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...its. We had accepted this purgatory as a child accepts the conditions of the world. For my part, I shivered a little, and my back ached wearily; but I... ...y resembles sunset; it seems to fit some subsequential, evening epoch of the world, as though America were in fact, and not merely in fancy, farther f... ...t take a special pleasure in the sound of names; and there is no part of the world where nomenclature is so rich, poetical, hu- morous, and picturesqu... ...English with a slight and rather odd foreign accent, every inch a man of the world, and armed with manners so patronisingly superior that I am at a lo... ...en at last I found an empty bench, I sank into it like a bundle of rags, the world seemed to swim away into the distance, and my consciousness dwindle... ...eposited at the Pacific Transfer Station near Council Bluffs, on the eastern bank of the Missouri river. Here we were to stay the night at a kind of c... ...uropean way, I should call the boots, were in- stalled behind a counter like bank tellers. They took my name, assigned me a number, and proceeded to d... ...y, and from that again, by the loss of its charter and town lands, to a mere bankrupt village, its rise and decline is typical of that of all Mexican ... ...er mortals, a certificate. For years he could not pass a frontier or visit a bank without suspicion; the police every- where, but in his native city, ...

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...my eye your eye, My tongue should catch your tongue’s sweet melody. Were the world mine, Demetrius being bated, The rest I’d give to be to you transla... ...e childing autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries, and the mazed world, By their increase, now knows not which is which: And this same pro... ...scene i 18 Therefore I think I am not in the night; Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company, For you in my respect are all the world: Then how can ... ... respect are all the world: Then how can it be said I am alone, When all the world is here to look on me? DEMETRIUS: I’ll run from thee and hide me i... ...wanderer. PUCK: Ay, there it is. OBERON: I pray thee, give it me. I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grow... ...f the day. HERMIA: Be it so, Lysander: find you out a bed; For I upon this bank will rest my head. LYSANDER: One turf shall serve as pillow for us ... ...a while I will remain. So sorrow’s heaviness doth heavier grow For debt that bankrupt sleep doth sorrow owe: Which now in some slight measure it will ... ...d up. I know you two are rival enemies: How comes this gentle concord in the world, That hatred is so far from jealousy, To sleep by hate, and fear no...

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...to their source the mighty ponds of Hampstead, and agitated the scientific world with his Theory of Tittlebats, as calm and unmoved as the deep waters... ...it—he had felt some pride when he presented his Tittlebatian Theory to the world; it might be celebrated or it might not. (A cry of “It is,” and great... ...fame of that treatise were to extend to the farthest confines of the known world, the pride with which he should reflect on the authorship of that pro... ...rom his slum bers, threw open his chamber window, and looked out upon the world beneath. Goswell Street was at his feet, Goswell Street was on his ri... ...eized his friend’s hand warmly, as he en thusiastically replied, ‘Not for worlds!’ A thrill passed over Mr. Winkle’s frame as the conviction that he ... ..., or resounded with the noise of feasting and revelry. On either side, the banks of the Medway, covered with corn fields and pastures, with here and ... ...w himself upon the grass. ‘He had not observed that a man was lying on the bank beside him; his garments rustled as he turned round to steal a look at... ...eh?’ said the little man. ‘Oh, wery well, Sir,’ replied Sam, ‘we shan’t be bankrupts, and we shan’t make our fort’ns. We eats our biled mutton without... ...borne upon the arms of demons who swept along upon the wind, and bore down bank and hedge before them, and spun me round and round with a rustle and a...

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... prayed, I feel all the more that there is an answer to even feeble almost worldly prayer.” “That it could not be when it was that you might be en- ab... ...” “That’s all right,” said Agatha. “I would not be rich and stupid for the world.” “Small fear of that!” said Magdalen, laughing. “Our home, the Goyle... ...rella, which left no leisure to admire the primroses that studded the deep banks and which delighted Thekla in the freedom of short skirts. Magdalen h... ...idistant from three or four churches, and condemned to the most behind the world of them all, and then to the one where there is this distant fragranc... ...n engagement with a certain Henry Merrifield, who had been employed in the bank at Filsted when Magdalen was a very young girl. His father had come do... ...e others have sense and principle, though. Well, they put their Hal into a Bank at Filsted, and by and by they found he was in a great scrape, with ga... ... descriptions meant. She knew already that the sweetest countenance in the world and the loveliest dark eyes belonged to a fairly good-looking young m... ...ratum, and that V era would have found another sweetest countenance in the world. All this passed through her mind while Magdalen listened, and pronou... ...n. He never could get through an examination, and my father put him into a bank at Filsted. By and by, after some years, came a letter telling my fath...

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...me—that a brother should Be so perfidious!—he whom next thyself Of all the world I loved and to him put The manage of my state; as at that time Throug... ...I do. PROSPERO: I pray thee, mark me. I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind With ... ...unds no more: and sure, it waits upon Some god o’ the island. Sitting on a bank, Act I, scene ii 16 Weeping again the king my father’s wreck, This mu... ...dmired Miranda! Indeed the top of admiration! worth What’s dearest to the world! Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard and many a time The h... ...y my modesty, The jewel in my dower, I would not wish Any companion in the world but you, Nor can imagination form a shape, Besides yourself, to like ... ...What best is boded me to mischief! I Beyond all limit of what else i’ the world Do love, prize, honor you. MIRANDA: I am a ... ...And flat meads thatch’d with stover, them to keep; Act IV, scene i 45 Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims, Which spongy April at thy hest betrims...

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...e beach, the surf breaks with a continuous uproar. In wild weather, as the world knows, the roads are untenable. Along the whole shore, which is every... ..., than has yet been collected in the blue-books or the white- books of the world. Mulinuu (where the walk is to begin) is a flat, wind-swept promontor... ...ith some concourse of affairs, policemen and idlers hanging by, a man at a bank- counter overhauling manifests, perhaps a trial proceeding in the fron... ...al in the island of Upolu. When its founder, John Cae- sar Godeffroy, went bankrupt over Russian paper and Westphalian iron, his most considerable ass... ...olite manner,” says the same account – “in the most delicate manner in the world,” a reader of Marryat might be tempted to amend the phrase, – to stri... .... And on the 23rd, when the mail had left for Sydney, when the eyes of the world were withdrawn, and Samoa plunged again for a period of weeks into he... ...aking more expedition than the messengers, passed early behind Apia to the banks of the Vaisingano. As he passed, he de- tached a messenger to Mataafa... ...uila, Aana, and Atua, farewell! If we do not again see one another in this world, pray that we may be again together above.” So the sheep departed wit... ...single-handed in that storm of missiles to secure the head. On the farther bank, as was but natural, he fell himself; he who had gone to take a trophy...

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...e, he counted upon satisfying the fair one by giving her all he had in the world. “What is it ails you?” said the good archbishop, uneasy at the groan... ...rily fallen. Imperia was the most precious, the most fantastic girl in the world, although she passed for the most dazzling and the beautiful, and the... ...E B RUYN, he who completed the Castle of Roche- Corbon-les-Vouvray, on the banks of the Loire, was a bois- terous fellow in his youth. When quite litt... ...he corners, and shaped and pointed like a Spanish doublet, situated upon a bank from which it was reflected in the Loire. In the rooms were royal tape... ... skip, eat, flirt, have more feasts and make merrier than any in the whole world. The good old seneschal had taken for his associate the daugh- ter of... ...rtioners in order to raise the sum, re- mained, without a penny in the the world, awaiting her lord in a poor lodging in the town, without a carpet to... ...at if the Lady of Azay made him wait, he had just time to pass out of this world into the other. But during the baptismal enter- tainment, he thought ... ...nal believing that the lady had obtained her re- 90 Balzac ceipt from the bank of deposit, left the tassels of his girdle in the king’s hand, making ...

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...st reserve. Like almost every military man in Europe, he had only seen the world through cannon smoke, or in the brief intervals of peace that occurre... ... mention of the loan. He was the child of his company; he was alone in the world, so he had adopted the army for his fatherland, and the regiment for ... ... in, to say nothing of the five pounds’ weight of soap. In our part of the world you would simply have to wear your life out before you would make ten... ...al absence of regard for appearances befitting a village at the end of the world, which had nothing beyond it, and no connection with any other place.... ...eemed to belong to one family that dwelt beyond the limits of the bustling world, with which the collector of taxes and a few ties of the very slender... ...e heads of a few trees that love to grow by the water-side. On the farther bank of the river, at the foot of a mountain, with a faint red glow of suns... ...r how unwholesome his hovel may be, a peasant clings far more to it than a banker does to his mansion. The reason of it? That I do not know. Perhaps t... ...st saw the curling smoke from a tobacco pipe rise among the brushwood on a bank of rubbish not far away. He pointed it out to the doctor, who shouted ... ...ounded by poplars stood in the middle of it. Round the enclosure were high banks on which a triple line of trees of different kinds were growing; the ...

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... fashion, Presley was determined that his poem should be of the West, that world’s frontier of Romance, where a new race, a new people—hardy, brave, a... ...wearied him. He cared for none of these things. They did not belong to his world. In the picture of that huge romantic West that he saw in his imagina... ...nt, eter- nal, strong, the nourisher of nations, the feeder of an en- tire world. Ha! there it was, his epic, his inspiration, his West, his thunderin... ...ed abruptly to sweep Presley from his feet. As from a point high above the world, he seemed to dominate a 38 The Octopus universe, a whole order of t... ...irection of the Mission itself. It was the de Profundis, a note of the Old World; of the ancient regime, an echo from the hillsides of mediaeval Europ... ...he commission merchant, the el- evator combine, the mixing-house ring, the banks, the warehouse men, the labouring man, and, above all, the railroad. ... ...tcome. So nar- row had the margin of profit shrunk that a dry season meant bankruptcy to the smaller farmers throughout all the valley. He knew very w... ... against the vest buttons of imitation mother-of-pearl. S. Behrman was the banker of Bonneville. But besides this he was many other things. He was a r... .... By applying your schedule of rates we would not earn a cent; we would be bankrupt.” “Interest on your investment!” cried Harran, furious. “It’s fine...

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... Farewell, my liege. Now no way can I stray; Save back to England, all the world’s my way. [Exit.] KING RICHARD II : Uncle, even in the glasses of th... ...y, rather, every tedious stride I make Will but remember me what a deal of world I wander from the jewels that I love. Must I not serve a long apprent... ...still our tardy apish nation Limps after in base imitation. Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity— So it be new, there’s no respect how vile— Tha... ...gainst infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the of... ...n service and true chivalry, As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry, Of the world’s ransom, blessed Mary’s Son, This land of such dear souls, this dear... ...l, old Lancaster hath spent. DUKE OF YORK : Be York the next that must be bankrupt so! Though death be poor, it ends a mortal woe. KING RICHARD II : ... ...l of Wiltshire hath the realm in farm. LORD WILLOUGHBY : The king’s grown bankrupt, like a broken man. Richard II, Act II, scene i 27 NORTHUMBERLAND... ...ject to thy curse. Here did she fall a tear; here in this place I’ll set a bank of rue, sour herb of grace: Rue, even for ruth, here shortly shall be ... ...irror hither straight, That it may show me what a face I have, Since it is bankrupt of his majesty. HENRY BOLINGBROKE : Go some of you and fetch a lo...

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...s. Lirriper that man is in possession here, and I have not a friend in the world who is able to help me with a shilling.” It doesn’t signify a bit wha... ...o speak to Mrs. Lirriper.” If you’ll believe me my dear the Consols at the bank where I have a little matter for Jemmy got into my head, and I says “G... ...ays he “frrwom the Frrwench Consul’s.” So I saw at once that it wasn’t the Bank of England. “We have rrweceived,” says the gentleman turning his r’s ... ...te and elegant room, and every- body seeming to play at everything in this world. And as to the sparkling lights my dear after dark, glittering high u... ... to keep from him the knowledge that there is such wrong and misery in the world; but that it was ever so near him in his innocent cradle I have kept ... ...h I could not quite approve of the Major’s doing it, still the ways of the world are the ways of the world varying ac- cording to the different parts ... ...y, copying as it seemed to me the style of some of his story-books, “was a worldly man who entertained ambitious views for his only son and who firmly...

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...race of me this day that I should rescue thee, and thou art the man in the world that I most hate; but now make 6 Thomas Malory thee ready, for I wil... ...e, I asked her who slew her lord. Sir, she said, the falsest knight of the world now living, and he is the most villain that ever man heard speak of a... ...Lake. Alas, said Sir Tristram, what have I done! for ye are the man in the world that I love best. Fair knight, said Sir Launcelot, tell me your name?... ...Welcome, said Arthur, for one of the best knights, and the gentlest of the world, and the man of most worship; for of all manner of hunting thou beare... ...e matched with such a fair lady and good as La Beale Isoud is, for all the world of him speaketh shame, and of her worship that any queen may have. I ... ...the good knights of his kin about him. CHAPTER LIX How they came to Humber bank, and how they found a ship there, wherein lay the body of King Hermanc... ... head as well as another. So thus they rode until that they came to Humber bank, where they heard a cry and a doleful noise. Then were they ware in th...

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... is a damsel who very likely does not know how to read, who consequently has never read anything, and yet with one word she has just told the whole hi... ...m it worth his while to inquire after its cause; nor did he get up to look out of the narrow grated window, which gave access to the light and to the ... ...he was in the peaceful pursuit of cultivating tulips. Van Baerle was truly beloved by his servants and labourers; nor had he any conception that there... ...four or five thousand tulip-growers of Holland, France, and Por- tugal, leaving out those of Ceylon and China and the Indies, might, if so disposed, p... ... prize might just as well have offered two millions as a hundred thou- sand guilders, since no one would be able to gain it. 50 The Black Tulip The t... ...My beloved one.” “Y ou have then left it alone,” said Cornelius, ruefully. “One minute only, to instruct our messenger, who lives scarcely fifty yards...

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... rushed through it, that it struck chill to me, as if I had left the natural world. Before he stirred, I was near enough to him to have touched him. N... ...ritual intercourse seemed to me as poor a piece of journey work as ever this world saw. In which heathen state of mind, I came within view of the hous... ...y occupation in life has been to spend six. I am in hopes, however, that his Banker may break, or that he may enter into some speculation guaranteed t... ...arently as hard as a block all over, proved to be an intelligent man, with a world of watery experiences in him, and great practi cal knowledge. At t... ...li cable notions concerning the currency, and with a proposi tion that the Bank of England should, on pain of being abol ished, instantly strike of... ...wife constitute my whole establishment. My occupation is in a certain Branch Bank, and I wish that my duties as head of a Department were as light as ...

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...m of imminent war, The shadow of His loss drew like eclipse, Darkening the world. We have lost him: he is gone: We know him now: all narrow jealous... ...d To her that is the fairest under heaven, I seem as nothing in the mighty world, And cannot will my will, nor work my work Wholly, nor make myself in... ...rything Have power on this dark land to lighten it, And power on this dead world to make it live. ’ Thereafter—as he speaks who tells the tale— Whe... ...ur reached a field-of-battle bright With pitched pavilions of his foe, the world Was all so clear about him, that he saw The smallest rock far on the ... ...King, as here and there that war Went swaying; but the Powers who walk the world Made lightnings and great thunders over him, And dazed all eyes, till... ...e fault Whereof I was not guilty; and out I ran And flung myself down on a bank of heath, And hated this fair world and all therein, And wept, and wis... ...Wherethrough the serpent river coiled, they came. Rough-thicketed were the banks and steep; the stream Full, narrow; this a bridge of single arc Took ... ...ng as she lay; Then, as the white and glittering star of morn Parts from a bank of snow, and by and by Slips into golden cloud, the maiden rose, And l... ...met wagged; And at a sudden swerving of the road, Though happily down on a bank of grass, The Prince, without a word, from his horse fell. And Enid...

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...aloud. “One class of half-grown lads, and those grudged to me! Here is the world around one mass of misery and evil! Not a paper do I take up but I se... ... near you that I think there I can be happy as ever I can be again in this world, and have your advice for the dear children.’” “Poor darling! she see... ...ibed interests and habits, and little connected with the great progressive world, where, however, Rachel’s sympathies all lay, necessarily fed, howeve... ...fy a soul burning at the report of the great cry going up to heaven from a world of sin and woe. The examples of successful workers stimulated her lon... ...see it, and ourselves too. Oh! Fanny is this what you have been across the world for?” “What is wrong?” asked Fanny, alarmed. “Do you remember our axi... ...yings and doings, far more like clever memoirs than the experiences of the banks of the Avon. Perhaps there was this immediate disadvantage, that hear... ...s as likely as the other.—Then absolutely nothing was done!” “Nothing! The bankruptcy was declared, the whole affair broken up; and certainly if every... ... for imprudence, and therefore retained in her own name, in the Avoncester Bank, all the sums that she received. Mr. Mauleverer declared himself quite... ...he a married man, I must be an engaged one, either to you or to the little Banksia.” This periphrasis was needful, because Rose was curled up in a cor...

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...ndertook, was required in the surgeon who assisted to bring a boy into the world, or might one day assist, perhaps, to send him out of it; in the chem... ...ificent high-minded laissez-aller neglect, has rarely been exceeded in the world. We hear sometimes of an action for damages against the unqualified m... ...his book which are drawn from life. It is remarkable that what we call the world, which is so very credulous in what professes to be true, is most in-... ...accession of the House of Brunswick, and would have broken the Rest of the Bank of England. The Brothers are now dead. There is only one other point, ... ...y and his partner, the honeymoon being over, looked out wistfully into the world, relying in no inconsiderable degree upon chance for the improvement ... ... between sixty and eighty pounds per annum. There are people enough in the world, Heaven knows! and even in London (where Mr Nickleby dwelt in those d... ...S NOT, strictly speaking, what you would call a merchant, neither was he a banker, nor an attor- ney , nor a special pleader, nor a notary . He was ce... ...pectively. ‘Mr Browdie,’ said Miss Squeers hysterically , ‘shall we make a bank against them?’ The Y orkshireman assented—apparently quite overwhelmed... ...y vi- sions of large houses at the West end, neat private carriages, and a banker’ s book; all of which images succeeded each other with such rapidity...

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...ecollections of living men, they have grown from a city of the fifth or sixth class to be near the head of all the purely trading places of the known world. That there are sufficient causes for this unparalleled prosperity, will appear in the analysis of the natural advantages of the port, in its position, security, accessories, and scale....

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...th class to be near the head of all the purely trading places of the known world. That there are sufficient causes for this unparal- leled prosperity,... ...their resources, their ac- tivity , and their influence on the rest of the world, as well as in their population, that the towns of Manhattan will be ... ...go that en- ters the ports of the kingdom that does not pay tribute to her bankers or merchants. But London is a political capital, and that in a coun... ... state, here makes its annual exhibition of luxury and wealth, such as the world has never beheld anywhere else, ancient Rome possibly excepted, and h... ...f the real importance and prob- able destinies of this emporium of the New World. It is now just three-and-twenty years since, that, in another work, ... ...t century will bring about changes that will place the emporium of the Old World and that of the New nearly on a level. This opinion is given with a p... ... of the authority to punish for theft, to lay out highways, to incorporate banks, and all the 16 New Y ork ordinary interests over which she at prese... ...ers and owners of all around them, why are they not the proprietors of the banks and other corporations created by themselves? They made the governmen...

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...n every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. I speak of peace, while covert enmity Under the smile of safety wounds the world: And who but Rumour, who but only I, Make fearful musters and prepared defence, Whiles the big year, sworn with some other grief, Is thought with child by the stern tyrant war, And no such matter? Rumour is a pipe Blown...

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...I speak of peace, while covert enmity Under the smile of safety wounds the world: And who but Rumour, who but only I, Make fearful musters and prepare... ...t Nature’s hand Keep the wild flood confined! let order die! And let this world no longer be a stage To feed contention in a lingering act; But let o... ...n: I pray ye, since my exion is entered and my case so openly known to the world, let him be brought in to his answer. A hundred mark is a long one f... ...dom: but the midwives say the children are not in the fault; whereupon the world increases, and kindreds are mightily strengthened. POINS: How ill it... ... blessed fellow to think as every man thinks: never a man’s thought in the world keeps the road way better than thine: every man would think me an hy... ... of our wills To us and to our purposes confined, We come within our awful banks again And knit our powers to the arm of peace. WESTMORELAND: This wi...

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...m that Ixion grindstone’s ceaseless toil, That turns and turns to give the world a notion Of endless torments and perpetual motion. A bungler ev... ...acassar! Perfect she was, but as perfection is Insipid in this naughty world of ours, Where our first parents never learn’d to kiss Till t... ... where’er he had a mind, And never dream’d his lady was concern’d; The world, as usual, wickedly inclined To see a kingdom or a house o’ertu... ...calumny that rose, And saw his agonies with such sublimity, That all the world exclaim’d, ‘What magnanimity!’ No doubt this patience, when the w... ... Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it. Julia was — yet I never could see why — With Donn... ...bout; Some fancied they saw land, and some said ‘No!’ The frequent fog banks gave them cause to doubt— Some swore that they heard breakers, ot... ... seem doubly mindful of their vows, To save the credit of their breaking bank: To no men are such cordial greetings given As those whose wives... ...s is call’d Ismail, and is placed Upon the Danube’s left branch and left bank, With buildings in the Oriental taste, But still a fortress of... ...our St. George, Case mated one, and t’ other ‘a barbette,’ Of Danube’s bank took formidable charge; While two and twenty cannon duly set R...