Nobility

From the womb, as it were, of these cemeteries, the Egypt of the Memphite dynasties gradually takes new life and reappears in the full daylight of history.

Nobles and fellas, soldiers and priests, scribes and craftsmen, the whole nation lives anew before us, each with his manners, his dress, his daily round of occupation and pleasures.

It is a perfect picture, and although in places the drawing is defaced and the color dimmed, yet these may be restored with no great difficulty and with almost absolute certainty.

The king stands out boldly in the foreground, and his tall figure towers over all else.

If, on the contrary, the Muse associated herself with men of respectability, these received thereby a luster which was reflected back to the donor.

Noblemen well-versed in life, like Hagedorn, dignified citizens like Brooks, distinguished men of science like Haller, appeared among the first in the nation to be equal with the most eminent and the most prized.

Those persons, too, were specially honored who, together with this pleasing talent, distinguished themselves as active, faithful men of business.

In this way Ouse, Rodner, and Weiss enjoyed a respect of quite a peculiar kind.

He would be hedged in by servants.

Nobles, and the sons of nobles, were his companions.

All England rang with his name; and his coming, like a thunder-storm, was heard from far.

While I, unlettered and unfashioned, should, if I came in contact with him, in the judgment of his courtly followers, bear evidence in my very person to the propriety of that ingratitude which had made me the degraded being I appeared.

Only banish delay, and hasten to consummate our mutual loves, so may the tyrant that rages in my breast prove gentle to you.

i condescend to address you by prayers and entreaties where is now my pride where are my wonted boasts i had resolved to hold out long and not easily yield to a crime if love were capable of any steady resolution but subdued by its power i turn to prayers and with my royal hands clasp your knees lovers alas are seldom awed by a sense of decency shame and modesty have fled think favorably of my fond confession and pity my sufferings what though my father holds the empire of the seas and my great-grandsire darts the rapid thunder what though my grandfather crowned with pointed rays guides the resplendent chariot of the day Nobility gives place to love.

Have some regard, however, for my race, And if you undervalue me, yet show respect to mine.

The famous island of Crete falls by inheritance to me, Here shall my Hippolytus reign supreme.