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... (1589) is an original story of religious conflict, intrigue, and revenge, set against a backdrop of the struggle for supremacy between Spain and the Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranean. The Jew of Malta is considered to have been a major influence on William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice . The play contains a prologue in which the character Machiavel, a Senecan gho...

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...ims. They were not headed for Canterbury, Rome or Jerusalem. Rather, they were headed for an historical but remote prison-city in a far corner of the Ottoman Empire. ‘Akká (Akko), now a city in Israel which attracts thousands of Bahá’í pilgrims each year, was but little thought of in that early period. It was originally the final place of exile and imprisonment for Bahá’u’...

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... overpowering horror. But the spirit of the former vision is the subversion of the four empires by the saints, the spirit of this vision is the oppr... ... the Protestants, it was cherished as the ground of belief, that the Pope and the papal empire was the beast: and now it is beginning to be known fr... ...of the trumpets which affect the eastern as the seals do the western half of the fourth empire, and also to make room for the parallel history of the... ...plying more and more; I behold the Christian Church in bondage to the Apostolical Roman Empire, and I behold the spirit of infidelity fast dissolving... ...n to stand before the Lord: again, when I look at succession, I perceive the four great empires exactly foretold, and the character and conditions o... ...thousand years, without, as it were, taking a step or movement beyond; for although the Ottoman princes, who professed that religion, have made great...

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...he pioneers of modern Hebrew literature. Born to a poor family, Brenner grew up in grinding povery. Brenner immigrated to Palestine (then part of the Ottoman Empire) in 1909. He worked as a farmer, eager to put his Zionist idelogy into practice. Later he devoted himself to literature and teaching at the Gymnasia Herzliya in Tel Aviv. He was murdered in southern Tel Aviv in...

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... have I searched through all the Herald’s Books, in and without the German Empire, and through all manner of Subscriber-Lists (Pranumeranten), Militia... ...ve all Eternity to rest in? ‘ Celestial Nepenthe! though a Pyrrhus conquer empires, and an Alexander sack the world, he finds thee not; and thou hast ... ...s there were in me to give battle, in some small degree, against the great Empire of Darkness: does not the very Ditcher and Delver, with his spade, e... ...ne announces himself, I doubt not, there runs a shudder through the Nether Empire; and new Emissaries are trained, with new tactics, to, if possible, ... ...the wisest Soul lies a whole world of internal Madness, an authentic Demon-Empire; out of which, in- deed, his world of Wisdom has been creatively bui... ...‘A Dressing-room splendidly furnished; violet-colored curtains, chairs and ottomans of the same hue. Two full- length Mirrors are placed, one on each ...

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...open and there was a long buff and crimson-striped shape, by day indeed an ottoman, but by night—. Could an ottoman crouch and stir in the flicker of ... ...ld an ottoman crouch and stir in the flicker of a passing candle? Could an ottoman come after you noiselessly, and so close that you could not even tu... ... Wells to oust it. She saw her son a diplomat, a prancing pro-con- sul, an empire builder, a trusted friend of the august, the bold leader of new move... ...of Parliament and abroad. There’s the army, there’s diplomacy. There’s the Empire. You can be a Cecil Rhodes if you like. You can be a Winston….” 47 ... ... passion for great unities. It was still possible for Benham to regard the empire as a splen- did opportunity, and London as the conceivable heart of ... ...begun to dream of possibilities that went beyond the accidental states and empires of to-day. Prothero’s mind, replete with histori- cal detail, could... ...r of world dominion rested wonderfully on the slack and straggling British Empire of Edward the Seventh—and Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Mr. Chamberlain. H...

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...n his handful to be the advance of regiments. These are the deeds that win empires! the argument in his favour ran. Are they of a char- acter to maint... ...res! the argument in his favour ran. Are they of a char- acter to maintain empires? the counter-question was urged. Men of a deliberative aspect were ... ...e as a special army corps for the perfect security of our priceless Indian Empire, instanced the danger likely to result from their panic fear of cann... ... has as many lives for her look of an eye or lift of a finger as a throned Ottoman T urk on his divan.’ Aminta wished to dream. She gave her aunt a se... ...rger view. Her lord’s view appeared similar to that of her aunt’s ‘throned Ottoman T urk on his divan.’ Matthew Weyburn believed in the bettering of t... ...er who did it eminent service at a crisis of the desti- nies of our Indian Empire! He could not condone the injury done to him by entering among them ...

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...discolored curtains. Later, when he entered the salon, he noticed some old Empire furniture, now shabby; but only as much as all proprietors exact to ... ...omoted; his incapacity was too apparent. Ruined in 1815 by the fall of the Empire, the brilliant Aspasia of the Directory had no other resources than ... ...examine the audience. His step-father still wore, after the fashion of the Empire, his watch in the fob of his trousers, from which there depended ove... ...is made a prefect; and the prime minister comes down to be a foot-boy. The Ottomans have no system of promotion and no hierarchy. From a cavalry offic... ...hought. “Are you any relation to one of the most devoted toilers under the Empire, the head of a bureau, who fell a victim to his zeal?” 92 A Start i... ...storms which have cruelly ravaged the land of France, now be- come a great Empire, the archives of the very celebrated Practice of Maitre Bordin shoul...

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.... The new Spain was the mightiest power the world had seen since the Roman Empire and it had not yet been called upon to pay the price of its greatnes... ... of mine That smote from east to west as lightnings fly. I scorned all empire, and that monarchy The rosy east held out did I resign For one gl... ...n to suspect that all you tell me about chivalry, and winning kingdoms and empires, and giving islands, and bestowing other rewards and dignities afte... ...be disabled from taking archbishop’s orders, and will easily come into his empire, and I to the end of my de- sires; I have been thinking over the mat... ...agining the Turks to be invincible on sea-on that day, I say, on which the Ottoman pride and arrogance were broken, among all that were there made hap... ...em only four surnames belonging to families tracing their descent from the Ottoman house, and the others, as I have said, take their names and surname...

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...folio, and remove the cause of the disturbance, and lost my drawing of the Ottoman Porte. I don’t think I have anything more to say about the city whi... ... that warned me of the fact) that we are looking on at the last days of an empire; and heard many stories of weakness, disorder, and oppression. I eve... ...d and chirped a good deal, and, I dare say, told us the whole state of the empire. He was the only Mussulman with whom I at- tained any degree of inti... ...en in the spelling-books; else I would tell you that the government of the Ottoman Porte seems to be as rotten, as wrinkled, and as feeble as the old ... ...sing heraldry for themselves, and were wild to be barons and counts of the Empire. The chivalrous relics at Rhodes are very superb. I know of no build... ...ime that the European newspapers announced that he was about to resign his empire; but the quidnuncs of Alexandria hinted that a love-affair, in which... ...nt expression!Though he is one of the greatest of the great in the Turkish Empire (ranking with a Cabinet Minister or Lord Chamberlain here), his fine...

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...ch act on the minds of men powerful enough to take a bird’s-eye view of an empire; men whose actions, crimi- nal in the eyes of the masses, are the ou... ...lish women that we are!” she replied gaily. Francine left her lying on the ottoman and went away con- vinced that, whether her mistress were loved or ... ...y and passionate existence between four walls without even moving from the ottoman on which her very life is burning itself away. She had reached the ... ...er head caused her an acute pain she could not endure, and she fell on the ottoman. Corentin stood looking at her for a moment with his arms folded, h...

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... Croat regiment, or to one drawn from any point of the extreme East of the empire, are commonly gentlemanly men; and though they can be vindictive aft... ...y of Austria was in those days the Austrian Em- pire. Outside the army the empire was a jealous congery of intriguing disaffected nationalities. The s... ...has always been required to give her a healthy vital- ity as a centralized empire. She knew it; this (apart from the famous promptitude of the Hapsbur... ...holding her together; and but that war costs money, she would have been an empire distinguished 69 George Meredith by aggressiveness. The next best m... ...sed them, crying, ‘No, no, no, Messer Jack, this is a republic, and not an empire, and you are to have no rights of “first come”; and Amalia sits on o... ...s of Graatli had clasped the Signora Laura’s two hands and drawn her to an ottoman, and be- tween kissings and warmer claspings, was questioning of th...

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...s Mark. It seemed to her that Gerard cared less for the peace or war of an empire than for a tipsy cobbler taking the pledge. The monotony and narrown... ...the child. She tried to compose matters by turning out the old toys in the ottoman, but Alwyn had outgrown most of them, and did not care for any exce...

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...far altered with the altered habits of Mr Boffin’s life, as that the Roman Empire usually declined in the morning and in the eminently aristocratic fa... ..., my dear,’ said that worthy soul, taking her comfortable place on a large ottoman in the centre of the room, and drawing her arm through Bella’ s; ‘a... ...se you look so white.’ ‘Do I? I have had a busy evening.’ She was on a low ottoman before the fire, with a little shin- ing jewel of a table, and her ... ...n Harmon’s, if it had been his happy privilege to take his place upon that ottoman, and draw his arm about that waist, and say, ‘I hope the time has b... ...in her wilful inconsistent way . Left alone, she threw herself back on her ottoman, and said, ‘I didn’t know the lovely woman was such a Dragon!’ Then...

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...obe are the Nantucketer’s. For the sea is his; he owns it, as Emperors own empires; other seamen having but a right of way through it. Merchant ships ... ...le generally, were in the custom of fattening some of the lower orders for ottomans; and to furnish a house comfortably in that respect, you had only ... ...paltry and base. This it is, that for ever keeps God’s true princes of the Empire from the world’s hustings; and leaves the highest honours that this ... ...hen, as in the case of Nicholas the Czar, the ringed crown of geographical empire encircles an imperial brain; then, the plebeian herds crouch abased ... ...lag bearing the one figure of a snow-white charger; and the great Austrian Empire, Caesarian, heir to overlording Rome, having for the imperial colour... ...covering the flight of his ladies. In truth, this gentleman is a luxurious Ottoman, swimming about over the watery world, 377 Herman Melville surroun... ...by all the solaces and endearments of the harem. The contrast between this Ottoman and his con- cubines is striking; because, while he is always of th... ...d Turk; then a love of ease and virtue supplants the love for maidens; our Ottoman enters upon the impotent, repentant, admonitory stage of life, fors... ...but some have surmised that the man who first thus en- titled this sort of Ottoman whale, must have read the memoirs of Vidocq, and informed himself w...

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...tlines and her vigorous health did, in fact, draw from the officers of the Empire the ap- proving exclamation,— “What a fine slip of a girl!” But, as ... ... At that period the fashionable people of Alencon dined at four. Under the Empire they still dined as in former times at half-past two; but then they ... ... ability, and passions group themselves around the grave ques- tions of an empire. The guests were now seated at the table laden with the first course... ...ed the first. Such little things decide the fortunes of men, as they do of empires. Kellerman’s charge at Marengo, Blucher’s arrival at 96 An Old Mai... ...er existed when it was turned to white and gold, with mahogany 113 Balzac ottomans covered in blue satin. The dining-room, adorned in modern taste, w... ...hey are, according to human ideas, the torches of history; they would save empires from revolu- tion if only the professors of history would force the...

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..., to which Bessie and the bitter Miss Abbot had left me riveted, was a low ottoman near the marble chimney- piece; the bed rose before me; to my right... ...d vine-leaves, beneath which glowed in rich contrast crim- son couches and ottomans; while the ornaments on the pale 106 Jane Eyre Pariain mantelpiec... ...me of them threw themselves in half-reclin- ing positions on the sofas and ottomans: some bent over the tables and examined the flowers and books: the... ...etter than she does Mr. Roch- ester. Henry Lynn has taken possession of an ottoman at the feet of Louisa: Adele shares it with him: he is trying to ta... ...in as hushed as a desert. It seemed that sleep and night had resumed their empire. Meantime the moon declined: she was about to set. Not liking to sit... ...wamped—delicious poison canker- ing them: now I see myself stretched on an ottoman in the drawing-room at Vale Hall at my bride Rosamond Oliver’s feet...

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...netian conqueror. He returns to restore his palazzo with the spoils of the Ottoman Empire. He can quit the women of the East for the doubly masked int... ...onqueror. He returns to restore his palazzo with the spoils of the Ottoman Empire. He can quit the women of the East for the doubly masked intrigues o... ...ments and nations crowd into his little brain; there is room for them all. Empires and cities and revolutions come and vanish in the course of a few h...

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...s in reality the drawing-room; in which drawing-room the box was the chief ottoman or sofa; whilst it appeared that the inside which had been traditio... ...nburgh, Glasgow, Perth, Stirling, Aberdeen— expressing the grandeur of the empire by the antiquity of its towns, and the grandeur of the mail establis... ... it ministers, by the commerce which it sup- ports, by the grandeur of the empire in which, though far from the largest, it is the most influential st... ...distinct stories of that order, in any solitary frontier between two great empires—as here, for in- stance, or in the desert between Syria and the Eup... ...on of Cæsar’s meaning here, cf. Merivale’s History of the Romans under the Empire, Chap. XXI, where he translates Cæsar’s famous reply: “That which is... ... the German emperor, Francis I, whose sovereignty, as the name “Holy Roman Empire” shows, was supposed to con- tinue that of the ancient Roman emperor...

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... that his Puppets have given satisfaction to the very best company in this empire. The famous little Becky Puppet has been pronounced to be un- common... ...into Mr. Osborne’s, who, of course, could see the way among the chairs and ottomans a great deal better than she could. But this ar- rangement left Mr... ..., and those mutations which age produces 64 V anity Fair – V olume One in empires, cities, and boroughs, Queen’s Crawley was no longer so populous a ... ...y—a stirring place in those days, when war was raging all over Europe, and empires were being staked; when the “Courier” newspaper had tens of thousan... ... believed her lover to be one of the most gallant and brilliant men in the empire: and it is possible Lieutenant Osborne thought so too. 120 V anity ...