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Johnson's 'Lives of the Poets. I could not get the squatter to let me have 'Kenilworth, though I offered him three sheep for it. Dull old fellow, that Dr. Johnson, I suspect, so much the better, the book will last all the longer. And here's a Sydney paper, too, only two months old!" Pisistratus. "You must have ridden thirty miles at the least. To think of your turning book-hunter, Guy!"
Who placed you with Mr. Trevanion?" Mr. Peacock looked down for a moment, and then fixing his eyes on me, said, "Well, I'll tell you: you asked me, when we met last, about a young gentleman, Mr. Mr. Vivian." Pisistratus. "Proceed." Peacock. "I know you don't want to harm him. Besides, 'He hath a prosperous art, and one day or other, mark my words, or rather my friend Will's,
Pisistratus. "Will you teach it?" "No. Je suis gentilhomme, which means more or less than a gentleman. Gentilhomme means well born, because free born; teachers are slaves!" "Stuff!" "Very true; stilts don't suit shoes like these! But I cannot teach. Heaven help those I should teach! Anything else?" Pisistratus. "Anything else! you leave me a wide margin.
The latter, embracing his countryman, continued: "Yes, we have a right to feel proud and happy, Phanes; you especially, for no sooner had the judges unanimously awarded the prize to Cimon, than he ordered the heralds to proclaim the tyrant Pisistratus as the owner of the splendid team, and therefore victor in the race.
"Yes, partly: thank you, father," I faltered, and sat down, for I felt faint. "Some sons," said my father, seating himself beside me, "would find in their father's follies and errors an excuse for their own; not so will you, Pisistratus." "I see no folly, no error, sir; only nature and sorrow." "Pause ere you thus think," said my father.
"Pisistratus," said my father one evening, as he arranged his notes before him and rubbed his spectacles, "Pisistratus, a great library is an awful place! There, are interred all the remains of men since the Flood." "It is a burial-place!" quoth my Uncle Roland, who had that day found us out. "Please, not such hard words," said the Captain, shaking his head.
The sovereign power in Athens belongs to us, its nobles; but Cimon by laying his chaplet at the feet of Pisistratus has acknowledged the tyrants, and branded himself as their servant. He shall hear that Phanes cares little for the tyrant's clemency. I choose to remain an exile till my country is free, till her nobles and people govern themselves, and dictate their own laws.
After this dreadful work, Antonius and Octavianus went across to Greece, where Marcus Brutus had collected the remains of the army that had fought under Pompeius. He had been made much of at Athens, where his statue had been set up beside that of Harmodius and Aristogeiton, the slayers of Pisistratus. Cassius had plundered Asia Minor, and the two met at Sardis.
A man tempted by passions like Audley, or seduced into fraud by a cold, subtle spirit like Leslie, will find poor defence in the elegant precept, 'Remember to act as a gentleman. Such moral embroidery adds a beautiful scarf to one's armour; but it is not the armour itself! Ten o'clock, as I live! Push on, Pisistratus! and finish the chapter." "Don't hurry.
When we consider how much, even in our own times, and with all the advantages of the press, the diffused fame and intellectual influence of Shakspeare and Milton have owed to the praise and criticism of individuals, we may readily understand the kind of service rendered by Pisistratus to Homer.
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