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....’ ‘And who comes next?’ said Elizabeth. ‘Gustavus Adolphus and Sir Philip Sydney.’ ‘Do not mention them together, they are no pair,’ said Elizabeth. ... ...elty was of Turenne’s,’ said Elizabeth; ‘Sir Walter Raleigh was worse than Sydney, and Surrey quite as bad, to judge by his picture.’ ‘It is not quite...

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... infection of begging letter writing, like the contagion of disease. What Sydney Smith so happily called ‘the dangerous luxury of dishonesty’ is more... ...l little things that brought him in—nothing. I have two sons doing well at Sydney, New South Wales—single, when last heard from. One of my sons (James...

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...an awful row. However, nothing decisive happened till after we had been in Sydney for a week. One day, in the men’s dinner hour, Charley sticks his he... ...to swear some- thing awful at every second word. We had met on the quay in Sydney, and he had an apron of sacking up to his chin, a big whip in his ha...

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...d and get after the rats and cockroaches, and to fix up that store regular Sydney style. A fine show I made of it; and the third morning when I had li...

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... Australian had no opinion of dolls, and had let the one bought for her at Sydney be thrown overboard by the ship’s monkey. “That was cruel!” said Lil...

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...ozen canvases. He had a few pounds in his pocket, for he had found work in Sydney , and he took a small room in a native house outside the town. I thi...

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...d been fond of smoking by starlight, and the corner where an old chap from Sydney used to flirt with a widow we had aboard. A comfortable couple they’...

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...eep; the Mahometan world spread its carpet and was taken in prayer. And in Sydney, in Melbourne, in New Zealand, the thing was a fog in the afternoon,...

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...and greater virtues, I’ll agree. Spenser himself affects the obsolete, And Sydney’s verse halts ill on Roman feet: Milton’s strong pinion now not Heav...

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...ied this steamboat belonged to the P.O. Company, which runs from Ceylon to Sydney, touching at King George’s Point and Melbourne. At five o’clock in t...

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...ckens or rise above Fitzjames, commits no fault, though he may be foolish. Sydney Smith truly said that in these recreant days we cannot expect to fin... ...themselves old, a liberal clergyman was a person not frequently to be met. Sydney Smith was such, and was looked on as a little better than an infidel...

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... life, and find ourselves sharing the extremely realistic discomforts of a Sydney whaler in the early forties. The rebellious crew’s ex- periences in ...

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...lf was in those tumbrils that went along Cheapside to the Mansion House, a Sydney Cartonesque figure, a white de- feated Mirabean; sometimes it was I ...

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...gly. Francis was the son of a highly- esteemed barrister and politician of Sydney, and in his day would inherit his father’s lately-won baronetcy. But...

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...f its most finished graduates, and that scarce any race of mankind, except Sydney men, are so much distrusted by our whaling captains. Nor does it at ...

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...zabeth herself could be more stately. But who comes here?” “I’m Sir Philip Sydney.” “No, no,” shouted Humfrey, “Sir Philip shall not come into this fo...

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...d been fond of smoking by starlight, and the corner where an old chap from Sydney used to flirt with a widow we had aboard. A comfortable couple they’...

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...of its most finished graduates, and that scarce any race of mankind, except Sydney men, are so much distrusted by our whaling captains. Nor does it at ...

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... and illustrated amongst the Leukerbad party, for the benefit of Babie and Sydney Evelyn. As a foretaste, Johnny produced from the bag he still carrie... ...osite to the old general. Barbara was opposite to Mrs. Evelyn, and next to Sydney, a girl a few months older than herself, but considerably taller and... ...shes at the old general. “Oh, don’t tease Uncle James,” hastily interposed Sydney, as yet inexperienced in the difference between the importu- nities ... ...oll face, and answered— “His pipe.” “O Uncle James, that’s too bad,” cried Sydney. “If Jock had made this acrostic, it might be pipe,” said Babie; “bu... ...s sung at the mouth of the Rhone, and defended Ino’s sobriety. Barbara and Sydney lived upon those acrostics in their trav- elling bags till they reac... ...not only Cecil, but Fordham, and seemed in a fair way of doing the same by Sydney. The two 279 Yonge hats, brown and black, were almost locked togeth... ...ve. There was perhaps a little maternal anxiety at this absorption; but as Sydney was sure to pour out every- thing at night, her mother could let thi... ...so funny, I can’t think of anything,” she said. “Shall I do as I used when Sydney was little?” and Mrs. 281 Yonge Evelyn knelt down with her, and sai... ...rom London to Paris. She was not long left in ignorance, for no sooner had Sydney been assured that nothing ailed Barbara but fatigue, than she burst ...

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...ieve of Mother Gunga?” “All that our priest says. London is London, Sahib. Sydney is Sydney, and Port Darwin is Port Darwin. Also Mother Gunga is Moth... ... was the least of the wonder, for no man dies before his time. I have seen Sydney, I have seen Lon- don, and twenty great ports, but” – Peroo looked a...

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... interested him which were connected with the manufacture of arms. When at Sydney, Shongi, by a strange coinci- dence, met the hostile chief of the Th... ...h. — In the afternoon we stood out of the Bay of Islands, on our course to Sydney. I be- lieve we were all glad to leave New Zealand. It is not a plea... ...hristian inhabitants. 476 The V oyage of the Beagle CHAPTER XIX AUSTRALIA Sydney — Excursion to Bathurst — Aspect of the Woods — Party of Natives — G... ... the neighbourhood of the capital of Australia. At last we anchored within Sydney Cove. We found the little basin occupied by many large ships, and su... ...rsion. The first stage took us to Paramatta, a small country town, next to Sydney in importance. The roads were excel- lent, and made upon the MacAdam... ...pt at night at a very comfortable inn at Emu ferry, thirty-five miles from Sydney, and near the ascent of the Blue Mountains. This line of road is the... ...e superintendent of which I had a letter of introduction from the owner in Sydney. Mr. Browne had the kindness to ask me to stay the ensuing day, whic... ...ant. 489 Charles Darwin very broad valley, or narrow plain. I was told at Sydney not to form too bad an opinion of Australia by judging of the countr... ...ard, and before dark took another walk to the amphitheatre. On the road to Sydney I spent a very pleasant evening with Captain King at Dunheved; and t...

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...ional little incident I witnessed now rather more than twenty years ago in Sydney, N.S.W. Ships were be- ginning then to grow bigger year after year, ... ...nsions were not even dreamt of. I was standing on the Circular Quay with a Sydney pilot watching a big mail steamship of one of our best-known compani... ...big things, they want some handling.” Some months afterwards I was back in Sydney. The same pilot brought me in from sea. And I found the same steamsh...

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...han, Madame Sarah Bernhardt, Mr. Henry Arthur Jones, Mr. A. W. Pinero, Mr. Sydney Grundy, and so on, but not the Signora Duse or anyone con- nected wi...

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...eve of Mother Gunga?” “ All that our priest says. London is London, Sahib. Sydney is Sydney, and Port Darwin is Port Darwin. Also Mother Gunga is Moth... ... was the least of the wonder, for no man dies before his time. I have seen Sydney, I have seen London, and twenty great ports, but”—Peroo looked at th...

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... note of any kind was referred to by Mr. Dickens—except the Quotation from Sydney Smith. The address, evidently carefully prepared, was delivered with... ...the understanding which was given more than half a century ago by the Rev. Sydney Smith—wisest and wittiest of the friends I have lost. He says—and he...

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...ks off.] FATHER DAMIEN AN OPEN LETTER TO THE REVEREND DR. HYDE OF HONOLULU SYDNEY, FEBRUARY 25, 1890. SIR,– It may probably occur to you that we have ... ...d on the size, the taste, and the comfort of your home. It would *From the Sydney Presbyterian, October 26, 1889. 46 Robert Louis Stevenson have been...

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...voiced and reckless as the wild tide-race That whips our harbour-mouth! SYDNEY Greeting! My birth-stain have I turned to good; Forcing strong wil...

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... Leicester to help them with an army. With him went his nephew, Sir Philip Sydney, the most good, and learned, and graceful gentleman at court. There ...

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...- gion for professional purposes without delicacy or scruple (for example, Sydney Carton and the ghost in Hamlet!): they are anarchical, and cannot ba...

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...and, who was to me a very kind friend. Her novel, entitled Memoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph, contains an excel- lent moral while it inculcates a future... ...rmly shewed Johnson the greatest respect; and when Mr. Townshend, now Lord Sydney, at a period when he was conspicu- ous in opposition, threw out some...

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... issued their challenges for them. “Young Pronto,” Bill announced, “from North Sydney, challenges the winner for fifty pounds side bet.” The audience a...

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... “Nothing then, I assure you. See, it is merely this—she has not come into Sydney so soon as expected, which you knew before. That is all.” “Let me se... .... How we used to roast Owen about that Spanish Donna, and he was as bad at Sydney about the young lady whose father, we told him, was a convict, thoug...