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...there, where you once reigned with more felicity than most of your brother monarchs in the world.” In a word, the scheme hit so exactly with my temper... ... the like, but really as if they had been ambassadors or noblemen, and I a monarch or great conqueror: their behaviour was, to the last degree, oblig-... ... a mind to go and see the great city of Pekin, and the famous court of the monarch of China. “Why, then,” says the old man, “you should go to Ningpo, ... ...re sincerity than I expected, that it was not so much the concern of their monarch to make the people Christians as to make them subjects. From this r... ...o room to doubt his sincerity . I told him I once thought myself a kind of monarch in my old station, of which I had given him an account; but that I ... ... of which I had given him an account; but that I thought he was not only a monarch, but a great con- queror; for he that had got a victory over his ow...

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... tears restrain! Agamemnon 10 antistrophe 4 And then the elder monarch spake aloud— Ill lot were mine, to disobey! And ill, to smite my ch... ... its offspring fair. Such mighty yoke of fate he set on Troy— Our lord and monarch, Atreus’ elder son, And comes at last with blissful honour home; Hi... ... that trod down Troy! Women! why tarry ye, whose task it is To spread your monarch’s path with tapestry? Swift, swift, with purple strew his passage f... ...e woe comes pressing on. CASSANDRA chanting Away, away—keep him away— The monarch of the herd, the pasture’s pride, Far from his mate! In treach’rous... ...is scented Syrian nard? CASSANDRA Nay, let me pass within to cry aloud The monarch’s fate and mine— enough of life. Ah friends! Bear to me witness, si... ...ain, another, another blow! LEADER The bloody act is over—I have heard the monarch’s cry— Let us swiftly take some counsel, lest we too be doomed to d... ...her’s craft. Take ye the truth, that Atreus, this man’s sire, The lord and monarch of this land of old, Held with my sire Thyestes deep dispute, Broth...

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... courted it in silence. All these, my infe- riors and equals, took me, like the transformed monarch in the story, for a mere common, human man. They g... ...of memorable men of yore. And this distinction is not only in virtue of the pastime of dead monarchs. Great events, great revolutions, great cycles in... ...anges and renews a weary spirit. Disappointed men, sick Francis Firsts and vanquished Grand Monarchs, time out of mind have come here for consola- tio...

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... valued by the human family. Those liberties had been wrung from reluctant monarchs in many contests, in many countries, and were grouped into creeds ... ... and in vin- dication of truths that will stand for their deliverance from monarchical rule, while time shall last. A French aristocrat of the purest ... ...rve them and to inculcate their teachings. They have mastered the power of monarchi- cal rule in the American Hemisphere, freeing religion from all sh... ...mbulist of a vanished dream,” had abolished feudalism and absolutism, made monarchs and dynasties obsolete, and substituted for the divine right of ki... ...y of the tribunals and their dusty chambers, to appear at the court of the monarch, by the side of the feudal barons in their ermine and their mail. W... ...ies in- troduced an element of democratic liberty into the bosom of feudal monarchy; the invention of fire-arms equalized the villein and the noble on... ...bjects was an insurmountable barrier to the tyranny of the prince; and the monarch, who felt the almost divine character which he enjoyed in the eyes ... ...of the sovereignty of the people had been introduced into the bosom of the monarchy of the House of T udor. The religious quarrels which have agitated... ...ican. The colonies still recognized the supremacy of the mother-coun- try; monarchy was still the law of the State; but the republic was already estab...

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...reated with a solemn re- spect accorded in the irreverent West only to the monarchs of the stage, and he accepted the profound homage with a sustained... ...conquered land. He multiplied questions; he could never know enough of the Monarch of whom he spoke with won- der and chivalrous respect—with a kind o...

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... hears his warder call, ‘To arms! the foemen storm the wall,’ The antlered monarch of the waste Sprung from his heathery couch in haste. But ere his f... ... Border-side, Where chiefs, with hound and trawl; who came T o share their monarch’s sylvan game, Themselves in bloody toils were snared, And when the... ...him with a gallant band, Submission, homage, humbled pride, Shall turn the Monarch’s wrath aside. Poor remnants of the Bleeding Heart, Ellen and I wil... ...-land, When fairy birds are singing, When the court cloth ride by their monarch’s side, With bit and bridle ringing: ‘ And gayly shines the Fair... ...y poor sword Preserved the life of Scotland’s lord. This ring the grateful Monarch gave, And bade, when I had boon to crave, T o bring it back, and bo... ...sympathy,— No kind emotion made reply! Indifferent as to archer wight, The monarch gave the arrow bright. 92 The Lady of the Lake XXIII. Now, clear t... ...he whom royal eyes disown, When was his form to courtiers known! XXV . The Monarch saw the gambols flag And bade let loose a gallant stag, Whose pride... ...ut for his friends.—’ ‘Thus is my clemency repaid? Presumptuous Lord!’ the Monarch said: ‘Of thy misproud ambitious clan, Thou, James of Bothwell, wer... ...an, The only man, in whom a foe My woman-mercy would not know; But shall a Monarch’s presence brook Injurious blow and haughty look?— What ho! the Cap...

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...onferred upon distinguished houses in the Low Country by divers Scot- tish monarchs; nevertheless, such was their outrecuidance and presumption, as to... ...s kind. Aristides himself could not have made out a harder case. An unjust monarch, and an ungrate- ful country, were the burden of each rounded parag... ...e considered how his own inter- est would be exalted in the eyes of the ex-monarch to whom he had dedicated his service, by an alliance with one of th... ...ice of the whole nation, justly forfeited his own. Since that period, four monarchs had reigned in peace and glory over Britain, sustaining and exalti... ...vil war, for the purpose of replacing upon the throne the descendants of a monarch by whom it had been wilfully forfeited? If, on the other hand, his ... ... step to this purpose, dur- ing his holding the commission of the reigning monarch. The affectionate simplicity of Rose, and her anxiety for his safet... ...ervants to the Stewarts of Appin; the Macbeths, descended from the unhappy monarch of that name, were subjects to the Morays, 278 Waverley and clan D... ...self would have nothing to do with king-making, declaring himself for that monarch, and no other, who gave the Laird of Mac— ‘half a guinea the day, a...

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...public crier went forth, Proclaiming through the living and the dead, ‘The Monarch saith, that his great Empire’s worth _4155 Is set on Laon and La... ...ly breaks. PR PR PR PR PROMETHEUS: OMETHEUS: OMETHEUS: OMETHEUS: OMETHEUS: Monarch of Gods and Dæmons, and all Spirits But One, who throng those brigh... ... he would not doom me thus. Gentle, and just, and dreadless, is he not The monarch of the world? What then art thou? No refuge! no appeal! Sink with m... ...s a child is fed, _285 Whose vapours clothe earth’s monarch mountain-tops With kingly, ermine snow. The beams flash on And make... ... Shelley Of earth-convulsing behemoth, which once _310 Were monarch beasts, and on the slimy shores, And weed-overgrown continents of e... ...o determine whether a swelling of the hind or the fore feet of the Swinish Monarch is particularly indicated. Should the remaining portions of this T ... ...desolation and of loveliness, And when man was not, and how man became The monarch and the slave of this low sphere, And all its narrow circles—it is ... ...t The herald of the ill in splendour hid! Thou echo of the hollow heart Of monarchy, bear me to thine abode _955 When... ...me serpent, that poor shadow, France, Cry peace, and that means death when monarchs speak. Ho, there! bring torches, sharpen those red stakes, _...

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... that I am in my kingdom, and there I endeavour to make myself an absolute monarch, and to sequester this one corner from all society, conjugal, filia... ...ns puts this other fancy in my head: that it is a kind of pusillanimity in monarchs, and a testimony that they do not sufficiently understand themselv... ...; witness my CANNIBALS.—[Chapter XXX. of Book I.] Of the two most puissant monarchs of that world, and, peradventure, of this, kings of so many kings,... ...makes the king to be in a worse condition than a carter; he who writes for monarchy places him some degrees above God in power and sovereignty. Now, t... ... to us history, more as they receive it than as they believe it. I, who am monarch of the matter whereof I treat, and who am account- able to none, do... ...d in a few—[an oligarchy.]—in a republic, or another sort of government in monarchy than that already established, is both vice and folly: “Aym... ...d; it endured it, notwithstanding, and therein continued, preserving not a monarchy limited within its own bounds, but so many na- 200 Essays: Book I... ...an the good. So long as the image of the ancient and received laws of this monarchy shall shine in any corner of the kingdom, there will I be. If they...

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...od, acknowledged as a separate and independent race by one of the Scottish monarchs, and that they were less favourably distinguished by a subsequent ... ...n- cied likeness, such as Lady Macbeth found to her father in the sleeping monarch. Such were the reflections that passed in rapid succession through ... ...Mr. Counsellor Pleydell, such as we have described him, was enthroned as a monarch, in an elbow-chair, placed, on the dining-table, his scratch wig on... ..., and craved permission to lay his credentials at the feet of the Scottish monarch, in order to be perused at his best leisure. The gravity with which... ...the health of the reigning prince. “You are, I presume to guess,” said the monarch, “that celebrated Sir Miles Mannering, so renowned in the French wa... ...se affairs of weight which have brought him to your northern capital.” The monarch opened Mac-Morlan’s letter, and, running it hastily over, exclaimed... ...it!” replied the king; “I’ll be judged by this courteous knight. May not a monarch love a maid of low degree? Is not King Cophetua and the Beggar-maid... ...d the tumultuary nobility. “Had not our royal predecessors,” continued the monarch, exalting his sovereign voice to drown these disaffected clamours,—... ...ant suc- cess in a strange, eventful, and mysterious lawsuit, and no young monarch, flushed with hopes, and at the head of a gallant army, could exper...

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...other, but for the return of the object of unanimous hatred and fear. This monarch had an army in full force because he had jobbed to himself Poland, ... ... indignation of the faithless conduct of the allies towards this dethroned monarch, who, after giving himself gen- erously up to their mercy, was cons... ...d, and credit could supply. She chose that famous one in which the best of monarchs is represented in a frock-coat with a fur collar, and breeches and...

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...n air, the words from ‘Samson Agonistes,’ an autograph of the late revered monarch. We hear that that excellent composer has in store for us not only ... ...did. I do not know of what particular part of Ireland they were kings; but monarchs they must have been, as have been the ancestors of so many thousan...

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...n in her eclipse, Queens, gleaming through their splendour’s last decay, And Monarchs, surly at the wrongs sustain’d 565 By royal visages. Meanwhile, ... ...0 Through the wide city, and in progress passed The prison where the unhappy monarch lay, Associate with his children and his wife In bondage, and the...

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... I feel less than they? We were all inmates of one place, And I, the monarch of each race, Had power to kill—yet, strange to tell! In quie...

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...nth rate people that have always figured as its aristocracies — a company of monarchs and nobles who, as a rule, would have achieved only poverty and... ...ep the frogs quiet; if the freeman’s daughter — but no, that last infamy of monarchi cal government is unprintable; and finally, if the freeman, gro... ...e for rags — that is a loyalty of unreason, it is pure animal; it belongs to monarchy, was invented by monarchy; let mon archy keep it. I was from C... ... the abode of Morgan le Fay, sister of King Arthur, and wife of King Uriens. monarch of a realm about as big as the District of Columbia — you could ... ..., goblins, pathetic frights, every one; legitimatest pos sible children of Monarchy by the Grace of God and the Established Church. I muttered absen... ...ain 145 eloquent answer — this reverend crowd would like to know what that monarch was at, just as this moment. The fraud went through some more mum... ...tocracy, no doubt. Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man in a State has a vote... ...ourse poor material for a republic, because they had been debased so long by monarchy; and yet even they would have been intelligent enough to make sh... ...proven fact: that even the best governed and most free and most enlightened monarchy is still behind the best condition attainable by its people; an...

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...ecome historic, of Vicksburg and Grand Gulf,’ and visited an imposing Indian monarch in the Teche country, whose capital city was a substantial one of... ...pen dent nation, Louis XIV . and Louis XV . had rotted and died, the French monarchy had gone down in the red tempest of the revolution, and Napoleon... ...picker had offered to do a diplomatic service for the Emperor of Russia, the monarch could not have been more astounded than the mate was. He even sto... ...ld tell him. So here was the novelty of a king without a keeper, an absolute monarch who was absolute in sober truth and not by a fiction of words. I ... ...s its way through its former channel, plants in every direction the uprooted monarchs of the forest (upon whose branches the bird will never again per...

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... his determination by these successive favors, due, as he supposed, to the monarch’s remembrance, he was no longer satisfied with taking his family, a... ...gave warn- ing of a fresh storm, threatening to overwhelm the legiti- mate monarch and his defenders. Monsieur de Fontaine, like one of those generous... ...a servant in a torrent of rain; borrowed on his lands to follow the routed monarchy , without knowing whether this complicity in emi- gration would pr... ...te relations with the Sover- eign, that one day, as he came in, the shrewd monarch ad- dressed him thus: “My friend Fontaine, I shall take care never ... ...e favor with which he was honored, and knew how to 7 Balzac entertain the monarch in those familiar chats in which Louis XVIII. delighted as much as ... ...nd in tal- ent; but he had three daughters, and was afraid of wearying the monarch’s benevolence. It occurred to him to mention 8 The Ball at Sceaux ... ...oduced, under the form of a trinity. Nay, if report is to be believed, the monarch had found the point of the jest in the Unity of the three Divine Pe... ...quired by the advance of the nineteenth century, and the new aspect of the Monarchy. Louis XVIII. aimed at fusing parties as Napoleon had fused things...

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... flattered Maitre Cornelius; all of which was rarely done by Louis XI. The monarch pleased the Fleming as much as the Fleming pleased the monarch. Wil... ...ory has taken care to transmit to our knowledge the licentious tastes of a monarch who was not averse to de- bauchery. The old Fleming found, no doubt... ...ly contemplating his future master. Louis XI.’s silversmith resembled that monarch. He had even acquired the same gestures, as often happens where per... ... 39 Balzac revolutions has since introduced of change in the character of monarchy, Louis XI. had thought of and devised. Unity of taxation, equality... ...f a man of lofty aims. At no period in our history has the great figure of Monarchy been finer or more poetic. Amazing assemblages of contrasts! a gre... ... down by remorse, and by disease in the midst of the great poem of defiant monarchy in which all power was con- centrated. It was once more the gigant... ...rated; but no writer, no painter has represented the face of that terrible monarch in his last years,—a sickly, hollow, yellow and brown face, all the... ...in doubt as to the conduct they ought in future to hold to each other. The monarch possessed the secret of the Fleming; but on the other hand, the lat...

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... green and yellow athwart the darkling sky. Each upstart furnace, when its monarch sun had gone, crowned itself with flames, the dark cinder heaps beg... ... to go to and fro, it had to do so by exorbitant treaties with each of the monarchs whose territory was involved. No man could find foothold on the fa...

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...to defend him: while Cuff’s astonishment was scarcely less. Fancy our late monarch George III when he heard of the revolt of the North American coloni... ...s being over, she sang Te Deum. He was her Europe: her emperor: her allied monarchs and august prince regent. He was her sun and moon; and I believe s...