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... in comparison with that of the Sauviats, who never ate meat except on the great festivals of the Church. Before paying out the money absolutely neede... ...s called “the Little Virgin” and showed signs already of a fine figure and great delicacy of complexion. Her Madonna-like face—for the popular voice h... ...rity of her features. Whoever has seen the sublime Virgin of Titian in his great picture of the “Presentation” at Venice, will know that Veronique was... ...y been a hotbed for evil-minded persons whose actions dishonored the whole region. The crime of Jean-Francois Tascheron brought back upon Montegnac it... ...elate lent his carriage, started at two in the morning for Montegnac. This region, which begins about twenty-five miles from the town, is situated in ... ...red as she travels luxuriously in her carriage,—to the inhabitants of this region Nature is cruel, savage, and without resources. The soil of these gr... ...abou would thus become a part of the park. These ponds, ambitiously called lakes, had each its island. This year, Gerard had prepared, in collusion wi... ...the eye roved over the landscape created by the engi- neer which the three lakes made worthy of comparison with the beauties of Switzerland. The day w... ...phere, contrasted with the groves below wrapped in their pretty veils. The lakes, separated by broad causeways, were three mirrors showing different r...

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...em, Book First Introduction: Childhood and School time 3 For holy services. Great hopes were mine: My own voice cheared me, and, far more, the mind’s... ...tion, the report 160 Is often chearing; for I neither seem To lack that first great gift, the vital soul, Nor general truths which are themselves a sor... ...pon her while she hung Midway between the hills, as if she knew 200 No other region; but belong’d to thee, Yea, appertain’d by a peculiar right To the... ...f grief, Of exultation, fear, and joy, his mind, Even as an agent of the one great mind, Creates, creator and receiver both, 275 Working but in allian... ... I should fail, with grateful voice 445 To speak of you, Ye Mountains and Ye Lakes, And sounding Cataracts! Ye Mists and Winds That dwell among the hi... ...ays—the inner heart 460 Is trivial, and the impresses without Are of a gaudy region. Different sight Those venerable doctors saw of old 465 When all w... ...ance, rocks and sky, 255 Mountains and clouds, from that which is indeed The region, and the things which there abide In their true dwelling; now is c... ...g from the mountain pomp 10 Of autumn and its beauty (entered in With calmer lakes and louder streams); and you, Frank hearted maids of rocky Cumberla... ...—but the plain Endless, here opening widely out, and there Shut up in lesser lakes or beds of lawn 335 And intricate recesses, creek or bay Sheltered ...

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...followed by her young, approach the water. He watched her, judging that she would seek a ford, and he was right. She waded over, and the army followed... ... cordingly to no plan at all. In the chapter devoted to “Legends of Frankfort,” I find the following: “THE KNAVE OF BERGEN” “In Frankfort at the Romer... ... envied him the high favor; how increased curiosity, who the masked knight could be. “Also the Emperor became more and more excited with curiosity, an... ...lls to their beguiling and im- pressive charm in any country; but German legends and fairy tales have given these an added charm. They have peopled al... ...ped the Blue Jays “WHEN I FIRST BEGUN to understand jay language correctly, there was a little incident happened here. Seven years ago, the last man i... ...leather-headed opinions about it as an aver- age crowd of humans could have done. “They called in more jays; then more and more, till pretty soon this... ...odel and Its Native Wilds THE RIGI-KULM IS an imposing Alpine mass, six thousand feet high, which stands by itself, and commands a mighty pros- pect o... ...mile—was very quaint and curious. Counties, towns, hilly ribs and ridges, wide stretches of green meadow, great forest tracts, winding streams, a doze... ...em, were just as the children might have left them when done with play the day before; the forest tracts were diminished to cushions of moss; one or t...

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...f forces. The World Set Free was written under the immediate shadow of the Great War. Every intelligent person in the world felt that disaster was imp... ...elt that disaster was impending and knew no way of averting it, but few of us realised in the earlier half of 1914 how near the crash was to us. The r... ...ee there 4 The World Set Free was, I think, another motive in holding the Great War back, and that was to allow the chemist to get well forward with ... ...recast that under modern con- ditions it would be quite impossible for any great general to emerge to supremacy and concentrate the enthusiasm of the ... ... affairs demands. The inertia of dead ideas and old insti- tutions carries us on towards the rapids. Only in one direc- tion is there any plain recogn... ...ed, but it is highly probable that the formation of an aerial park in this region, from which attacks could be made upon the vast industrial plant of ... ...lism and hysterical fanaticisms in the valleys of the Semoy and the forest region of the eastern Ardennes. There was the report of an attack upon Russ... ...k in America. The weather was stormier than men had ever known it in those regions, with much thunder and lightning and wild cloud-bursts of rain…. CH... ... marvellous new humility. Here were kings and emperors whose capitals were lakes of flaming destruction, statesmen whose countries had become chaos, s...

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...esentation of sentiments. 4 The Chouans Many of the peasants, in fact the greater number, were barefooted, and wore no other garments than a large go... ... ill-woven texture of which betrayed the slovenly industrial habits of the region. The straight locks of their long hair mingling with those of the go... ...ooden shoes, which the peasants of Brittany make for them- selves; but the greater number had heavy hobnailed boots, 5 Balzac and coats of coarse clo... ... of these semi-savages, as if to show the extremes of civilization in this region. Wearing round hats, or flapping brims or caps, high-topped boots, o... ...t- ants of a village driven out by a conflagration. But the period and the region in which they were gave an altogether differ- ent interest to this b... ... their insertion among the statutes. No longer restrained, as formerly, by great moral ideas, by patriotism, nor by terror, which enforced their execu... ...unted for by the nature of the land, broken by ravines, mountain torrents, lakes, and marshes, and bristling with hedges or earth-works which make a s... ...laced was still further protected by a moat filled with water from the two lakes which it connected. The house really stood on an island that was well... ...way; then they examined with great dis- trust the precipitous banks of the lakes and the surroundings of the chateau. “Pooh!” said Merle, “we must do ...

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...int of view of my own in- struction. I ventured upon several themes with a greater frank- ness than I had used in Anticipations, and came out of that ... ...r, the reader who is often no more than the solemnly impatient parasite of great questions. He likes everything in hard, heavy lines, black and white,... ...th doing. But having re- jected the “serious” essay as a form, I was still greatly exer- cised, I spent some vacillating months, over the scheme of th... ...over it—of the crown. His front is convex. He droops at times like most of us, but for the greater part he bears himself as valiantly as a sparrow. Oc... ...then we shall proceed to explore the sort of world these propositions give us…. It is no doubt an optimistic enterprise. But it is good for awhile to ... ... only because the demand rests upon implications that reach far beyond the region of language, it is worth consid- ering here. It implies, indeed, alm... ...over the land in finer reticulations, growing close and dense in the urban regions and thinning as the population thins. And running beside these ligh... ...d shapely motor-cars going past, cyclists, and in these agreeable mountain regions there will also be pedestrians upon their way. Cycle tracks will ab... ...vast variety of boats; canals with diverse sorts of haulage; there will be lakes and lagoons; and when one comes at last to the borders of the land, t...

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...gling bro- ken-winged thinker has cast an owl’s glance into this ob- scure region, the most have soared over it altogether heed- less; regarding Cloth... ...n whereby a man himself grows fat, they were apt to run goose-hunting into regions of bilberries and crowberries, and be swallowed up at last in remot... ...ion in which pure Science, especially pure moral Science, languishes among us English; and how our mercantile greatness, and invaluable Constitution, ... ...ly pure moral Science, languishes among us English; and how our mercantile greatness, and invaluable Constitution, impressing a political or other imm... ...ignificance and tendency of his Friend’s Volume; and then, at length, with great circumlocution, hinted at the practicability of conveying “some knowl... ...btedly a Spirit addressing Spir- its: whoso hath ears, let him hear. *With us even he still communicates in some sort of mask, or muffler; and, we hav... ... Courtesy of inward nature, the visible rudiments of such speculation? But great men 13 Thomas Carlyle are too often unknown, or what is worse, miskn... ...ndeed be reflexes of the heavenly Stars, but perhaps also glances from the region of Nether Fire. Certainly a most involved, self-secluded, altogether... ...r: only the loftier summits look down here and there as on a second plain; lakes also lie clear and earnest in their solitude. No trace of man now vis...

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...ong, often lingering, often turning aside,” replied Kenyon; “for I found a great deal to interest me in the mediaeval sculpture hidden away in the chu... ... whether painter or sculptor, may be pardoned for loitering through such a region. But what a fine old tower! Its tall front is like a page of black l... ...unger,” an- swered the Count gravely. “I am not a boy now. Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.” The sculptor could not but smile at the ... ...ounts of Monte Beni must have led a patriarchal life in this vast house. A great-grandsire and all his descendants might find ample verge here, and wi... ...n yourself to be sombre, thoughtful, and penitential, like all the rest of us.” 14 The Marble Faun V ol 2 Donatello made no answer, but sat awhile, a... ...x centu- ries, had probably been the birth, bridal, and death chamber of a great many generations of the Monte Beni family. He 16 The Marble Faun V o... ...nd it to reach the mysteri- ous fountains of the Nile. And, far beyond the region of definite and demonstrable fact, a romancer might have strayed int... ...on of definite and demonstrable fact, a romancer might have strayed into a region of old poetry, where the rich soil, so long uncultivated and untrodd... ...way, were scattered upon this spacious map; a river gleamed across it; and lakes opened their blue eyes in its face, reflecting heaven, lest mortals s...

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...til its features have become familiar to all the older inhabitants of that region of country. The great depth of the Seneca prevents it from freezing;... ...ecome familiar to all the older inhabitants of that region of country. The great depth of the Seneca prevents it from freezing; and summer and winter,... ... made out the ‘Jew,’ about a mile, or, at most, a mile and a half ahead of us, and right in our track. I remember that I said to myself, says I, ‘Old ... ...that half-subdued tribe could retain so completely the air and mien of the great forests and distant prairies. “Seneca,” was the simple answer. The wo... ... was never a Jew. ’Tis a chief of the Senecas, thrown into the lake by the Great Spirit, for his bad conduct. Whenever he tries to get upon the land, ... ...ntry be what it may. It was a law of our people, one which tradition tells us came direct from the Great Spirit, that the fish should be taken only in... ...other. It is sweet to be told that we are better and wiser than all around us. It is sweet to the red man; the pale-faces may have more sober minds—” ... ...people?” “This is well enough, as respects the curse on the demagogue; but lakes do not usually—” Fuller had got thus far, when the Seneca, as if in m... ...s legend, united to the opinions and statements of the inhabitants of that region, which conspired to make our traveler start, in awe and surprise; fo...

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...substantial and homely reality of a fireside 5 Hawthorne chair. It causes us to feel at once that these characters of his tory had a private and fam... ...e reader may here after find it necessary to purge his mind. The author’s great doubt is, whether he has succeeded in writing a book which will be re... ...g. So they came into the room together, anti clustered round Grandfather’s great chair. Little Alice, who was hardly five years old, took the privileg... ...tle Alice. “We will all three keep wide awake. And pray, Grandfather, tell us a story about this strange looking old chair.” Now, the chair in which G... ... “Well, child,” said Grandfather, patting Clara’s cheek, “I can tell you a great many stories of my chair. Perhaps your cousin Laurence would like to ... ... gov ern ment. There were likewise settlers near Piscataqua River, in the region which is now called New Hampshire. Thus, at various points along the... ...the Hudson River was a colony of Dutch, who had taken pos session of that region many years before, and called it New Netherlands. Grandfather, for a... ..., and so 54 TheWholeHistoryofGrandfather sChair had forgotten the shadowy region of the past, in the midst of which stood Grandfather’s chair. But no... ...a. It was strange to behold these warlike castles on the banks of solitary lakes and far in the midst of woods. The Indian, paddling his birch canoe o...

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...onsidering how much history is heaped into the intervening space—rises the great sweep of the Coliseum, with the blue sky brightening through its uppe... ...range,” whispered Miriam mischievously; “for no Faun in Arcadia was ever a greater simpleton than Donatello. He has hardly a man’s share of wit, small... ... you well know he has wit enough to worship you, at all events.” “Then the greater fool he!” said Miriam so bitterly that Hilda’s quiet eyes were some... ...rtled. “Donatello, my dear friend,” said Kenyon, in Italian, “pray gratify us all by taking the exact attitude of this statue.” The young man laughed,... ... in respect to which our friend Donatello’s abundant curls will not permit us to say whether the likeness is carried into minute detail.” And the scul... ... impression on these three friends, and had taken them into a certain airy region, lifting up, as it is so pleasant to feel them lifted, their heavy e... ... Miriam, whose attractive influence alone had enticed him into that gloomy region. “What a child you are, poor Donatello!” she observed, with the free... ... and the elegance of the middle height were exchanged for a sort of Alpine region, cold and naked in its aspect. Steps of rough stone, rude wooden bal... ...way, were scattered upon this spacious map; a river gleamed across it; and lakes opened their blue eyes in its face, reflecting heaven, lest mortals s...

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...rt, has run masquerading through the whole world. And he who has shown the greatest longing for him has been the great Emperor of China, who wrote me ... ...y, while Emperor for Emperor and Monarch for Monarch, I have at Naples the great Count of Lemos, who, without so many petty titles of colleges and rec... ...ation of those who know where they were received; for the soldier shows to greater advantage dead in battle than alive in flight; and so strongly is t... ...-errant look more to that future glory that is everlasting in the ethereal regions of heaven than to the vanity of the fame that is to be acquired in ... ...ng and his gravity—a figure and picture such as had not been seen in those regions for many a long day. Don Quixote saw very plainly the attention wit... ...me time to investigate and explore the origin and true source of the seven lakes com- monly called the lakes of Ruidera. Don Diego and his son commend... ... in con- ducting him to the mouth of the very cave, and would show him the lakes of Ruidera, which were likewise famous all over La Mancha, and even a... ... myself hanging suspended by the rope, travelling downwards into that dark region without any certainty or knowledge of where I was going, so I resolv... ...t of the compas- sion he seems to have felt for them, changed into so many lakes, which to this day in the world of the living, and in the province of...

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...that delicate and honourable re- serve which, for the most part, restrains us from the public exposure of our own errors and infirmities. Nothing, ind... ...r indulgence to human frailty may have drawn over them; ac- cordingly, the greater part of our confessions (that is, sponta- neous and extra-judicial ... ...population of the churchyard, as if declining to claim fellowship with the great family of man, and wishing (in the affecting language of Mr. Wordswor... ...cinating powers of opium are admitted even by medical writers, who are its greatest enemies. Thus, for instance, Awsiter, apothecary to Greenwich Hosp... ... Opium-Eater sort of twitching (I know not where, but apparently about the region of the stomach) which compelled me violently to throw out my feet fo... .... Yet 38 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater even in that very northern region it was, even in that very valley, nay, in that very house to which m... ...to have known the virtues of opium. To my architecture succeeded dreams of lakes and silvery expanses of water: these haunted me so much that I feared... ... very dangerous. The waters now changed their character—from translu- cent lakes shining like mirrors they now became seas and oceans. And now came a ... ...m- ing with human life, the great officina gentium. Man is a weed in those regions. The vast empires also in which the enormous population of Asia has...

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...m with my sons, and all of the games here illustrated have been set out by us. I am going to tell of them here because I think what we have done will ... ...ans, and the lower animals generally, such as I will presently describe in greater detail; (2) BRICKS; (3) BOARDS and PLANKS; and (4) a lot of CLOCKWO... ...nstance, our planks and boards, and what one can do with them, have been a great discovery. Lots of boys and girls seem to be quite without planks and... ...es square, two feet, and eighteen inches square— one or two of each, and a greater number of smaller ones, 18 x 9, 9 x 9, and 9 x 4-1/2. With the larg... ...the box of bricks.) This, again, wasn’t a toy-shop acquisition. It came to us by gift from two generous friends, unhappily growing up and very tall at... ...ived and undeserved share of his inherit- ance and count the joys it gives us, we have projected half in jest and half in earnest the putting together... ... boards are hills, and never a drop of water is to be found except for the lakes and rivers we may mark out in chalk. But after one example others are... ...nature of the hills I have already explained, and this time we have had no lakes or ornamental water. These are very easily made out of a piece of gla... ...bers), a sitting bear, brought from last game’s caves, goats from the same region, tamed and now running loose in the gardens, dwarf elephants, wooden...

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... and, as we learn, we must be daily unlearning something which it has cost us no small labour and anxiety to acquire. And this difficulty attaches its... ...m correct views of individuals we must re gard them as forming parts of a great whole—we must mea sure them by their relation to the mass of beings ... ...probability of its details. It is unfortunate for us, that, of some of the greatest men, we know least, and talk most. Homer, Socrates, and Shakespere... ...the last and present centuries. To question the existence of Alexander the Great, would be a more excusable act, than to believe in that of Romulus. T... ...e of things makes possible. If the period of tradi tion in history is the region of twilight, we should not expect in it perfect light. The creations... ... the far Phoenician coast (Sidon the capital), I stretch’d my toil Through regions fatten’d with the flows of Nile. Next Æthiopia’s utmost bound explo... ... she sails, Incumbent on the wings of wafting gales; The seat of gods; the regions mild of peace, Full joy, and calm eternity of ease. There no rude w... ...alive from pure, ethereal day? Dire is the region, dismal is the way! Here lakes profound, there floods oppose their waves, There the wide sea with al... ...d blood hangs shivering in my veins; Lest Gorgon, rising from the infernal lakes, With horrors arm’d, and curls of hissing snakes, Should fix me stiff...

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...ait for the turn of the tide. The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing the sea an... ...ensed into a mournful gloom, brooding motionless over the biggest, and the greatest, town on earth. The Director of Companies was our captain and our ... ...the lumi- nous estuary, but behind him, within the brooding gloom. Between us there was, as I have already said somewhere, the bond of the sea. Beside... ...goes, “followed the sea” with rev- erence and affection, than to evoke the great spirit of the past upon the lower reaches of the Thames. The tidal cu... ...r Francis Drake to Sir John Franklin, knights all, titled and untitled—the great knightserrant of the sea. It had borne all the ships whose names are ... ... more. It 9 Joseph Conrad had got filled since my boyhood with rivers and lakes and names. It had ceased to be a blank space of delightful mystery—a ... ...dal and gallows and lunatic asylums —how can you imag- ine what particular region of the first ages a man’s un- trammeled feet may take him into by th... ..., while I seemed at one bound to have been transported into some lightless region of subtle horrors, where pure, uncompli- cated savagery was a positi... ...bout its ‘territories.’ And, said he, ‘Mr. Kurtz’s knowledge of unexplored regions must have been necessarily extensive and peculiar—ow- ing to his gr...

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.... Do you understand this feeling? This breeze, which has travelled from the regions towards which I am advanc ing, gives me a foretaste of those ic... ...at of frost and desolation; it ever presents itself to my imagination as the region of beauty and delight. There, Mar garet, the sun is forever visib... ...lm sea, we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every region hitherto discovered on the habitable globe. Its productions and fe... ...g. I can, even now, remember the hour from which I dedicated myself to this great enterprise. I commenced by inuring my body to hardship. I accompani... ... branches of physical science from which a naval adventurer might derive the greatest practical advan tage. Twice I actually hired myself as an under... ...ered me the second dignity in the vessel and entreated me to remain with the greatest earnestness, so valuable did he consider my services. And now, d... ...ost beautiful scenes of my own country; I Frankenstein 118 have visited the lakes of Lucerne and Uri, where the snowy mountains descend almost perpen... ... but to visit Windsor, Frankenstein 121 Oxford, Matlock, and the Cumberland lakes, resolving to ar rive at the completion of this tour about the end... ...tches of snow which yet lingered on the northern sides of the mountains, the lakes, and the dashing of the rocky streams were all familiar and dear si...

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...ng and grinning at his own good things, and to this may be attributed in a great measure the ascetic abstinence from every- thing savouring of livelin... ...ator who makes it his aim to treat “Don Quixote” with the respect due to a great classic, should not be as acceptable even to the careless reader as t... ...e Spanish people ought, mutatis mutandis, to be equally effective with the great majority of English readers. At any rate, even if there are readers t... ...e “he was lord of the solar of Cervatos in the Mon- tana,” as the mountain region extending from the Basque Provinces to Leon was always called. At hi... ... as big as walnuts. Nay, it may well be that on those journeys into remote regions he came across now and then a specimen of the pauper gentleman, wit... ... into the meaning of Cervantes such as no commentator can give. Of all the regions of Spain it is the last that would suggest the idea of romance. Of ... ...me time to investigate and explore the origin and true source of the seven lakes com- monly called the lakes of Ruidera. Don Diego and his son commend... ... in con- ducting him to the mouth of the very cave, and would show him the lakes of Ruidera, which were likewise famous all over La Mancha, and even a... ...t of the compas- sion he seems to have felt for them, changed into so many lakes, which to this day in the world of the living, and in the province of...

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...t, and from it preached An universal culture for the crowd, And all things great; but we, unworthier, told Of college: he had climbed across the spik... ...han that: Y ou men have done it: how I hate you all! Ah, were I something great! I wish I were Some might poetess, I would shame you then, That love... ... wish I were Some might poetess, I would shame you then, That love to keep us children! O I wish That I were some great princess, I would build Far o... ... shame you then, That love to keep us children! O I wish That I were some great princess, I would build Far off from men a college like a man’s, And ... ...our light way; but I would make it death For any male thing but to peep at us.’ Petulant she spoke, and at herself she laughed; A rosebud set with lit... ... ‘True,’ she said, ‘We doubt not that. O yes, you missed us much. I’ll stake my ruby ring upon it you did.’ She held it out; and as ... ... And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set t... ... owls whooped, And gradually the powers of the night, That range above the region of the wind, Deepening the courts of twilight broke them up Through ...

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...amen and savages in incidents that might be supposed characteristic of the Great Lakes having been mentioned to a Publisher, the latter obtained somet... ...nd savages in incidents that might be supposed characteristic of the Great Lakes having been mentioned to a Publisher, the latter obtained something l... ... well known it may be, that there are isolated spots along the line of the great lakes that date as settlements as far back as many of the older Ameri... ...known it may be, that there are isolated spots along the line of the great lakes that date as settlements as far back as many of the older American to... ...wns, and which were the seats of a species of civilization long before the greater portion of even the older States was rescued from the wilderness. O... ...ll can be; and the day is not distant when the whole of that vast range of lakes will become the seat of empire, and fraught with all the interests of... ...passing glimpse, even though it be in a work of fiction, of what that vast region so lately was, may help to make up the sum of knowledge by which alo... ...urface of verdure. Of this class were the birch, a tree of some account in regions less favored, the quivering aspen, various generous nut-woods, and ... ...n offing where one knew the channel,” returned old Cap; “but in an unknown region like this I think it unsafe to trust the pilot alone too far from th...