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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

... clearing the forehead of perspiration. As to pocket-handkerchiefs, in our northern use of them, it has been satisfactorily shown by Bottiger, in a Ge... ...e Roi donne par honeur.’ And lately in Lord Amherst’s progress through the northern provinces of our Indian empire, &c. we read con- tinually of the K... ...an investment for capital during the times preced- ing his own, and, as to northern Greece, even during his own, had never entirely languished, as wit... ... an English moon, or again em- brace his ‘placens uxor?’ As with regard to Ireland, it is one stock trick of Whiggery to treat the chances of assassin... ...rts up on the excitement of mere scenery. Some laud the Caucasus; some the northern and eastern val- leys of Spain; some the Alpine scenery; some the ...

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Actions and Reactions

By: Rudyard Kipling

...hulls whistling like Chinese kites. Their market is in the North among the northern sanatoria where you can smell their grape-fruit and bananas across... ...ighted too, of enormous capacity and unlovely outline. They, too, feed the northern health stations in icebound ports where submersibles dare not rise... ...gh-Le High-Lev v v v vel Slee el Slee el Slee el Slee el Sleet t t t t The Northern weather so far shows no sign of improve- ment. From all quarters c... ...d the latter from loaded bows and snow-cased bodies. As a consequence, the Northern and North-western upper levels have been practically aban- doned, ... ...ween his horse’s ears, on the nearest water-channel. “Very like a ditch in Ireland,” he murmured, and smiled, dreaming of a razor-topped bank in dista...

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The Caged Lion

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... glittering sun of a clear March day, dry and not too cold for these hardy northern folk. Nigel, the squire, sighed in despondency; and Malcolm, who h... ... art of war as a boy, first under Hotspur, in Wales; nor doth he love that northern fashion of ours of keeping up feud from genera- tion to generation... ...gay temper restored, ‘you have grievously hurt that springald of mine. His northern blood cannot away with the taste he got of your fist.’ ‘Pretty wel... ...e it! ’Tis the sword of my knighthood, when poor King Richard dubbed me in Ireland; and many a brave scheme came with it!’ The soft movement of the ba... ...L THE BEGGING SCHOLAR AR AR AR AR ‘THE POOR SCHOLAR,’ now only existing in Ireland and Brit- tany—nay, we believe extinct there since the schoolmaster... ...caena,’ 5 and 2 Student of the first year. 3 Manners are lacking to the Northerners. 4 Wretches. 5 For supper. 234 The Caged Lion conducted him ... ...en, or the delectation of his own mind, but to scatter it among these rude northern souls? Must the vision of learned research and scholarly calm vani...

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Modern Broods or Developments Unlooked For

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...rs. Griggs says it won’t be so bad as once when they were off the coast of Ireland, and when they put into a bay with a queer name, all Kill and Bally... ...nd. “Take care, Lily, don’t wake poor little Lena,” was murmured quietly. “Northern breezes—” began Bessie, but the voices had bro- ken the light slum... ...distress,” acquiesced Bessie; “but still, if it is bracing that she needs— northern air might make all the difference.” Clement sighed a little hopele... ...rs, of which the fullest was from Dolores: “Corncastle, Larne, CO. Antrim, Ireland, October 12. “Dearest Aunt Lily, - “I trust Phyllis has by this tim...

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The Whole History of Grandfathers Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620-1808

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...ir sits a man of strong and sturdy frame, whose face has been roughened by northern tempests and black ened by the burning sun of the West Indies. He... ...negroes from Africa, but Indians from South America, and white people from Ireland. These last were sold, not for life, but for a certain number of ye... ...om every colony should meet in Congress. Accord ingly nine colonies, both Northern and Southern, sent del egates to the city of New York. “And did t...

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The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc

By: Thomas de Quincey

...ssments of the city, and issu- ing into the broad uncrowded avenues of the northern sub- urbs, we soon begin to enter upon our natural pace of ten mil... ... meeting. But what was Cyclops doing here? Had the medical men recommended northern air, or how? I collected, from such explanations as he volunteered... ...Coach and Joan of Arc His great work, Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, was used by Shakespeare as the source of several plays. He writes ...

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Ivanhoe

By: Sir Walter Scott

...the spectators. The openings for the entry of the combat- ants were at the northern and southern extremities of the lists, accessible by strong wooden... ...ott front of the pavilions, and the whole was guarded by men-at- arms. The northern access to the lists terminated in a similar entrance of thirty fee... ...were crowded with all that was noble, great, wealthy, and beautiful in the northern and midland parts of England; and the contrast of the various dres... ...es, at the opposite ends of the lists. Meantime, the enclosed space at the northern extremity of the lists, large as it was, was now completely crowde... ...swered by a soli- tary trumpet, which breathed a note of defiance from the northern extremity . All eyes were turned to see the new cham- pion which t... ... dignitaries, and produced fatal consequences to the English domination in Ireland. It is necessary to keep these inconsistencies of John’s character ...

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The Compleat Angler

By: Izaak Walton

...: and our Camden mentions the like in England, and the like in Lochmere in Ireland. There is also a river in Arabia, of which all the sheep that drink... ...t there is no better Salmon than in En gland; and that though some of our northern counties have as fat, and as large, as the river Thames, yet none ... ...uring the royal navy. 5. Tweed, the north east bound of England; on whose northern banks is seated the strong and impreg nable town of Berwick. 6. ... ...ill say her Medway doth excel: Cotswold commends her Isis to the Tame: Our northern borders boast of Tweed’s fair flood; Our Western parts extol their...

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Aaron's Rod

By: D. H. Lawrence

...talk. “What? There’s something big coming,” said Jim. “Where from?” “Watch Ireland, and watch Japan—they’re the two poles of the world,” said Jim. “I ... ...They’ll depend on Ire- land and Japan. I know it. I’ve had a vision of it. Ireland on this side and Japan on the other—they’ll settle it.” “I don’t se... ...- patrick.” “Anyhow you live in England.” “Because they won’t let me go to Ireland.” The talk drifted. Jim finished up all the beer, and they prepared... ...on a big stage. And he felt himself moving in the space be- tween. All the northern cosiness gone. He was set down with a space round him. Little tram... ... as impressed as he should have been. And yet there was some- thing in the northern city—this big square with all the trams threading through, the lit... ...oreign, southern- shaped faces, so much more formed and demon-looking than northern faces. They had a demon-like set purpose, and the 185 D. H. Lawre... ... Venetian families! And you, in your palazzo on the Grand Canal: you are a northern barbarian civilised into the old Venetian Signoria. But how very r...

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Waverley or Tis Sixty Years Since

By: Sir Walter Scott

...nities of contrast have been af- forded me, by the state of society in the northern part of the island at the period of my history, and may serve at o... ...his stock of chivalrous and ro- mantic lore. The earlier literature of the northern nations did not escape the study of one who read rather to awaken ... ...ceptible, against the fascination of Scottish beauty. She allowed that the northern part of the island contained some ancient families, but they were ... ...mselves by the handle. The axe, which was also much used by the natives of Ireland, is supposed to have been intro- duced into both countries from Sca... ... His countenance was decidedly Scottish, with all the peculiarities of the northern physiognomy, but yet had so little of ifs harshness and exag- gera... ...his ancient Gaelic ditty is still well known, both in the Highlands and in Ireland. It was translated into English, and published, if I mistake not, u... ...of their finding them- selves in a regiment levied chiefly in the north of Ireland and the west of Scotland, and of course among comrades disposed to ... ...ry. He then mentioned your being at that moment in the power of one of our northern parties—you know I could not ask him to explain particu- lars—and ...

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The War in the Air

By: H. G. Wells

...n hundred and four, or five, they vanished! Then there was those people in Ireland—no, I forget their names. Everybody said they could fly. They went.... ...tered over the globe, and dis- tracted now by insurrectionary movements in Ireland and among all its Subject Races. It had given these subject races c... ...re gigantic German, and the two went spinning to destruction together. The northern squadron of Asiatics came into the battle unnoted by Bert, except ... ...that in the interval he had been across France, Belgium, Germany, England, Ireland, and a number of other countries. It was an interesting thought and...

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The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

By: Daniel Defoe

...first put us to the northward, and we were obliged to put in at Galway, in Ireland, where we lay wind-bound two-and-twenty days; but we had this satis... ...asion to dispose otherwise of them. We set out on the 5th of February from Ireland, and had a very fair gale of wind for some days. As I remember, it ... ...taking a town by storm. I had heard of Oliver Cromwell taking Drogheda, in Ireland, and killing man, woman, and child; and I had read of Count Tilly s... ... to talk to him about carrying us to the Gulf of Nankin, which is the most northern part of the coast of China. The old man said he knew the Gulf of N...

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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, And the Heroic in History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...dow thrown upwards from the dead deeps of the Past, and covering the whole Northern Heaven, is not that Scandinavian Mythology in some sort the Portra... ...of sharpness, he is one. Hynde Etin, and still more decisively Red Etin of Ireland, in the Scottish Ballads, these are both derived from Norseland; Et... ... in the last state of rudeness and destitution; little better perhaps than Ireland at this day. Hungry fierce barons, not so much as able to form any ... ...n in order to get it. Let us see a little how this was. England, Scotland, Ireland, all lying now subdued at the feet of the Puritan Parliament, the p...

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American Notes for General Circulation

By: Charles Dickens

... miserable day; chilly and raw; a damp mist falling; and the trees in that northern region quite bare and wintry. Whenever the train halted, I listene... ...ear, vast numbers of emigrants who have newly arrived from England or from Ireland, pass between Quebec and Montreal on their way to the backwoods and... ..., we left Cape Clear behind, and sailed along within sight of the coast of Ireland. And how merry we all were, and how loyal to the George Washington,... ...enting tyrants? What! shall we declaim against the ignorant peas antry of Ireland, and mince the matter when these American taskmasters are in questi...

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Merry Men

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...ing great disasters. It was here that a certain saint first landed on his voyage out of Ireland to convert the Hebrideans. And, indeed, I think he had... ...ssed a weakness equal to my own; but in my heart I knew her for the student of the cold northern chamber, and the writer of the sorrowful lines; and t... ...idencia stood out bulkily, its mass only bro- ken by three dimly lighted windows in the northern front above the gate. They were Olalla’s windows, and...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...e Whale-Ship Globe narrative. “The voyages of the Dutch and English to the Northern Ocean, in order, if possible, to discover a passage through it to ... ...afterwards) pooh, pooh! What a fine frosty night; how Orion glitters; what northern lights! Let them talk of their oriental summer climes of everlasti... ...thinks Lazarus? Can he warm his blue hands by holding them up to the grand northern lights? W ould not Lazarus rather be in Sumatra than here? Would h... ...e set, and off we glided. It was a short, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wi... ...ck Book I (Folio) Chapter IV. (Hump-back).—This whale is often seen on the northern American coast. He has been fre- quently captured there, and towed... ...mlets but Fast-Fish? What to that redoubted harpooneer, John Bull, is poor Ireland, but a Fast- Fish? What to that apostolic lancer, Brother Jonathan,...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...e whale ship Globe narrative. “The voyages of the Dutch and English to the Northern Ocean, in order, if possible, to discover a passage through it to ... ...fterwards) — pooh, pooh! What a fine frosty night; how Orion glitters; what northern lights! Let them talk of their oriental summer climes of everlasti... ...thinks Lazarus? Can he warm his blue hands by holding them up to the grand northern lights? Would not Lazarus rather be in Sumatra than here? Would he... ... a Chapter 22 Merry Christmas 109 short, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wi... ...OK I. (Folio), Chapter IV . (Hump Back). — This whale is often seen on the northern American coast. He has been frequently captured there, and towed i... ...mlets but Fast Fish? What to that redoubted harpooneer, John Bull, is poor Ireland, but a Fast Fish? What to that apostolic lancer, Brother Jonathan, ...

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Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief

By: James Fenimore Cooper

...m the chaff and collected in casks, when the whole company was shipped for Ireland. Now oc- curred one of those chances which decide the fortunes of p... ...olonel of the late Royal Guards, or, at least, of an attache of one of the northern legations. He was dressed in the height of the latest fashion, as ...

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Jane Eyre

By: Charlotte Brontë

... southern extremity, the Lindeness, or Naze, to the North Cape— “Where the Northern Ocean, in vast whirls, Boils round the naked, melancholy isles Of ... ...owed the pinnacle of an iceberg piercing a po- lar winter sky: a muster of northern lights reared their dim lances, close serried, along the horizon. ... ...s. Dionysius O’Gall of Bitternutt Lodge, Connaught, Ire- land. You’ll like Ireland, I think: they’re such warm-hearted people there, they say.” “It is... ...said. “It is, to be sure; and when you get to Bitternutt Lodge, Connaught, Ireland, I shall never see you again, Jane: that’s morally certain. I never... ...hall never see you again, Jane: that’s morally certain. I never go over to Ireland, not having myself much of a fancy for the country. We have been go... ...d to sit there to- gether.” He seated me and himself. “It is a long way to Ireland, Janet, and I am sorry to send my little friend on such weary trave... ...such a union: therefore I am better than you—let me go!” “Where, Jane? T o Ireland?” “Y es—to Ireland. I have spoken my mind, and can go any- where no...

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The History of Tom Jones

By: Henry Fielding

... of exceeding good repute, whither Irish ladies of strict virtue, and many northern lasses of the same predicament, were accustomed to resort in their... ...d indeed he had served three years as clerk to an attorney in the north of Ireland, when, chusing a genteeler walk in life, he quitted his master, cam... ...ed more than two years. My husband, therefore, was resolved to set out for Ireland; against which I remonstrated very earnestly, and insisted on a pro... ... money, arising, he said, from his having too long neglected his estate in Ireland. And this, he said, which he could not bear to discover to me, was ... ...when a young lady, a relation to my hus band, came from a distant part of Ireland to visit me. She had staid once before a week at my house, and then... ...an sion; but the peer unluckily quitted his former house when he went for Ireland; and as he was just entered into a new one, the fame of his equipag... ...ones hath privately added a third. Upon this income he lives in one of the northern counties, about 200 miles distant from Lon don, and lays up £200 ...

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