...to obtain it. For a few days everything succeeded so well that it began to bud, and throw out small leaves, which we hourly mea- sured convinced (tho’... ...amiliarities she bestowed on me I could not have supported the idea of her granting to another; I loved her with a brother’s affection only, but exper... ...e. The consent of the bishop was all that remained necessary, who not only granted it, but offered to pay the pension, permitting me to retain the sec... ... promised to do, but entreated a private audi- ence, which was immediately granted. The ambassador took me to his closet, and shut the door; there, th... ...d not generally take pains to show her wit, that being a favor she did not grant to every one. After a month or two of negligent attendance, this was ... ...ort- manteau, set a most pompous verbal process, in which it was taken for granted that this most terrible writing came from Geneva for the sole purpo... ... utmost extent. The rapture with which I saw the trees put out their first bud, is inexpressible! The return of spring seemed to me like rising from t... ...e: violets and primroses already made their appearance, the trees began to bud, and the evening of my arrival was distinguished by the song of the nig...

...lue, when compared with gold or silver. “I will not consent,” he said, “to grant your son’s liberty, unless that amulet be added to his ransom.” The l... ...gious respect for their characters as ambassadors, and of his readiness to grant them a safe-conduct for their return. This boon was all that they now... ... of truce, were highly relished by those warriors to whom they were seldom granted, and endeared by the very circumstances which rendered them transit... ...ordiality than he had yet exhibited, “T ell me, Sir Knight of the Leopard, granting (which I do not doubt) that thou art thyself satisfied in this mat... ...r Majesty will pardon me to remind you that I have by mine office right to grant liberty to men of gentle blood to keep them a hound or two within cam...

...lt, the room cold, and Helen curiously silent. “I suppose you take him for granted?” said her aunt. “He’s like this,” said Rachel, lighting on a fossi... ... best they could do, but no more. It was the easiest thing in the world to grant another room, and the problem of sheets simultaneously and mi- raculo... ...s went on by land, very few people thought about the sea. They took it for granted that the sea was calm; and there was no need, as there is in many h... ...ets and artists in general is this: on your own lines, you can’t be beaten—granted; but off your own lines—puff— one has to make allowances. Now, I sh... ...ey’s attention. “Matthew Arnold? A de- testable prig!” he snapped. “A prig—granted,” said Richard; “but, I think a man of the world. That’s where my p...

...able blades, requiring impossible chops, and taking unheard of pickles for granted. He was a staid, grave, placid gentleman, something past the prime ... ...ould say’—rejoined the other, interrupting him with the same complacency. ‘Granted. I allow it. And I have a purpose to serve now. So have you. I am s... ...lf as comfortable as he can, or he is an unnatural scoundrel. Our debts, I grant, are very great, and therefore it the more behoves you, as a young ma... ...ng in a ditch had marked him passing like a ghost along its brink; the va grant had met him on the dark high road; the beggar had seen him pause upon... ...ng at length, 154 Barnaby Rudge she suffered herself to be persuaded, and granting him her free forgiveness (the merit whereof, she meekly said, rest... ...ough early in the sea son, it was warm and genial weather; the trees were bud ding into leaf, the hedges and the grass were green, the air was music...

...nger companies. Farewell, sweet playfellow: pray thou for us; And good luck grant thee thy Demetrius! Keep word, Lysander: we must starve our sight ... ...ugh to hang us all. ALL: That would hang us, every mother’s son. BOTTOM: I grant you, friends, if that you should fright the ladies out of their wit... ...n. Be as thou wast wont to be; See as thou wast wont to see: Dian’s bud o’er Cupid’s flower Hath such force and blessed power. Now, my Tit...

...ttered between his teeth, as he saw the most violent among the crowd turning away; “go and ask for a meanness at the Town-hall, and you will see wheth... ...he loves, and of her giving the black tulip, which will constitute a new species, the name of Rosa Barlaensis, that is to say, hers and mine combined.... ... judgment against him, had compassionately taken into consideration his good character, and the apparent proofs of his inno- cence. His Highness, acco... ...ined in that castle after the death of Barneveldt; and that the States, in their generosity to the illustrious publicist, jurist, historian, poet, and... ...with the jailer of the fortress of Loewestein. The Prince could not have suspected my object; had he known it, he would have refused my re- quest, but... ...llowed it so eagerly from the drawer in Cornelius’s dry-room to the scaffold of the Buytenhof, and from the scaffold to the fortress of Loewestein; he...

... and the bandit Jesus T ejeda, and the days when Los Muertos was a Spanish grant, a veritable principality, leagues in extent, and when there was neve... ...n- ish, a language with which Presley was familiar. “De La Cuesta held the grant of Los Muertos in those days,” the centenarian said; “a grand man. He... ...the centenarian’s vividly coloured reminiscences—De La Cuesta, holding his grant from the Spanish crown, with his power of life and death; the romance... ...as a bonus for the construction of the road, the national gov- ernment had granted to the company the odd numbered sections of land on either side of ... ...cussion, allowed himself to be per- suaded, in the end accepting as though granting a favour. Broderson protested that his wife, who was not well, wou... ...stopped; yais, sir. Efery oder sohn-of-a- guhn bei der plaice ged der sach bud me. Eh? Wat you 136 The Octopus tink von dose ting?” “I think that’s a... ...ins freshened all the earth. The flow- ers of the Seed ranch grew rapidly. Bud after bud burst forth, while those already opened expanded to full matu...

...ch as a water jug would the head of a queen. Since laughter is a privilege granted to man alone, and he has sufficient causes for tears within his rea... ...men die, and that for this you are still too delicate and too close in the bud, you would already be a mother,” replied the seneschal, made giddy with... ... on asking, like a child who gives its mother no rest until its request be granted it. At these lamentations the poor seneschal, feeling himself to bl... ...ing that he eventually died from excess of love. Although she took care to grant her favours only to the best and noblest in the court, and that such ... ...gainst the wall. The aspect of this weak flower, which had been his in the bud, but far from him had spread its lovely leaves; of the fairy figure, th... ...h and clean and pretty, like the first frost, green and tender as an April bud; in fact, she re- sembled all that is prettiest in the world. She had e...

...autho- rization to establish himself here as a notary, and his request was granted. As he had not to pay for his appointment, he could afford to build... ...en?” “Amen,” said the soldier. “An upright man is a magnifi- cent thing, I grant you; but, on the other hand, you must admit that virtue is a divinity... ...s in science and in busi- ness, and genius was charlatanism. I took it for granted that I should be a great man, because there was the power of becomi...

...e a doll’s chair with a broken leg, condemned by the departing pupils, and granted with a laugh to the governess’s request to take it to her little ni... ...ndry houses that were forbidden ground to district visitors, were ready to grant them a welcome. One of these belonged to the most able lacemaker in t... ...o look for Alick, and we have brought him home to dine.” Fanny took it for granted that Rachel must know who Alick was, but she was far from doing so,... ...tle Hammonds will be there, she is just their age.” Ermine felt obliged to grant this at least, though she was as doubtful of her shy Rose’s happiness... ...miling; “but we know what was meant.” 158 The Clever Woman of the Family “Granting that we do, what is proved against him? No, I will not say proved,... ...e, I should be- lieve that you had taught me to be exacting about my rose- bud. Partly, it is that he is disappointed that she is not like her mother;...

...ith a mysterious air that he had heard a medical gentleman as went down to Grantham last week, say how that snuff- taking was bad for the eyes; but fo... ... of the best inns in En- gland, turned in, for the night, at the George at Grantham. The remainder wrapped themselves more closely in their coats and ... ...h swept across the open country. They were little more than a stage out of Grantham, or about halfway between it and Newark, when Nicholas, who had be... ...p watch outside the door—and if a green chariot passes in the direction of Grantham, to stop it instantly.’ The people of the house were evidently ove... ...e very tiptop and summit of it all. ‘As the guard has gone on horseback to Grantham to get another coach,’ said the good-tempered gentleman when they ...

...ent to shade its fellow shy, Where innocence, not nature, signals nay. The bud of fresh virginity awaits The wooer, and all roseate will she burst: Sh... ...od labours, Beauty’s Queen he serves. Her spacious garden and her garden’s grant She offers in reward for handsome cheer: Choice of the nymphs whose l... ...he fawned and prayed; Sagely the generous Giver circumspect, To choose for grants the egregious, his elect; And ever that imagined succour slew The so...

...o show they’re true, Nor seal nor letter’s wanted; T o all have wings been granted. The pretty birds behold,— Such beauties ne’er were sold! 1795. 47... ...er grateful be. 50 Goethe Yet I’m content, and full of joy, If she’ll but grant her smile so sweet, Or if at table she’ll employ, T o pillow hers, he... ...dless span Looks thy gaze both far and wide. Raise me upwards to thy side! Grant this to a raving man! And to heights of rapture raised, Let the knigh... ...ager joyousness. Roses round her let her see, She herself a youthful rose. Grant, dear life, one look to me! ‘T will repay me all my woes, What this b... ...The beauteous snowdrops Droop o’er the plain. The crocus opens Its glowing bud, Like emeralds others, Others, like blood. With saucy gesture Primroses... ...oments that enthrall’d us, With enjoyment freighted. If thou’lt absolution grant T o thy true ones ever, We, to execute thy will, Ceaseless will endea... ...Peacefully lock’d in itself, ‘neath the integument lay, Leaf and root, and bud, still void of colour, and shapeless; Thus doth the kernel, while dry, ... ... all-present-one, straight know I thee. Upon the cypress’ purest, youthful bud, All-beauteous-growing-one, straight know I thee; In the canal’s unsull...

...he had no one to tell him of the tricks which mothers generally nip in the bud.’ ‘I was going to say that I think he fidgets less,’ said Laura; ‘but I... ...e, while in the shady end of the field were idler haymakers among the fra- grant piles, Charles half lying on the grass, with his back against a tall ... ...ur strong sense would have made you perceive that reasoning upon fact, and granting nothing without tangible proof, were the best remedy for a dreamy ... ...state, By something showing a more swelling port Than my faint means would grant continuance. —Merchant of Venice ST. MILDRED’S was a fashionable summ... ... written immediately after Guy’s outburst in her house, and, taking it for granted that her brother would receive a challenge, she wrote in the utmost... ...f the lateness of their arrival yesterday. Mr. Edmonstone had taken it for granted that Guy, like Philip, would watch for the right time, and warn him...

...looks upon me will take me without weighing: and yet, in some respects, I grant, I cannot go: I cannot tell. Virtue is of so little regard in these c... ... to the weeping clouds And waste for churlish winter’s tyranny. HASTINGS: Grant that our hopes, yet likely of fair birth, Should be still born, and t... ... help to make the diseases, Doll: we catch of you, Doll, we catch of you; grant that, my poor virtue grant that. DOLL TEARSHEET : Yea, joy, our chai... ...a son of war is born; Whose dangerous eyes may well be charm’d asleep With grant of our most just and right desires, And true obedience, of this madne... ...f speech is utterly denied me. How I came by the crown, O God forgive; And grant it may with thee in true peace live! PRINCE HENRY : My gracious lieg...

... whereon he his head might lay, And hear the heart beat with the love it granted, With several other things, which I forget, Or which, at ... ... conscience as before, ‘T will one day ask you why you used me so? God grant you feel not then the bitterest grief! Antonia! where ‘s my pock... ... speech, and begg’d her pardon, Which Julia half withheld, and then half granted, And laid conditions he thought very hard on, Denying sever... ...ties Are longer lived than others,—God knows why, Unless to plague the grantors,—yet so true it is, That some, I really think, do never die;... ...st now warms, Pillow’d on her o’erflowing heart, which pants With all it granted, and with all it grants. An infant when it gazes on a light, ... ... of grace, As beautiful as her own native land, And far away, the last bud of her race, Howe’er our friend Don Juan might command Himself ...

... the principle of despotic rule which is begin- ning to show itself in the bud amongst us, and which is nothing more than the shadowing out of coming ... ... of the human race. We are far from saying that our own, with all its fla- grant and obvious defects, will be the worst, more especially when consider...

... NO MY AIN HOUSE; I ken by the biggin’ o’t.” T wo recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hilleb... ...is better than John Bull, but he is tarred with the English stick. For Mr. Grant White the States are the New England States and nothing more. He wond... ...untrymen un- bending to him as to a performing dog. But in the case of Mr. Grant White example were better than precept. Wyo- ming is, after all, more... ...ot always widely, but always trenchantly. Many particulars that struck Mr. Grant White, a Yankee, struck me, a Scot, no less forcibly; he and I felt o... ... And perhaps neither a court of love nor an assembly of divines would have granted their premisses or welcomed their conclusions. Conclusions, indeed,... ...es; and below and about, dearer tenfold to me! the plays themselves, those bud- gets of romance, lay tumbled one upon another. Long and often have I l...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhab...