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...tinue to enter, every breast which cherishes the same sympathies. If it is granted to his immortal spirit, from another heaven than any of which he dr... ...n the helpless orphan dread a foe. But come it will, the time when manhood grants More powerful advocates than vain complaints. Approach that hour! in... ...sh, and let thy glory shine On Nestor first, and Nestor’s royal line; Next grant the Pylian states their just desires, Pleased with their hecatomb’s a... ...labours of the day refrain, For them to form some exquisite repast? Heaven grant this festival may prove their last! Or, if they still must live, from... ...alms that view the rising day, Or nations subject to the western ray. Then grant, what here all sons of wine obtain (For here affliction never pleads ...

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...struck, and even affected. He bade the Colonel take up his commission, and granted the protection he re- 5 Sir Walter Scott quired. If was issued jus... ... held as sacred as either Garter or Blue Mantle, Providence seemed to have granted to him the very object best calculated to fill up the void in his h... ...n at that early period when women were not deemed capable to hold a feudal grant; because, according to Les coustusmes de Normandie, c’est h ’homme ki... ... Barahs, as aequiponderate with the evidence of ancient charters and royal grants of antiquity, conferred upon distinguished houses in the Low Country... ...by the king to chastise him, and did such good service, that he obtained a grant of the property, upon which he and his posterity afterwards re- sided... ...llies. Unfortunately this fair scheme of ambition was blighted in the very bud, by a premature move- ment. All the official gentlemen concerned in it,... ...t she does, or how she amuses herself. And then will canker sorrow eat her bud, And chase the native beauty from her cheek; And she will look as hollo...

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...mpatience: which not wanted 760 Shrodenesse of policie to: I greeuing grant, 761 Did you too much disquiet, for that you must, 762 But ... ... 1787 And did deserue his change: for what I haue conquer’d, 1788 I grant him part: but then in his Armenia, 1789 And other of his conquer’... ... begg’d 1815 His pardon for returne. 1816 Caes. Which soone he granted, 1817 Being an abstract ’tweene his Lust, and him. 1818 ... ...ortunes he salutes thee, and 2123 Requires to liue in Egypt, which not granted 2124 He Lessons his Requests, and to thee sues 2125 To let ... ...nd bids thee study on what faire demands 3212 Thou mean’st to haue him grant thee. 3213 Cleo. What’s thy name? 3214 Pro. My name i...

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...e beautiful and fantastic fancies grow suddenly out of realities, like the bud from the bough, or the fairy-seeming wing of the summer- cloud from the... ...ion in any work of man: and yet one would think the contrary was taken for granted, by the judgment com- monly passed upon poems. A critic supposes he... ... eyes Soon to obtain, and long possess the prize: The powers gave ear, and granted half his prayer, The rest, the winds dispersed in empty air. But no... ...leen.’ The goddess with a discontented air Seems to reject him, though she grants his prayer. 80 A wondrous bag with both her hands she bind... ...what justice rules the ball? Freedom and Arts together fall; Fools grant whate’er Ambition craves, And men, once ignorant, are slaves. ... ...e, and we the name, 390 And what we want in pleasure, grant in fame.’ The Queen assents, the trumpet rends the skies, And at each...

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...imon were he at the ends of the earth. Or if not, that poor child would be granted to any needy kinsman or grasping baron that Edward wanted to portio... ...en be growing out of a mere toy. Or might not his services win him a fresh grant of the earldom, and could he not then prove his sincerity by laying i... ...d of Lancaster rather than Charles of Anjou had been able to make good the grant from the Pope. Splendid were the displays, and no slight toil did the... ... 102 The Prince and the Page a gesture of entreaty. “So please your Grace, grant me a few farther words. I sware, and truly, that I had heard nothing ... ...the Pope, said there was as little hope of pardon as that his staff should bud and blossom; and lo, in one night it bore bud and flower. I besought hi... ...that the pardon that takes away the sin of the world, will take away mine. Grant me Absolution.’ He was with us when, ere dawn, such of us as still li...

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...r. I will walk the park till morn- ing, but say that an interview shall be granted in the morn- ing. Frankly, sir, it is not my intention to employ fo... ...epeated it upon a fuller breath. ‘Sir, I will condescend to entreat you to grant this permis- sion,’ said Mr. Richmond, urgently. ‘No, never: I won’t!... ...and his daughter, to whom I gave a kiss at her request, a half-holiday was granted to the boys in my name. How they cheered! The young lady saw my del... ...ve, and it was useless for her to pretend the contrary, for I had seen her granting tender lib- erties to Lady Ilchester’s footman. Old Sewis said gra... ...pshawed the Continent to the deuce, he was ready, out of sheer rivalry, to grant anything I pleased to covet. At every stage of my growth one or anoth... ...twinter, the miller’s daughter of Dipwell. This was a Saxon beauty in full bud, yellow as mid-May, with the eyes of opening June. Beauty, you will say...

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... not be chronicled for wise. PROTEUS: Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud The eating canker dwells, so eating love Inhabits in the finest wits of... ...n the finest wits of all. VALENTINE: And writers say, as the most forward bud Is eaten by the canker ere it blow, Even so by love the young and tende... ...en so by love the young and tender wit Is turn d to folly, blasting in the bud, Losing his verdure even in the prime And all the fair effects of futur... ...love amends. For me, by this pale queen of night I swear, I am so far from granting thy request That I despise thee for thy wrongful suit, And by and ... ...to chide myself Even for this time I spend in talking to thee. PROTEUS: I grant, sweet love, that I did love a lady; But she is dead. JULIA: [Aside]... ...e gift hath made me happy. I now beseech you, for your daughter s sake, To grant one boom that I shall ask of you. DUKE: I grant it, for thine own, w...

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...g a fine time of it for the rest of their days, thus cruelly nipped in the bud. Soon after, the canoe came alongside. In it were eight or ten natives,... ... of the fraternity, no member was allowed to ship on board a vessel unless granted permis- sion by the rest. In this way the gang controlled the port,... ...ter she was; not more than fourteen; with the most delightful shape—like a bud just blown; and large hazel eyes. They called her Loo; a name rather p... ...oon set; and with the early breath of the tropical morning, fresh and fra- grant from the hillsides, we slowly glided down the bay, and were swept thr...

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...ion, until, as the years wore on, the privileges of her lot were taken for granted, and certain drawbacks made themselves very manifest. Perhaps it is... ...es.” 61 Virginia Woolf “You’d be bored to death in a year’s time.” “Oh, I grant you I should be bored if I did nothing. But I should write plays.” “H... ...ry to come, I’m sure I don’t know. And the less talk there is the better.” Granting the assumption that gentlemen of sixty who are highly cultivated, ... ...he’s been going about all these years, pretending, letting one take it for granted, that he was single. And the poor deserted little wife—” “She is no... ...be content to remain silent for ever if a share of personal happiness were granted her. She read Mr. Clacton’s statement with a cu- rious division of ... ...he dead leaves, the withered bracken, the dry and discolored grass, but no bud would be broken, nor 342 Night and Day would the new stalks that showe...

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... admonition that it is not to her more sensitive and joyous favourites she grants the longest term of life. Still athwart their darker boughs, the sun... ...y would have been in almost as bad a plight as the unfortunate poorer emi- grants, who (seduced on board by solemn advertisement) had been living on t... ...n’t think it.”— ”I ast your pardon, ma’am,” says Mrs Harris, “and I humbly grant your grace; for if ever a woman lived as would see her feller creetur... ...se open to the barber, but to go distracted himself, or to take Bailey for granted; and he wisely chose the latter. Mr Bailey was good enough to conti... ... was quite in his peculiar vein of humour. ‘Then,’ said Tigg Montague, ‘we grant annuities on the very low- est and most advantageous terms known in t... ...ttainable, as he knew it had been poor Merry’s mission to crush him in the bud. He was very frail and tearful; for being aware that a shepherd’s missi...

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...enting the old man upon her charms. ‘Such a fresh, blooming, modest little bud, neighbour, ’ said Quilp, nursing his short leg, and making his eyes tw... ...ch he bore so con spicuous a part, and seemed to nip his prospects in the bud. Having only received from Frederick Trent, late on the previous night,... ...dy children, brown as berries. The re quest was no sooner preferred, than granted. The el dest boy ran out to fetch some milk, the second dragged tw... ...as I told him “these are common faults.” “But he’s a scoundrel,” said he. “Granting that,” said I (for the sake of argument of course), “a great many ... ... affront to church and state, and savoured of revolutionary principles, to grant a half holiday upon any lighter occasion than the birthday of the Mo... ...aring she had com mitted some grievous fault. ‘I beg your pardon.’ It was granted immediately, though the lady still ap peared much ruffled and disc... ...stroke of five, he reappeared, and the office, as if by magic, became fra grant with the smell of gin and water and lemon peel. ‘Mr Richard, ’ said B... ...eer less region, where not a blade of grass was seen to grow, where not a bud put forth its promise in the spring, where nothing green could live but...

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...t as a token that there may 30 Adam Bede be mercy in store for her.” “God grant it,” said Seth. “For I doubt Adam’s heart is so set on her, he’ll nev... ... and a sweet girl of seventeen trembles under our glance, as if she were a bud first opening her heart with wondering rapture to the morn- ing. Such y... ...e sin, the sorrow with which it was mingled, as the canker in a lily-white bud is more grievous to behold than in a common pot-herb. By the time Dinah... ...nd his younger brother. “My heart is knit to your aged mother since it was granted me to be near her in the day of trouble. Speak to her of me, and te... ...r brother—and yet not farewell. For those children of God whom it has been granted to see each other face to face, and to hold communion together, and... ...t possible. She never had a child. She can’t be guilty. Who says it?” “God grant she may be innocent, Adam. We can still hope she is.” “But who says s... ...unsel would have made if he had been allowed to speak for her—a favour not granted to criminals in those stern times. At last Adam lifted up his head,...

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...heartiness, from bounty, fertile bosom, And well become the agent; ‘t may, I grant; But to be paddling palms and pinching fingers, As now they are, an... ...be no more im portunate: ’tis a sickness denying thee any thing; a death to grant this. CAMILLO: It is fifteen years since I saw my country: though I... ...entler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rath... ...of such affections, Step forth mine advocate; at your request My father will grant precious things as trifles. LEONTES: Would he do so, I’ld beg your ...

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...t from her faith, But from her need. CONSTANCE: O, if thou grant my need, Which only lives but by the death of faith, That need must... ...ere was not such a gracious creature born. But now will canker sorrow eat my bud And chase the native beauty from his cheek And he will look as hollow... ... is not well, And well shall you perceive how willingly I will both hear and grant you your requests. PEMBROKE: Then I, as one that am the tongue of ... ...ody inclination. LEWIS: There end thy brave, and turn thy face in peace; We grant thou canst outscold us: fare thee well; We hold our time too preci...

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...n its cheek and absolutely no warrant but its splendid im- pudence. Let us grant then that the impudence is always there—there, so to speak, for grace... ...t matter? Surely not; we leave her condition out; we take it, that is, for granted. I see it, 57 Henry James her condition, as behind and beneath you... ... they thus seemed cynically clustered. Accordingly, since they took it for granted, they took for granted all that was in connexion with it taken for ... ...ly to escape it; 125 Henry James Strether put on him, by what he took for granted, the burden of proof of the contrary. This tone was so far suc- ces... ...as struck with the tact, the taste of her vagueness, which simply took for granted in him a sense of beautiful things. He was conscious of how much it... ...nothing whatever in common with what was now in the air. As a child, as a “bud,” and then again as a flower of expansion, Mamie had bloomed for him, f...

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...can faishion to stand thear i’ idleness un war, when all on ‘ems goan out! Bud yah’re a nowt, and it’s no use talking—yah’ll niver mend o’yer ill ways... ... appetite!’ The little party recovered its equanimity at sight of the fra- grant feast. They were hungry after their ride, and easily con- soled, sinc... ...patience itsseln wi’ sich careless, offald craters—patience itsseln he is! Bud he’ll not be soa allus—yah’s see, all on ye! Yah mun’n’t drive him out ... ...sud more likker look for th’ horse,’ he replied. ‘It ‘ud be to more sense. Bud I can look for norther horse nur man of a neeght loike this—as black as... ...tree. ‘Winter is not here yet. There’s a little flower up yonder, the last bud from the multitude of bluebells that clouded those turf steps in July w... ...heerful and well?’ Edgar, though he felt for the boy, could not consent to grant his request; because he could not accompany Catherine. He said, in su... ...ld have gone to bed, he begged to sleep with Hareton, and his petition was granted for once. Catherine stole out before break of day. She dared not tr...

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...urnalistic sense is still susceptible enough—and the idea’s picturesque, I grant you: asking the man who proved your alibi to establish your guilt.” “... ... She excelled in the rare art of 74 Early Short Fiction taking things for granted, and Thursdale felt a pardonable pride in the thought that she owed... ...hat will do.” He turned impressively to Wyant. “Do you see the pomegranate bud in this rug? Place yourself there—keep your left foot on it, please. An...

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...en days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways--Who was to be the new Bishop? The death of old Dr. Grantly, who had for many years filled the chair with meek authority, took place exactly as the ministry of Lord--was going to give place to that Lord--....

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...ery hour in various ways—Who was to be the new Bishop? The death of old Dr Grantly, who had for many years filled the chair with meek authority, took ... ...appointment should be made by a conservative or liberal government. Bishop Grantly died as he had lived, peaceably, slowly, without pain and without e... ... that the prime minister had in so many words promised the bishopric to Dr Grantly. He was too discreet a man for that. There is a proverb with refere... ...most trusted counsellor. On the occasion of the prime minister’s visit, Dr Grantly was of course present, and the meeting was very gracious. On the fo... ...bishop was quite on his last legs; but the ministry was also tottering. Dr Grantly returned from Oxford happy and elated, to resume his place in the p... ... was left. ‘Oh! My lord,’ she exclaimed, ‘you must see the infant—the last bud of a wondrous tree: you must let a mother hope that you will lay your h...

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...s the sense of obliga- tion in those who receive favours than in those who grant them. Monsieur Ducroz appeared again five or six days later. He totte... ...not know his own mind. Though much under Hayward’s influence, he would not grant that indecision pointed to a charming sen- 158 Of Human Bondage siti... ... if I read it a dozen times. Y ou see, it seems to me, one’s like a closed bud, and most of what one reads and does has no effect at all; but there ar... ...dy . ” She spoke in such a hearty , friendly tone, tak- ing everything for granted, that Philip was deeply touched. He never expected people to be kin... ...nto months. The win- ter wore away , and in the parks the trees burst into bud and into leaf. A terrible lassitude settled upon Philip. Time was passi...

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...he first, to work but for a “living wage.” The living wage is the reader’s grant of the least possible quantity of attention required for consciousnes... ...omplacency the field of her own nature; she was in the habit of taking for granted, on scanty evi- dence, that she was right; she treated herself to o... ...e would be little hope of any great resistance. Ralph had always taken for granted that his father would survive him—that his own name would be the fi... ...issed them from his thoughts. He cared no more for them than for the rose- bud in his buttonhole. It is the good fortune of a man who for the greater ... ...e was well enough for a fanciful young woman who was able to take much for granted in him; but the reader has a right to a nearer and a clearer view. ... ... there was nothing cottony about Caspar Goodwood, and his friends took for granted that he would somehow and somewhere write himself in bigger letters...