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And ever as they came Friar Martin smote, sword in hand, on door and shuttered window, and cried hoarse and loud: "Ye men of Belsaye fathers and husbands, arm ye, arm ye! Ye greybeards that have seen Duke Ivo's mercy, arm ye! Your foes be in, to burn, to loot again and ravish! O ye husbands and fathers, arise, arise arm, arm and follow me to smite for wife and children!"
Oh, to forget the Parties, the jangle of politics and philosophies, the tohu-bohu of his unhappy day! He must bathe his soul in an hour's peace; he would go back like a child to the familiar study-house of his youth, to the Beth Hamedrash where the greybeards pored over the great worm-eaten folios, and the youths rocked in their expository incantations.
And as in this gentlest of arts, so also in the dread science of war, the republic had been the instructor of mankind. The youthful Maurice and his cousin Lewis William had so restored and improved the decayed intelligence of antique strategy, that the greybeards of Europe became docile pupils in their school.
The postmaster, Heer Klein, and his old Pylades, Heer Ley, are great cronies of mine stout old greybeards, toddling down the hill together. I sometimes go and sit on the stoep with the two old bachelors, and they take it as a great compliment; and Heer Klein gave me my letters all decked with flowers, and wished 'Vrolyke tydings, Mevrouw, most heartily.
And as in this gentlest of arts, so also in the dread science of war, the republic had been the instructor of mankind. The youthful Maurice and his cousin Lewis William had so restored and improved the decayed intelligence of antique strategy, that the greybeards of Europe became docile pupils in their school.
We greybeards have more serious things to occupy us, and when a man has one foot in the grave, he has no time to waste." "To my mind," said the painter, "this world has sufficient beauty and mystery to satisfy the most ardent inquirer." "But," said the Englishman, "is not this world a phantom and a dream as insubstantial as the visions of the ardent mind?"
We die in boyhood: the maturity that should make us the greatest of all the nations lies beyond the grave for us. Either we shall go under as greybeards with golf clubs in our hands, or we must will to live longer. MRS LUTESTRING. Yes: that is it. I could not have expressed it in words; but you have expressed it for me.
The dinner was later than the hour named, and the delay arose from the absence of one who, of all others, ought to have been present, namely, the bridegroom. But James Casey was missing, and Jack Dwyer had been closeted from time to time with several long-headed greybeards, canvassing the occurrence, and wondering at the default on the bridegroom's part.
Behn in spartan delicacy; but I shall see Miss Farren, who, in my poor opinion, is the first of all actresses. Writing three days later to the same lady he has: 'The Greybeards have certainly been chastised, for we did not find them at all gross. The piece is farcical and improbable, but has some good things, and is admirably acted. Those 'good things' are entirely due to Mrs. Behn.
The jaws of the oldest greybeards among them were much better garnished than those of the youths of civilized countries; while the teeth of the young and middle-aged, in their purity and whiteness, were actually dazzling to the eye.
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