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... Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifull... ...m will wash away our island, but I do not believe it. Our island will be here long after I have gone, and so will our town, my dear Mytilene, so wr... ...’s eye will glitter and I will gaze across the bay—and Alcaeus will not be here. My feet are cold and the lamp is weak and the wax hard, and I must g... ...mselves. They are such emaciated creatures, I wonder what they eat? Each waits for the other to speak; each scrapes, bows, tries to efface himself. ... ...r drops...a pause. One could die during such a pause. All of us wait—life waits! A bubbling deceives the spirit, a trill alienates the heart. Someth... ...n’s song as I watched her, “Thou art in the clefts of the rock; let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice, for sweet is thy voice and thy cou... ...ing their nets on the beach... Our Father Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name... He is our guide, Father of us all, brother of us all, master o... ...supper, the words came to me: Our Father Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this da... ...ear Lord, hear me. Be attentive to my last supplications. I wait, my soul waits. My soul waits for You more than any who wait for the morning. I say...

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... G Of Edward’s heirs the murderer shall be. Dive, thoughts, down to my soul: here Clarence comes. [Enter CLARENCE, guarded, and BRAKENBURY .] Bro... ...arded, and BRAKENBURY .] Brother, good day; what means this armed guard That waits upon your grace? CLARENCE: His majesty T... ..., and withal Forbear your conference with the noble duke. CLARENCE: We know thy charge, Brakenbury, and will obey. GLOUCESTER: We are the queen’s ab... ... return. Simple, plain Clarence! I do love thee so, That I will shortly send thy soul to heaven, If heaven will take the present at our hands. But who... ... soul to heaven, If heaven will take the present at our hands. But who comes here? the new deliver’d Hastings? [Enter HASTINGS .] HASTINGS: Good time... ...er! Thou bloodless remnant of that royal blood! Be it lawful that I invocate thy ghost, To hear the lamentations of Poor Anne, Wife to thy Edward, to ... ... but one of better nature. LADY ANNE : Where is he? GLOUCESTER: Here. [She spitteth at him .] Why dost thou s... ...Lately attendant on the Duke of Norfolk. KING EDW ARD IV : Have a tongue to doom my brother’s death, King Richard III, Act II, scene i 37 And shall... ... I bear your grace, my lord, Makes me most forward in this noble presence To doom the offenders, whatsoever they be I say, my lord, they have deserved...

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...le of the Books and Other Short Pieces – Swift 6 mented. Now, it must be here understood, that ink is the great missive weapon in all battles of the... ... high; hot words passed on both sides, and ill blood was plentifully bred. Here a solitary Ancient, squeezed up among a whole shelf of Moderns, offere... ...it you,” said he; “is it you, with a vengeance, that have made this litter here; could not you look before you, and be d d? Do you think I have nothin... ... eyes, thou railest without wit, or truth, or discretion. The malignity of thy temper perverteth nature; thy learn ing makes thee more barbarous; thy... ... learn ing makes thee more barbarous; thy study of humanity more inhuman; thy converse among poets more grovel ling, miry, and dull. All arts of civ... ...ver despond; I pass my word, whatever spoil thou takest shall certainly be thy own; though I hope that vile carcase will first become a prey to kites ... ... below. In vain; for a superior force Applied at bottom, stops its coarse, Doomed ever in suspense to dwell, ’Tis now no kettle, but a bell. A wooden ... ...Leave all things to their natural course.” The goddess thus pronounced her doom, When, lo, Vanessa in her bloom, Advanced like Atalanta’s star, But ra... ... store, Those whom you dragged from death before? So Providence on mortals waits, Preserving what it first creates, You generous boldness to defend An...

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...man,” said he, “let me not find you tarrying about our ships, nor yet coming hereafter. Your The Iliad – Book I 3 sceptre of the god and your wreath... ...e silver bow, that protectest Chryse and holy Cilla and rulest T enedos with thy might, hear me oh thou of Sminthe. If I have ever decked your temple ... ... whomsoever I may come shall rue my coming. But of this we will take thought hereafter; for the present, let us draw a ship into the sea, and find a c... ...do your bidding, ei ther on foray or in open fighting? I came not war ring here for any ill the T rojans had done me. I have no quarrel with them. T... ...his hands in prayer to his immortal mother, “Mother,” he cried, “you bore me doomed to live but for a little season; surely Jove, who thunders from Ol... ...e silver bow, that protectest Chryse and holy Cilla, and rulest Tenedos with thy might. Even as thou didst hear me aforetime when I prayed, and didst ... ...e to be at home again, let him lay his hand to his ship that he may meet his doom in the sight of all. But, O king, consider and give ear to my counse... ...if you are of them that eat the fruit of the ground, draw near and meet your doom.” And the son of Hippolochus answered, son of T ydeus, why ask me of... ...him. As serpent in its den upon the mountains, full fed with deadly poisons, waits for the approach of man—he is filled with fury and his eyes glare t...

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...what would France with us? CHATILLON: Thus, after greeting, speaks the King of France In my behavior to the majesty, The borrow?d majesty, of England here. QUEEN ELINOR: A strange beginning: ?borrow?d majesty!? KING JOHN: Silence, good mother; hear the embassy. CHATILLON: Philip of France, in right and true behalf Of thy deceased brother Geffrey?s son, Arthur Plantagenet, ...

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...ng of France In my behavior to the majesty, The borrow’d majesty, of England here. QUEEN ELINOR : A strange beginning: ‘borrow’d majesty!’ KING JOHN... ... hear the embassy. CHATILLON: Philip of France, in right and true behalf Of thy deceased brother Geffrey’s son, Arthur Plantagenet, lays most lawful ... ...surpingly these several titles, And put these same into young Arthur’s hand, Thy nephew and right royal sovereign. KING JOHN : What follows if we dis... ...e and bloody war, To enforce these rights so forcibly withheld. KING JOHN : Here have we war for war and blood for blood, Controlment for controlment... ...e but heaven and you and I shall hear. [Enter a Sheriff .] ESSEX: My liege, here is the strangest controversy Come from country to be judged by you, ... ...l men’s children may. QUEEN ELINOR : Out on thee, rude man! thou dost shame thy mother And wound her honor with this diffidence. BASTARD: I, madam? ... ... hard with kneeling, I do pray to thee, Thou virtuous Dauphin, alter not the doom Forethought by heaven! BLANCH: Now shall I see thy love: what moti... ... himself hath done, Doth lay it open to urge on revenge. BIGOT: Or, when he doom’d this beauty to a grave, Found it too precious princely for a grave... ...owers from home and discontents at home Meet in one line; and vast confusion waits, As doth a raven on a sick fall’n beast, The imminent decay of wres...

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...Of whose life and death is none Report or lamentation. Lay that earth upon thy heart, And thy sickness shall depart! It shall sweeten and make whole F... ...d soul; It shall mightily restrain Over-busy hand and brain; It shall ease thy mortal strife ‘Gainst the immortal woe of life, Till thyself restored s... ..., Summer’s wild wide-hearted rose, Autumn’s wall-flower of the close, And, thy darkness to illume, Winter’s bee-thronged ivy-bloom. Seek and serve the... ...k walked out, chewing a green-topped rush. ‘Good Midsummer Morning to you! Here’s a happy meet- ing,’ said he. They shook hands all round, and asked q... ...ng side by side till they reached the gate at the far end of the hillside. Here they halted just like cattle, and let the sun warm their backs while t... ...and weave round the cradle-babe in the chimney-corner—a fag-end of a charm here, or half a spell there—like kettles singing; but when the babe’s mind ... ...ade a fine scene of it, and you have paid him, I suppose. Meantime, France waits. “ ‘“Oh! poor France!” says T alleyrand. “Good-bye, Candide,” he says... ...ys: ‘When thou art once dead, and Minos’ (which is a hea- then judge) ‘has doomed thee, neither cunning, nor speechcraft, nor good works will restore ... ...nd, but for my protection, masterless, he can still make shift to bide his doom under the open sky. ‘“Then wherefore didst thou bring him here for a m...

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...as made Major of Argyle’s regiment in 1648. Such are the facts of the tale here given as a Legend of Montrose’s wars. The reader will find they are co... ...e of duty. The following occurrence will prove the truth of what I mean:— “Here I must not forget the memory of one preacher, Mas- ter William Forbess... ... his parents, and of which he would in after life have deemed it a kind of heresy to question the authenticity. Many of these belonged to the wars of ... ...perience, were doubtless fol- lowed by promotion?” “It came slow, my lord, dooms slow,” replied Dalgetty; “but as my Scottish countrymen, the fathers ... ...d peacemaker throughout the evening, “please to un- derstand that Anderson waits upon no one but myself; but I will help Sibbald to undo your corslet ... ...at scare the pilgrim on his way:— Quench, kelpy! quench, in bog and fen, Thy torch that cheats benighted men; Thy dance is o’er, thy reign is done,... ...g, whose blasted visage grim Smothers the pulse, unnerves the limb, Spur thy dark palfrey, and begone! Thou darest not face the godlike sun.” As th... ... the manner of your own Puritans. I have not troubled Israel, but thou and thy father’s house. But let us leave an altercation, which is of little con... ...ered M’Aulay, “that you would not marry Annot Lyle!—False traitor!—she now waits you at the altar.” “It is you who speak false,” retorted Menteith. “I...

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..................................................... 219 Chapter 2.5.XI. The Hereditary Representative. ................................................... ...ied! When the assembled crows can pluck up their scarecrow, and say to it, Here shalt thou stand and not there; and can treat with it, and make it, fr... ...ajesty and suite, in these extraordinary circumstances, had their lodging. Here sat the Queen; reading,—for she had her library brought hither, though... ...nd live with her there,—till it grow too hot for them. O Cote Gauche, wor- thy are ye, as the adhesive Addresses generally say, to ‘fix the regards of... ...rs felt thee next, and long- 25 Thomas Carlyle skirted Turks, O Paul; and thy fiery soul has wasted itself in thousand contradictions;—to no purpose.... ...n, even as at home with the mean? Poor Paul! hunger and dispiritment track thy sinking foot- steps: once or at most twice, in this Revolution-tumult t... ...vour. There, in this post if not of honour, yet of eminence and danger, he waits, in a silent concentered manner; very dubious of the future. ‘Alone,’... ...lear purpose but this of still trying to do His Majesty a service, Bouille waits; struggling what he can to keep his district loyal, his troops faithf... ...y, with a message he only half comprehends: How a certain Compte d’Inisdal waits anxious in the outer antechamber; National Colonel, Captain of the wa...

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...ut that day my soul in measured strains, Even in the very words which I have here Recorded. To the open fields I told A prophesy; poetic numbers came 6... ...balanced me, else lost 90 Entirely, seeing nought, nought hearing, save When here and there about the grove of oaks Where was my bed, an acorn from th... ...s Fell audibly, and with a startling sound. Thus occupied in mind I lingered here 95 Contented, nor rose up until the sun Had almost touched the horiz... ... impress’d Collateral objects and appearances, 625 Albeit lifeless then, and doom’d to sleep Until maturer seasons call’d them forth To impregnate and... ...gion; but belong’d to thee, Yea, appertain’d by a peculiar right To thee and thy grey huts, my darling Vale! Those incidental charms which first attach... ...nd 215 Came from yon fountain?’ Thou, my Friend! art one More deeply read in thy own thoughts; to thee Science appears but, what in truth she is, Not ... ... And yet more often living with Thyself, 490 And for Thyself, so haply shall thy days Be many, and a blessing to mankind. Book Third Residence at Cam... ... the sky’s motion, in a kindred sense Of passion was obedient as a lute That waits upon the touches of the wind. So it was with me in my solitude: 38... ... an exhausted mind worn out by toil And all unworthy of the deeper joy Which waits on distant prospect—cliff or sea, The dark blue vault and universe ...

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...................................................... 203 Chapter 3.5.VI. Do thy Duty. .................................................................... ...great in the simultaneous death-defiance of Twenty-five million men, stand here in abrupt contrast, near by one another. As indeed is usual when a man... ...r; and so they continue Ta-r- tars, of fell Tartarean nature, to this day. Here, in like manner, search as we will in these multi-form innumerable Fre... ...one hope of a thing: the Commune (Municipality) of Paris, which is already here; the National Convention, which shall in few weeks be here. The Insurr... ...ver Sergent, since called Agate Sergent; thou Huguenin, with the tocsin in thy heart! But, as Horace says, they wanted the sacred memoir-writer (sacro... ..., are to be let go: one, the poor Princess de Lamballe, is not let go; but waits in the strong-rooms of La Force there, what will betide further. Amon... ...enot, the fire of whose looks had pleased him, to wait a moment. Thouvenot waits: Voila, says Polymetis, pointing to the map! That is the Forest of Ar... ...mopylae of France!’ (Dumouriez, ii. 391.) O brisk Dumouriez Polymetis with thy teeming head, may the gods grant it!—Polymetis, at any rate, folds his ... ...s to him in this Earth. (Moore, i. 123; ii. 224, &c.) Quietly he walks and waits; for he is not of lively feelings, and is of a devout heart. The wear...

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... wonderful. He was learned in many languages—in all those of his empire or hereditary states, and in many besides; and he had an ardent love of books,... ...eich (as Mary really did) despatches a ring to sum- mon her betrothed. But here Theurdank returns for answer that he means first to win honour by his ... ...e twenty adven- tures Furwitz is beaten off, and Umfallo tries his powers. Here the misadventures do not involve so much folly on the hero’s part—thou... ...r,” faltered Christina, colouring. “Ha, thou hast not forgotten the fright thy companions had from the Schlangenwald reitern when gathering Maydew? Fe... ...e sub- urbs we will take Hans and Peter with their halberts. But I believe thy silly little heart can scarce be free for enjoyment if it can fancy a R... ...e added in a more furtive, startled accent, “and, if I mistake not, one is thy brother!” “He is welcome,” replied Master Gottfried, in his cheery fear... ...o delude a poor maiden.” 67 Yo n g e “I delude thee not. The brother here waits to wed us.” “Impossible! A burgher maid is not for such as you.” “Non... ... most certain destruction to all, and herself the unnatural mother who had doomed her new-born babes for a stranger’s sake. She could not even pray; s... ... or pledge thyself to meddle no more with my lands, I’ll con- sider of thy doom.” “You have had plenty of time to consider it,” growled the fellow. A ...

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...e sides scattered with gray rocks of every imag- inable size, interspersed here and there with heather, gorse, or furze. Just in the widest part of th... ...ression ever deepening, before the old man raised his face, and said, ‘You here, Malcolm? where are the others?’ ‘Patie and Lily are still on the turr... ...ming. He has just turned over the brae side, and can be coming nowhere but here.’ ‘ A guest!’ cried both Malcolm and the elder knight, ‘of what kind, ... ...inst so foul a wrong to my own orphan kindred? Brewster, I’ll answer it to thy master. These are his foes, as well as those of all honest men. Ha! tho... ...word had grappled with him. ‘In the name of St. Andrew and the King, yield thy prey, thou dastard,’ were his words as he threw his arms round the body... ...trum- pet voice, ‘W alter Stewart of Albany, on one condition I grant thee thy life. It is that thou take the most solemn oath on the spot that no spu... ...f by marrying her to you; and he would do it bon gre, mal gre, but that he waits to hear what Burgundy will say. You have only to hold out, and she sh... ...teous haughti- ness: ‘Of myself, Sir Duke, there is no question. My ransom waits England’s willingness to accept it; and my hand is not free, even for... ...s startled eye. ‘Oh, no, no! only sick at heart at my own madness, and the doom on it! O Sir, hear me! T ake my vow again! give me abso- lution once m...

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... the characters, of the persons concerned in the real story. Indeed, I may here state generally that, although I have deemed historical per- sonages f... ...es of the character of a very intimate friend of my father’s family. I may here also notice that the sort of exchange of gal- lantry which is represen... ... and tran- quillity by literary failure. It would argue either stupid apa- thy or ridiculous affectation to say that I have been insen- sible to the p... ...TION [It has been suggested to the Author that it might be well to reprint here a detailed account of the public dinner alluded to in the foregoing In... ...ross it, doubtless because it was known to his wisdom who pro- nounced the doom that, from the time the crossing the stream was debarred, the devoted ... ...cient name and family, and to permit his lands and lineage to fall under a doom of forfeiture. “And indeed,” said the venerable compiler, “as, praised... ...a judge of a horse as —; to have the knowing cut of —’s jacket. These were thy gods, O Israel! Now I was a mere looker-on; seldom an unmoved, and some... ...ngagements.” “Wretch!” said the secret voice within, “darest thou exult in thy shame? Recollect how thy youth and fortune was wasted in those years, a... ...y dinner is indeed solitary, yet not quite so nei- ther; for though Andrew waits, Janet—or, as she is to all the world but her master and certain old ...

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...know what has been doing, and still is doing, in this connexion, I mention here that everything set forth in these pages concerning the Court of Chanc... ...an afternoon, if ever, the Lord High Chancellor ought to be sitting her—as here he is—with a foggy glory round his head, softly fenced in with crimson... ...oon some score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be—as here they are—mistily engaged in one of the ten thou 7 Bleak House – Dick... ...ll this? So, so! Now, we have cleared off old scores, and I have before me thy pleasant, trusting, trusty face again.” I said to myself, “Esther, my d... ...the ‘ackney coach. It was a feeble tribute to thee, but it was well meant. Thy image has ever since been fixed in my breast. I have walked up and down... ...quite in outer darkness. There is something like a distant ray of light in thy muttered reason for this: “He wos wery good to me, he wos!” 154 Bleak ... ...e vessel Chadband, being merely engaged in the oil trade, gets aground and waits to be floated off. “Well!” says Mr. Guppy. “Either this boy sticks to... ...nity itself can be—more so than it often is. Allan, very patient with her, waits until she has no more raptures to express, then points out Jo, trembl... ...atever the subject of the conversation, he keeps a tender eye upon him. He waits to walk home with him. He is interested in his very boots and observe...

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...ht hand. It was no longer a great bank of darkness. Lights twinkled freely here and there, though for- lornly, now that the war-time restrictions were... ... was going to a pub out of town. He descended the dark hill. A street-lamp here and there shed parsimonious light. In the bottoms, under the trees, it... ...n sat next to her. He poured water into his glass, and drank. It’s warm in here,” he said, when he had swallowed the liquor. “Y es, it is. Y ou won’t ... ... put in the landlady. “Selfish or not, they may do it.” “Till the crack o’ doom,” said Aaron, with a glistening smile. “Or the crack o’ th’ rope,” sai... ...!” “You see,” said Robert, “Julia can’t decide anything for her- self. She waits for someone else to decide, then she puts her spoke in.” “Put it plai... ...“You’ll be yourself, whether it’s Malta or London,” said Aaron. “There’s a doom for me,” laughed Lilly. The water on the fire was boiling. He rose and... ..., getting quite enthusiastic over his jig. Rosy and unabashed, he was wor- thy of the great nation he belonged to. The broad-seated Empire chair showe... ...ped 212 Aaron’s Rod half a dozen spoons, the old women knitted during the waits, and all went off so badly that it was quite pleasant. Yes, Aaron pre...

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...ed by the gracious gleam Of letters, dear to Science, dear to Art, Dear to thy land and ours, a Prince indeed, Beyond all titles, and a household name... ...y land and ours, a Prince indeed, Beyond all titles, and a household name, Hereafter, through all times, Albert the Good. Break not, O woman’s-hear... ... May all love, His love, unseen but felt, o’ershadow Thee, The love of all Thy sons encompass Thee, The love of all Thy daughters cherish Thee, The lo... ...ncompass Thee, The love of all Thy daughters cherish Thee, The love of all Thy people comfort Thee, Till God’s love set Thee at his side again! The Co... ..., Worse than the wolves. And King Leodogran Groaned for the Roman legions here again, And Caesar’s eagle: then his brother king, Urien, assailed him... ...t Uther’s son’—the King Sent to him, saying, ‘Arise, and help us thou! For here between the man and beast we die. ’ And Arthur yet had done no deed... ..., That named himself the Star of Evening, stood. And Gareth, ‘Wherefore waits the madman there Naked in open dayshine?’ ‘Nay, ’ she cried, ‘Not na... ...let him in? He slew him! Gawain, Gawain of the court, Sir Gawain—there he waits below the wall, Blowing his bugle as who should say him nay. ’ And... ...like Satan in the North. My younger knights, new-made, in whom your flower Waits to be solid fruit of golden deeds, Move with me toward their quelling...

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... blow: That this is true, father, behold his blood. MONTAGUE: And, brother, here’s the Earl of Wiltshire’s blood, Whom I encounter’d as the battles j... ...olence, Unless he seek to thrust you out perforce. YORK: The queen this day here holds her parliament, But little thinks we shall be of her council: ... ... parliament, But little thinks we shall be of her council: By words or blows here let us win our right. RICHARD: Arm’d as we are, let’s stay within t... ... To aspire unto the crown and reign as king. Earl of Northumberland, he slew thy father. And thine, Lord Clifford; and you both have vow’d revenge On ... ...e of York, descend my throne, and kneel for grace and mercy at my feet; I am thy sovereign. YORK: I am thine. EXETER: For shame, c... ...thee Duke of York. YORK: ’Twas my inheritance, as the earldom was. EXETER: Thy father was a traitor to the crown. WARWICK: Exeter, thou art a trait... ...den cup, His body couched in a curious bed, When care, mistrust, and treason waits on him. [Alarum. Enter a Son that has killed his father, dragging i... ...tle’s ended, If friend or foe, let him be gently used. RICHARD: Revoke that doom of mercy, for ’tis Clifford; Who not contented that he lopp’d the br... ...ve Henry, and call Edward king. OXFORD: Call him my king by whose injurious doom My elder brother, the Lord Aubrey Vere, Was done to death? and more ...

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... his lustre seem’d to pour, And through the mist was seen a radiant light; Here sank it gently to the ground once more, There parted it, and climb’d o... ...s hath shed The purest balsam in each earthly wound? Thou knows’t me well; thy panting heart I led T o join me in a bond with rapture crown’d. Did I n... ...t me rest, when passions rack’d the boy, Pervading ev’ry limb unceasingly; Thy heav’nly pinions thou didst then employ The scorching sunbeams to ward ... ...ts I gain’ d, Through thee alone, true bliss can be obtain’ d. 24 Goethe “Thy name I know not; yet I hear thee nam’d By many a one who boasts thee as... ...sat By his mistress dear; Cupid, blowing out the torch, Said: “The taper’s here!” Then we quickly sent around The expiring brand; Each one put it hast... ...when by Christel’s sight I’m blest, I feel my strength renew’ d. I see her here, I see her there, And really cannot tell The manner how, the when, the... ...thou prolong love’s days untimely ended? Lily, I fly from thee! I still am doom’d to range Thro’ countries strange, Thro’ distant vales and woods, lin... ... glide,— Envy-struck Linger o’er the cedar’s strength, Which, to flourish, Waits him not. Why doth my lay name thee the last? Thee, from whom it began... ...et us hasten!” exclaimed the sensible man, “for our young friend Anxiously waits; without further delay let him hear the good tidings.” So they hasten...

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... enter OEDIPUS. OEDIPUS My children, latest born to Cadmus old, Why sit ye here as suppliants, in your hands Branches of olive filleted with wool? Wha... ...s, my sovereign lord and king, Thou seest how both extremes of age besiege Thy palace altars fledglings hardly winged, and greybeards bowed with years... ...ky realm Of Pluto is full fed with groans and tears. Therefore, O King, here at thy hearth we sit, I and these children; not as deeming thee A new ... ... Of Pluto is full fed with groans and tears. Therefore, O King, here at thy hearth we sit, I and these children; not as deeming thee A new divinity... ...) didst thou renew our life. And now, O Oedipus, our peerless king, All we thy votaries beseech thee, find Some succor, whether by a voice from heaven... ...f all men best might guide A searcher of this matter to the light. OEDIPUS Here too my zeal has nothing lagged, for twice At Creon s instance have I s... ...e. OEDIPUS What seeks he? If a suppliant, something grave. THESEUS He only waits, they say, to speak with thee, And then unharmed to go upon his way. ... ...g lord of Argos onward pressed. (Ant. 1) Hovering around our city walls he waits, His spearmen raven at our seven gates. But ere a torch our crown of ... ...the dust. Seven captains at our seven gates Thundered; for each a champion waits, Each left behind his armor bright, Trophy for Zeus who turns the fig...

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...n spirit from sinful blot Is purg’d, and for ascent to Heaven prepares. Here, O ye hallow’d Nine! for in your train I follow, here the deadened s... ...ame from heaven Descending, had besought me in my charge To bring. But since thy will implies, that more Our true condition I unfold at large, Mine is... ...es, that more Our true condition I unfold at large, Mine is not to deny thee thy request. This mortal ne’er hath seen the farthest gloom. But erring b... ...the regions of the bad; And purpose now those spirits to display, That under thy command are purg’d from sin. How I have brought him would be long to ... ...gil answer’d. “Ye suppose perchance Us well acquainted with this place: but here, We, as yourselves, are strangers. Not long erst We came, before yo... ...loos’d forth it I love thee still, And therefore pause; but why walkest thou here?” “Not without purpose once more to return, Thou find’st me, my... ... me no more; Since she has chang’d the white and wimpled folds, Which she is doom’d once more with grief to wish. By her it easily may be perceiv’d, H... ...r shar’d?” He straight replied: “No wonder, since he knows, What sorrow waits on his own worst defect, If he chide others, that they less may mou... ...ht shrouds him;. As a man Doth for himself, so now is done for us. For whoso waits imploring, yet sees need Of his prompt aidance, sets himself prepar...

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...you! Men come not always back from tracks like yours. RUODI. But who comes here, running at topmost speed? WERNI. I know the man; ’tis Baumgart of Alz... ...n echo to its shores. There is the boat to carry me across, Yet must I lie here helpless and forlorn. KUONI. Look! who comes here? RUODI. ’Tis Tell, a... ...Tell, of Burglen.* [Enter Tell with a crossbow.] TELL. What man is he that here implores of aid? KUONI. He is from Alzellen, and to guard his honour F... ...nging his hands). Righteous Heaven! Oh, when will come Deliverance to this doom-devoted land? [Exeunt severally.] SCENE II A lime tree in front of Sta... ...thee now. For many a day in silence I have mark’d A moody sorrow furrowing thy brow. Some silent grief is weighing on thy heart. Trust it to me. I am ... ...heart. Trust it to me. I am thy faithful wife, And I demand my half of all thy cares. [Stauffacher gives her his hand and is silent.] Tell me what can... .... [Stauffacher gives her his hand and is silent.] Tell me what can oppress thy spirits thus? Thy toil is blest—the world goes well with thee— Our barn... ...r shakes his head.] 25 Schiller Ill-omened towers, with curses built, And doomed with curses to be tenanted! [Exit.] SCENE IV The House of Walter Fur... ...race gives me my husband back. Six months already has he been shut up, And waits the sentence of a judge in vain. GESSL. How! would you force me, woma...

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... Jerusalem Delivered II O heavenly Muse, that not with fading bays Deckest thy brow by the Heliconian spring, But sittest crowned with stars’ immortal... ...es of love and conquest brave I dedicate, to you this work I send: My Muse hereafter shall perhaps unfold Y our fights, your battles, and your combats... ..., each baser mind Let him stir up; for, chieftain of the rest I choose him here, the earth shall him allow, His fellows late shall be his subjects now... ...f thou o’erslip not it, To free Jerusalem from thrall and wrong: Thou with thy Lords in council quickly sit; Comfort the feeble, and confirm the stron... ...what sure hope of conquest ought thee move, What zeal, what love should in thy bosom dwell!” This said, he vanished to those seats above, In height an... ...nor small, Naught to our first designment, if we shun The purposed end, or here lie fixed all. What boots it us there wares to have begun, Or Europe r... ...hou be a bondslave vile become, No wrong is that, but God’s most righteous doom. LII In order last, but first in worth and fame, Unfeared in fight, un... ... And silly maid from danger to redeem, Condemned to burn by your unpartial doom, I not excuse, but pity much their youth, And come to you for mercy an... ...ck up my springing flower, Even as the wretch condemned to lose his life A waits the falling of the murdering knife. LII “In these extremes, for so my...

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...writes, can demonstrate that he flatters not; the former two of these I have heretofore endeavoured, res cuing the employment from him who went about... ... best covenant of his fidelity; and that his loyalest affection and his hope waits on your proceedings. His highest praising is not flattery, and his ... ... to the lustre of your mild and equal government, whenas private persons are hereby animated to think ye better pleased with public advice, than other... ...e better pleased with public advice, than other statists have been delighted heretofore with public flat tery. And men will then see what difference ... ...t so avers it) confirmed him in these words: READ ANY BOOKS WHATEVER COME TO THY HANDS, FOR THOU ART SUFFICIENT BOTH TO JUDGE ARIGHT AND TO EXAMINE EA... ...ins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say of kno... ...s will undo us. The adversary again Areopagitica Milton 40 applauds, and waits the hour: when they have branched themselves out, saith he, small e... ...ght raven sings; There, under ebon shades and low browed rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell. But come, thou Goddess fa... ... his sides. Come, and trip it, as you go, On the light fantastic toe; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And, if ...

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..................................................... 326 Chapter 2.5.XI. The Hereditary Representative. ................................................... ...................................................... 494 Chapter 3.5.VI. Do thy Duty. .................................................................... ...es, Maupeou, pucker those sinister brows of thine, and peer out on it with thy malign rat-eyes: it is a questionable case. Sure only that man is morta... ...g on the optical retina of both was, most likely, the same! Let the Reader here, in this sick-room of Louis, endeavour to look with the mind too. Time... ...llowed up of Darkness) it spoke to thee—things unspeakable, that went into thy soul’s soul. Strong was he that had a Church, what we can call a Church... ...ill Catholicism itself, so far as Law could abolish it, had been abolished here. But of those decadent ages in which no Ideal either grows or blossoms... ...ght Couriers,’ in course of the day, gallop from Versailles, where Lomenie waits palpitating; and gallop back again, not with the best news. In the ou... ... this state of continual explosion that shall cease neither night nor day, waits the issue. Awakened Paris once more inundates those outer courts; boi... ...is way or that! Pragmatical Officiality, with its penalties and law-books, waits before thee; Menads storm behind. If such hewed off the melodious hea...

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...es, Maupeou, pucker those sinister brows of thine, and peer out on it with thy malign rat-eyes: it is a questionable case. Sure only that man is morta... ...g on the optical retina of both was, most likely, the same! Let the Reader here, in this sick-room of Louis, en- deavour to look with the mind too. Ti... ...llowed up of Darkness) it spoke to thee—things unspeakable, that went into thy soul’s soul. Strong was he that had a Church, what we can call a Church... ...ill Catholicism itself, so far as Law could abolish it, had been abolished here. But of those decadent ages in which no Ideal either grows or blossoms... ...ench Philosophism has arisen; in which little word how much do we include! Here, indeed, lies properly the cardinal symptom of the whole wide-spread m... ...buckram of stiffest ceremonial could keep him out; but he is here, here at thy very life- 23 Thomas Carlyle breath, and will extinguish it. Thou, who... ...ht Couriers, ’ in course of the day, gallop from Versailles, where Lomenie waits palpitating; and gallop back again, not with the best news. In the ou... ... this state of continual explosion that shall cease neither night nor day, waits the issue. Awakened Paris once more inundates those outer courts; boi... ...is way or that! Pragmatical Officiality, with its penalties and law-books, waits before thee; Menads storm behind. If such hewed off the melodious hea...

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...tter character and standing, and greater practical sense. I have no sympa- thy with vagabonds and talkers who try to reform society by taking men away... ...I do not want to send anyone to the gospels with this result, I had better here give a brief exposition of how much of the history of religion is need... ... are horri- fied at the indifference of the irreligious to the approaching doom. And revivalist preachers, now as in the days of John the Baptist, sel... ... son of Joseph, but rose from the dead after three days as the son of God. Here again, few notice the discrepancy: the three views are accepted simult... ... are reconciled. But that is not the present point. All that need be noted here is that the legend of divine birth was sure to be attached sooner or l... ...he regards disease as a department of sin, and on curing a lame man, says “Thy sins are forgiven” instead of “ Arise and walk,” subsequently maintaini... ...an. To the woman whom he had just called a dog he said, “O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt.” This is somehow one of the m... ... baptism, and that his disciples did. Christ’s agonized appeal against his doom in the garden of Gethsemane becomes a coldblooded suggestion made in t... ...ally on our conclusions. The 99 Preface to Androcles and the Lion man who waits to make an entirely reasonable will dies in- testate. A man so reason...

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...whole Post was ready for them. And as to the foregathering, ask Father Roubeau here: he performed the ceremony.” The Jesuit took the pipe from his lip... ...an got spliced,” said Belden, concluding the exciting tale of his courtship. “‘Here we be, dad,’ sez she. ‘An’ may yeh be damned,’ sez he to her, an’ ... ... States?” asked the stranger. “Nope; Sal died ’fore any come. Thet ’s why I ’m here.” Belden 6 JACK LONDON abstractedly began to light his pipe, whic... ...t was a plain, mathematical proposition, — three possible lives as against one doomed one. But now he hesitated. For five years, shoulder to shoulder, ... ...orest flare up in flame. The rolling up of the heavens as a scroll, the crash of Doom — anything, anything! But no, nothing moved; the Silence crowded i... ...“Hold, Gowhee! And thou, too, Kah Chucte! Hath the flour given such strength to thy legs that they may outrun the swift winged lead? Think not to cheat... ...hee, hast a wife and children and a deer skin lodge in the Chippewyan. What is thy will in the matter?” “Give thou her of the goods which are mine by ... ...his axe. “Blood of my soul!” cried Baptiste the Red. “But thou art a man. Deny thy god, and thou shalt yet live.” Stockard swore his refusal, feebly b... ...rk, and, while the weighing went on, Akoon was closely watched by all. “He but waits till the money is paid,” one said; and the word went around and w...

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...to hear a school- boy sneeze. Tell him that Charles Wilcox (the son who is here) has hay fever too, but he’s brave, and gets quite cross when we inqui... ...ay—I suppose for rabbits or something, as she kept on smelling it. The air here is delicious. Later on I heard the noise of croquet balls, and looked ... ...h—bridge and at night we squeeze up in this lovely house. The whole clan’s here now—it’s like a rabbit warren. Evie is a dear. They want me to stop ov... ...r the fields of Hertfordshire. This famous build- ing had arisen, that was doomed. To-day Whitehall had been transformed; it would be the turn of Re- ... ... fairer creature than the vermilion giant that had borne Aunt Juley to her doom three years be- fore. “Presumably it’s very beautiful,” she said. “How... ...l, item by item, never raising his eyes to the whole, and “Death, where is thy sting? Love, where is thy victory?” one would exclaim at the close. Aft... ...tion of a summer field, or give names to half a dozen stars. England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature—for the great poet who shall...

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... the same tastes, with the same desires, acting—or, no, not acting—sitting here and there unanimously, isn’t that the truth? If for nine years I have ... ...that about the first thing in the world, what does one know and why is one here? I asked Mrs Ashburnham whether she had told Florence that and what Fl... ...s—you have to make the connection at Brussels. And the Belgian train never waits by so much the shade of a second for the one coming from Calais or fr... ...ter, until gradually it dies away in the pity that there is knocking about here and there in the world. Supposing he had spent his seven years in Winc... ... room without knocking, or her poor little heart might flutter away to its doom. He said these things with his lugubrious croak, and his black eyes li... ...nt her spirit could say: “Domine, nunc dimittis, … Lord, now, lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.” She imagined that she could cheerfully go awa... ...ened door opened noiselessly to the full. Edward was there. His devouring, doomed eyes were fixed on the girl’s face; his shoulders slouched forward; ...

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...valley. How curious!” They walked toward it through an all abandoned land. Here they found the ghost of a patch of lucerne that had refused to die: th... ...fused to die: there a harsh fallow surrendered to yard- high thistles; and here a breadth of rampant kelk feigning to be lawful crop. In the ungrazed ... ... sied to the ground. “George, this is history I can under- stand. We began here.” She curtsied again. The June sunshine twinkled on all the lights. It... ...coach will lock on when it is filled and the clerks are aboard.” “No. 162” waits for us in Slip E of the topmost stage. The great curve of her back sh... ...athing and uneasy shapes. One forms itself into a globe of pale flame that waits shivering with eagerness till we sweep by. It leaps monstrously acros... ...ds: ‘Outrage of domicile? My dear mayor, who is the man that has corrupted thy Julie?’ “The mayor, furious, ‘Xavier Lavalle—’ “Xavier, interrupting: ‘... ...d our spawn after us.’ The Hajji said: ‘What is also my name?’ They said: ‘Thy name is also The Merciful’ The Hajji said: ‘Praise then my mercy’; and ... ...laves stood in a Fork.’ The Hajji said: ‘So testify before the officer who waits you in the town of Dupe.’ They said: ‘What shall come to us after?’ T... .... This is because they eat men.” “Maybe,” said Strickland. “But where were thy wits? One witness is not sufficient to establish the fact of a sale.” “...

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...ver, I have only entered so far as my story became involved with them. And here I have to apologize for a few blunders, detected too late for alterati... ...ield to ladies.’ ‘Wives ought to mind their husbands.’ ‘Then I will not be thy wife.’ ‘Thou canst not help it.’ ‘I will. I will tell my father what M.... ...?—that Diane has told them all they wanted to know, for that they sent her here on purpose to see if we were not all Huguenots. ‘V ery likely, the lit... ...ies. But thou know’st, if they caught him at the preche they would call it heresy and treason, and all sorts of horrors, and any way they would fall l... ...s hard to ask of babes caution and secrecy; but I must know from thee what thy cousin may have heard of our doings?’ ‘I cannot tell, father,’ replied ... ...n, ere yet I knew the truth I was a reckless disobedient youth, and I bore thy mother from her parents in England without their consent. Since, by Hea... ...ghtly armour, Berenger much preferred making one of them in spite of their doom. The masque was given at the hall of the Hotel de Bour- bon, where a n... ...d together on that dreadful night. He came to meet me to the Louvre—to his doom!’ she gasped out, nearer to tears than she had ever been since that ti... ...to be spoken of with you than a pheasant with old brown Partlet; and Berry waits but to be well to bring her off from all her foes. And I’ll go with h...

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...ent heard, Troubling the endless reverie. Then nowise worship dusty deeds, Nor seek, for this is also sooth, To hunger fiercely after truth, Lest all thy toiling only breeds New dreams, new dreams; there is no truth Saving in thine own heart. Seek, then, No learning from the starry men, Who follow with the optic glass The whirling ways of stars that pass--Seek, then, for t...

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... Nor seek, for this is also sooth, To hunger fiercely after truth, Lest all thy toiling only breeds New dreams, new dreams; there is no truth Saving in... ...er by the humming sea Some twisted, echo harbouring shell. And to its lips thy story tell, And they thy comforters will be. Rewording in melodious gui... ... story tell, And they thy comforters will be. Rewording in melodious guile Thy fretful words a little while, Till they shall singing fade in ruth And ... ...iestess of this temple, offer up prayers for the land. Vijaya. I will wait here, Amrita. Anashuya. By mighty Brahma’s ever rustling robe, Who is Amrit... ... his own image in the enamelled sea. 12 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS Here we will moor our lonely ship And wander ever with woven hands, Murmuri... ...E FOXHUNTER ‘LAY me in a cushioned chair; Carry me, ye four, With cushions here and cushions there, To see the world once more. ‘To stable and to kenn... ...d came. ‘He bade me let all know he gives his name At the sword point, and waits till we have found Some feasting man that the same oath has bound.’ C... ...ar, Sang unnoticed like a bird: ‘Though the Door of Death is near And what waits behind the door, Three times in a single day I, though upright on the... ...lanned his murder, for they know Of some most haughty deed or thought That waits upon his future days, And would through hatred of the bays Bring that...

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...ge the name; belov’d by Juno more Than her own Argos, or the Samian shore. Here stood her chariot; here, if Heav’n were kind, The seat of awful empire... ...r to thee the King of Heav’n The pow’r of tempests and of winds has giv’n; Thy force alone their fury can restrain, And smooth the waves, or swell the... ...y steer, And for their vanquish’d gods design new temples there. Raise all thy winds; with night involve the skies; Sink or disperse my fatal enemies.... ...nd the ship was toss’d, Then bulg’d at once, and in the deep was lost; And here and there above the waves were seen Arms, pictures, precious goods, an... ...l streams descend in murm’ring falls: No haulsers need to bind the vessels here, Nor bearded anchors; for no storms they fear. Sev’n ships within this... ...seas and land, Disposing all with absolute command; How could my pious son thy pow’r incense? Or what, alas! is vanish’d Troy’s offense? Our hope of I... ...r pious race they may descend. “‘When, parted hence, the wind, that ready waits For Sicily, shall bear you to the straits Where proud Pelorus opes a ... ...and intent, to see Y our Roman race, and Julian progeny. The mighty Caesar waits his vital hour, Impatient for the world, and grasps his promis’d pow’... ...enc’d with brazen bolts; without the gates, The wary guardian Janus doubly waits. Then, when the sacred senate votes the wars, The Roman consul their ...

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...e: In life’s low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike. Though the same sun with all-diffusive rays Blush i... ...consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. This clue once found, unravels all the rest, The prospect clears, and... ... this; it sticks to our last sand. Consistent in our follies and our sins, Here honest Nature ends as she begins. Old politicians chew on wisdom past,... ...nees, And envies every sparrow that he sees. A salmon’s belly, Helluo, was thy fate; The doctor call’d, declares all help too late: ‘Mercy!’ cries Hel... ...ippia glow, In Fulvia’s buckle ease the throbs below; Or heal, old Narses, thy obscener ail, With all the embroidery plaster’d at thy tail? ... ...d therefore hopes this nation may be sold: Glorious ambition! Peter, swell thy store, And be what Rome’s great Didius 35 was before. The crown of Pol... ...20 Now by the Nine, those powers adored by me, And Love, the god that ever waits on thee, When first I heard (from whom I hardly knew) That you were f... ...of a throne: Each would the sweets of sovereign rule devour, While Discord waits upon divided power. As stubborn steers, by brawny ploughmen broke, An... ...gal palace bent his way; On the cold marble, spent with toil, he lies, And waits till pleasing slumbers seal his eyes. Adrastus here his happy people ...

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... not by those of Apollo and Paris, he might have pleaded that Homer himself here speaks with an uncertain voice (cf. Iliad xv. 416 17, xxii. 355 60,... ...atever theory we adopt, it must be based on mere conjecture. The Greek text here given is that of Koechly (1850) with many of Zimmermann’s emendatio... ...e editors to be adequate, the lacuna has been indicated by asterisks, though here too a few words have been added in the translation, sufficient to c... ... and swift death shall he deal to thee. Alas for thee! What madness thrills thy soul? Fate and the end of death stand hard by thee! Hector was mighti... ...mine halls: we pray thee by the love Thou bear’st to Ares of the fiery heart Thy son, yea, to her also! is she not Most wondrous like the heavenly Go... ...d, that thou hast greatly dared To threaten us with death this day! On thee Thy latest hour shall swiftly come — is come! Thee not thy sire the War g... ...ives No longer. Come, with armour, car, and steed Let us beset them. Glory waits our toil?” But battle eager Aias answering spake “Brave be thy word... ... and valiant is a glorious thing; But if thou smite an old man, small renown Waits on thy prowess. Therefore turn from me Thine hands against young m... ...re pleasure in life, since God hath slain My nearest and my dearest! For me waits T rouble and anguish and lone homelessness!” So cried she, longing ...

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... of things, presenting Satan with his angels now fallen into hell, described here, not in the center (for heaven and earth may be supposed as yet not ... ... not yet accursed) but in a place of utter darkness, fitliest called Chaos: here Satan with his angels lying on the burning lake, thunderstruck and a... ...re, and Siloa’s brook that flowed Fast by the oracle of God; I thence Invoke thy aid to my advent’rous song, That with no middle flight intends to soa... ...And justify the ways of God to men. Say first, for heav’n hides nothing from thy view Nor the deep tract of hell, say first what cause Moved our grand... ...y vanquished, rolling in the fiery gulf Confounded though immortal: but his doom Reserved him to moe wrath; for now the thought Both of lost happines... ...er unconsumed: Such place Eternal Justice had prepared For those rebellious, here their prison ordained In utter darkness, and their portion set As fa... ...O Chief of many thronèd Powers, That led th’ embattled Seraphim to war Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds Fearless, endangered heav’ns perpetual... ...gnominy, or bonds, or pain, The sentence of thir Conquerour: This is now Our doom; which if we can sustain and bear, Our Supream Foe in time may much ... ...ctions, in himself was all his state, More solemn then the tedious pomp that waits On Princes, when thir rich Retinue long Of Horses led, and Grooms b...

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... Jerusalem Delivered II O heavenly Muse, that not with fading bays Deckest thy brow by the Heliconian spring, But sittest crowned with stars’ immortal... ...es of love and conquest brave I dedicate, to you this work I send: My Muse hereafter shall perhaps unfold Y our fights, your battles, and your combats... ..., each baser mind Let him stir up; for, chieftain of the rest I choose him here, the earth shall him allow, His fellows late shall be his subjects now... ...f thou o’erslip not it, To free Jerusalem from thrall and wrong: Thou with thy Lords in council quickly sit; Comfort the feeble, and confirm the stron... ...what sure hope of conquest ought thee move, What zeal, what love should in thy bosom dwell!” This said, he vanished to those seats above, In height an... ...nor small, Naught to our first designment, if we shun The purposed end, or here lie fixed all. What boots it us there wares to have begun, Or Europe r... ...hou be a bondslave vile become, No wrong is that, but God’s most righteous doom. LII In order last, but first in worth and fame, Unfeared in fight, un... ... And silly maid from danger to redeem, Condemned to burn by your unpartial doom, I not excuse, but pity much their youth, And come to you for mercy an... ...ck up my springing flower, Even as the wretch condemned to lose his life A waits the falling of the murdering knife. LII “In these extremes, for so my...

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...t Aegean! These are gone, but thou remainest. There is still a garland for thy temple, a heifer for thy stone. A heifer? Ah, many a darker sacrifice. ... ...r thy stone. A heifer? Ah, many a darker sacrifice. Other blood is shed at thy altars, Remorseless One, and the Poet Priest who ministers at thy Shrin... ...ns for the Visionary. I stand behind the counter, it is true; but I ponder here upon the deeds of heroes, and muse over the thoughts of sages. What is... ...score years back. Thou pudding-sided old dandy of St. James’s Street, with thy lacquered boots, thy dyed whiskers, and thy suffo- cating waistband, wh... ...he Beautiful, as thou art, my son, must respect the Real likewise.” “Look! here is supper!” cried Barnwell gayly. “This is the Real, Doctor; let us re... ...ear. I can have a dinner at any hour; but a Town and Gown row” (a brickbat here flying through the window crashed the caraffe of water in Mendoza’s ha... ...through the gardens, and tell his Excellency Doctor Franklin that the King waits.” The Bishop ran off, with more than youthful agility, to seek the Un... ...at a constancy,” said he. “Oh, that such beauty and such bravery should be doomed so soon to quit the earth!” His tall companion only sneered and said... ...e does not make any attempt to seize upon his throne by force of arms, but waits until heaven shall conduct him to it. “If his Majesty comes to Paris,...

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...ss of women’s coiffure and the favor- ite love-stories in prose and verse. Here and there a cygnet is reared uneasily among the ducklings in the brown... ...ever finds the living stream in fellowship with its own oary- footed kind. Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving ... ...which he was watchful, suspicious, and greedy of clutch. In Mr. Brooke the hereditary strain of Puritan energy was clearly in abeyance; but in his nie... ...sure and contemplating them with that self-satisfaction which was the last doom of ignorance and folly. CHAPTER IV 1st Gent. Our deeds are fetter... ...tiniest hairlets which make vortices for these victims while the swallower waits passively at his receipt of custom. In this way, metaphorically speak... ...im very comfortably. CHAPTER XVI “All that in woman is adored In thy fair self I find— For the whole sex can but afford The hands... ... worldly-spiritual cliqueism: they really look on the rest of mankind as a doomed carcass which is to nourish them for heaven. But,” he added, smiling... ...hythms on the hated piano. Marriage, which was to bring guidance into wor- thy and imperative occupation, had not yet freed her from the gentlewoman’s... ...n-pole abstract- edly, and humming very low the notes of “When first I saw thy face;” while the house spaniel, also stretched out with small choice of...

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...ness of women’s coiffure and the favorite love stories in prose and verse. Here and there a cygnet is reared un easily among the ducklings in the bro... ... never finds the living stream in fellowship with its own oary footed kind. Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving ... ...which he was watchful, suspicious, and greedy of clutch. In Mr. Brooke the hereditary strain of Puritan energy was clearly in abeyance; but in his nie... ...sure and contemplating them with that self satisfaction which was the last doom of igno rance and folly. Chapter IV . 1st Gent. Our deeds are fetters... ...niest hairlets which make vor tices for these victims while the swallower waits passively at his receipt of custom. In this way, metaphorically speak... ... 124 Book II — Old and Young. Chapter XVI. “All that in woman is adored In thy fair self I find— For the whole sex can but afford The handsome and the ... ...hose excellent musicians here and there to be found in our provinces, wor thy to compare with many a noted Kapellmeister in a country which offers mo... ... worldly spiritual cliqueism: they really look on the rest of mankind as a doomed carcass which is to nourish them for heaven. But,” he added, smiling... ...tain pole abstractedly, and humming very low the notes of “When first I saw thy face;” while the house spaniel, also stretched out with small choice of...

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...married Lise Meinen lately. He is an aide-de-camp of Kutuzov’s and will be here tonight.” “Listen, dear Annette,” said the prince, suddenly tak- ing A... ...a spinning mill, when he has set the hands to work, goes round and notices here a spindle that has stopped or there one that creaks or makes more nois... ... expecting to hear something very pro- found. At last he came up to Morio. Here the conversa- tion seemed interesting and he stood waiting for an op- ... ... quite finished. “Demosthenes, I know thee by the pebble thou secretest in thy golden mouth!” said Bilibin, and the mop of hair on his head moved with... ...p me!” In front came a man wearing a strange shako and a blue cloak, swar- thy, sunburned, and with a hooked nose. Then came two more, and many more r... ...ear was so much the stronger feeling. The prince reciprocated this antipa- thy, but it was overpowered by his contempt for her. When the little prince... ...ishes to explain the treatment of a case. “In that case he is inviting his doom by awaiting our attack,” said Langeron, with a subtly ironical smile, ... ...rt the letters and take those meant for us. The field marshal looks on and waits for letters addressed to him. We search, but none are to be found. Th... ...t (perhaps the very men he had noticed), twenty thou- sand were inevitably doomed to wounds and death amazed Pierre. 433 Tolstoy “They may die tomorr...

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...glish Illustrated, The Magazine of Art, The contemporary Review; three are here in print for the first time; and two others have en- joyed only what m... ... them solid English fare – roast beef and plum pudding, and no tomfoolery. Here we have either pole of the Britannic folly. We will not eat the food o... ... be un- happy. Pleasant incidents are woven with my memory of the place. I here made friends with a plain old gentleman, a visi- tor on sunny mornings... ...the cats and robins and the ancient effigies and leg- ends of the tomb, he waits the continual passage of his con- temporaries, falling like minute dr... ...rs. Then shall death appear before him in an altered guise; no longer as a doom peculiar to himself, whether fate’s crowning injustice or his own last... ... hope that, if I said it well, he might reward me with an Indian picture. “Thy foot He’ll not let slide, nor will He slumber that thee keeps,” it ran:...