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...ndows under a gable. A shadow shifted and she figured it belonged to the expensive sports car. She passed on by Royce’s office and came to Wyli... ...with Aunt Eleanor’s blessing, Uncle Wallace set her and Olin up in the plantation’s sporting lodge, Dovecote. Of course everyone in town joked that ... ...tion’s sporting lodge, Dovecote. Of course everyone in town joked that it was very ’sporting‘ of Eleanor. “Mornin’,” Olin said, giving his cus... ...ng at him, he hadn’t changed. His deep-set eyes were as dark as ever, and he still sported a neat black beard. A few more white strands streaked h... ...out a real dog. But don’t tell nobody.” So Hannah knew about Bobby’s despicable sport. “Don’t leave this house unless you’re with someone,” Lau... ... killer.” “What could have necessitated her murder?” “I triggered her memory,” she said, swallowing Scotch. “But I think she was doome...

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...ter for use in any number of hot drinks or meals, such as oatmeal or soup. Sports Dumbbells Exercise An exercise machine’s accessibility is machine... ...t so that all such material—wherever it might be found—could vanish into the memory hole. Even when it comes to waving the regulator’s wand for the pu... ...nts designed to write up their ideas, creating insti- tutional structure and memory as the project became bigger than just a few re- searchers in a ro...

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...?’ ‘He is only under the obligation not to cast disrespect on his father’s memory, my lady; and to be honest, while he can.’ ‘But, Mrs. Harrington! su... ...rd I won’t forget it, sir, if he does; and I suppose he’ll be drowning his memory just as he was near drowning himself.’ Evan muttered something, grim... ...d that her inspired echo of Uniform, on board the Jocasta, had drowned the memory, eclipsed the meaning, of that fatal ut- terance of Shop! 40 Evan H... ...mbitious walks behind the curtain, and toyed with little flowers of palest memory. Utterly tasteless, totally wanting in discernment, not to say grati... ...bird Mrs. Mel had herself brought down, and she had for him something of a sportsman’s regard for his victim. Dandy was the cleaner of boots and runne... ...ed his wound, and put him to bed; crying contempt (ever present in Dandy’s memory) at such a poor creature undertaking the work of housebreaker. Taugh... ...had no fear of him; he is really admirable with the men—easy, and talks of sport and politics, and makes the proper use of Por- tugal. He has quite wo... ...p in the Court of Portugal, he is barely English. There they have no manly sports. You saw him pass you?’ ‘Him! Who?’ asked Harry. ‘My brother, on the... ... hypoc- risy of confessing, she justly might, why, then, unless he was the sport of a farceur, here seemed a gilding of the path of duty: he could be ...

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...s a daring innovator and a pioneer of hyperlinked-like textual design. It sported a subject index, a lexical part and an alphabetically arranged ser... ... some users and on their willingness to pay for content. Browsers already sport "What's New" and "What's Hot" buttons. Most Search Engines and direc... ...onal agencies. Periodical publications (magazines, newsletters, bulletins) sport an ISSN (International Serial Standard Number). National libraries d... ...re devalued and common it becomes and the less institutional and cultural memory we seem to possess. In the battle between paper and screen, the for... ...logical. The oft-vindicated Moore's law predicts the doubling of computer memory capacity every 18 months. But memory is only one aspect of computin... ...eneration, this will be how they remember Alice in Wonderland, just as my memory of it was a golden inscribed red leather edition my family used to ... ...tore music, such as removable hard drives, recordable DVDs, Compact Flash memory cards and MP3 players." Precedent is hardly encouraging. The afor... ...er in the search results. This holds true even when both Websites A and B sport the same PageRank. This holds true even if the bulk of Website A's i... .... 5. Moore's Law and Metcalf's Law delineate an exponential growth in memory, processing speed, storage, and other computer capacities. Where is...

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...f the audience, is secondary to the choice of the winner. A debate is thus like a sporting event at which, although the fans have interest in and e... ...ent at which, although the fans have interest in and enthusiasm for the theme (the sport, the issue), they cheer primarily the team that bests its op... ...way or another. In short, participants in a debate, like players in the performing sports and arts, while they impart to their clients much is ideat... ...s" of information-plus or minus two (Miller 1956). Psychological concepts, such as memory, information overload (what marketers call "clutter ," as ... ... in business making conscious and systematic use of concept marketing. Again, the sporting goods firm cannot afford to stay aloof of the idea of PTA... ...tor's Conference. American Marketing Association, 350-54. Krugman, Herbert. 1977. "Memory Without Recall, Exposure Without Perception." Journal of A...

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...ys to do what he said; never to spill anything but water; to have a better memory than flies usu- ally have; to keep his hands to himself, to do the s... ...then, put the true character of this virtuous woman on the tablets of your memory, go your ways, and let me go mine. The good Madame Petit was not one... ...o not, then, know the physiognomies of your own wife, you old fool without memory! You deserve to be hanged.” “I hold those features of my wife in too... ...to get to bed early, since this adventure had brought his good wife to his memory. When he was harnessing himself, and was knocking off his nether gar... ...hom the king was exceedingly par- tial—King Charles the Fifth, of glorious memory. Beneath the shelter of the favour of this Sieur de la Riviere, Lord... ...cion. Bertha thanked the Virgin that her son had been so taken up with his sport. Retaining his presence of mind, Jehan, who had not forgotten the les... ...e among the artifices of these new pearls of laughter. Ye gods! but she is sporting herself in them like a hundred schoolboys in a hedge full of black...

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... the ministers. We held, justly, as I think, that we had done more for his memory than anyone else, and we had done it by opening lights into his life... ...ing the energy, in her state of health and at her time of life, to wish to sport with me that way simply for her private entertainment—the hu- mor to ...

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...great and magnificent epoch at any rate de visu, for a certain accuracy of memory was needed for the full appre- ciation of the costume, and even now ... ... homely cheerfulness found in the romances of August Lafontaine of pacific memory; but the predominating element in the compound of artless- ness and ... ... shaping themselves into one idea, reach consciousness with a ricochet, as sportsmen say. “He must have taken offence at nothing at all,” answered his... ...ter the manner of the heroes of the novels of Auguste Lafontaine of chaste memory. “You are adorable,” said he. Cecile’s petulant gesture replied, “So... ...e says—” As all the client’s confidences appeared to have slipped from the memory of her legal adviser, she began to cast about for a way of taking le... ...sier, had agreed beforehand to make a suggestion which stuck in Schmucke’s memory; for there are times in our lives when grief, as it were, congeals t... ...n replied with another gesture, which being interpreted means “Don’t spoil sport”; a piece of commercial 238 Cousin Pons free-masonry, as it were, wh...

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...east he endeavoured to tell the truth, as far as his poor racked imperfect memory would allow him to re- member what was true and what was not true. T... ... ‘He has much to occupy his mind, and he forgets things which dwell in the memory of other people. He said that he had got this money from Mr Soames, ... ... vicar of Framley became 41 Anthony Trollope silent and thoughtful as the memory of a certain interview between himself and Mr Crawley came back into... ...n arrow-shooting party, or a ball, or a picnic. But the catering for men’s sport is never ending, and is always para- mount to everything else. And ye... ... he would sit for a moment with his pen poised in the air, search- ing his memory for a word. But the words came to him eas- ily, and before an hour w... ..., and that her thoughts were going back to things which had faded from her memory, and which should have been long since ban- ished altogether from su... ... question of no great moment to Mr Toogood who had stolen it. But he was a sportsman in his own line who liked to account for his own fox. As he was d...

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...friendliest interest in Bella’s making a good match. Mrs Lammle said, in a sportive way , she really must show her beautiful Bella what kind of wealth... ...other, but you’ve been stiff and numbed.’ ‘Ah!’ said Betty, recovering her memory. ‘It’s the numb- ness. Yes. It comes over me at times.’ W as it gone... ...the calmest indifference; ‘but I dare say he was there. Come! Be a British sportsman and enjoy the pleasures of the chase. It will do you good.’ Light... ... accumulated provocation and self-justification, by being made the nightly sport of the reckless and insolent Eu- gene. Knowing all this,—and still al... ...e. He had been spurred and whipped and heavily sweated. If a record of the sport had usurped the places of the peaceful texts from Scripture on the wa... ...rought to anchor on V eneering’s left; thus af- fording opportunity to the sportive Tippins on his right (he, as usual, being mere vacant space), to e...

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... at fault in any way. Loading a document into your browser’s transient cache memory while reading it was said to be making a “copy.” There was more: t... ...w was given to the House of Commons Select Committee on Cul- ture, Media and Sport, that frame of mind was much in evidence: The Gowers Review underto... ...ke my hat off to you. The world of open sky and virtuous sweat, of books and sport and laughter, is no less dear to me than to you. Having an avatar i... ...), vol. XIII, 326–338 (hereinafter Letter to McPherson), available at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/ mtjser1.html (follow “... ...m Thomas Jefferson to Samuel H. Smith [August 15, 1813], available at http://memory.loc .gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/mtjser1.html [follow “... ...m Thomas Jefferson to Caspar Wistar [August 17, 1813], avail- able at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/mtjser1.html [fol- low ... ...21–22. 13. Ibid. 14. House of Commons Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport, Fifth Report (2007), available at http://www.publications.parliame...

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...amour; it takes much hard work and complete dedication. “Cheerleading is a sport and an art that is unique and representative of the most positive asp... ...ey are smart, diligent, and ordinary girls striving to achieve leadership, sportsmanship, and teamwork. The stereotypical view of cheerleaders is inac... ...rs of life. I have devel- oped a love for running, following my favor- ite sports teams through their seasons, hang- ing out with friends, and having ... ...It was the highlight of the night. My experience in Cancun, Mexico was one memory surely different from my others and can allow me to look back on it ... ...amour; it takes much hard work and complete dedication: “Cheerleading is a sport and an art that is unique and representative of the most positive asp... ...ey are smart, diligent, and ordinary girls striving to achieve leadership, sportsmanship, and teamwork. The stereotypi- cal view of cheerleaders is in...

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...r your mother. 55 Shaw THE MAN. Monster! Without conscience! without even memory! You left her to her shame— TARLETON. [throwing the brooch on the ta... ...ine to six for a month, and let me have your grub and 64 Misalliance your sport and your lessons in boxing, and I’ll fight you fast enough. You know ... .... Dropping in as I did— TARLETON. Out of the sky. Ha! Dropping in. The new sport of aviation. You just see a nice house; drop in; scoop up the man’s d...

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...interest of the matter, or in vulgar parlance the inordinate intellectual “sport” of it: the how and the whence and the why these intenser lights of e... ...id—having seen it, having tried it, having taken its mea sure. This was a memory in fact simply to screen out—much as, just in front of him while he ... ...ad after all so much more surface than depth. When his companion, with the memory of other visits and other rambles, spoke of places he had n’t seen a... ...then, and not unnaturally of course joined him. It was urged on him by his memory of the duration of the visit she had that time, as it were, paid him... ... couple of perusals of the immortal lines had sufficed to stamp them in his memory. His “peak in Darien” was the sudden hour that had transformed his l... ... that of ribbons, frills and fine fabrics; all funny pathetic evidence, for memory, of the bewilderments overtaking them as a bridal pair confronted wi... ...ighter and perhaps thereby a somewhat more boisterously refreshing form of sport. Such omens struck one as vivid, in any case, when Mr. Gutermann Seus...

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...century after the revelations to the Prophet Mohammed as a golden age. Its memory is strongest among the Arabs.What happened then—the spread of Islam ... ...in Beirut in 1983, the over- all loss of life rivaled the worst attacks in memory . More ominous, perhaps, was the demonstration of an operational cap... ...self. Shelton told us that such operations are not risk free, invoking the memory of the 1993 “Black Hawk down” fiasco in Mogadishu. 115 The CIA repor... ...nfrastructure such as power grids, areas where people con- gregate such as sports arenas, and civil aviation generally. It warned that the 1993 World ... ... the activities in the field became part of the government’s institutional memory about Islamist terrorist personalities, organizations, and possible ... ...ush at War account of the Camp David discussions on Iraq accorded with her memory. 65. DOD memo, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy,“...

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... Resistance (two words which will be inexplicable thirty years hence) made sport of what ought to have been truly respected,—the name of a conquered n... ...I have taken all I have of any value to my uncle’s; I have nothing but the memory of you left, and here is the winter coming on. I shall be fireless w... ... “Midnight. “I could not go on; the memory of that hour is still too living. Yes, I was maddened. Was there hop...

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...pale golden hair, Modeste belonged to the type of woman called, perhaps in memory of Eve, the celestial blonde; whose satiny skin is like a silk paper... ...y. Charles d’Estourny, gambler, criminal, and de- bauchee, remained in the memory of the sisters, the elegant Parisian of the fetes of Havre, the admi... ...thful hap- piness and remained demurely quiet. Let us say frankly that the memory of her sister was more potent upon her than any 88 Modeste Mignon s... ...ds of a gentleman, your step along the nave,—all, all, is so printed on my memory that sixty years hence I shall see the veriest trifles of this day o... ... ideas, after the fashion of a drunken man, he exclaimed, “and I’ve such a memory; it is on a par with my gratitude.” “Butscha!” cried the poet, “you ... ..., were noticeably lean, sinewy, and vigorous, like 239 Balzac men in whom sport had become a passion. All three were supplied with immense horns of D...

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...t a distance, running another way; for in a word, they ran every way, like sportsmen beating for their game. The poor men were now in great perplexity... ...saw of their kind! only they will not run a great way, and you are sure of sport when you begin the chase, for they appear generally thirty or forty i... ...y head, and took it away bloody; then I felt my head ache: and in a moment memory returned, and every- thing was present to me again. I jumped upon my...

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...idently in- doctrinating the two little V arleys with some of the dramatic sports of Silverfold. Aunt Ada found another acquaintance, a white moustach... ... not a lesson, but play. She was angered when Aunt Jane put a stop to some sportive passes and chatter on the stairs between Valetta and Alice Mount, ... ...ides that afterwards there is a wholesome sweetness in thus keeping up the memory.’ Sir Jasper shared a carriage with Mr. White, and returned somewhat...

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...e; but a century of changes, wars, and revolutions has not blotted out the memory of the self-devotion of the chevalier; for, among the new war-steame... ..., and on the ramparts, he saw the Spartans, some of them engaged in active sports, and others in combing their long hair. He rode back to the king, an... ...e hillock of the last resistance was placed the figure of a stone lion, in memory of Leonidas, so fitly named the lion-like, and Simonides, at his own... ...ays of their law, and thought them old-fashioned. They joined in the Greek sports, played games naked in the theatre, joined in riotous processions, c... ...e fond of pleasure, no one could hope to please them who did not give them sports and entertainments. When any person wished to be elected to any publ... ...iscontented, their cry was that they wanted panem ac Circenses, ‘bread and sports’, the only things they cared for. In most places where there has bee... ... cable. According to the constitution of the Emperor Constantine, of happy memory, and the edict that declares that whosoever is manumitted in church,... ...‘I have been with thee in thine hour Of glory and of bliss; Doubt not its memory’s living power T o strengthen me through this. And thou, mine honor... ...the souls of those who were slain. No wonder that men thus nurtured in the memory of such actions were, even to the fall of the French monarchy, among...

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...nd seldom found any one who could play well enough to afford him much real sport, but he found Sir Guy more nearly a match than often fell to his lot;... ..., or Guy; the last no longer a spectator, but an active contributor to the sport. When the break-up came, Mary and Amabel were standing over the table... ...etter, it is the spirit,’ said Charles, vexed at the interference with his sport of amazing the Miss Harpers with outrageous stories of Mrs. Brownlow.... ...t it. He wanted to see some evidence of the fiery temper, and it was a new sport to try to rouse it; one, too, which had the greater relish, as it kep... ... let- ters, had been such a comfort. But not a line came. He re- viewed in memory his last letter to Charles, wondering whether it could have offended... ... only when he was told there was to be a tablet in Redclyffe church to the memory of Guy, sixth baronet. In the evening Markham became very confidenti... ... delusions ceased, and he re- sumed the perception of surrounding objects, memory and reflection wavered in dizzy confusion, more distressing than eit... ...mething in that baby face that re- called him more vividly than picture or memory. ‘Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace.’ Those words s... ...six at St. Mildred’s, finding that, as his strength returned, his mind and memory regained their tone, and he was as capable as ever of applying to bu...

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...ar nivorous animal, man, had confined all the day to her lurk ing place, sports wantonly o’er the lawns; now on some hol low tree the owl, shrill c... ...ht possibly have recollected it without the infor mation annexed. But his memory was not put to that hard office; for at the same instant he saw and ... ...nd. As soon as Western saw Jones, he set up the same holla as is used by sportsmen when their game is in view. He then immediately run up and laid h... ...at hospitality, so his neighbours resorted to him with great alacrity; and sports and drinking consumed so much of his time, that a small part of his ... ...f equally agreeable to her. “The lieutenant, who was neither a sot nor a sportsman, was frequently of our parties; indeed he was very little with my... ... the said Moore in the loathsome dungeon of the Dunciad, where his unhappy memory now remains, and eternally will remain, as a proper punishment for s... ...is, however, in the present tumult of his mind, never once recurred to his memory; but when the footman, who had conducted him from his lordship’s, ac... ...ven former thoughts out of his head; so that it never once occurred to his memory to act the part of a sick man; which, indeed, neither the gaiety of ... ...ll frighten all of it out of my head, or, to use a purer phrase, out of my memory. I never saw you look so angry since the day we left Upton, which I ...

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...idings that they see and hear; they are called Huginn and Muninn (mind and memory); them sends he at dawn to fly over the whole world, and they come b... ...ic should possess. Growing up while the deeds of dead heroes were fresh in memory, most often recited before the sharers in such deeds, the saga, in i... ... regular and accepted form, which would ease the strain upon the reciter’s memory and leave his mind free to adorn the story with fair devices, that a... ...no wise a kinsome man, for full oft would he bring Sigmund’s wrongs to his memory, and prick him on to slay King Siggeir. Now on a time as they fare a... ...he answered, “T ake heed now, and consider, if I have kept King Siggeir in memory, and his slaying of Volsung the king! I let slay both my children, w... ...eemed full sure, that no otherwise must the matter be than as he said. His sport and pleasure it was to give aid to his own folk, and to prove himself... ...ood joyance had they there together, and each was leal to other; and their sport was in the arraying of their weapons, and the shafting of their arrow... ...ad under the feet of them, and all folk served them, and in many wise they sported. But Gudrun was somewhat silent. Then said Brynhild, “Ill to abash ...

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...has an interest with the Manhattanese. In that conversation the writer—his memory im- pressed with the objects with which he had been familiar in Lond... ... by such combinations; but, with a fatality that would seem to be the very sport of demons, there they stand, drawn up in formi- dable array, in nearl...

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...of High Church hymn-singing. I fancy she stood singing hymns there, out of memory and her imagination, instead of coming home to get supper, and Willi... ...of Butcher ever?” “Butcher—Butcher?” The name seemed vaguely present in my memory; then I recalled Butcher v. Dawson. “Why!” 49 H.G . Wells said I, “... ...ernight circumstances, and I found them now, curiously enough, vivid in my memory: the supper, my reception of the little packages, my wonder whether ... ... for dreaming. I was inclined to imagine there was still some hiatus in my memory, as a consequence of my draught of that strange liqueur; that I had ... ...y are volumes of manuscript notes referring chiefly to the psychol- ogy of memory, and parts of what may be either calculations or ciphers in symbols ... ...ing of anonymous women, as if he was telling beads. Sometimes he suggested sport, and they shot at alligators, and at rare intervals they came to huma...

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...nd upon it, Love, like Death, plays havoc among the pauperum tabernas, and sports with rich and poor, wicked and virtuous, alike. I have often fancied... ...ently Ensign, Mr., or even Captain Macshane; his intimates occasionally in sport called him Nosey, from the prominence of that feature in his counte- ... ... The Count asked the boy’s mother’s Christian name, and being told it, his memory at once returned to him. “What! are you little Cat’s son?” said his ... ...The events were precisely similar,” said the Abbe. “It is wonderful what a memory you have!” “I was always remarkable for it,” continued his Excellenc... ... the quarrel, the horrible words and looks of Catherine never left Hayes’s memory; but a cold fear followed him—a dreadful prescience. He strove to ov...

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...Powder and Shot, which were on board his Ship; for that they designed some Sport of Fowling as well as Fishing. I got all this way as he had directed,... ... Sea; whether it was the Male pursuing the Female, or whether they were in Sport or in Rage, we could not tell, any more than we could tell whether it... ...shing, but caught not one Fish that I durst eat of, till I was weary of my Sport, when just going to leave off, I caught a young Dolphin. I had made m... ...of humane Bodies, eaten and devour’d by those Wretches, with Merriment and Sport: I was so fill’d with Indignation at the Sight, that I began now to pr... ...d of Thoughts that whirl’d through that great thorowfare of the Brain, the Memory, in this Night’s Time: I run over the whole History of my Life in Mi... ...uld be Friday, which was the Day I sav’d his Life; I call’d him so for the Memory of the Time; I likewise taught him to say Master, and then let him k... ... for it was the severest Winter all over Europe that had been known in the Memory of Man. I propos’d that we should all go away to Fonterabia, and the...

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... carried it down to the Cam that morning, and Rafael had seen the singular sport which we have mentioned. The dinner over, the young men rushed from t... ...“Who’ll take the flure with me?” said the charming girl, ani- mated by the sport. “Faix, den, ’tis I, Lanty Clancy!” cried my rascal, who had been mad... ...arl of B-gn-gge laid a wager of twenty- five thousand pounds with a broken sporting patrician, the dashing Marquis of M-rt-ng-le, that he would pass a... ...mpanion of my noble Order of the Bath. Wear this cross upon your breast in memory of Louis of France;” and the King held out the decoration to the Chi... ...ertainly two days old. He had not above three of the ten chains he usually sports, and his great coarse knotty-knuckled old hands were deprived of som... ... and salected from the French prints of fashn the most gawjus and ellygant sportting ebillyment. A lite blue vel- vet and goold cap, woar very much on... ..., relate the names and qualities of all. I may at least mention SOME whose memory is still most dear to me. There was— “Mrs. Major-General Bulcher, wi... ...g which any milli- ner in York could supply, and erected a monument to his memory as big as a minster. But she was a lady of such fine principles, tha... ...do men ever return to the haunts of their childhood: such a power has fond memory over us! The leaders of this host seem to have been, however, an eff...

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...OLLY (sympathetically). T ooth bad? CRAMPTON. No, no: nothing. A twinge of memory, Miss Clandon, not of toothache. DOLLY. Have it out. “Pluck from the... ...emory, Miss Clandon, not of toothache. DOLLY. Have it out. “Pluck from the memory a rooted sor- row:” with gas, five shillings extra. CRAMPTON (vindic... ... modern products. When I was her age, I had many a good hiding fresh in my memory to teach me manners. VALENTINE (taking up his dental mirror and prob... ...o, no. What harm will it do, just for once, McComas? Don’t let us be spoil-sports. McCOMAS. Crampton: you are not the man I took you for. (Pointedly.)...

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...recedes the colon is an independent clause: “I like the three most popular sports: baseball, basketball, and bowling.” The sentence—“The three sports ... ... I saw. T oday I am better, but what I saw that night will always be in my memory. Alcohol may be fun, but it can be very dangerous. Due to that incid... ... dress pants, a short-sleeved yellow shirt and a light summer weight beige sport coat. Fidgeting nervously through the inner pockets of his sports coa... ...e went on to win the game two to nothing. Playing soccer has been the only sport I ever enjoyed playing. Aside from the drills and stretches, just pla... ...laying was a great opportunity to be able to meet others who also love the sport. I wasn’t prepared for all the drills and stretching that went along ... ...OUGH Katarzyna Mlochowska 26 Best of Four A GREAT EMPHASIS was placed on sports in our town while I was in high school. Being on a sport’s team m...

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...father. Thus he was for me a mirror of things perished; it was only in his memory that I could see the huge shock of flames of the May beacon stream t... ...s young; thus playing the same part as Lindsay – the part of the surviving memory, signal- ling out of the dark backward and abysm of time the images ... ...he sleeping houses, his strength was renewed. Nothing troubled him but the memory of what had passed, and an abject fear of its return. “Gallo canente... ...ng horror, writing nothing, ignorant of all, his mind filled with a single memory of the breaking day and his own intolerable fear. And that same nigh... ...its of youth, I came to be un- happy. Pleasant incidents are woven with my memory of the place. I here made friends with a plain old gentleman, a visi... ...eeing, I suppose, a great difference between official execution and wanton sport. His mistress telling him one day to put some ferns into his master’s... ...e rival mesmerists; the ac- tive and adroit decide their challenges in the sports of the body; and the sedentary sit down to chess or conversation. Al... ...e counter-assertion of personality which is the gauge of relations and the sport of life. A good talk is not to be had for the asking. Humours must fi... ... Restoration comedy, speaking, I declare, as Congreve wrote; but that is a sport of nature, and scarce falls under the rubric, for there is none, alas...

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...ly ethical result. The artistic result of a romance, what is left upon the memory by any really powerful and artistic novel, is some- thing so complic... ...ve regretted that it was ever written.” To the Jolly Beggars, so far as my memory serves me, he re- fers but once; and then only to remark on the “str... ...fore I could reach the climate of her favours. But I am an old hawk at the sport, and wrote her such a cool, deliberate, prudent reply, as brought my ... ...the famous Clarinda and Sylvander corre- spondence. It was begun in simple sport; they are already at their fifth or sixth exchange, when Clarinda wri... ...but used the favourite subject as a stalk- ing-horse. In the meantime, the sportive acquaintance was ripening steadily into a genuine passion. Visits ... ...walking on thin ice, which is a little miracle of incompetence. You see my memory fails me, and I positively cannot recollect whether his hero was sli... ...l live simply and wisely; as the pursuits of simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial.” When he had enough of that kind of life, he... ...is, says Sir Thomas Browne, a frigid ambition. It is to some more specific memory that youth looks forward in its vigils. Old kings are sometimes disi... ...on his oath.* T o a mod- ern mind this seems as honourable to his father’s memory as *Michelet, iv. App. 179, p. 337. *Champollion-Figeac, pp. 279-82....