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...s of Nature that had roused the admiration of all the learned societies in Europe. Seated calmly in this laboratory, the pale philoso pher had invest... ...us, which was thus quite veiled and shrouded in a drapery of hanging foli age, so happily arranged that it might have served a sculptor for a study. ... ...our friend Greatheart has grown preposterously stiff and narrow in his old age. He has so often guided pil grims over the road on foot that he consid... ...laimed I, with irrepressible enthusiasm; “this shows the liberality of the age; this proves, if anything can, that all musty prejudices are in a fair ... ..., shout forth another summons that shall reach the old baronial castles of Europe, and the rudest cabin of our western wilderness! What class is next ... ...ny among the fishermen. That he might not lack ready money, she gave him a copper farthing of Birmingham manufacture, being all the coin she had about... ...is respectable person’s stomach, Roderick assured him that his snake was a copper head and had been generated by the immense quantities of that base ...

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...e shut. Piles of cardboard boxes, such as milliners and dressmakers use in Europe, cumbered the corners; and by some means he had procured for himself... ...e Steward I didn’t see why it shouldn’t be Captain Giles himself, a man of age and standing, and a permanent resident. Whereas, I in comparison, felt ... ... the fellowship of seamen asserted itself, stronger than the difference of age and station. It asserted itself in Captain Ellis’ voice. “Good-bye—and ... ...f her fine body, in the propor- tioned tallness of her spars. Whatever her age and her history, she had preserved the stamp of her origin. She was one... ...e towel was spread over his lap, and a shower of stiff hairs, like bits of copper wire, was descending on it at every snip of the scissors. He turned ...

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... as yet the initial strange- ness of his being alive at all in this remote age touched every- thing with wonder, with a sense of the irrational, with ... ...member the Bulgar- ian atrocities as though it was yesterday. ’Tis a great age! Ha 48 When the Sleeper Wakes ha!” He was surprised at first to hear h... ...uths, flut- tering robed bare-armed women, girls. Men and women of the new age! Rich robes, grey rags fluttered together in the whirl of their movemen... ...in times of peace the service of aeroplanes to the various great cities of Europe and America, were also black with the victors. Across a narrow way o... ...and Asano made him explain. The Chinese spectre had vanished. Chinaman and European were at peace. The twentieth century had discovered with reluctant... ...an was as civilised, more moral, and far more intelligent than the average European serf, and had repeated on a gigantic scale the fraternisation of S... ...ruby , and next these were men and women busied together upon the slabs of copper net that formed the basis of cloisonne tiles. Many of these workers ...

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... days! We used to call her Downright Dunstable! She was almost of the same age as Louis, and a great deal stouter, and used to fight for him and herse... ...into the grave, and even her nephew was fast verging upon more than middle age. CHAPTER III CHAPTER III CHAPTER III CHAPTER III CHAPTER III L L L L LO... ...and then to sleep. They are capital people. Dobbs is superintendent of the copper and tin works—a thoroughly right-minded man, with a nice, lady- 30 ... ... that mines were a tender sub- ject, the eager speaker became certain that copper must exist in the neighbourhood, and what an employment it would aff... ... with a deferential bow, and the conversation was changed by the Earl; but copper was still the subject upper- most with Louis, and no sooner was dinn... ...ight have sat for illustrations of ‘Youth is full of pleasance, Age is full of care,’ as they occupied the two ends of the dinner-table; th... ...s thy master’s. Shrew me If I would lose it for a revenue Of any king’s in Europe! —Cymbeline. ‘MY DEAR FITZJOCELYN, what is to be done? Have you hear...

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... shift the elec- tion of clergymen from the lay hands in which law and us- age had lodged it; and, under a plausible mask of making the election popul... ...ned everywhere at the same period of the sixteenth century from one end of Europe to the other; although between most of the Euro- pean kingdoms there... ...otland gave an average of £303. That body, therefore, which wields patron- age in Scotland, wields a greater relative power than the cor- responding b... ... in Scotland, must finally have been the clerus; but supposing the patron- age to have settled nominally where the V eto Act had placed it, then it wo... ... the overbearance of democratic impulses in Scot- land, that perhaps in no European nation—hardly except- ing France—has it become more important to h... ... and that they might be martyrs, it was necessary for them to secede. That Europe thinks at present with less reverence of Protestant institutions tha... ... his account of a Lybian nation, that the women and girls universally wore copper rings about their ankles. And at an after period, these ornaments we... ..., and had little pendu- lous cylinders of gold, (in the poorer classes, of copper,) so contrived as to make a jingling sound on the least motion of th... ...ut it appears from the Second Book of Moses, xxxviii. 8, that in that age, copper must have been the metal employed throughout the harems of Palestine...

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...cating, so deeply rooted in the very souls of all my species; especially the Europeans. I have other complaints to make upon this vexatious occasion; ... ...edles; and besides, they shot another flight into the air, as we do bombs in Europe, whereof many, I suppose, fell on my body, (though I felt them not... ...e person and gesture of him that was to speak. He appeared to be of a middle age, and taller than any of the other three who attended him, whereof one... ...d and dan gerous, and I am confident would not be imitated by any prince in Europe on the like occasion. However, in my opinion, it was extremely pru... ...derstand them. I then gave up my silver Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 26 and copper money, my purse, with nine large pieces of gold, and some smaller ... ... few per sons of sublime genius, of which there seldom are three born in an age: but they suppose truth, justice, tem perance, and the like, to be i... ...their infants of both sexes to be reared and educated, when they come to the age of twenty moons, at which time they are supposed to have some rudimen...

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...ters were gentle as a lake, and every wave broke with a tinkle against our coppered prow. 23 Melville On gaining the end of the channel we rounded a ... ... and then wak- ing in the morning with his woolly head tarred. Opening his coppers, and finding an old boot boiling away as saucy as could be, and som... ...down into the cabin, and then filled with buckets of water from the ship’s coppers. The cries of the patient, when dipped into his rude bath, were mos... ...n absolute puzzle; though sharp and sallow, it had neither the wrinkles of age nor the smoothness of youth; so that for the soul of me, I could hardly... ...picture loses not its attractions. It is no exaggeration to say that, to a European of any sensi- bility, who, for the first time, wanders back into t... ...untry and people before unheard of, produced a marked sensation throughout Europe; and when the first Tahitiana were car- 58 Omoo ried thither, Omai ... ...Bembo. In the first place, he was far from being liked. A dark, moody sav- age, everybody but the mate more or less distrusted or feared him. Nor were... ...his office, had occasioned general dissatisfaction ashore. Though never in Europe or America, the acting consul had been several voyages to Sydney in ... ...of the missionaries, exclusively. Sent home—in many cases, at a very early age— to finish their education, the pupils here are taught nothing but the ...

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...History of England, John Thresher said, and the thought of their venerable age enclosed me comfortably. He could not tell me whether he meant as old a... ...roving murmurs. My father no longer laid stress on my studies of the Peer- age. ‘Now I have you in the very atmosphere, that will come of itself,’ he ... ...ffeminate than Achilles when he wore girl’s clothes. She was seventeen, an age bewitching for boys to look up to and men to look down on. The puzzle o... ... beheld him with a little beggar-girl in his arms. ‘She has asked me for a copper coin, Richie,’ he said, squeez- ing her fat cheeks to make cherries ... ...ill stick to her choice, and not seek smaller change. “I could not forgive coppers”; that ‘s quoting your dad. I have no wish to see the uxorious obje... ...word and target with etiquette and retenue better than any crowned king in Europe. For me now to cross to her sum- mons immediately would be a gross b... ... that is half the battle. You, sir, are one of the wealthiest gentlemen in Europe. Y ou are pronouncedly a 231 George Meredith gentleman. That is wha... ... said of me that I wanted but a title to be as brilliant a parti as any in Europe. The margravine must have received orders from her brother to be civ... ...silver of rubbing off; and he offered forthwith an impromptu apologue of a copper penny that passed itself off for a crown- piece, and deceived a port...

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... lived with an elder sister, who had resigned herself content- edly to old age. T wo ladies, whom Philip did not know , were calling, and they looked ... ...t, and then stopped. Mrs. Carey was a little, shrivelled woman of the same age as her husband, with a face extraordinarily filled with deep wrinkles, ... ...n his dormitory , Singer, took a dislike to him, and Philip, small for his age, had to put up with a good deal of hard treat- ment. About half-way thr... ...n their necks; and perhaps that pas- sion for liberty which passed through Europe, sweeping before it what of absolutism and tyr- anny had reared its ... ... little neat town under the heel of a personal tyranny greater than any in Europe. Perhaps his taciturnity hid a con- tempt for the human race which h... ... with humanity , they seemed to bring an air of mystery. They were clad in European, shabby clothes, their thin great- coats were threadbare, but each... ...ng that the whole thing was a preposterous joke. He had no more than a few coppers left, he had sold all the clothes he could do without; he had some ... ...t how long it left till the city woke again. In the morning he spent a few coppers on making himself neat and clean, bought a paper to read the advert... ...he Vicar of Blackstable. It was a thin book bound in faded morocco, with a copperplate engraving as a fron- tispiece; the pages were musty with age an...

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...irvoyante, Had a bad cold, nevertheless Is known to be the wisest woman in Europe, With a wicked pack of cards. Here, said she, Is your card, the drow... ...aria, Stirring the pattern on the coffered ceiling. Huge sea-wood fed with copper Burned green and orange, framed by the coloured stone, In which sad ... ...ked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell He passed the stages of his age and youth Entering the whirlpool. ... ..., blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment’s surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed W... ...hapel Perilous (see Miss Weston’s book), and the present decay of eastern Europe. 357. This is Turdus aonalaschkae pallasii, the hermit-thrush which...

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...lazy keeping with every thing else, and certainly is never in a green old age, though always so old as to be dropping to pieces. And all day long, st... ...he Cappuccino advanced, with folded arms, he looked straight into the vis age of the little Frenchman, with a bland, serene, composed abstraction, no... ...ng of small vessels on the beach. In some of the broad bays, the fleets of Europe might ride at anchor. In every case, each little group of houses pre... ...s might be grass indeed, and growing in the squares. I wonder why the head coppersmith in an Italian town, always lives next door to the Hotel, or opp... ...the fire goes up the chimney, except the smoke! The answer matters little. Coppersmiths, doors, portholes, smoke, and faggots, are welcome to me. Give... ...On its broad bosom, was a Palace, more majestic and magnificent in its old age, than all the buildings of the earth, in the high prime and fulness of ... ...t belonged, claimed the proud distinction of be ing the only sovereign in Europe who had not recognised Louis Philippe as King of the French! He was ... ...ng streets of commonplace shops and houses, such as are to be found in any European town; there were busy people, equipages, ordinary walkers to and f... ...mps, and boughs of trees, attracts a group of sulky Romans round its smoky coppers of hot broth, and cauliflower stew; its trays of fried fish, and it...

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...equently, that her taste was much blunted. ‘It was not until four years of age that the poor child’s bodily health seemed restored, and she was able t... ...d passes them with a sign of recogni tion: but if it be a girl of her own age, and especially if it be one of her favourites, there is instantly a br... ...Oliver Caswell; American Notes – Dickens 46 that he is thirteen years of age; and that he was in full possession of all his faculties, until three y... ...nsurpassed in all the vice, neglect, and devilry, of the worst old town in Europe. Are people really left all night, untried, in those black sties? — ... ...ies, I need not say. The foremost among those politicians who are known in Europe, have been already described, and I see no rea son to depart from t... ...case, was that of a man who once went to a certain distiller’s and stole a copper measure contain ing a quantity of liquor. He was pursued and taken ... ...ion of that term, he went back to the same distiller’s, and stole the same copper measure contain ing the same quantity of liquor. There was not the ... ...s extraordinary proceeding. One is, that after undergoing so much for this copper measure he conceived he had established a sort of claim and right to... ...ing English journals, or to the respectable journals of the Conti nent of Europe; to those who are accustomed to any thing else in print and paper; ...

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...the window for a time before slipping in suddenly; or men of a more mature age, but looking generally as if they were not in funds. Some of that last ... ...pected of hiding a fund of reckless naugh- tiness. When he had reached the age of fourteen a friend of his late father, an agent for a foreign preserv... ...n with- out shadows in an atmosphere of powdered old gold. There were red, coppery gleams on the roofs of houses, on the cor- ners of walls, on the pa... ...e here, and the utter absence of all repressive measures, are a scandal to Europe. What is wished for just now is the accentuation of the unrest—of th... ...ty, veiled murmur that he was no longer young. “Oh! That’s a failing which age does not cure,” Mr Vladimir remarked, with sinister familiarity. “But n... ...azingly guttural intonation not only utterly un-English, but absolutely un-European, and startling even to Mr V erloc’s experience of cosmopolitan slu... ...country cannot be doubted; but I’ve al- ways felt that we ought to be good Europeans besides—I mean governments and men.” “Y es,” said the Assistant C... ... you?” She shook her head negatively. “None whatever?” he insisted. “A few coppers.” “It would be dangerous in that case. The money would have then to...

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... been honoured by the presence of the great lexicographer, and the patron- age of the admirable Mrs. Chapone. In leaving the Mall, Miss Amelia carries... ...ous old Minerva of a woman could not see, from the differences of rank and age between her pupil and herself. For she could not only sing like a lark,... ...If the Doctor, with a large birch, had appeared bodily to him, even at the age of threescore and eight, and had said in awful voice, “Boy, take down y... ...his time he caught a liver complaint, for the cure of which he returned to Europe, and which was the source of great comfort and amusement to him in h... ...s in the City—a stirring place in those days, when war was raging all over Europe, and empires were being staked; when the “Courier” newspaper had ten... ... when such news as this was agitating all the hearts and all the Stocks of Europe. Meanwhile matters went on in Russell Square, Bloomsbury, just as if... ...o hand out crisp bank-notes from a drawer and dispense sovereigns out of a copper shovel), winked at Mr. Driver, the clerk at the desk on his right. M... ... be so glossy and trim, was white at the seams, and the buttons showed the copper. His face had fallen in, and was unshorn; his frill and neckcloth hu... ...text for laying his book down. The boy in the shabby livery with the faded copper buttons, who always thrust himself into the tight coat to open the d...

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... that seems very far away.” 15 Henry James “And how long have you been in Europe?” “Seventeen days.” “First time?” “Yes, very much so.” “Made your ev... ...ed of it.” “Well, try Paris. How old are you?” “Thirty-six.” “C’est le bel age, as they say here.” “What does that mean?” “It means that a man shouldn... ... recollect, when you cleaned me out.” 22 The American “I have come to see Europe, to get the best out of it I can. I want to see all the great things... ...once played me a very mean trick. I owed him a grudge, I felt awfully sav- age at the time, and I vowed that, when I got a chance, I would, figurative... ... let him find his way. As soon as I could get out of the game I sailed for Europe. That is how I come to be sitting here.” “You ought to have bought u... ... and he was not familiar either sympathetically or otherwise, with the im- age of a President in petticoats. His attitude was simply the flower of his... ...ewman, medita- tively. “You have been odiously successful.” “Successful in copper,” said Newman, “only so-so in railroads, and a hopeless fizzle in oi... ...ging entertainment in the spectacle of fortunes made by the aggregation of copper coins, and in the minute subdivision of labor and profit. He questio...

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...lligence is elo quent, where everybody knows him and where half the Peer age stops to say “How do you do, Mr. Tulkinghorn?” He receives these saluta... ...brother of a youthful officer of mine in the china closet and the grey old age of my pretty young bride, with a flower in her bodice, in the breakfast... ...wers, where there was no spring, autumn, nor winter, but perpetual summer. Age or change should never wither it. The base word money should never be b... ...uppose?” said Mr. Jarndyce. “By heaven, he is the most astonishing bird in Europe!” replied the other. “He is the most wonderful creature! I wouldn’t... ...at except when she is found with her head in the pail, or the sink, or the copper, or the dinner, or anything else that happens to be near her at the ... ...indeed. The name of Professor Dingo, my immediate prede cessor, is one of European reputation.” Mrs. Badger overheard him and smiled. “Yes, my dear!”... ...nniver sary of my wedding day, I became the wife of Professor Dingo.” “Of European reputation,” added Mr. Badger in an un dertone. “And when Mr. Bad... ...regions of Chancery Lane. The good ships Law and Equity, those teak built, copper bottomed, iron fastened, brazen faced, and not by any means fast sa... ...t only whiskers can awaken in the breast of man) is a choice collection of copper plate impressions from that truly national work The Divinities of Al...

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...d before him as he approached, I could plainly see. Though much altered by age, I fancied I could recognize in his spare and slender form something of... ...ives in wood and alone in the midst of all this lumber and decay and ugly age, the beautiful child in her gentle slumber, smiling through her light a... ...ed with me; of my mo notonous existence, knowing no companions of thy own age nor any childish pleasures; of the solitutde in which thou has grown to... ...iron rings; some piles of rotten wood; and two or three heaps of old sheet copper, crumpled, cracked, and battered. On Quilp’s Wharf, Daniel Quilp was... ... get near either of them for a parting blow. ‘I’ll bruise you until you’re copper coloured, I’ll break your faces till you haven’t a profile between y... ...arture of the whole collection, on a short tour among the Crowned Heads of Europe, was positively fixed for that day week. ‘So be in time, be in time,...

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...r; perhaps God will resume the blessing He has bestowed ere he attains the age of manhood, or perhaps he is destined to be unworthy of the affection w... ...ppy temptation about the time 5 Sir Walter Scott when he shall attain the age of twenty-one, which period, the constellations intimate, will he the c... ...own to the board, they were joined by a young lady about eighteen years of age, and so lovely, that the sight of her carried off the 8 Guy Mannering ... ...e in most cases a mixed race, between the ancient Egyptians who arrived in Europe about the beginning of the fifteenth century, and vagrants of Europe... ...on arrayed in gray breeches, dark-blue stockings, clouted shoes, and small copper buckles. Such is a brief outline of the lives and fortunes of those ... ...ER of those gipsy tribes which for- merly inundated most of the nations of Europe, and which in some degree still subsist among them as a distinct peo... ...bes were, in short, the Parias of Scotland, living like wild Indians among European settlers, and, like them, judged of rather by their own customs, h... ...Gairns’s, and deil a tenant’s been at the Place yet wi’ a boddle [*A small copper coin] of rent,—nor will not till Candlemas—but, speaking of Frank Ke... ...k] the dirty scoundrel, as willingly as ever I pitched a boddle.” [A small copper coin] He then stepped forward to announce that his horses were in re...

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...him brown while he was very new. Dombey was about eight-and-forty years of age. Son about eight-and-forty minutes. Dombey was rather bald, rather red,... ...then by the sudden whisking into the room of a lady rather past the middle age than otherwise but dressed in a very juvenile manner, particularly as t... ...life; and 40 Dombey & Son midshipmen who have attained a pretty green old age, have not been wanting in the English Navy. The stock-in-trade of this ... ...nd seeing what a long way down it was, he answered: ‘Gold, and silver, and copper. Guineas, shillings, half-pence. You know what they are?’ ‘Oh yes, I... ...aul. ‘Your invitation,’ returned Mr Feeder. Paul, looking at it, found, in copper-plate print, with the exception of his own name and the date, which ... ...jor, ‘I’m glad to see you. I’m proud to see you. There are not many men in Europe to whom J. Bagstock would say that—for Josh is blunt. Sir: it’s his ... ...tive, who wore a pair of ear-rings in his dark-brown ears, and on whom his European clothes sat with an outlandish impossibil- ity of adjustment—being... ...As to Edith Granger, Sir,’ pursues the Major, ‘there is not a woman in all Europe but might—and would, Sir, you will allow Bagstock to add—and would- ... ...olishing the bridge of his nose with his arm until it shone like burnished copper, ‘don’ t you say a word to Ed’ard Cuttle, until such times as you fi...

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...ecoil. And I submit that their recoil upon that old man, in his unhonoured age, is not a mere piece of poetical justice, but is the extreme exposition... ...ject to that confusion of ideas, or, to say the least, of speech, to which age and garrulity are liable. The slight, 9 Charles Dickens the very sligh... ...ful, prudent thing!’ It was perfectly charming, and worthy of the Pastoral age, to see how the two Miss Pecksniffs slapped each other after this, and ... ... governess in a family, a lofty family; per- haps the wealthiest brass and copper founders’ family known to mankind. They lived at Camberwell; in a ho... ...if he were already First Architect in ordinary to all the Crowned Heads in Europe. ‘I’d do it. I’d provide for you.’ ‘I am afraid,’ said Tom, shaking ... ... without a breakfast. He passed more Golden Balls than all the jugglers in Europe have juggled with, in the course of their united performances, befor... ...,’ quoth the colonel, with a smile. ‘England has heard of Jefferson Brick. Europe has heard of Jefferson Brick. Let me see. When did you leave England... ...s by the quarter, hire them by the job, and pay them—oh, the wickedness of copper coin!—in dirty pence. Poll Sweedlepipe, the sinner, shaved all comer... ... was all a secret. He carried bits of sealing-wax and a hieroglyphical old copper seal in his pocket, and often secretly indited letters in corner box...