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... the Latin — that is, ‘the Lord’s prayer,’ And Greek—the alphabet — I ‘m nearly sure; She read some French romances here and there, Although... ...h a one ‘T were better to have two of five and twenty, Especially in countries near the sun: And now I think on ‘t, ‘mi vien in mente,’ ... ... ‘T were better to have two of five and twenty, Especially in countries near the sun: And now I think on ‘t, ‘mi vien in mente,’ Ladies eve... ..., that I must think, on this occasion, She had some other motive much more near For leaving Juan to this new temptation; But what that motive ... ...g. He had an only daughter, call’d Haidee, The greatest heiress of the Eastern Isles; Besides, so very beautiful was she, Her dowry was as... ...ir betters. These Oriental writings on the wall, Quite common in those countries, are a kind Of monitors adapted to recall, Like skulls at... ...resent, and abused the past, Reversing the good custom of old days, An Eastern anti jacobin at last He turn’d, preferring pudding to no prai... ...d now and then, with tough strings of the bow, As is the custom of those Eastern climes, To give some rebel Pacha a cravat; For mutes are gene... ...on?— but we will Continue. As I said, this goodly row Of ladies of all countries at the will Of one good man, with stately march and slow, ...

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...arrest of material progress, the killing of a large moiety of the males in nearly every European country, and universal loss and unhappiness?” We are ... ... establishing a world peace is that it is nobody’s business in particular. Nearly all of us want a world peace—in an amateurish sort of way. But there... ...n when universal peace is attained; presumably they would lose their jobs. Nearly everybody wants peace; nearly everybody would be glad to wave a whit... ...hat does not destroy in these “possessions” the national preference of the countries that own them and 10 What Is Coming? that does not prepare for t... ...tainly, however, thousands of intelligent people in those great Eu- ropean countries who believe themselves ardent for a world peace will be staggered... ...“possessions” are like tar- iffs, like the strategic occupation of neutral countries or se- cret treaties; they are forms of the conflict between nati... ...thened line of supplies, and Bloch is back upon his pedestal so far as the Eastern theatre goes. Bloch has been equally justified in the Anglo-French ... ... last hope of some breach among the Allies, some saving miracle in the old Eastern Empire, some dramatically-snatched victory at the eleventh hour, is... ... remarkably from both sides, to journalists and neu- tral go-betweens. The Eastern and Western Allies will prob- ably begin quite soon to discuss an a...

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...he beach of darkness brims, And the ship of sunrise burning Strands upon the eastern rims. 4 A Shropshire Lad Wake: the vaulted shadow shatters, 5 Tr... ...0 Hark, the empty highways crying ‘Who ’ll beyond the hills away?’ Towns and countries woo together, Forelands beacon, belfries call; Never lad that t... ...hey sound so clear; Round both the shires they ring them In steeples far and near, A happy noise to hear. 5 A. E. HOUSMAN 17 Here of a Sunday morning... ...steady drummer Drumming like a noise in dreams. 28 A Shropshire Lad Far and near and low and louder 5 On the roads of earth go by, Dear to friends an... ...led dream beside. There, on thoughts that once were mine, Day looks down the eastern steep, And the youth at morning shine 15 Makes the vow he will no... ...w fair And left my necktie God knows where, 30 And carried half way home, or near, Pints and quarts of Ludlow beer: A. E. HOUSMAN 51 Then the world s...

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... came to pass, that there was seen by the people of Renfusa (a city upon the eastern coast of our island, within sight, the night was cloudy and calm)... ... The New Atlantis – Bacon 11 themselves into a number of small boats to go nearer to this marvellous sight. But when the boats were come within abou... ...go no further, yet so as they might move to go about, but might not approach nearer; so as the boats stood all as in a theatre, beholding this light, ... ... boat to be softly and with silence rowed toward the pillar; but ere he came near it, the pillar and cross of light broke up, and cast itself abroad, ... ...– Bacon 14 air into all parts, to bring them news and intelligence of other countries. It was answered by us all, in all possible humbleness, but yet... ...ns before named. And (as it cometh to pass) they had many times men of other countries, that were no sailors, that came with them; as Persians, Chalde... ...tle subject to earthquakes, but by a particular deluge, or inundation; those countries hav ing at this day far greater rivers, and far higher moun t...

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...e frost, which began in December, still continu- ing very severe even till near the end of February, attended with sharp though moderate winds, the bi... ... in the parish of St Mary Woolchurch, that is to say , in Bearbinder Lane, near Stocks Market; in all there were nine of the plague and six. of the sp... ...nchman who died in Bearbinder Lane was one who, having lived in Long Acre, near the infected houses, had re- moved for fear of the distemper, not know... ...ses with ser- vants, who, it was apparent, were returning or sent from the countries to fetch more people; besides innumerable numbers of men on horse... ...mber of people were surprised there who would otherwise have been in other countries – so the plague entered London when an incredible increase of peo... ...n our side, because, as I said be- fore, the plague did not reach to these eastern parts of the town at least, nor begin to be very violent, till the ... ...ne of them had been a soldier in the late wars, and before that in the Low Countries, and having been bred to no par- ticular employment but his arms,... ...erable city. This was at that time when the plague was fully come into the eastern par- ishes. The parish of Aldgate, if I may give my opinion, buried... ...ame kind. But as I am now talking of the time when the plague raged at the easternmost part of the town – how for a long time the people of those part...

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...w and prbaa things. He did his best to console himself, to imagine matters near the turn of the tide. “You’d hardly think it could keep on,” he said. ... ...s out of short frocks. He was lost for a whole day before he was five, and nearly drowned in the reservoir of the new water-works before he was seven.... ...ere seemed no possible trusting to them. The breeze upset them, the eddies near the 11 H G Wells ground upset them, a passing thought in the mind of ... ...d patriotic cries, and then flew up very swiftly and easily into the south-eastern sky, rising and falling with long, easy undulations in an ex- traor... ...univiorsal service in a defensive militia. Next came the great alliance of Eastern Asia, a close-knit coalescence of China and Japan, advancing with r... ...ever the twain shall meet. Instead of which, Egypt, India, and the subject countries generally had produced new generations in a state of pas- sionate... ...the new type. They had been built solely for reconnoitring purposes on the eastern fron- tier, they were mostly too small to carry more than a couple,... ...the whole world was at war, that he formed any image at all of the crowded countries south of these Arctic solitudes stricken with terror and dismay a... ...n across France, Belgium, Germany, England, Ireland, and a number of other countries. It was an interesting thought and suitable for conversation, but...

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...tter; but to one who lives upon its sides, Mount Saint Helena soon becomes a centre of interest. It is the Mont Blanc of one section of the California... ...t I know, the white head of Shasta looking down on Oregon. Three counties, Napa County, Lake County, and Sonoma County, march across its cliffy should... ...e grass; there were few trees and few enclosures; the sun shone wide over open uplands, the displumed hills stood clear against the sky. But by-and-by... ..., on what we are accustomed to consider the very skirts of civiliza- tion, I should have used the telephone for the first time in my civilized career.... ...ave myself met and spoken with a Fifeshire German, whose combination of abominable accents struck me dumb. But, indeed, I think 13 ... ...man to cook for them, and who waved their hands to us as we drove by. CHAPTER IV – THE SCOT ABROAD few pages back, I wrote that a man belonged, in t... ...r us on purpose. He took me to his back door, whence, as from every point of Calistoga, Mount Saint Helena could be seen towering in the air. There, i... ...teeth from the first, and for all the windings of the road it managed to keep clear in our teeth until the end. For some two miles we rattled through ... ...the east. There it was soon lost; for it fell instantly into the bottom of the valleys, following the water-shed; and the hilltops in that quarter wer...

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...harges, was the finest of the public edifices we saw; it was not, however, nearly so much fre- quented as another little church, crowded with altars a... ...one, by Caravaggio, of a knight in gilt armour, hangs in the dining- room, near a full-length of poor Louis XVI. , in Royal robes, the very picture of... ...s by the very first opportunity—those who remained, that is, of the little Eastern Expedition. They were not all there. The Giver of life and death ha... ...her summons the anxious spirit from earth to himself, and ordains that the near- est and dearest shall meet here no more. Such an occurrence as a deat... ...as extinct, so that I should not be baulked of the pleasure of entering an Eastern town by an introduction to any garbled or incomplete specimen of on... ...to any garbled or incomplete specimen of one. Smyrna seems to me the most Eastern of all I have seen; as Calais will probably remain to the Englishma... ...t occasionally, can we reasonably be angry?But in travelling through these countries, English people, who don’t take into consideration the miserable ... ...musement now as when first they tried it. Is there no ennui in the Eastern countries, and are blue- devils not allowed to go abroad there? From the ba...

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...ey urged, therefore, that, with- out direct allusion to the manners of the Eastern tribes, and to the romantic conflicts of the period, the title of a... ...did I labour under the incapacity of ignorance—in which, as far as regards Eastern manners, I was as thickly wrapped as an Egyptian in his fog—but my ... ...s, as well as he of Hadji Baba, had described the manners and vices of the Eastern nations, not only with fidelity, but with the humour of Le Sage and... ...ion alone, into the ancient doctrines, history, and manners of the Eastern countries, in which we are probably to look for the cradle of mankind; Moor... ...ced in the swollen and dis- torted features the resemblance of a friend or near relation, and received from the fatal scroll which accompanied each di... ...whom his turban, long spear, and green caftan floating in the wind, on his nearer approach showed to be a Saracen cavalier. “In the desert,” saith an ... ...The person and proportions of the Saracen, in short, stretched on the turf near to his powerful antagonist, might have been compared to his sheeny and... ...ts had gone about, consid- 271 Sir Walter Scott ered the natives of other countries jealous of the fame of England and her King, and disposed to unde... ... your maxims in Frangistan,” replied the Soldan. “Our poets of the Eastern countries say that a val- iant camel-driver is worthy to kiss the lip of a ...

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...ion flowering away at home, feeding rankly on rumour; Opinion in neu- tral countries; Opinion getting into great tangles of misun- derstanding and inc... ... in their task. The aim of the national intelligence in each of the allied countries is not to exalt one’s own nation and confuse and divide the enemy... ...its dreams at times become such nightmares as this war. But the time draws near when mankind will awake and the dreams will fade away, and then there ... ...of the birds to gunfire and desola- tion. One day on the Carso he had been near the newly captured Austrian trenches, and suddenly from amidst a scat-... ...poke as if these were mere chance observations, but everyone tells me that nearly every day the king is at the front and often under fire. He has take... ... able from this position to get a very good idea of the lie of the Italian eastern front. I was in the delta of the Isonzo. Directly in front of me we... ...ery complicated appliances and mu- nitions now needed for its prosecution. Countries like Mexico, Bulgaria, Serbia, Afghanistan or Abyssinia are no 7... ...ent of boundaries preceding this war the boundary between Serbia and north-eastern Al- bania was drawn with an extraordinary disregard of the el- emen...

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...e either departure for a hunt or the return from it; and two women sitting near were looking at him as though beset by a terror they could ill-conceal... ...l had just raised its head and was snuffing the air, first down the avenue nearly a mile long which stretched before them, and then up the cross road ... ...ich public thought traversed between events which now seem to have been so near to- gether. The strong need of peace and tranquillity which ev- ery on... ...nd beneath which they con- ceal their emotions and schemes, as savages and Easterns hide theirs behind an imperturbable gravity. First a mere laborer,... ...oath and return to this quiet life, instead of living miserably in foreign countries. Laurence scouted the odious compromise and stood firmly for the ... ...loreal, year X., which amnestied all the emigres who were still in foreign countries on condition that they returned home before the 1st Vendemiaire o...

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...der has come to fall in the year 1751, how the T orran rocks have crept so near to Earraid, or why the printed trial is silent as to all that touches ... ...ter evening school-room when the tasks are over and the hour for bed draws near; and honest Alan, who was a grim old fire-eater in his day has in this... ...ywhere else. My father and mother, since they are both dead, I shall be no nearer to in Essendean than in the Kingdom of Hungary, and, to speak truth,... ... part of the time, would sometimes unbuckle a bit, and tell me of the fine countries he had visited. The shadow of poor Ransome, to be sure, lay on al... ...again in the next country, which they call Mamore, and which is one of the countries of the Camerons. He’s King’s Factor upon both, and from both he h... ...take another keek at the red-coats,” says Alan, and he led me to the north-eastern fringe of the wood. Looking out between the trees, we could see a g... ...o the waste, and began to make our toilsome and devious travel towards the eastern verge. There were the tops of mountains all round (you are to remem... ...ng hares,” said he. “Do ye see yon mountain?” pointing to one on the north-eastern sky. “Ay,” said I. “Well, then,” says he, “let us strike for that. ... ...lan gave way at last, but with only half a heart. “It’s one of the dowiest countries in Scotland,” said he. “There’s naething there that I ken, but he...

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...ty of their newspapers the intelligence of vari- ous native risings in the Eastern Archipelago. Sun- shine gleams between the lines of those short par... ... They said, “Even when he eats and sleeps there is always one on the watch near him who has strength and weapons.” There was indeed always one near hi... ...ouch apart from the others, he leaned on his elbow with inclined head; and near him a youth improvised in a high tone a song that cel- ebrated his val... ...behind his back in a smooth sheet of livid light. The roll of thunder came near, crashed over us; the schooner trembled, and the great voice went on, ... ...t prau. She was beautiful, she was faithful, and in the silence of foreign countries she spoke to me very low in the language of my people. No one saw... ...olden light shot up into the heavens and spread over the semicircle of the eastern horizon. The sun had risen. The mist lifted, broke into drifting pa...

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...ime the railway was open, as far as I remem- 6 George Walker at Suez ber, nearly half the way from Cairo to Suez. It did not run four or five times a... ... to Suez. It did not run four or five times a day, as railways do in other countries, but four or five times a month. In fact, it only carried passeng... ... passengers on the arrival of these flocks passing between England and her Eastern possessions. There were trains passing backwards and forwards const... ... the apartment. This was a stout, portly man, dressed from head to foot in Eastern costume of the brightest colours. He wore, not only the red fez cap... ... perceived by my watch that it was seven o’clock. The noise, too, had come nearer and nearer, and I was now aware that wheels had been drawn up before... ...hing to me a man dressed at any rate like an English gentleman. As he came near to me, he raised his hat, and accosted me in our own language. “Mr. Ge...

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...same welcome and the same joys expect them beyond the next cape, where the nearest village nestles in its grove of palms. To the visitors it is all go... ...REIGN T HE HUGE MAJORITY of Samoans, like other God-fear ing folk in other countries, are perfectly content with their own manners. And upon one condi... ...n lies drawn out in strings and clusters. The western horn is Mulinuu, the eastern, Matautu; and from one to the other of these extremes, I ask the re... ...d and occu- pied by Englishmen. A little farther, and the reader gains the eastern flanking angle of the bay, where stands the pilot- house and signal... ...temper. Every one tells everything he knows; that is our country sickness. Nearly every one has been betrayed at times, and told a trifle more; the wa... ...e vivid tint of green on the dark vest of forest. The total area in use is near ten thousand acres. Hedges of fragrant lime enclose, broad avenues int... ...s’ duration, during which the seat of the history was transferred to other countries and escapes my purview. Here on the spot, I select three incident... ... in the German consulate were highly ulcerated; and if war between the two countries did not follow, we must set down the praise to the forbearance of... ...still included; Knappe offered (if the others liked) to include “the whole eastern end of the island,” but quite fixed upon the one point that Mulinuu...

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...ese pages may never have existed on that water or anywhere else, others so nearly resembling them are known to have navigated that 4 The Pathfinder i... ...rior tree to struggle upward toward the light, and to lift its modest head nearly to a level with the surrounding surface of verdure. Of this class we... ...t reared by art on a plain of leaves. It was the vastness of the view, the nearly unbroken surface of verdure, that contained the principle of grandeu... ...e, were turned toward reaching the western shore, the foe being all on the eastern side of the river; but the exploit surpassed human power, and to at... ...his hand. A small wreath of smoke floated out from among the bushes of the eastern shore, and was soon absorbed by the atmosphere. “That is the Sarpen... ...e of the river. The rift was at a bend in the Oswego, and the sweep of the eastern shore formed a curve so wide that Chingachgook was quite near to hi... ... the whole of that vast region which has been called the W est, or the new countries since the war of the revolution, lay a comparatively unpeoped des...

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.................................................................... 361 WEST-EASTERN DIVAN. ............................................................... ...me stem, and so strongly resembling her sister in so many points, they are nearly unknown. Almost the only po- etical work of the greatest Poet that t... ...hen Winter comes again, Of that sweet dream I sing. My song sounds far and near, O’er ice it echoes clear, Then Winter blossoms bright; And when his b... ... and leave us to wander! Wand’ring to love is a heavenly dance. Cupid, the near one, o’erhears their deriding, V engeance takes suddenly, vengeance ta... ...ys untimely ended? Lily, I fly from thee! I still am doom’d to range Thro’ countries strange, Thro’ distant vales and woods, link’d on to thee! Ah, Li... ... The Foolish Pilgrim.] WHENCE comes our friend so hastily, When scarce the Eastern sky is grey? Hath he just ceased, though cold it be, In yonder holy... ...ple Bears his regal flood on high! And in triumph onward rolling, Names to countries gives he,—cities Spring to light beneath his foot. Ever, ever, on... ...keep what in peace he possesses, No one, how long he is doom’ d in foreign countries to wander, 399 Goethe While he’s deprived of the field and the g... ... prospect of peace we should all be rejoicing.” 1796 – 7. 421 Goethe WEST-EASTERN DIVAN. Who the song would understand, Needs must seek the song’s ow...

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...? No, they must have seen the glory, they must have had the vision, but so near that it has blinded them. The splendour has blinded them, mercifully, ... ...ds, and the earth was swelling and swelling, and all the boundaries of the countries were bursting, and the Royal Geographical Society was all at work... ...rm of three acres. He found the place he seemed in need of at Hickleybrow, near Urshot, in Kent. It was a little queer isolated place, in a dell surro... ... know if the Feeding to be continued as directed. Food you mixed is pretty near all gone, and do not like to mix any more myself on account of the acc... ...VIII VIII VIII VIII VIII When the unfortunate Skinner got out of the South-Eastern train at Urshot that evening it was already nearly dusk. The train ... ...ng not to know anything or to have any authority, in the way dear to South-Eastern officials when they catch you in a hurry. “Pity they can’t shoot al... ... about in her carriage, mother, and travels off to those beautiful foreign countries you and I mustn’t see, mother?” “She’s a lady,” said Mrs. Caddles... ...s fight to keep out greatness became abundant and incessant. In that south-eastern region of London at that time, and all about where Cossar and his c...

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... a question a great number of people would like to echo very heartily. The nearer the Allies can come to a League of Free Nations before the Peace Con... ...Italy and France for the supply of metallurgical coal after the war? Those countries must have it somehow. Across the board Germany can make some temp... ... irritated, suspicious, and extremist, with anything but dread. The Allied countries must go into the conference solid, and they can only hope to do t... ... ignorant of these things. A day will come when the Foreign Offices of all countries will have to recognize that what the people do not know of intern... ...es in the past to set up international admin- istrations in Africa and the Near East. And these gentlemen think at once of some new Congo administrati... ... the wide treatment of these problems is now. Finally, the time is drawing near when the Egyptian and the nations of India will ask us, “Are things go... ... answer to it lies the reason why so many men were killed yesterday on the eastern and western front, so many ships sunk, so much prop- erty destroyed... ... republics, Polish, Hungarian, Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian, and the like, in Eastern Europe, grouped together if possible into congenial groups—crowned ...

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...hall confer on all mankind, to the last generation, by discovering a passage near the pole to those countries, to reach which at present so many month... ...ind, to the last generation, by discovering a passage near the pole to those countries, to reach which at present so many months are requisite; or by ... ...tic, my dear sister, but I bitterly feel the want of a friend. I have no one near me, gentle yet courageous, possessed of a cultivated as well as of a... ...thers is committed to my care. I cannot describe to you my sensations on the near pros pect of my undertaking. It is impossible to communicate to you... ...tive country. We possessed a house in Geneva, and a campagne on Belrive, the eastern shore of the lake, at the distance of rather more than a league ... ... work, he said, because the declamatory style was framed in imitation of the Eastern authors. Through this work I obtained a cursory knowledge of his... ...n omitted; I had learned from these the relative situations of the different countries of the earth. You had mentioned Geneva as the name of your nati... ...to the lake, and we approached the amphitheatre of mountains which forms its eastern boundary. The spire of Evian shone under the woods that surrounde... ...d have endured all the hard ships which travellers in deserts and barbarous countries are wont to meet. How I have lived I hardly know; many times ha...