They are archangels with awful brow and flaming sword, summoning and encouraging us to do the right and the divinely heroic, and we feel a beneficent tremor in their presence; but to learn what it is they thus summon us to do, we have to consider the mortals we are elbowing, who are of our own stature and our own appetites.

Think of the Japanese with their slight and simple, but exceedingly artistic and exceedingly heroic type of civilization.

As for the description of duelings, fights, battles, Sienkiewicz's fantastically heroic pen is without rival.

Judas established a dynasty of priest-kings, which lasted until supplanted by Herod, with the aid of the Romans, in B.C. 40; and gave by his genuinely heroic bearing his name to this whole glorious epoch of Jewish history.)

It was a sentimental people, making a habit of success; it rushed chanting to war against the most grimly heroic and the most stolidly enduring of races.

HEROIC AND ANTI-HEROIC TREATMENT.

They were a people to conquer a world; not merely heroic and enterprising, but fresh with religious enthusiasm.

That though it should be granted, that the Heathen religion might be allowed a place in light and loose songs, mock heroic, and the lower lyric compositions, yet in Christian poems, of the sublime and greater kind, a mixture of the Pagan theology must, by all who are masters of reflexion and good sense, be condemned, if not as impious, at least, as impertinent and absurd.

Sometimes they are unscrupulous, sometimes feeble, sometimes nobly heroic and faithful; more often strong than weak in brain and hand.

Of the Astrée of D'Urféwhich, however, is properly a link between the Arcadia of Sidney and the genuine heroic novelthere was an English version as early as 1620.

Servia, too, has its ballad-cycles of Christian and Mahometan warfare, which suppose an age obviously heroic.

The chief of those piously and patriotically heroic phrases were as follows: "Jesu Maria, "King of England, account to the King of Heaven for His blood royal.

But I have no facility with the brush, and mere words cannot convey how he passed from the proudly heroic to the hopelessly miserable in the course of the journey.

" A certain grimness showed in the woman's face, making it sternly heroic as the face of Medea or Zenobia.

We organised a compact Socialist party, defeated a Liberal Government, took the reins of office, andafter a Queen's Speech in which her Majesty addressed her loyal Commons with a plainness of speech never before (or since) heard from the thronewe brought in several Bills of a decidedly heroic character.

Don't you ever forget that time, because it was then that Frenchmen showed how wonderfully heroic they could be.