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Updated: May 15, 2025
His were the Olympian days of the sport, when noble squires were its patrons, and every village a home and nursery of stalwart cricketers, before the epoch of special trains, gate-money, star elevens, and the tumultuous gathering of idle cads to jabber at a game they cannot play.
Twice in succession, then, has the just man overthrown the unjust in this conflict; and now comes the third trial, which is dedicated to Olympian Zeus the saviour: a sage whispers in my ear that no pleasure except that of the wise is quite true and pure all others are a shadow only; and surely this will prove the greatest and most decisive of falls?
In truth Wordsworth hardly knows how to be stern, as Dante or Milton was stern; nor has he the note of plangent sadness which strikes the ear in men as morally inferior to him as Rousseau, Keats, Shelley, or Coleridge; nor has he the Olympian air with which Goethe delivered sage oracles.
He is contented with representing him as a saint, who has won 'the Olympian victory' over the temptations of human nature. The passion of love took the spurious form of an enthusiasm for the ideal of beauty a worship as of some godlike image of an Apollo or Antinous.
The great Olympian festival, the solemnity which collected multitudes, proud of the Grecian name, from the wildest mountains of Doris, and the remotest colonies of Italy and Libya, was to witness his triumph. The interest of the narrative, and the beauty of the style, were aided by the imposing effect of recitation, by the splendour of the spectacle, by the powerful influence of sympathy.
But the Idea for which we go forth to fight will hover before us, will stir the hearts of those soldiers and officers who would gladly ah! how gladly-sacrifice to the Olympian gods and who only kiss the wounds of the crucified Jew under compulsion.
Ye get to th' Olympian games be suffocation in a tunnel. Whin ye come to, ye pay four shillin's or a dollar in our degraded currency, an' stand in th' sun an' look at th' Prince iv Wales. Th' Prince iv Wales looks at ye, too, but he don't see ye."
In Hermon's Olympian Banquet he who also held the office of a high priest of Apollo in Alexandria had even seen an insult to the dignity of the deity. In the Street Boy Eating Figs, the connoisseur's eye had recognised a peculiar masterpiece, but he had been repelled by this also; for, instead of a handsome boy, it represented a starving, emaciated vagabond.
Here he stood, one of the multitude, of the herd; shoulder to shoulder with boors and pick-pockets; and within reach of his hand reposed those two ladies, in Olympian calm, seeming unaware even of the existence of the throng. Now they exchanged a word; now they smiled to each other. How delicate was the moving of their lips! How fine must be their enunciation!
How many modern novels does one find well bound, and placed on the shelves devoted to "standard reading"? In these Olympian fields a mediocre biography, a volume of second-rate poems, a rehash of history, will find their way before the novels that in the last decade have equaled, if not outranked, the rest of our creative literature.
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