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...aptain, he can sail in the galleys of the Republic, and conquer the gilded domes of Constantinople. Then he can lounge on the divans in the Seraglio a... ...is beloved Venice. His glory wins him forgiveness, and he enjoys a life of domestic happiness,— a home, a winter evening, a young wife and charming ch... ... day for six months— you felt flowers opening their scented cups under the dome of your skull that had expanded to vast proportions. All your blood mo... ...No, how shall the end of this adventure be told—for it is too disastrously domestic. A word will be enough for the worshipers of the ideal. The Duches...

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...aded beadles walked before, with wands as white as snow, Till into the high dome of Paul’s they like Thames waters flow. Oh what a multitude they se...

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... the bosom of the cliff. Though the Sea-horse in the ocean Own no dear domestic cave; Yet he slumbers without motion On the calm and silent wa... ...me old British Chief: ’tis nothing more Than the rude embryo of a little dome Or pleasure-house, which was to have been built Among the birch-tr...

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... dictated the little notes his wife wrote to her friends. If he did, these domestic activities were privately performed, and he presented to the world... ...ee one’s only son safe past the Siren Isle and in the haven of a blameless domesticity. All this Mrs. Archer felt, and her son knew she felt; but he k... ...is light simplified his own case and surprisingly furbished up all the dim domestic virtues. He could not picture May Welland, in whatever conceivable... ... go with him on his annual journey to the south. To preserve an unbro- ken domesticity was essential to his peace of mind; he would not have known whe... ...ere installed for the win- 101 Edith Wharton ter. Mr. Welland’s sensitive domesticity shrank from the dis- comforts of the slovenly southern hotel, a... ... artistic and intellectual life would go on, as it always had, outside the domestic circle; and within it there would be nothing small and stifling—co... ...g the sunshade with a powerful hand she unfurled it and suspended its rosy dome above her head. “Y es, Ellen was called away yesterday: she lets us ca... ...et Club for breakfast. Even the fashionable quarters had the air of untidy domesticity to which no excess of heat ever degrades the Eu- ropean cities.... ...er husband’s wish to have her back as proof of an irresistible longing for domestic life.” M. Riviere paused, and then added: “Whereas it’s far from b...

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...ught it less. She yearned to me that sentence to unsay. Then when the fire domed blackening, I found Her cheek was salt against my kiss, and swift Up ... ...ids, All in its living glow. Like a dark cathedral city, Whose spires, and domes, and towers Quiver in violet lightnings, My soul basks on for hours. ... ...uman stores, As he to silence nearer soars, Extends the world at wings and dome, More spacious making more our home, Till lost on his aerial rings In ... ...ek you, madam? ’Tis enough That you should have dominion o’er the springs Domestic and man’s heart: those ways, how rough, How vile, outside the stat... ...ou. XXXVI —We hear women’s shrieks on them. We like your phrase, Dominion domestic! And that roar, ‘What seek you?’ is of tyrants in all days. Sir, ... ... the crowned: That Lady of the hues of foam In sun-rays: who, close under dome, A figure on the foot’s descent, Irradiate to vapour went, As one whos... ...the night, but stars with frost alive Leap off the rim of earth across the dome. It is a night to make the heavens our home More than the nest whereto... ...er: she has become A globe in cupolas; the blowziest queen Of overflowing dome on dome; Redundancy contending with the tight, Leaping the dam! He fo... ...our feeble hold on this green home, And the vast outer strangeness void of dome, Shall we be with them, of them, taught to feel, Up to the moment of o...

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...eaded beadles walk’d before, with wands as white as snow, Till into the high dome of Paul’s they like Thames’ waters flow. O what a multitude they see...

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...ed beadles walked before, with wands as white as snow, Till into the high dome of Paul s they like Thames waters flow. Oh what a multitude they seem...

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...ike spokes of wheels; And crapulous women sat and stared at the stones anigh With a bestial droop of the lip and a swinish rheum in the eye. As about ... ... and crawl; So on the grades of the terrace, in the ardent eye of the day, The half-awake and the sleepers clustered and crawled and lay; And loud as ...

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...oe by Sir Walter Scott CHAPTER I Thus communed these; while to their lowly dome, The full-fed swine return’d with evening home; Compell’d, reluctant, ... ...of countenance, suf- ficiently pointed him out as belonging to the race of domes- tic clowns or jesters, maintained in the houses of the wealthy, to h... ...hould like to see her sen- eschals, her chief butlers, and other principal domestics!” After this internal commentary on the Prior’s speech, he raised... ...orm, from the middle of which ran the longer and lower board, at which the domestics and inferior persons fed, down towards the bottom of the hall. Th... ...r the purposes of a staff or of a weapon, as chance might require. Several domestics, whose dress held various proportions be- twixt the richness of t... ...e laws of property. The matter was of conse- quence, for great part of the domestic wealth of the Saxon proprietors consisted in numerous herds of swi... ...d in broken sentences, partly muttered to himself, partly addressed to the domestics who stood around; and particu- larly to his cupbearer, who offere... ...e exer- cise of the white truncheon, well seconded by the exertions of the domestics, to silence this canine clamour. “T o the gate, knaves!” said the... ...ll were cast wide, and, preceded by the major-domo with his wand, and four domestics bearing blazing torches, the guests of the evening entered the ap...

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... twice my neigh(b)our (since at home We’re door by door, by Flora’s temple dome; And in the country, still conjoined by fate, Behold our villas standi... ... wood. Thence the Flaminian, the Salarian way, Stretch far broad below the dome of day; And lo! the traveller toiling towards his home; And all unhear...

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...Kubla Khan Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment.   In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round; And there were gardens bright with...

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.... . . . . . . . . . . 89 The Outcast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Domestic Peace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 On a Discovery Made too L... .... . . . . 159 Sonnet: . . . . . . 160 To a Young Friend on his proposing to domesticate with the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Addressed to a... ...n a Tea-kettle 1790 O Muse who sangest late another’s pain, To griefs domestic turn thy coal-black steed! With slowest steps thy funeral steed... ... 1794 Much on my early youth I love to dwell, Ere yet I bade that friendly dome farewell, Where first, beneath the echoing cloisters pale, I heard... ... the great Comforter that rules above! - 89 - The Outcast Coleridge: Poems Domestic Peace 1794 [From ‘‘The Fall of Robespierre’’, Act I, L. 2... ...The Fall of Robespierre’’, Act I, L. 210] Tell me, on what holy ground May Domestic Peace be found? Halcyon daughter of the skies, Far on fearful ... ...ars, And conscious of the past employ Memory, bosom-spring of joy. - 90 - Domestic Peace Coleridge: Poems On a Discovery Made too Late 1794 ... ...all. Hence the soft couch, and many-coloured robe, The timbrel, and arched dome and costly feast, With all the inventive arts, that nursed the soul... ...towing, this withholding all) Made each chance knell from distant spire or dome Sound like a seeking Mother’s anxious call, Return, poor Child! Ho...

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...ll over smiles of hyacinth seas, Flame in a crystal vessel sails Beneath a dome of jewelled spray, For land that drops the rosy day On nights of throb...

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...But the Mugger had only looked up at the thing from below, where the brass dome seemed rather like a bullock”s hump. “M—yes, a new kind of bullock,” t... .... They crept through the gap, and found themselves in a large vault, whose domed roof had been also broken away by tree- roots so that a few streaks o... ...roof of the house to shake off any icicles that might have fallen from the dome of snow above, and curled up on the bench. The dogs in the passage sno...

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...les at street corners where the public wells once stood, and the shattered domes of temples with wild figs sprouting on their sides. The monkeys calle... ... the center of the terrace, built for queens dead a hundred years ago. The domed roof had half fallen in and blocked up the underground passage from t... ... the wall of the summerhouse and pushed him through the hole of the broken dome. A man-trained boy would have been badly bruised, for the fall was a g... ...ere, in a trap. I cannot climb out,” cried Mowgli. The curve of the broken dome was above his head. “Take him away. He dances like Mao the Peacock. He...

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...re, And join the making of new eras’ lore. The House of the Future raise! But trample not the altars of the past! Although you shall much finer domes erect. The holy flames upon the stones still last, And human love lives there and guards them fast, And them you owe respect! Now with the world that vanishes from view, Dragging down the perfect rainbow of delig...

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...lls that extended upward some thirty feet. Spirals of flowers cascaded down the domed walls like a colorful waterfall .. Two massive double doors on... ...wn. Jacobs would give it another fifteen minutes, and then walk next door to Le Dome's, and then Dan Tanner's for a final search. He didn't need the...

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...and Eustacie de Ribaumont being man and wife. Every ceremony, religious or domestic, that could render a marriage valid, was gone through with real ea... ...an utterly uncanonical appendage to a nunnery, but one much used among the domestic establishment of Bellaise. A gleam of red light spread across the ... ... alone with his sorrow and his crushed hopes. Nothing could be kinder than Dome Colombeau, the priest of Nissard. He saw to the whole of his guests be... ...ready aid was given by Mademoiselle Gardon, as all called Eustacie, in the domestic cares thus entailed, while her filial attention to her father-in-l... ...ely life, where all depended on her, suited her; and, using her lessons in domestic arts of nursing and medicine for the benefit of her father’s flock...

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...es, night walkers’ song After great cathedral gong; A starlit or a moonlit dome disdains All that man is, All mere complexities, The fury and the mire... ...k upon some dreadful sight; And thrust the torch between the slimy flags. A dome made out of endless carven jags, Where shadowy face flowed into shadowy... ...down on me; and in the self same place I waited hour by hour, and the high dome, Windowless, pillarless, multitudinous home Of faces, waited; and the ...

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...ung lady how long she was likely to be with them. For a matter of the mere domestic order had quickly determined on Mrs. Assingham’s part a withdrawal... ...nothing more to learn. But he was wholly content, despite his fondness, in domestic discussion, for the superlative degree; and his kindness, in the o... ...stair or two below him; where, while she looked up at him beneath the high domed light of the hall, she rubbed with her palm the polished mahogany of ... ...ough it was, and the consequent sense, now quite established for him, of a domestic air that had cleared and lightened, producing the effect, for thei... ... or two after luncheon—and on Sundays with especial rigour, for one of the domestic reasons of which it belonged to Maggie quite multitudinously to ta... ... she minimised, her office; you did n’t need a jailor, she contended, for a domesticated lamb tied up with pink ribbon. This was n’t an animal to be co... ... were, to this charming and clever young woman, who, by becoming for him a domestic resource had become for him prac tically a new person—and committ... ...t, though they subsequently fell into their places as members of one quiet domestic circle, preponderantly and directly indebted for their being in fa... ...e place as higher and wider and more appointed for great moments; with its dome of lustres lifted, its ascents and descents more ma jestic, its marbl...