editor of the songs of 'Anacreon?"
But while I worked he cheered me with the expression of great thoughts handed down from the dead ones of old. He quoted some translations from the Greek at much length. "Anacreon," he explained. "That was a favorite passage with Miss Mangum as I recited it." "She is meant for higher things," said I, repeating his phrase.
Thrice Bidden to Love "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another." JOHN xiii. 34. Anacreon complains that when they asked him to sing of heroic deeds, he could only sing of love.
The old fool called for his sword and his slaves, cursed his wife, and swore that he would cut Caesar's throat." "And Caesar?" "He laughed, quoted Anacreon, trussed his gown round his left arm, closed with Quintus, flung him down, twisted his sword out of his hand, burst through the attendants, ran a freed-man through the shoulder, and was in the street in an instant." "Well done! Here he comes.
Even in our days, the Provençal poets, who know the Cigale as Anacreon never did, are scarcely more careful of the truth in celebrating the insect which they have taken for their emblem. A friend of mine, an eager observer and a scrupulous realist, does not deserve this reproach.
He was a sound scholar, and, in particular, had collated manuscripts and different editions of Anacreon, and others of the Greek lyrick poets, with great care; so that my friend and he had much matter for conversation, without touching on the fatal topicks of difference.
Johnson found here Baxter's Anacreon , which he told me he had long enquired for in vain, and began to suspect there was no such book. Baxter was the keen antagonist of Barnes . His life is in the Biographia Britannica . My father has written many notes on this book, and Dr. Johnson and I talked of having it reprinted. It rained all day, and gave Dr.
Parnassus is but an Egyptian pyramid to be scaled with ladders, and by the aid of guides who serve for salary. Fancy has no wings to waft him among the stars. He sees in the Bible only its errors, never its wild beauty. For him Villon was only a sot and Anacreon a libertine. In his cosmos there's neither Garden of the God, nor Groves of Daphne.
To divers worn copies of Virgil, Tacitus, Juvenal, and Ovid, Cæsar's Commentaries, and Catullus; to ditto ditto of Homer, Lucian, Aristophanes, Balzac, Anacreon, Bacon's Essays, and Moore's Melodies; to Dwight's Theology uncut copy, Heine's Poems very much thumbed, Saint Simon very ragged, two volumes of Les Causes Célèbres, Tone's Memoirs, and Beranger's Songs; to Cuvier's Comparative Anatomy, Shroeder on Shakespeare, Newman's Apology, Archbold's Criminal Law and Songs of the Nation; to Colenso, East's Cases for the Crown, Carte's Ormonde, and Pickwick.
But in 1848 he essayed an illustration of the Greek poet, Anacreon, translating into picture the poem that tells how, one winter evening, sitting by his fire, the old poet was surprised by a sound of weeping outside his door, and opening it, found Cupid wet and shivering and begging for a shelter from the cold.
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