love's meinie. 



Velasquez, in that his effort to show this 

 noblesse of air and persons may always be 

 detected ; also the aristocracy of Vandyke's 

 day were already so far fearful of their own 

 position as to feel anxiety that it should be 

 immediately recognized. And the effect of 

 the painter's conscious deference, and of the 

 equally conscious pride of the boys, as they 

 stood to be painted, has been somewhat to 

 shorten the power of the one, and to abase 

 the dignity of the other. And thus, in the 

 midst of my admiration of the youths' beauti- 

 ful faces, and natural quality of majesty, set 

 off by all splendours of dress and courtesies 

 of art, I could not forbear questioning with 

 myself what the true value was, in the scales 

 of creation, of these fair human beings who 

 set so high a value on themselves; and, — as 

 if the only answer, — the words kept repeating 

 themselves in my ear, " Ye are of more value 

 than many sparrows." 



2. Passeres, arpovdoi, — the things that open 

 their wings, and are not otherwise noticeable ; 

 small birds of the land and wood ; the food 

 of the serpent, of man, or of the stronger 

 creatures of their own kind, — that even these. 



