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...e Fowler. And when he meets a man of genius, he instinctively insults him, starves him, and, if possible, imprisons and kills him. Now I do not preten... ... and self-indulgence. Nothing will cure him of this ma- nia. It may end in starvation, crushing taxation, suppression of all freedom to try new social... ... might imagine, because it involves some distasteful trouble to himself to start with, and because there is something else 15 Shaw within his reach i... ...ld, they destroy all its author- ity with their subjects, and so break the weapon they have forged to rule them for their own good. They must therefor... ...aw it. Then he goes out as silently as he came, blind to the truth that no weapon from the armory of Godhead can serve the turn of the true Hu- man He... ...him lying on the hearth. He explains that he has been in a fight; that his weapons not being as strong as his arms, were broken; and that he had to fl... ...ain brothers and is bound to avenge them. He tells the Volsung that in the morning, weapons or no weap- ons, he must fight for his life. Then he order... ...e sane and healthy. Altogether an inspiriting young forester, a son of the morning, in whom the heroic race has come out into the sunshine from the cl... ..., passing the night with Brynhild with Nothung di- viding them, and in the morning bringing her down the mountain through the fire (an impassable obst...

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...uble, busy, degraded; it is never fine except by moon- light at two in the morning. By day it is Paris epitomized; by night it is a dream of Greece. T... ...s, who has not listened to your murmurings between midnight and two in the morning, knows nothing as yet of your true poesy, nor of your broad and fan... ...s of the French nation! Who has not chanced to leave his home early in the morning, intending to go to some extremity of Paris, and found him- self un... ...by the dinner- hour? Such a man will know how to excuse this vagabondizing start upon our tale; which, however, we here sum up in an 11 Balzac observ... ...it; the woman seems to weigh less; she steps, or rather, she glides like a star, and floats onward led by a thought which exhales from the folds and m... .... T o be silent about our own secret is nothing; but to be silent from the start, to forget a fact as Ali Pacha did for thirty years in order to be su... ...II. If it was largely productive to women of seven or eight lustres what a weapon is it in the hands of young women! A husband gathers with delight th...

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...l, neglected peasant, sunk in matter, insolent, gross and servile, makes a startling contrast with our own long-legged, long-headed, thoughtful, Bible... ...le bubbling back-water of the quadrangle; so that we see there, on a scale startlingly diminished, the flight of time and the succession of men. I loo... ...es of good, flinching accep- tance of evil, shiverings on wet, east-windy, morning jour- neys up to class, infinite yawnings during lecture and un- qu... ...funditur, Lapsis fides revertitur,” as they sang of old in Portugal in the Morning Office. But to him that good hour of cockcrow, and the changes of t... ...d as fell on this young man, and made him cover his eyes from the innocent morning. We all have by our bedsides the box of the Merchant Abudah, thank ... ...in, nor to learn charity and modesty and justice from the sight; but still stared at them externally from the prison windows of my affectation. Once I... ...nding, should hear these young fellows talking of his own subject, his own weapons that he had fought the battle of life with, – “and – h’m – not unde...

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... angry as I am that you did not come too; really Tibby is too tiresome, he starts a new mortal disease every month. How could he have got hay fever in... ...it was Charles Wilcox practising; they are keen on all games. Presently he started sneezing and had to stop. Then I hear more clicketing, and it is Mr... ... to now I have always put that down as ‘Meg’s clever non- sense.’ But this morning, it really does seem not life but a play, and it did amuse me enorm... ... of—I don’t know.” She broke off, and listened to the sounds of a Lon- don morning. Their house was in Wickham Place, and fairly quiet, for a lofty pr... ...g for it but to go forward, though Mrs. Munt was too much agitated even to stare at the stranger. But remembering that there were two brothers, she ha... ...y father over to catch the down train.” “You see, we heard from Helen this morning.” Young Wilcox was pouring in petrol, starting his engine, and perf... ...rt came. “I perceive you are attempting blackmail. It is scarcely a pretty weapon for a wife to use against her husband. My rule through life has been...

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...rely the minuet—the minuet itself is dancing itself away into the furthest stars, even as our minuet of the Hessian bathing places must be stepping it... ...he distance and overhead the great black flood of wind polishes the bright stars. From time to time we shall get up and go to the door and look out at... ...uch as a nodding 13 Ford Madox Ford acquaintance, he gave an orange every morning. And they lasted him right round the girdle of this mighty globe of... ... man. But the feeling that I had when, whilst poor Florence was taking her morning bath, I stood upon the care- fully swept steps of the Englischer Ho... ...nd twenty took you straight down to the fountain. From the Englischer Hof, starting on the sidewalk, it was ninety-seven paces and the same four hundr... ...s about the feeling that I had when I stood on the steps of my hotel every morning before starting out to fetch Florence back from the bath. Natty, pr... ...time of her existence. It seemed like a long, silent duel with invis- ible weapons, so she said. And it was rendered all the more diffi- cult by the g...

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...f at everybody’s expense, and is of that desire condemned to strip himself stark naked, he, if pathos ever had a form, might be taken for the actual p... ...by spoke a word of the rejected visitor to Miss Durham, in response to her startled look: “I shall drop him a cheque,” he said, for she seemed persona... ...Scottish Highlanders, and the corps de ballet, draymen too, have legs, and staring legs, shapely enough. But what are they? not the modulated in- stru... ...ghter from his cousin Willoughby. Be it said that the hour was four in the morning, when dancers must laugh at somebody, if only to refresh their feet... ...mination of an enchanting romance, when Sir Willoughby met her on a Sunday morning, as she crossed his park solitarily to church. They were within ten... ...y returned to his England after an absence of three years. On a fair April morning, the last of the month, he drove along his park palings, and, by th... ... from her fiery sensations, a little hypocrisy was a poor girl’s natu- ral weapon. She crushed her conscientious mind with the assurance that it was m... ...eature struggling with fetters, had made her appear in her dash to seize a weapon, indicated moreover by him. 143 George Meredith Clara took up the o... ... round their necks; and if they have beauty, no won- der they turn it to a weapon and make as many captives as they can. I do not wonder! My sense of ...

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...; that ofttimes With purpose to retrace my steps I turn’d. The hour was morning’s prime, and on his way Aloft the sun ascended with those stars, ... ...e hour was morning’s prime, and on his way Aloft the sun ascended with those stars, That with him rose, when Love divine first mov’d Those its fair wo... ...ovely, I besought her to command, Call’d me; her eyes were brighter than the star Of day; and she with gentle voice and soft Angelically tun’d her spe... ...ghs with lamentations and loud moans Resounded through the air pierc’d by no star, That e’en I wept at entering. Various tongues, Horrible languages, ... ...each one stood; And issuing from the troop, three sped with bows And missile weapons chosen first; of whom One cried from far: “Say to what pain ye co... ...makes his suit; so rush’d Those from beneath the arch, and against him Their weapons all they pointed. He aloud: “Be none of you outrageous: ere your... ...e lamenting, four in flight dispatch’d From the’ other coast, with all their weapons arm’d. They, to their post on each side speedily Descending, stre... ... into Aquarius, and the equinox is drawing near, when the hoar frosts in the morning often wear the appearance of snow but are melted by the rising su...

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...d level pavement: from the arched roof Pendant by suttle Magic many a row Of Starry Lamps and blazing Cressets fed With Naphtha and ASPHALTUS yeilded ... ...A Summers day; and with the setting Sun Dropt from the Zenith like a falling Star, On LEMNOS th’ AEGAEAN Ile: thus they relate, Erring; for he with th... ...fierce extreams, extreams by change more fierce, From Beds of raging Fire to starve in Ice Thir soft Ethereal warmth, and there to pine Immovable, inf... ...after by his furious gestures in the mount. Gabriel promises to find him ere morning. Night coming on, Adam and Eve discourse of going to their rest: ... ... Nature boon Powrd forth profuse on Hill and Dale and Plaine, Both where the morning Sun first warmly smote The open field, and where the unpierc’t sh... ... unactive range, And of thir doings God takes no account. Tomorrow ere fresh Morning streak the East With first approach of light, we must be ris’n, A... ... Of evil then so small as easie think The remedie; perhaps more valid Armes, Weapons more violent, when next we meet, May serve to better us, and wors... ... can do, And to disorder’d rage let loose the reines, With Mountains as with Weapons arm’d, which makes Wild work in Heav’n, and dangerous to the main... ...x’d Plagues; they astonisht all resistance lost, All courage; down thir idle weapons drop’d; O’re Shields and Helmes, and helmed heads he rode Of Thro...

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... Cervantes knew Rabelais’ book or owed anything to it whatsoever, even the starting-point of his subject. Per- haps it was better he should not have b... ...ll the saints. Rabelais improves all he borrows, but it is from Folengo he starts. He does not reproduce the words, but, like the Italian, he revels i... ...d taken from the altar? A well-handled cross could so readily be used as a weapon, that probably it has served as such more than once, and other and e... ...that learn’d breech-wiping king. Decade the First. I. Help me, propitious stars; a mighty blaze Benumbs me! I must sound the praise Of him hath tur... ... it. I would willingly wash the tripes of the calf which I apparelled this morning. I have pretty well now ballasted my stomach and stuffed my paunch.... ... that they, upon consideration of this, his divine complexion, would every morning, to cheer him up, play with a knife upon the glasses, on the bottle... ... such pottage, and cared as little for the peeled as for the shaven. Every morning he did cast up his gorge, and his father’s little dogs eat out of t... ...ed, both in the nimble, strong, and smooth management of that 91 Rabelais weapon, and that in all the feats practicable by it, that he passed knight ... ...ointed for fencing, and there played against the masters themselves at all weapons, and showed them by experience that he knew as much in it as, yea, ...

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...onscious absorption, 9 Boswell’s Life of Johnson his sudden surprise, his starting up, his dig- nity, the King’s ease with him, their conversa- tion,... ...n he was a child in petti- coats, and had learnt to read, Mrs. Johnson one morning put the common prayer-book into his hands, pointed to the collect f... ...ree of the boys, of whom Mr. Hector was sometimes one, used to come in the morning as his humble attendants, and carry him to school. One in the middl... ...tor. Boswell: ‘That, Sir, was great fortitude of mind.’ Johnson: ‘No, Sir; stark insensibility.’ He had a love and respect for Jorden, not for his lit... ...t and stiff, and separated behind: and he often had, seemingly, convulsive starts and odd gesticula- tions, which tended to excite at once surprize an... .... ‘He, and another neighbour of mine, one Mr. Samuel Johnson, set out this morning for Lon- don together. Davy Garrick is to be with you early the nex... ... with great uniformity.’ I took upon me, for once, to fight with Goliath’s weapons, and play the sophist.—Garrick did not need a friend, as he got fro...

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...w twelve others following him, and their brightness did exceed that of the stars in the firmament. 1 Nephi 1:11 11 And they came down and went forth ... ... word in season unto thee, O house of Israel. When ye are weary he waketh morning by morning. He waketh mine ear to hear as the learned. 2 Nephi 7:5... ...l yield an ephah. 2 Nephi 15:11 11 Wo unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, that continue until night, and ... ...ey come from a far country, from the end of heaven, yea, the Lord, and the weapons of his indignation, to de- stroy the whole land. 2 Nephi 23:6 6 Ho... ...e shall de- stroy the sinners thereof out of it. 2 Nephi 23:10 10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; ... .... 2 Nephi 24:12 12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! Art thou cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations! 2 N... ...cend into heaven, 134 The Book of Mormon I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the si... ...nd steel, making all manner of tools of every kind to till the ground, and weapons of war—yea, the sharp pointed arrow, and the quiver, and the dart, ... ...and with cimeters, and with clubs, and with slings, and with all manner of weapons which we could invent, and I and my people did go forth against the...

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... as your chaperone; and even the Times must sometimes 4 GB Shaw thank its stars that new plays are not produced every day, since after each such even... ...e our- selves we must just look at her. We do so; and her beauty feeds our starving emotions. Sometimes we grumble ungallantly at the lady because she... ...to sing “Protegga il giusto cielo”: they grasp formidable legal and social weapons, and retaliate. Political parties are wrecked and public careers un... ...e two things are the same) of Woman. He will risk the stake and the cross; starve, when necessary, in a garret all his life; study women and live on t... ...RNARD SHAW WOKING, 1903 ACT I Roebuck Ramsden is in his study, opening the morning let- ters. The study, handsomely and solidly furnished, proclaims t... ...oftily] No, Sir. TANNER. It’s a copy of Whitefield’s will. Ann got it this morning. RAMSDEN. When you say Ann, you mean, I presume, Miss Whitefield. T... ... expected to find you still here, Mr Tanner. TANNER. Am I in the way? Good morning, fellow guard- ian [he goes towards the door]. ANN. Stop, Jack. Gra... ...in Man’s industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons. This marvellous force of Life of which you boast is a force of Dea...

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...ence would in any one else have been talkativeness. “Ah, mother dear, good morning,” as a pleasant placid- looking lady entered, dressed in black, wit... ... work.” “Just like a little mauve book!” muttered Rachel. Fanny absolutely stared. “You go, don’t you, Rachel? How we used to wish for it!” “You have ... ...r cousin, the more she real- ized this peril. When she went down on Monday morning to complete the matters of business that had been slurred over on t... ... broke off, “Mamma, are not we to have ponies? Coombe heard of a pony this morning; it is to be seen at the ‘Jolly Mariner,’ and he will take us to lo... ...ers were that no hur- ried message might be sent to her, lest she might be startled 32 The Clever Woman of the Family and injured by the attempt to c... ... good little boy . Did you or he touch the nest?” “Y es.” Then, as Conrade started, and looked fiercely at him, “Yes you did, Con, you touched the ins... ...ld have smoothed matters far bet- ter than any, who, like Ermine, took her weapons from the armoury of good sense; but that person was entirely uncon-... ...tribute to her satire. “In this age,” she said, “we must use those lighter weapons of wit, or no one will attend.” 65 Yo n g e “Perhaps,” said Ermine... ..., would have administered a snub, but she felt the invalid sacred from her weapons. “Have you ever seen the boys?” asked Colonel Keith. “I am rather p...

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...vel pavement: from the arched roof Pendant by suttle Magic many a row Of Starry Lamps and blazing Cressets fed With Naphtha and ASPHALTUS yeilde... ...Summers day; and with the setting Sun Dropt from the Zenith like a falling Star, 745 On LEMNOS th’ AEGAEAN Ile: thus they relate, Erring; for he ... ...erce extreams, extreams by change more fierce, From Beds of raging Fire to starve in Ice 600 Thir soft Ethereal warmth, and there to pine Immovab... ...ure boon Powrd forth profuse on Hill and Dale and Plaine, Both where the morning Sun first warmly smote The open field, and where the unpierc’t ... ...ctive range, And of thir doings God takes no account. Tomorrow ere fresh Morning streak the East With first approach of light, we must be ris’n,... ...my latest found, Heav’ns last best gift, my ever new delight, Awake, the morning shines, and the fresh field 20 Calls us, we lose the prime, to m... ...evil then so small as easie think The remedie; perhaps more valid Armes, Weapons more violent, when next we meet, May serve to better us, and wo... ..., 695 And to disorder’d rage let loose the reines, With Mountains as with Weapons arm’d, which makes Wild work in Heav’n, and dangerous to the ma... ... Plagues; they astonisht all resistance lost, All courage; down thir idle weapons drop’d; O’re Shields and Helmes, and helmed heads he rode 840 ...

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...oing a thousand miles westward. The next forenoon, Tuesday, September 1st, I started with my companion in a buggy from Bangor for “up river,” expectin... ...k full of choice scions, and his grafting apparatus, in the spring. The next morning we drove along through a high and hilly country, in view of Cold ... ...tained, while the other Indian stood by. It appeared that they were going to start by noon, with two canoes, to go up to Chesuncook to hunt moose, — t... ...the end of the world, you would find somebody there going farther, as if just starting for home at sundown, and having a last word before he drove off.... ...ve Islands, Ktaadn 9 and so we concluded that all was right. Early the next morning we had mounted our packs, and prepared for a tramp up the West Br... ... rain drops on the cedar splints which covered the roof, and awaked the next morning with a drop or two in our eyes. It had set in for a storm, and we... ... the sea,” Kineo, great source of arrows and of spears to the ancients, when weapons of stone were used. Seeing and hearing moose, caribou, bears, por...

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... a verse of an old students’ song, worth laying side by side with Villon’s star- tling ballade. This singer, also, had an unworthy mistress, but he di... ... a tangent of female dignity and reserve, like a mounting lark in an April morning; and wrote me an answer which measured out very completely what an ... ...And then he took advantage of the situation. To Clarinda he wrote: “I this morning called for a certain woman. I am disgusted with her; I cannot endur... ...e gait and cogitations of a drunken man, or only a village cockcrow in the morning, he could find language to give it freshness, body, and relief. He ... ...of our thinking. It is not, therefore, by flashing before a man’s eyes the weapons of dialectic; it is not by induction, deduction, or construction; i... ...fa- miliarity. He considers it just as wonderful that there are myriads of stars, as that one man should rise from the dead. He declares “a hair on th... ...by the ironical flash of these eight words: The desire of the moth for the star. The same truth, but to what a different purpose! Whitman’s moth is mi... ...o carry throughout all his wanderings, and to bring back – a far-travelled weapon – to Japan. A long letter was prepared in Chinese for the American o... ...e scapegrace who has wit enough to recognise in his own shame the readiest weapon of offence against a prosy benefactor’s feelings. The gratitude of M...

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...were the Heavens of Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jove, Saturn, the Fixed Stars, and the Crystalline or first moving Heaven. These nine con- centric ... ...at to return I oftentimes had turned. The time was at the beginning of the morning, and the Sun was mounting upward with those stars that were with hi... ...t the beginning of the morning, and the Sun was mounting upward with those stars that were with him when Love Divine first set in motion those beautif... ...im back from honorable enterprise, as false seeing does a beast when it is startled. In order that thou loose thee from this fear I will tell thee whe... ...d beast with the pointed tail, that passes mountains, and breaks walls and weapons; behold him that infects all the world.” 1 Thus began my Leader to... ...omes to me, and thou unto great honor risest not thereby. But, if near the morning one dreams the truth, thou shalt feel within little time what Prato... ...ardly afterwards could I have held them back. And turning our stern to the morning, with our oars we made wings for the mad flight, always gaining on ...

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...out, he thought, for a fine night, at anchor in a safe harbor. The next morning was Saturday, and a breeze having sprung up from the southward,... ...’s all I’ve got to say.—Go below, the larboard watch!’’ I being in the starboard, or second mate’s watch, had the opportunity of keeping the fi... ...g about me. However much I was affected by the beauty of the sea, the bright stars, and the clouds driven swiftly over them, I could not but remember... ... Wednesday, Aug. 20th. We had the watch on deck from four till eight, this morning. When we came on deck at four o’clock, we found things much chang... ... things much changed for the better. The sea and wind had gone down, and the stars were out bright. I experienced a corresponding change in my feel... ... commenced washing down the decks. This operation, which is performed every morning at sea, takes nearly two hours; and I had hardly strength enough ... ..., were convicts sent from Valparaiso, and that it was necessary to keep all weapons from their hands. The island, it seems, belongs to Chili, and had...

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...ty university. 3 Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe CHAPTER I – START IN LIFE I was born in the year 1632, in the city of Y ork, of a good... ...xcel- lent counsel against what he foresaw was my design. He called me one morning into his chamber, where he was confined by the gout, and expostulat... ... evening followed; the sun went down perfectly clear, and rose so the next morning; and having little or no wind, and a smooth sea, the sun shining up... ...in rest and mirth, after the manner of the sea; but the eighth day, in the morning, the wind increased, and we had all hands at work to strike our top... ...his nose, that the slugs hit his leg about the knee and broke the bone. He started up, growling at first, but finding his leg broken, fell down again;... ... I found they ran along the shore by me a good way. I observed they had no weapons in their hand, except one, who had a long slender stick, which Xury... ...m your own coun- try, if I should take from you what you have, you will be starved there, and then I only take away that life I have given. No, no,” s... ...sts; and that which was par- ticularly afflicting to me was, that I had no weapon, either to hunt and kill any creature for my sustenance, or to defen... ... circumstances I was brought to – viz. I had neither food, house, clothes, weapon, nor place to fly to; and in de- spair of any relief, saw nothing bu...

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