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...al-Archbishop of Sulaco, standing absorbed in fil- ial devotion before the monument of Don Jose Avellanos, and, with a lingering, tender, faithful gla... ...ear mornings an- other shadow is cast upon the sweep of the gulf. The dawn breaks high behind the towering and serrated wall of the Cordillera, a clea... ...s say—is eating it up. Unless perchance a 14 Nostromo sombre thunder-head breaks away from the main body to career all over the gulf till it escapes ... ...— invaluable fellow—with some Italian workmen, im- ported to work upon the National Central Railway, was at hand, and managed to snatch him away—for t... ...s that ever came to Sulaco with a general cargo before the building of the National Central. He left her on account of some very respect- able friends... ... Señor don Vincente Ribiera, the Dictator of Costaguana, had described the National Central Railway in his great speech at the turning of the first so... ... a long hut of planks with a corrugated iron roof overshadowed by gigantic cedar trees—the quarters of the engineer in charge of the advance section. ... ...arriage rolled under the old gateway fac- ing the harbour like a shapeless monument of leaves and stones. The rumble of wheels under the sono- rous ar... ...ss of the gulf before the Esmeralda rebels arrive; and by the time the day breaks over the ocean we shall be out of sight, invisible, hidden by Azuera...

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...mmense and knotty arms, Embraces the light beech. The pyramids Of the tall cedar overarching frame Most solemn domes within, and far below, ... ...ass expands _550 Its stony jaws, the abrupt mountain breaks, And seems, with its accumulated crags, To overhang the world: for w... ...3. Till down that mighty stream, dark, calm, and fleet, Between a chasm of cedarn mountains riven, Chased by the thronging winds whose viewless feet ... ...th golden stars, like heaven, was bright— _1095 O’er the split cedar’s pointed flame; And the lady’s harp would kindle there The melody of... ...y heart. I rode one evening with Count Maddalo Upon the bank of land which breaks the flow Of Adria towards Venice: a bare strand Of hillocks, heaped ... ...ch the lone fisher, when his nets are dried, Abandons; and no other object breaks The waste, but one dwarf tree and some few stakes _10 Broken ... ...e Greek tragic writers, in selecting as their subject any portion of their national history or mythology, employed in their treatment of it a certain ... ..., and my servant instantly recognized it as the portrait of La Cenci. This national and universal interest which the story pro- duces and has produced... ... _225 They are mines of poisonous mineral. Line 222 This libel on our national oath, and this accusation of all our countrymen of being in the da...

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...ius, and of empty pockets.) One makes new noses, one a guillotine, One breaks your bones, one sets them in their sockets; But vaccination cert... ...dy or other rummaging, Burglariously broke his coffin’s lid: Let not a monument give you or me hopes, Since not a pinch of dust remains of Che... ... battles, fires, and wrecks, Or any other thing that brings regret, Or breaks their hopes, or hearts, or heads, or necks: Thus drownings are m... ... just when he rises, or is set; And ‘t is, no doubt, a sight to see when breaks Bright Phoebus, while the mountains still are wet With mist,... ...ally, when he was ask’d to sing, He gave the different nations something national; ‘T was all the same to him—’God save the king,’ Or ‘Ca ir... ... her sire’s arm, which until now scarce held Her writhing, fell she like a cedar fell’d. A vein had burst, and her sweet lips’ pure dyes Were ... ...ic Of Dido’s alphabet; and this is rational As any other notion, and not national);— Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Eight” 187 But Juan was quite ‘a... ...ad ceased to see Houris, or aught except his florid race Who grew like cedars round him gloriously When he beheld his latest hero grace T... ...ularity, Reserve it) will be very sure to take. Meantime, read all the national debt sinkers, And tell me what you think of your great thinker...

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...eling and searching along the wall to find them. There was a stove in the corner—one of those tall, square, stately white porcelain things that looks ... ...endid gamblers are gone, only her microscopic knaves remain. An English gentleman who had been living there several years, said: “If you could disguis... ...y insolence here. These shopkeepers detest the English and despise the Americans; they are rude to both, more es- Mark Twain 102 pecially to ladies o... ...t, young neighbor, full of sentiment, full of poetry, loves Gretchen, Gretchen loves him. But he has no manure. Old Huss forbids him in the house. His... ...ody pays that man’s board and lodging. It occurs to him by and by, however, in one of his lucid moments. *Months after this was written, I happened in... ...ick relative in Siberia.” “Ah, me, you struck the summit! You struck the loftiest altitude of stupidity that human effort has ever reached. You shall ... ...American as soon as I see him—and so I speak to him and make his acquaintance. I like to be always making acquaintances—don’t you?” “Lord, yes!” “You ... ..., or a newspaper, or anything; at eating-stations he sends luncheon out to you, while the other people scramble and worry in the din- ing-rooms. If an... ...to rain. We waited until nine o’clock, and then got away in tolerably clear weather. Our course led up some terrific steeps, densely wooded with larch...

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...e discoverable in the language of the poems, the total absence of Athenian national feeling is per- haps no less worthy of observation. In later, and ... ...nt value of the ancient poetry on the T rojan war may thus have forced the national feeling of the Athenians to yield to their taste. The songs which ... ...tura should never betray the workmanship of an Athenian hand, and that the national spirit of a race, who have at a later period not inaptly been comp... ...appiness.” [Note: Ancient Greece, p. 101.] Can we contemplate that ancient monument, on which the “Apotheosis of Homer” [Note: The best description of... ...nt, on which the “Apotheosis of Homer” [Note: The best description of this monument will be found in Vaux’s “Antiquities of the British Museum,” p. 19... ...lator can prejudice it but by wilful omissions or contractions. As it also breaks out in every particular im- age, description, and simile, whoever le... ...y demands them all!” The voice divine the mighty chief alarms; The council breaks, the warriors rush to arms. The gates unfolding pour forth all their... ...e dire author of his country’s woe.” His silence here, with blushes, Paris breaks: “’Tis just, my brother, what your anger speaks: But who like thee c... ...the king’s command obey. Then pass’d the monarch to his bridal-room, Where cedar-beams the lofty roofs perfume, And where the treasures of his empire ...

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...e discoverable in the language of the poems, the total absence of Athenian national feeling is per 17 Pope haps no less worthy of observation. In la... ...nt value of the ancient poetry on the T rojan war may thus have forced the national feeling of the Athenians to yield to their taste. The songs which ... ...tura should never betray the workmanship of an Athenian hand; and that the national spirit of a race, who have at a later period not inaptly been comp... ... would suffice to complete his happiness.” Can we contemplate that ancient monument, on which the “Apotheosis of Homer” is depictured, and not feel ho... ... hand. Then urged, she perfects her illustrious toils; 43 Pope A wondrous monument of female wiles! “But you, O peers! and thou, O prince! give ear (... ...h with every beauty crown’d). The cave was brighten’d with a rising blaze; Cedar and frankincense, an odorous pile, Flamed on the hearth, and wide per... ... the cavern door. “‘What hurts thee, Polypheme? what strange affright Thus breaks our slumbers, and disturbs the night? Does any mortal, in the unguar... ...pands, at once six men devours. “‘Close by, a rock of less enormous height Breaks the wild waves, and forms a dangerous strait; Full on its crown a fi... ...is native Ithaca, by reason of a mist which Pallas had cast around him. He breaks into loud lamentations; till the goddess appearing to him in the for...

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...doubtless they ran upon Napoleon, Catholic Emancipa- tion, true methods of national defence, of effective for- eign Anti-gallicism, and of domestic di... ...ating soul, equips beyond all others to shine in the Talking Era, and lead National Palavers with their spolia opima captive, is imprisoned in a fragi... ...carve an image of him; and went accordingly with a hatchet, and cut down a cedar for that purpose. He then proceeded to carve the figure; and being ti... ...h saying; but I shall confine myself to two remarks: first, that while the Monuments and works of Art gain in wondrousness and significance by familia... ...ntrasts oddly with the melancholy vastness and sim- plicity of the Ancient Monuments, though these have not the Athenian elegance. I recur perpetually... ...such Festivals yearly, of course there is none of the eager interest which breaks out at coronations and similar rare events; no explosion of unwonted... ...litude Of rocks and gloomy waters all alone, Where sunshine scarcely breaks on stump or stone To scare the dreamy vision. Thus did she, A ... ...y subtle, patient and comprehensive mind. It will be our chief speculative monument of this age. Mill and I could not meet above two or three times; b...

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...e catastrophe to come. Lost in thought, he walked on and on, gazing at the monuments in the Place Louis Quinze. It was a sunny day; a stream of fine c... ...ous beings, whom the newspapers treated with as much gravity as matters of national interest. To be a dramatic au- thor, to have a play produced on th... ...it, and the name in large red letters— Michel Chrestien. There is no other monument like it. The friends thought to pay a tribute to the sternly simpl... ...a canopy conducted in triumphal procession by the newspapers.—The Solitary breaks the press to splin- ters, and wounds the printers.—Read backwards, t... ...ir, and the temporary structures that we in Paris build round about public monuments that remain unbuilt; the grotesque aspect of the mart as a whole ... ...for the language lends itself admirably to allusion and ambiguity. Epigram breaks out the more for repressive legislation; it is like steam in an engi... ...dozen pocket-handkerchiefs for him, as well as twelve pairs of gloves in a cedar-wood box. When a carriage stopped at the door, they both rushed to th... ...w you as it is. A joke is like a bit of thread; if it is spun too fine, it breaks, as Bonaparte said.” “Gentlemen,” said Lousteau, “we have been eye-w... ...ropen- sities, and spoke of the forthcoming Archer of Charles IX. as “anti-national” in its tendency, the writer siding with Catholic cut-throats agai...

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...tself,” said Mr. W ebster, “is a very striking and peculiar portion of the National interest. There is a population of eight or nine thousand persons ... ... thousand persons living here in the sea, adding largely every year to the National wealth by the boldest and most persevering industry.” —Report of D... ...nt, ye mates. Don’t stave the boats needlessly, ye harpooneers; good white cedar plank is raised full three per cent. within the year. Don’t forget yo... ...he Polar Sea, and finding it sheeted with ice, thrusts his horn up, and so breaks through. But you cannot prove either of these surmises to be correct... ...pily borne out by an official circular, issued by Lieutenant Maury, of the National Observatory, Washington, April 16th, 1851. By that circular, it ap... ...- fied forms of the Leviathan partly merged in grass, which of a windy day breaks against them in a surf of green surges. Then, again, in mountainous ... ...ever heard over your mahogany, than you will hear over the half-inch white cedar of the whale-boat, when thus hung in hangman’s nooses; and, like the ... ...s this Siamese connexion with a plurality of other mortals. If your banker breaks, you snap; if your apothecary by mistake sends you poison in your pi... ...the sharks, that spec- trally played round the whale, and tapped the light cedar planks with their tails. A sound like the moaning in squadrons over A...

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...our onward path; tumbled boulders, cliffs that drearily imitate the shape of monuments and fortifications – how drearily, how tamely, none can tell wh... ...rend the other way, and run up the side of the Mountain, and hid behind some cedar trees, and stayed there till dark. The Indians hunted all over afte... ...harsher and stranger to the ear; and when at length you gain the summit, out breaks on every hand and with fresh- ened vigour that same unending, dist... ... elaborate patterns and pictures, and snatches of verse in the vein of Exegi Monumentum; shells and pebbles, artfully contrasted and conjoined, had be... ...milies herd in its few huts; in the graveyard pieces of wreck-wood stand for monuments; there is nowhere a more inhospitable spot. Belle-isle-en-mer –... ...they thought of it, and when (if ever) they should see again the silver wind-breaks run among the olives, and the stone-pine stand guard upon Etruscan... ... proud to remember) as a friend. Like my old soldier, he was far gone in the national com- plaint. Unlike him, he had a vulgar taste in letters; scarc...

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...looks thence-forward. So, in one way or another, life forces men apart and breaks up the goodly fellowships for ever. The very flexibility and ease wh... ...terature. We are subject to physical pas- sions and contortions; the voice breaks and changes, and speaks by unconscious and winning inflections; we h... ...ts are spoken of in hyperbolical terms of praise, and honoured with public monuments in the streets of our commercial centres. This is very bewilderin... ...rities a very peculiar attitude, to- wards the nobler and showier sides of national life. They 40 Robert Louis Stevenson will read of the Charge of B... ... in the tempered daylight of an olive-garden; and something significant or monumental in the grouping, something in the harmony of faint colour that i... ...der of man’s soul and body – alas! pain has its own way with all of us; it breaks in, a rude visitant, upon the fairy garden where the child wanders i... ...the night wind, chasing navies, sub- verting the tall ships and the rooted cedar of the hills; in the random deadly levin or the fury of headlong floo...

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...head of such forces as might 4 Ivanhoe enable him to make a figure in the national convulsions which appeared to be impending. The situation of the i... ...parate people subsequent to the reign of William the Second; yet the great national distinctions betwixt them and their conquerors, the recollection o... ... such was Gurth’s occupation, was seated, upon one of the fallen Druidical monuments, a person about ten years younger in appearance, and whose dress,... ...elves from the yoke of the Normans, or at least to elevate themselves into national consequence and independence, during the civil con- vulsions which... ...m Normandy to adorn his hall with this new species of embla- zonment, that breaks the golden light of God’s blessed day into so many fantastic hues. T... ... to which your boasted northern nobility is as the gourd compared with the cedar—names that ascend far back to those high times when the Divine Presen... ...e castle, is pointed out as the tomb of the memorable Hengist; and various monuments, of great antiq- uity and curiosity, are shown in the neighbourin... ...ality as important as the Bannatyne MS., the Auchinleck MS., and any other monument of the patience of a Gothic scrivener. I have sent, for your priva...

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...ity.” “But it is only the 16th May, and until the end of June—” “What, you monument of ignorance! do you think you can get to Iceland in a couple of d... ...danger of the faithful worshippers. On a neighbouring hill I perceived the national school, where, as I was informed later by our host, were taught He... ...lence reigned in all this little world at the arrival of the soup, and the national taciturnity resumed its empire even over the children. The host se... ...e windy blasts they stood unmoved and firm, just like a clump of petrified cedars. I hastened forward. I could not give any name to these singular cre... ... my ken. An illusion has laid hold upon me. “What is the matter?” my uncle breaks in. My staring eyes are fixed vacantly upon him. “Take care, Axel, o...

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...self to a very modest quantity, and submitted without reserve to the great national dis- cipline which began in 1861. When the Civil War broke out he ... ... morning with indifference to her little par- lor, not less, in its way, a monument to her ingenious taste. “And by the way,” she added as he followed... ... coun- try lawyer sustaining the burden of this customary epi- sode of our national festival. The sonorous twang, the see-saw gestures, the odd pronun... ...st found themselves on a grassy elevation studded with mossy rocks and red cedars. Just beneath them, in a great shining curve, flowed the goodly Conn... ... and not be afraid, to fling Imitation overboard and fix our eyes upon our National Individuality. “I declare,” he cried, “there ‘s a career for a man... ...e (and it had singular beauty) was a small modeled design for a sepulchral monument; that, evidently, of Stephen Hudson. The young soldier lay sleepin... ...hat, in the young sculptor’s own phrase, he had at any time rather build a monument than write a note. But when a month had passed without news of him... ... nothing of its mechanism. If it gets out of order we can’t mend it; if it breaks down altogether we can’t set it going again. We must let it choose i...

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...ounger than he. Hermione was having a discussion with the bridegroom about nationality. ‘No,’ she said, ‘I think that the appeal to patriotism is a mi... ...r discussion. ‘You couldn’t call a race a business concern, could you?—and nationality roughly corresponds to race, I think. I think it is meant to.’ ... ...gely but politely and evenly inimical. ‘Do you think race corresponds with nationality?’ she asked musingly, with expressionless indecision. Birkin kn... ...ked up at the long, low house, dim and glamorous in the wet morn- ing, its cedar trees slanting before the windows. Gudrun seemed to be studying it cl... ...ender and yellow moving to the shade of the enormous, beautifully balanced cedar tree. ‘Isn’t it complete!’ said Gudrun. ‘It is as final as an old aqu... ...e it her full approval. Ursula loved the situation, the white table by the cedar tree, the scent of new sunshine, the little vision of the leafy park,... ...after the death-break: after that point when the soul in intense suffering breaks, breaks away from its organic hold like a leaf that falls. We fall f... ...ellish, so perfectly that they go beyond heaven and hell—into—there it all breaks down—into nowhere.’ 288 ‘Into Paradise, he says,’ laughed Gerald. G... ...send it—?’ It was bought. ‘So beautiful, so pure!’ Birkin said. ‘It almost breaks my heart.’ They walked along between the heaps of rubbish. ‘My belov...

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... bared as they grasped the broken bank that was its perch, threw far out a cedar-like hand. In the shadow of it sat the fair singer. A musing touch of... ...nch mind, and the French habit of quick social intercourse, have made them nationally far richer in language. Let me add, individually as much poorer.... ...nd summoned its brethren of the band to give their various versions of the National Anthem. “Can’t they be stopped?” Emilia murmured, clenching her li... ... a fertile tear! Anticipating that it will eventually be hung up among our national symbols, I proceed. The drum of Hillford entered the Brookfield gr... ...er just begin- ning to glisten to the moon. Eastward on her left, behind a cedar, the moon had cast off a thick cloud, and shone through the cedar-bar... ... ear was turned to the weir, and her eyes were on the glowing edges of the cedar-tree. Finally, on one of many deep breaths, she said: “It’s over. Why... ... could bear to hear of your marriage, but this is too much for her, and it breaks my heart to see her. It is too cruel. She does not betray any emo- t... ...nd then the Countess looked at her husband; she sank at his feet. My heart breaks. Wilfrid! Wilfrid! You will not wear that uniform? Say ‘Never, never... ...hat’s enough for you to know. He can. He won’t see me. You know why. If he breaks with me—it’s a common case in any business—I’m... we’re involved tog...

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...to wet her hair. Then she came and sat with them on the seat under the big cedar and talked with them in a wrap that was pretty rather than prud- 60 ... ...nds pointed out to him the value of working out some special aspect of our national political interests. A very useful speciality was the Balkans. Mr.... ...ere being overdone. Everybody went to the Balkans and came back with a pet nationality. She loathed pet nationali- ties. She believed most people loat... ...lves. Imperialism without noble imaginations, it seemed to him, was simply nationalism with megalomania. It was swagger- ing, it was greed, it was Ger... ...dred forms the great idea of thou- sands, that it was breaking as the dawn breaks, simultaneously to great numbers of people, and that the time was no... ...ules White, and like Hesketh Pritchard he was able to visit that wonderful monument to kingship, the hidden fastness of La Ferriere, the citadel built... ...ut he had too a very clear reason for his hostility to all these amaz- ing breaks in human continuity in his sense of the gathering dangers they now i...

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... Confederation Generale du Travail, feminism vs. haremism, Chinese lyrics, nationalization of mines, Christian Sci- ence, and fishing in Ontario. She ... ...grounds. 40 Main Street The State Bank, stucco masking wood. The Farmers’ National Bank. An Ionic temple of marble. Pure, exquisite, solitary. A bras... ...laning-mill, and the Minniemashie House, and quite a share in the Farmers’ National Bank. Him and his wife are good sports—him and Sam and I go huntin... ...s circle of the grain was a green sea rimmed with fog, and the willow wind-breaks were palmy isles. Before July the close heat blanketed them. The tor... ...e changed nature itself. A mountain which had borne nothing but lilies and cedars 205 Sinclair Lewis and loafing clouds was by his Hustle so inspirit... ... But she kept it up. She de- tested Erik; gloated over his gaucheries—his “breaks,” she called them. When he was too expressive, too much like a Russi... ...en, she was found out in time before she could do any more harm, it simply breaks my heart and prostrates me to think what she may have done already, ... ... of washing dishes! She took him to the obvious “sights”—the Treasury, the Monument, the Corcoran Gallery, the Pan-American Building, the Lincoln Memo...

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...said Ethel, ‘but as she won’t be any longer. And the two little ones?’ ‘It breaks one’s heart to see them, just able to sit by their nursery fire, mur... ...iotic of English sovereigns, enduring the Interdict on a pure principle of national independence, and devising Ma- gna Charta from his own generous br... ...arming place if it were properly kept?’ and Aubrey looked out at the great cedar, spreading out its straight limbs and flakes of dark foliage over the... ...ake me a party to any of their cheatings, I’ll be off. That window and the cedar-tree stand very handy. I’ve been out there to bathe in the early summ... ... fastened, as though it had been partially shut down from the outside. The cedar bough al- most brushed the glass, and the slope of turf came so high ... ...might indeed have made me a murderer. It was for this, and other like out- breaks, that I was sent to the mill; and it may be just that for it I shoul... ...n, apropos to everything. Baths and wash-houses were adroitly carried as a monument to Prince Albert; and on the Prince of Wales’s marriage, his perse... ...ear Spencer would he the first to say so. Richard, your church is his best monument, and you’ll not shut him out of your churchyard nor me either.’ ‘C... ...rows; it 401 Yo n g e has only made her brighter to have suffered what it breaks one’s heart to think of. It has not hurt.’ ‘Nothing from without doe...

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...imes put to shame those who owned a better religion. Their truces, whether national or betwixt individuals, were faithfully observed; and thus it was ... ...his own exertions. The countenance of the Saracen naturally bore a general national resemblance to the Eastern tribe from whom he descended, and was a... ...ristians, as well as Moslemah, had private feelings of personal pique, and national quarrels, which were not entirely reconcilable. But the Saracens w... ...ons, the clergy and laity, and is,” says the historian Gibbon, “a precious monument of feudatory jurisprudence, founded upon those principles of freed... ...cen may find a good dagger in his cell, and I warrant you he uses it as he breaks 221 Sir Walter Scott forth, which will be of a surety so soon as th... ...eath his eye partook of the splendour of his dormitory. A portable bath of cedar, lined with silver, was ready for use, and steamed with the odours wh... ...reshments stood with drooped heads and folded arms, mute and motionless as monumental statuary, or as automata, which waited the touch of the artist t...

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...one of them, Sir John Taylor Coleridge. ‘He has left few, if any, literary monuments to record what his intellectual powers were; and even in our comm... ...ying hold of these things. Don’t mention it to anyone.’ There the fragment breaks off; and in a letter of August 29 there occurs this reply to a messa... ...Yo n g e tal circumstances can confine it, it recognises no human ideas of nationality, or place, or time, but embraces like the dome of heaven all th... ...native habits, nor talk of learning, for which the giants saw no need. The national complexion here was of a lighter yellow, the costume a tat- tooed ... ..., is sweet and clean. Stores are kept in zinc lockers puttied down, and in cedar boxes lined with zinc. We of course distribute them ourselves; a hire... ...ails. T o begin with, a man must know, and that well, Maori customs, their national feeling, &c. It is all known to One above, and that is our only ho... ...art is not large enough for it, and confession of one’s own unworthi- ness breaks off involuntarily into praise and glory! ‘I know, my dear Sisters, t... ... bitterness of seeing children turn out badly, and this is the sorrow that breaks one down.’ It was during these spring days of October, that last Sun...

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...utside the army the empire was a jealous congery of intriguing disaffected nationalities. The same policy which played the various States against one ... ...- leged force wherein the sentiment of union was fostered till it became a nationality of the sword. Nothing more fatal can be done for a country; but... ...session by that aper- ture. Beppo’s head sank. A handful of black lace and cedar- wood chained him to the spot! He entreated the men in liv- ery to ta... ... want. Your voice is now in a marble chamber. I will put it in a palace of cedarwood. This Ammiani I let visit you in the hope that he would touch you... ...re of the case: tremendous discipline alone gives homogeneity to all those nationalities. Somehow they get beaten. I doubt whether anything will beat ... ...her, and leave her mind clear to grapple with evil; and then, as the lurid breaks come in a storm-driven night sky, she had the picture of her lover i... ...d Countess Ammiani at her husband’s tomb, stiff, colourless, lifeless as a monument attached to the tomb. CHAPTER XXXV CLOSE OF THE LOMBARD CAMPAIGN— ... ...e in them, making them shine beneath the overcast heavens, as when the sun breaks from an evening cloud and flushes the stems of a company of pine-tre...

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... little suspected what was in store for him), strikes him; abuses him, and breaks the cane upon his body! The truth is, ’twas only a reed, and snapped... ... expressly made for the purpose: “I have seen the impious exalted like the cedars of Lebanon: Yea, he passed away, and, lo, he was not; yea, I sought ... ...e was only one remedy by which improvement could be effected; and this was National Bank- ruptcy. Had I occupied the office, I should have been too st... ...inuance of imposts, who of two evils, viz., vastly increased taxation, and national failure, would not prefer the latter. We were in the condition of ... ...for a declaration of her marriage, by rendering herself illus- trious by a monument with which she could amuse both the King and herself, and which mi... ...y, business, no mat- ter of, what importance, no matter whether private or national, was entirely banished from view. Until the next morning ev- erybo... ...made, dismisses him, and reseats himself at the council. A moment after it breaks up. The King leaves to go to mass, sees Puyguilhem, and passes witho... ...few steps, turns his back 975 Saint-Simon upon the King, draws his sword, breaks the blade of it with his foot, and cries out in fury, that he will n...

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...he country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child-pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theresa?s passionate, ideal nature demanded an epic life: what w...

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...helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and ... ...leaned her elbow on an open book and looked out of the window at the great cedar silvered with the damp. She herself had taken up the making of a toy ... ...rerga” as he called them—by which he tested his public and deposited small monumental records of his march, were far from having been seen in all thei... ...uld be scanned by Brasenose and a less formidable pos- terity. These minor monumental productions were always ex- citing to Mr. Casaubon; digestion wa... ...ainst Middlemarch, Middlemarch was becoming more and more conscious of the national struggle for another kind of Reform. By the time that Lord John Ru... ...hom the irony of events had brought on the same side with Bulstrode in the national movement, Will became a favorite with the ladies; especially with ... ...ld pews, hardly with more change than we see in the boughs of a tree which breaks 429 George Eliot here and there with age, but yet has young shoots.... ... thing like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates. Hardly a week later, Duty presented itself... ...Would it were yesterday and I i’ the grave, With her sweet faith above for monument ROSAMOND AND WILL stood motionless—they did not know how long—he l...

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...till though the one I sing, (One, yet of contradictions made,) I dedicate to Nationality, I leave in him revolt, (O latent right of insurrection! O qu... ...hawk, And heard at dawn the unrivall’d one, the hermit thrush from the swamp cedars, Solitary, singing in the West, I strike up for a New World. ... ...r their partners, the dancers bow to each other, The youth lies awake in the cedar roof’d garret and harks to the musical rain, The Wolverine sets tra... ...r positive science! long live exact demonstration! Fetch stonecrop mixt with cedar and branches of lilac, Leaves of Grass –Whitman 61 This is the le... ...s offer’d fresh to young persons wandering out in the fields when the winter breaks up, Love buds put before you and within you whoever you are, Buds ... ...ly shape and mould the New World, adjusting it to Time and Space, You hidden national will lying in your abysms, conceal’d but ever alert, You past an... ... o’er all the rest, For thee, the future. I’d sow a seed for thee of endless Nationality, I’d fashion thy ensemble including body and soul, I’d show a... ... hear his voice—and thou O sun, As for thy throes, thy perturbations, sudden breaks and shafts of flame gigantic, I understand them, I know those flam... ... there at the centre though conceal’d, Electric life forever at the centre,) Breaks forth a lightning flash. Thou of the tawny flowing hair in battle,...

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...ring tell Of BABEL, and the works of MEMPHIAN Kings, Learn how thir greatest Monuments of Fame, And Strength and Art are easily outdone By Spirits rep... ... such from mercy I exclude. But yet all is not don; Man disobeying, Disloyal breaks his fealtie, and sinns Against the high Supremacie of Heav’n, Affe... ..., Access deni’d; and over head up grew Insuperable highth of loftiest shade, Cedar, and Pine, and Firr, and branching Palm, A Silvan Scene, and as the... ...es, Not unconform to other shining Globes, Earth and the Gard’n of God, with Cedars crownd Above all Hills. As when by night the Glass Of GALILEO, le... ...aradise Lost Milton 87 For ever happie: him who disobeyes Mee disobeyes, breaks union, and that day Cast out from God and blessed vision, falls In... ...ound, under a cloud In prospect; there the Eagle and the Stork On Cliffs and Cedar tops thir Eyries build: Part loosly wing the Region, part more wise... ...ath Over this Maine from Hell to that new World Where Satan now prevailes, a Monument Of merit high to all th’ infernal Host, Easing thir passage henc... ...ssie Terfe, and pile up every Stone Of lustre from the brook, in memorie, Or monument to Ages, and thereon Offer sweet smelling Gumms & Fruits and Flo... ... thir earthly CANAAN plac’t Long time shall dwell and prosper, but when sins National interrupt thir public peace, Provoking God to raise them enemies...

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...ame acts violently upon George. His bosom swells with ambition. His genius breaks out prodigiously. He talks about the Good, the Beautiful, the Ideal,... ... the coffee-house, and was seen canter- ing on a magnificent Arab past the National Gallery. “Who is yon spark in blue and silver? He beats Joe Addiso... ...ow neither.” They were passing through a second shop, smelling strongly of cedar, and, in fact, piled up with bales of those pencils which the young H... ...ewith to garnish the hotel, and all the Irish in Paris were invited to the national festival. I and Prince Talleyrand danced a double hornpipe with Pa... ...at the House of Commons, solazes himself with a glas of gin-and-water (the national beveridge), with cheerful 62 Thackeray conversation on the ewents... ... the orange grove and the myrtle bower. My torch (a branch of the fragrant cedar-tree) flares and flickers in the midnight breeze, and disperses its s... ...he direction of the Margravine, thought this was but one of the usual out- breaks of his worthy though irascible friend, and wisely deter- mined to ch... ... deepest mourning which any milli- ner in York could supply, and erected a monument to his memory as big as a minster. But she was a lady of such fine... ...vanhoe is really dead. Be- cause we have given him an epitaph or two and a monument, are these any reasons that he should be really gone out of the wo...

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...nts, because it is in convenient; that is, it is the moral character that breaks W alden 30 down. But this puts an infinitely worse face on the matt... ...lish their manners? One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon. I love better to see stones in place. The gra... ...ok down on it, mankind begin to look up at it. As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who under took to di... ... to admire the hole which he made. Many are concerned about Walden 54 the monuments of the West and the East to know who built them. For my part, I ... ...sand because of what did go out or Walden 110 was split up; pine, spruce, cedar first, second, third, and fourth qualities, so lately all of one qua... ...at the Druids would have forsaken their oaks to worship in them; or to the cedar wood beyond Flint’s W alden 183 Pond, where the trees, covered with ... ...ective musi cal bands stationed on some eminent chip, and play ing their national airs the while, to excite the slow and cheer the dying combatants.... ...soon got a thick new garment to take the place of the old. This pond never breaks up so soon as the others in this neighborhood, on account both of it... ...n is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other but breaks in pieces. When the ground was partially bare of snow, and a few w...

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...e towers of Notre Dame, of the Palais, the Pont des Arts; all these public monuments seemed to have taken their tone from the heavy gray sky. Fitful g... ... gnawing pain of hunger. The spectacle of so much existence, individual or national, to which these pledges bore witness, ended by numbing his senses—... ...y school, and all strong intellects ever since time began. So now Royalist-national ideas must be inculcated, by proving to us that it is far better t... ...rimitive rule, more or less skilfully managed. For example, in remote ages national strength lay in theocracy, the priest held both sword and censer; ... ...ve bouteille and the final conclusion of Pantagruel.” “We owe our arts and monuments to the Pater noster, and our knowledge, too, perhaps; and a still... ...irited horse; at another, a girl, who gives herself up to her toilette and breaks her lovers’ hearts; or again, a false lover driving a timid and gent... ...l be broken by the force of a blow, or whether it will withstand it; if it breaks in pieces, and you have no wish to split it up, we shall not achieve... ...easured up by the Ecole de Paris, a generation that perhaps will erect the monument for the building of which the centuries behind us have collected t... ...e sheltered angle of their ramparts a clump of chestnut-trees grew tall as cedars, or some cavern in the yellowish rocks showed the dark entrance into...

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... keeps to the point with an excellent discretion in language then suddenly breaks out: ‘It was fully my intention to have left this at Martinmass, but... ...author has actually seen a park (Anglice, meadow) paled round chiefly with cedar-wood and mahogany from the wreck of a Honduras-built ship; and in one... ...arted in words. Of such are his repeated and heroic descriptions of reefs; monuments of misdirected lit- erary energy, which leave upon the mind of th... ...with a reverent and faithful hand; and I offer here to the reader the true Monument of Robert Stevenson with a little of the moss removed from the in-... ...oor was laid, which may be held as finishing the masonry of this important national edifice. Af- ter going through the usual ceremonies observed by th... ...n who were present, briefly alluded to the utility of the undertaking as a monument of the wealth of British commerce, erected through the spir- ited ...

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... learned men re puted in this land, Mr. Selden; whose volume of natural and national laws proves, not only by great authorities Areopagitica Milto... ...r these are the countryman’s Arcadias, and his Monte Mayors. Next, what more national corruption, for which En gland hears ill abroad, than household... ... every knowing per son alive, and most injurious to the written labours and monuments of the dead, so to me it seems an under valuing and vilifying ... ...rd was building, some cutting, some squaring the marble, oth ers hewing the cedars, there should be a sort of irratio nal men who could not consider... ... walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown, that Sylvan loves, Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe with heaved stroke Was never heard the... ...ire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin or swart faery of the m... ...bring. There eternal Summer dwells; And west winds with musky wing About the cedarn alleys fling Nard and cassia’s balmy smells. Iris there with humid...

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...ts to con- nect his own human institutes with the venerable sanctions of a national religion, or the case where a learned antiquary unfolds historical... ...ing such, you will participate in all advantages, if any there are, or our national religion; and, without needing a process of conversion, either in ... ...ituents in pagan idolatries. First, then, as to the CULTUS, or form of the national worship:—In our Christian ritual I recognise these separate acts; ... ... enlightened mind would figure to itself as lowest in man. A more shocking monument, indeed, there cannot be than this, of the infinity by which man m... ...tain. The impression which he re- ceives is pretty much like that from the monumental figure of some allegoric being, such as Faith or Hope, Fame or T... ...her great Protestant doctrine of Toleration. It was but the same triumphal monument under a new angle of sight, the golden and silver faces of the sam... ...rit of all. Besides, the religion which trusts to formal and literal rules breaks down the very moment that a new case arises not described in the rul... ...mals, considered as individuals. Among trees, in like manner, the oak, the cedar, the yew, are notori- ously of very slow growth, and their aeonian pe...

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...ith the sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to any one, whether on the National or Confederate side, other than the unavoidable injustice of not m... ...porter of the Government during the war, and remains a firm believer, that national success by the Democratic party means irretrievable ruin. In June,... ...and Lieutenant George G. Meade, afterwards the commander of the victorious National army at the battle of Gettysburg—made a reconnoissance to the Salt... ... San Francisco sailing vessel going after lum- ber. Red wood, a species of cedar, which on the Pacific coast takes the place filled by white pine in t... ...uctures that had been built during the months of May and June were left as monuments to the skill of the engineer, and others were constructed in a fe... ...d, rises almost per- 325 U. S. Grant pendicularly for some distance, then breaks off in a gentle slope of cultivated fields to near the summit, where... ... longer needed in North Caro- lina; and Sigel’s troops having gone back to Cedar Creek, whipped, many troops could be spared from the valley. The Wild... ...ws: City Point, VA., October 14, 1864.—12.30 P .M. Major-General Sheridan, Cedar Creek, Va. What I want is for you to threaten the Virginia Central Ra... ...erry; but owing to the difficulty of navigation by reason of low water and breaks in the railroad, great delay was experienced in getting there. It be...

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...t _5 About the Taper’s flame at evening hour; ‘Till kindle in that monumental fire His sunflower wings their own funereal pyre? 2. 2. 2. 2. 2.... ...ad scathed in the wilderness, to stand _260 A monument of fadeless ruin there; Yet peacefully and movelessly it braves Th... ...cting beyond that eternal circle within which all things are included. God breaks through the law of nature, that He may convince mankind of the truth... ...the causes of so much individual rivalship, such calamitous and sanguinary national disputes. In the history of modern times, the ava- rice of commerc... ...trong the power and dire the fate, Which drags me from the depths of Hell, Breaks the tomb’s eternal gate, Where fiendish shapes and dead men yell, ... ... _10 In air whilst the tide of the night-storm is rolling, It breaks on the pause of the elements’ jar. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. On the wing of the... ... night Have I ‘scaped the flickering flame. Like the scathed pine, which a monument stands _5 Of faded grandeur, which the brands Of the te... ...hose azure night With golden stars, like heaven, was bright O’er the split cedar’s pointed flame; 8. 8. 8. 8. 8. Lines 1168-1170. Sunk (line 1170) mus...