No fragments which can be identified as belonging to the first period survive to give us even a general idea of the history of the
earliest epic, and we are therefore thrown back upon the evidence of analogy from other forms of literature and of inference from the two great epics which have come down to us.
This privilege of seeing woman eat is the
earliest granted of those delicate animal intimacies, the fuller and fuller confiding of which plays not the least important part, and ever such a sweet one, even in a highly transcendental affection.
Troy received the
earliest intelligence of what was going on.
ROMANCE, who loves to nod and sing, With drowsy head and folded wing, Among the green leaves as they shake Far down within some shadowy lake, To me a painted paroquet Hath been - a most familiar bird - Taught me my alphabet to say - To lisp my very
earliest word While in the wild wood I did lie, A child - with a most knowing eye.
The waiter (it was he who had brought up the Great Remonstrance from the Commercials, on the day when I was bound) appeared surprised, and took the
earliest opportunity of putting a dirty old copy of a local newspaper so directly in my way, that I took it up and read this paragraph:
The Horse chose his
earliest years and gave them his own attributes: hence every man is in his youth impetuous, headstrong, and obstinate in maintaining his own opinion.
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognised it among their
earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
Vanstone, and come to an explanation with him, at the
earliest possible opportunity.
But I should be false to the
earliest sentiments of my soul, if I sup- pressed the opinion.
Before the
earliest bird sang in the morning the apostle's lamp was kindled; and, at midnight, his weary head was not yet upon its pillow.
He gave me new criterions, new principles, which, after all, were those that are taught us in our
earliest childhood, before we have come to the evil wisdom of the world.
It was but the day before that Crawford had made himself thoroughly master of the subject, or had in fact become at all aware of her having such a brother, or his being in such a ship, but the interest then excited had been very properly lively, determining him on his return to town to apply for information as to the probable period of the Antwerp's return from the Mediterranean, etc.; and the good luck which attended his early examination of ship news the next morning seemed the reward of his ingenuity in finding out such a method of pleasing her, as well as of his dutiful attention to the Admiral, in having for many years taken in the paper esteemed to have the
earliest naval intelligence.