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Updated: May 16, 2025
By the Ilyssus there were no tedious magazines about art, in which the industrious prattle of what they do not understand. On the reed- grown banks of that little stream strutted no ridiculous journalism monopolising the seat of judgment when it should be apologising in the dock. The Greeks had no art-critics. GILBERT. Ernest, you are quite delightful, but your views are terribly unsound.
He felt it beneath her to utter the homage which every look conveyed. They spoke of Greece; this was a theme on which Ione loved rather to listen than to converse: it was a theme on which the Greek could have been eloquent for ever. He described to her the silver olive groves that yet clad the banks of Ilyssus, and the temples, already despoiled of half their glories but how beautiful in decay!
Why, the very name of the institution that brings us together illustrates the fact I can recall, and I think I see more than one gentleman around me who equally can recall, the hours in which we wandered amid "Fields that cool Ilyssus laves. But, notwithstanding that allusion, I would still appeal to the poetry of his constitution, and I know it abounds in that quality.
Matthew Arnold's citation of the words 'Ragg is in custody, and his comment that 'there was no Ragg by the Ilyssus. 'Ragg' has not an ugly sound in itself. Mr. Arnold was jarred merely by its suggestion of something ugly, a rag, and by the cold brutality of the police-court reporter in withholding the prefix 'Miss' from a poor girl who had got into trouble.
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