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...ders. He was dressed in dark-blue serge, and had peculiarly thick, coarse, black hair. I heard the unseen dogs growl furiously , and forthwith he duck... ... from myself. He turned with animal swiftness. In some indefinable way the black face thus flashed upon me shocked me profoundly. It was a singularly ... ...d you!” said Montgomery. “Why the devil don’t you get out of the way?” The black-faced man started aside without a word. I went on up the companion, s... ...ere, you know,” he said in a deliberate tone. “Your place is forward.” The black-faced man cowered. “They—won’t have me for- ward.” He spoke slowly, w... ...ng back, still astonished beyond measure at the grotesque ugliness of this black-faced creature. I had never beheld such a repulsive and extraordinary... ... preliminary manipulation of the young mountebank or contortionist. Victor Hugo gives an account of them in `L ’Homme qui Rit.’—But perhaps my meaning...

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...A. Martin Secker, 1917. *“Karl Strickland: sein Leben und seine Kunst,” by Hugo Weitbrecht-Rotholz, Ph.D. Schwingel und Hanisch. Leipzig, 1914. 6 The... ...of white wood and a green paper on which were etchings by Whistler in neat black frames. The green curtains with their peacock design, hung in straigh... ...me to go,” I said to the Colonel, getting up. “I suppose you’ve heard that blackguard has deserted her,” he cried explosively . I hesitated. “ Y ou kn... ...on’t know who the woman is, you know , ” he said. “All we know is that the blackguard’s gone to Paris.” “I thought they got on so well.” “So they did.... ... I could go and see her that evening after dinner . I found her alone. Her black dress, simple to austerity, suggested her be- reaved condition, and I... ...oach.” “She can go to hell.” “ You don’t care if people think you an utter blackguard? Y ou don’t care if she and your chil- dren have to beg their br...

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...he American prairies, or the conduct of a vast ship in a hurricane round a black promontory of rock, or in others more peaceful, but marked by her com... ...oet who can compare with your grandfather? Let me see. There’s Chenier and Hugo and Alfred de Musset—wonderful men, but, at the same time, there’s a r... ...furbelows, so calm and stately and imperial (and the monkey and the little black dwarf following be- hind), as if nothing mattered in the world but to... ...d? Here she was, suggesting that all three of them should go on a jaunt to Blackfriars to inspect the site of Shakespeare’s theater, for the weather w... ...s impossible to detect the shape of a human being in the mass of brown and black which filled the arm-chair. Mrs. Milvain was a much slighter figure; ... ...lice of some semilucent stone behind which a lamp burnt, while a fringe of black trees with distinct branches stood against the light, which was obscu...

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... red, or whatever, and might, for all he knew, be on its way to purple, to black, to yellow. At the still wilder extremes represented perhaps, for all... ... to, and one of the latter in particular fell like the tap of chalk on the blackboard. Married at thirty, Waymarsh had not lived with his wife for fif... ...red for him to indulgence to feel Waymarsh, who looked unnaturally big and black in bed, as much tucked in as a patient in a hospital and, with his co... ...anner in which Miss Gostrey’s was. Mrs. Newsome wore, at operatic hours, a black silk dress—very handsome, he knew it was “handsome”—and an ornament t... ...tter of the marked streaks of grey, extraordinary at his age, in his thick black hair; as well as that this new feature was curiously becoming to him,... ...econstitute a past, to reduce it in fact to the convenient terms of Victor Hugo, whom, a few days before, giving the rein for once in a way to the joy... ...ery. While she rose, as he would have called it, to the question of Victor Hugo, her voice itself, the light low quaver of her deference to the solemn...

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...e place of their habitation. Strange coincidence! If I had been Mr. Victor Hugo, my dear, or a poet of any note, I would, in a few hours, have made an... ...y a time have they patted the cheek of poor Josephine, and played with the black ringlets of her hair. She is dead now, and cold, poor creature; and s... ...s of thousands of eyes upon it, from houses and housetops, from balconies, black, purple, and tricolor, from tops of leafless trees, from behind long ... ... of pale funereal urns, of discharging odors amidst huge volumes of pitch- black smoke, THE GREAT IMPERIAL CHARIOT ROLLS MAJESTICALLY ON. The cords of... ...ors. Some of these sheds were hung with 38 The Second Funeral of Napoleon black, such as one sees before churches in funerals; some were robed in vio... ... the first lines of architec- ture, was hung with violet; beyond this with black. We saw N’s, eagles, bees, laurel wreaths, and other such imperial em...

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...barren of sentiment, I suppose — or poetry, in other words. My father was a blacksmith, my uncle was a horse doctor, and I was both, along at first. ... ...d in stunning colors, in the other. The floor was of big stone flags laid in black and white squares, rather battered by age and use, and needing rep... ...frightful way; and their hair, their faces, their clothing, were caked with black and stiffened drenchings of blood. They were suffering sharp physic... ...his eye, and saw that a very old and white—bearded man, clothed in a flowing black gown, had risen and was standing at the table upon unsteady legs, ... ... tell the king that at that hour I will smother the whole world in the dead blackness of midnight; I will blot out the sun, and he shall never shine... ...w can I bear it? I would I might see him die — a sweet, swift death; oh, my Hugo, I cannot bear this one!” And she fell to sobbing and grovelling abo... ... what? The man’s death? I could not quite get the bearings of the thing. But Hugo inter rupted her and said: “Peace! Ye wit not what ye ask. Shall I... ...ing Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 96 she found she was going to have neither Hugo’s life nor his property. But I told her she must bear this cross; th...

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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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...nd still had very thick hair and a full beard, both of which had once been black. His eyes were grey , large and luminous, but strikingly promi- nent.... ...t of the coarsest 8 THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV – Part II linen showed almost black with dirt, not having been changed for months. They said that he wore... ...at all, you may as well know. And I’ll crush Mitya like a beetle. I squash black-beetles at night with my slipper; they squelch when you tread on them... ...ide. He was about ten years old, pale, delicate-looking and with sparkling black eyes. He kept an attentive and anxious watch on the other six, obviou... ...d. Alyosha went up and, addressing a fair, curly-headed, rosy boy in a black jacket, observed: “When I used to wear a satchel like yours, I al... ...ght on the stage. In those days it was done in all simplic- ity. In Victor Hugo’s Notre Dame de Paris an edifying and gratuitous spectacle was provide...

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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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...ring tone, and the look truly of an angel, though whether of a white or of a black one might be dubious, proposed this toast: Die Sache der Armen in G... ...ast possible violence to the ear; yet all was tight and right there: hot and black came the coffee ever at the due moment; and the speechless Lieschen... ..., though the highest published creation, or work of genius, has nevertheless black spots and troubled nebulosities amid its effulgence,—a mixture of i... ...ncircled mountain pool, perhaps the crater of an extinct volcano; into whose black deeps you fear to gaze: those eyes, those lights that sparkle in it... ...ouse of Commons, we shall note what progress he has made. He digs up certain black stones from the bosom of the earth, and says to them, Transport me ... ...n extant! Deuce on it (verdammt), the little spitfires!—Nay, I think with old Hugo von Trim berg: ‘God must needs laugh outright, could such a thing b...

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...f everything is the great spectre of universal death, the all-encompassing blackness:— 140 The V arieties of Religious Experience “What profit hath a... ...n the classic period. But all the same was the out- look of those Hellenes blackly pessimistic. Stoic insensibility and Epicurean resignation were the... ... certain fate; but still he clings, and see two mice, one white, the other black, evenly mov- ing round the bush to which he hangs, and gnawing off it... ... the honey pleases me no longer, and day and night the white mouse and the black mouse gnaw the branch to which I cling. I can see but one thing: the ... ...my mind the image of an epileptic patient whom I had seen in the asylum, a black-haired youth with green- ish skin, entirely idiotic, who used to sit ... ... to be two deadly hostile selves, one ac- tual, the other ideal. As Victor Hugo makes his Mahomet say:— “Je suis le champ vil des sublimes combats:...

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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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...AVOISIER (1743 - 1794) French Chemist 295 JOHN DALTON (1766 - 1844) English Chemist 295 JONS J. BERZELIUS (1779 - 1848) Swedish Chemist 295 JOSEPH BLACK (1728 - 1799) Scottish Chemist 295 HENRY CAVENDISH (1731 - 1810) English Chemist and Physicist 296 JOSEPH PRIESTLEY (1733 - 1804) English Chemist 296 KARL W. SCHEELE (1742 - 1786) Swedish Chemist 296 DANIEL RUTHERFO...

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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, ...