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... acquired the name of Homer, for the Cumans call blind men Homers.” With a love of economy, which shows how similar the world has always been in its t... ...h violence to that in ward emotion, which makes our whole soul yearn with love and admiration for the blind bard of Chios. To believe the author of t... ...me being, we in imagination must fight over the same battles, woo the same loves, burn 25 Pope with the same sense of injury, as an Achilles or a Hec... ...ruth. His po ems are founded on the first feeling of human nature; on the love of children, wife, and country; on that passion which outweighs all ot... ...ildren, wife, and country; on that passion which outweighs all others, the love of glory. His songs were poured forth from a breast which sympathized ... ...ep I scorn, And catch the glances of the waking morn. The delicacy of your courtly train To wash a wretched wanderer would disdain; But if, in tract o... ...go To weep abroad, and leave to us the bow, No vulgar task! Ill suits this courtly crew That stubborn horn which brave Ulysses drew. I well remember (...

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...e Contend for empire in thee, and thy goodness Share with thy birthright! Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in... ...dvise him. LAFEU: He cannot want the best That shall attend his love. COUNTESS: Heaven bless him! Farewell, Bertram. ... ...here is no living, none, If Bertram be away. Twere all one That I should love a bright particular star And think to wed it, he is so above me: In hi... ...ollateral light Must I be comforted, not in his sphere. The ambition in my love thus plagues itself: The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die... ...thus plagues itself: The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love. Twas pretty, though plague, To see him every hour; to sit and draw ... ...ken labors bid him me forgive; I, his despiteful Juno, sent him forth From courtly friends, with camping foes to live, Where death and danger dogs the...

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...tune Upon his good and gracious nature hanging Subdues and properties to his love and tendance All sorts of hearts; yea, from the glass faced flattere... ...of hearts; yea, from the glass faced flatterer To Apemantus, that few things loves better Than to abhor himself: even he drops down The knee before h... ... at my dearest cost In qualities of the best. This man of thine Attempts her love: I prithee, noble lord, Join with me to forbid him her resort; Myse... ...; It must not bear my daughter. TIMON: Does she love him? Old Athenian : She is young and apt: Our own precedent passion... ...ons do instruct us What levity’s in youth. TIMON: [To LUCILIUS ] Love you the maid? LUCILIUS: Ay, my good lord, and she accepts of it. Ol... ... kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable: performance is a kind of will or testament which...

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............................................................ 162 XVII. ON TWO LOVERS STRUCK DEAD BY LIGHTNING.85............................................ ...ave him his first lessons in read- ing, and he soon became an enthusiastic lover of books; and by copying printed characters, taught himself to write.... ...in mystery. Her name is said to have been Wainsbury. She was attached to a lover above her degree,—some say to the Duke of Berry, whom she had met in ... ... of Ovid. But with Homer, the severely grand, the simple, the warlike, the lover and painter of all Nature’s old original forms—the ocean, the mountai... ...s they please. 70 What guards the purity of melting maids, In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades, Safe from the treacherous friend, ... ...amed with early praise, And Congreve loved, and Swift endured my lays; The courtly Talbot, Somers, Sheffield read, Even mitred Rochester would nod the... ...’s days, Roscommon only boasts unspotted bays; And in our own (excuse some courtly stains) No whiter page than Addison remains. He from the taste obsc... ... too, And knows what’s fit for every State to do; Of whose best phrase and courtly accent join’d, He forms one tongue, exotic and refined 259 The Poe... ...nge! The gracious dew of pulpit eloquence, And all the well-whipt cream of courtly sense, 70 That first was Hervy’s, Fox’s next, and t...

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...I dare say you’ll write a poem of your own while you’re waiting. Ah, how I love the firelight! Doesn’t our room look charming?” She stepped back and b... ...n’t the winter we could take a jaunt to Italy. They say Switzerland’s very lovely in the snow, except for the cold. But, as you say, the great thing i... ...unwomanly nature of the science made her instinctively wish to conceal her love of it. But the more profound reason was that in her mind mathematics w... ...ine joy and of almost intolerable irritation. Not content to rest in their love of it, they must attempt to practise it themselves, and they are gener... ...first volume which his fingers touched. It happened to be a small and very lovely edition of Sir Thomas Browne, containing the “Urn Burial,” the “Hydr... ...king for, and, pick- ing the ring up, he presented it, with a bow that was courtly in the extreme, to Cassandra. Whether the making of a bow released ...

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...deacon’s father-in-law, and would thank them ten- derly for their care and love. Now he lay sleeping like a baby, resting easily on his back, his mout... ...of noble minds!’ He was avaricious, my readers will say. No—it was not for love of lucre that he wished to be bishop of Barchester. He was his father’... ... by the number of letters which “Com- mon Sense”, “Veritas”, and “One that loves fair play,” sent to the Jupiter, all expressing admiration and ampli-... ...en the defects of the trunk which it embraces, so did Eleanor cling to and love the very faults of her husband. She had once declared that whatever he... ...d the worst failings of her lord and master. And John Bold was a man to be loved by a woman; he was himself affectionate, he was confiding and manly; ... ...cottish earl. He had for years held some cleri- cal office appertaining to courtly matters, which had en- abled him to live in London, and to entrust ...

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...itent; to exculpate myself, certainly, but despising self-justification. I love my wife, Mr. Beltham. Yes; hear me out, sir. I can point to my unhappy... ... not my intention to employ force: I throw myself utterly on your mercy. I love the woman; I have much to repent of. I see her, and I go; but once I m... ...‘is your grandpapa. I am your papa. You must learn at any cost to know and love your papa. If I call for you to-morrow or next day they will have play... ...’ and that people were cruel to him, and would never take into account his lovely temper, and that everybody was his enemy, when he ought to be sittin... ...hen at the brown silk, partly to beg to go with it, partly in jealousy and love at the thought of its seeing him from whom I was so awfully sepa- rate... ...pposed to be embodied in this self- dubbed surname …’ ‘—The celebrated and courtly Mr. Richmond Roy, known no less by the fascination of his manners t... ...ulous son of St. Louis—so he called himself. With, Jorian admitted, a real courtly dignity , he stood up and proposed to lead the way to any neighbour... ...ing him to have lost his peculiar confidence in the princess, of which the courtly paces he had put me through precluded me from judging. But I guesse...

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...e bustling place. There is a great quantity of eating and drinking, making love and jilting, laughing and the contrary, smoking, cheating, fight- ing,... ...ty child looking at a gingerbread stall; a pretty girl blushing whilst her lover talks to her and chooses her fairing; poor Tom Fool, yonder behind th... ...e-riding, some scenes of high life, and some of very middling indeed; some love-making for the sentimental, and some light comic business; the whole a... ...h a kindly, smiling, tender, gentle, generous heart of her own, as won the love of everybody who came near her, from Minerva herself down to the poor ... ..., and curate to the Vicar of Chiswick, the Reverend Mr. Flowerdew, fell in love with Miss Sharp; being shot dead by a glance of her eyes which was fir... ...iss Briggs as they separated, while Pitt Crawley treated her to a profound courtly bow, such as he had used to H.H. the Duchess of Pumpernickel, when ... ...is not poor Lady Jane’s fault that she is well born,” Pitt replied, with a courtly air. “She cannot help being a lady. Besides, I am a Tory, you know....

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... referable to this. No more can I turn the leaves of this dear book that I loved, and vainly hope in time to read it all. No more can I look into the ... ...ood in ignorance on the shore. My friend is dead, my neighbour is dead, my love, the darling of my soul, is dead; it is the inexorable consolidation a... ...are going there: I, to identify him if I can: you, to restore him to life, love, duty, rest, comfort.” A shiver ran through her frame, and from it thr... ... with ea gerness to lay the spectral face upon her warm young breast, and love it back to life and hope so exactly was the expres sion repeated (tho... ...or his sake striven all day and lain awake and wept all night, because the love of my poor mother hid his torture from me, weep for it, weep for it! W... ...nty remedies for imaginary disorders that never existed, smiled upon their courtly patients in the ante chambers of Monseigneur. Projectors who had d... ...had been known in England as Charles Darnay. Monseigneur received him in a courtly manner, but they did not shake hands. “You left Paris yesterday, si... ...e Marquis. “You are fatigued. Good night!” As he bent his head in his most courtly manner, there was a secrecy in his smiling face, and he conveyed an... ...n the name of the assembled companions in misfortune,” said a gentleman of courtly appearance and address, coming forward, “I have the honour of givin...

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... the one little touch of romantic fancy in him. Indeed, he married her for love. A whisper still goes about that she had not even family; howbeit, Sir... ...nderstand it better. I have not by any means a quick understanding. When I love a person very tenderly indeed, it seems to brighten. But even that may... ...o far off that I never could be unrestrained with her—no, could never even love her as I wished. It made me very sorry 20 Bleak House – Vol. One to c... ...heart; and I talked it over very often with the dear old doll, but I never loved my godmother as I ought to have loved her and as I felt I must have l... ... chair. He gave us a searching look as we entered, but his manner was both courtly and kind. The gentleman in the bag wig laid bundles of papers on hi... ...in chintz and paper, in velvet, in needlework, in the brocade of two stiff courtly chairs which stood, each attended by a little page of a stool for g... ...there is something so tender in his man ner, after all, and he is so very courtly and gentle to us, and—” Mr. Jarndyce directed his eyes to where he ... ... ing, and more or less plunging of centaurs and bare backed horses. Their courtly politeness to each other at the hotels where they tarry is the them... ...has been laid by the heels here. My Lady,” in naming whom he always made a courtly gesture as if particularly to exclude her from any part in the quar...

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...er with these refreshments from a tray on the table. ‘I shall not drink my love to you, Paul,’ said Louisa: ‘I shall drink to the little Dombey . Good... ...g: so very wide across the chest: so upright! A pecuniary Duke of York, my love, and nothing short of it!’ said Miss T ox. ‘That’s what I should desig... ...as repeated. ‘Mama!’ said the child. The little voice, familiar and dearly loved, awakened some show of consciousness, even at that ebb. For a moment,... ...her choice 26 Dombey & Son entirely, and be under no restraint at all, my love.’ ‘And then, of course, you know,’ said Miss Tox, ‘however fond she is... ...n- is it not so, Louisa?’ ‘Most undoubtedly!’ said Mrs Chick. ‘You see, my love, she’s already quite contented and comfortable, and means to say goodb... ...s own mind upon the superior elegance of that form of address, as the most courtly he could think of. ‘Is W alter’ s Uncle here?’ asked Florence. ‘Her... ...I say,’ he at length repeated, putting down the lamp, and smiling his most courtly smile, ‘how strange to come here alone! It was unnecessarty caution...

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... referred to America. And this I will do and cause to be done, not in mere love and thankfulness, but because I regard it as an act of plain justice a... ...r! What a pleasant sight was that the contrast they presented; to see each loved and loving one sympathizing with, and devoted to, and lean- ing on, a... ... body, and not as indi- viduals. There is nothing personal in morality, my love. Even such a thing as this,’ said Mr Pecksniff, laying the fore-finger... ...w-creature, my dear; Mr Pinch is an item in the vast total of humanity, my love; and we have a right, it is our duty, to expect in Mr Pinch some devel... ...ittle differences!’ cried Charity. ‘Little differences!’ echoed Mercy. ‘My loves!’ said Mr Pecksniff, with the same serene upraising of his hand; ‘My ... ... a great man’s smile, a seat in parliament, a tap upon the shoulder from a courtly sword; a place, a party, or a thriving lie, or eighteen thousand po... ...d too, closely. When he talked to the Mayor, they said, Oh, really, what a courtly man he was! When he laid his hand upon the mason’s shoulder, giving...

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...at Vincennes. His wife, though a cruelly-neglected woman whom he had never loved, did her utmost to deliver him, repaired to Bordeaux, and gained over... ...to draw closer the bonds between ourselves and the English kindred, whom I love so heartily, though I may never hope to see them in this world, far le... ...ome business connected with the French estate that my father had fallen in love with a beautiful young widow, Madame la Baronne de Solivet (nee Chever... ...the cross, and like- wise to say our prayers and the catechism; and oh! we loved her very much. Eustace once gave two black eyes to our rude cousin, H... ...ied- up old man, who was hobbling up to kiss Her Majesty’s hand, and whose courtly smile seemed to me to sit most unnatu- rally on his wrinkled counte... ... the way. I must say I thought it very unkind and cruel when we had always loved each other so well. I would hardly bid him good-night, but ran up to ...

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... which our Lady forefend.” “Nay, I think better of my Cousin Longshanks. I loved him well when I was his page at Hereford: he was tenderer to me than ... ...ly on the way to the coast, ere the search be- gins; and there, either for love of Sir Simon the righteous or for that gilt knife of yours, we may get... ...n a poor orphan— the son of a Poitevin man-at-arms—that I kept with me for love of his father, though he is fitter for a convent than the green wood!”... ...lack silken veil, that disclosed a youthful countenance, full of pure calm love- liness, of a simple but dignified and devotional expression, that mig... ...s a ferocious enemy, and was much taken by surprise to find him a graceful courtly knight, peculiarly gentle in manner, loving music, romances, and al... ...icable it was to be sensible, in spite of himself, that this atmosphere of courtly refine- ment was far more natural to him—the son of a Provencal nob... ...none of her fair words.” He had prepared himself to be ungracious; but his courtly breeding was too much of an instinct with him for him not to rise, ... ... he could thoroughly trust. 140 The Prince and the Page But Henry made no courtly answer. “Pshaw! no living man that had to deal with or for your fat... ... come at last to see me.” “Thanks, my Lord,” said the beggar, with more of courtly tone than when they had met before, and yet Joan thought she had ne...

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... all our contemporaries, and yet as remote in thought and habit as Rob Roy or Barbarossa, the Apostles or the Caesars. The first experience can never ... ... close upon a curve of beach, close under a grove of palms; the sea in front growling and whitening on a concave arc of reef. For the cocoa-tree and t... ...bin, brought us a hundred visitors. The men fathomed out her dimensions with their arms, as their fathers fathomed out the ships of Cook; the women de... ... a touchy punc- tilio, are common to both races: common to both tongues the trick of dropping medial consonants. Here is a table of two widespread Pol... ...d into ruins, runs down to seaward in im- minent and shattered crags, and presents the one practi- cable breach of the blue bay. The interior of this ... ...ly servants. On Sunday these are gone, and nothing to be seen but dogs of all ranks and sizes peacefully slumbering in the shady grounds; for the dogs... ...d conse- quent endless repetition of Moipus and Mata-Galahis, he showed himself engagingly a child. And yet I am not sure; and what seemed childishnes... ...FOUNDATION OF EQUA- TOR TOWN OUR FIRST SIGHT OF T EMBINOK’ was a matter of concern, almost alarm, to my whole party. We had a favour to seek; we must ... ...plantation under a model planter. It is impossible to doubt the beneficence of that stern rule. A curious politeness, a soft and gracious manner, some...

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... benefit in itself, nor intended so by his parents, whose thoughts, in their love encounters, were otherwise employed. Upon these, and the like reason... ...the principles of honour, justice, courage, modesty, clemency, religion, and love of their country; they are always employed in some business, except ... ... they call houses and cities; they make a figure in dress and equipage; they love, they fight, they dispute, they cheat, they betray!” And thus he Gul... ...n their finery and birth day clothes, acting their several parts in the most courtly manner of strutting, and bowing, and prating, to say the truth, I... ...eness, and that those illustrious persons were no more disagreeable to their lovers, or to each other, than people of the same quality are with us in ... ...hing the court with some ri diculous story: and Glumdalclitch, although she loved me to excess, yet was arch enough to inform the queen, whenever I c...

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...ng accidentally laid her hand on his, she asked him if he had ever been in love. Joseph answered, with some con- fusion, it was time enough for one so... ...e equally indifferent to him. “Oh then,” said the lady, “you are a general lover. Indeed, you handsome fellows, like handsome women, are very long and... ...day of their lives: but no more of that, because you know, Pamela, I never loved to tell the secrets of my master’s family; but to be sure you must ha... ...crets of my master’s family; but to be sure you must have known they never loved one another; and I have heard her ladyship wish his honour dead above... ...all me ungrateful, for, so far from intending you any wrong, I have always loved you as well as if you had been my own mother.” “How, sirrah!” says Mr... ...on- tinue in his cure, that I must bring my nephew to vote for one Colonel Courtly, a gentleman whom I had never heard tidings of till that instant. I... ...man; but this by the bye. At last, when Mr Fickle got his place, Colo- nel Courtly stood again; and who should make interest for him but Mr Fickle him...

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...y by bringing the boy under remark. The Admiral was no enemy to dunces; he loved courage, and Charles, while yet little more than a baby, would ride t... ...t, the art of seeming so; played the part of a belle in society, while far lovelier women were left unat- tended; and up to old age had much of both t... ... to no money, yet with inherited qualities that were to make him known and loved. CHAPTER II. 1833-1851. Birth and Childhood – Edinburgh – Frankfort-o... ...eeming sprang, had an outpost by his very cradle; the one he instinctively loved, the other hated; and the life-long war in his members had begun thus... ... and temper filled him with respect – perhaps least for Garibaldi, whom he loved but yet mistrusted. But this is to look forward: these were the days ... ...Fast so gut wie ein bauer,’ was his trenchant criticism. The attention and courtly re- spect with which Fleeming surrounded his wife, was some- thing ...

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...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock , the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Faculty Edit... ... State University is an equal opportunity University. MAID MARIAN by Thomas Love Peacock CHAPTER I NOW COME YE FOR PEACE HERE, or come ye for wa... ...de maidens were disconcerted. Matilda feared that some evil had befallen her lover, but felt no diminution of her confidence in his honour and love. T... ...gdon as a traitor!” and at the same time he held his drawn sword between the lovers, as if to emblem that royal authority which laid its temporal ban ... ...chael; “there is often more sense in an old song than in a new homily. The courtly pad doth amble, When his gay lord would ramble: But both may c... ... sing his eulogies to his harp, but to undertake at a moment’s noticekind of courtly employment, called dirty work by the profane, which the blessings... ...ir conversation, and seemed much astonished to find himself in such holy and courtly com pany. Robin helped him largely to rumble pie and cygnet and ... ...to have the credit of possessing, without the trouble of practising. “A most courtly harper,” said the bishop; “I will fill thee with sack; I will mak... ...t harper,” said the bishop, “you are somewhat over officious here, and less courtly than I deemed you. If you love sack, forbear; for this course wil...

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...kes for ocean. I would not imitate the petty thought, Nor coin my self love to so base a vice, For all the glory your conversion brought, ... ...rs. Trimmer’s books on education, Or ‘Coelebs’ Wife’ set out in quest of lovers, Morality’s prim personification, In which not Envy’s self a... ...without her leave. He was a mortal of the careless kind, With no great love for learning, or the learn’d, Who chose to go where’er he had a mi... ...w vicious. His classic studies made a little puzzle, Because of filthy loves of gods and goddesses, Who in the earlier ages raised a bustle, ... ... ‘T is said that Donna Julia’s grandmamma Produced her Don more heirs at love than law. However this might be, the race went on Improving st... ...ield To patriot sympathy a Briton’s blushes,— He thought at heart like courtly Chesterfield, Who, after a long chase o’er hills, dales, bush... ... A figure fit to walk before a king; Tall, stately, form’d to lead the courtly van On birthdays, glorious with a star and string; The very...

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...ught of the open door. The old man motioned me in with his right hand with a courtly gesture, saying in excellent English, but with a strange intonati... ...g. So to make sure, I said interrogatively, “Count Dracula?” He bowed in a courtly was as he replied, “I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome, Mr. Hark... ... I have Chapter 2 26 come to know your great England, and to know her is to love her. I long to go through the crowded streets of your mighty London,... ... I rejoice also that there is a chapel of old times. We Transylvanian nobles love not to think that our bones may lie amongst the common dead. I seek ... ...nd the wind breathes cold through the broken battlements and case ments. I love the shade and the shadow, and would be alone with my thoughts when I... ...less interesting, so that I may not forget how time flies by us,” and with a courtly bow, he quickly left me. I went into my room and drew the curta... ...some fair lady sat to pen, with much thought and many blushes, her ill spelt love letter, and writ ing in my diary in shorthand all that has happened... ... girl must be good, but I had yet to learn… .” He finished his speech with a courtly bow. I asked him what it was that he wanted to see me about, so h... ...nsidered as under exceptional circumstances.”He made this last appeal with a courtly air of conviction which was not without its own charm. I think ...

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...My whole heart leaps after her,’ cried Eleanor, with a fervent gesture. ‘I loved her better than Isabel, though she was not so bonnie,’ said Jean. ‘Je... ... land of chivalry and song,’ exclaimed Eleanor, ‘where they have courts of love and poetry, and tilts and tour- neys and minstrelsy, and the sun shine... ...st husband, perhaps the only person for whom she had ever felt a softening love, had hard- ened and soured her. She despised and domineered over her ... ...over mortar and smut. My certie, you would be a bonnie lady to be Queen of Love and Beauty at a jousting-match.’ ‘You are no better, Jeanie,’ responde... ...sed if they have.’ ‘I cannot forget, my liege, how your own sainted father loved and fought for King Harry of Monmouth. Foe as he 14 Two Penniless Pr... ... They looked from one to the other without a word; and the Bishop, in more courtly language, explained that amid all these contending parties he could... ... hardly vouchsafed an inclination of the head in reply to the graceful and courtly welcome with which the princesses, nieces to the great Cardinal, we... ...and the discipline of the troop had not been severe; but Suffolk, though a courtly, chivalrous gentleman to his equals, had not the qualities of popul... ...nd Margaret, to the two Scottish maidens, and there were kindly as well as courtly embraces on either side. The Lady of Glenuskie, as a king’s grand-d...

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... found no prohibition. So Jane remained with this hap- piness added to her love. The treasure of Jane’s heart appeared to me to be what respectable pe... ...tells you how to get on in the world, and some what William read to me was lovely, ma’am.” Euphemia told me of this, laughing, and then she became sud... ...le, sitting in our little kitchen, and scrubbing the potatoes; “and such a lovely day for them.” She proceeded to numerous other details, clearly avoi... ...lliam that was, ma’am—had white gloves, and a coat like a clergyman, and a lovely chrysanthe- mum. He looked so nice, ma’am. And there was red carpet ... ...wonderful world”—she hesitated, and spoke still more softly—”this world of love to me.” Then suddenly the door clicked and closed. They turned their h... ...self bowing ineffably when I met Delia, and stooping in an old- fashioned, courtly way over her hand. Directly I caught myself, I straightened myself ...

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.... Name of the asylum, likely.” It was a soft, reposeful summer landscape, as lovely as a dream, and as lonesome as Sunday. The air was full of the sme... ...nments. As a rule, the speech and behavior of these people were gracious and courtly; and I noticed that they were good and serious listeners when an... ...ward their king and Church and nobility; as if they had any more occasion to love and honor king and Church and noble than a slave has to love and hon... ...urch and noble than a slave has to love and honor the lash, or a dog has to love and honor the stranger that kicks him! Why, dear me, any kind of roy... ...ER XII. SLOW TORTURE STRAIGHT OFF, WE WERE IN THE COUNTRY. It was most lovely and pleasant in those sylvan solitudes in the early cool morn in... ... none of those chivalrous magnanimities which one reads so much about — one courtly rascal at a time, and the rest standing by to see fair play. No,... ...and peradventure though he hate you he hath some cause, and peradventure he loveth in some other places ladies and gentlewomen, and to be loved agai... ...Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 249 whirlwind — the courtly world rose to its feet and bent for ward — the fateful coils wen...

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...nd sudden arbours shadow coarse-spun lines? Must purling streams refresh a lover’s loves? Must all ve veiled, while he that reads divines catching the... ...that makes them brave and noble, but the acts themselves and the unselfish love that moved us to do them. ‘Inasmuch as you have done it unto one of th... ...and with sunken, heavy eyes – a face hard and unkind, and without anything lovely. There was a woman on the platform seeing him off. At first sight, w... ... into his hand. I saw her stand and look after us with a perfect heaven of love on her face – this poor one-eyed Madonna – until the train was out of ... ...re the nightingales harbour – a sort of German flavour over all – and this love-drunken man, wandering on by sleeping village and silent town, pours o... ...ise; and then, at length – come to me, my Prince. O Lord, it’s going to be courtly! And there is not an ugly person nor an ugly scene in it. The Slate...

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... subjects all contributed material to the sternest criticism. Industry and love of truth alone will not make the artist. With only these Boswell might... ...ver left a house without leaving a wish for his return.’ His vivacity, his love of fun, his passion for good company and friendship, his sympa- thy, h... ...is autocracy, and made it rea- sonable, was the largeness of a nature that loved 11 Boswell’s Life of Johnson men and was ever hungry for knowledge o... ...pinion one must reckon in considering any important matter of his day. His love of London is but a part of his hunger for men. ‘The happiness of Londo... ... is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.’ As he loved London, so he loved a tavern for its sociability. ‘Sir, there is noth... ...xpectations that Johnson would dedicate the work to him, at- tempted, in a courtly manner, to sooth, and insinuate himself with the Sage, conscious, a... ...man of rank and elegant accomplishments, he was peculiarly gratified. This courtly device failed of its effect. Johnson, who thought that ‘all was fal... ..., and in writing for them, or greatly improving their Dedications. In that courtly species of composition no man excelled Dr. Johnson. Though the loft... ...n said of an actor, who played Sir Harry Wildair at Lichfield, ‘There is a courtly vivacity about the fellow;’ when in fact, according to Garrick’s ac...

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...nication ner HARD T IMES 52 vously; ‘she was a dancer.’ ‘Did your father love her?’ Louisa asked these questions with a strong, wild, wandering inte... ... banished creature, and hiding in solitary places. ‘O yes! As dearly as he loves me. Father loved me, first, for her sake. He carried me about with hi... ...her’s not like most. Those who didn’t know him as well as I do, and didn’t love him as dearly as I do, might believe he was not quite right. Sometimes... ...d at first he shook all over, and said noth ing but “My darling;” and “My love!”’ Here T om came lounging in, and stared at the two with a coolness n... ...lators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virt... ...again, and to substitute the much smaller sum he had named. He was neither courtly, nor handsome, nor picturesque, in any respect; and yet his manner ...

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...eart Yard 13. Patriarchal 14. Little Dorrit?s Party 15. Mrs Flintwinch has another Dream 16. Nobody?s Weakness 17. Nobody?s Rival 18. Little Dorrit?s Lover 19. The Father of the Marshalsea in two or three Relations 20. Moving in Society 21. Mr Merdle?s Complaint 22. A Puzzle 23. Machinery in Motion 24. Fortune-Telling 25. Conspirators and Others 26. Nobody?s State of Mind ...

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...another Dream 16. Nobody’s Weakness 17. Nobody’s Rival 18. Little Dorrit’s Lover 19. The Father of the Marshalsea in two or three Relations 20. Moving... ...! One night, Madame Rigaud and myself were walking amicably—I may say like lovers—on a height overhanging the sea. An evil star occasioned Madame Riga... ...o get you together again. There’s a crowd, Monsieur Rigaud, and it doesn’t love you.’ He passed on out of sight, and unlocked and unbarred a low door ... ...ty. A fair girl with rich brown hair hang- ing free in natural ringlets. A lovely girl, with a frank face, and wonderful eyes; so large, so soft, so b... ...o a dim room, which seemed a spa- cious one to her, and grandly furnished. Courtly ideas of Covent Garden, as a place with famous coffee-houses, where... .... Her father, a gentleman in mis- fortune—a gentleman of a fine spirit and courtly manners, who always bore with him—he deeply honoured. Her sister he... ...free, was so humbled, bowed, withered, and faded; William the bond, was so courtly, condescending, and benevolently conscious of a position; that in t... ...ominy. Mrs Gowan, however, received him with condescension. He found her a courtly old lady, formerly a Beauty, and still sufficiently 309 Little Dor... ...host, not yet in the prime of life, who in so graceful a way and with such courtly urbanity and modesty presides over us! Manners fit for a crown! Din...

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... Fourthly, pigeons have been watched, and tended with the utmost care, and loved by many people. They have been domesticated for thousands of years in... ...archs of Iran and Turan sent him some very rare birds;’ and, continues the courtly historian, ‘His Majesty by crossing the breeds, which method was ne... ...ombat; for undoubtedly this is for the good of the community; and maternal love or maternal hatred, though the latter fortunately is most rare, is all... ... been modified by domestication. It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog. All wolves, foxes, jackals, ... ...ome other observers, the European cuckoo has not utterly lost all maternal love and care for her own offspring. The occasional habit of birds laying t...

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...SHEPHERD, 5 -- THE SAD SHEPHERD, 6 -- THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES, 7 -- ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA, 8 -- THE INDIAN UPON GOD, 11 -- THE INDIAN TO HIS LOVE, 11 -- THE FALLING OF THE LEAVES, 12 -- EPHEMERA, 13 -- THE MADNESS OF KING GOLL, 13 -- THE STOLEN CHILD, 16 -- TO AN ISLE IN THE WATER, 17 -- DOWN BY THE SALLEY GARDENS, 18 -- THE MEDITATION OF THE OLD FISHERMAN, 18 -- ...

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...N GOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 THE INDIAN TO HIS LOVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 THE FALLING OF THE LEA ... ...ONG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 THE PITY OF LOVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 THE SORROW OF... ...OVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 THE SORROW OF LOVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 WHEN YOU ARE OLD . ... ...MOODS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 THE LOVER TELLS OF THE ROSE IN HIS HEART . . . . . . . . . 50 THE HOST OF THE A... ...54 THE HEART OF THE WOMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 THE LOVER MOURNS FOR THE LOSS OF LOVE . . . . . . . . . . 55 HE MOURNS FOR THE ... ...errara wall; Or climbed among the images of the past — The unperturbed and courtly images — Evening and morning, the steep street of Urbino To where t... ...et. What better than call a dance? Maybe the moon may learn, Tired of that courtly fashion, A new dance turn. Minnaloushe creeps through the grass Fro... ...mes of the embittered heart, or so it seems, That might adorn old songs or courtly shows; But what cared I that set him on to ride, I, starved for the...

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...ur of a ballroom with her as she moved toward Anna Pavlovna. Helene was so lovely that not only did she not show any trace of coquetry, but on the con... ...beauty. She seemed to wish, but to be unable, to diminish its effect. “How lovely!” said everyone who saw her; and the vicomte lifted his shoulders an... ...d at her with rapturous, almost frightened, eyes as she passed him. “V ery lovely,” said Prince Andrew. “V ery,” said Pierre. In passing Prince V asil... ... were, “high-sounding words which have long been discredited. Who does not love liberty and equality? Even our Saviour preached liberty and equality. ... ...lf that you have done all you are capable of, and until you have ceased to love the woman of your choice and have seen her plainly as she is, or else ... ...“They even say,” remarked the “man of great merit” who did not yet possess courtly tact, “that his excellency made it an express condition that the so... ...n the chairs and covered it with a cloth. De Beausset bowed low, with that courtly French bow which only the old retainers of the Bourbons knew how to... ...ll the courtiers were looking at something concealed un- der a cloth. With courtly adroitness de Beausset half turned and without turning his back to ...

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...hat persons who make a boast of professing the Christian religion, namely, love, joy, peace, temperance, and charity to all men, should quarrel with s... ...rth- less fellow with an intense desire to enter holy orders, and thus the love of diffusing God’s religion degenerated into sordid avarice and ambiti... ... great dissimilarity of style. (50) Compare, for instance, chap. i. of the courtly Isaiah, verse 11 to verse 20, with chap. v. of the countryman Amos,... ...l by legal authority. (107) Thus the rule of right living, the worship and love of God, was to them rather a bondage than the true liberty, the gift a... ...an the true liberty, the gift and grace of the Deity. (108) Moses bid them love God and keep His law, because they had in the past received benefits f... ...en, the prophets foretold for them a new covenant of the knowledge of God, love, and grace, such a promise is easily proved to be only made to the ele...

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...ded men! The prince’s journey by prudent folk was little blamed, though they loved him dear; they whetted the hero, and hailed good omens. And now the... ...ocean faithfully watching till once again it waft o’er the waters those well loved thanes, — winding neck’d wood, — to Weders’ bounds, heroes such as ... ...ce their steps to the folk and fastness that fostered them, to the land they loved, would lead them back! Full well they wist that on warriors many ba... ...the birth of her bairn. Now, Beowulf, thee, of heroes best, I shall heartily love as mine own, my son; preserve thou ever this kinship new: thou shalt... ...eburh needed not hold in value her enemies’ honor! 6 Innocent both were the loved ones she lost at the linden play, bairn and brother, they bowed to ... ...er weary, warrior guest from far, a hall thane heralded forth, who by custom courtly cared for all needs of a thane as in those old days warrior wande...

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...onceptions or to their sentiments. Their work is a routine; not a labor of love, but of self inter est in the most elementary form, the satisfaction ... ...s wife and ill treats his children that he would be happier if he lived in love and kindness with them. He would be happier if he were the kind of per... ...o become that kind of person. Being what he is, the gratifica tion of his love of domineering and the indulgence of his ferocious temper are to his p... ...t wrong, to complain of them. Yet, avoidable or not, he must be a purblind lover of liberty on whose mind they do not weigh; who would not rejoice at ... ...on of attempting it, from becoming candidates in wanton ness or from mere love of notoriety, and perhaps carrying off a few votes which are needed fo... ...ere the representative, on leaving his constituents, enters at once into a courtly or aristocratic atmosphere, whose influences all tend to deflect hi...

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...made a seamstress or waiting maid in Boston open her eyes. Next to the love of dress, I was most struck with the fineness of the voices and bea... ...ents;’’—a ship ready to sail; a boat on the beach; and a girl and her sailor lover taking their farewell. Underneath were printed the initials of his... ... national tributes had been paid, the Austrian gave us a very pretty little love song, and the Frenchmen sang a spirited thing called ‘‘Sentinelle!... ...d and called ‘‘the Alerts away!’’ Battle songs, drinking songs, boat songs, love songs, and everything else, they seemed to have a complete assortm... ... ‘‘Perhaps, like me, he struggles with Each feeling of regret; But if he’s loved as I have loved, He never can forget!’’ The last line, being t... ...n Bandini and Dona Augustia danced, Don Pablo de la Guerra received me in a courtly fashion. I passed the day with the family, and in walking about t...

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...ter of critical studies: that he has to mediate between the author whom he loves and the public who are certainly indifferent and frequently averse. M... ...I made haste to rejoice with the rejoicers over what is imperishably good, lovely, human, or divine, in his extraordinary poems. That was perhaps the ... ...p feeling that in this attempt to trim my sails be- tween an author whom I love and honour and a public too averse to recognise his merit, I have been... ...rs, and the point is capital, that Thoreau was once fairly and manfully in love, and, with perhaps too much aping of the angel, relinquished the woman... ...ics may explain. For these were all men whom, for one reason or another, I loved; or when I did not love the men, my love was the greater to their boo... ...the capacity of women, that raised up for them this clerical champion. His courtly spirit contrasts singularly with the rude, bracing republican- ism ... ...r it was sent under cover of another to Cecil, and as it was not of a very courtly conception throughout, and was, of all things, what would most exci... ...er sought a queen’s favour with a more virtuous purpose, or with as little courtly policy? The question of consistency is delicate, and must be made p...

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...efore us in the battle – taken together, they build up a face that “I have loved long since and lost awhile,” the face of what was once myself. This h... ...descendant, the person of to-day, I wish to keep the secret: not because I love him better, but because, with him, I am still in a business partnershi... ...with any pa- tience. Miss Bird, an authoress with whom I profess myself in love, declares all the viands of Japan to be uneatable – a staggering prete... ...t landscape. When the Scotch child sees them first he falls immediately in love; and from that time forward windmills keep turning in his dreams. And ... ...still growing, came to bulk on our regard with those clear features of the loved and living man, falls in a breath to memory and shadow, there falls a... ...ve. In the first, he is radiantly civil and rather silent, sits on a high, courtly hilltop, and from that vantage-ground drops you his remarks like fa...