Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...code with the Bible? He did not. "Those of my views which are in accord with Holy Writ speak for themselves. Those which are not, have to be classed with evolution, the roundness of the earth and other matters which were not factors in the speculative thought of the ancient Jews. . . . In sex conduct we are today going through the spurious freedom phase; in the first childish exhilaration of revolt we are grossly misbehaving. But I think we shall some day achieve something in sex very far removed from all this-something governed by authentic tastes, and free but educated...
Marvels. The ancient Hindu civilization which gave way to Islam in the 15th Century left behind it a wealth of temples and antiquities scarcely inferior in interest to any similar remains whatever. Though the great Boro-Budur in central Java is inferior to the Pyramid of Cheops in size it is an architectural chef-d'oeuvre no less prodigious. Pyramidal in shape, it rises tier on tier, each tier a gallery ornamented with sculpture and symbolic devices in unparalleled profusion. The pilgrim, ascending by these galleries, traverses a distance of three miles past carvings which constitute a pictorial Bible...
Thereafter no lady declined. All danced, defying ancient Turkish custom...
...course, a great plenitude. The grief of Achilles over the body of Patroclus; the death of Socrates; "Hark! Hark! the Lark" and "Full Fathom Five"; "Lycidas"; "To Althea from Prison"; Gulliver and the Lilliputians; Tristram and the Ass; the Pibroch of Donuil Dhu; "The Rime of the Ancient Mari-er" and "Kubla Khan"; Lamb's "Gentle Giantess"; Edward John Trelawny on how they burned Shelley's body; a great deal of Keats; more Tennyson; still more Thackeray and Browning and more Dickens than anyone...
...Ancient, exotic Africa works changes on all the travelers except Mme. Momoro. She has been there before. Ogle feels himself shrinking into a bitter, puny ineffectual as he drives with her over multicolored mountains and desert in the wake of the barbarian Tinker, whose progress, strewn with coin and prodigious solecisms, looms more arid more like that of a conquering potentate, a latter-day Hamilcar, a boisterous Caesar of a new Rome. His is an army of dollars; his retinue at home is 6,000 slaves. He scoffs at the native backwardness, ladens his wife with curios, silks, jewelry brought...