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...iat, but in the part played by Christian mission- aries in reconciling the black races of Africa to their subjuga- tion by European Capitalism, we can... ...efuses to prosecute a drunken ruffian; she converses on equal terms with a black- guard whom no lady could be seen speaking to in the public street: i... ...ure it must be pointed out that the situation is only partly novel. Victor Hugo long ago gave us the epic of the convict and the bishop’s candlesticks... ...he grip of the facts and of his own conscience, and may find his taste for blackguardism permanently spoiled. Still, I cannot guarantee that happy end...
... 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...
...lliot, pac- ing vigorously up and down the room, and more and more did her black dress seem a mockery. “In some ways you ought to be consulted: nearly... ...tors. They start and quarrel and jabber. Fingers burst up through the sand-black fingers of sea devils. The island tilts. The tourists go mad. But jus... ...r she nearly died of it. Her feet hurt, her limbs were cramped in a canoe, black spots danced before her eyes from eating too much mayonnaise. But sti... ...hers, and picked and picked out his feathers, till he was perfectly bald. ‘Hugo, look,’ said I. ‘This is the end of Parsival. Let me have no more surp... ... half-past six. From her low chair Agnes could see the trees by the drive, black against a blackening sky. That drive was half a mile long, and she wa... ...ard, one of those sixpenny books tells Podge that he’s made of hard little black things, another that he’s made of brown things, larger and squashy. T...
...locks. They come at his summons; and he and the castle are hidden by their black legions. Froh, the Rainbow god, hastens to his side. At the stroke of... ...the Rainbow god, hastens to his side. At the stroke of Donner’s hammer the black murk is riven in all directions by darting ribbons of lightning; and ... ... that sticks in the tree; but he does not see it; and the embers sink into blackness. Then the woman re- turns. Hunding is safely asleep: she has drug... ...rns to V alhalla in despair. Whilst Brynhild is watching the course of the black thundercloud that marks her sister’s flight, the fires of Loki again ... ...nd that still makes him impossible in French politics as it was for Victor Hugo to bombard Napoleon III from his paper battery in Jersey. It was also ...
... 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...
... ordinary elephant. Near the root of this trunk was an immense quantity of black shaggy hair—more than could have been supplied by the coats of a scor... ... vengeance was complete. The eight corpses swung in their chains, a fetid, blackened, 29 V olume Five hideous, and indistinguishable mass. The crippl... ...not possible to mistake. These were known by their coats and pantaloons of black or brown, made to sit comfortably, with white cravats and waistcoats,... ...mend to young men temperance in eating and drinking. Just so, too, Jacobus Hugo has satisfied himself that, by Euenis, Homer meant to insinuate John C... ...f the villain at all, and one day when he had been cuffed until he grew so black in the face that one might have mistaken him for a little African, an... ...ever- end than his whole appearance; for he not only had on a full suit of black, but his shirt was perfectly clean and the collar turned very neatly ...
...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 ...