Flaxius

THE _raison d’être_, cause for existence, and origin of this book, may be found in the following extract from a review of the _Florentine Legends_, which appeared in the _Daily...

Now, as Flaxius had passed a century or two of his youth in company with his friend Pythagoras in study at the leading Indian universities, he understood the stranger at a glanc...

THE wise and great Flaxius in his steps from century to century did much to endear himself to the men of the present, who take a pride in their northern ancestry. For when no el...

‘Well, this remains,’ rejoined the prince, after a long pause, a draught of wine, and casting his glance briefly at the scrolls before him.... ‘In all these lives of mortals in...

Flaxius mused and said, ‘I knew thy grandfather, and though he was not far advanced as a magian, yet he had fairy blood from distant strain, and he was, above all things, a good...

And yet anon to Flaxius, as he gazed on the form, it was as if he were looking through some wondrous arch into a Vanity fairy-land, and, advancing, saw at every step newer and s...

But, friend, how was it that it came to pass that I found out this veritably and authentically ancient legend of the Tower of the Triple Arches, which, when I wrote, rose opposi...

‘Cæsar, there was once a king of Bithynia or Cappadocia or some such country, who had a mind to marry. Now the king next door had two daughters; both were beautiful, but one was...

‘They think so,’ laughed Pluto. ‘All here believe for a long time--as they believed like fools on earth--that all which they saw on earth or see here is real. What is real is un...

‘He or she is a long way advanced towards freedom or wisdom,’ quoth Flaxius, ‘who has found out that he--or she--is a fool. Well, lady, thus it was that centuries ago there live...

‘Master, wilt thou take from me the spell which forces me when the moon is full to don this skin and raven as a wolf? For, anon, I shall begin to feel fierce convulsions throbbi...

There’s a widow in Eppan With glance like a dart, A terrible weapon, Which strikes every heart, With the softest of laughter, The sweetest of smiles, Lord knows what comes after...

‘Now the sun is called in our tongue Kam or Kàn, and the moon Tchen or Zen, even as tongues turn it, hence we their children are the Zen-kan or Zingan. And this is the true stor...

‘’Tis all one to me, Where on earth I be; So I only pass the time in jollity, Where the girls abound, And good drink is found, And a changing round of life I ever see. With a to...

‘The proof is very easy,’ replied Miss Alban, taking from a drawer in a cabinet what seemed to be a large walnut. ‘Did you ever hear of the famous wardrobe walnuts of the witch...

And her novels were stinging, I warrant you. As she became amiable personally she grew savage in literature. She gave it to society and fashion _à la_ aquafortis; and as society...

Round about a great block of sandstone, which served for a table, and on which stood two open cases of gin, several loose bottles, a ten-gallon demijohn of whisky, a raisin box...

Now whether I from sleep awoke To life again beneath the oak, Or whether I did deeper sink, In dreams, I know not what to think, Yet this I know that I was there, Where I had be...

‘Nay, we have only got rid of the initial D; but that is the first step. By scientifically supplying natural wants and discouraging the development of needless ones, we have ver...

‘Truly, I can,’ replied Flaxius. ‘There was a very good sort of man named Alexis of Piedmont, who wrote a book of quaint odds and ends of amusement, in which he gave a recipe ho...

But it nowise disturbed his reverie, for he was reviewing, as he had seldom done, all his life. He had a stupendous memory, and an all-embracing perception, with an immense powe...

Now if your house vas burgled, I’ll bet upon my life, If der burgular should shoot your son, likevise pesides your wife, Dough he fought like der fery teufel, you hardly would f...