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truth is, that the stage after the Restoration reflects only too faithfully the manners and the sentiments of the only society which at that period could boast of anything like organisation. The press, which now enables public opinion to exercise so powerful a control over the manners of the times, had then scarcely a...
tie. His undertaking was to obtain material in Europe for an American “society-paper.” If it be objected to all this that when Francie Dosson at last came in she addressed him as if she easily placed him, the answer is that she had been notified by her father--and more punctually than was indicated by the manner of he...
York implied was the usual prelude to a German searching party--rather this soldier most courteously asked to see my wallet. I gave it to him. I would have given him anything. Our coöperation was perfect. There was no need for me to bring my exhaustive knowledge of the German language into play. Talking fluently with ...
eping willow confessed, aspired to be an "ornamental water," declined at last to ducks. And there was access to the church, and the key of the church tower, and one went across the corner of the lawn, and by a little iron gate into the churchyard to decipher inscriptions, as if the tombs of all Buryhamstreet were no mo...
-Johnes regarded his companion fixedly for a moment, then linked his arm in mine, drew me aside, and whispered hastily: "Don't take any notice of him; he'll be all right again in a minute. It's only a little revulsion of feeling which has overcome him. He's frightfully tender-hearted--far too much so for a sailor; he...
day? _B_. Yasodhara, a higher duty calls. The time will come, and it is close at hand, When I shall wander into homelessness. I'll leave this palace and its splendid gardens I'll leave the pleasures of this world behind To go in quest of Truth, of saving Truth. _YASODHARA sinks on her knees before him and clasps...
. 14. Larva of _Sirex_. 15. Egg of _Rhynchites_, showing the parasitic larva. 16. The parasitic larva, more magnified. 17. Egg of _Platygaster_. 18. Egg of _Platygaster_, showing the central cell. 19. Egg of _Platygaster_, after the division of the central cell. 20. Egg of _Platygaster_, more advan...
ers!” chattered Chip Jolliby. “Let ’im see ’ow ’ard ’e can ’it hit,” advised Billy Bradley, the English boy. “Dern my picter! I am right here behind ye!” piped Obediah Tubbs. “Put it into the pocket!” growled Buckhart, holding up his big mitt. “Put it right there, old man!” Having toed the slab, Arlington whistled ...
do, give him a little tweak. Repeat this as often as he tries to bite, and he will soon learn that if he sits still he is all right. Now feed him from the thick glove. In a surprisingly short time he will give up all idea of biting, and you can stroke him or pick him up with your hand, and carry him about in your pock...
His pristine shape, and manit-man become; There still he dwells, the all-pervading soul Of men and manittoos--yea, of creation’s whole. XXVI. “All that is good does from Cawtantowit flow; All that is evil Chepian doth supply; Praying for good we to Cawtantowit bow, And shunning evil we to Chepian...
," book 1, chap. 25._ Evidently Babylon was still "the land of graven images," and the desolation foretold by the prophet had not yet befallen its palaces. But that prophetic word, written eight hundred years before, was still upon the scroll of the Book, the sure Word of God, who sees the end from the beginning....
on and we won’t feel any of the rocks and roots and bumps that may be under us.” “It sounds fine all right,” laughed Grant. “We’d better get to work soon, too, for it’ll be dark before long.” “I should think Pop would be back by now, too,” said John. “You don’t suppose anything could have happened to him, do you?” ...
meant to tell her younger sister the real facts of the case. 'Mrs. Stacey has been here, and she told me that there were some other people coming to the Manor House. When I said we didn't want them, she said the Manor House was not ours, and that we should not be able to keep them out. When I asked her why, she said ...
home-sick and wanted to go back to it,--yet I never do. I wouldn't go back to it for the world,--not now. I'm not an American, so I can say, without any loss of the patriotic sense, that I loathe America. It is a country to be used for the making of wealth, but it is not a country to be loved. It might have been the m...
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery, In short, when I've a smattering of elementary strategy, You'll say a better Major-Gener_al_ has never _sat_ a gee-- For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury, Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century. But...
by which the image is formed upon the retina; (3) various optical defects of this mechanism; (4) the sensitiveness of the parts of the retina to light and color; (5) the structure of the retina; (6) the parts played by monocular and binocular vision; and (7) the various events which follow the formation of the image u...
ped the lad’s hand warmly. ’God bless you, Harry, you are a brave fellow. I am proud of you. Come to me to-morrow, and I will show you a new book a friend has sent me; or, better, walk back with me to the Vicarage.’ ’I would willingly, sir,’ said Harry quietly, ’but father bade me go to the meadow and see if White S...
CHIEF, _John Fiske_ 418 WE ARE GRATEFUL, LAFAYETTE! 420 SOME OF WASHINGTON’S HAIR, _T. R. Ybarra_ 421 WELCOME! FRIEND OF AMERICA! 422 SEPTEMBER 24 JOHN MARSHALL, THE EX...
the new building when we get it. We hope to get a Carnegie building, you know," Algernon went on calmly while Catherine caught her breath. "He always insists that the townspeople do their share." "The young people will use the library if we have good novels," Catherine put in helpfully, when Algernon's imagination sh...
has hitherto continually been improving; and that the progress of knowledge and the diffusion of Christianity will bring about at last, when men become Christians in reality as well as in name, something like that Utopian state of which philosophers have loved to dream--like that millennium in which saints as well as ...
Europe and Havana. Europe used to be a continent of kings—now it is only America’s corner saloon. We have never held any particular briefs for Squirrel whisky and other forms of 100 proof “hootch.” But even our former president, Woodrow—what was his name?—Wilson, is strong for wines and beers and we are willing to s...
that comes of spiritual energy, and all firmly concentrated in Yoga--these ascetics presented themselves before Rama in the asyhim of Sarabhanga. And coming before Rama, the foremost of those practising righteousness, those sages conversant with morality,--met in a body, said unto that pre-eminently virtuous one, "A mi...
of Oxford--the Isis and the Cherwell--are so much part of her meadow loveliness, that the one seems almost to include the others. Where the meadows are the fairest, there the rivers gleam and sparkle in the summer sun of memory. The Isis, stately stream, proud of the great oarsmen she has taught, and of historic boats...
have just been describing in that they appear filmy and transparent, whereas the others are solid and opaque. Again, the paths of the planets around the sun and of the satellites around their primaries are not actually circles; they are ovals, but their ovalness is not of a marked degree. The paths of comets on the ot...
claimed that it leaped to light suddenly perfect, like Minerva from Jupiter's skull, is "Sumer is icumen in," and almost as many authors have been found for it as there are historians. The bones of John of Fornsete (or another) have long since mouldered, and it need not disturb their dust to say that in all certainty ...
ridiculous to suppose that the exertions of any one person (however great his talents, his zeal, and his assiduity,) are sufficient to discharge the duties of so complicated an office. Such a supposition implies the expectation of a moral impossibility; and so long as such a Herculean task is allotted him, so long wil...
his toys about him, died absolutely neglected by his mother in his extremity, died without the slightest sane endeavor to save his life. And so it is everywhere in Christian Science families throughout the length and breadth of this land. Nothing but the employment of a fool-man or a fool-woman, called a Christian Sc...
é, Italian................................. 66 Vermouth Rickey.......................................... 98 Violet Fizz.............................................. 61 Wassail Bowl............................................ 109 West Indian Punch........................................ 96 Widow’s Kiss....................
thee go to sea; but stay at home and die on dry land. Why see how happy I am! and I'll be hong'd if measter within would'nt take thee with all love, to tend customers and draw the beer: ay, and 'twould be worth his while too, for thy song would bring custom, let me tell thee. As to being a play-actor, confound it, I h...
ation, we shall deserve your benedictions?" The same spirit appears in a letter found among some papers belonging to a lady of Philadelphia. It was addressed to a British officer in Boston, and written before the Declaration of Independence. The following extract will show its character: "I will tell you what I have ...
anything that belonged to a chief, for it was a matter of life and death, and even to allow your shadow to fall across the path of one of those mighty beings meant 'off with his head' or some similar order. I know what I shall do when I am queen of these islands; I shall _tabu_ Mother Hubbards. Look at that fat old mo...
. “In this way,” Wangenheim would say, “we keep our governing classes pure, unmixed of blood.” Like all of his social order, Wangenheim worshipped the Prussian military system; his splendid bearing showed that he had himself served in the army, and, in true German fashion, he regarded practically every situation in lif...
ial environment, in a church whose symbolism, teaching, and ordinances, were a coherent reflection of their own experiences, stood justified by their personal knowledge of the "law" of spiritual development, the conditions of advance in the way on which their feet were set. They owed much to tradition, to their theolo...
stuff and nonsense," was the monk's glose. "No doubt your notion is sensible," observed the pawnbroker: "but mine is the prettier." Then Jurgen passed the Cistercian Abbey, and was approaching Bellegarde, when he met a black gentleman, who saluted him and said: "Thanks, Jurgen, for your good word." "Who are you, a...
sure to build them exactly opposite each other, that is, cells are built on opposite sides of the comb. Yet these cells can be removed; but in separating them the knife must pass through the base of one of the cells; damage that is easily repaired by a little warm bee’s wax. With the above minor exceptions, the nucle...
her own wash; as she had soaked it the day before, she must go and rinse it now. So she arose and left the room. Her tub and her board were on the bank of the Toucques. She threw a heap of clothes on the ground, rolled up her sleeves and grasped her bat; and her loud pounding could be heard in the neighbouring garden...
shade, a piece of exquisite lace. He hardly knew how much his own clothes, quietly good, had cost him: Garth had been the best turned out boy in the neighbourhood. Their servants, well-paid and lightly-worked, had kept the household machinery moving silently on oiled wheels. There had seemed not one crumpled petal i...
in the way of her passionate will, and the world may soon see under its eyes the conflict of two republics founded on the same principles, but subjected to influences that produce repulsion as great as exists in two bodies charged with the same electricity. If ever the explosion come it will be tremendous in its resul...
ida suffered a sad and thoughtful look to fall upon this handsome young man who spoke to her in so gentle a voice, and withdrew without further reply, that she might not humiliate his poverty. The prince made great efforts to suppress a strong inclination towards laughter, and, very well satisfied with this opening, t...
and the family inhabiting the hut shown in the preceding picture 321 The immaculate staff of the Cerro de Pasco hospital 321 The semi-weekly lottery drawing in the main plaza of Lima ...
nodding her head, "it is a voice. It is a voice. A little teaching, yes; this Barrett woman who was once my pupil, she will be safe with her. Not too much; not too much singing. Finish your school, my little one. Then you shall come over to me for a year, yes? We shall see what we shall see!" She patted her cheek and ...
his conception of the imagination includes judgment, celerity, and innovation. All three functions are basic to the imaginative act. It is the last, however, which he most emphasizes; and it is apparent, I think, that one intention of his argument is to refute the assumption that the sublime is the principal object of...
the green slopes, the gulches, and fern-clad hills, which here and there sparkle with silvery streamlets. The gentle morning breeze blowing off the land brings us the dewy fragrance of the flowers, which has been distilled from a wilderness of tropical bloom during the night. The land forms a shelter for our vessel, a...
before.' "'No, for he has just returned from his travels,' she answered. 'He is a very distinguished and highly exemplary young man,--the founder of the St. Polycarpe Mission.' "'The deuce! And what is the St. Polycarpe Mission, my dear mother?' "'It is a society that strives to make the poor resigned to their mise...
neither dreamt of relieving her. Winifred began to feel a nervous necessity to laugh, which she could not control. She drew a chair near the fire for her sister-in-law, and put down the good-humoured baby, in whose contact there seemed something consolatory, though he was very heavy, on the rug. “I should like to give...
WHIFFEN, URIDGE, Pvt., Horton, Kansas. WILFONG, HAROLD W., Pvt., 212 N. Garfield St., Chanute, Kansas. WILSON, WILLIAM H., Pvt., 1547 Champus St., Denver, Colorado. WITTEK, JOHN F., Pvt., 5th and Thornton Sts., Kansas City, Kansas. WALROD, CARL, Pvt., 1022 New York St., Lawrence, Kansas. YOUNG, LLOYD M., Corp., I...
ST SECRET.—We shall have read the deepest secret of nature when we have read our own hearts. “THE object of education is the carrying out of God’s will for the individual; but the purpose of His will is hidden from us. The direction, only, in which we are to work is pointed out by the peculiar endowments of temper an...
ly noises, not only from students, but (and mostly) from other persons, who ought to blush for such base conduct, I cannot say, that I am unacquainted with the authors of the nuisance, and could easily designate to you at least half a dozen. Such cries as "Go on! Stop!--Out of the institution with that man!--Kill him!"...
probable that when Cave-in-Rock and the country about were covered with trees the place was damper than now, for the water then slowly seeped down from the tree-covered surface. Nevertheless, it was sufficiently dry to serve as a good shelter not only for outlaws, who frequently occupied it, but also for men and women...
a sufficient fortune to keep a carriage and live in good style, he declined what was always exceedingly irksome to his feelings. He was unoffending and amiable in his manners, to his friends and acquaintance, of whom he had latterly a large circle; and he was neither averse to a cheerful glass nor pleasant company. He...
from here on the top of the pointer--down to the concrete circular top of the sundial. Hundreds of feet down there, a vast, shining moonlit surface spread out now to the blurred horizon! Huge pits, gullies, ravines were inky black. On the jagged spires and little butte-tops the moonlight was molten silver. It was a we...
?" "As soon as I can arrange it. And you're coming with me when I get the summons to his headquarters, depend on that, Jack. Your part in this affair is just as important as mine." Tom put the cage with its cooing inmates in their room. Then he started out to try to get into communication with the commanding general....
orneo. It contains much matter of the highest scientific interest. R. A. Hadfield. See H. de B. Gibbins. R. N. Hall and W. G. Neal. THE ANCIENT RUINS OF RHODESIA. With numerous Illustrations. _Demy 8vo. 21s. net._ This book contains descriptions of two hundred ruins of temples and forts, and of their types and...
. This twig, which the members of the Society were enabled to examine, excited the most lively curiosity and won the commendation of M. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. It was raised from a plant which had been only eighteen months under cultivation." "In Porto Rico the plant reaches a greater height than in Peru. "A box fill...
uy and so swer, Þ't hir heuedis þei may not hold vp But hongen it in þ'e fendis cup." 3. Yet with regard to one class of questions, the tongue of the preacher was restrained. After touching the subject of confession and the frailty of some confessors, he adds in a significant way: "Of þis mater coud...
which he begs his friend Wegeler in a letter to send him from Bonn. We have hinted that Ludwig van Beethoven was not happy in his home. If every one is haunted by some skeleton, his was grim enough. Not many years after their marriage his wife Josepha had become addicted to drinking, and in fact her habits were such ...
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ropshire, and _vice versa_.” And the worst of it is, that to this day I do not know if he was joking or not, as he gave me a “pass.” The college could accommodate about two hundred students, most of whom boarded inside, though this was optional. The course was of three years for the degree of B.S.A.—Bachelor of the Sc...
loaded with books and papers. But I laboured on, perspiring freely. I thought that I could manage well enough to keep up with him for the distance we had to go. In a few minutes we began to come to patches of wet sand, where the feet sank at every step, and our progress was slower, though a good deal more difficult. W...
was proud; he held himself very much above the poor white, and he would not associate with the slave of the small farmer; and the poor white never doubted his own superiority to the Northern "mudsill"--as the phrase of the day was. The whole life was somehow pitched to a romantic key, and often there was a queer contr...
Revival Spiritual Songs _Folk-Song Collectors of Yore_ 10 _Features of American Folk-Tunes_ 12 Tonal Trends, Tune Families Metrical Patterns Scales, Modes Rufty’s Classification, Chart of Tunes _Tunes of Religious and Wor...
Mrs. Weatherbee may turn out to be 'the grand villain.' Let's hope she won't. Anyway, if things can't be adjusted, wherever you go to live I'll go, too. I won't stay at the Hall without you." "Thank you, Judy." Jane found Judith's hand and squeezed it hard. She had inwardly determined, however, that her roommate shoul...
ant people. He stepped forth awhile from his drunken bouts and manifold mean adulteries, and set himself at the head of the army in Flanders, and strutted it as conqueror. Poor Châteauroux only got the hate of the people for reward, Louis the honours; for the people resented the public dishonour of her state. Power she...
to punch the boy's head for calling him for nothing. "Can't you put back, and land us somewhere, or take us into smooth water?" implored the petitioner; "we'd subscribe for a reward for you, capting, sir." "Oh, yes, yes," echoed a faint chorus of voices; "any reward." "There's no danger whatever, I tell ye, ladies,"...
mists under the banks at some distance down the stream, the fort, the soldiers, the piece of drift--all had distracted him. And now he became conscious of a new disturbance. Striking through the thought of his dear ones was a sound which he could neither ignore nor understand, a sharp, distinct, metallic percussion lik...
me, my son. I shall feel as if we were all in the dear old Jerusalem itself, and my darling had gathered his palms on Olivet itself, and the very eyes of the blessed Lord Himself were on thee, and His ears listening to thee crying out thy Hosannas, and His dear voice speaking of thee and through thee, 'Suffer the litt...
. Metrical notation 374 528-535. Rhyme 374-377 536. Blank verse 377 537, 538. Last syllable indifferent 378 539, 540. Names of common English metres 379-384 PART VII. DIALECTS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. 541. Sa...
trial; but he was liberated on promising that he would no longer issue the work. Mr. Charles Bradlaugh and Mrs. Annie Besant thereupon undertook the task of defending the right of publication. They reprinted and published the pamphlet, formally inviting the authorities to prosecute them. "It was for the sake of free d...
. On his tomb in St. Philip's western graveyard, it is chiseled that "he was a person that on all occasions promoted the public good of this colony and several times generously and successfully ventured in defense of the same.... A kind husband, a tender father, a faithful friend, a charitable neighbour." QUAKER GRAV...
ghosts "seeking what they might devour," completed the novel and picturesque _ensemble_ of the scene. On the opposite side of the way was another of a different character, but not less interesting. Seated in a circle around their bread and cheese, were half a dozen as rough, rude, honest-looking countrymen from the b...
asked Fitzooth. "George of Gamewell has sent in for Robin, and I wish that you should journey with him, giving him such sage counsel as may fit him for a year's service in the great and worshipful company that he now may meet." "Come with us to-day, father," urged Mistress Fitzooth also. "I have brought a veal pasty ...
the Shoemaker, is considered as a just example of human science, no less than the knowledge which the geometer or the astronomer possesses of the theoretical truths with which he is conversant. Not only so; but traditionary and mythological tales, mystical imaginations and fantastical etymologies, are mixed up, as no ...
read or heard, but the Major[23] & his family slept soundly, for he had been through before consequently he heeded them not, nor did I say a word, but was glad when day broke; my fears were dispelled with the darkness. Seated outside the tent I was amused watching the indians shoot with their bows & arrows for 5 or 10...
the _Assultus_ are to be found in these two Lines: "Illas _ducit_ amor trans Gargara, transque sonantem Ascanium: superant _montes_, & flumina tranant. In these two Lines the Vowel _a_ is repeated fourteen times, and what an Effect this has upon the Ear, the Reader cannot but perceive. 2. Of the _Allusio Verbo...
North, for in that most blessed land every Jack has his Jill and found no difficulty in keeping her. No! it was never in this latitude. I went to two hotels before I could find a room. I should have registered at once instead of loitering at the station. In the first hotel they could eat me, but to sleep me was ou...
ly, when the church had the power, such a man was either hacked to pieces, or burned to cinders; to-day, even, he is persecuted as much as public opinion will permit. It is a matter of history that in the name of this Jewish-Christian volume, which people do not read and are but superficially acquainted with, nearly a ...
LA CURÉE lay side by side; eight substantial volumes of Gibbon's famous History were not perhaps inappropriately prolonged by a fine edition of the DECAMERON; the ORIGIN OF SPECIES rested by the side of a black-letter Bible; THE REPUBLIC maintained an equilibrium with VANITY FAIR and the HISTORY OF EUROPEAN MORALS. A...
who was in a position to know, the details of the savage tyranny which masqueraded under the forms of law, it is appended, with some condensation, to this article. After stating the fact "that everything about the German judicial organisation in Belgium is contrary to the principles of law," and after showing that Be...
by Kirkleavington, 610, Dam Belladonna, by Holyoke, 580,-- 2d dam Stella, by Fabius 2d, 487, 3d--Arabella 2d, by Fabius, 60, 4th--Arabella, by Agate 2, 5th--Dew Drop, by Charles, (878) 6th--Dulcibella, by Frederic, (1060) 7th--Delicia by Major, (2252), &c. =_{*}34 2...
rowning. "Oh well, I shouldn’t have said there was anything strange about them," Hartley said, "but they certainly were beautiful. There’s no denying that. The man with her looked rather Irish I thought." They came to the Etoile and cut across it towards the Avenue Hoche. Ste. Marie glanced back once more, but the ...
the sun touched it, blue where the shadows lay. The driver assured the young English lady, whom he much admired for her pluck as well as beauty, that she had far better return to the carriage; that indeed, she need not have left it. Her extra weight would be but as that of a feather to the horses, which were used to ...
Black Pigments and Paints--Oil Varnishes--Linseed Oil--Turpentine. IRON-CORROSION, ANTI-FOULING AND ANTI-CORROSIVE PAINTS. Translated from the German of LOUIS EDGAR ANDÉS. Sixty-two Illustrations. 275 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net. Contents. ...
of the century, the embodiment of all the force of that movement--a movement marked by very earnest piety and a somewhat unusual combination of emotionalism and asceticism. It was founded by a group of devoted men sprung from the upper-middle class; and chief among them was M. Olier, a man justly celebrated for his sa...
is always on the left as viewed. During the months this work has been in progress, many people and institutions have generously assisted in many ways. It is a pleasure to thank them for their help. Mr. Detmar Finke of the Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army, reviewed the Regular Army port...
more especially of young men of the Apollo variety, though in a strictly proper, platonic and critical sense. Indeed, her taste in the abstract, for animated Praxiteles had, for well-nigh two-score of years, been unimpeachable. At the big gatherings in her noble country mansion, there was always a liberal sprinkling o...
6 gives a general idea of the toy base. DOWEL STICKS. Dowel sticks are very useful to the toy maker and an assortment of various sizes should be kept on hand. They are very handy in many ways in toy making and furniture construction. They come in sizes from 1/4" to 1" in diameter or larger, in 30" lengths, and c...
moors—half a mile away perhaps, or a little more. He sat the child down, for the cottages were close by. "Run home, sonny. I'm going to have a look at the soldier, too." The first bad squall broke on the headland just as Taffy started to run. It was as if a bag of water had burst right overhead, and within quarter of...
hot and stary through the mist in Clinton's eyes, but its saucy, knowing look put him out, for it seemed to have too much information for a well-balanced sun. Presently he came to a fresh bit of grass, by such a lordly old tree; so he threw himself down, all breathless and rosier than ever, and folding his inky finge...
Whatever ye do, my gude maister, Take God your Guide to be.’" —OLD BALLAD. While Earl Edmund was governing across the sea, his little son Roger grew in health and stature under the loving care of his grandmother at Wigmore. The Earls of March had many castles and seats, but Wigmore Castle was the famil...
last hour you have not spoken one word, but taken off the lid of that kettle and put it on again, holding now a cup and now a silver spoon over the steam, watching how it rises from the spout, and catching and connecting the drops of hot water it falls into. Are you not ashamed of spending your tim...
would not avail anything to remain; it would not avail anything even to die; nothing could avail anything at once, but in the end, his going would avail most. He must go; it would break the child's heart to face his shame, and she must face it. He did not think of his eldest daughter, except to think that the impendin...
.[9] Of course there was no maximum limit of age. In 1638, at Valladolid, María Díaz, a hundred years old, was thrown into the secret prison for Judaism and her trial went forward.[10] Responsibility to the Inquisition varied with the grade of heresy, which was carefully classified by the theologians. Material heresy ...
--the men cheering and shouting, shaking each other by the hand, placing their hats on their bayonets, and waving them in answer to the wild applause of the women on the housetops. Some, however, were not content at being called back, instead of being allowed to complete what they considered their partial victory; forg...
all goes to prove what a dangerous thing impulse can be. And yet as I looked at his simple face, and reflected on what safe areas of normally-hidden epidermis he possessed for such pictorial ebullition, I found myself envying such a lack of self-protectiveness; and I asked myself if, after all, those who will have not...
, for if he is pale, it is not from having drunk wine, but for want of drinking enough, from which cause he is so loosened that if he is not stopped his very soul will escape by streams into his shoes." "The poor we have always with us," said the provost, taking a deep draught of wine from his tankard. "But tell me, m...
posterity feels at ev'ry weather. MIDDLETON. * * * * * PARENTS. From damned deeds abstain, From lawless riots and from pleasure's vain; If not regarding of thy own degree, Yet in behalf of thy posterity. For we are docible to imitate. Depraved pleasures though d...
when his daughter was married to Esau, who was so much more like a son of Ishmael himself than of the amiable husband of Rebekah. She, by the way, had herself been fetched in an equally unlettered transaction. It would of course be impossible, and might be regarded as improper, to devote much space here to the sacred ...
the passageway; but his man James, who had been formally introduced to their servants, insisted upon telling him all about them. They were, James said, the Duchess of Windthorst and her daughter, the Princess Wilhelmina, who were returning from Canada, where they had been visiting the Duke of Connaught at Toronto. Bu...
you are an artist, are you not, Mr. Hartington," Miss Treadwyn said, looking at the sketch which had already made considerable progress. "Unfortunately, no; I have a taste for art, but that is all. I should be better off if I had not, for then I should be contented with doing things like this; as it is I am in a perp...
seen some of his paintings, together with those of Millais and Holman Hunt and Madox Brown. In all these things Morris found the conception of life that he had already made his own, in beautiful and more or less complete expression. Twelve numbers of the magazine appeared, financed by Morris. Its aim was the expres...