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...– THE ELEMENTS OF DISCORD: NATIVE T HE STORY I HAVE TO TELL is still going on as I write; the characters are alive and active; it is a piece of contem... ... are the contemporaries of our tattooed ancestors who drove their chariots on the wrong side of the Roman wall. We have passed the feudal system; they... ...rks the race alone among Polynesians; terms of ceremony fly thick as oaths on board a ship; commoners my-lord each other when they meet – and urchins ... ... to the conclu- sion that he is hereditary and absolute. Hereditary he is; born of a great family, he must always be a man of mark; but yet his office... ...ak sense) is held on good behaviour. Compare the case of a Highland chief: born one of the great ones of his clan, he was sometimes appointed its chie... ...an summon parliaments; it does not follow they will assemble. If he be too flagrantly disobeyed, he can go to war. But so he could before, when he was... ... like the scales of a balance, one down, the other up. Tamasese raised his flag (Jan. 28th, 1886) in Leulumoenga, chief place of his own province of A... ...cross the Mulivai, and “had the coolness” (German expression) to hoist his flag in Apia. He was asked “in the most polite manner,” says the same accou... ...riot on the Emperor’s birthday. The rest shall be silence; only it must be borne in view that Tamasese all the while continued to strengthen himself i...

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...TA A A A ATE TE TE TE TE E E E E ELE LE LE LE LECTR CTR CTR CTR CTRO O O O ON N N N NI I I I IC C C C C C C C C CL L L L LA A A A AS S S S SS S S S SI... ...P P P PU U U U UB B B B BLI LI LI LI LICA CA CA CA CATI TI TI TI TIO O O O ON N N N N The French Revolution: A History (Volume Two) by Thomas Carlyle... ...French Royalty, when wrenched forth from its tap- estries in that fashion, on that Sixth of October 1789, 7 Thomas Carlyle such a victim? Universal F... ...ost before the sun goes down. This is that famed Martial law, with its Red Flag, its ‘Drapeau Rouge:’ in virtue of which Mayor Bailly, or any Mayor, h... ...rs ago, prophetic be- fore the Minister’s Hotel at Paris; and said, it was borne on his mind that he one day was to be Minister, and laughed. (Dumont,... ...oo, with ‘screams from the Opposition benches,’ and ‘the honourable Member borne out in hysterics?’ To a Children’s Parliament would I gladly consent;... ...d more outspoken, cynical; yet sunny as ever. A light melodious creature; ‘born, ’ as he shall yet say with bitter tears, ‘to write verses;’ light Apo... ...e name of the High- est, under the eye of the Highest; imagination herself flag- ging under the reality; and all noblest Ceremony as yet not grown cer... ...rand, another than that of Jacob, is on all the Eighty- three departmental flags of France; which wave or flap, with such thankfulness as needs. Towar...

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...e sat helpless in her dead cerements of a Consti- tution, you gathering in on her from all lands, with your armaments and plots, your invadings and tr... ...s of History, presents itself under two most diverse aspects; all of black on the one side, all of bright on the other. Whatsoever is cruel in the pan... ...nly beyond the limits. For Nature, as green as she looks, rests everywhere on dread foundations, were we farther down; and Pan, to whose music the Nym... ...rom Legislative, from the individual Patriot, flame monitory on all walls. Flags of Danger to Fatherland wave at the Hotel-de-Ville; on the Pont Neuf—... ..., of all ages, ranks, sexes, fly- ing at once across the Loire,’ with wail borne far on the winds: and, in brief, for years coming, such a suite of sc... ..., strong Danton, whatsoever man is strong! Read- ers can judge whether the Flag of Country in Danger flapped soothing or distractively on the souls of... ...emories; but the authors were not punished: nay we saw Jourdan Coupe-tete, borne on men’s shoul- ders, like a copper Portent, ‘traversing the cities o... ...old man and his daughter are clasped to bloody bosoms, with hot tears, and borne home in triumph of Vive la Nation, the killers refusing even money! D... ...ory, of the Cercle So- cial. Sharp was the death-hail rattling round one’s Flag-of- truce, on that Bastille day: but it was soft to such wreck- age of...

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...o long to be given entire: 5 George Meredith Sweet Susie she tripped on a shiny May morn, As blithe as the lark from the green-springing co... ...o behold A wonderful gentleman covered with gold! There was gold on his breeches and gold on his coat, His shirt-frill was grand as a f... ... deeds we know them, as heathendom knows of its gods; and it is repeatedly on record that the moment they have taken fire they must wed, though the la... ...ere, now, that’s enough, for Chloe’s my maid here, and I know she’s a lady born, and we’re going to be friends. Hand me to Chloe. And you are Chloe?’ ... ...eing my maid? You do look a nice, kind crea- ture. And I see you’re a lady born; I know in a minute. You’re dark, I’m fair; we shall suit. And tell me... ...or were the lady and the gentleman privi- leged to be what he called ‘free flags.’ He could be charitable to the passion, but he bellowed the very wor... ...his principality. ‘She is courted,’ he said, ‘less like a citadel waving a flag than a hostelry where the demand is for sitting room and a tankard! Th... ...his usual considerateness, Mr. Beamish forbore to cast a shadow on her new-born joy, and even within himself to doubt the security of its foundation. ... ... we want.’ And one ejaculated, mellifluously, ‘Oh!’ and the other ‘Ah!’ in flagrant derision of the foreign ways they pro- duced in boorish burlesque—...

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... volume to your Lordship, for the sake of the great kindness and friendship which I owe to you and yours. My volume will reach you when the Author is on his voyage to a country where your name is as well known as here. Wherever I am, I shall gratefully regard you; and shall not be the less welcomed in America because I am....

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... which I owe to you and yours. My volume will reach you when the Author is on his voyage to a country where your name is as well known as here. Wher- ... ...itality to his friends; the tenderest care to his dependants; and bestowed on those of his immedi- ate family such a blessing of fatherly love and pro... ... my own year of widow- hood was over. 6 Henry Esmond – Book One From that day, until the last of his dear and honored life, it was my delight and con... ...er person except with an inferior regard; her whole thoughts being centred on this one object of affec- tion and worship. I know that, before her, my ... ...above Henry and Dorothea, who took the maternal name which the family hath borne subsequently, was made Knight and Baronet by King James the First; an... ...out all the world, and which numbered the wisest, the bravest, the highest born, the most eloquent of men among its members. Father Holt bade him keep... ...plimented him and my lady, who was mighty grand. Harry remembers her train borne up by her gentlewoman. There was an assembly and ball at the great ro... ...ned and deposed kings, and toasted past and present heroes and beauties in flagons of college ale. Thus, either from the circumstances of his birth, o... ...r d—d smiling red cheeks: ‘’Tis as they do at St. James’s; I put up my red flag when my king comes.’ I was the king, you see, she meant. But now, sir,...

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...e for the young reader to have vivid and familiar ideas, and whose lives and actions would best enable him to give picturesque sketches of the times. On its sturdy oaken legs it trudges diligently from one scene to another, and seems always to thrust itself in the way, with most benign complacency, whenever an historical personage happens to be looking round for a seat....

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...d actions would best enable him to give picturesque sketches of the times. On its sturdy oaken legs it trudges diligently from one scene to another, a... ...an attempt as to manufacture delicate playthings out of the granite, rocks on which New England is founded. 6 TheWholeHistoryofGrandfather sChair GRA... ...e children had often gazed at, but could never understand what they meant. On the very tip top of the chair, over the head of Grandfather himself, was... ...w England to have such settlers. They were the best men and women of their day. Among the passengers was John Winthrop, who had sold the estate of his... ...t, separated from them by many centuries, yet full of the same spirit, has borne the like message to the New World of the west. Since the first days o... ...r ness. He was surrounded by a shouting multitude, most of whom had been born in the country which he had helped to found. They were of one generati... ...is ease as he did in Grandfather’s chair. He was a poor man’s son, and was born in the province of Maine, where he used to tend sheep upon the hills i... ...tears of a compassionate man. Over the door of almost every dwelling a red flag was flutter ing in the air. This was the signal that the small pox ha... ...of Ticonderoga, stone piled on stone, bristling with cannon, and the white flag of France floating above. There were simi lar fortifications on Lake ...

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...or Ernoch, that is, Drummond of Ire- land; and the same title was bestowed on their estate. The Drummond-ernoch of James the Sixth’s time was a king’s... ...this hospitable intention, the bar- barians placed the head of her brother on the table, filling the mouth with bread and cheese, and bidding him eat,... ...all his clan being convened for the purpose, laid their hands successively on the dead man’s head, and swore, in 6 Sir Walter Scott heathenish and ba... ...ted to embrace the cause of King Charles, in preference to that of the low-born, roundheaded, canting knaves, who are in rebellion against his authori... ...before spoken, immedi- ately spread with milk, butter, goat-milk cheese, a flagon of beer, and a flask of usquebae, designed for the refreshment of Lo... ...ommended to the veteran to add a tass 54 Sir Walter Scott of brandy and a flagon of claret to the substantial provisions he had already laid in, to w... ...nths advanced in her pregnancy; Angus M’Aulay, her eldest son, having been born about eigh- teen months before.—But I tire you, Captain Dalgetty, and ... ... him. They imputed this to the remarkable circumstances under which he was born; and at length five or six of the stoutest caterans of the Highlands w... ...plies.” “But,” said Lord Menteith, “no judicious commander al- lows either flags of truce or neutrals to remain in his camp longer than is prudent; an...

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...anley came down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have things out with her father that very evening. She had trembled on the verge of such a resolution before, but this time quite definitely she made it. A crisis had been reached, and she was almost glad it had been reached. She made up her mind in the train home that it should be a decisive...

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...ved to have things out with her father that very evening. She had trembled on the verge of such a resolution before, but this time quite definitely sh... ...he train from Lon- don to Morningside Park, and she sat with both her feet on the seat in an attitude that would certainly have distressed her mother ... ...n unde- veloped wilderness of agriculture, with big, yellow brick vil- las on either side, and then there was the pavement, the little clump of shops ... ...d suit and “art” brown ties; he smoked corncob pipes in the Avenue on Sun- day morning, travelled third class to London by unusual trains, and openly ... ...gile vessels. He had never wanted daughters. Each time a daughter had been born to him he had concealed his chagrin with great tender- ness and effusi... ... ar ar ar art 6 t 6 t 6 t 6 t 6 THEN, ARISING she knew not how, like a new-born appetite, came a craving in Ann Veronica for the sight and sound of be... ...a also was arrested. And then came the vile experience of being forced and borne along the street to the police-station. Whatever antici- pation Ann V... ...orld is just all egotisti- cal children and broken-in people. “Your little flag of pride must flutter down with the rest of them, Ann Veronica… . “Com... ...nd pine-trees clamber among gigantic boulders. A little inn flying a Swiss flag nestles under a great rock, and there they put aside their knapsacks a...

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...ed by all who knew him; and, in his younger days, lived pretty comfortably on the joint income of a small incumbency and a snug little property of his... ... but consent to embellish his humble hearth he should be happy to take her on any terms; while she, on her part, would rather labour with her own hand... ...informed, and fond of employment, took the whole charge of our edu- cation on herself, with the exception of Latin—which my father undertook to teach ... ...e us, you know very well we cannot part with you.’ I was silenced for that day, and for many succeeding ones; but still I did not wholly relinquish my... ... how to shoot! T o train the tender plants, and watch their buds unfolding day by day! 11 Anne Brontë Influenced by so many inducements, I determined... ...g out with a grin of triumph on her round, red face. Often she would stub- bornly refuse to pronounce some particular word in her les- son; and now I ... ...isolated from all he had ever seen or known before; or like a thistle-seed borne on the wind to some strange nook of uncongenial soil, where it must l... ...ered along their banks, could make it; but it was depressingly flat to one born and nurtured among the rugged hills of—. We were situated nearly two m... ...rs, had taught and prayed within its walls, lay slumbering now beneath its flags—and the old bare hills, delightful in their very desolation, with the...

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... and peculiar idioms. “Oh! Beastly Silly Wheeze of a Hole!” He was sitting on a stile between two threadbare looking fields, and suffering acutely fro... ...hen dresser, and had turned quite hopefully and taken the thing. He put it on. But it didn’t feel right. Nothing felt right. He put a trembling hand u... ... right. He put a trembling hand upon the crown of the thing and pressed it on his head, and tried it askew to the right and 4 The History of Mr. Poll... ...r between a man and his hunger and his wife’s catering. So on nearly every day in his life Mr. Polly fell into a violent rage and hatred against the o... ...s rapidity and be- come excessively irritable, but the cousin’s wife was a born manager, and contrived to get along with him. Our Mr. Polly’s status w... ...sity. But he was hopeless in competition against the naturally gifted, the born hustlers, the young men who meant to get on. He left the Canterbury pl... ...riam. “I expect you’d keep everything tremendously neat.” The conversation flagged. “Let’s sit down on one of those seats over there,” said Miriam. “W... ...kins and the bonnet that was to gain such a hold upon him; it seemed to be flag-signalling as she advanced, and to the two eager, unrefined sisters he... ...ness, but I’m real glad I haven’t missed it,” said the old lady as she was borne rather than led to- wards the refuge of the Temperance Hotel. Also sh...

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...storical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history. In the present case, it is scarcely necessary to do more than refer to the almost unique relations that subsisted between Henry V. and his prisoner, James I. of Scotland; who lived with him throughout his reign on...

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...avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history. In the present case, it is scarcely necessary to do more than r... ...is prisoner, James I. of Scotland; who lived with him throughout his reign on the terms of friend rather than of captive, and was absolutely sheltered... ...espect- ing Whittington. I am afraid the knighthood was really con- ferred on Henry’s first return to England, after the battle of Agincourt; but huma... ... be disposed of, save by her royal kinsman, or by those who, woe worth the day! stand in his place. I were no better than yon Wolf of Badenoch or the ... ...nswer, ‘Nay, nay, Malcolm, these are no words for the oe of Bruce; you are born to dare as well as to suffer,’ there was an approach of footsteps, and... ...ter of King Edward III., and as noble and queenly a demoiselle as ever was born in a palace.’ ‘She is so very fair, then?’ said Lilies, who was of cou... ...e!’ ‘Ah! then he is here?’ cried Malcolm. ‘Here, Sir, but in woful plight; borne in an hour syne by four carles who said you had been set upon by the ... ...the sick man, sinking back. ‘Good King Robert has been in his grave many a day; his sons, woe is me!—Sir,’ recovering himself, ‘pardon the error of an... ...at length opened into the old town of Thirsk, and here bells were ringing, flags 44 The Caged Lion flying from the steeple, music sounded, a mayor an...

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...eon by William Makepeace Thackeray Writing as “Michael Angelo Titmarch” I. ON THE DISINTERMENT OF NAPOLEON AT ST. HELENA. MY DEAR ——,—It is no easy ta... ...deceiving bodies, and turned out stark naked as they were before they were born— what a strange startling sight shall we see, and what a pretty figure... ...ancy,—but we must not fancy such a scene at all, which would be an outrage on pub- lic decency. Should we be any better than our neigh- bors? No, cert... ...ow in fashion for four thousand years. And so, my dear, history is written on fig-leaves. Would you have anything further? O fie! Yes, four thousand y... ...illis chez toutes les nations;” in English, “under the riddled rags of the flags that have been culled or plucked” (like roses or buttercups) “in all ... ...ificent imperial mantle brought from Paris, the four corners of which were borne by Generals Bertrand and Gourgaud, Baron Las Cases and M. Marchand. A... ... assumed the usual signs of deep mourn- ing: their yards crossed and their flags lowered. Two French merchantmen, ‘Bonne Amie’ and ‘Indien, ’ which ha... ...le. ’ The forts of the town, and the houses of the consuls, had also their flags half-mast high. “On arriving at the entrance of the town, the troops ... ...o the right-about, before the wretched misbe- gotten imperial heraldry was born, that was to prove so disastrous to the father of it. It has always be...

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... volume to your Lordship, for the sake of the great kindness and friendship which I owe to you and yours. My volume will reach you when the Author is on his voyage to a country where your name is as well known as here. Wherever I am, I shall gratefully regard you; and shall not be the less welcomed in America because I am....

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... which I owe to you and yours. My volume will reach you when the Author is on his voyage to a country where your name is as well known as here. Wher- ... ... a thousand guin- eas for his majority in Webb’s regiment, and was knocked on the head the next campaign. Perhaps Esmond would not have been sorry to ... ...ter would bring the account; so they, the poor tender creatures, had to go on sickening and trembling through the whole campaign. What- ever these ter... ...e as the furious bravery of their assailants. We took a few score of their flags, and a few pieces of their artillery; but we left twenty thousand of ... ... yesterday full of cour- age and cheerfulness round the torn and blackened flags. Where were our friends? As the great Duke reviewed us, riding along ... ...given her name to Frank’s sister the year before he and his sovereign were born. 14 Henry Esmond – Book Three However desirous Marshal Villars might ... ...is head to fast on Fridays and wor- ship images? Y ou know if you had been born a Papist, mother, a Papist you would have remained to the end of your ... ...mond make, he thought, for any man under the de- gree of a Prince. She was born to shine in great assemblies, and to adorn palaces, and to command eve... ...iples that commonly bind them. A kindness or a slight puts a man under one flag or the other, and he marches with it to the end of the campaign. Esmon...

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... which I owe to you and yours. My volume will reach you when the Author is on his voyage to a country where your name is as well known as here. Wher- ... ...reat secret had been told to Esmond by his unhappy stricken kinsman, lying on his death-bed. Were he to disclose it, as in equity and honor he might d... ...r in his conscience, whilst his poor lord was making his dying confession. On one side were ambi- tion, temptation, justice even; but love, gratitude,... ...prison, after kissing the cold lips of his benefactor. It was on the third day after he had come to the Gatehouse prison, (where he lay in no small pa... ... at ease than it had been previously. The blow had been struck, and he had borne it. His cruel goddess had shaken her wings and fled: and left him alo... ...enceforth call Viscount Castlewood here, was H. R. H. the Prince of Wales, born in the same year and month with Frank, and just proclaimed at Saint Ge... ...France and by his party here (this Prince, or Chevalier de St. George, was born in the same year with Esmond’s young pupil Frank, my Lord Viscount’s s... ...ur fleet came within view of Cadiz, our commander sent a boat with a white flag and a couple of officers to the Governor of Cadiz, Don Scipio de Branc... ...ng Madonnas in the convent at Cadiz, when he was despatched thither with a flag; and as for his mistress, ’twas difficult to say with what a feeling h...

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...ess water. In the old days, a long, long while ago, before Our Saviour was born on earth and lay asleep in a manger, these Islands were in the same pl... ...ater. In the old days, a long, long while ago, before Our Saviour was born on earth and lay asleep in a manger, these Islands were in the same place, ... ...osed that the Phoenicians, who were an ancient people, famous for carrying on trade, came A Child’s Histroy of England 8 in ships to these Islands, ... ...the French and Belgians to come over also. These people settled themselves on the south coast of England, which is now called Kent; and, although they... ...of Danes who landed on their coast; killed their chief, and captured their flag; on which was represented the likeness of a Raven—a very fit bird for ... ...iolent and frequent pain that nothing could relieve. He bore it, as he had borne all the troubles of his life, like a brave good man, until he was fif... ... came to England in many great Charles Dickens 41 ships, each bearing the flag of its own com mander. Golden eagles, ravens, dragons, dol phins, be... ...ng about a long rope that was sent into his prison at the bottom of a deep flagon of wine. The guards took the wine, and Firebrand took the rope; with... ...he growth of what is called the Feudal System (which made the peasants the born vassals and mere slaves of the Barons), every Noble had his strong Cas...

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...Contents LECTURES ON HEROES ............................................................................................................... 4 THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGANISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. .............. 4 LECTURE II. THE HERO A...

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...Y By Thomas Carlyle A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle is a p... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle, the P... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents LECTURES ON HEROES .................................................................... ...eep them out of our thoughts as out of our practice. Man everywhere is the born enemy of lies. I find Grand Lamaism 8 Thomas Carlyle itself to have a... ...uch worse than our methods,—of un- derstanding him to be always the eldest-born of a certain ge- nealogy? Alas, it is a difficult thing to find good m... ...mmentaries, Icelan- dic or not, which go on zealously in the North to this day, it is possible to gain some direct insight even yet; and see that old ... ...at Sea-tempest is the Jotun Aegir, a very dangerous Jotun;—and now to this day , on our river T rent, as I learn, the Nottingham bargemen, when the Ri... ... true thing, ask candidly what it was or might be. These Arabs Mahomet was born among are certainly a no- table people. Their country itself is notabl... ...he Spirit of Lies, bearing death and hunger, he would in nowise strike his flag.” Brave old Samuel: ultimus Romanorum! OF ROUSSEAU AND HIS HEROISM I c...

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...d the royalist leaders during this stormy period of modern history, he was wont to say in jest, ?I am one of the men who gave themselves to be killed on the steps of the throne.? And the pleasantry had some truth in it, as spoken by a man left for dead at the bloody battle of Les Quatre Chemins. Though ruined by confiscation, the staunch Vendeen steadily refused the lucrat...

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...wont to say in jest, “I am one of the men who gave themselves to be killed on the steps of the throne.” And the pleasantry had some truth in it, as sp... ...o one of the oldest families in Brittany. When the second revolution burst on Monsieur de Fontaine he was encumbered with a large family. Though it wa... ...le Roi” in the hall of the T uileries when the royal family passed through on their way to chapel; he craved the favor of a private audience. The audi... ... school, in whom still survives the memory of the 5 Balzac League and the day of the Barricades (in 1588), he bewailed himself in his cab, loudly eno... ...s, brought him into such intimate relations with the Sover- eign, that one day, as he came in, the shrewd monarch ad- dressed him thus: “My friend Fon... ...sh any pleasantry, how- ever mild, on the subject of his poetry. From that day his intercourse with Monsieur de Fontaine showed less amenity. Kings en... ...o you. Hush! All the family would laugh at us if we sailed under the wrong flag. You know what that means. We two will keep our secret, and I promise ... ...r imaginary ideal. She felt added satisfaction in believing him to be well born, her black eyes sparkled, and she danced with all the pleasure that co...

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........................................................................................................... 87 THE ANTIGONE OF SOPHOCLES, AS REPRESENTED ON THE EDINBURGH STAGE . 98 THE MARQUESS WELLESLEY 1 ............................................................................................ 125 MILTON VERSUS SOUTHEY AND LANDOR .............................................

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................................ 87 THE ANTIGONE OF SOPHOCLES, AS REPRESENTED ON THE EDINBURGH STAGE . 98 THE MARQUESS WELLESLEY 1 ......................... ......................................................................... 170 ON SUICIDE.................................................................... ...edging the amusement which they have derived from a former paper of mine, ‘On Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts;’ at the same time proving the... ... human build. To reach her, even in her drawing-room, was like going, as a flag of truce, into a beleaguered fortress; at every sixth step one was sto... ...y preparing an effectual answer to the public journals; and on the twelfth day after his inau- gural murder, he advertised his presence in London, and... ... unmolested; but even now there stands on the other side of the street one born of hell, who puts his peremptory negative on all these flattering pros... ...ineteen months have Marr and herself been married; and this is their first-born child. Grieve not for this child, that it must keep the deep rest of S... ...elming misfortune to themselves. They were hawkers; and, until lately, had borne most respectable characters: but some mercantile crash had overtaken ... ...but only shamming. And you have a jealousy, as to Milton, even in the most flagrant case of almost palpable error, that, after all, there may be a plo...

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... been brought down by the rivers of which the Itchen and the T est remain. On the western side of the Itchen, exactly at the border where the chalk gi... ...ave been found in the chalk, and nu- merous echini, with the pentagon star on their base, are picked up in the gravels and called by the country peopl... ...the Glacial age. But we must pass the time when the zoophytes were at work on our chalk, when the lamp-shells rode at anchor on shallow waves, when th... ...nd the lat- ter spent a pious and penitent old age, only taking one meal a day, and spending the surplus in charity. He died in 1174. CHAPTER II CHAPT... ...nly justifiable but even laudable, but which nevertheless deserves to this day to be severely censured, since not only the minister but both the paris... ...s then spelt, and thought him a severe lord to his copyholders. Morley was born at Hursley , and was sent to school at Baddesley in 1582, the year of ... ...icks for it being dug from a clay pit at Otterbourne, which has ever since borne the name of Dell Copse, and became noted for the growth of daffodils.... ...d here, for there are entries in the parish register that infants had been born at Highbridge, but the curate of Otterbourne could not tell whether th... ...esley. Crow G. (A. vineale).—Chalk ridges, if not destroyed by waterworks. Flag (Iris pseudacorus).—Itchen banks. Stinking F . (I. faetidissima).—Not ...

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... unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys? house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days,...

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...he Oblonskys’ house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a gov- erness in their fami... ...n their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now last... ...r to look out for a new situation for her; the man-cook had walked off the day before just at dinner time; the kitchen-maid, and the coachman had give... ...that is, at eight o’clock in the morning, not in his wife’s bed- room, but on the leather-covered sofa in his study. He 4 Anna Karenina – Part One tu... ...and Petersburg were friends and rela- tions of Stepan Arkadyevitch. He was born in the midst of those who had been and are the powerful ones of this w... ...at he had begun, and listened attentively to her. The conversation did not flag for an instant, so that the princess, who always kept in reserve, in c... ...ad not cost her or her family a moment’s attention, as though she had been born in that tulle and lace, with her hair done up high on her head, and a ... ...rong than the people who despised him. He was not to blame for having been born with his unbridled temperament and his somehow lim- ited intelligence.... ...ing, and stopping to listen to Agafea Mihalovna, who gossiped away without flagging, and yet with all that, all sorts of pictures of family life and w...