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...wisdom he would need to save his people. The Great White Chief, called Franklin Pierce, promised the Suquamish two reservations where they could liv... ...een approved by the Congress, and the Presi­ dent of the United States, Franklin Pierce. I am honored to wit­ ness and participate in the signing of t... ...anto, one time body guard to the mob who worked his way up to ce­ lebrities and politicians; and now headed his own so-called secu­ rity company. The... ...the pavement. The neighbor­ hood was an enclave of the rich and powerful, mostly politicians and high placed bureaucrats who were wealthy before they... ...leeping on her back, started to rise up and Georgi fired twice. The first shot pierced just under her jaw and ripped through the top of her skull; ... ... He walked up a marble staircase to the entrance and rang the bell. An elderly butler opened the door and showed him into the foyer that was formed... ...ohnathan Cross is terrorism. There's a lunatic fringe that broke from the IRA (Irish Republican Army) after the peace agreement with En­ gland. They... ...ll office at the rear ofthe warehouse. "Right on time," Ryan said with a slight Irish accent as he turned in his swivel chair in front of a roll-top... ...ysique and cat-like quickness, Ryan had never lost a fight. Fighting was in his Irish blood. His father had taught him and his two brothers to fight...

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... the setting of priorities to a political class or elite is thoroughly discredited. Politicians cannot be trusted, regardless of the system in which... ...resented in other, equally important, vocations (for instance, among company CEOs, politicians, diplomats, managers of higher education institution... ...behave this way? Harvard alumni, the British Commonwealth, the European Union, the Irish or the Italians in the United States, political parties th... ...Judaism's improbable visionary - Herzl refers to the Arabs as pliant and compliant butlers, replete with gloves and tarbushes. In the book, a Germa... ...f and to others. Clearly, evil must be premeditated. Francis Hutcheson and Joseph Butler argued that evil is a by-product of the pursuit of one's ... ...regards the future costs of his behaviour – he is an animal, not an egoist. Joseph Butler separated the main (motivating) desire from the desire th... ...rsions of the law. Nor would it be true to say that there is no convincing way to pierce one's mind in order to ascertain whether he did know the ... ...e. The girls were not killed outright. They were kept in a dungeon and repeatedly pierced, prodded, pricked, and cut. The Countess may have bitten... ...al component ... is the employment of a sharp cutting weapon; the victim has to be pierced, slit, even chopped up ... The chief wounds are inflicte...

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... the setting of priorities to a political class or elite is thoroughly discredited. Politicians cannot be trusted, regardless of the system in which... ...resented in other, equally important, vocations (for instance, among company CEOs, politicians, diplomats, managers of higher education institution... ...behave this way? Harvard alumni, the British Commonwealth, the European Union, the Irish or the Italians in the United States, political parties th... ...Judaism's improbable visionary - Herzl refers to the Arabs as pliant and compliant butlers, replete with gloves and tarbushes. In the book, a Germa... ...f and to others. Clearly, evil must be premeditated. Francis Hutcheson and Joseph Butler argued that evil is a by-product of the pursuit of one's ... ...regards the future costs of his behaviour – he is an animal, not an egoist. Joseph Butler separated the main (motivating) desire from the desire th... ...rsions of the law. Nor would it be true to say that there is no convincing way to pierce one's mind in order to ascertain whether he did know the ... ...e. The girls were not killed outright. They were kept in a dungeon and repeatedly pierced, prodded, pricked, and cut. The Countess may have bitten... ...al component ... is the employment of a sharp cutting weapon; the victim has to be pierced, slit, even chopped up ... The chief wounds are inflicte...

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...; I’ve brought the one sided conversation to a halt. “Sarah!” Ali’s voice pierces my eardrum. “Yes, I’m here. Listen, I’ll have to call you back, I c... ...s and aggravation a mother goes through. I have two kiddies fighting like politicians in the house. They’re so bored; I can only pray they’ll kill e... ...tell you woman….” The ghoul spoke to me, yet I cut him off. “Oh fuck he’s Irish!” “Oh fuck I’m not!” It replied. “I’m Scottish damn you woman. As I ... ...e, as I’ve made a deal with the devil himself! Steven puts on that snobby butler face; I’ve seen it before. “You will both dine on a menu of fricass... ...nd you’re confronted, there is an easy solution to this. Pretend you’re a politician; deny everything. Look…” Steven’s taking a softer approach; his ...

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...The Collected Poems William Butler Yeats 1889 1939 Contents LYRICAL 3 CROSSWAYS 5 THE SONG OF THE HA... .... . . . . . . . . 38 THE DEDICATION TO A BOOK OF STORIES SELECTED FROM THE IRISH NOVELISTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 THE LAMENTAT... .... . . 126 IN MEMORY OF MAJOR ROBERT GREGORY . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 AN IRISH AIRMAN FORESEES HIS DEATH . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 MEN IMPROVE W... ...crowned; And still I dream he treads the lawn, Walking ghostly in the dew, Pierced by my glad singing through, My songs of old earth’s dreamy youth: B... ...uchulain woke, And through that new blade’s guard the old blade broke, And pierced him. ‘Speak before your breath is done.’ ‘Cuchulain I, mighty Cuchu... ...wing to wing. WHO GOES WITH FERGUS? WHO will go drive with Fergus now, And pierce the deep wood’s woven shade, And dance upon the level shore? Young m... ...fort in the grave. THE DEDICATION TO A BOOK OF STO RIES SELECTED FROM THE IRISH NOV ELISTS THERE was a green branch hung with many a bell When her o... ... through any huckster’s loin, Soldiers that gave, whatever die was cast: A Butler or an Armstrong that withstood Beside the brackish waters of the Boy... ...t Corbets, that notable man Old William pollexfen, The smuggler Middleton, Butlers far back, Half legendary men. Infirm and aged I might stay In some g...

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...f men, are here likely to prove rather a hindrance than an assistance. The politician deals very largely with the superficial and the commonplace; his... ...riumphs of political management which are apt to be the pride of the small politician’s statesmanship. One thing, however, he did in which his true na... ...nd again in 1836, both as members of the Legislature. Douglas, a very able politician, of the agile, combative, audacious, “pushing” sort, rose in pol... ...say that I know precisely such a one did exist, and that Ben. Talbott, Wm. Butler, C.R. Matheny, John T. Stuart, Judge Logan, Robert Irwin, P . C. Can... ...nt, a copy of which I gave, had existed— Benj. Talbott, C. R. Matheny, Wm. Butler, and Judge Lo- gan swore to its existence. I stated that it was said... ...cting man, Do you believe that Benjamin Talbott, Chas. R. Matheny, William Butler and Stephen T. Logan, all sustaining high and spotless characters, a... ...evil day for a time, which I really dreaded as much, perhaps more, than an Irishman does the halter. After all my suffering upon this deeply interesti... ...e an anecdote which seems too strik- ingly in point to be omitted. A witty Irish soldier, who was always boasting of his bravery when no danger was ne... ...with more than herculean force and precision, you shall be no more able to pierce him than to penetrate the hard shell of a tortoise with a rye straw....

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...o realisations and attitudes that dissolve my estrangement from her, I can pierce these barriers, I can see her and feel her as a loving and feeling a... ...their quality profoundly sig- nificant. They had this in common, that they pierced the texture of the life I was quietly taking for granted and let me... ...ich this experi- ence stabbed through the common stuff of life and left it pierced, with a light, with a huge new interest shining through the rent. W... ...r Britten was short and thick-set with dark close curling hair and a ruddy Irish type of face; I was lean and fair-haired and some inches taller than ... ...rticularly, and in this order, Londoner’s, Yorkshiremen, Scotch, Welch and Irish, because they were not “reet Stafford- shire,” and he hated all other... ...stling with extraor- dinary degrees and prizes capturned in provincial and Irish and Scotch universities—and had made a name for himself as the most f... ...d kept house for her father by speaking occa- sionally to the housekeeper, butler and cook her mother had left her, and gathering the most interesting... ...t they go on—some- 255 H G Wells how. It depends very much on the sort of butler who pokes ‘um about.” I suggested that it might be possible to get a... ...lle hated undignified interruptions. He had a par- ticularly imperturbable butler with a cadaverous sad face and an eye of rigid disapproval. He spoke...

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... The Count Strongstroganoff I put in pain, And Lord Mount Coffeehouse, the Irish peer, Who kill’d himself for love (with wine) last year. ‘Have ... ...or ‘t is just One should not rail without a decent cause: There was an Irish lady, to whose bust I ne’er saw justice done, and yet she was ... ...d darkness and destruction as on high: But when it hath been scorch’d, and pierced, and riven, Its storms expire in water drops; the eye Pours... ... husbands’ absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. An honest gentleman at his return May not have the good for... ...nd for foe; But after being fired at once or twice, The ear becomes more Irish, and less nice. Lambro presented, and one instant more Had st... ... corpses, never Saw one, whom such an accident befell, So calm; though pierced through stomach, heart, and liver, He seem’d to sleep,— for you... ...T would be convenient; for these mutes have eyes Like needles, which may pierce those petticoats; And if they should discover your disguise, ... ...of that; and if we don’t, ‘T will be because our notion is not high Of politicians and their double front, Who live by lies, yet dare not bold... ...Jupiter, Shrink to a Saturn. I have seen a Duke (No matter which) turn politician stupider, If that can well be, than his wooden look. But...

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...him, that he cannot deal with them effectually . If he were able really to pierce the haze which so often envelops, even to himself, his own secret sp... ...gue; and myself running up and down this ladder, like any fatigue party of Irish hodmen, to the top of any Babel which my wretched admirer might choos... ...Wellington himself, in the earlier part of his career, when sitting in the Irish House of Commons, was always known to the Irish journals as Captain W... ...n my mother, in company with his son-in-law, Mr. Wilkins, as did a certain Irish Colonel Bowes, who had sons at the school, requesting earnestly, in t... ...of youthful happiness; nei- ther, happily for their peace of mind, able to pierce that cloud of years, not much more than twenty, which divided them ... ...ys so effectually attained in modern times. Here were old li- braries, old butlers, and old customs, that seemed all alike to belong to the era of Cro... ...uld be a stranger to the O’Neils, the O’Donnells, the Ormonds, (i. e., the Butlers,) the Inchiquins, or the De Burghs, and many scores beside. I soon ... ...at the Castle, by a cloud of impenetrable darkness. That cloud was at last pierced. A treacherous or weak brother, high in the ranks of the society, a... ...deboard, sweep all the plate into a basket, and deliver it to the bishop’s butler, with a charge to carry it off to a place of security. 1 The French ...

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...ady of high distinction for wit and beauty, the daughter of an illustrious Irish House, came under the shadow of a calumny. It has latterly been exam-... ...shamed of his wonderment, and accounts for it by ‘not having known she was Irish.’ She ‘turns out to be Dan Merion’s daughter.’ We may assume that he ... ...eing their parts, until later, after the breach, when the English- man and Irishwoman resumed a certain resemblance to the yoked Islands. Henry Wilmer... ...ough. On Politics she is rhetorical and swings: she wrote to spur a junior politician: ‘It is the first business of men, the school to mediocrity, to ... ...Dunstane’s maid Bartlett, and Mrs. Bridges the housekeeper, and Foster the butler, con- trived to let her know that they could speak an if they would;... ...g gentleman was decorous and studi- ous; ambitious, according to report; a politician taking to politics much too seriously and exclusively to suit hi... ...lan- guage. Otherwise we have it coarse—anything but a repro- duction. You politicians despise the little distinctions “twixt tweedledum and tweedlede... ...women can do. She was honest as long as she was not directly ques- tioned, pierced to the innermost and sanctum of the bosom. She could honestly summo... ...flict, past all existing rights closely to depict, and which barbed her to pierce to the wishes threatening her freedom, deceived her now to think her...

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...me Cropole, already in promiscuous commentary with her neighbors of both sexes. Cropole was feeding their gossip with his own personal remarks, withou... .... But Monk! Oh, sire, God defend you from ever having anything to transact politically with Monk. It is he who has given me, in one year, all the gray... ... his bed; he did not die a calm and peaceful death, he did not die the death of the good?” “He died a violent death, in a terrible night, rendered so ... ...ckoning,” added the fisherman, “that the stadtholder — you know, my lord, William II.?” “Well?” “He will assist him with all his power.” “Ah! did you ... ... the gentleman, ignorant that he was elbowing compatriots, he did not pay any attention to the little troop. The aid-de-camp settled his guests in a t... ..., he might have seen that man, bent double, gliding like a serpent along the stones and losing himself in the mist that floated over the surface of th... ...Y ou bring him to me!” cried the king, almost indignant at what he considered a mystification. “Y es, sire,” replied D’Artagnan, the same tone, “I bri... ...o catch, through the windows, the shadows of the courtiers, and the reflection of the royal person. Eight o’clock was striking when the two friends to... ...in: “your cellar is so well stocked that when certain of your guests dine with you they have nothing to drink.” Fouquet, in great surprise, looked at ...

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...am of returning to the sorrows of the former time, and yet that misery was pierced, ever and again its gray curtain was stabbed through and through by... ...o altogether free from insult, and on one occasion at least an intoxicated Irish woman shook her fist at him… . A dark, quiet crowd, that was greater ... ...been passing for a week and more, to intensify my insight, to enable me to pierce the unusual, to question the accepted. But it came to me then, I am ... ...him nearer than she thought, started, gesticulated, gave a little cry that pierced me to the heart, and fled up the beach obliquely toward me, running... ...early two hours to get to the house, and it would have taken longer if his butler-valet had not come out to assist me. They had found motor-car and ch... ...ere not in request. They made a peculiar class at that time, these English politicians and statesmen, a class that has now completely passed away. In ... ... they ruled and influenced the lives of nearly a quarter of mankind, these politicians, their clownish conflicts swayed the world, made mirth perhaps,... ...I kept thinking of being like a lady and sitting in an hotel—with men like butlers waiting. It’s the dreadful truth, Willie. Things as mean as that! T...

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...s. ‘I make my stand at Lakelands for good! Nothing mortal moves me!’ ‘That butler of hers—’ ‘Jarniman, you mean: he’s her butler, yes, the scoundrel— ... ...-cheek red above Whitechapel, to spy where his last puff of icy jav- elins pierces and dismembers the vapoury masses in cluster about the circle of fl... ...r tropical growths. And the parterres were admired; also the newly-planted Irish junipers bounding the West-walk; and the three tiers of stately desce... ...ng men, who are leaders of men.’ The announcement of luncheon, by Victor’s butler Arling- ton, opportunely followed and freighted the remark with a ha... ...se would surely be. Nataly was not so sympathetic. Only the Welsh and pure Irish are quick at the feelings of the Celtic French. Nataly came of a York... ... tenderest undertones, observing the shadowing variations of her face; and pierced her cruelly, past explanation or un- derstanding;—not that she woul... ... last thin whiff of our sustaining air were so smartingly persuasive as to pierce to the vitals of the faithful Old Dog before his offended sentiments... ...sea-fish rolling head over-you know not head from tail. Without the Welsh, Irish, Scot; in their composi- tion, there would not be much of the yeasty ... ...ust be done in dramatic style-for effect: her confidential—lawyer?—doctor?—butler! Perhaps to frighten me:—the boy she knew, and—poor soul! I don’ t m...

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...ab- bitt roused, his stomach constricted with alarm. As he relaxed, he was pierced by the familiar and irritating rattle of some one cranking a Ford: ... ... paid with German gold anyway. And we got no business interfering with the Irish 20 Babbitt or any other foreign government. Keep our hands strictly ... ... He was apologetic and doubtful, and it was Paul, with his thin voice, who pierced the fog: “Good Lord, George, you don’t suppose it’s any novelty to ... ...aff sullenly expressionless—as a parvenu before the bleak propriety of his butler. He hated to ex- pose his back to their laughter, and in his effort ... ...ially determined. There was no court to decide whether the second son of a Pierce Arrow limousine should go in to dinner before the first son of a Bui... ...eered—young cynical work- men, for the most part foreigners, Jews, Swedes, Irishmen, Italians—but the older men, the patient, bleached, stooped carpen... ...arefully tucked into my vest pocket, I am reminded of the story of the two Irishmen, Mike and Pat, who were riding on the Pullman. Both of them, I for... ...r them of- ten, and they never invited him to dinner (with champagne and a butler) at their houses on Royal Ridge. All the week before the class-dinne... ... of those young pups out of the house! They talk down to me like I was the butler! I’d like to—” “I know,” she sighed; “only everybody says, all the m...

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...olutely broke the poor doctor’s heart; for ingratitude never so thoroughly pierces the human breast as when it proceeds from those in whose behalf we ... ...rn historians, nay, per haps their muse, if we may believe the opinion of Butler, who attributes inspiration to ale, it ought likewise to be the pota... ...es with mu sic in his absence. To be plain, I much question whether the politician, who hath generally a good nose, hath not scented out some what... ...where Hudibras and Trulla fought, if thou wert not starved with thy friend Butler, assist me on this great occasion. All things are not in the power o... ...d avoid, if possible, treating this matter ludicrously, lest grave men and politicians, whom I know to be offended at a jest, may cry pish at it; but,... ... his daughter’s disposition. To say the truth, though he was somewhat of a politician, and had been twice a candidate in the country interest at an el... ...reat grandmother by the mother’s side was a cousin, not far removed, to an Irish peer. Secondly, her wages were greater. And lastly, she had been at L... ... bred under an attorney, and the other was son to the wife of a nobleman’s butler. As soon as dinner was ended, Jones informed the com pany of the ... ...om their immortality. Lord *It is happy for M. Dacier that he was not an Irishman. The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding 299 Sha...

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.... Harrison. Lieutenant Com- manding Albert N. Smith. Lieutenant Commanding Pierce Crosby. Lieutenant Commanding George M. Ransom. Lieu- tenant Command... ...ld we do with them? How can we feed and care for such a multitude? General Butler wrote me a few days since that he was issuing more rations to the sl... ...ps under his command. They eat, and that is all; though it is true General Butler is feeding the whites also by the thousand; for it nearly amounts to... ...s the root of the rebellion, or at least its sine qua non. The ambition of politicians may have instigated them to act, but they would have been impot... ... was, either secretly a supporter of the South, or, what is more likely, a politician readying for a different campaign: that of the Presidency of the... ...ss. They are forwarded to me from New Orleans by Major-General Benjamin F. Butler. If they or any of them shall be by Congress disposed of in reward o... ...w Y ork: Y our despatch received. Shall be very glad for you to raise 3000 Irish troops if done by the consent of and in concert with Governor Seymour... ...oined by regiments still at Harrisburg, and the united force again to join Pierce somewhere, and the whole to move down the Cumberland V alley, will i... ...t statement of Sharpe’s men that Ewell has gone to Tennessee. Thirdly, the Irishman’s [Northern Spy in Richmond] state- ment that he has not gone thro...

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...g 471 (Whose wrongs in vs God pardon) did set forth 472 Vpon his Irish Expedition: 473 From whence he intercepted, did returne 474 ... ...68 Netled, and stung with Pismires, when I heare 569 Of this vile Politician Bullingbrooke. 570 In Richards time: What de’ye call the ... ...? 914 Ser. He is my Lord, an houre agone. 915 Hot. Hath Butler brought those horses fro[m] the Sheriffe? 916 Ser. One hors... ...l be my Throne. Well, I will 920 backe him straight. Esperance, bid Butler lead him forth 921 into the Parke. 922 La. But heare y... .... 1780 Hotsp. I had rather heare (Lady) my Brach howle in 1781 Irish. 1782 Lady. Would’st haue thy Head broken? 1783 Hotsp... ... deputation left behinde him heere, 2557 When hee was personall in the Irish Warre. 2558 Blunt. Tut, I came not to hear this. 2559 ... ...xit. 2949 Throwes it at him. 2950 Fal. If Percy be aliue, Ile pierce him: if he do come in 2951 my way, so: if he do not, if I come i...

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...his observation audible; “I should like to see her sen- eschals, her chief butlers, and other principal domestics!” After this internal commentary on ... ...new and important acquisition to the English crown. Upon this occasion the Irish chieftains contended which should first offer to the young Prince the... ...ndants could not resist the tempta- tion of pulling the long beards of the Irish chieftains; a conduct which, as might have been expected, was highly ... ...t—take ten times more—reduce me to ruin and to beggary, if thou wilt,—nay, pierce me with thy poniard, broil me on that fur- nace, but spare my daught... ...s below them. They squeezed the heads of some with knotted cords till they pierced their brains, while they threw others into dungeons swarming with s... ...d! 4. All must perish! The sword cleaveth the helmet; The strong armour is pierced by the lance; Fire devoureth the dwelling of princes, Engines break... ...t I, here is the choicest juice of all in this secret crypt; and the knave butler, being disturbed in his vo- cation, hath left the key in the door —I... ... quench thy thirst, thou must come to court, and become acquainted with my butler.” “But for Saint Dunstan?” said the Friar— “A cope, a stole, and an ... ...black vault of Denure, a strong fortalice, built on a rock overhanging the Irish channel, where to execute leases and conveyances of the whole churche...

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...ter’ s lady,— “The only way to charm a woman’s tongue Is, break her neck—a politician did it.” The reader will find I have borrowed several incidents ... ...’s grandfather, and routed the Earl of Lincoln, Lord Geraldin and his wild Irish, and the Flemings whom the Duchess of Burgundy had sent over, in the ... ...d,” said Will Badger, “that he had any art which could help us.—Here, T om Butler, look to the man of art;—and see that he steals none of thy spoons, ... ... see that he steals none of thy spoons, lad,” he added in a whisper to the butler, who showed him- self at a low window, “I have known as honest a fac... ...ed coward of the sudden. I have seen thee face half a score of shag-headed Irish kerns to thy own share of them; and now thou wouldst blink and go bac... ...ard of a youth who defended a ford in Shannon against a whole band of wild Irish rebels, until the stream ran purple with their blood and his own.” “S... ... by the west; And loos’d his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts: But I might see young Cupid’s fiery shaft... ...iness than meeting the mercer.” “Draw your sword,” answered the lady, “and pierce my bo- som with it, rather than I should fall into his hands!” “I wo... ...ou art,” she said, bending on the Countess an eye which seemed designed to pierce her very inmost soul—”thou art Amy, daughter of Sir Hugh Robsart of ...

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...legant woman—fashionable rather than bohe- mian. She was cream and auburn, Irish, with a slightly-lifted upper lip that gave her a pathetic look. She ... ...king fash- ion—but he was indifferent. Josephine was piqued. She wanted to pierce this amiable aloofness of his. She ordered coffee and brandies. “But... ...ody!” said Jim. “But you’re British yourself,” said Lilly to Jim. “No, I’m Irish. Family’s Irish—my mother was a Fitz- patrick.” “Anyhow you live in E... ..., the gilded arches above, the shadowy distances and the great stairs. The butler disappeared—reappeared in another moment— and through an open doorwa... ...aron ate his soup, trying to catch up. Milady’s own con- fidential Italian butler, fidelity itself, hovered quivering near, spiritually helping the ne... ...EMBRE TEMBRE AARON WAS AWAKENED in the morning by the soft entrance of the butler with the tray: it was just seven o’clock. Lady Franks’ household was... ...mself accordingly. Francis was the son of a highly- esteemed barrister and politician of Sydney, and in his day would inherit his father’s lately-won ... ...ruck him, in the midst of that gang of Italian soldiers. He knew it—it had pierced him. It had got him. But he wanted to say it was not so. Reaching t... ...bred gentlemen, and then perhaps, your profiteers and Rothschilds, and ALL politicians, and ending up with the proletariat,” said Argyle. “Then who wo...

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...ree and unrestricted. The cordial and manly greet- ings of the British and Irish audiences in public, and the refinement and elegance of the social ci... ... Keen and unscrupulous opponents have sought, and not unsuc- cessfully, to pierce him in this direction; for well they know, that if assailed, he will... ...y affords to refrain from cruel inflictions; and if cold and hunger do not pierce the tender frame, the first seven or eight years of the slave-boy’s ... ...onsequence. He owned several farms in T uc- kahoe; was the chief clerk and butler on the home planta- tion of Col. Edward Lloyd; had overseers on his ... ...ld have thought of the addition of a single pig to his stock! As the chief butler on Col. Lloyd’s plantation, his duties were numerous and perplexing.... ...G—NEW HOPES AND ASPIRATIONS—HEAVENLY LIGHT AMIDST EARTHLY DARKNESS—THE TWO IRISHMEN ON THE WHARF—THEIR CONVERSATION—HOW I LEARNED TO WRITE—WHAT WERE M... ...om my bondage. I went, one day, on the wharf of Mr. Waters; and seeing two Irishmen unloading a large scow of stone, or ballast I went on board, unask... ...d I must have so fallen, had I been sure that a hundred bullets would have pierced me, as the consequence. While down, in this sad condition, and perf... ...ployment for me, I was up by break of day, and off to the ship yard of Mr. Butler, on the City Block, near the draw- bridge. I was a favorite with Mr....

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...ed friend. He loved, if not man, yet many men with deep tenderness. A keen politician he was not; but, so far as he went along with his party, he was ... ... confusion different nations fly, Of various habit and of various dye; The pierced battalions disunited fall In heaps on heaps; one fate o’erwhelms th... ...ce from love? Unequal task! a passion to resign, For hearts so touch’d, so pierced, so lost as mine. Ere such a soul regains its peaceful state, How o... ...e entertainment of which the bill of fare is here set down. 78 ‘Harp:’ the Irish harp was woven on table-cloths, &c. 79 ‘Prologues:’ Dryden used to se... ... ’Tis ours to trace him only in our own. He who through vast immensity can pierce, See worlds on worlds compose one universe, Observe how system into ... ...s began) Then scorn a homely dinner, if you can. Your wine lock’d up, your butler stroll’d abroad, Or fish denied (the river yet unthaw’d), If then pl... ... neither leans on this side, nor on that; Nor stops, for one bad cork, his butler’s pay; Swears, like Albutius, a good cook away; Nor lets, like Naevi... ...aid, but from the hall 210 Rush chaplain, butler, dogs, and all: ‘A rat! a rat! clap to the door’— The cat comes boun... ...e Chartres, Out-cant old Esdras, or out-drink his heir, Out-usure Jews, or Irishmen out-swear; Wicked as pages, who in early years Act sins which Pris...

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...ess- ing of her own womanly charms, her delightful society, and her sweet, Irish style of innocent gayety. No transformation that ever legends or roma... ...ure of Lady Massey, than a mighty cloud seemed to roll away from the young Irishman’s brow. At this time it happened, and indeed it often happened, th... ... on the stage leading into Lichfield; there was no con- spiracy, as in our Irish case; one horse only out of the four was the criminal; and, according... ... all things despised dreaming fainéans (such, for instance, as we find the politicians, or even the conspirators, of Italy, Spain, and Germany, whose ... ...nly for the southern world of civilization. The forests of Germany, though pierced already to the south in the third and fourth centuries by the torch... ...purpose, De Mercy, etc., down to the heroes of partisan warfare, Holk, the Butlers, and the noble Papenheim, or nobler Piccolomini. Below them were ra... ...governs Klosterheim by night!” thought every cavalier, as he endeavored to pierce the gloomy being’s concealment with penetrating eyes, or, by scrutin... ...e of pas- sions, were looking and hearkening with senses on the stretch to pierce the veil of silence and of distance. At last the Landgrave mastered ...

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...elt and what he thought? Y.M. Easily. The sight of that suffering old face pierced his generous heart with a sharp pain. He could not bear it. He coul... ... his religion: English—Protestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T... ...ised up prize fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little and big politicians, and big and little charity founders, and bicycle champions, an... ... but formerly a missionary, gave the mountain its gracious name. He was an Irishman, son of an Irish king—there were thirty What Is Man and Other Ess... ...erful achievements move our awe and compel our admiration. Those men could pierce to the marrow of a mystery instantly. If the Rosetta stone idea had ... ...ut the English got the victory. Then the chief of the men of Lothian fell, pierced by an arrow, and all his followers were put to flight. For the Al ... ...there. This is not conjecture; it is founded on the absolute. And then the butler. You ask the butler to wash the dog. It is just as I say; there is m... ...WHEN YOU THINK OF IT, that you may list all the celebrated Englishmen, Irishmen, and Scotchmen of modern times, clear back to the first Tudors—a l... ...ege presidents and professors, architects, engineers, painters, sculptors, politicians, agitators, rebels, revolution ists, patriots, demagogues, clo...

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...the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as an ornament. A frayed top hat and... ... advertisement. Every shade of colour they were — straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish setter, liver, clay; but, as Spaulding said, there were not many ... ...ement. “I thought as much,” said he. “Have you ever observed that his ears are pierced for earrings?” “Yes, sir. He told me that a gypsy had done it f... ... politics, for he had evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet bag politicians who had been sent down from the North. “Well, it was the be... ...hose of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife’s eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it occurred to me that there mi... ... by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital sentence. As it was, he ... ...n. It was only after a painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately en tered the ho...

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...er like. It expresses, as it were, the steward of the legal mysteries, the butler of the legal cellar, of the Dedlocks. Has Mr. Tulkinghorn any idea o... ...e discoloured shutters are drawn together, and through the two gaunt holes pierced in them, famine might be staring in—the banshee of the man upon the... ...at gen eral, blowing up all sorts of towns, or he might have been a great politician, dealing in all sorts of parliamentary rheto ric; but as it was... ...on to his destruction again. Mr. Chadband, leaning forward over the table, pierces what he has got to follow directly into Mr. Snagsby with the thumb ... ...was,” says Mr. Bucket. “My father was first a page, then a footman, then a butler, then a steward, then an inn keeper. Lived universally respected, a... ... for the knocker was gone—and after a long parley gained admission from an Irishwoman, who was in the area when I knocked, breaking up the lid of a wa... ...owned, and assuredly went over the side of a transport ship at night in an Irish harbour within a few hours of her arrival from the West Indies, as I ...

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...ere friends, and that Mr Chuzzlewit had said such kind and tender words as pierced his very heart, the two Miss Pecksniffs cried with one accord, ‘Tha... ...’ quoth Mr Tigg. ‘The fact is still the same. The apartments for the under-butler and the fifth footman being of a most confounded low and vulgar kind... ... to look; and round about the vessel, far as the mariners on the decks can pierce into the gloom, they press upon her, forcing each other down and sta... ...huzzlewit and his spirits rose proportionately. There were English people, Irish people, Welsh people, and Scotch people there; all with their little ... ...olonel knocked at this house with the air of a man who lived there; and an Irish girl popped her head out of one of the top windows to see who it was.... ...sole claim to a very large share of sympathy and sup- port. He was a great politician; and the one article of his creed, in reference to all public ob... ...the now dark street. It was quickly opened by a man with such a thoroughly Irish face, that it seemed as if he ought, as a matter of right and princip... ...rrier pigeon just thrown up, he suddenly made a dart at the draw- ing, and pierced the very centre of the main wharf, through and through. ‘There!’ he... ...nap- kin under his arm (it was as natural and easy to joke to Mark to be a butler in the Temple, as it had been to volunteer as cook on board the Scre...

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...dge from present appearances. We shall have no split or trouble about the matter; all will be harmony. In relation to the ?coming events? about which Butler wrote you, I had not heard one word before I got your letter; but I have so much confidence in the judgment of Butler on such a subject that I incline to think there may be some reality in it. What day does Butler appo...

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...atter; all will be harmony. In relation to the “coming events” about which Butler wrote you, I had not heard one word before I got your letter; but I ... ...before I got your letter; but I have so much confidence in the judgment of Butler on such a subject that I incline to think there may be some reality ... ...ect that I incline to think there may be some reality in it. What day does Butler appoint? By the way, how do “events” of the same sort come on in you... ...bstructed river? The idea that we could involves the same absurdity as the Irish bull about the new boots. “I shall niver git ‘em on,” says Patrick, “... ...owed by friends, and the most dreaded by opponents, of all living American politicians. In all the great ques- tions which have agitated the country, ... ...vered a Fourth of July oration, or a eulogy on an occasion like this. As a politician or statesman, no one was so habitually careful to avoid all sect... ...dent; who was, is, and perhaps will continue to be, the most distinguished politician of our history; a Virginian by birth and continued residence, an... ...is idle charge, the state of things in the United States disproved it. Mr. Pierce, of New Hampshire, and Mr. Bright, of Indiana, both from free States... ...at Britain and America were not spoken of in that instrument. The English, Irish, and Scotch, along with white Americans, were included, to be sure, b...

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...ieved that Ireland would secure secession, and that the great trust of the Irish repealers was in the moral aid which she did and would receive from A... ...s the component parts of one nation. Such, I take it, is the belief of all politicians in Europe, and of many of those who live across the water. But ... ...t that treaties must necessarily be null and void through the falseness of politicians. 26 North America V ol. 1 “And what will England do for cotton... ...e bill. In Canada the roads are very bad in comparison with the English or Irish roads; but, to make up for this, the price of forage is very low. I h... ...frontier farmers, who are nearly one-half German and nearly the other half Irish, would desert their clearings and ruin their chances of progress in t... ...This, I think, was particularly so in New Hampshire, from whence President Pierce came. He had been one of the Senators from New Hampshire; and yet to... ...of Michigan, through a country that was abso- lutely wild till the railway pierced it, Very much of it is still absolutely wild. For miles upon miles ... ...I was told. “But it was common before the war. While Mr. Buchanan, and Mr. Pierce, and Mr. Polk were Presidents, no officer or board of officers then ... ...were made to refuse the use of the Annapolis branch rail- way, but General Butler had the arranging of that. General Butler was a lawyer from Boston, ...

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...ffairs, and more than hinted the advantages which the cool lawyer and able politician must necessarily possess over the hot, fiery, and imprudent char... ...his system of government resembled those which af- flict the tenants of an Irish estate, the property of an absentee. There was no supreme power, clai... ...oo to boot to trust your fair prom- ises of getting me a commission in the Irish brigade. What have I to do with the Irish brigade? I am a plain Scotc... ... and them sitting by the only fire we have?” “Weel, weel, Mysie,” said the butler, “bide ye there a wee, and I’ll try to get the lamp wiled away frae ... ..., who deemed himself bound in courtesy to relieve some part of the anxious butler’s perplexity, “if you have anything cold, or a morsel of bread.” “Th... ... drained; and, with all the squeezing and manoeuvring which his craft as a butler suggested, he could only collect about half a quart that seemed pres... ...and Tory, and when these nick- names shall only be used among coffee-house politicians, as ‘slut’ and ‘jade’ are among apple-women, as cant terms of i... ... not have rejected with more haughty indiffer- ence the suit of a half-pay Irish officer, beseeching permission to wait upon the heiress of a West Ind... ...risen to warn me, and their warning has been despised. Are you prepared to pierce my heart for its fidelity with the very weapon which my rash confide...

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...n the unhappy king, —Whose wrongs in us God pardon!—did set forth Upon his Irish expedition; From whence he intercepted did return To be deposed and s... ...urged with rods, Nettled and stung with pismires, when I hear Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke. In Richard’s time,—what do you call the place?— A ... ...ith the packet gone? Servant: He is, my lord, an hour ago. HOTSPUR: Hath Butler brought those horses from the sheriff? Servant: One horse, my lord,... ...e , Act II, scene iii 24 Well, I will back him straight: O esperance! Bid Butler lead him forth into the park. [Exit Servant.] LADY PERCY : But hear... ...he lady sing in Welsh. HOTSPUR: I had rather hear Lady, my brach, howl in Irish. LADY PERCY : Wouldst thou have thy head broken? HOTSPUR: No. LADY ... ...bsent king In deputation left behind him here, When he was personal in the Irish war. SIR WALTER BLUNT : Tut, I came not to hear this. HOTSPUR: ... ...throws the bottle at him. Exit .] FALSTAFF: Well, if Percy be alive, I’ll pierce him. If he do come in my way, so: if he do not, if I come in his wi...

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...mongst frogs; the soul never dwells in a dry place, drouth kills it. O you butlers, creators of new forms, make me of no drinker a drinker, a perennit... ... There I catch you, I awake you. Argus had a hundred eyes for his sight, a butler should have (like Briareus) a hundred hands wherewith to fill us win... ...her, my gallant wimble, my pretty borer, my coney-burrow-ferret, my little piercer, my augretine, my dan- gling hangers, down right to it, stiff and s... ...p, stiff, strong, and well-steeled lance would he usually force up a door, pierce a harness, beat down a tree, carry away the ring, lift up a cuirassi... ...at he made their puddings to gush out. To others through their ballocks he pierced their bumgut, and left not bowel, tripe, nor entrail in their body ... ...shall have me, seeing I cannot be their fellow-soldier, for their faithful butler, refreshing and cheering, according to my little power, their return... ...e consideration of Numa Pompilius, the sec- ond king of the Romans, a just politician and wise philoso- pher, when he ordained that to god T erminus, ... ...s of all professions; the mi- ser may hoard, the spendthrift squander, the politician plot, the lawyer wrangle, and the gamester cheat; still their ma... ...cybal, or spyrathe? ’Tis Hibernian saffron, I protest. Hah, hah, hah! ’tis Irish saffron, by Shaint Pautrick, and so much for this time. Selah. Let’s ...

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... no Uriels seem descending on the sudden slips of afternoon sunshine which pierce athwart the green or brown masses of foliage; and you cannot say of ... ... and blot the sun, Statesman and patriot ply alike the stocks, Peeress and butler share alike the box, 140 And judges job, ... ... 70 But while he dwells where not a cheerful ray Can pierce the darkness, and abhors the day, The clear reflecting mind presents... ...ir’d his state and throne. T o him Apollo (wondrous to relate! But who can pierce into the depths of fate?) Had sung—’Expect thy sons on Argos’ shore,... ...tment so many extraordinary men (Spencer, Lord Bacon, Ben. Jonson, Milton, Butler, Otway, and others) have received from this country, for these last ... ... a gorgeous seat, that far out-shone Henley’s gilt tub, 292 or Flecknoe’s Irish throne, 293 Or that where on her Curlls the public pours, 294 All-bou... ... uses the same epithet in the same sense.—P . 274 ‘Bear and Fiddle:’ see ‘Butler’s Hudibras.’ 275 ‘Gratis-given Bland—Sent with a pass.’ It was a pr... ...k iii. 283 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 293 ‘Flecknoe’s Irish throne:’ Richard Flecknoe was an Irish priest, but had laid aside (as... ...f our nation.—P . 330 ‘Next Smedley dived:’ the person here mentioned, an Irishman, was author and publisher of many scurrilous pieces, a weekly Whit...

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...y Dodo goes from one extreme to the other.” The next day, at luncheon, the butler, handing something to Mr. Brooke, said, “Jonas is come back, sir, an... ...offer, and she turned to the window to admire the view. The sun had lately pierced the gray, and the avenue of limes cast shadows. “Shall we not walk ... ...ife veritably stabbed her husband, who fell as death willed. A wild shriek pierced the house, and the Provencale fell swoon- ing: a shriek and a swoon... ...ect and correcting it to more and more exactness of relation; he wanted to pierce the obscurity of those minute processes which pre- pare human misery... ...hare lodg- ings with a brilliant dinner-companion, or to see your favorite politician in the Ministry , may bring about changes quite as rapid: in the... ...ve been the definite expression alighted upon. He asked his informant, the butler, whether the doctor had been sent for. The butler never knew his mas... ... wait there without being announced; and seeing his old ac- quaintance the butler in the hall, he said, “Don’t mention that I am here, Pratt; I will w... ...er, who had risen to look out of the window. “But talk of an indepen- dent politician and he will appear.” “What! Brooke?” said her husband. “Y es. No... ... out at a tenant’s barn- door or make his house look a little less like an Irish cottier’s. But we all know the wag’s definition of a philanthropist: ...

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...y Dodo goes from one extreme to the other.” The next day, at luncheon, the butler, handing something to Mr. Brooke, said, “Jonas is come back, sir, an... ...offer, and she turned to the window to admire the view. The sun had lately pierced the gray, and the avenue of limes cast shadows. “Shall we not walk ... ...ife veritably stabbed her husband, who fell as death willed. A wild shriek pierced the house, and the Provencale fell swooning: a shriek and a swoon w... ...ect and correcting it to more and more exactness of relation; he wanted to pierce the obscurity of those minute processes which prepare human misery a... ... share lodgings with a brilliant dinner companion, or to see your favorite politician in the Ministry, may bring about changes quite as rapid: in thes... ...ave been the definite expression alighted upon. He asked his informant, the butler, whether the doctor had been sent for. The butler never knew his mas... ...nd wait there without being announced; and seeing his old acquaintance the butler in the hall, he said, “Don’t mention that I am here, Pratt; I will w... ...ader, who had risen to look out of the window. “But talk of an independent politician and he will appear.” “What! Brooke?” said her husband. “Yes. Now... ...r out at a tenant’s barn door or make his house look a little less like an Irish cottier’s. But we all know the wag’s definition of a philanthropist: a...

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...h gentleman—of the brainless class, if you like, but an elegant fellow; an Irishman; you will see him, and I should like to set a naval lieutenant bes... ...h- out any form at all.” Willoughby knew his friend Horace’s mood when the Irish tongue in him threatened to wag. 162 The Egoist “You see what may ha... ...ly?” said Sir Willoughby. “No, nor making acquaintance with an actor in an Irish part in a drama cast in the Green Island. ’Tis Flitch, my dear Willou... ...y inner cellar.” “An inner cellar!” exclaimed the doctor. “Sacred from the butler. It is interdicted to Stoneman. Shall I offer myself as guide to you... ...erself that she swung suspended on a scarce credible guess. “—Will nothing pierce your ears, Mr. Whitford?” He heard the intruding voice, but he was b... ...re he had once been happy—at Christmastide, when all the servants, and the butler at head, grey old Mr. Chessington, sat in rows, toasting the young h... ...e Irish or half Irishmen are my taste. If they’re not 335 George Meredith politicians, mind; I mean Irish gentlemen. I will never have another dinner...