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But a new and subtler danger attacked him the very wit of Nature brought to bear upon his force and ingenuity. It was as if the mysterious sirens of the sea saw in that intellectual force the real strength of their prisoner, and sought to steal it from him while they lulled him to indifference.
The first sound I heard was a delightful harmony, Which issued forth, of voices loud and sweet; Sirens, and swans, and nymphs, a heavenly noise Of heavenly things; which gave me such delight, That, all admiring, and amazed, and joyed, I stopped awhile quite motionless.
And yet not very safe, for Chicago has also its Bohemia, its clusters of real and imitation artists, its talkers and dabblers, as well as its toilers and achievers. Gilfoyle found some wonderful Western sirens who listened to his poetry. They were new to him and he to them.
There were serpents two yards long, with a head and a pair of feet at each end; frogs as large as a man, with human hands and feet; turtles with three heads; monkeys with two heads and six legs; scores of equally curious monstrosities; and at least two dozen mermaids, of all sorts and sizes. Looking at these "sirens" he easily divined from whence the Feejee mermaid originated.
Where was he now, on this rainy night? On the seas? At the thought she heard again the fog-horns and the sirens. Her sleep was fitful. Many times she went over again her talk with Howard, and she surprised herself by wondering what he had thought and felt since her departure.
Then he thought of Maddalena. She was there, down there where the rising sun glittered on the sea. She surely was awake, as he was awake. She was thinking, wondering perhaps weeping. He got up. He could not look at the sea any more. The name "House of the Sirens" suddenly seemed to him a terrible misnomer, now that he thought of Maddalena perhaps weeping by the sea.
Palaemon was usually represented riding on a dolphin. The Isthmian games were celebrated in his honor. He was called Portunus by the Romans, and believed to have jurisdiction of the ports and shores. By Thetis' tinsel-slippered feet, And the songs of Sirens sweet;" etc.
Later Janus Nicius Erythraeus, that is Giovanni Vittorio Rossi, in his Pinacoteca, compared the play to a rock-infested sea full of seductive sirens, in which no small number of girls and wives were said to have made shipwreck.
As soon as it was dark, and I saw that the ship was off, I found a village, named St. Agata, that stands on the heights, just abeam of those rocks they call the Sirens, and there we were well berthed until morning." "You are lucky in bringing back all the boat's crew, Clinch.
Picturesqueness he sternly avoids as the Delilah of the philosophic mind, liveliness as a snare of the careless investigator; and so, stopping both ears, he slips safely by those Sirens, keeping safe that sobriety of style which his fellow-men call by another name.
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