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...arts of the sea round the Aleutian, Kulammak, and 5 Jules Verne Umgullich islands, have never exceeded the length of sixty yards, if they attain that... ...avoided. The question took quite another shape. The monster became a small island, a rock, a reef, but a reef of indefinite and shifting proportions. ... ...val at New York the question was at its height. The theory of the floating island, and the unapproach- able sandbank, supported by minds little compet... ..., the Abraham Lincoln, at fifteen miles to the south, doubled the solitary island, this lost rock at the extrem- ity of the American continent, to whi... ...hat it was better to remain in deep water, and keep clear of continents or islands, which the beast itself seemed to shun (perhaps because there was n... ...ights were coloured with lively tints of beautiful shades, and nu- merous “mare’s tails,” which betokened wind for that day. But what was wind to this... ... excellence, “the great sea” of the Hebrews, “the sea” of the Greeks, the “mare nostrum” of the Romans, bordered by orange-trees, al- oes, cacti, and ...

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...f Wight. She thinks of nothing but the Isle of Wight, and she calls it the Island, as if there were no other island in the world. I am sure I should h... ...ving once made up his mind, the whole business was soon completed. The new mare proved a treasure; with a very little trouble she became exactly calcu... ...ng could ever suit her like the old grey pony; but her delight in Edmund’s mare was far beyond any former pleasure of the sort; and the addition it wa... ...increased, led to his encouraging the wish, and the offer of his own quiet mare for the purpose of her first at- tempts, as the best fitted for a begi... ... his cousin in this offer: she was not to lose a day’s exercise by it. The mare was only to be taken down to the Parsonage half an hour before her rid... ... to herself, and no inconvenience to Fanny. Edmund, who had taken down the mare and presided at the whole, returned with it in excellent time, before ... ...ral, nor the commissioner, nor yet with the intention of going over to the island, nor of seeing the dockyard. Nothing of all that she had been used t... ...ffects of the shadows pursuing each other on the ships at Spithead and the island beyond, with the ever-varying hues of the sea, now at high water, da...

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...at was where the hills begin to lift and spy into the heart of black mountains. Examining his ticket with an apparent curiosity, the son of a greener island debated whether it would not be better for him to follow his inclinations, now that he had gone so far as to pay for the journey, and stay. But his inclinations were also subject to question, upon his considering that ...

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...ins. Examining his ticket with an apparent curiosity, the son of a greener island debated whether it would not be better for him to follow his inclina... ...te, and unconceived of sight she was a recognised pres- ence for the green-island brain of a youth whose manner of hating was to conjure her spirit fr... ...ommonplace. He had ridden to the spur of the mountains, and had put up the mare, and groomed and fed her, not permitting another hand to touch her: al... ...ermitting another hand to touch her: all very well, and his praises of the mare likewise, but he had not a syllable for the sublime of the mountains. ... ...to Ireland. I see what she could have done there. Something bigger than an island, too, has to be served in our days: that is, if we don’t forget our ... ...rishman and a Catholic. Who is it then opposed the proper union of the two islands? Not Philip. He did his best; and if he does worse now he’s not ent... ...er’s intonation told of his proposing a wretched alternative,—’the Pacific Islands, but they will soon be snapped up by the European and North America...

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...ed his feet cautiously, and they rustled among dried stumps. “This is some island of last year’s indigo-crop,” he went on. “We shall find no men here;... ...levels of shining seas; but the Deluge had swept it away, leaving this one island under heaven for Findlayson and his companion, sole survivors of the... ... Man with the drinking-bottle, flinging his staff to the ground, while the island rang to the baying of hounds. “Give her the Justice of the Gods.” “Y... ...ng a little with the cold. “God knows!” said Findlayson. The river and the island lay in full daylight now, and there was never mark of hoof or pug on... ...could not find the horses anywhere till we let Tedda Gabler, the bobtailed mare who throws up the dirt with her big hooves exactly as a tedder throws ... ... plain an’ straight.” “The gentleman talks quite earnest,” said T uck, the mare, to Nip, her brother. There’s no doubt thinkin’ broadens the horizons ... ...s ‘em their chance to ruin colts an’ kill folks. An’, Tuck, waal, you’re a mare anyways—but when a horse comes along an’ covers up all his talk o’ kil... ...eel undersized and unhappy all the same,” said Kittiwynk, a mouse-coloured mare with a red brow-band and the cleanest pair of legs that ever an aged p... ...the station; and native horse-dealers running about on thin- eared Biluchi mares, looking for a chance to sell a few first- class polo-ponies. Then th...

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...er attack, my- self. July 4. I am decidedly taken again; for my old night- mares have returned. Last night I felt somebody leaning on me who was sucki... ...t mad. I have seen —I have seen—I have seen!—I can doubt no longer — *Frog-island. 67 Selected Writings I have seen it! I was walking at two o’clock ... ...ensual love that she had never be- stowed on men. “One thing is certain: a mare roaming in a meadow with a foal at its side, a bird’s nest full of you... ... stout, commonplace mother, a human layer and 133 Selected Writings brood mare, a machine of flesh which procreates, without mental care save for her... ...re traces be- hind him. Some time afterward, Madame von Chabert was on the Island of Heligoland, for the sea-bathing; and one day she saw Escovedo-Rom... ...it down close to it.” The skiff seemed to glide. They saw the trees on the island, the banks of which were so low that they could look into the depths...

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...d Rhene the meadows wear, A battel soil for grain, for pasture good, Their islanders with them, who oft repair Their earthen bulwarks ‘gainst the ocea... ... There, where the stream did part and meet again And in the midst a gentle island made, A pillar fair was pight beside the main, Near which a little f... ... the world hath not so strange a thing, Twixt east and west, as this small island hides, Then pass and see, without more tarrying.’ The hasty youth to... ...ire breaks out by night, black smoke by day. XXXV About the hill lay other islands small, Where other rocks, crags, cliffs, and mountains stood, The I... ...they be, Y et not so rich as fame reports they were.” This said, toward an island fresh she bore, The first of ten, that lies next Afric’s shore; XXXV... ... always wone, That in vile rest from fight sequestered far, Feeds with the mares at large, his service done, If arms he see, or hear the trumpet’s jar... ...th sandy deserts waste, And thence with Euphrates’ rich flood embraced. VI Maremma, myrrh and spices that doth bring, And all the rich red sea it comp... ... your distress I grieve, 366 “Man goeth forth to labor with the sun, 132 Maremma, myrrh and spices that doth bring, 374 Mast great the spear was wh...

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...hich I found, about a year ago, tightly corked up in a jug floating in the Mare Tenebrarum—a sea well described by the Nubian geographer, but seldom v... ...al pleasure garden. Paradise, it appears, has been, literally speaking, an island time out of mind —that is to say, its northern boundary was always (... ...ened until it attained its present breadth—a mile. The whole length of the island is nine miles; the breadth varies materially. The entire area (so Pu... ... that went by the names of Wealth and Fashion. In the end, it is said, the island became, nine tenths of it, church. The women, too, it appears, were ... ...g in the centre of the emperors garden, (which, you know, covers the whole island), some of the workmen unearthed a cubical and evidently chiseled blo... ...ve, after four days of intense dis- tress, upon the beach opposite Roanoke Island. We remained here a week, were not ill-treated by the wreckers, and ...

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...eyes the city cut into three by the two arms of the river, the boat-shaped island “moored” by five bridges to the different shores, and the two unequa... ... like a peal of beals! When we compare the Farmer’s Salutation to His Auld Mare Maggie, with the clever and inhumane pro- duction of half a century ea... ...lever and inhumane pro- duction of half a century earlier, The Auld Man ’s Mare ’s Dead, we see in a nutshell the spirit of the change introduced by B... ...in the light of a kill-joy. I take it, when missionaries land in South Sea Islands and lay strange em- *Champollion-Figeac, 383, 384-386. *Works, ii. ... ... Familiar Studies of Men & Books bargo on the simplest things in life, the islanders will not be much more puzzled and irritated than Charles of Orlea...

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...y Ithaca, in the land of Ancient Atlantis, which the residents of this small island called Antinomy, there was harmony." She again recited and adlibbe... ...ow. There would have been a different reality if Antinomy had been a little island off of our beloved motherland of Antarctica. Anyhow, in the land ... ...ge that she, who grazed on the weeds and fodder of stark reality like a wild mare, was finding what she saw and her ruminations of it virtually unbear... ...st of living in Honshu is notorious but it is worse on the northern Japanese islands like Hokkaido." "Well, I'll give it some thought. I'll decide whe... ...o see a newness within his ancient and isolated people on this one of myriad islands. He said that he studied the English language and had kept it wit... ...swollen from the radiation he received from the A-bomb experiments on Bikini Island-- hideous images thumping consciousness until it became something ...

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...or the officers. Vronsky had put his name down, bought a thoroughbred English mare, and in spite of his love affair, he was looking forward to the race... ...r all the officers. “Where are you off to?” “I must go to Peterhof.” “Has the mare come from Tsarskoe?” “Yes, but I’ve not seen her yet.” “They say Mah... ...t off reading them so as not to distract his attention before looking at the mare. “Later!” 172 Anna Karenina Chapter 21 T HE temporary stable, a woo... ...able, a wooden shed, had been put up close to the race course, and there his mare was to have been taken the previous day. He had not yet seen her the... ... of the trainer, and so now he positively did not know in what condition his mare had arrived yesterday and was today. He had scarcely got out of his ... ...erned she succeeded, and was in his eyes attractive. For him she was the one island not only of good will to him, but of love in the midst of the sea ... ...lace and thinner in another, so that the reeds and willow bushes swayed like islands in this mist. At the edge of the marsh and the road, peasant boys...

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...ad given way, and he was now imbecile,—this poor, forlorn voyager from the Islands of the Blest, in a frail bark, on a tempestuous sea, had been flung... ...at 209 Hawthorne we can liken him to nothing better than a defunct night- mare, which had perished in the midst of its wickedness, and left its flabb... ...pell, a solitude in the midst of men, a remoteness as entire as that of an island in mid-ocean; once divulged, the ocean would flow betwixt them, stan...

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..., I swear—till you have told me who you are.’ The groom hesitated, for the mare, who was a high-spir- ited animal and thorough-bred, plunged so violen... ... antagonist’s face from the eye to the lip. He saw the gash; knew that the mare had darted off at a wild mad gallop; a hundred lights danced in his ey... ... course.’ ‘It’s a lie!’ said Sir Mulberry; ‘I tell you it’s all a lie. The mare took fright.’ ‘They say he frightened her,’ observed Ralph, in the sam... ... to repair next day, per steamer from Westminster Bridge, unto the Eel-pie Island at Twickenham: there to make merry upon a cold collation, bottled be...

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...wood, And cots, and hamlets, and faint city-spire; The Channel there, the Islands and white sails, Dim coasts, and cloud-like hills, and shoreless... ...he high noon, Yet if Leviathan, weary of ease, In sports unwieldy toss his island-bulk, Ocean behind him billows, and before A storm of waves brea... ... made they, and uproar, As when the mad Tornado bellows through The guilty islands of the western main, What time departing from their native shore... ...re’s howl! Avenger, rise! For ever shall the thankless Island scowl, Her quiver full, and with unbroken bow? Speak! from t... ... rocks) And Ocean mid his uproar wild Speaks safety to his Island-child! Hence for many a fearless age Has... ...Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was as white as leprosy, The Night-mare LIFE-IN-DEATH was she, Who thicks man’s blood with cold. Death an... ...t name it so; — where Time and weary Space Fettered from flight, with night-mare sense of fleeing, Strive for their last crepuscular half-being; — ...

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...ent for such a consequence as they from thence derived coming to visit the island, they took notice of such grounds as were best husbanded, and such c... ...pon the enemy, with inten- tion to strike home but not to ward a blow. The Island of Gozzo being taken some years ago by the Turks, a Sicilian, who ha... ...operly, and with greater advantage, to be turned upon themselves. The late Mareschal de Montluc having lost his son, who died in the island of Madeira... ...selves. The late Mareschal de Montluc having lost his son, who died in the island of Madeira, in truth a very worthy gentle- man and of great expectat... ... put on mourning at their death. Cimon gave an honourable sepulture to the mares with which he had three times gained the prize of the course at the O... ...nto the paddock an old horse, as he was not to be governed when he smelt a mare: the facility presently sated him as towards his own, but towards stra... ...: the facility presently sated him as towards his own, but towards strange mares, and the first that passed by the pale of his pasture, he would again... ...: “Tanti mihi non sit opaci Omnis arena Tagi, quodque in mare volvitur aurum.” [“I would not buy rich Tagus sands so dear, nor all t...

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...ey don’ t know it by that name in these parts. A man may call his house an island if he likes; there’s no act of Parliament against that, I believe?’ ... ...e, or abroad; whether I behold the peaceful industrious communities of our island home: her rivers covered with steamboats, her roads with locomotives... ...he newspapers. ‘My Dear Mr. Pugstyles, ‘Next to the welfare of our beloved island—this great and free and happy country, whose powers and resources ar... ..., I swear—till you have told me who you are.’ The groom hesitated, for the mare, who was a high-spir- ited animal and thorough-bred, plunged so violen... ... antagonist’s face from the eye to the lip. He saw the gash; knew that the mare had darted off at a wild mad gallop; a hundred lights danced in his ey... ... course.’ ‘It’s a lie!’ said Sir Mulberry; ‘I tell you it’s all a lie. The mare took fright.’ ‘They say he frightened her,’ observed Ralph, in the sam... ... to repair next day, per steamer from Westminster Bridge, unto the Eel-pie Island at Twickenham: there to make merry upon a cold collation, bottled be...

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...were called Britons. And the country he came to see? That was our very own island, England, only it was not called so then. And the place where Julius... ...k. One of their emperors, named Claudius, sent his soldiers to conquer the island, and then came to see it himself, and called himself Brittanicus in ... ... then three lovely ladies came in a boat, and carried him away to a secret island. The Welsh kept on saying, for years and years, that one day king Ar... ... There were generally about seven kings, each with a different part of the island and as they were often at war with one another, they used to steal o... ...mined to punish the cruel, treacherous king and people, and take the whole island for his own. He did punish the people, kill- ing, burning, and plund... ...uld not bear the sight of her, and said they had sent him a great Flanders mare by way of queen. So he made Cranmer find some fool- ish excuse for bre...

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... from the river Cam, which after washing the western side, playing through islands, turns to the east, and divides the town into two parts, which are ... ..., CONSISTING OF the two kingdoms of England and Scot- land, is the largest island in the world, encompassed by the ocean, the German and French seas. ... ...hief riches of the inhabitants, great sums of money being brought into the island by merchants, chiefly for that article of trade. The dogs here are p... ... and though he might then have taken that of the merchant to himself, “Per mare, per terras, currit mercator ad Indos.” He might also have said, and t...

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...‘Of course you know Harold Smith is going to give us a lecture about these islanders. ’ Mr Sowerby said to him, as they sat round the fire over their ... ...uld not do much to facilitate the business. ‘They are the most magnificent islands under the sun, ’ said Harold Smith to the bishop. ‘Are they, indeed... ...ted to Christianize them, as the bishop so properly wishes to do with your islanders. ’ ‘Supplehouse, you are not fair, ’ said Mr Sowerby, ‘neither to... ...e crammed to overflowing with Sarawak, Labuan, New Guinea, and the Salomon Islands. As is the case with all men labouring under temporary specialities... ...ng her title. Miss Dunstable swore that she would wed none but a South Sea Islander; and to Mark was offered the income and duties of Bishop of Spices... ...ear-old filly, and that magnificent Rattlebones colt, out of a Mouse- trap mare; but he had other things that lay heavy on his mind, and after bestowi... ...dred and thirty. Do you ever remember to have seen a perfect horse?’ ‘Your mare Mrs Gamp was as nearly perfect as possible. ’ ‘Even Mrs Gamp had her f... ...ses to look at, somehow or other he never has one fit to go. That chestnut mare is a picture, now that nobody wants her; but she wasn’t able to carry ... ...hat he had unwittingly touched pitch, gone to Gatherum Castle, ridden fast mares across the country to Cobbold’s Ashes, and fallen very imprudently am...

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...ed; Mr. Goodchild dripped; Thomas Idle dripped; the Inn keeper dripped; the mare dripped; the vast curtains of mist and cloud passed before the shado... ...er as they were drawn across the landscape. Down such steep pitches that the mare seemed to be trotting on her head, and up such steep pitches that sh... ...its of England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Isle of Man, and the Chan nel Islands, all summed up together, was Allonby on the coast of Cumberland. ... ...termined to be carried to the preci pice. There was no carriage road in the island, and no body offered (in consequence, as I suppose, of the im pe...

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...ed to return to T urpenay. Then he found at the foot of the steps madame’s mare, bridled and saddled, and held ready for him by a groom. The lord had ... ...ised and admitted into the courtyard; and when he dismounted from madame’s mare there was enough uproar to make the monks as a wild as April moons. Th... ...herefore, that she held aloof from that gallant tourney in which it is the mare who governs her cavalier, guides him, fatigues him, and abuses him, if... ...tune, it hap- pened that in Sicily—which, as you are probably aware, is an island situated in the corner of the Mediterranean Sea, and formerly celebr... ...let us settle our plans. This is how we shall obtain the government of the island. I shall hold the queen and you the king; we will play the comedy of... ...per of the queen, whom, since the arrival of the Sire de Montsoreau in the island, he had touched no more than a Jew touches bacon. Thus occu- pied, t...

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..., and would have kept its pol- luted atmosphere intact in one of the spice islands of the Indian ocean. The man who lay on the ledge of the grating wa... ...istration of most of the public affairs in our right little, tight little, island. There had been taken to the Marshalsea Prison, long before the day ... ...ions towards the prison, but always concerning the prison, ran like night- mares through his mind while he lay awake. Whether coffins were kept ready ... ...trees, the luxuriant grass diversified with wild flowers, the little green islands in the river, the beds of rushes, the water-lilies floating on the ... ...ir dirt and poverty within; crosses by the way; deep blue lakes with fairy islands, and clustering boats with awnings of bright colours and sails of b... ... the same lady disparaged as ‘mere ditches.’ The house, on a little desert island, looked as if it had bro- ken away from somewhere else, and had floa...

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..., and would have kept its pol- luted atmosphere intact in one of the spice islands of the Indian ocean. The man who lay on the ledge of the grating wa... ...istration of most of the public affairs in our right little, tight little, island. There had been taken to the Marshalsea Prison, long before the day ... ...ions towards the prison, but always concerning the prison, ran like night- mares through his mind while he lay awake. Whether coffins were kept ready ... ...trees, the luxuriant grass diversified with wild flowers, the little green islands in the river, the beds of rushes, the water-lilies floating on the ...

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...le of Wight. She thinks of nothing but the Isle of Wight, and she calls it the Island, as if there were no other island in the world. I am sure I shou... ...d having once made up his mind, the whole business was soon completed. The new mare proved a treasure; with a very little trouble, she became exactly ... ...thing could ever suit her like the old grey poney; but her delight in Edmund’s mare was far beyond any former pleasure of the sort; and the addition i... ...her increased, led to his encouraging the wish, and the offer of his own quiet mare for the purpose of her first attempts, as the best fitted for a begi... ...m to his cousin in this offer: she was not to lose a day’s exercise by it. The mare was only to be taken down to the parsonage half an hour before her... ...it to herself, and no in convenience to Fanny. Edmund, who had taken down the mare and presided at the whole, returned with it in excellent time, bef... ...admiral, nor the commissioner, nor yet with the intention of going over to the island, nor of seeing the Dock yard. Nothing of all that she had been u... ...e effects of the shadows pursuing each other, on the ships at Spithead and the island beyond, with the ever varying hues of the sea now at high water,...

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...ce and thinner in another, so that the reeds and willow bushes swayed like islands in this mist. At the edge of the marsh and the road, peasant boys a... ...d-humored smile as she recog- nized him. Behind rode Vronsky on a dark bay mare, obviously heated from galloping. He was holding her in, pulling at th...

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...rike Eight of ‘em, and she’s not come home yet! I hope Uncle Pumblechook’s mare mayn’t have set a fore-foot on a piece o’ ice, and gone down.” Mrs. Jo... ..., and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude. “Here comes the mare,” said Joe, “ringing like a peal of bells!” The sound of her iron shoe... ...Joe was soon landed, and Uncle Pumblechook was soon down too, covering the mare with a cloth, and we were soon all in the kitchen, carrying so much co... ...I stand talking to mere Mooncalfs, with Uncle Pumblechook waiting, and the mare catching cold at the door, and the boy grimed with crock and dirt from... ...l lake, on whose margin the bower was raised. This piece of water (with an island in the middle which might have been the salad for supper) was of a c... ...ick invited me to take a walk with him round the property, and see how the island looked in wintertime. Thinking that he did this to give me an opport...

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...ext morning Zhílin saw the red Tartar, followed by three others, leading a mare out of the village. When they were beyond the village, the red bearded... ...rew a dagger and sharpened it on a whetstone. The other Tartars raised the mare’s head, and he cut her throat, threw her down and began skin ning her... .... Women and girls came and began to wash the entrails and the inwards. The mare was cut up, the pieces taken into the hut, and the whole village colle... ...t for a funeral feast. For three days they went on eating the flesh of the mare, drinking buza, and praying for the dead man. All the Tartars were at ... ...n away to town, and took the grey stallion. And Iván was left with one old mare, to lead his peasant life as before, and to support his father and mot... ...them. I should like to hear. What were you pointing at?’ ‘Why, that little island you can just see over there,’ answered the man, pointing to a spot a... ... the man, pointing to a spot ahead and a little to the right. ‘That is the island where the hermits live for the salvation of their souls.’ Twenty thr... ...s.’ Twenty three Tales by Tolstoy : “The Three Hermits” 159 ‘Where is the island?’ asked the Bishop. ‘I see noth ing.’ ‘There, in the distance, if y... ... Below it and a bit to the left, there is just a faint streak. That is the island.’ The Bishop looked carefully, but his unaccustomed eyes could make ...

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...rs live in a land of marshes and mountains, lakes and rivers, seas, gulfs, islands, and inlets, and they call themselves Suomilainen, Fen dwellers. T... ... and offerings of bread and broth are made to him every morning. Putting a mare’s collar on one’s neck and walking nine times around a church is thoug... ...wrecked so often, Where so many lives have perished. Thus created were the islands, Rocks were fastened in the ocean, Pillars of the sky were planted,... ...nd gloomy dwelling, Hence to wander from the ocean, Hence to walk upon the islands, On the dry land walk and wander, Like an ancient hero wander, Walk... ...ING WING WING WING WING Then arose old Wainamoinen, With his feet upon the island, On the island washed by ocean, Broad expanse devoid of verdure; The... ...re; There remained be many summers, There he lived as many winters, On the island vast and vacant, well considered, long reflected, Who for him should...

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... tail above us, lit with myriad spots of light. THE INDIAN TO HIS LOVE THE island dreams under the dawn And great boughs drop tranquillity; The peahen... ...ERE dips the rocky highland Of Sleuth Wood in the lake, There lies a leafy island Where flapping herons wake The drowsy water rats; There we’ve hid our... ... on the wandering foam: I and you! THE ROSE 37 I am haunted by numberless islands, and many a Danaan shore, Where Time would surely forget us, and So... ...d him who sold tillage, and house, and goods, And sought through lands and islands numberless years, Until he found, with laughter and with tears, A w... ...r half a day. O what a sweetness strayed Through barren Thebaid, Or by the Mareotic sea When that exultant Anthony And twice a thousand more Starved u... ...em in a shroud. ‘Whatever stands in field or flood, Bird, beast, fish or man, Mare or stallion, cock or hen, Stands in God’s unchanging eye In all the vi... ...a rhyme What most could shake his soul: ‘The stallion Eternity Mounted the mare of Time, ‘Gat the foal of the world.’ 278 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B.... ...saluting his Captain, The devotee proffers a knee to his Lord, Some back a mare thrown from a thoroughbred, Troy backed its Helen; Troy died and adore... ...saluting his Captain, The devotee proffers a knee to his Lord, Some back a mare thrown from a thoroughbred,, Troy backed its Helen; Troy died and ador...

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...row; and had not rather its Ancestor alive when Hengst and Horsa overran thy Island? Friend, thou seest here a living link in that Tissue of History, ... ...actual horizon there is not a looming as of Land; a promise of new Fortunate Islands, perhaps whole undiscovered Americas, for such as have canvas to ... ... existence was a bright, soft element of Joy; out of which, as in Prospero’s Island, wonder after wonder bodied itself forth, to teach by charming. “N... ... will meet with adventures. Nay, as we forthwith discover, a certain Calypso Island detains him at the very outset; and as it were falsifies and overse... ...stand, of Ireland, where its chief seat still is; but known also in the main Island, and indeed everywhere rapidly spreading. As this Sect has hith e... ... neither horse nor man could be injured; her Regiment, namely, of Tailors on Mares? Thus everywhere is the falsehood taken for granted, and acted on a...

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...,” the boy said. “Would you have currants, lady? These once bloomed in the island gardens of the blue Aegean. They are uncommon fine ones, and the fig... ...scendant of the gallant Lucan, and who may be, when she chooses, Madame la Marechale de Cambaceres, Duch- ess of Illyria.” “Why did you deliver the ru... ...he party. He made signs to the musicians to continue: and the conqueror of Marengo and Friedland watched with interest the simple evolutions of two ha... ...and I must dixcribe what they sor in the nex number. III THE CASTLE OF THE ISLAND OF FOGO. THE TRA VLER who pesews his dalitefle coarse through the fa... ...es of Hostria, Grand Chamberleng of the Crownd, and Major- Genaril of Hoss-Mareens, &c. &c. &c.—is the twenty-foth or fith Marquis that has bawn the T... ...ntry resadences; but their fayvorit resadence was called the Castle of the Island of Fogo. Add I the penn of the hawther of a Codlingsby himself, I co... ...e open carriage, and another to appear in the gardens of the Castle of the Island of Fogo, which were illuminated every night like V oxhall. The young... ...e apartmince had been hordered at Salt Hill, and subsquintly at Balong sur Mare—the very table cloth was laid for the weddn brexfst in Ill Street, and... ...rip hall at a primmium, and worth at least a quarter of a millium. On Lord Mare’s day my Saint Helenas quotid at 14 pm, were down at 1/2 discount; my ...

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...r country, and be poor! VARIATIONS. After VER. 6, in the MS.— Yon see that island’s wealth, where, only free, Earth to her entrails feels not tyranny.... ... then that dirty stable-boy thy care? What mean those visits to the sorrel mare? 30 Say, by what witchcraft, or what demon led, ... ...’st thou litter to the marriage-bed? Some say the devil himself is in that mare: If so, our Dean shall drive him forth by prayer. Some think you mad, ... ...ps my Gulliver? Oh tell me where!’ The neighbours answer, ‘With the sorrel mare!’ At early morn I to the market haste ... ...y’s corn. ’Tis not for that I grieve; oh, ’tis to see The groom and sorrel mare preferr’d to me! 60 These, for some moments when y... ...hose very na- tions again reduced to her dominion: then distinguishing the island of Great Britain, shows by what aids, by what per- 222 The Poetical...

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...se. And yet Dick in the sponging-house, or Dick in the Park, with his four mares and plated harness, was exactly the same gentle, kindly, improvident,... ...here once more met his old enemy of Blenheim, the Bavarian Elector and the Marechal Villeroy, over whom the Prince of Savoy had gained the famous vict... ...d the command this year, having the Duke of Berry with him, and the famous Mareschal V endosme and the Duke of Matignon to aid him in the campaign. Ho... ...al Webb. The Dutch officer despatched by Count Nassau Woudenbourg, V aelt- Mareschal Auverquerque’s son, brought back also a compli- mentary letter to... ... His Grace of Marlborough was on his Highness’s right, and on his left the Mareschal de Boufflers, who had so bravely defended the place. The chief of... ...ond the North American colonies shall remain dependants on yon- der little island for twenty years more, I never can think,) to remember how the natio... ... cause the Prince himself scarce spoke our language like a na- tive of the island: and John Lockwood laughed with the folks below stairs at the manner...

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...ence, who was a sailor every inch of him, and just the man to rule over an island like Britain. Old Featherstone had often reflected as he sat looking... ... Chettam. In fact, if it were possible to pack him off—send him to Norfolk Island—that sort of thing—it would look all the worse for Dorothea to those... ...“if the railway comes across the Near Close; and I shouldn’t wonder at the mare too, if she was in foal. It’s a poor tale if a widow’s property is to ... ...ent were assured that when they could show him anything to cut out a blood mare, a bay, rising four, which was to be seen at Doncaster if they chose t...

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...ence, who was a sailor every inch of him, and just the man to rule over an island like Britain. Old Featherstone had often reflected as he sat looking ... ... Chettam. In fact, if it were possible to pack him off—send him to Norfolk Island— that sort of thing—it Middlemarch 391 would look all the worse for... ...“if the railway comes across the Near Close; and I shouldn’t wonder at the mare too, if she was in foal. It’s a poor tale if a widow’s property is to ... ...ent were assured that when they could show him anything to cut out a blood mare, a bay, rising four, which was to be seen at Doncaster if they chose t...