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... of my life that I did not do it. It was bitter now to look abroad over this domed and steepled metropolis, this solid expanse of bricks Life on the M... ...ly out from a background of solid Egyptian night. Under a glass French clock dome, large bouquet of stiff flowers done in corpsy white wax. Pyramidal ... ...nappeasable. “And so we glide along; in due time encountering those majestic domes, the mighty Sugar Loaf, and the sublime Maiden’s Rock—which latter,... ...imity; then Prescott and the St. Croix; and anon we see bursting upon us the domes and steeples of St. Paul, giant young chief of the North, marching ...

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...ht more propitious for meditation. The beauti- ful sky of Spain spread its dome of azure above his head. The scintillation of the stars and the soft l...

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...roughout all the jovial prosperity of Monte Beni, this one spot within the domestic walls had kept itself silent, stern, and sad. When the individual ... ...thly shorn lawns, which hospitably invite the imagi- nation into the sweet domestic interiors of English life. Ev- erything, however sunny and luxuria... ...nce.” “Will you look at some pictures by Fra Angelico in the Church of San Domenico?” asked Kenyon; “they are full of religious sincerity, When one st... ...d, yellow-washed hovels, or call them palaces, where all that is dreary in domestic life seems mag- nified and multiplied, and weary of climbing those... ...gels; and within the vault of the ceiling and the swelling interior of the dome, there are frescos of such brilliancy, and wrought with so artful a pe... ...t. John Lateran; she stood in the Pantheon, under the round opening in the dome, through which the blue sunny sky still 106 The Marble Faun V ol 2 ga... ...s. Within its vast limits, she thought, and beneath the sweep of its great dome, there should be space for all forms of Christian truth; room both for... ...d huge, stretch- ing into an interminable perspective, and overarched by a dome like the cloudy firmament. Beneath that vast breadth and height, as sh... ...your visionary temple, and has room for its cloudy pinnacles be- neath the dome. One afternoon, as Hilda entered St. Peter’s in sombre mood, its inter...

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...esult of an optically discernible influence of our hero’s character in the domestic circle; perhaps a faintly-out- lined circle or two beyond it. But ... ...selves. Crescents and hollows, rosy mounds, white shelves, shining ledges, domes and peaks, all the towering heights were in illumination from Friuli ... ...im for it. 72 Beauchamp’s Career Glittering V enice was now in sight; the dome of Sta. Maria Salute shining like a globe of salt. Roland flung his ar... ...een through the beauty Venice was like a lowered ban- ner. The great white dome and the campanili watching above her were still brave emblems. Would P... ...k a shad- owy line or crazy zigzag of policy in almost every stroke of her domestic history: either it is the forethought finding it necessary to stir... .... If there was godlessness in turning to politics for a weapon to strike a domestic blow, manfulness in some de- gree signalized it. Beauchamp could f... ... sweet blood cannot be secretly accusing or criti- cizing a gracious lady. Domestic men are charged with think- ing instantly of dark death when an or... ...she had conveyed the information to her father for his comfort in the dumb domestic language familiar between them on these occasions, had proposed to... ...en walking about the world have perhaps no more imagination of matters not domestic than they; but what we have is quick with experience: we see the t...

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...zation, and is chiefly temple. That temple has a flat roof, diversified by domes made of half Easter eggs and cardboard cones. These are surmounted by... ...t to the geologist and scientific explorer. The Indians, you observe, have domesticated one leaden and one wooden cow. This is how the game would be s...

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...as the opinion that the room was haunted very strongly prevailed among the domes- tics, and was also known in the neighbourhood and to many of my frie...

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...eir manners. This spirit of manners naturally communicates itself to their domestics and other dependants. Now, my landlady had been a lady’s maid or ... ...spectable family, and by the lights in the front drawing-room I observed a domes- tic party assembled, perhaps at tea, and apparently cheerful and gay... .... all records of bills paid or to be paid must have perished, and my whole domes- tic economy, whatever became of Political Economy, must have gone in... ...dour—without end! Fabric it seem’d of diamond, and of gold, With alabaster domes, and silver spires, And blazing terrace upon terrace, high Uplifted; ... ...ing. And at a vast distance were visible, as a stain upon the horizon, the domes and cupolas of a great city—an im- age or faint abstraction, caught p... ... early scenes of the Orestes; one of the most beautiful exhibitions of the domestic affections which even the dramas of Euripides can furnish. To the ... ...rned appear latterly to have doubted; for in a pirated edition of Buchan’s Domestic Medi- cine, which I once saw in the hands of a farmer’s wife, who ...

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...hite edifice that unfolds its repeated colonnades and uplifts its isolated dome at the end of a long vista of saloons and tobacco- shops. He slowly cl... ...enry James ily, or would she wish still to borrow plastic relief from that domestic background? That her family was so impos- sible was to a certain e... ... picnickers. Toward the last, as they drew near Washing- ton and the white dome of the Capitol hung aloft before them, looking as simple as a suspende... ...? Why she has been engaged since she was sixteen.” Count Otto gazed at the dome of the Capitol. “To a gentleman from Utica? “Yes, a native of her plac...

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...nd every turn attends.” Falconer’s Shipwreck. “Bright shone the roofs, the domes, the spires, And rockets flew self driven, To hang their momentary fire... ...ered in old Bildad’s language, heteroge neously mixed with Scriptural and domestic phrases. “Avast there, avast there, Bildad, avast now spoiling our... ...f his Chapter 26 Knights and Squires 119 soul, much more did his far away domestic memories of his young Cape wife and child, tend to bend him still ... ... sometimes capture the Hyena whale, to keep up the supply of cheap oil for domestic employment — as some frugal housekeepers, in the absence of compan... ...of the whale craft, this seems as good a place as any to set down a little domestic peculiarity on ship board, arising from the exis tence of the har... ...commonplaces never delude you into unnecessary excitements; you hear of no domestic afflic tions; bankrupt securities; fall of stocks; are never troub... ...w . Fedallah air concerning Fedallah. He was such a creature as civilized, domestic people in the temperate zone only see in their dreams, and that bu... ...e personally known to each other; and consequently, have all sorts of dear domestic things to talk about. For the long absent ship, the outward bounde... ...against him. Now, one of the peculiar characteristics of the savage in his domestic hours, is his wonderful patience of industry. An ancient Hawaiian ...

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...ther members of the household were, his daughter Dorothy Beltham; a married daughter Mrs. Richmond; Benjamin Sewis, an old half-caste butler; various domestic servants; and a little boy, christened Harry Lepel Richmond....

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... daughter Mrs. Richmond; Benjamin Sewis, an old half-caste butler; various domestic servants; and a little boy, christened Harry Lepel Richmond, the s... ...er, and he never dissented, but turned his steps toward Nelson’s cathedral dome, and uncovered his head there, and said: ‘Nelson, then, to-day’; and w... ...don, I topped it 108 The Adventures of Harry Richmond with a multitude of domes of pumpkin or turban shape, re- sembling the Kremlin of Moscow, which... ... filial duty, and an obligation religiously contracted beneath a cathedral dome; so I performed the task of offer- ing the Hock, stating that it was o... ...lancers, joined the margravine in Wurtemberg, and we felt immediately that domestic affairs were under a different management. Baroness T urckems re- ... ...r we tend, shell and spirit. Y ou English, fighting your little battles of domestic policy, and sneering at us for flying at higher game, you unimpres... ... nothing but shine, gave nothing forth. The sky was bronze, a vast furnace dome. The folds of light and shadow everywhere were satin-rich; shadows per... ...not lived among us long enough to know that the German Diet is the seat of domestic legislation for the princely Houses of Germany? A prince or a prin... ...tter addressed to the princess to en- trust it to the charge of one of the domestics, thinking care- lessly at the time that Ottilia now stood free to...

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...int Force and full Result of all. Thus when we view some well proportion’d Dome, The World’s just Wonder, and ev’n thine O Rome!) No single Parts...

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...ed beadles walked before, with wands as white as snow, Till into the high dome of Paul s they like Thames waters flow. Oh what a multitude they seem...

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...aded beadles walked before, with wands as white as snow, Till into the high dome of Paul’s they like Thames waters flow. Oh what a multitude they se...

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...d back volumes of Punch, from which I derived concep- tions of foreign and domestic politics it has taken years of adult reflection to correct. And at... ...re vio- lent crimes, and in railway and mine disasters and in the minutest domesticities of the Royal Family . Most of the books at home were my fathe... ...ather is always “A.,” and I am always “D.” It is manifest she followed the domestic events in the life of the Princess of Wales, who is now Queen Moth... ...ll. They never, so far as I know, dined out, and when at last after bitter domestic conflicts they began to go to dances, they went with the quavering... ... Motioned rather than an- nounced by a tall Scotch servant woman, the only domestic I ever remember seeing there, we made our way up a narrow staircas... ...s Street and furnished it with severe economy, they discovered that Scotch domestic who is destined to be the guardian and tyrant of their declining y... ... the pigeons and going into the little doors beneath the sunlit arches and domes of Saint Mark’s. Then perhaps 174 The New Machiavelli we would strol... ...ng him simply and uncritically for simple ends, when marriage was a purely domestic relationship, leaving thought and the vivid things of life almost ... ...times being ostentatiously “kind”; I would see him glance furtively at his domestic servants upon his staircase, or stiffen his upper lip against the ...

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...made a voyage from Australia to look at the grave in the churchyard, I should go away, thankful to GOD that that house was so close to it, and that it... ...So would be, and so were, Skirmish- ers. The Uncommercial took the liberty of hinting that he hardly thought it probable that any lady or gentleman in... ...ike Don Quixote on the back of the wooden horse) in the region of wind, now in the region of fire, now in the region of unmelting ice and snow. Here, ... ...hile Mr. Sayers is impelled to the administration of his favourite blow, the Auctioneer, by the silent eloquence of a village church. The humble homes... ...em Hospital; partly, because it lay on my road round to Westminster; partly, because I had a night fancy in my head which could be best pursued within... ...ing notes with other travellers who have similarly revisited the Island and conscientiously inspected it, I have satisfied myself that it contains no ... ...- ner, through the unpeopled streets. There is nothing else to do but love; and what there is to do, is done. In unison with this pursuit, a chaste si... ...rtains in the midst of it, and it came dancing round the cathedral in the liveliest manner. I was speculating on a marriage in Blouse-life, or a Chris... ...g broke out to get into cavalry regiments and wear those sublime appendages, that it was one of the greatest excite- ments ever known in the school. T...

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...a house o’erturn’d, Whisper’d he had a mistress, some said two — But for domestic quarrels one will do. Now Donna Inez had, with all her merit, ... ... shine, ‘T is in arranging all my friends’ affairs, Not having of my own domestic cares. And so I interfered, and with the best Intentions, ... ...s youth, And of the folly of all prudish fears, Victorious virtue, and domestic truth, And then of Don Alfonso’s fifty years: I wish these... ...ays, and put one’s servants into mourning. There ‘s doubtless something in domestic doings Which forms, in fact, true love’s antithesis; Roman... ...glancing, ‘Midst other indications of festivity, Seeing a troop of his domestics dancing Like dervises, who turn as on a pivot, he Perceiv... ...h; such things Occur in Orient palaces, and even In the more chasten’d domes of Western kings (Of which I have also seen some six or seven),... ...e affairs, And show’d but little royal curiosity: I know not if he had domestic cares— No process proved connubial animosity; Four wives a... ...llege, or to found a race, A hospital, a church,—and leave behind Some dome surmounted by his meagre face: Perhaps he fain would liberate mank... ...ch doth not shake some very splendid house With some slight heart quake of domestic treason A topic scandal doth delight to rouse: Such I mig...

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...mother, like many other slave-women, had many children, but NO FAMILY! The domestic hearth, with its holy lessons and precious endearments, is abolish... ...very little below that reached by travelers at the first view of Rome. The dome of the state house was especially imposing, and surpassed in grandeur ... ... the consequences. He, not less than the other parties, was injured in his domestic peace by the fall. When I went into their family, it was the abode... ...er by the general upstir, described in the forego- ing chapter. The little domestic revolution, notwithstanding the sudden snub it got by the treacher... ...NS WITH CONDUCTORS AND BRAKEMEN—TRAINS ORDERED NOT TO STOP AT LYNN—AMUSING DOMESTIC SCENE—SEPARATE TABLES FOR MAS- TER AND MAN—PREJUDICE UNNATURAL—IL-... ...tes—in- augurated “to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common de- fense, promote the genera... ...e people into the horrible recesses of what they are pleased to call their domes- tic institution. We want them to know that a knowledge of their whip... ...so that my condition in this respect is exceedingly pleasant. So far as my domestic affairs are concerned, I can boast of as comfortable a dwell- ing ...

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...wl from every man. She was held to have a very fine manner, and to embody the domestic virtues and the graces of the drawing room; to be a shining proo... ...r Prance, who by this time had begun to appear to Ransom more susceptible of domestication, as if she had been a small forest creature, a catamount or... ... glance that the whole circle mightn’t have observed. Even in the privacy of domestic intercourse he had phrases, excuses, explanations, ways of putti... ...e of high deliberation increased in proportion as the subject was trivial or domestic. If his wife asked him at dinner if the potatoes were good, he r... ...irty children, and, in squalid lodging houses, had gone into rooms where the domestic situation was strained and the noises made the neighbours turn p... ...f their business (their business was simply to be provided for, practise the domes tic virtues, and be charmingly grateful), and there was, to his se... ...vately, personally, it’s another affair. In the realm of family life and the domestic affections ‘ At this Verena broke in, with a nervous laugh, ‘Don... ... this impalpable youth was the single person on the premises who represented domestic service. Anxious lady boarders, wrapped in shawls, were seen wai... ...themselves looked down over the roofs. Bolts and bars were not a part of the domestic machinery of Marmion, and the responsive menial, receiving the v...

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... head of hair and even in his cultivated whiskers. CHAPTER XL National and Domestic ENGLAND HAS BEEN IN A DREADFUL state for some weeks. Lord Coo... ...he firmest of us (she was very firm) to be always guarded. There was great domestic trouble and amazement, you may sup pose; I leave you to imagine, ... ...ding his communica tion with his hat, “it falls a little hard upon me. My domes Bleak House – Volume Two 100 tic happiness is very great—at least,... ...ss of London there is some rest. Its steeples and towers and its one great dome grow more ethereal; its smoky house tops lose their grossness in the p... ...here that he finds happiness. No, it must be sought within the confines of domestic bliss. It is natural, under these circumstances, that he, in his t...

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...in had offered her a room in her own house—Lisbeth suspected the halter of domestic servitude; several times the Baron had found a solution of the dif... ...rusted her. Besides, out of sheer mod- esty, she would never have told her domestic sorrows to any one but God. It may here be well to add that the Ba... ...ack through her, and make him forego his re- sentment. Any one seeing this domestic scene would have found it hard to believe that the father was at h... ...? Am I not a prisoner here out of gratitude?” This episode of their secret domestic life had occurred six months previously, and had led to Steinbock’... ..., deserves the honors of the palette by rea- son of his importance in this domestic drama. HAVE YOU EVER OBSERVED how in childhood, or at the early st... ...to men he wanted to dazzle or to a family party. The seat of Crevel’s real domesticity, formerly in the Rue Notre-Dame de Lorette, with Mademoiselle H... ...ught to be rewarded with the Montyon prize, the cook, male or female, is a domestic rob- ber, a thief taking wages, and perfectly barefaced, with the ... ...it; but in vain, for it cannot be remedied but by a law which shall compel domestic ser- vants, like laborers, to have a pass-book as a guarantee of c... ...iserable house- holds. As to the mere financial mischief that results from domes- tic peculation, that too is immense from a political point of view. ...