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Really, those Olympians have certain good points, far down in them. I shall have to leave off abusing them some day. At the hour of five, Selina, having spent the afternoon searching for Harold in all his accustomed haunts, sat down disconsolately to tea with her dolls, who ungenerously refused to wait beyond the appointed hour.
And the savage old Olympians became to Athens and the mainland of Greece from the sixth century onward emblems of high humanity and religious reform. II. The Religious Value of the Olympians Now to some people this statement may seem a wilful paradox, yet I believe it to be true.
Gras, the steward whom Archias had given to his daughter, a Bithynian who had attached himself to one school of philosophy after an other, and thereby ceased to believe in the power of the Olympians, lost his quiet composure in this confusion, and even his usual good nature deserted him.
They play together like children and make me feel as staid and solemn and grown-up as one of Mr. Kenneth Grahame's Olympians." Peter laughed. Then, in the moment of silence that followed, he happened to let his eyes stray up the valley. "Hello!" he suddenly exclaimed. "Someone has been painting our mountain green." The Duchessa turned, to look; and she too uttered an exclamation.
What Harold had felt was not so much the imprisonment, indeed he had very soon escaped by the window, with assistance from his allies, and had only gone back in time for his release, as the Olympian habit. A word would have set all right; but of course that word was never spoken. Well! The Olympians are all past and gone.
Now you need a guide, or even two or three of them, in order to find the way. If your mother were still alive, you would run back to her to hide your face in her lap. But she is dead, and if I were as proud as you, before clasping the sustaining hand of another mortal I would first try whether one would not be voluntarily extended from among the Olympians.
To have seen a darling of the gods like him, young men, makes us greater. It teaches us how even we human beings are permitted to resemble the immortals. Now he is transported among the gods, and the Olympians received him, if any one, gladly.
The Olympians are a jovial lot. I have seen Joy's very self in heathendom." She moved away but he rose and followed her. "Whoever you are," he said in another tone, "your heritage of innocence and earnestness is plain as an open scroll upon your face. Nothing in all the world so appeals to the generosity in the heart of a man as the purity of the woman who is pure.
His lameness was owing to that sunset fall on the isle of Lemnos from the threshold of heaven. So, all day long, says the poet, they revelled, Apollo and the Muses performing the part of a ballet-troop. It is pleasing to learn that the Olympians kept early hours, conforming, in this respect, to the rule of Poor Richard. Duly at set of sun they betook themselves to their couches.
The Regent knows nothing, absolutely nothing, and my uncle, of course, no more. But if they do learn anything they will be shrewd enough not to enrich me with it." "True, there are other rumours afloat," said the architect thoughtfully. "If I were in Mardion's place " "Thank the Olympians that you are not," laughed his companion. "He has as many cares as a fish has scales. And one, the greatest.
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