Banquet : The Banquet or The Symposium, title of a dialogue by Plato in which Socrates, Aristophanes, Alcibiades, & others discuss the nature of love, at the house of the poet Agathon. [Oxford Companion to English Literature, Paul Harvey, London, OUP, 1967]
... amassed them: princes Have been my debtors, kingdoms lost and won By lack or having of a petty fraction Of my rich incomings: and now Fate gives me This tragic, not inglorious death: I am The banquet of a god. It fits, it fits, And I repine not. PERSEUS But will these help, Tyrnaus, To pass the chill eternity of Hades? This memory of glorious breathing life, Will it alleviate the endless... dreadful Lord! POSEIDON If thou wouldst shun the doom, And keep my Syria safe, discover then The rescuer of the Babylonian captives And to the monsters of my deep expose For a delicious banquet. Offer the heart Of Iolaus here still warmly alive And sobbing blood to leave his beautiful body; Slaughter on his yet not inanimate bosom The hero for whose love he braved my rage, And let the... turn his anger. VOICES Right, right! leave her to Poseidon: out with her to the sea-monster. GARDAS Therops is always right. DAMOETES We will have her first: we will dress his banquet for him: none shall say us nay. Page 469 MORUS Good; we will show Poseidon some excellent cookery. Ho, ho, ho! MEGAS No, no, no! To the rocks with her! Strip her, the fine dainty ...
... them. I'll see you later at the banquet, Glenn. Good-bye." She hung up before he could say he wasn't going. Not this year! As Glenn walked back into the living room, his father looked up. 'Time for you and me to dress for the victory dinner, son." "I'm not going." 'Just because Springdale didn'twin? That's ridiculous. You knowwe always have the banquet for both teams, no matter who... things by not facing up to them." He stood up. "I'll go get ready now. Guess I'll have to go to the banquet by myself." Jack Major found Glenn still sitting in the living-room chair at six thirty. 'Your dad said you were here, Glenn. What's up?" "Nothing, Go on, you're going to be late for the banquet." "It's already started. Come on, boy. Let's get going." 'You've centainly changed your... disobeyed him. For three days I have taken no food nor given him any." Digambari frowned. "And now? What, may I ask in the name of good sense, are you doing? Did you get his permission for this great banquet?" Narayani's lips trembled but, pulling herself together, she answered suavely, "I have." She paused and then added, "Now you know." Digambari gave an incredulous grunt. "I was not born yesterday ...
... wedding of Cleopatra, a girl with whom Philip had fallen in love and whom he had decided to marry, although she was far too young for him. Cleopatra's uncle Attalus, "who had drunk too much at the banquet, called upon the Macedonians to pray to the gods that the union of Philip and Cleopatra might bring forth a legitimate heir to the throne. Alexander flew into rage at these words, shouted at him, "Villain... used as a cosmetic. Page 34 with spices and perfumes, and then passing from this into a spacious and lofty tent, he observed the magnificence of the dining-couches, the tables and the banquet which had beer set out for him. He turned to his companions and remarked. "So this, it seems, is what it is to be a king."! As he was about to sit down to supper, word was brought to him that... appointed a large number of instructors to train them. His marriage to Roxane1 was a love match, which began when he first saw her at the height of her youthful beauty taking part in a dance at a banquet, but it also played a great part in furthering his policy of reconciliation. The barbarians were encouraged by the feeling of partnership which their alliance created, and they were completely won ...
... world with their wings. As the great to their luminous mansions Turn from the cry and the strife, forgetting the wounded and fallen, Calm they repose from their toil and incline to the joy of the banquet, Watching the feet of the wine-bearers rosily placed on the marble, Page 339 Filling their hearts with ease, so they to their sorrowless ether Passed from the wounded earth and its air... glens of the mountains, Errs a dangerous gleam in the woodlands, fatal and silent. So for a while he endures, for a while he seeks and he suffers Patient yet in his terrible grace as assured of his banquet; But he has lacked too long and he lifts his head and to heaven Roars in his wonder, incensed, impatiently. Startled the valleys Shrink from the dreadful alarum, the cattle gallop to shelter. Arming... Aught else can be with the strong and the bold save pursuer or master? Know you so little the mood of the mighty? Think you the lion Only will lick his prey, that his jaws will refrain from the banquet? Rest from thy bodings, Antenor! Not all the valour of Troya Perished with Hector, nor with Polydamas vision has left her; Troy is not eager to slay her soul on a pyre of dishonour. Still she has ...
... light hands untouched. How to appease her? Mymoona! oh, Mymoona! Exit. Page 72 Act III Bassora. Scene I Ibn Sawy's house. A room in the outer apartments decorated for a banquet. Doonya, Anice, Balkis. DOONYA Lord, how they pillage! Even the furniture Cannot escape these Djinns. Ogre Ghaneem Picks up that costly chair between his teeth And off to his castle;... sought earth through, He never could again get back his gem. NUREDDENE ( after a pause ) Tomorrow I will stop this empty life, Cut down expense and only live for you. Tonight there is the banquet. It must stand, My word being given. Azeem! Enter Azeem. What money still Is in the treasury? What debts outstand? AZEEM More now than you can meet. But for today's folly, all would ...
... succumbed. All I can remember is that it was a banquet given in my honour by the Rajarao and ___________________________ *This letter written to a friend of mine in 1937 was printed subsequently in Vol. II of Letters of Sri Aurobindo , Section XI . Page 98 that the famous caterers Firpo had been requisitioned to make the banquet worthy of my host and his distinguished literary ...
... was there within,—so even from that point of view this expression would be inaccurate. 2 July 1936 Plato's book The Banquet is said to be about Love and Beauty. Is it a kind of philosophy? Not much philosophy there, more poetry. Shelley has translated The Banquet into English. Could I read it? Page 521 If you want to read it as a piece of literature, it is all right. 2 ...
... butter - even though it is brown." 21 How delectable is the subtle play on 'bread and butter' and its 'brown' colour! Example 4 (again, verbal and ideational combined): "At a city banquet someone asked if the word 'reforme' should not have an e at the end of it in a French menu. 'Yes,' said Dean Mansel, with great readiness, 'reform in France is always followed by an e mute... Example 2: To appreciate the humour involved in this second example let us bear in mind that Napoleon Bonaparte's coat of arms bore the insignia of an eagle. "Lord John Russell sat at a city banquet next to a civic dignitary who taking a very beautiful snuff box from his pocket said: 'This was given to my father by the first Napoleon; there is a hen engraved on the top of it.' 'Surely,' said Russell ...
... Early Cultural Writings The Sole Motive of Man's Existence The banquet was half over and the wine in lively progress round the table; yet the ladies did not retire. The presence of women over the wine was one of the cardinal articles of Julian's social creed. The conversation turned on the Christian religion which finally emerged from the arena... besmirched and bedraggled. Julian, who had taken the lead in blasphemy, closed the subject by observing "The popular Gods should be denied but respected." "Yet you couple women and wine in your banquet—room" said Erinna. "Ah, my friend, I only observe Nature's ordinances: in social life sex does not exist. Besides conversation requires speech as well as reason." "You insinuate?" "Nature ...
... 'O Krishna, O Yadava, O comrade,' not knowing this thy greatness, in negligent error or in love, and for whatsoever disrespect was shown by me to thee in jest, on the couch and the seat and in the banquet, alone or in thy presence, I pray forgiveness from thee the immeasurable. Thou art the father of all this world of the moving and unmoving; thou art one to be worshipped and the most solemn object... is borne in upon him that in the body of this son of Man who moved beside him as a transient creature upon earth and sat by his side and lay with him on the same couch and ate with him in the banquet and was the object of jest and careless word, actor in war and council and common things, in this figure of mortal man was all the time something great, concealed, of tremendous significance, a Godhead ...
... is pious and moral, the sons indulge in perpetual feasting, each 62 Savitri, p. 444. 63 Ibid., p. 510. Page 236 throwing a banquet to all his brothers and sisters everyday, the first son throwing a banquet on the first day of the week, the second son on the second day of the week and so on. Job actually offers burnt-offerings to the Lord and sanctifies them, thinking ...
... Form, colour, scent and something else which is indefinable. Plato's book, The Banquet, is said to be about Love and Beauty. Is it a kind of philosophy? Not much philosophy there, more poetry. Shelley has translated The Banquet into English. Could I read it? If you want to read it as a piece of literature, it is all right ...
... obedience and there is an expression of pleasure, almost amusement which makes even this commonplace face terrible, for the decree dooming thousands is taken as lightly as if it were order for nautch or banquet. The three mighty swords, by a masterly effect of balanced design, fill with death and menace the terrace on which the men are seated. Behind these formidable figures is a part of the palace gracious ...
... यस्य ब्रह्म च क्षत्रं च उभे भवत ओदनः । मृत्युर्यस्योपसेचनं क इत्था वेद यत्र सः ॥२५॥ 25) He to whom the sages are as meat and heroes as food for his eating and Death is an ingredient of His banquet, how thus shall one know of Him where He abides? The First Cycle; Third Chapter ऋतं पिबन्तौ सुकृतस्य लोके गुहां प्रविष्टौ परमे परार्धे । छायातपौ ब्रह्मविदो वदन्ति पञ्चाग्नयो ये च त्रिणाचिकेताः ...
... existence as the universal Creator but also the universal Destroyer, of whom the ancient Scripture can say in a ruthless image, "The sages and the heroes are his food and death is the spice of his banquet." It is one and the same truth seen first indirectly and obscurely in the facts of life and then directly and clearly in the soul's vision of that which manifests itself in life. The outward aspect ...
... 11:632-35. Page 510 Rubied nectar means here nectar drunk from a ruby cup, also ruby-coloured wine. Such practices in the ritual of feasting were fit for angels. Although the banquet has overt materiality about it, yet it seems to have biblical sanction. Milton amasses precious metals and gemstones along with heaven's abundant fruits to prepare a feast fit for the angel. Probably ...
... leprendre. Et mon Dieu, Tu as accepté man invitation et Tu es venu T 'asseoirdma table; et en change de mapauvre et humble offrande Tu rn'as octroyé la finale liberation* What is this banquet that she prepared for man and which man refused? It is nothing else than the Life Divine here below — the life of the Gods enjoying immortality, full of the supreme light and power, love and delight ...
... Krishna, O Yadava, O Comrade,' not knowing this thy greatness, in negligent error or in love, and for whatsoever disrespect was shown by me to thee in jest, on the couch and the seat and in the banquet, alone or in thy presence, I pray forgiveness from thee the immeasurable. Thou art the father of all this world of the moving and unmoving; thou art one to be worshipped and the most solemn object ...
... Salvation, moksha prasada , for those who come to it. A philanthropist does not make a distinction between the high and the low, child or grown-up, rich or poor, when he is entertaining people at a banquet and, in the same manner, the Gita offers to all such an abundant and generous feast of benediction. Be it therefore reciting and chanting, or listening, or pondering over its sense, the Gita leads ...
... sunshine with the sun. Arjuna would address him in endearing terms as “O Krishna, O Yadava, O Comrade;” he would speak to him in jest and be informal “at party, on the couch, and the seat and the banquet.” Now he makes himself bold and asks him to show him his universal Form. No doubt he is present in essentiality and in every detail in this creation and there is nought but he,—as the inner experience ...
... of the call, whose yearning is towards all the planes, golden is his chariot, red are his horses, ecstatic his tongue of flame, beautiful his body, 5 wide his lustre, ever is he rapturous like a banquet hall full of the wine. 6 स चेतयन्मनुषो यज्ञबन्धुः प्र तं मह्या रशनया नयन्ति । स क्षेत्यस्य दुर्यासु साधन् देवो मर्तस्य सधनित्वमाप ॥९॥ 9) He makes men conscious of the knowledge and ...
... the universal godhead, whose voice cries forth in ringing notes of awe: "My force is Nature that creates and slays ... I have made man her instrument and slave, His body I made my banquet, his life my food ... I am the Immobile in which all things move, I am the nude Inane in which they cease." 2 But when is this sombre messenger, the event of natural somatic ...
... he stood until the following morning; and with the return of light he offered up a prayer to the sun, and went his way. At another time, Socrates and his friend Aristodemus went together to a banquet, but on the way Socrates went into a trance and dropped behind. When Aristodemus arrived at the feast, he was asked by the host: "What have you done with Socrates?" Aristodemus was astonished to find ...
... (something to off-set the Crown of Wild Olive), and, especially among the Dorians, the custom grew of commissioning a poet-composer to write a solemn choral hymn in his honour, for performance at a banquet or at some religious festival. So it came about that of the two most majestic and serious poets of the early fifth century, Aeschylus and Pindar, the latter is known to us entirely (but for some fragments ...
... his being, or whose mind has not been tranquillised, can by wisdom attain to Him. 25. "He to whom the sages are as meat and heroes as food for his eating and Death is an ingredient of His banquet, how thus shall one know of Him where He abides?" Page 52 FIRST CYCLE: THIRD CHAPTER Yama speaks: 1. "There are two that drink deep of the truth in the world of work ...
... miraculously left the stage. I have surprised the Hunchback of Notre Dame behind the curtain. The marvelous Guest in each being cleaves forward through time and fate. He will arrive at the banquet when the hour shines. 102 - 103 Mother Divine's Love Gratitude O Great Spirit, you have lifted the curse of the Evil Fate Over my soul ...
... called 'the world of falsehood'. It is a "prelude, a vestibule,.a place of preparation, of initiation, of apprenticeship to a future life, where the guests prepare to enter tricitinium, or the banquet hall" 2 . (iv) In Graeco-Roman Philosophy:3 The Greek philosophy propounded, in the main, a dualistic antithesis between body and soul, matter and spirit. Thus in Philolaus' teaching, the ...
... feast of the wedding of Peleus and Thetis. Peleus was the king of Phithia and Thetis was the goddess of the sea. All the gods came to the wedding to present their gifts and take part in the banquet, but Eris, goddess of discord, had been left out. Eris, therefore, waited for the moment when she tossed a golden apple in from of three of the goddesses: Hera, Athena and Aphrodite. The apple bore ...
... involving all but the royal bodyguard; but when Alexander dismissed his whole army and enrolled Persians instead, the opposition broke down. An emotional scene of reconciliation was followed by a vast banquet with 9,000 guests to celebrate the ending of the misunderstanding and the partnership in government of Macedonians and Persians but not, as has been argued, the incorporation of all the subject peoples ...
... prendre. Et mon Dieu, Tu as accepté mon invitation et Tu es venu T'asseoir à ma table; et en change de ma pauvre et humble offrande Tu m'as octroyé la finale libération." 2 What is this banquet that she prepared for man and which man refused? It is nothing else than the Life Divine here below—the life of the Gods enjoying immortality, full of the supreme light and power, love and delight ...
... overwhelmed, he exclaimed, "Thou art my father, Thou art my friend, Thou art my Beloved; in what rash vehemence have I not spoken to Thee? What disrespect was not shown by me to Thee at play and in the banquet! O Lord! do forgive those errors of mine." If God brings to life the dead by His mere touch and endows the blind with sight and heals the diseased, then that is a miracle, no doubt, but a greater ...
... Et mon Dieu, Tu as accepté mon invitation et Tu es venu t'asseoir à ma table; et en échange de ma pauvre et humble offrande Tu m'as octroyé la finale libération!* What is this banquet that she prepared for man and which man refused? It is nothing else than the Life Divine here below -the life of the Gods enjoying immortality, full of the supreme light and power, love and delight ...
... response you call forth, the blessing divine you bring down in and around you. * The Mother: Prayers and Meditations, 12 July 1918 Page 282 "I prepared the Feast"¹ It was a banquet I prepared for men. Instead of a life of misery and suffering, of obscurity and ignorance I brought to them a life of light and joy and freedom. I took all the pains the task demanded and when it was ...
... Silence is all, say the sages. Silence is All - II What then of the word, O speaker? What then of the thought, O thinker? Thought is the wine of the soul and the word is the beaker; Life is the banquet-table as the soul of the sage is the drinker. Silence is All - III What of the wine, O mortal? I am drunk with the wine as I sit at Wisdom's portal, Waiting for the Light beyond thought and ...
... have been, Float round me vaguely and withdraw from me Like grandiose phantoms in a mist. Who am I? Whence come I? Whither go, or wherefore now? Who gave me these gigantic appetites That make a banquet of the world? who set These narrow, scornful and exiguous bounds To my achievement? O, to die, to pass, Page 286 Nothing achieved but this, "He tried great things, Accomplished small ...
... hard sayings for the rationalist who insists on limiting knowledge within the circle of the five senses. "God to whom the sages are as meat & princes as excellent eating & Death is the spice of his banquet, how shall such an one know of Him where He abideth?" Page 166 Many of the Upanishads are similarly written round symbols and in a phraseology and figures which have or had once a deep ...
... from ill-doing, one who is not concentrated and calm, one whose mind is not tranquil, shall not get him by the brain's wisdom. He of whom warriors and sages are the food and death is the spice of his banquet, who knoweth where is He? ... The Self-born has cloven his doors outward, therefore man sees outward and not in the inner self: only a wise man here and there turns his eyes inward, desiring immortality ...
... him. The meal was simple, the dishes were plain. And yet Krishna chose this one in preference to the other, for the feast which the Sudra offered him was full of sincere love, whereas the sumptuous banquet of King Duryodhana had been given only for show. It is also said that the glorious Rama once sat at the table of a very humble woman, whose husband was a fowler. All she could put before the famous ...
... on him and gave him food and shelter. One day there came the news that the daughter of the king of Rum was of an age to marry and that all young men of princely family were invited to the royal banquet. Gushtasp decided to go there and sat at table among all the others. Princess Kitaban saw him, loved him and gave him a bunch of roses as a token of her favour. Page 194 The king took a ...
... world with their wings. As the great to their luminous mansions Turn from the cry and the strife, forgetting the wounded and fallen, Calm they repose from their toil and incline to the joy of the banquet, Watching the feet of the wine-bearers rosily placed on the marble, Filling their hearts with ease, so they to their sorrowless ether Passed from the wounded earth and its air that is ploughed with ...
... The Marbles of Time Institutions, empires, civilisations are the marbles of Time. Time, sitting in his banqueting hall of the Ages, where prophets and kings are the spice of his banquet, drinking the red wine of life and death, while on the marble floor at his feet are strewn like flowers the images of the same stars that shone on the pride of Nahusha, the tapasya of Dhruv and the ...
... of old our ancient Fathers, speeding the work of holy worship, Agni, / Sought pure light and devotion, singing praises ..." (verse 16). 135 Or take 7,76,4: "They were the Gods' companions at the banquet, the ancient sages true to Law Eternal. / The Fathers found the light that lay in darkness, and with effectual words begat the Morning." 136 Yes, the tradition of the Rigveda's practice of mysticism ...
... a slain Light Cherished the putrid corpses of dead truths, Hailed twisted forms as things free, new and true, Beauty from ugliness and evil drank Feeling themselves guests at a banquet of the gods And tasted corruption like a high-spiced food. 77 The images derived from business, trade, mathematics, language, law and even modem warfare show how even the most modem ...
... the ontological origin of all things. After this, in a second phase, all the rest (which means the world) appears only as an addition, or an extra granted entirely by favour: we are guests at God's banquet.... Unless at the term of existence we seek only an individual happiness (and that is a form of happiness we have definitely to reject), how could the self-styled revelation of man's radical uselessness ...
... unrecognised. Jnaneshwar himself, in a certain sense, speaks of duality in non-duality that is needed for relationship. There has to be Arjuna-ness for the being of Krishna to have a friend “in party and banquet” and a warrior doing his will on the battlefield. Asks Krishna to Arjuna in Jnaneshwari : “How do I embrace you?” Indeed, if there were not to be this two-ness, who is going to embrace whom? But then ...
... 'O Krishna, O Yadava, O Comrade', not knowing this Thy greatness, in negligent error or in love, and for whatsoever disrespect was shown by me to Thee in jest, on the couch and the seat and in the banquet, alone or in Thy presence, I pray forgiveness from Thee the Immeasurable. Thou art the father of all this world of the moving and unmoving; Thou art the One to be worshipped and the most solemn object ...
... when the verdict of the oracle concerning Hephaestion was brought to him, 17 he laid aside his grief and allowed himself to indulge in a number of sacrifices and drinking-bouts. He gave a splendid banquet in honour of Nearchus, after which he took a bath as his custom was, with the intention of going to bed soon afterwards. But when Medius invited him, he went to his house to join a party, and there ...
... sorry to have done." To some extent Aristotle made a Hellene of him; through all his life Alexander admired Greek literature, and envied Greek civilization. To two Greeks sitting with him at the wild banquet at which he slew Cleitus he said, "Do you not feel like demigods among savages when Page 83 you are sitting in company with these Macedonians?" Physically, Alexander was an ideal youth ...
... prendre. Et mon Dieu, Tu as accepte mon invitation et Tu es venu T'asseoir a ma table; et en change de ma pauvre et humble offrande Tu m'as octroye la finale liberation What is this banquet that she prepared for man and which man refused ? It is nothing else than the Life Divine here below —the life of the Gods enjoying immortality, full of the supreme light and power, love and delight ...
... Krishna, 0 Yadava, 0 Comrade,' not knowing this Thy greatness, in negligent error or in love, and for whatsoever disrespect was shown by me to Thee in jest, at play, on the couch and the seat and in the banquet, alone or in Thy presence, 0 faultless One, I pray forgiveness from Thee, the Immeasurable." 1 1 The Gita: XI. 41-2 Page 51 However what I wanted to say is, the Mother ...
... trance: She draws deep into her bosom all creatures stilled in peace, She plays her role of goddess Sleep, Comes and silences the Life's noise in an unending quiet. Now is the honeyed Banquet of stillness, ¹ Or Who art Thou, O Great Time, carrying in Thy flow the vast Finite From the Beginningless towards the Endless? ² Alternative: 'soul'. Page 176 ...
... soul as a complete self-offering, you do not know what tremendous response you call forth, the blessing divine you bring down in and around you. "I prepared the Feast" 1 It was a banquet I prepared for men. Instead of a life of misery and suffering, of obscurity and ignorance I brought to them a life of light and joy and freedom. I took all the pains the task demanded and when it ...
... Tagore's intellectual make-up may be as rationalistic and scientific as that of any typical modern man. Nor does he discard the good things (preya) that earth and life offer to man for his banquet; and he does not say like the bare ascetic: anyā vāco vimuncatha, "abandon everything else". But even like one of the Upanishadic Rishis, the great Yajnavalkya, he would possess and enjoy ...
... 'O Krishna, O Yadava, O comrade,' not knowing this thy greatness, in negligent error or in love, and for whatsoever disrespect was shown by me to thee in jest, on the couch and the seat and in the banquet, alone or in thy presence, I pray forgiveness from thee the immeasurable. Thou art the father of all this world of the moving and unmoving; thou art one to be worshipped and the most solemn object ...
... le prendre. Et mon Dieu, Tu as accepté mon invitation et Tu es venu T' asseoir à ma table,. et en change de ma pauvre et humble offrande Tu m' as octroyé la finale libération.¹ What is this banquet that she prepared for man and which man refused? It is nothing else than the Life Divine here below -the life of the Gods enjoying immortality, full of the supreme light and power, love and delight ...
... Krishna, O Yadava, O Comrade,' not knowing this Thy greatness, in negligent error or in love, and for whatsoever disrespect was shown by me to Thee in jest, at play, on the couch and the seat and in the banquet, alone or in Thy presence, O faultless One, I pray forgiveness from Thee, the Immeasurable.¹ However what I wanted to say is, the Mother is truly your mother and as truly your friend and ...
... accomplishing works. Commenting on this crucial entry', Nolini Kanta Gupta - about whom Sri Aurobindo had once said, "If Nolini does not know my Yoga, who. does?" - has written: What is this banquet that she prepared for man and which man refused? It is nothing else than the Life Divine here below .... Man refused, first of all, because of his ignorance, he does not know, nor is he capable of ...
... temperament — it was a confused and difficult conflict to maintain." Finally the police arrived. "Within an hour the vast Pandal, strewn with broken chairs, sticks, and rags of raiment, stood empty as a banquet-hall deserted." In the twinkling of a shoe the Congress had been changed, and "a new spirit, a different and difficult spirit had indeed arisen in the country." It had been "roses, roses ...
... for the time of the tour only. Sri Aurobindo always loved a plain and unostentatious life and was never dazzled by the splendour of the court. Invariably he declined invitations to dinners and banquets at the palace though he received them repeatedly. Sri Aurobindo had nothing to do with the Court; he does not remember to have received any such invitations. Among his brother officers the ...
... forfeited their pensions for doing so. The Scandinavians had never seen any dancing like it. Years later Bolm used to...beguile beginners like me with tales of the great days. There were dinners, banquets, torchlight processions, horses unhitched from the carriage, mobs outside the hotel windows, flowers thrown down on their heads. And in the winter, in the snows, when they went touring through the ...
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