...they are as much at log- gerheads as pope and duke. Serfs, beggars, greed, knights, fools—pathos. At Vaprio, I sometimes ate with a farmer and his wi... ...while playing chess, I imagine there are no pawns; I imagine there are no knights; the good bishop has vanished; the castle has gone; there is no st... ...ree hundred guests, I hear: Germans, Dutch, Austrian, Swiss, two or three British, a Greek potentate; the majority will be Parisians and the château ... ...multaneously. We used to play chess, many of us, pawns, varlets, kings, knights, evenings, one play bastinadoed on another, Caesar against Titus, ... ...om Italy, I be- lieve; also a red handkerchief and books. Mary gave him a British belt buckle with lion and unicorn, a set of brushes and tubes of p... ...ok of poetry. On my last visit I bought Pope’s Essay on Man. I noticed a British copy bound in morocco. At the Potomac I have acquired some Emerson... ... The White House April 14, 1865 —rain— Mary invited Laura Keene, the British actress, to tea. She is in her forties— rather pretty. Dressed in d... ...nced in she made over him. He took to her, laughing hilari- ously over her British accent as she asked him to solve a riddle. “Say it again, pretty l...

... having been during the course of his life pretty generally engaged in the British service, he had a tolerably fair claim to the majestic title of Bri... ...least, we will have nothing that shall be mistaken for virtues. And if the British public (after calling for three or four editions) shall give up, no... ...y with the Whigs; and this Enlistment Act, which, in order to maintain the British glories in Flanders, dealt most cruelly with the British people in ... ... it was all done in a minute: and the Ensign and I found ourselves regular knights of the road, before we knew where we were almost. Only think of our... ...atisfaction. It will be necessary to explain the reason of it. We gave the British public to understand that the landlady of the “Three Rooks,” at Wor... ...existence, by a disease which has exercised considerable ravages among the British youth. By consulting the authority above mentioned, we find that Ha...