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Updated: June 5, 2025
I never saw any one who so much reminded me in person of that lady whom everybody knows, Mistress Meg Merrilies; as tall, as grizzled, as stately, as dark, as gipsy-looking, bonneted and gowned like her prototype, and almost as oracular. Here the resemblance ceases. Mrs.
Zeus, as head of the pantheon, naturally took a distinguished place as patron of oracles; and Apollo's relation to music and inspiration may account in part for the preëminence of his oracular shrine. In many cases, however, the grounds of the choice of a particular deity as oracle-giver escape us.
Their smiles are favours; their words are listened to as oracular; they are looked up to as beings of a superior order. Their powers of working good are almost as great, though not quite so wonderful, as those formerly attributed to beneficent, fairies. "Knowledge for them unlocks her useful page, And virtue blossoms for a better age."
The reasonableness of this was self-apparent, and as the crew had recovered their as- surance they spared no pains to accomplish their work effec- tually. Of all the number, there was but one, an Irishman, named O'Ready, who seemed to question the utility of all their toil. He shook his head with an oracular gravity.
For his theories and nostrums, they are oracular enough, but I either comprehend 'em not, or there is "miching malice" and mischief in 'em, but, for the most part, ringing with their own emptiness. Hazlitt said well of 'em: "Many are the wiser and better for reading Shakspeare, but nobody was ever wiser or better for reading Shelley."
His cordiality and oracular predisposition remained sufficiently to enable him to suggest the magical words "Blue Grass" mysteriously to Concha, with an indication of his hand to the erect figure of her pale mistress in the doorway, who waved to him a silent but half compassionate farewell. At about this time a slight change in her manner was noticed by the few who saw her more frequently.
"Quite impossible, sir," continued the first-lieutenant, "to carry on the duty without support." This oracular observation, which, from the relative forms of the two parties, descended as it were from above, was replied to by the captain with a "Very true." "Then, sir, I presume you will not object to my putting that man in the report for punishment?" "I'll think about it, Mr Markitall."
This voice was repeated by the next, and in a moment it circulated through this innumerable people, which rang with the acclamation of "It is the will of God! It is the will of God!" The neighboring villages caught up those oracular words, and it is incredible with what celerity they spread everywhere around into places the most distant.
I'm longing to tell you about it. I want your advice, said Edith, smiling. 'Tout se sait; tout se fait; tout s'arrange, sententiously remarked Landi, who was not above talking oracular commonplaces at times. 'Oh, it isn't one of those things, Landi. 'Not? Are you sure? Don't be sad, Edith. Be cheerful. Tiens! Tiens! Tiens!
Minturn felt quite proud of having such acquaintances, and of being able to visit familiarly in such good society as was to be found at the house of Mr. and Mrs. Allender. You could not be in her company for ten minutes, at any time, without hearing some allusion to the Allenders. What they said, was repeated as oracular; and to those who had never been in their house, Mrs.
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