...runner, leading in the race, a wrestler whom "Nor could the strength of Ajax overthrow." He lived to UA green old age, unconscious of decays, That proves the hero born in better days." The fable of Hercules is no idle myth. Under it lies the idea that energy, courage, and physical strength...

...be forty years old. 6. 0. W. HOLMES— On the seventieth birthday of Julia Ward Howe, May 27, 1889. Amuz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around. c. GOLDSMITH — The Deserted Village. c. HOMER— Iliad. Bk. 23. L. 925. Pope's trans. When he's forsaken, Wither'd and shaken, What can...

...farther, Ur of the Chaldees, from out of which Abraham journeyed in the time of famine ; to the south were Ghizeh and Memphis, only a mass of scattered ruins...when I am sixty, and have breath enough left to see anything but a dizzy whirl before my eyes." Then we fell to talking about fencing as an art, not strictly...

...always thrive. ' Ye see, to Ajax I must yield the prize ; ' He to Ulysses, still more ag'd and wise ; ' (A green old age unconscious of decays, ' That proves the hero born in better days !) 930 ' Behold hia vigour in this active race ! ' Achilles only boasts a swifter pace : ' For who...

...troop to his cull. And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all! OW HOLMES— The Boys. St. 9. ENRY F. GABY — Power of Eloquence. a Yes. while I stood and gazed, my HOMER— Iliad. Bk. XXIII. L. 925. РОРЕ'Ь trans. (See also DHYDEN) is When he's forsaken, Wither'd...