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... ink. Nor can we dwell on the deer which left their bones and horns in the black, boggy soil near the river, for unfortu- nately these were disinterre... ... clay in one barrow—of early British make, very coarse, all either full of black earth or calcined bones, and all inverted and very rough in material,... ...nd curates at this time, the vicar being really what we now call a curate. Hugo de Welewyck, styled Clericus, succeeded in 1296 on the resignation of ... ...inally Chaloner’s Ford, where numerous trees, bearing quantities of little black cherries called merries, used to grow, and where parties used to go a... ... children of William Downe of Otterbourne Farm are distinguished by double black lines below their names. Oliver Cromwell, according to an old village... ...ll his elder brothers. The origin of this tenure, according to Sir William Blackstone, is very remote, it being his opinion that it was ‘a remnant of ... ...r d. 1279 Paganus de Lyskeret, Rector 1280-1296 John de Sta. Fide, Vicar Hugo de Welewyck, Rector 1296-1348 Henry de Lyskeret, Vicar Roger de la...

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...ment the greatest that has been produced by any French writer since Victor Hugo penned ‘Les Miserables.’ Passing over the force and direct- ness of th... ...nd Rachel, the shortest of them all, a very young, dark girl, with eyes as black as ink, a Jewess, whose snub nose confirmed by exception 30 De Maupa... ...hel on to his knees, and, getting excited, at one moment kissed the little black curls on her neck, inhaling the pleas- ant warmth of her body, and al... ...ver hearts!” Thereupon Lieutenant Otto, who was a species of bear from the Black Forest, jumped up, inflamed and saturated with drink, and seized by a... ...so quickly that the glass upset, spilling the amber colored wine on to her black hair as if to baptize her, and broke into a hundred fragments as it f... ...uare, opposite the white, closed front of the mairie, the church, mute and black, showed its great oak door with the wrought-iron trimmings. Then, as ...

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...ven the greenness of a tree. The southerly heights, when I came here, were black with people, fishers waiting on wind and night. Now all the S.Y .S. (... ...ats put out to go home to the Hebrides, the girl here told me there was ‘a black wind’; and on going 5 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 out, I... .... 1 out, I found the epithet as justifiable as it was picturesque. A cold, black southerly wind, with occasional rising show- ers of rain; it was a fi... ...e south, however, is as fine a piece of coast scenery as I ever saw. Great black chasms, huge black cliffs, rug- ged and over-hung gullies, natural ar... ...narrative. Seven P .M. found me at Breadalbane Terrace, clad in spot- less blacks, white tie, shirt, et caetera, and finished off be- low with a pair ... ...rning. Everything wintry. I am very jolly, however, having finished Victor Hugo, and just looking round to see what I should next take up. I have been... ...a nice long letter (four sides) from Leslie Stephen to-day about my Victor Hugo. It is accepted. This ought to have made me gay, but it hasn’t. I am n...

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...ore de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage Dedication T o Monsieur Victor Hugo, It was your birthright to be, like a Rafael or a Pitt, a great poet a... ...ing with the full de- velopment of his whole frame. With his thick crop of black hair, his fleshy, high-colored, swarthy face, supported by a thick ne... ...than a little revolution. Who was responsible for it? Lamartine and Victor Hugo, Casimir Delavigne and Canalis, Beranger and Chateaubriand. Davrigny, ... ...rn of the Bourbon Lilies; she loved M. de Chateaubriand for calling Victor Hugo “a sublime child.” It depressed her that she could only know genius fr... ...at lady. Mme. de Bargeton, following a new fashion, wore a coif of slashed black velvet, a head-dress that recalls memories of mediaeval legend to a y... ...le straps that kept them in shape. He wore pumps and thread stockings; the black ribbon of his eyeglass meandered over a white waistcoat, and the fash... ...at, and the fashion and el- egance of Paris was strikingly apparent in his black coat. He was indeed just the faded beau who might be expected from hi...

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...tal of the “Carlton” or the “Travellers’,” is like every- body else’s; thy black coat has no more plaits, nor buttons, nor fancy in it than thy neighb... ...hich the warehouses were hung. Ringlets glossy, and curly, and jetty— eyes black as night—midsummer night—when it lightens; haughty noses bending like... ..., tawdry frip- peries, greasy spangles, and battered masks, into a shop as black and hideous as the entrance was foul. “This your home, Rafael?” said ... ... a prince in it, Mr. Lint,” pretty Rachel said, coaxing him with her beady black eyes. “It is the cheese,” replied Mr. Lint; “it ain’t the dress that ... ...afael opened the baize door by some secret contrivance, and they were in a black passage, with a curtain at the end. He clapped his hands; the curtain... ...ed attention. “We hear it stated that Mr. P . is of a very ancient family (Hugo de la Pluche came over with the Conqueror); and the new brougham which... ...d in former times; but if, in the works of Byron, Scott, Goethe, or Victor Hugo, the reader can find a more beautiful sentence than the above, I will ... ...about some silly quarrel over the wine-cup— a mere silly jape, believe me. Hugo de Brodenel would have no black bottle on the board. Gottfried was wro... ...ugh it had been a reed (it lighted three hundred yards off, on the foot of Hugo de Bunyon, who was smoking a cigar at the door of his tent, and caused...

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...th careless deprecation. “Y es, indeed you must; it would suit you—in your black dress, now,” said Celia, insistingly. “Y ou might wear that.” “Not fo... ... dog, will you?” The objectionable puppy, whose nose and eyes were equally black and expressive, was thus got rid of, since Miss Brooke decided that i... ...ig seems to me more funereal than a hearse. But then Mrs. Waule always has black crape on. How does she man- age it, Rosy? Her friends can’t always be... ... the last performance, and assuring missy that her voice was as clear as a blackbird’s, when Mr. Lydgate’s horse passed the window. His dull expectati... ... tive pauses. Do not imagine his sickly aspect to have been of the yellow, black-haired sort: he had a pale blond skin, thin gray-besprinkled brown ha... ...Baucis. Cette vieillesse la, ressemblance du soir avec l’aurore.” — Victor Hugo: L’homme qui rit. MRS. GARTH, HEARING CALEB enter the passage about te...

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...that United 93. FAA Headquarters:Y es. Command Center:There is a report of black smoke in the last position I gave you, fifteen miles south of Johnsto... ...spec- ulating, that’s speculation only. 169 The aircraft that spotted the “black smoke” was the same unarmed Air National Guard cargo plane that had s... ...t- ing that their assistance led to the October 1993 shootdown of two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters by members of a Somali militia group and to the subs... ...hed a raid on Mogadishu to capture him. In the course of a long night, two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down, 73 Americans were wounded, 18 were k... ...m Congress, President Clinton soon ordered the withdrawal of U.S. forces. “Black Hawk down” joined “Desert One” as a symbol among Americans in uniform... ...1, p.A6 (EPA says levels of airborne asbestos below threshold of concern); Hugo Kugiya,“Terrorist Attacks;Asbestos Targeted in Cleanup Effort; EPA’s W...

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.... Balzac began with an odd but not unintelligible compound, something like Hugo’s, of Napoleonism and Royalism. In 1824, when he was still in the shad... ...ts for some of the most interesting figures of the Comedie. He knew Victor Hugo, but certainly not at this time intimately; for as late as 1839 the le... ...this time intimately; for as late as 1839 the letter in which he writes to Hugo to come and breakfast with him at Les Jardies (with interesting and mi... ... his Eve in the Rue Fortunee—a name too pro- vocative of Nemesis—by Victor Hugo, the chief maker in verse as he himself was the chief maker in prose o... ...Tours Un Menage de Garcon A Bachelor’s Establishment The T wo Brothers The Black Sheep 36 The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix Les Parisiens en...

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...hat his rifle is all in pieces in the gun-case. Behind everything rose the black frame of the Kashi Bridge—plate by plate, girder by girder, span by s... ... round the tattered dwelling of a sea-priest—one who had never set foot on black water, but had been chosen as ghostly coun- sellor by two generations... ...e, I think, suffi- ciently heavy.” “Nay, Sahib. It is thus. At sea, on the Black Water, we have room to be blown up and down without care. Here we hav... ...had settled all his plans. Opium has more effect on the white man than the black. Peroo was only comfortably indifferent to accidents. “She cannot liv... ...cle under the tree filled with the shifting shadows of beasts. There was a black Buck at the Bull’s heels—such a Buck as Findlayson in his far-away li... ...e English language stops short. French only, the caryatid French of Victor Hugo, would have described it; so I mourned while I laughed, hastily shuffl...

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...ast and weep, utter ing no word. Did my mind stop to mourn with that nude black sister of mine? No—it was far away from that scene in an instant, and... ... call the children back and hear them romp again with George—that peerless black ex slave and children’s idol who came one day—a flitting stranger—to ... ...sonally is that I would not be here now, but somewhere else; and probably black—there is no telling. What Is Man and Other Essays 88 Very well, I am... ...rone and dispossessed the Lancastrian dynasty. Edward V .; one third of a black square. ( Image not avail able—ed.) His uncle Richard had him murder... ...g over his head, which is a last—shoemaker’s last. Mary; five squares of black paper. ( Image not available— ed.) The picture represents a burning m... ...ns to see. It is somehow not the same gaze that people rivet upon a Victor Hugo, or Niagara, or the bones of the mastodon, or the guillotine of the Re... ...appease and satisfy the thirst of a lifetime. Satisfy it—that is the word. Hugo and the mastodon will still have a de gree of intense interest therea...

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... bow, 20 A privy door Ismen unlocked at last, 235 ?A rumbling sound amid the waters deep 331 A secret place they found in one of those, 347 A shadow, blacker than the mirkest night, 370 A shepherd fair Erminia entertains, 148...

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... outwear. XXXVII The French came foremost battailous and bold, Late led by Hugo, brother to their King, From France the isle that rivers four infold W... ... rivers four infold With rolling streams descending from their spring, But Hugo dead, the lily fair of gold, Their wonted ensign they tofore them brin... ...n his wicked arts both oft implores Help from the Lord, and aid from Pluto black; He, from deep caves by Acheron’s dark shores, Where circles vain and... ... earth I should depart with him. LIV “Of close escapes the aged patroness, Blacker than erst, her sable mantle spread, When with two trusty maids, in ... ... in an ugly veil Of shadows dark, was hid from mortal eye, And hell’s grim blackness did bright skies assail; On every side the fiery lightnings fly, ... ... no man say, So was the place with darkness overgone, The night her mantle black upon its spreads, Hiding our losses and our valiant deeds. 184 Jerus... ... speech, thus said, approaching nigh: “What, Godfrey, knowest thou not thy Hugo here? Come and embrace thy friend and fellow dear!” VI He answered him... ...ght in his folded arms but air and wind. 318 Jerusalem Delivered VII Lord Hugo smiled, “Not as you think,” quoth he, “I clothed am in flesh and earth... ...e mortal bonds unknit, Shall I in peace, in ease and rest there sit?” VIII Hugo replied, “Ere many years shall run, Amid the saints in bliss here shal...

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...ontents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTER II ? SOME ASPECTS OF ROBERT BURNS.......................................................... 34 CHAPTER III ? WALT WHITMAN.......

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........................................................ 4 CHAPTER I – VICTOR HUGO’S ROMANCES .............................................................. ...the second is its most essentially national production. T o treat fitly of Hugo and Villon would involve yet wider knowledge, not only of a country fo... ...cising myself, seek to disarm the wrath of other and less partial critics. HUGO’S ROMANCES. – This is an instance of the “point of view.” The five rom... ...olly just. R. L. S. 15 Familiar Studies of Men & Books CHAPTER I – VICTOR HUGO’S ROMANCES Apres le roman pittoresque mais prosaique de Walter Scott i... ... ideal, vrai mais grand, qui enchassera Walter Scott dans Homere. – Victor Hugo on Quentin Durward. VCITOR HUGO’S ROMANCES occupy an important positio... ... like a fine lady from sleepless- ness and vapours; he would fall into the blackest melanchol- 42 Robert Louis Stevenson ies, and be filled with remo... ...by his dog; and the dog, “scouring in long excursion,” scampered with four black paws across the linen. This brought the two into conversation; when J... ...e than the merest smattering of knowledge; whereas his ac- quaintance with blackguard haunts and industries could only have been acquired by early and... ...nd an enduring and most unmanly resent- ment; Regnier de Montigny, a young blackguard of good 122 Robert Louis Stevenson birth; and Colin de Cayeux, ...