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He had not been able to afford a private tutor during the term, with whom he might have discussed the papers, but he sent his Iambics and Latin verse to Mr Carden at Harton, who wrote back a most favourable and encouraging judgment of them, and seemed to regard Julian's success as certain.
"Why, Raven, boy, what's the matter?" asked Kenrick, looking at him with astonishment; "much you care for my having a set of iambics too late." "Oh, is that all?" asked Wilton, still looking frightened. "All? Yes; and enough, too, for me. But" stopping suddenly "why, Raven, what's the row? You've been crying, by all that's odd!
If you want to see him roused to a perfect frenzy of enthusiasm you should see him arguing with Henry as to the comparative dramatic values of Homeric hexameters and Ionian iambics. But to return to Gladys or rather Gladys and William, for they remained inseparable for the remainder of the evening. A few days later he called in to see us for the sole purpose of inquiring about her.
The actors in the old tragedies, as we read, piped their iambics to a tune, speaking from under a mask, and wearing stilts and a great head-dress. 'Twas thought the dignity of the Tragic Muse required these appurtenances, and that she was not to move except to a measure and cadence. The Muse of History hath encumbered herself with ceremony as well as her Sister of the Theatre.
Gabriel's it was popularly supposed that Master Pericles Aeschylus, Mr. Macrae's infant son, was turned to correct my Latin prose, though my Iambics were withheld from him at the request of the family doctor. The letter which Pericles Aeschylus's father had addressed to me was one of the pleasantest surprises I have ever had. It ran as follows: St. Gabriel's College, Cambridge.
The consequence of this visit to the theatre was that, instead of studying historical dates, as I had intended, I took out Panthea and Abradatus, and on that night and every succeeding one, as soon as I had finished my work for the manager, I added new five-foot iambics to the tragedy, whose material I drew from Xenophon.
The consequence of this visit to the theatre was that, instead of studying historical dates, as I had intended, I took out Panthea and Abradatus, and on that night and every succeeding one, as soon as I had finished my work for the manager, I added new five-foot iambics to the tragedy, whose material I drew from Xenophon.
"Alas, something oppresses and disturbs me. I don't know what it is," whined Carinus. Instantly two or three slaves were at his side, straightening his cushions, arranging his hair, loosening his garments. "Oh, it oppresses and disturbs me still." "Perhaps Ævius's iambics trouble you," said Marcius, the Imperator's barber. "Perhaps so. Stop, Ævius."
And now, too, in his darkest hour, it was Greek that surged in him iambics of thunderous wrath such as those which are volleyed by Prometheus. But as he sat down to his writing-table, and unlocked the dear old album, and dipped his pen in the ink, a great calm fell on him. The iambics in him began to breathe such sweetness as is on the lips of Alcestis going to her doom.
He died game, but, I am sorry to say, impenitent, speaking blasphemy against the book with his last breath. Discite justitiam, moniti, et non temnere Such heresy, be it far from me! If I had my will, I protest I would found a "Murray's Traveling Fellowship" in one or both of the Universities. If I had the poetic vein, I would indite a pendant to Byron's iambics to that enlightened bibliopole.
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