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... Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster. The remains of this extensive wood are still to be seen at the noble seats of Wentworth, of Warncliffe Park, and around Rotherham. Here haunted of yore the fabulous Dragon of Wantley; here were fought many of the most desperate battles during the Civil Wars of the Roses; and here also flourished in ancient times those bands of...

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...e wood are still to be seen at the noble seats of Wentworth, of Warncliffe Park, and around Rotherham. Here haunted of yore the fabulous Dragon of W a... ...head of such forces as might 4 Ivanhoe enable him to make a figure in the national convulsions which appeared to be impending. The situation of the i... ...parate people subsequent to the reign of William the Second; yet the great national distinctions betwixt them and their conquerors, the recollection o... ...ined and turned up with rich furs, his mantle secured at the throat with a golden 13 Sir Walter Scott clasp, and the whole dress proper to his order ... ...n with the peasants, but of finer materials, and secured in the front with golden clasps. He had bracelets of gold upon his arms, and a broad collar o... ...y the exertions of the domestics, to silence this canine clamour. “T o the gate, knaves!” said the Saxon, hastily, as soon as the tumult was so much a... ...rance of the porter’s page, who announced that there was a stranger at the gate, imploring admittance and hospitality, “ Admit him,” said Cedric, “be ... ...astle of Coningsburgh, as right was; and thither had I gone, but for Mabel Parkins, who—” “Ay, dead was Athelstane,” said the old man, shaking his hea... ...im a set of wild manners, and a state of primitive society existing in the Highlands of Scotland, he is much disposed to acquiesce in the truth of wha...

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...ahyle hesitated not to pay his late captive a visit, as he returned to the Highlands to raise fresh recruits, on which occasion he spent a day or two ... ...745; was an active partaker in all the stirring scenes which passed in the Highlands betwixt these memorable eras; and, I have heard, was remarkable, ... ...ance from the German,’ what head so obtuse as not to image forth a profli- gate abbot, an oppressive duke, a secret and mysterious asso- ciation of Ro... ...rmed him (and, indeed, as he himself well knew), the W averleys of Highley Park, com. Hants; with whom the main branch, or rather stock, of the house ... ...omantic dell, The lake returned, in chastened gleam, The purple cloud, the golden beam: Reflected in the crystal pool, Headand and bank lay fair and c... ...th the Bar- onet, ‘compared to Sir Hildebrand, when he mustered before the gate of the Hall a larger body of horse than your whole regiment consists o... ...ments should be repaid forthwith, and, if delayed, if would be a matter of national reproach. Sir Everard, accus- tomed to treat much larger sums with... ...ith groves of nettles, and exhibited here and there a huge hemlock, or the national thistle, overshadowing a quarter of the petty enclosure. The broke... ...g out a private key, unlocked the casket, raised the lid, and pro- duced a golden goblet of a singular and antique appearance, moulded into the shape ...

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...e of gap-hedged fields possessed to their cen- tres by clumps of brambles. Gates were not, and the rabbit- mined, cattle-rubbed posts leaned out and i... ... rubbing his knees, “just for the sake of saying something, perhaps you’ll park it?” “What’s that?” said George. “Turn it all into a fine park like Vi... ...d—”that Mr. Sangres bought. It was four farms, and Mr. Sangres made a fine park of them, with a herd of faller deer.” 20 Actions and Reactions “Then ... ...rom aid, and of the duty 23 Kipling thereto of the mistress of Pardons. A gate in a beech hedge, reached across triple lawns, let them out before tea... ... A FARMER of the Augustan age Perused in Virgil’s golden page, The story of the secret won From Pro... ...r. Then I knew that he was a Great One with virtue in him. “We came to the highlands of the Sheshaheli on the dawn of the second day—about the time of... .... It seemed to me a pretty sight, but Penfentenyou said it represented Our National Attitude. Lord Lundie’s summer resting-place we learned was a farm... ... water-channel, changed leg cleverly on top, and hopped down in a cloud of golden dust. Abu Hussein from his earth watched with interest. He had never...

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...owing Poem is laid chiefly in the vicinity of Loch Katrine, in the Western Highlands of Perthshire. The time of Action includes Six Days, and the tran... ...ieftain’s daughter seemed the maid; Her satin snood, her silken plaid, Her golden brooch, such birth betrayed. And seldom was a snood amid Such wild l... ...erigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho! ieroe!’ Row, vassals, row, for the pride of the Highlands! Stretch to your oars for the ever-green Pine! O that the rose... ... thee:—he recalls the day When in my praise he led the lay O’er the arched gate of Bothwell proud, While many a minstrel answered loud, When Percy’s N... ... banquet they prepared, And wide their loyal portals flung, O’er their own gateway struggling hung. 37 Sir Walter Scott Loud cries their blood from M... ...im thy suit, whate’er it be, As ransom of his pledge to me.’ He placed the golden circlet on, Paused—kissed her hand—and then was gone. The aged Minst... ...roud career, The high-born filter shivers spear. I’ll follow to the Castle-park, And play my prize;—King James shall mark If age has tamed these sinew... ... writings on Highland subjects were qualified to interest the reader, mere national prejudices were, in the present day, very unlikely to 118 The Lad... ...cture—the effect of the sounds —and the wild character and strong peculiar national- ity of the whole procession, are given with inimitable spirit and...

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...ng some pretence to gentility, the poverty of the country of Scotland, the national disposition to wandering and to adventure, all conduced to lead th... ... 8 Sir Walter Scott of mercenary soldiers, they necessarily injured their national character. The tincture of learning, which most of them pos- sesse... ...ted to the command of one of several independent com- panies raised in the Highlands at the commencement of the troubles in the reign of Charles I.; a... ...marches he had made on a slighter occasion.” With this purpose he left the Highlands, and came with his sister as far as Gandercleugh, on his way to G... ...heresy; and having attained for their own country an establishment of this golden candlestick, the Scots became liberally and fra- ternally anxious to... ...the full number present, what return could I expect for communicating this golden secret of military tac- tic, except it may be a dirk in my wame, on ... ... received as guests, men against whom, perhaps, she was afraid to shut her gates. Refresh- ments were placed before the Children of the Mist, who took... ...r vengeance, were distributed among the allies, and fed the crows upon the gates of their castles. The survivors sought out more distant wildernesses,... ...amily of Grishornish, a dairy-maid, who daily used to herd the calves in a park close to the house, observed, at different times, a woman resembling h...

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...oats dancing harpooner beside their whale; along an avenue, not fabulously golden, of the deputy masts of all nations, a wintry woodland, every rag al... ...nd hillocks, and Death and Man are at grip for the haul. There we find our nationality, our poetry, no Hebrew com- peting. We do: or there at least we... ...ll the English critics heap their honours on its brave old Simplicity: our national literary flag, which signalizes us while we float, sub- sequently ... ...o come hauling up examples of malarious men, in whom these pourings of the golden rays of life breed fogs; and be moved, since you are scarcely un- de... ...of the spacious country-house danced him behind a sober demeanour from one park to another; and along beside the drive to view of his townhouse— unbel... ...n this man to spy the pleasures and reveal the joy of his pasture on them: gateways to the sunny within, issues to all the outer Edens. Few of us poss... ...e ‘ll try it herself. It’s a basket of medicine bottles driven to Regent’s Park pretty well every day.’ ‘Ha! Regent’s Park!’ exclaimed Victor, and sho... ...he road by this route to Paris, for the dictation of terms of peace at the gates of the French capital, sparing them the shameful entry; and this afte... ...itying his girl. ‘I promised Fredi she should never count a year with- out Highlands or Alps. You remember, mama?—down in the West Highlands. Fancy th...

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...t of his pottery. In 1793 he was able to buy a chateau sold as part of the National domain, which he at once pulled to pieces. The profits were such t... ... Nothing can be more discordant than brick tones of the skin surrounded by golden hair; they destroy all harmony. These fissures in the tissues, capri... ...er intel- lect and the extent of her education; in this way she opened the gates of her soul to curiosity. During this period of resolute study, in wh... ...the officers of the law, who 47 Balzac went to the house and broke in the gate. They soon discov- ered in a clover patch four holes, and near two of ... ...of their yellowing heads, to which the sun was lending the appearance of a golden foliage. The setting rays, diversely reflected on masses of differen... ...onsequently, the inhabitants of Montegnac lived to a recent period, as the Highlands of Scotland lived in former times, by murder and rapine. From the... ...f the plains. This district is a miniature Scotland, with its lowlands and highlands. Behind the hill, at the foot of which lies the village, rises, a... ...hirty thousand acres of unused land, the ruins of the castle, the gardens, park, and about five thou- sand acres of uncultivated land on the plain bey... ...tempted,” said the juge de paix. “Or, at any rate, the weak- nesses of our national character should have been guarded against by the admirable restri...

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...okeswoman carried in her arms, assured Guy Mannering, “It was a weary lang gate yet to Kippletringan, and unco heavy road for foot passengers.” The po... ...all possible occasions, 27 Sir Walter Scott turning their cattle into his parks, stealing his wood, shooting his game, and so forth, “for the laird, ... ...e fugitive had not, in imitation of his mighty namesake, taken the college gates along with him in his retreat. To all appearance, the equanimity of S... ...rest of the apartment was very gloomy. Equipt in a habit which mingled the national dress of the Scottish com- mon people with something of an Eastern... ...6 Guy Mannering CHAPTER V . —You have fed upon my seignories, Dispark’d my parks, and fell’d my forest woods, From mine own windows torn my household ... ...s of subsistence. They lost, in a great measure, by this intermixture, the national character of Egyptians, and became a mingled race, having all the ... ...scussion, though not with rudeness; for it was his present interest to buy golden opinions from all sorts of people. He inquired the price of tea and ... ...chapter, in con- ducting which he was skilful beyond most men in the South Highlands, was the distinguishing point in his character. When the tale on ...

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...of gratitude to the friend of my childhood, who first introduced me to the Highlands, their traditions, and their manners—had been engaged actively in... ...r’s freedom upon parole; and soon afterwards, having been sent back to the Highlands to raise men, he visited Colonel 12 Chronicles of the Canongate ... ... worthy gentleman’s reputation for shrewd Scottish sense, knowledge of our national antiquities, and a racy humour peculiar to himself, must be still ... ...at country—they would find that it was referred to by all Frenchmen as the golden age of the drama there. And also in England in the time of Queen Eli... ...n of foreign countries. He it is who has conferred a new reputation on our national character, and bestowed on Scotland an imperishable name, were it ... ... into our hearts? The shape of the mere mould into which genius poured its golden treasures was surely a matter of little moment, let it be called a T... ...e had been elicited a ray of hope that, at some future period, in Bereford Park, or some other place, if all parties were consulted and satisfied, and... ...of some conjured demon, within a circle, which, “beginning at the northern gate of the King’s Park, thence running northways, is bounded on the left b... ...ir—fie, sir—no from the like of you. Stay, sir, ye wunna find the way that gate.—Odd’s mercy, he maun ken the gate as weel as I do mysel’. Weel, I wad...

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...able to the nation that keeps such ill conditioned curs snarling about its gates. When I landed in America, I could not help being strongly impressed ... ...boards were painted in such gaudy colours; the gilded letters were so very golden; the bricks were so very red, the stone was so very white, the blind... ...t has given rise; the amount of vanity and prejudice it has dispelled. The golden calf they worship at Boston is a pigmy compared with the giant effig... ...he more cheerfully), and to their expo sure, piecemeal, on any sign post, gate, or gibbet, that might be deemed a good elevation for the purpose. My ... ...s there, I sincerely believe, any insolence of office of any kind. Nothing national is exhibited for money; and no public officer is a showman. We hav... ...It rained all day as I once thought it never did rain anywhere, but in the Highlands of Scotland. The river was full of floating blocks of ice, which ... ...of obtaining it, I suppose?’ ‘Well, I don’t know:’ which, by the bye, is a national answer. ‘Her friends mistrust her.’ ‘What have they to do with it... ...tion. The various departments of this Institution are erected in a kind of park or common in the middle of the town, where they are dimly visible amon... ... night too. In this beautiful place: the fairest among the fair and lovely Highlands of the North River: shut in by deep green heights and ruined fort...

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...es where he had seen the bears. The sunlight went before him in a sheaf of golden spears, and his shadow, that was at first limitless, crept towards h... ... and made a kind of introduction of her steed. There had been trouble at a gate, he was a young horse and fidgeted at gates; the dispute was still bri... ...ther he didn’t want to pull down Chexington and grow potatoes all over the park. This struck Prothero as an inadequate statement of the Socialist proj... ...ng bicycle was attached to the dog-cart behind. The expression of Benham’s golden face was still a stony expression; he regarded his friend with hard ... ... and the bicycle repair shop in Bridge Street, and Trinity College. At the gate of Trinity Benham stopped, and conveyed rather by acts than words that... ...enue to Empire was Whitehall! How momentous was the sunrise in St. James’s Park, and how significant the clustering knot of listeners and speakers ben... ...nds pointed out to him the value of working out some special aspect of our national political interests. A very useful speciality was the Balkans. Mr.... ...ere being overdone. Everybody went to the Balkans and came back with a pet nationality. She loathed pet nationali- ties. She believed most people loat... ... and other implements and the name of Giorgio. And as they got up into the highlands beyond Scutari they began to realize the deceitfulness of Podgori...

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... recognition of the idea of a human commonweal as something overriding any national and pa- triotic consideration, and that is in the working class mo... ...ocial revo- lution. If world peace is to be attained through labour inter- nationalism, it will have to be attained at the price of the completest soc... ... vious circling and mutation, a swirl like the swirl when at last the lock gates begin to open after a long phase of accu- mulating water and eddying ... .... One youngster in particular, a chuckle-headed, scrub-haired lad from the Highlands, sat hugging his knee with great sand-red hands and drinking in e... ...s way to the top of Arthur’s Seat, and there he sat for a long time in the golden evening sunshine, still, ex- cept that ever and again he whispered t... ...at down at a little table outside the County Council house of Golders Hill Park and sent one of the waiters to the Bull and Bush for a couple of bottl... ...e been confused, but it is highly probable that the formation of an aerial park in this region, from which attacks could be made upon the vast industr... ...t Cloud, great blocks and masses of black or pale dark- ness with pink and golden flashes of illumination and end- less interlacing bands of dotted li... ...o and fires, because of the numerous mos- quitoes that rose about us. ‘The gate of the house from which we had provisioned ourselves was adorned with ...

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... about his neck, what he told the ignorant people was a Serpent’s egg in a golden case. But it is certain that the Druidical ceremonies included the s... ... had a beautiful daughter named Rowena; and when, at a feast, she filled a golden goblet to the brim with wine, and gave it to Vortigern, saying in a ... ...evolted, in great crowds; and running to the palace, and thundering at the gates, cried, ‘Down with the wicked queen, who poisons men!’ They drove her... ...eat pains to represent him as the best of kings. But he was really profli gate, debauched, and vicious. He once forcibly carried off a young lady fro... ...to be quick about it. When the news reached Norman William, hunting in his park at Rouen, he dropped his bow, returned to his palace, called his noble... ...rl in all the world; and how he had a beau tiful Bower built for her in a Park at Woodstock; and how it was erected in a labyrinth, and could only be... ...ut into him by the brave spirit of the Scottish people, who took this as a national insult, that he refused to come any more. Thereupon, the King furt... ...ry, the Scottish people concealing their King among their mountains in the Highlands and showing a determination to resist; Edward marched to Berwick ... ...oo fed the fire. All this the people bore, and more than all this yet. The national spirit seems to have been banished from the king dom at this time...

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.... The Castle looks down upon the compact brown-roofed town; and from the town two picturesque old bridges span the river. Now the view broadens; throu... ... it, therefore his cham- pionship ceased. A rule which forbids social intercourse between members of different corps is strict. In the dueling-house, ... ...en, after a smoke, we went to bed. We had a refreshing nap, then got up about three in the afternoon and put on our panoply. As we tramped gaily out ... ...y, a gilded angel strikes the hour on a big bell with a hammer; as the striking ceases, a life- sized figure of Time raises its hour-glass and turns i... ...And peaceful flows the Rhine, The thirsty summits are drinking The sunset’s flooding wine; The loveliest maiden is sitting High-throned in yon blue ai... ...endid gamblers are gone, only her microscopic knaves remain. An English gentleman who had been living there several years, said: “If you could disguis... ...y insolence here. These shopkeepers detest the English and despise the Americans; they are rude to both, more es- Mark Twain 102 pecially to ladies o... ...ey, and apparently quite neighborly and close at hand, the giant form of the Jungfrau rose cold and white into the clear sky, beyond a gateway in the ... ...clings to his old habit, and keeps one leg of his passenger always dan- gling over the great deeps of the lower world while that passenger’s heart is ...

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... found to have been listening to the honey of a sweetheart in the Regent’s Park, instead of the soul-stirring evening discourse of Mr Slope. Not only ... ...con. The palace steps descend to a broad gravel sweep, from whence a small gate opens out into the street, very near the cov- ered gateway leading to ... ...ndon-road, half a mile from the cathedral. Till they had passed this small gate and entered the close, neither of them spoke a word; but the precentor... ...‘la Signora’. He was a dirty little old man, and though he had provided no golden lions, he had, it seems, relieved young Stanhope’s necessities. He p... ...d to the furthest corner, where he might not see her entrance. Mrs Proudie parked herself up, feel- ing that some important piece of business was in h... ...ting, look- ing back to the divine right of kings as the ruling axiom of a golden age, and cherishing, low down in the bottom of her hearts of hearts,... ...e known to other men in power. There was a cer- tain chief-commissioner of national schools who at the present moment was presumed to stand especially... ...f this. Sir Nicholas was stalking a deer, or attend- ing the Queen, in the Highlands; and even the indefati- gable Mr Towers had stolen an autumn holi...

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... reach’d the room door in a. trice, And might have done so by the garden gate, But met Alfonso in his dressing gown, Who threaten’d death—so J... ...n the ground, Some blood, and several footsteps, but no more: Juan the gate gain’d, turn’d the key about, And liking not the inside, lock’d th... ...le had been the winds that blew; Some thought it was Mount AEtna, some the highlands, Of Candia, Cyprus, Rhodes, or other islands. Meantime the ... ...ece Flash’d o’er his soul a few heroic rays, Such as lit onward to the Golden Fleece His predecessors in the Colchian days; ‘Tis true he h... ...ally, when he was ask’d to sing, He gave the different nations something national; ‘T was all the same to him—’God save the king,’ Or ‘Ca ir... ...tream Here and there studded with a seventy four; Sophia’s cupola with golden gleam; The cypress groves; Olympus high and hoar; The twelve... ...ic Of Dido’s alphabet; and this is rational As any other notion, and not national);— Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Eight” 187 But Juan was quite ‘a... ...nd the twilight hour In riding round those vegetable puncheons Call’d ‘Parks,’ where there is neither fruit nor flower Enough to gratify a bee... ... In Babylon’s bravuras—as the home Heart ballads of Green Erin or Gray Highlands, That bring Lochaber back to eyes that roam O’er far Atla...

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...men in the door. Even now the memory of it, mixing with the strains of the national anthem made him feel important, truculent. “Squads right!” same an... ...se he had a pass till midnight, because in ten minutes he’d be outside the gates, outside the green fence and the sentries and the strands of barbed w... ...tantly, the sergeant sang out: “Dis … missed.” Fuselli hurried towards the gate, brandishing his pass with an important swagger. Once out on the aspha... .... If they had been lucky, they would have seen a liner come in through the Golden Gate, growing from a blur of light to a huge moving brilliance, like... ...sunset over the harbor and ships 31 John Dos Passos coming in through the Golden Gate. His mind went gradu- ally blank and he went to sleep. The colu... ...ly, looking into shop windows, staring at women, lolling on benches in the parks where the faint sunlight came through a lacework of twigs purple and ... ...” “But this is a place to come back to. Imagine coming back here after the highlands of Thibet, where you’d nearly got drowned and scalped and had mad... ...ve the clas- sic balustrade with its big urns on the edge of the roof. The park, through the tall iron railings, was full of russet and pale lines, al...

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... an apple from a garden of the Hesperides? And as England cultivates those golden, if sometimes wrinkled, fruits, it would have seemed to him, in thin... ...their poison. CHAPTER II MR. ADISTER MR. PATRICK O’DONNELL drove up to the gates of Earlsfont notwithstanding these emotions, upon which light matter ... ...dister’s phaeton mounting a hill that took the first leap for the Cambrian highlands, up to his arrival in London, scarcely one of his ‘ideas’ darted ... ...s astonishing for promoting enlistment. Hear it any morning in your London parks, at the head of a march- ing regiment of your giant foot-Guards. Thre... ... is to say, the sense of devotion, which we should always be led to see in national symbols,’ Mr. Rumford resumed, and he looked humorously rueful whi... ... the precious minutes to the winds, for he hated a provocation. ‘There’s a golden mean, is there!’ ‘There is; there’s a way between magnums of good wi... ...mplete by looking at them sepa- rately; and so your Royal Standard is your national mirror; and when you gaze on it fondly you’re playing the part of ... ...eredith delight in songful gatherings, harps to wild Wales, his Cam- brian highlands, and not to England. You have not yet, though he is orderly and s... ...gh to stand for a resemblance. But who describes the spirit? No one at the gates of the field of youth. When Time goes reaping he will gather us a she...

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...ast shadows, were marching over woods and meads, black against the edge of golden; and great heights were cut with them, and bounding waters took the ... ...e by the spouse of the aforesaid eminent divinity—the Black Goddess of the golden fringes— men believe in her for ever after, behold her everywhere, t... ...ing along a road be- tween farms and mansions, meadows and gardenplots and park-palings. A strong warm wind drove the pack of clouds over the tree-top... ... the sight of blood. She should make a natural Lady Patroness of England’s National Sports. We might turn her to that purpose; wander over England wit... ...IDE FROM FOREIGN PARTS IS GIVEN A TASTE OF OLD EN- GLAND CHEERS AT AN OPEN GATE of a field saluted the familiar scarlet of the Earl of Fleetwood’s coa... ...n for the country. Lord Brailstone’s blue coach rattled through an eastern gate to the corner of the thirty-acre meadow, where Lord Fleetwood had draw... ...The half-dozen lines were cordial, breathing of their walk in the Austrian highlands, and naming a renowned city hotel for dinner that day, the hour s... ...IA IN WALES AN AUGUST OF GALES and rains drove Atlantic air over the Welsh highlands. Carinthia’s old father had impressed on her the rap- ture of ‘sm... ...g circumstances concerning her, and magnified them in the interests of the national humour: which is the English way of exalting to criticize, critici...

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... place a commander, swift, brave, immortal, And with him horse and foot, and parks of artillery, And artillery men, the deadliest that ever fired gun.... ...till though the one I sing, (One, yet of contradictions made,) I dedicate to Nationality, I leave in him revolt, (O latent right of insurrection! O qu... ...ove, The machinist rolls up his sleeves, the policeman travels his beat, the gate keeper marks who pass, The young fellow drives the express wagon, (I... ... the curb prolific and vital, Landscapes projected masculine, full sized and golden. 30 All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their ... ...ng on the ground with their heads out, Where burial coaches enter the arch’d gates of a cemetery, Where winter wolves bark amid wastes of snow and ici... ...ustard, the fat tail’d sheep, the antelope, and the burrowing wolf I see the highlands of Abyssinia, I see flocks of goats feeding, and see the fig tr... ... ouisiana—always the cotton fields of Alabama and Texas, Always California’s golden hills and hollows, and the silver mountains of New Mexico—always s... ...ly shape and mould the New World, adjusting it to Time and Space, You hidden national will lying in your abysms, conceal’d but ever alert, You past an... ...tman 307 THE C ENTENARIAN’S S TORY (Volunteer of 1861 2, at Washington Park, Brooklyn, assisting the Centenarian.) Give me your hand old Revolut...

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...g about Scottish scenery and manners, the High- land dress, and everything national or local that I could lay my hands upon. Now that I have got my Ge... ... to every yawning audience that I can gather. I am grown most insufferably national, you see. I fancy it is a punishment for my want of it at ordinary... ...back again, after these political in- terludes, upon Burns, toddy, and the Highlands. 23 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 I go every night to ... ...wns. Melford scattered all round a big green, with an Elizabethan Hall and Park, great screens of trees that seem twice as high as trees should seem, ... ... years ago, as glad at heart as I was, and prom- ising himself a future as golden and honourable! SUNDA Y , 11.20 A.M. – I wonder what you are doing n... ...as done I noted the two halberts laid against the pillar of the churchyard gate; and as I had not seen the little weekly pomp of civic dignitaries in ... ...d the bleating of sheep being shorn in a field near the garden, and to see golden patches of blossom already on the furze, and delicate green shoots u... ...blew up the valley, The deil was in it! — Syne spread the silk an’ tak the gate, In blast an’ blaudin’ rain, deil hae’t! The hale toon glintin’, stane... ...is, I suppose, three weeks after I be- gan. Do, please, forgive me. To the Highlands, first, to the Jenkins’, then to Antwerp; thence, by canoe with S...

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...ide a Saratoga trunk; whom he must get rid of, or perish from the rolls of national glory! I should be afraid to chronicle the language employed by th... ... when the cab swung sharply round a corner and pulled up before the garden gate of a villa in a long and wide road. The house was brilliantly lighted ... ...rom the staircase; three large fur- niture waggons stood before the garden gate; the servants were busy dismantling the house upon all sides; and some... ... be admitted by the small door to the gardens of Rochester House, Regent’s Park, by a man who is entirely in my inter- est. I must request you not to ... ... Place; his destination was near Notting Hill; plainly, he might cross the Park by keep- ing well in the open and avoiding populous alleys; and he tha... ... at leisure, a wealthy and luxurious student, envied and respected by all. Golden visions attended him through his slumber, and he awoke refreshed and... ...dinner with members of his family, and a yearly tour of a fortnight in the Highlands or even on the continent of Europe, were his principal distractio... ...ver plate. Or – or – help me out, Guido!” Tabary giggled. “Or parsley on a golden dish,” scribbled the poet. The wind was freshening without; it drove...

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...times one thousand pounds; and it is said that they can step over a five feet gate in their ordinary walk. They are described as exceedingly awkward lo... ...chusetts, — except in one place one or two of the Aster acuminatus, — and no golden rods till within twenty miles of Monson, where I saw a three ribb... ...e Assabet River in Concord. It was too late for flowers, except a few asters, golden rods, etc. In several places we noticed the slight frame of a camp... ...nd there in their midst, but not prevailing over them, are the perfection of parks and groves, gardens, arbors, paths, vistas, and landscapes. They ar... ...stinct. Why should not we, who have renounced the king’s authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which the bea... ... creation? or shall we, like villains, grub them all up, poaching on our own national domains? 96 The Maine Woods The Allegash and East Branch I STAR... ...aid was followed, respecting the eastern boundary of Maine, as determined by highlands and streams, at the time of the difficulties on that side. He wa... ...began to despair of finding it. I re membered hearing a good deal about the “highlands” dividing the waters of the Penobscot from those of the St. Joh... ...y the over lapping of the shore. It is remarkable how little these important gates to a lake are blazoned. There is no triumphal arch over the modest ...

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...g and severe illness. The Swan Inn was not forty yards from Dr. May’s back gate, and, at every spare moment, he was doing the part of 14 The Daisy Ch... ...nsued between Harry and Hector on the merits of the cakes at Ballhatchet’s gate, and old Nelly’s pies, which led the doctor to mourn over the loss of ... ... children will be very wild and ig- norant, and you don’t like that at the National School.” “Oh, but they are in such need, besides there will be no ... ...at, because it put her in mind of her Scottish hills. Well, your’s are the golden hills of heaven, now, my Maggie!” he added, hardly know- ing that he... ...’t remember.” But Norman could not repeat the words, and only mur- mured, “Golden hills.” It was enough. “I see,” said the doctor, “you had dwelt on t... ... to Miss Boulder, ‘I declare I must remonstrate. I undertook to instruct a national, not a ragged school;’ and then Miss Boulder shook out her fine wa... ...akes Mr. Rivers think it our pet scheme; so, what does he do but offer his park, and so we are to have a regular fancy fair, and Cocksmoor School will... ...did, that the Duchess Sarah was his model woman; for as they walked in the park in search of Phoebe Mayflower’s well, he gathered a fern leaf, to show... ...r her brother, whom he wished to take home with him, and thence to see the Highlands, so as to divert his anxiety for Harry, as well as to call him of...

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...t of these men re-created Scotland, and the second is its most essentially national production. T o treat fitly of Hugo and Villon would involve yet w... ...foreshadowed on the horizon; the fatality of distant events, the stream of national tendency, the salient framework of causation. And all this thrown ... ...th Mrs. Riddel, and on terms unfortunately beyond any ques- tion with Anne Park. Alas! this was not the only ill circumstance in his future. He had be... ...is new edition, hanging on to settle with the publisher, travelling in the Highlands with Willie Nichol, or philan- dering with Mrs. M’Lehose; and in ... ... of trial. In the next cell lay one Kusakabe, a reformer from the southern highlands of Satzuma. They were in prison for different plots indeed, but f... ...ongue in his cheek at the sim- plicity of rustic dupes, and often, at city gates, he might stop to contemplate the gibbet with its swinging bodies, an... ...review the different degrees of bygone men, from the holy Apostles and the golden Emperor of the East, down to the heralds, pursuivants, and trumpeter... ..., kissed Alain Chartier’s lips in honour of the many virtuous thoughts and golden sayings they had ut- tered; but it is not so well known, that this p... ...aste and charged with the destiny of nations, who were made welcome at the gates of Blois. If any man of accomplishment came that way, he was sure of ...

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...F THE GEN- ERAL STOCK OF THE SOCIETY, OR OF THE EXPENSE OF MAINTAINING THE NATIONAL CAPITAL ............................................................. ...y small villages which are scat- tered about in so desert a country as the highlands of Scotland, every farmer must be butcher, baker, and brewer, for... ...uch a trade as even that of a nailer in the remote and inland parts of the highlands of Scotland. Such a workman at the rate of a thousand nails a-day... ... increase without it. The increase of revenue and stock is the increase of national wealth. The demand for those who live by wages, therefore, natural... ... it may appear, is not near sufficient to compensate the expense of a deer park, as is well known to all those who have had any experience in the feed... ...as raised at this enormous expense. The projectors, no doubt, had in their golden dreams the most distinct vision of this great profit. Upon their awa... ...double advantage in their commerce with Spain and Portugal. Open the flood-gates, and there will presently be less water above, and more below the dam... ...r copper, or tin, or iron. The dream of Sir Waiter Raleigh, concerning the golden city and country of El Dorado, may satisfy us, that even wise men ar... ...ich is carried on by the native Indians; and vessels navi- 517 Adam Smith gated by the inhabitants of China and Japan, of Tonquin, Mal- acca, Cochin-...