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The largest of these vases, or funeral urns, are five feet high, and three feet three inches long. Their colour is greenish-grey, and their oval form is pleasing to the eye. The handles are made in the shape of crocodiles or serpents; the edges are bordered with painted meanders, labyrinths, and grecques, in rows variously combined.
Arabesques, meanders, and grecques, please our eyes, because the elements of which their series is composed, follow in rhythmic order. The eye finds in this order, in the periodical return of the same forms, what the ear distinguishes in the cadenced succession of sounds and concords.
Thus too, the Indians of Maypures often painted before our eyes the same ornaments as those we had observed in the cavern of Ataruipe, on the vases containing human bones. They were grecques, meanders, and figures of crocodiles, of monkeys, and of a large quadruped which I could not recognize, though it had always the same squat form.
Mme Durand-Bedacier, Les belles Grecques, ou l'histoire des plus fameuses courtisanes de la Grece. B.M. Catalogue. A. Lang, History of English Literature , 458. See ante, p. 25. Re-issued as The Unfortunate Princess, or, the Ambitious Statesman, 1741. J.E. Wells, Fielding's Political Purpose in Jonathan Wilde, PMLA, XXVIII, No. I, pp. 1-55. March, 1913.
Quand il causait, la verve du vieillard brodait sur le canevas un peu lourd de l'allemand ses brilliantes arabesques latines, grecques, fran�aises, anglaises, italiennes.
This celebrated, but mistaken and unfortunate woman, has thrown into her narrative much information on the manners of the Swiss, anecdotes of Lavater, &c. besides giving a most lively account of her visit to the glaciers. Descriptions des Alpes Grecques et Cottiennes. Par Beaumont. 2 vols. 4to.
The dates of composition of his principal works are: "Miroirs," 1905; "Sonatine," 1905; "Gaspard de la Nuit," 1908; "Valses nobles et sentimentales," 1911; "Ma Mère l'Oye," 1908; "Histoires naturelles," 1906; "Cinq Mélodies populaires grecques," 1907; "Trois Poèmes de Mallarmé," 1913; "Quatuor
"I have it the holy trumpet!" There it was verily, that mysterious bone of contention; a handsome earthen tube some two feet long, neatly glazed, and painted with quaint grecques and figures of animals; a relic evidently of some civilization now extinct. Brimblecombe rubbed his little fat hands.
Savelli, let me be the assassin." "I laid the tribute of my heart at your feet in the most irreproachable grammar," said Paul. "But with the accent of John Bull. That's the only thing of John Bull you have about you. For the sake of my ears I must give you some lessons." "You'll find me such a pupil as never teacher had in the world before. When shall we begin?" "Aux Kalendes Grecques."
Northrop had brought up porphyry blocks with quaint grecques and much hieroglyphic painting. Already unpacked were half a dozen copper axes, some of the first of that particular style that had ever been brought to the United States. Besides the sculptured stones and the mosaics were jugs, cups, vases, little gods, sacrificial stones enough, almost, to equip a new alcove in the museum.
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