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...pon this argument; It is too starved a subject for my sword. But Pandarus,—O gods, how do you plague me! I cannot come to Cressid but by Pandar; And h... .... PANDARUS: Himself! no, he’s not himself: would a’ were himself! Well, the gods are above; time must friend or end: well, Troilus, well: I would my ... ...onvince of levity As well my undertakings as your counsels: But I attest the gods, your full consent Gave wings to my propension and cut off All fears... ...ndermine it, the walls will stand till they fall of themselves. O thou great thunder darter of Olympus, forget that thou art Jove, the king of gods an... ...thou great thunder darter of Olympus, forget that thou art Jove, the king of gods and, Mercury, lose all the serpentine craft of thy caduceus, if ye t... ...entertaining great Hyperion. This lord go to him! Jupiter forbid, And say in thunder ‘Achilles go to him.’ NESTOR: [Aside to DIOMEDES ] O, this is ... ...O Cressida, how often have I wished me thus! CRESSIDA: Wished, my lord! The gods grant,— O my lord! TROILUS: What should they grant? what makes this... ...should by my mortal sword Be drain’d! Let me embrace thee, Ajax: By him that thunders, thou hast lusty arms; Hector would have them fall upon him thus...

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...eyes of danger. Come ill or well, the cross, the crown, The rainbow or the thunder, I fling my soul and body down For God to plough them under. III - ... ...ed and loved, and closed the door. XXIII He hears with gladdened heart the thunder Peal, and loves the falling dew; He knows the earth above and under... ...ou pass, One moment glance, where by the pillared wall Far-voyaging island gods, begrimed with smoke, Sit now unworshipped, the rude monument Of faith... ...rain, With muttered words and waving rods, The gibbering and the whistling gods. But he, though thus with hand and head He ruled, commanded, charmed, ... ...arks; and only hears remote, Where thrones and fortunes rise and reel, The thunder of the turning wheel. V For the unexpected tears he shed At my depa... ...d well, Rings and lives and resounds in all the bounds of the bell, So the thunder above spoke with a single tongue, So in the heart of the mountain t... ...in the heart of the mountain the sound of it rumbled and clung. Sudden the thunder was drowned – quenched was the levin light – And the angel-spirit o...

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... heart went back to the savage old spirit of the place: the desire for old gods, old, lost passions, the passion of the cold-blooded, darting snakes t... ...mend it for him. She could not. And no, she would not. Had she not her own gods to honour? And could she betray them, submitting to his Baal and Ashta... ...nd drift vaguely, physically, from day to day. Maurice was like an ominous thunder-cloud. She had to keep waking up to remember him. When a little not...

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... was a thing done. In February, 1822, a strange piece of news burst like a thunderbolt on the town of Limoges. The hotel Graslin was being handsomely ... ... touching theories of pagan religion, the victim sacri- ficed to the false gods goes to the altar decked with flowers. The significance of that custom... ...e her cha- teau, of which as yet she had only caught glimpses, and she was thunderstruck at the magnificence of the building. Stone is rare in those p... ... “what would you say to Him?” Madame Graslin stopped as though struck by a thunder- bolt; she shuddered; then she said simply, in tones that brought t... ...hanged a rapid glance with the rector, who thought to himself, “Here’s the thunderbolt which will convert my poor unbeliever; Madame Graslin will have...

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...zily from a multitude of quaint chim-neys. “It’s a lie! that’s all it is—a thunderin’ lie!” said another pri- vate loudly. His smooth face was flushed... ...erward, they usually expressed sorrow, and swore 9 Stephen Crane by their gods that the guns had exploded without their permis- sion. The youth, on g... ...w, and you’ll see one of the big- gest battles ever was. Y ou jest wait.” “Thunder!der!” said the youth. “Oh, you’ll see fighting this time, my boy, w... ... at times. He was convicted by himself of many shameful crimes against the gods of traditions. In his great anxiety his heart was continually clamorin... ...carefully lighted his pipe. “Y ou’re getting blue, my boy. Y ou’re looking thundering peeked. What the dickens is wrong with you?” “Oh, nothing,” said... ...s voice had an exultant ring. “W e’ve got ‘em now. At last, by the eternal thunders, we’ll lick ‘em good!” “If the truth was known,” he added, more so... ...“I don’t know. I s’pose I’ll do as well as the rest. I’m going to try like thunder.” He evidently complimented himself upon the mod- esty of this stat... ... broke upon the air. In it there was much bass of grumbling oaths. Strange gods were addressed in condemnation of the early hours necessary to correct... ...escaped. And, furthermore, how could they kill him who was the cho- sen of gods and doomed to greatness? He remembered how some of the men had run fro...

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...ore, first of all, What religion they had? Was it Heathenism,—plurality of gods, mere sensuous representa- tion of this Mystery of Life, and for chief... ...appage of traditions, hearsays, mere words. We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud “electric- ity,” and lecture learnedly about it, and grind th... ... these are Jotuns. The friendly Powers again, as Summer-heat, the Sun, are Gods. The empire of this Uni- verse is divided between these two; they dwel... ... between these two; they dwell apart, in peren- nial internecine feud. The Gods dwell above in Asgard, the Garden of the Asen, or Divinities; Jotunhei... ...ooks at the rocks” with his devil-eye, and they split in the glance of it. Thunder was not then mere Electricity, vitreous or resin- ous; it was the G... ... not then mere Electricity, vitreous or resin- ous; it was the God Donner (Thunder) or Thor,—God also of beneficent Summer-heat. The thunder was his w... ... he “blows in his red beard,”—that is the rustling storm- blast before the thunder begins. Balder again, the White God, the beautiful, the just and be... ...tions have to teach us that the God Wish is not the true God. Of the other Gods or Jotuns I will mention only for etymology’s sake, that Sea-tempest i... ...ten a fine Essay on Thor, that the old Norse heart finds its friend in the Thunder-god? That it is not fright- ened away by his thunder; but finds tha...

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...sed. ‘They say,’ he said, ‘a nobleman fighting the odds is a sight for the gods: and I wouldn’t yield an inch of ground. It’s no use calling things by... ... of stilts, gravely resigned the gift of motion. Our dauntless Lancastrian thundered like a tem- pest over a gambling tent, disregarded. Our worthy pe... .... Altogether the day was a reanimation of external Venice. But there was a thunderbolt in it; for about an hour before sunset, when the ladies were su... ...ose and pink and dazzling silver. There of all the world you might imagine Gods to sit. A crowd of mountains end- less in range, erect, or flowing, sh... ...e knocks at Englishmen’s castle-gates during elec- tion days; so, with the thunder of it unheard, the majesty of the act of canvassing can be but bare... ...is freedom that he might work to the end of his time. Moreover, it swung a thunder-cloud across his holiday. He recurred to the idea of the holiday re... ...ons are an assurance that her influence in the aggregate must be for good. Thunder, destructive to insects, refreshes earth: so she. So sang the rhaps... ...ess inhuman than that of Hellenic and T rojan princesses offered up to the Gods, or pretty slaves to the dealers. Their artificiality is at once their... ...g lady’s loveliness in abandonment, it would tame, melt, and save him. The Gods presiding over custom do not per- mit such renovating sights to men. C...

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... our watering place, was to contravene the great decree. Whether by these thunderbolts or not, the No Gas party were defeated; and in this present se... ...merican association of ideas; but there I was, and the Horse shoe Fall was thundering and tumbling in my eyes and ears, and the very rainbows that I l... ...amboat. The sky was black, when I imprudently walked on board. It began to thunder and lighten immediately afterwards, and the rain poured down in tor... ...rofane. I am conscious of a dreadful inclination that stole upon me, as it thundered and lightened, to grapple with this man, or demon, and plunge him... ... an end for the last word. But, at length it rolled sullenly away with the thunder. ‘Pardon me,’ said I, ‘you are a well favoured, well made man, and ... ...ng their window blinds from dust, and wrapping all their smaller household gods in curl papers. I walked through gloomy streets where every house was ... ...om the ores and metals of the deep mines of the earth, and from the Parrot Gods of the South Sea Islands, and from the birds and beetles of the trop ...

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...ailing efforts. Colonel Brownlow arrived in the middle of the day, and was thunderstruck at the new and terrible disaster. He was a large, tall man, w... ...res- coes, Ellen.” “Frescoes! Why, those are those horrid improper-looking gods and goddesses in clouds and chariots on the ceilings at Belforest,” ob... ...I wanted to look at the rest, but Miss James said they were horrid heathen gods, not fit for little girls to look at; and, mother, Ellie is so silly, ... ...” “I knew it was coming. The Colonel has been at me already, levelling his thunders at my devoted head. Won’t that do?” “Not if you heed him so little... ...riumphantly. “At least he flogged Bobus, when—” “Shut up, you little ape,” thundered Bobus, not choosing to be offered up to the manes of his father’s... ...s a much stained handkerchief came flapping about. “You’ve blotted my sum. Thunder and ages!” as the candle- stick toppled over, ink and all. “That is... ...ramping louder than ever, ruling his gardener with se- vere precision, and thundering at his boys whenever he saw 170 Magnum Bonum them idle. Both he... ... is a thing I wish very much—to send your John to Eton with mine. He is my godson, you know, and it would be such a pleasure to me.” “Thank you, Carol... ...nd Mrs. Lucas, to which she took her two youngest boys, since Jock was the godson of the house, and had moreover been shaken off by his two elder brot...

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... the air, flew across the laurel hedge, and descended with a peal of stage thunder on the stooped shoulders of Josephs. Miss Wilson, after asking the ... ...grew famous, he had less need to bribe; for modern men worship the rich as gods, and will elect a man as one of their rulers for no other reason than ... ...eir prayers with some earnestness. At half-past twelve the rain, wind, and thunder made such a din that Agatha and Gertrude wrapped themselves in shaw... ... (here he drew a cork), “a generous goblet of this will make you feel like gods for half an hour at least. Shall we drink to your conversion to Social... ...t into them, others because they cannot keep out. If you had put forward a thundering revolutionary manifesto, not a daily paper would have dared allu...

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...d verse we meet with no prodigies of nature, but with miracles of wit; the thunders of his pen are whispered flatteries; its forked light- nings, poin... ...; He buys for Topham 45 drawings and designs, For Pembroke statues, dirty gods, and coins; Rare monkish manuscripts for Hearne 46 alone, And books f... ... woods, Now drain’d a distant country of her floods: Fanes, which admiring gods with pride survey, Statues of men, scarce less alive than they! ... ... and ages bears each form and name: In one short view subjected to our eye Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties, lie. With sharpen’d sight, pale an... ..., the learning thine: Touch’d by thy hand, again Rome’s glories shine; Her gods, and god-like heroes rise to view, 57 The Poetical Works of Alexander... ... and my groans deride. Art thou a father, unregarding Jove! And sleeps thy thunder in the realms above? 110 Thou Fury! then some las... ...rage of Jove! This wearied arm can scarce the bolt sustain, And unregarded thunder rolls in vain: Th’ o’erlabour’d Cyclops from his task retires, Th’ ... ...bleed anew. Thy curse, O Œdipus! just Heaven alarms, And sets th’ avenging Thunderer in arms. I from the root thy guilty race will tear, ... ...ny tides Unmix’d to his Sicilian river glides. Thy own Arcadians there the thunder claim, Whose impious rites disgrace thy mighty name; Who raise thy ...

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...th, if you’re interested to know, are my rule of life, the absolute little gods of my worship, the holy images set up on the wall. Oh yes, since I’m n... ...r a world so constituted was governed by a spell, that of the smile of the gods and the favour of the powers; the only hand some, the only gallant, i... ...y take off, that it has made us perhaps lazy, a wee bit languid—lying like gods together, all careless of mankind.” “Do you consider that we’re langui... ...ot worthy of the temple—dedicated to the grimacing, not to the clear faced gods. She herself, naturally, through the past years, had come to be much r... ...sion of; and with the sinister rise and fall of lightning unaccompanied by thunder it played before Mrs. Assingham’s eyes that she her self should ha... ..., could only feel her not fail of her purpose. “The air’s heavy as if with thunder—I think there’ll be a storm.” She made the suggestion to carry off ...

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...loud, a sudden Flash of Lightning happen’d, and after that a great Clap of Thunder, as is naturally the Effect of it; I was not so much surpris’d with... ...and this made the Thoughts of it so surprising to me when it lighten’d and thunder’d, as I observ’d just now. And now being to enter into a melancholy... ...me exceedingly, and cool’d the Earth, but it was accompany’d with terrible Thunder and Lightning, which frighted me dread fully for fear of my Powder... ...n the Shore, which was very plain to be seen in the Sand: I stood like one Thunder struck, or as if I had seen an Apparition; I listen’d, I look’d rou... ...w a very great Storm of Wind, all Day, with a great deal of Lightning, and Thunder, and a very foul Night it was after it; I know not what was the par... ...hoever went to that enchanted Island would be destroy’d with Fire from the Gods. This however I knew not, and therefore was under continual Apprehensi...

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... their order. But this must not be taken as a propitiatory offering to the gods of shipwreck; I trust my cargo unreservedly to the chances of the sea;... ...h her the names of grasses and wild flowers, or to sit by her side when it thundered. Distance to strangers, deep family tenderness, love of knowledge... ... from time to time, the Rever- end Mr. Auld should swoop upon him with the thunders of the Church, and, in company with seven others, Rab the Ranter m... ...ila- rated by the dreary chronicling of his worst. “But,” as he says, “the gods do not hear any rude or discordant sound, as we learn from the echo; a... ...ast was enough drinking for a lifetime. T ruly, of our pleasant vices, the gods make whips to scourge us. And secondly he was condemned to be hanged. ... ...an confidence, nor to the spirit of the bright Greek saying, that whom the gods 141 Familiar Studies of Men & Books love die early. It is a poor hear... ...ial obligations. It appears that Louis, after a narrow escape he made in a thunder-storm, had a smart ac- cess of penitence, and announced he would pa... ...tled frame of resolution, than his eye would grow familiar with a night of thunder and lightning. Years after, when he was speaking at the trial of th...

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...alace. It was with his own life that my companion disarmed the envy of the gods. He fought his paper single-handed; trusting no one, for he was someth... ...his bowed back, the stick would fly abroad in demonstration, and the sharp thunder of his voice roll out a long itinerary for the dogs, so that you sa... ...he song of the wonderful birds, Source of happiness; That I might hear the thunder of the crowding waves Upon the rocks: At times at work without comp... ...re, where they fill the round of the world’s dignities, and feast with the gods, exulting in Kudos. And when the talk is over, each goes his way, stil... ...terests, the same unquenched ardour in pursuit, the same gusts of talk and thunderclaps of contradiction. Cockshot* is a different article, but vastly... ... omission. Those who are no chim- ney-cornerers, who rejoice in the social thunderstorm, have a ground in reason for their choice. They get little res... ... in the mill garret, enjoying the view out of the window and shaken by the thunder of the stones; an automaton in one corner of which a living spirit ...

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... of paganism, popery, and infidelity. In like manner the seventh trumpet with its seven thunders is postponed, and along with the seventh seal laid ... ...s a thing personal to us, a whip to scourge our lethargy, a spell to break our sleep, a thunder- note to awaken our terrors; treated as a metaphysica... ...nd whence those cloudy and inclement skies? And whence the forked lightning and smiting thunderbolt, the hurricane, the volcano, and the wild tornad... ...ncerning evil magistrates and delegates of God upon the earth, “I have said that ye are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High, but ye s... ...telligent and heavenly beings. Therefore he did not annihilate Satan with a blow of the thunderbolt, or with a word of his mouth destroy him utterly... ...lly did not speak. The Manicheans, for example, maintained their two principles, or two gods, the one good, the other bad; the one the cause of all ... ... at rest that the notice is utterly false. Particular authors may well join together in thundering out anathemas against any thing clear and express ... ...gether diverse from the first, in extent, in riches, in people, in laws, in customs, in gods, and even in language itself: which in all Asia, as in E... ...d themselves so far away; and fable, which had substituted so many false and ridiculous gods, of whom they recounted so many prodigies. Upon these t...

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...se's framework and say, “He is saying the same thing.” Otherwise, the tin gods you have created out of somebody's teaching will collapse. You have n... ... and listen to anybody no matter how holy he may be. He may be the god of gods, he may say, “I have come to liberate the whole of mankind.” If you g... ...on which no power can stop. No power, no god, can stop it because those gods themselves have set in motion these forces of destruction. You see th... ...pture the movement of life, it is much too slow. It is like lightning and thunder. They occur simultaneously but sound, traveling slower than light, ...

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...on, his dark eyes burning into hers. ‘My darling, you are a green-eyed siren who would tempt the gods. Another minute and I would have taken you he... ...tain tops and filled the valley below with sheets of THE CURSE OF KALI 197 electric light. The thunder roared and rolled from the peaks, echoing a... ...electric light. The thunder roared and rolled from the peaks, echoing across the valley as if the gods were shouting their anger from their mighty m...

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...sty wrath Pericles, Act I, scene i 6 Could never be her mild companion. You gods that made me man, and sway in love, That have inflamed desire in my ... ..., finger’d to make man his lawful music, Would draw heaven down, and all the gods, to hearken: But being play’d upon before your time, Hell only dance... ...g’d By man’s oppression; and the poor worm doth die for’t. Kings are earth’s gods; in vice their law’s their will; And if Jove stray, who dares say Jo... ...our needy bread, And give them life whom hunger starved half dead. All: The gods of Greece protect you! And we’ll pray for you. PERICLES: ... ..., Where when men been, there’s seldom ease; For now the wind begins to blow; Thunder above and deeps below Make such unquiet, that the ship Should hou... ....] PERICLES: Yet cease your ire, you angry stars of heaven! Wind, rain, and thunder, remember, earthly man Is but a substance that must yield to you;... ...in brass, Having call’d them from the deep! O, still Thy deafening, dreadful thunders; gently quench Thy nimble, sulphurous flashes! O, how, Lychorida... ... hast the harvest out of thine own report. BOULT: I warrant you, mistress, thunder shall not so awake the beds of eels as my giving out her beauty ... ...at sea again! O Helicanus, Down on thy knees, thank the holy gods as loud As thunder threatens us: this is Marina. What was thy mother’s name? tell me...

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...de still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels men rebel... ... effluvia darting thro’ the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain? If nature thunder’d in his op’ning ears, And stunn’d him with the music of the sphe... ...And for those arts mere instinct could afford, Be crown’d as monarchs, or as gods ador’d.’ Great nature spoke; observant man obey’d; Cities were built... ...tion taught the tyrant awe, Then shar’d the tyranny , then lent it aid, And gods of conqu’rors, slaves of subjects made: She, ‘midst the lightning’s ... ... conqu’rors, slaves of subjects made: She, ‘midst the lightning’s blaze, and thunder’s sound, When rock’d the mountains, and when groan’d the ground, ... ...e rending earth, and bursting skies, Essay on Man by Alexander Pope 26 Saw gods descend, and fiends infernal rise: Here fix’d the dreadful, there th... ...he dreadful, there the blest abodes; Fear made her devils, and weak hope her gods; Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were ... ... living food; Next his grim idol smear’d with human blood; With heav’n’s own thunders shook the world below , And play’d the god an engine on his foe.... ...ites to reverse his laws? Shall burning Aetna, if a sage requires, Forget to thunder, and recall her fires? On air or sea new motions be imprest, Oh b...