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...“I can’t sleep.” Isbister stopped abruptly. “No?” was all he said, but his bearing conveyed his helpful impulse. “It may sound incredible,” said the s... ..., it goes—spin—” He stumbled at the doorstep and entered the room with the bearing of one who sees nothing. Then he sat down abruptly and heavily in t... ...the face that had been pink and white was buff and ruddy. He had a pointed beard shot with grey. He talked to an elderly man who wore a summer suit of... ...tioner by the city specialist, had robbed the village of its last touch of culture. After telephone, kinemato- graph and phonograph had replaced newsp... ...babble of innumerable voices and of a music that de- scended from above, a gay and exhilarating music whose source he never discovered. The central ai... ...the illiterate class, the class, that is, beyond the reach of phono- graph culture, in their common-place intercourse. Every- where this trouble of di... ...ith gorgeous pillars as it seemed of clear amethyst, flowed a concourse of gay people and a tumult of merry cries and laughter. He saw curled heads, w... ...ing. “Stop all work. Stop all work,” and a swarthy hunchback, ridiculously gay in green and gold, came leaping down the platforms toward him, bawl- in...

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...KS, 1730.................................................... 159 XI. ON MR GAY, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, 1732. ............................................. ...evenge. His own friends, on the other hand, hailed his work with applause,—Gay writing a most graceful and el- egant poem, in ottava rima, entitled, “... ...r some time with Pope. Bolingbroke came over occasionally from Dawley; and Gay was often there to laugh with, and be laughed at by, the rest. Swift ha... ...d unhappiness sprung from his own fault. He attacked others, and could not bear to be attacked in return. He was a bully and a coward. He threw himsel... ...s, say, in what glad soil appears, A wondrous tree 6 that sacred monarchs bears? Tell me but this, and I’ll disclaim the prize, And give the conquest... ...ore I shun, &c. VER. 79, 80— Your praise the tuneful birds to heaven shall bear, And listening wolves grow milder as they hear. 44 The Poetical Works... ...? Where grows?—where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil: Fix’d to no spot is happiness sincere, Tis nowhere t...

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...ing one beyond the other, and remind- ing him of the hundred rooms in Blue Beard’s castle, or the countless halls in some palace of the Arabian Nights... ...ereal duskiness; and all evolving, as their moral, a grim identity between gay things and sorrowful ones. Only give them a little time, and they turn ... ... similar direction, and soon began to trace through the vicissitudes,—once gay, now sombre,—in which the old artist had involved it, the same individu... ...ry or record, there had ever and anon been a descendant of the Monte Benis bearing nearly all the characteristics that were attributed to the original... ...okens of a nearer kindred to the great family of nature than other mortals bear; but it would be idle to ask credit for a statement which might be dee... ... egar. Yet all these vineyard scenes, and the processes connected with the culture of the grape, had a flavor of poetry about them. The toil that prod... ...rs of ripening grapes in the interval between. Under such careless mode of culture, the luxuriant vine is a lovelier spectacle than where it produces ... ...else have been slower in its progress. Then, no doubt, the bright day, the gay spectacle of the market place, and the sympa- thetic exhilaration of so... ...answered Hilda. “But what have I done that a girl of New England birth and culture, with the right sense that her mother taught her, and the conscienc...

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...prised at them.’ ‘I hope I know, Louisa,’ said Mr Dombey, stiffly, ‘how to bear myself before the world.’ ‘Nobody better, my dear Paul. Nobody half so... ...ll-intentioned scheme, and in the address with which she had brought it to bear: whereof she made a full disclosure to Spitfire when she was once more... ...arlour than the boy’s inclination does after all. And the parlour couldn’t bear straighter either. Due north. Not the twentieth part of a point either... ... Dombey—the other Carker; the Junior -Halloa! Mr Carker!’ ‘Is that W alter Gay?’ said the other, stopping and returning. ‘I couldn’t believe it, with ... ...urther steps are necessary . This boy who brings the information, is young Gay, from the office. How was my daughter found, Sir? I know how she was lo... ...y, and return immediately with this young man to fetch Miss Florence home. Gay, you will be rewarded to-morrow. ‘Oh! thank you, Sir,’ said Walter. ‘Yo... ...t chief more and more. While they were thus engaged; and under the skilful culture of the Manager, angry thoughts in reference to poor Florence broode... ...d not, however, in his musings, neglect his own improvement, or the mental culture of Rob the Grinder. That young man was generally required to read o...

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... dilemma the rev- erend agitators devised a second scheme. It was a scheme bearing triple harvests; for, at one and the same time, it fur- nished the ... ..., by a mere necessity, carry them incalculably beyond it. For if every act bearing in any one direction a spiritual aspect, showing at any angle a rel... ...omes forward at all), compels us to regard it in that light. Apparently it bears the same relation to the patron’s act as the Address of the two House... ...ies or intellectual part of religion, a very diminished fervor attends the culture of its moral and practical part. This was perhaps one reason; for t... ...n the barbaresque taste, to support themselves under the frown of European culture. VIII. The first rude sketch of the Hebrew SANDAL may be traced in ... ...my, austere, and nearer to the incunabula mundi, than those which bred the gay and sunny superstitions of Greece,) that much curiosity and speculation... ... and few histories are written except in the simplest condition of hu- man culture, which do not in part assume its functions, or which are content to... ... from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim, Gallant and gay in Cliveden’s proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love;... ...ely would not come into the harness of hexameter verse, he has extracted a gay, laugh- ing alias (viz., ‘versu quod dicere non est’); a pleasantry whi...

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...the ignorance in which the weather-beaten sign left him as to the heraldic bearings of that ancient family, the Donnithornes. Mr. Casson, the landlord... ...iption. On a front view it appeared to consist principally of two spheres, bearing about the same relation to each other as the earth and the moon: th... ...nse of personal dignity which usually made itself felt in his attitude and bearing. This sense of dignity could hardly be considered excessive in a ma... ...rough men and weary-hearted women drank in a faith which was a rudimentary culture, which linked their thoughts with the past, lifted their imaginatio... ...He saw her all the more vividly after looking at the thoughtless faces and gay-coloured dresses of the young women—just as one feels the beauty and th...

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...eard Henrietta Watkin’s voice. “His mother was my greatest friend. I can’t bear to think that she’s dead.” 8 Of Human Bondage “You oughtn’t to have g... ...as nine years old. How could he be expected to remember her? She could not bear to think that he would grow up and forget, forget her utterly; and she... ...neath her, and then the soles of her feet tingled so that she could hardly bear to put them to the ground. But she went on. She was unused to doing he... ... clerical attire during the holidays and had been seen in Swit- zerland in gay tweeds. He liked a bottle of wine and a good dinner , and having once b... ... pretty sighs and becoming blushes, and showed him the photo- graph of the gay lieutenant. Philip liked her best of all the girls at the Frau Professo... ...not realise that he was merely putting up in its stead the other fetish of culture. They wandered up to the castle, and sat on the terrace that overlo... ...ut her hand. “I have brought a rose for the prodigal’s buttonhole.” With a gay smile she pinned to Philip’s coat the flower she had just picked in the... ...Philip. “I see the better course, but do not follow it. Miss Price, who is cultured, will remember the Latin of that.” “I wish you would leave me out ... ...On the other hand, in mind he did not seem to have changed at all, and the culture which had impressed Philip at eighteen aroused somewhat the contemp...

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...e truths which I really could not, for the moment, bring my mind at all to bear upon or comprehend. And I sat down upon a kind of horsehair slab, or p... ..., a mere frolic, to be sung about and whistled at! Light be her heart, and gay her merry eyes, for years! The state room had grown pretty fast; but by... ...were to prevent a moment’s pause in the conversation, and how astoundingly gay everybody was: the forced spirits of each member of the little party ha... ...rted dodger, an individual very pale from sea sickness, who had shaved his beard and brushed his hair, last, at Liverpool: and whose only article of d... ...n and boys running down steep places towards the pier: all more bright and gay and fresh to our unused eyes than words can paint them. We came to a wh... ... cold indifference by a darling child, was too much for woman’s nature to bear. American Notes – Dickens 42 ‘After a while, on the mother taking ho... ...n to ornament these pretty villas and render them attractive, leads to the culture of trees and flowers, and the laying out of well kept gardens, the ...

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...ly, a house or two appeared, standing high upon the ankles of the hills, and one of these surrounded with what seemed a garden. These conspicuous habi... ...mlet, where was a landing in a cove under a lianaed cliff. The beach was lined with palms and a tree called the purao, something between the fig and m... ...hermitage, his coffin—to revive, recover, shake off the hand of death, and be restored for years to his occupations—carving tikis (idols), let us say,... ...eception of Cook upon Hawaii; and again, in the story of the discovery of Tutuila, when the really decent women of Samoa prostituted themselves in pub... ...le, skilled in the use of knife and fork, a brave figure when he shouldered a gun and started for the woods after wild chickens, always serviceable, a... ...all him, because when he first visited the islands his arm was in a sling. Captain Hart, a man of English birth, but an American subject, had con- cei... ... brightness. Both are somewhat wider than Fakarava, measuring perhaps (at the widest) a quar- ter of a mile from beach to beach. In both, a coarse kin... ...nts, if you please’—‘South Sea Merchants,’—was a piece of con- versation endlessly repeated, that never seemed to lose in savour. We found them at all... ...al times alarmed by our intrusion. Not for them are the bright cold rivers of Tahiti or Upolu, not for them to splash and laugh in the hour of the dus...

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...sity. A robe of the native cloth was thrown over my shoulders, my hair and beard were uncut, and I betrayed other evidences of my re- cent adventure. ... ...jeopardy of both ears, and the 5 Melville certain destruction of hair and beard. The day was now drawing to a close, and, as the land faded from my s... ...tured way of knocking them down, that no one could find it in his heart to bear malice against him. So much for stout little Jermin. All English whale... ...proceedings within. The place is well filled. Everywhere meets the eye the gay calico draperies worn on great occasions by the higher classes, and for... ... shut in, on both sides, by lofty hills. Here and there were steep cliffs, gay with flower- ing shrubs, or hung with pendulous vines, swinging blos- s... ...aughter was fairly begun. The Spaniards were showy fellows, tricked out in gay blan- kets, leggings worked with porcupine quills, and jingling spurs. ... ...in; and, henceforth, the hardy young plant thrives apace; and need- ing no culture, pruning, or attention of any sort, rapidly advances to maturity. I...

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... salon, in our partaking of her concentrated study of the sense of matters bearing on her own case, all the bright warm Paris afternoon, from the balc... ...the glass cage had held up to him across her counter the pale-pink leaflet bearing his friend’s name, which she neatly pronounced, he turned away to f... ...l to this remark, that was just by reason of his deep consciousness of the bearing of his comparison. The amusement, at all events, of a civilisation ... ...elt still more sharply after Maria Gostrey had come back to him and with a gay decisive “So now—!” led him forth into the world. This counted, it stru... ...edge of his own to treat the occasion as a relation formed with the higher culture and see that, as they said at Woollett, it should bear a good harve... ...tortoise-shell handle. Why Miss Barrace, mature meagre erect and eminently gay, highly adorned, perfectly famil- iar, freely contradictions and remind... ...nswer. “Who are they then—if it’s so grave?” “It mayn’t be grave—it may be gay. But at any rate it’s marked. Only I don’t know,” Strether had to confe...

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... dé Medici. Suppose the second Balafre had lived? No matter how strong the Bearnais was, it is doubtful whether he could have seized the crown, seeing... ...ulation which destroyed, in all characters, the straight- forward, upright bearing our imaginations demand of emi- nent personages. In this, above all... ...t to speak of contentions with their own party) found time and strength to bear the burden of a vast business and all its speculations, also of banks ... ... belle Romaine, a celebrated courtesan of the period, who lived in the rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, was set upon and maltreated by a party of liberti... ...brilliancy under candlelight; the face of the other was fair and fresh and gay. At sixteen, Mary Stuart’s skin had that exquisite blond whiteness whic... ...diron; a smile of comprehension might have cost her her life. “Can I be as gay as you, after losing the late king, and now beholding my son’s kingdom ... ...ung queen was opening the door. Mary Stuart stood dumb for an instant; the gay look left her eyes, which took on the acuteness that suspicion gives 1...

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...h clamor and with just such scorn, and they foresee that these brave torch-bearers will presently yield their place also. There is no last word. The n... ...e that there was in that genteel Bohemia an 13 Somerset Maugham intensive culture of chastity , but I do not remem- ber so crude a promiscuity as see... ...ged her surroundings with elegance. Her flat was always neat and cheerful, gay with flowers, and the chintzes in the draw- ing-room, notwithstanding t... ... hours before I ran across Rose Waterford in Jermyn Street. “You look very gay and sprightly,” I said. “What’s the matter with you?” She smiled, and h... ... what we had drunk, and we made our way to a cheap restaurant, crowded and gay , where we dined with pleasure. I had the appe- tite of youth and he of... ...was constantly wounded, and yet his good-nature was such that he could not bear malice: the viper might sting him, but he never learned by experience,... ...ckland?” I exclaimed. “It can’t be the same man.” “A big fellow with a red beard. Charles Strickland. An Englishman.” 77 Somerset Maugham “He had no ...

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...us determination not to help this young man, in whose upright and resolute bearing she detected something hostile to her surroundings, by any of the u... ...poetry,” Katharine replied. “No. And that’s what I should hate. I couldn’t bear my grandfather to cut me out. And, after all,” Denham went on, glancin... ... for a considerable space, as if she were considering happiness in all its bearings. “Hilda was here to-day,” she suddenly resumed, as if they had nev... ... of Christian names with apparent cordiality, and had reached that kind of gay tolerance and general friendliness which human beings in England only a... ... in a visit to a picture gallery, balancing his social work with an ardent culture of which he was secretly proud, as Mary had very soon divined. So t... ...y to keep her eyes on her straightly and rather fiercely, as if she were a gay-plumed, mischievous bird, who might light on the topmost bough and pick... ... was naturally right and steady, as his had never been in spite of all his culture. And then he could not see her come into a room without a sense of ... ...was not mentioned again. CHAPTER XXVI Although the old coaches, with their gay panels and the guard’s horn, and the humors of the box and the vicissi-...

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...writers from betraying towards their cre ations any warmer feeling than a cultured and critical indif ference: nor was his interest in human nature ... ...aggy kind of aspect, the effect of which was much in creased by a reddish beard, which, contrary to the usual cus tom of the day, he allowed to grow... ... the powerful fumes of which dwelt continually in his red dish and grisly beard, and made him fragrant wherever he went. This sense of fixedness—ston... ...se two standing at the grim Doctor’s footstool; he meanwhile, black, wild bearded, heavy browed, red eyed, wrapped in his faded dress ing gown, puff... ...emed to possess all the characteristics which fine he reditary traits and culture, or many forefathers, could do in refining a human stock. And this ... ...f he even listened to them. For he was a man of singularly imperfect moral culture; insomuch that nothing else was so remarkable about him as that—pos... ...ll, which now, in its solitude, presented an aspect far different from the gay festivity of an hour before; the duski ness up in the carved oaken bea... ...nd sober habits to reckless dissipation; another had turned from the usual gay ety of life to recluse habits, and both, apparently, by the same influ...

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...high drawl she cultivated before strangers; and a shortish man with a pale bearded face and upturned coat-collar came stiffly into the room. Ann Eliza... ...ns presently began to cast at the couple in front of them: Ann Eliza could bear to connive at Evelina’s bliss, but not to acknowledge it to others. At... ... the illustrated volume of Longfellow—for, as the sisters had learned, his culture soared beyond the newspa- pers—and read aloud, with a fine confusio... ...d and put out a pleading hand. “Don’t cry so, dearie. Don’t.” “Oh, I can’t bear it, I can’t bear it,” Evelina moaned. Ann Eliza stroked her quivering ... ...ne on which Ann Eliza had just closed the door; and it looked as fresh and gay and thriving as she and Evelina had once dreamed of making Bunner Siste...

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..., and though his countenance, which was ornamented with a beautiful flaxen beard, carefully di- vided in the middle and brushed outward at the sides, ... ...surance which the numerous class of persons suffering from an overdose of “culture” might have envied him. The two gentlemen proceeded along the Rue d... ...ut invidi- ous comparisons—had lighted upon shoulders amply com- petent to bear it. But though he could manage a fight, when need was, Newman heartily... ...e old man was ushered into his apartment, followed by a youth in a blouse, bearing a picture in a brilliant frame. Newman, among the distractions of P... ...ane?” “Oh, a few of each,” said Newman. “But I want some- thing bright and gay.” “Something gay? There is nothing very gay in this solemn old Louvre. ... ...s, and yet he had always caught them; and just so an undue solicitude for “culture” seemed a sort of silly dawdling at the station, a proceeding prope... ...ust and dispassionate, and as he was, further- more, extremely devoted to “culture,” he could not bring himself to decide that Europe was utterly bad.... ...g to please by any means of which they would disapprove.” “Is she grave or gay?” asked Newman. “She is both; not alternately, for she is always the sa... ...yety in her gravity. But there is no reason why she should be particularly gay.” “Is she unhappy?” “I won’t say that, for unhappiness is according as ...

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...traight features, a lively grey eye and the rich adorn- ment of a chestnut beard. This person had a certain for- tunate, brilliant exceptional look—th... ... justly said, after you had read the Interviewer you had lost all faith in culture. Her tendency, with this, was rather to keep the Interviewer out of... ...which at times, in its strained deliberation, sug- gested a person of high culture speaking a foreign lan- guage. Ralph Touchett subsequently learned ... ...is she made no direct reply; there was an amount of truth in it that would bear consideration. At last she said abruptly: “I don’t see what harm there... ...t.” A servant had come in with lamps and was presently followed by another bearing the tea-tray. On the appear- ance of this repast Mrs. Touchett had ... ...ess paradox, intended to puzzle her? or was it the last refinement of high culture? She trusted she should learn in time; it would be very interesting... ...erican jeune fille— what could be better than that? She would be frank and gay, and yet would not have walked alone, nor have re- ceived letters from ...

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...of Life Energy Pg 192 The Definition of What is Human Pg 198 The Origin of Culture Pg 206 The Tool-Dynamic of Civilized Culture Pg 212 Wonder ... ... Pg 269 The Dynamics of the Transition Pg 279 The Creation of Robber Baron Culture Pg 280 The Basic Factors Pg 282 The Consequences of Accumul... ...ange Pg 508 Tools vs. Life Pg 508 The Dynamics of Distraction Pg 520 The Culture of Mass Media Pg 523 Hollywood and Perfection Pg 527 Tool P... ...ally as a Triality in our 3-dimensional Universe. Just like you need greased bearings between a rotating wheel and an axle for it to work properly.... ... 49 th balance-point factors that act as hidden, unseen buffers, or oil, or bearings… that lie hidden in-between the infinitely complex dynamics. ... ...ally as a Triality in our 3-dimensional Universe. Just like you need greased bearings between a rotating wheel and an axle for it to work properly.... ... How many charities can one support? Which ones? Wildlife? Human rights? Gay rights? The homeless? The environment? Will you spend your life... ...sed naked. Like Mariana Huffington; who, once she found out her husband was gay, she dedicated her life to humiliating and exposing his class of r... ...oman history books because he was a commoner. His name says it all. He was a gay. He was married. He was first modern gay married successful civi...

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... old. The one was a dark, thin man, with a good deal of white in his thick beard and scanty hair, the absence of which made the breadth of his forehea... ...il, of course, because they were father’s sisters, but I know she couldn’t bear them. If any of them came to London, there was a calling, but all very... ...ther; my grandmother was married before. Uncle Alfrey has an immense light beard, and I think he is very poor. He came once or twice to see mother, an... ...e across me is not over-knowledge, but want of knowledge—want of gen- eral culture. This Dolores, for instance, can do what she has been taught better... ... of shutting us up in a schoolroom with some one, with only knowledge, not culture. Those very late dinners have quite upset all the intelligent inter... ... ‘Yes, this once,’ and it was wonderful how much freshened she felt by the gay mo- tion, and perhaps by Mysie’s merry, good-natured eyes and caressing...

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... sight with their descent. Before them, by the stile, rose a notice-board, bearing, still dimly visible, the words, “BEWARE OF THE TRAINS,” half hidde... ...not see where the door was situated. In his struggle he had quite lost his bearings. The strange beast, disturbed by the splutter of the match, began ... ...to- gether. Where had the door got to? It occurred to him he could get his bearings by the stars visible through the sky- light. The patch of stars he... ... because they wanted to be happy. They were quite right; life should be as gay as possible. He would go home and make it up, and reassure them. And wh... ...en a dull dog, an enemy to merriment; he would make up for it. It would be gay to turn his coat- sleeves inside out, and stick some yellow gorse into ... ... proportion to the facts of the case, and she tried in vain to imagine his cultured great- ness in a “teeny weeny” little house. “Am busy enamelling a... ... granted that a day would come when everywhere about the earth, plough and culture, light tramways and good roads, an ordered se- curity, would prevai... ...things. We passed an old man musing among laurels, I remember, and a place gay with paroquets, and came through a broad shaded colonnade to a spacious...

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...where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power? Others will teach us how to dare, And against fear our breast to steel; Others ... ...abides. But tasks in hours of insight will’d Can be through hours of gloom fulfill’d. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, l... ...ure shine— But ah! I could not stay! “Action I had not, followers, fame; I pass’d obscure, alone. The after-world forgets my name, Nor do I wish it ... ...heir drops of blood, their death in life. The garden, overgrown—yet mild, See, fragrant herbs are flowering there! Strong children of the ... ...e learned your lore too well! Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, 44 Matthew Arnold Which without hardness... ...to war! And through the wood, another way, Faint bugle-notes from far are borne, Where hunters gather, staghounds bay, Round some fair for... ...er me roll. Yes, yes, we know that we can jest, We know, we know that we can smile! But there’s a something in this breast, To which thy light words b...

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...to the heavens above? nfor the nobler plants are valued for the fruit they bear at last in the air and light, far from the ground, and are not treated... ...efactors of the race, whom we have apotheosized as messengers from heaven, bearers of divine gifts to man, I do not see in my mind any retinue at thei... ..., I am deterred, for, so to speak, the country is not yet adapted to human culture, and we are still forced to cut our spiritual bread far thinner tha... ... clammy, and agu ish, only here a board and there a board which would not bear removal. She lighted a lamp to show me the inside of the roof and the ... ... whether it is insured or not. “But what shall I do with my furniture?”nMy gay butterfly is entangled in a spider’s web then. Even those who seem for ... ...s of intellect and genius, and is sensible only of the imperfection of his culture and the vanity and insufficiency of all his riches, and further pro... ...e by the pains which be takes to secure for his children that intellectual culture whose want he so keenly feels; and thus it is that he becomes the f...

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...our head; a long head is as good as shorthand.’ Miss Hannah More recalls a gay meeting at the Garricks’, in Johnson’s absence, when Boswell was bold e... ... at random to a line which 8 Boswell’s Life of Johnson has not its direct bearing upon the one subject of the work. Nor is the unity of the book that... ...The single scenes and pictures which Boswell has given us will all of them bear close scrutiny for their precision, their economy of means, their life... ...from Johnson knowledge of that in which Johnson is expert, Johnson’s manly bearing and voice throughout—all is set forth with the unadorned vividness ... ...vitality and significance to everything about him. A part of education and culture is the exten- sion of one’s narrow range of living to include wider... ...e was at Pembroke College, ‘was caressed and loved by all about him, was a gay and frolicksome fellow, and passed there the hap- piest part of his lif... ..., Johnson had a fancy that as a dramatick authour his dress should be more gay than what he ordinarily wore; he therefore appeared behind the scenes, ...

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...P OSP OSPECT ECT ECT ECT ECT Sorrow He gives and pain, good store; Toil to bear, for the neck which bore; For duties rendered, a duty more; And lesson... ...espect- able panes.” “He has become the London assistant, who was our bug- bear,” said Geraldine. “I don’t know how we should get on without him since... ...wers?” “Not yet; Vale Leston flowers, you know. Besides, Aunt Cherry can’t bear them not artistic.” “Tidy is enough for Marilda. She does them herself... ... shook her head laughingly, while Gerald muttered— “Salmon are caught with gay flies.” They closed round the tea-table while Marilda sighed— “Alda’s d... ...aughter, For when she’s drest with care and cost, and made all neat and gay, As men should serve a cucumber, she throws herself away.’” “Ah! your t... ...is a high object not to alienate Gerald, as would certainly be done by the culture of the ugly—” “Or rather of that which pretends to be the reverse, ... ...rom Vale Leston, and I really am of some use here.” Her voice really had a gay ring in it. “It is such fun too! Where’s Gerald?” “Having a smoke with ...

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...t age he was not even quite grey, and still had very thick hair and a full beard, both of which had once been black. His eyes were grey , large and lu... ...it and glory of Elijah, haven’t you heard? He will take me in His arms and bear me away.” Though the monk returned to the cell he was sharing with... ... Fyodorovitch! And that tragedy in the drawing-room, it’ s more than I can bear, I warn you. I can’ t bear it. A comedy, perhaps, not a tragedy. T ell... ... I shall go far away. Life will be bright and gay In the city far away. I shall not... ...out as a remembrance of it. But men, too, can be beaten. A well- educated, cultured gentleman and his wife beat their own child with a birch-rod, a gi... ...e merchant grows more and more eager for rank, and strives to show himself cultured though he has not a trace of culture, and to this end meanly despi...

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...g-place, no respectful shelter, where, with the delicacy due to genius and culture, be might secure aid, till, with return- ing health, he would resum... ... fitful pursuit subjugated his will and engrossed his faculties, always to bear the memory of some controlling sorrow. The remarkable poem of ‘The Rav... ...ject, slightly oblong in shape, seemingly about the size, and in every way bearing a great resemblance to one of those childish toys called a domino. ... ...ce to one of those childish toys called a domino. Bringing my telescope to bear upon it, I plainly dis- cerned it to be a British ninety four-gun ship... ... that of 25,000 feet, attained in the aero- nautic expedition of Messieurs Gay-Lussac and Biot. This is a moderate altitude, even when compared with t... ... ribbon is tied, point to a seaman. His companionship with the deceased, a gay, but not an abject young girl, designates him as above the grade of the...

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...of those head-gears of composite order, in which we can find traces of the bearskin, shako, billycock hat, sealskin cap, and cotton night-cap; one of ... ... to living alone. The new delight of independence soon made his loneliness bearable. He could now change his meal-times, go in or out without explanat... ...ing, in which he enjoyed the dodges of the trade, on the other hand, agri- culture properly so called, and the internal management of the farm, suited... ...groups that loitered to talk. The fiddler walked in front with his violin, gay with ribbons at its pegs. Then came the married pair, the relations, th... ...cruelties of Louis XI, a little of St. Bartholomew’s Day, the plume of the Bearnais, and al- ways the remembrance of the plates painted in honour of L... ... whose hard straps tired his shoul- der; and now, doleful and drawling, or gay and hurried, the 58 Madame Bovary music escaped from the box, droning ... ...- dry, kitchen with offices, sitting-room, fruit-room, and so on. He was a gay dog, who didn’t care what he spent. At the end of the garden, by the si...

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...ws of strong, white teeth. There was not a grey hair on his head or in his beard, and his bearing wore the stamp of activity, resolution, and above al... ...ng with his serious coun tenance. When, after some weeks of captivity his beard had grown again, he seemed to have got rid of all that was not his tr... ...rget the animals.” The characteristics of a people so embedded in the soil bear a closer relation to their native landscape than our own migratory pop... ...nt. “Why are you so late?” “I was busy,” answered Eugene Mihailovich, in a gay 43 The Forged Coupon and other stories voice, rubbing his hands. And t... ...ey had also in com mon the sense that they both excelled their enemies in culture, in brains, as well as in morals. Katia Turchaninova was a gifted g... ...indeed have been deterring had it not been for her smile, which was always gay and cordial, and for the charming light in her eyes and for her youthfu... ...ent our time as young men do, studying and amusing ourselves. I was a very gay, lively, careless fellow, and had plenty of money too. I had a fine hor...

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...ncapable of supporting the family and the parents of female child have to bear the money/dowry. Thus all these makes the male of society very irresp... ... time on the road, and elsewhere listening to radio. The new breed of FM culture, has increased this a hundredfold. So, it is in the radio sector t... ...IV/AIDS patients. “Also Hindu faith does not pardon you it only says you bear the karma, but Christianity pardons you so to get pardoned, we have e... ...nable the concerned to be tested without any difficulty or even monetary bearing. 12. Almost all of them felt that sex education in schools was a... ...6. Because the cinema plays such an important role in shaping the popular culture, and because actresses and actors are seen as icons and role-model... ...cal Quarterly, 4 (1990) 28-40. 460 42. Jha, A., Sexual Design in Indian Culture. Vikas Publishing Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi (1979). 43. Joel Gittelsho... ...96) 719 –728. 101. Vaid, Urvashi, Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation, Anchor, New York (1995). 102. Vasantha Kandas...

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; PRELIMINARY -- CONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more fi...

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...ELIMINARY 3 CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY C ONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne a... ...mpressing a political or other immediately practical tendency on all English culture and endeavor, cramps the free flight of Thought,—that this, not Ph... ...ther cock, no biped stands so high. Couriers arrive bestrapped and bebooted, bearing Joy and Sorrow bagged up in pouches of leather: there, top laden,... ... wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant streets, are bearing her to Halls roofed in, and lighted to the due pitch for her; and... ... and crowbars, or lurks in wait till the watchmen first snore in their boxes. Gay mansions, with supper rooms and dancing rooms, are full of light and ... ...sewhere, the ninety and nine Public Men can for most part be but mute train bearers to the hundredth, perhaps but stalking horses and willing or unwi... ...n; nay, the graces also have been consid ered, and frills and fringes, with gay variety of color, featly appended, and ever in the right place, are n... ...tion and environment, where on pegs of honor they hung, looked ever trim and gay: a roomy painted Cottage, embowered in fruit trees and forest trees, ... ...rtheless,” continues he, “I too acknowledge the all but omnipotence of early culture and nurture: hereby we have either a doddered dwarf bush, or a hi...

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...n appeared to Italian painters; and her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by t... ...t all her notions. And how very uncomfortable Sir James would be! I cannot bear notions.” It was Celia’s private luxury to indulge in this dislike. Sh... ...wording, but because her hand was un- usually uncertain, and she could not bear that Mr. Casaubon should think her handwriting bad and illegible. She ... ...again, without any special object, save the vague purpose of what he calls culture, preparation 73 George Eliot for he knows not what. He declines to... ...f medial evidence— any glimmering of these can only come from a scientific culture of which country practitioners have usually no more notion than the... ...h such an unimportant air of saying something by the way, that it seemed a gay little chime after the great bell. If Will was not always perfect, this... ... have had a sense of dissipation, and of doing what might be expected of a gay young fellow. Considering that Fred was not at all coarse, that he rath... ...wer of nomenclature which determined that the pursuit of these things was “gay.” In Mr. Horrock there was certainly an apparent unfathomableness which... ...aving off because they were “no good,” and observing that, after all, self-culture was the principal point; while in politics he would have been sympa...

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...onfess that my children are the bane of my life. It is the cross I have to bear. That is how I explain it to myself. It can’t be helped!” He said no m... ...ince V asili seized Pierre’s hand and said to Anna Pavlovna: “Educate this bear for me! He has been staying with me a whole month and this is the firs... ...his, rose and approached the 16 War & Peace princess. He seemed unable to bear the sight of tears and was ready to cry himself. “Calm yourself, Princ... ...sha a Cossack) and she stroked the child’s arm as she came up fearless and gay to kiss her hand. “I know she’s a scamp of a girl, but I like her.” She... ...repared the onlookers for what was to follow. As soon as the provocatively gay strains of Daniel Cooper (some- what resembling those of a merry peasan... ...e at the sound of the singing and the sight of the dancing soldier and the gay and smartly marching men. In the second file from the right flank, besi... ...f Russia, or the balance of power in Europe, or a certain kind of European culture called “progress” appear to me to be good or bad, I must admit that... ...glance from under his brows. “Prince Theodore and all those. T o encourage culture and philanthropy is all very well of course. The aim is excellent b... ... states to the writers of general histories and the new his- tories of the culture of that period. The strangeness and absurdity of these replies aris...

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...sing their lives and limbs in storms, wet and cold, ‘‘Wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch: The lion and the belly-pinched wolf Keep their furs d... ... get below. Many a kid of beef have I seen rolling in the scuppers, and the bearer lying at his length on the decks. I remember an English lad who w... ... but not so overhanging as they appeared to be by starlight. They seemed to bear off towards the centre of the island, and were green and well wooded... ...ng of Saturday, the 13th of August, 1859, the superb steamship Golden Gate, gay with crowds of passengers, and lighting the sea for miles around wi... ...Senor Noriego lived, on the piazza in front of the court yard, where was the gay scene of the marriage of our agent, Mr. Robinson, to Dona Anita, whe... ...e hundred thousand inhabitants, with all the accompaniments of wealth and culture, and now (in 1859) the most quiet and well governed city of its s...

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...; and even the trial of Joan of Arc, conducted as it was by chosen clerks, bears witness to a dreary, sterile folly, – a twilight of the mind peopled ... ...t conceal from ourselves that there is a thread of something that will not bear calm scrutiny. There is much that is disquieting about the storm, admi... ...d; but there are certainly some points in the character of Burns that will bear to be brought out, and some chapters in his life that demand a brief r... ...ghman poet.” Robertson, Dugald Stewart, Blair, “Duchess Gordon and all the gay world,” were of his acquaintance. Such a revolution is not to be found ... ...t, American; which was to be brave and cheerful as per con- tract; to give culture in a popular and poetical presentment; and, in so doing, catch and ... ...vils dance on all our literary wires. It would be a poor service to spread culture, if this be its result, among the comparatively innocent and cheerf... ...him whining. It is better that he should go without the cheerful lights of culture, if cheerless doubt and paralys- ing sentimentalism are to be the c...