...u have waked at night in a hot or a cold sweat, according to your habit of body, remember- ing with dismal surprise, your own unpardonable acts and sa... ... Ring and Book. 22 Robert Louis Stevenson preserving; and that, while the mass of mankind lies under this scurvy condemnation, you will scarce find o... ...e said look eloquently through the eyes; and the soul, not locked into the body as a dungeon, dwells ever on the threshold with appealing signals. Gro... ...hat I had written, and added worse to that; and with the commentary of the body it seemed not unfriendly either to hear or say. Indeed, letters are in... ...n; yet they live in as true relations; the lie of a good woman is the true index of her heart. “It takes,” says Thoreau, in the noblest and most usefu... ...en, now gray, now blue; now tree stands above tree, like “cloud on cloud,” massed into filmy indistinctness; and now, at the wind’s will, the whole se...

...ter as coloquintida. She must change for youth: when she is sated with his body, she will find the error of her choice: she must have change, she mus... ...s, that I did; but that was but courtesy. IAGO: Lechery, by this hand; an index and obscure prologue to the history of lust and foul thoughts. They ... ...e to you? CASSIO: I know not. IAGO: Is’t possible? CASSIO: I remember a mass of things, but nothing dis tinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore... ...Moor, I’ll pour this pestilence into his ear, That she repeals him for her body’s lust; And by how much she strives to do him good, Othello Act II, s... ...uits that blossom first will first be ripe: Content thyself awhile. By the mass, ’tis morning; Pleasure and action make the hours seem short. Retire t... ...had been happy, if the general camp, Pioners and all, had tasted her sweet body, So I had nothing known. O, now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind! ... ...speak the word; To do the act that might the addition earn Not the world’s mass of vanity could make me. IAGO: I pray you, be content; ’tis but his h...

... All day he was weary; all night he was wakeful. He was estranged from his body. He was distressed by a sense of detachment from the things about him,... ...would be a good phrase: “Christ the Master and Servant.”…. “Members of one Body,” that should be his text…. At last it was finished. The big congregat... ...ey and tennis. The firelight brought out the gracious reposeful lines of a body that ripened in adolescence. And though there was a vibration of resol... ...icance. The bishop glanced through this bale of papers—it had of course no index and no synopsis, and some of the pages were not numbered—handed it ov... ...overloaded with unbelievable myths (such as, among a thousand others, that Massacre of the Innocents which never took place)…. bore their listeners by... ...d be without the witness of the church?—and on the other hand here are our masses out of hand and hostile, our industrial leaders equally hostile; the... ...he bishop stood on the pavement outside Dr. Brighton- Pomfrey’s house. The massive door had closed behind him. It had been an act of courage, of rashn...

...e eye; the shadows of clouds were confounded with the articulations of the mountains; and the isle and its unsub- stantial canopy rose and shimmered b... ...should leave untrod these hearthstones of their fathers. I believe, in fact, the custom rests on different and more grim conceptions. But the house, t... ...e woman’s soul is at rest. I was told a droll instance of the force of this preoccupation. The Polynesians are subject to a disease seemingly rather o... ... us in Anaho, they must apologise for the smallness of their repertory. They were only young folk present, they said, and it was only the old that kne... ...aps cor- 57 Robert Louis Stevenson ruptly eager to increase the number of delits and the in- struments of his own power, custom after custom is place... ...glory, but it kills affection, which misfortune fosters. And the misfortune which overtook the captain’s enterprise was truly singular. He was at the ... ...’s enterprise was truly singular. He was at the top of his career. Ile Masse belonged to him, given by the French as an indemnity for the robberies at...

...rom, or where she was going to, nobody knows.’ The surgeon leaned over the body, and raised the left hand. ‘The old story,’ he said, shaking his head:... ... and the testimony of the beadle; the former of whom had always opened the body and found nothing inside (which was very probable indeed), and the lat... ...a majestic voice. Oliver was about to say that he would go along with any body with great readiness, when, glancing upward, he caught sight of Mrs. M... ...ogether; but nothing was to be descried from it but a confused and crowded mass of housetops, blackened chimneys, and gable ends. Sometimes, indeed, ... ...eves, idlers, and vagabonds of every low grade, were mingled together in a mass; the whistling of drovers, the barking dogs, the bellow ing and plung... ...s legs thrown over one of the arms: an open clasp knife in one hand, and a mass of buttered bread in the other. Close beside him stood Charlotte, open... ... a vent in a hideous disease which had made 369 OLIVER TWIST your face an index even to your mind—you, Edward Leeford, do you still brave me!’ ‘No, n...

... part of a small band of black dissen- tients in a corner, a minute opaque body, devilish in their irreconcilability, who maintain their struggle to p... ...y where his last puff of icy jav- elins pierces and dismembers the vapoury masses in cluster about the circle of flame descending upon the greatest an... ...ng- tolerated pygmies; of whom the leaders, until sorely discom- forted in body and doubtful in soul, will give gold and labour, will impose restricti... ...For the creature Society’s indebted to? T rue. And am I to think there’s a body of legal gentlemen to join with you, my friend, in founding an Institu... ...Not many of our conquerors have scored their victories on the road of that index: nor has duration been granted them to behold the minute measure of v... ...ugh she was Catholic; but it suited her mezzo-so- prano tones; and it rang massively of the martial-religious. T o what heights of spiritual grandeur ... ...moment of her electrical elo- quence. They have no answer for her, save an index at the machine pushing them on yet farther under the enemy’s line of ... ...r the suffrages of the irresponsible, recklessly enfranchised, corruptible masses. Mr. Caddis, if he had the seat in his pocket, had it from the suppo... ...one: cold worship at a niche in the wall will not do it.—Well, there is an index, for the enlarge- ment of your charity. But facts were Dudley’s teach...

...ly submitting to that natural law which ordains dissolution equally to the mass, as in time to the member. As among Chaucer’s Canterbury pilgrims, or ... ...s me, sar.” “And who is your master, Guinea?” “Oh sar, I am der dog widout massa.” “A free dog, eh? Well, on your account, I’m sorry for that, Guinea.... ...ssive generations of students and studious men, I tremble to think of that mass of unsuspected heresy on every vital topic which for centuries must ha... ...hey avoided touching anything; you noticed, in short, that a certain negro body-servant, whose hands nature had dyed black, perhaps with the same purp... ...eable accommodations of back, seat, footboard, and arms, the most restless body, the body most racked, nay, I had almost added the most tormented cons... ...ch of snuff to the kraken. I am for sending ten thousand missionaries in a body and converting the Chinese en masse within six months of the debarkati... ...“A true saying. But we stray. The popular notion of hu- mor, considered as index to the heart, would seem curiously confirmed by Aristotle—I think, in...

...y, or do so primarily.” These essays would include, according to Professor Masson’s subdivision, (a) Biographies, such as Shakespeare or Pope—Joan of ... ...efore him; he delighted to follow it, touch it, color it, see it grow into body and being under his hand. That this enthusiasm should now and then ten... ...Collected Writings of Thomas de Quincey. New and enlarged edition by David Masson. Edinburgh: A. and C. Black, 1889-1890. [New York: The Macmillan Co.... ... The Macmillan Co. 14 vols., with footnotes, a preface to each volume, and index. Reis- sued in cheaper form. The standard edition.] 2. The Works of T... ...dition. Bos- ton: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1877. [12 vols., with notes and index.] 3. Selections from De Quincey. Edited with an Introduction and Note... ...eries. Boston, U.S.A., and London: Ginn and Company, 1902. [“The larg- est body of selections from De Quincey recently published.… The selections are ... ... HY AND CRITICISM HY AND CRITICISM HY AND CRITICISM HY AND CRITICISM 4. D. MASSON. Thomas De Quincey. English Men of Let- ters. London. [New York: Har... ...ake lodgings for the next forty days on the box of his Majesty’s mail. No- body can touch you there. If it is by bills at ninety days after date that ...

...tone, some common plant, any com monest thing, as if it were the clew and index to some mys tery; and when, by chance startled out of these meditati... ...t feel that all was lost; but he takes, as it were, a great clod of earth, massive rocks and mud, soil and dirt, and flings it at me overwhelm ingly;... ...undying principle, and we transfer that true sense to this life and to the body, instead of inter preting it justly as the promise of spiritual immor... ...added (by way of grace), “and may it become a portion in us of an immortal body.” “That sounds good, Septimius,” said the old lady. “Ah! you’ll be a m... ...will to all men. They cannot, whatever is said of them, be on an errand of massa cre. We will stand here quietly; and, seeing that we do not fear the... ...amp of a thousand feet fell in regular order; then came the column, moving massively, and the redcoats who seemed somewhat wearied by a long night ma... ...company of 24 Septimius Felton the British soldiers wheeled from the main body, and, dash ing out of the road, climbed the hill, and disappeared int...

......................................................................... 487 Index of First Lines ......................................................... ...eel, oh youth! A girl then find Worthy thy choice,—let her choose thee, In body fair, and fair in mind, And then thou wilt be blessed, like me. I who ... ...me’s history Now is fully known to me. Who in child or woman e’er Soul and body found so fair? 1815. 103 Goethe Next Year’s Spring. THE bed of flower... ...LT thou suddenly enshroud thee, Who this moment wert so nigh? Heavy rising masses cloud thee, Thou art hidden from mine eye. Yet my sadness thou well ... ...arful din, Her mad relations came pouring in. My blood still boils in my body! GIPSY. “Oh when will return an hour like this? I pine in silent sad... ...at together, around the glistening polish’d Circular large brown table-Äon massive feet it was planted. Merrily clink’d together the glasses of host a... ...h genuine kindness expended When he saw the fugitives passing in sorrowful masses). And to the magistrate handed it, saying:—” Divide it, I pray you, ... ...usic sunk in slumbers, Memory alone can waken now its numbers. 488 Goethe Index of First Lines A A boy a pigeon once possess’d, 297 A child refused ...

...illiams, there is reason to believe, when he went out for a grand compound massacre (in another sense, one might have applied to it the Oxford phrase ... ... person had, by some acci- 25 Thomas de Quincey dent, escaped the general massacre: but she was now speech- less, and probably delirious; so that, in... ...st suppose him at this point watching the murderer whilst hanging over the body of Mrs. Williamson, and whilst renewing his search for certain importa... ...t times became fearfully audible. As the murderer stood once more over the body of Mrs. Williamson, and searched her pockets more narrowly, he pulled ... ...But even that fury felt the call for self-control. It was evident that the massy street-door must be driven in, since there was no longer any living p... ...uide, when his first act must be to recant—and to recant what to the whole body of his hearers would wear the char- acter of a lunatic proposition. Su... ... an amusing way, at some bookseller’s hack who, when em- ployed to make an index, introduced Milton’s name among the M’s, under the civil title of—‘Mi...

......................................................................... 264 Index of First Lines ......................................................... ...ce exerted on his mind by his singularly crooked frame and sickly habit of body, by his position as belonging to a proscribed faith, and by his want o... ...nd ever produced, so frequently reminding you of a bright sting set in the body, and steeped in the venom, of a wasp. And yet, withal, he possessed ma... ...se writ- ings; not so much as wishing so irrational a thing, as that every body should be deceived merely for my credit. How- ever, I desire it may th... ...y, And on the impassive ice the lightnings play; Eternal snows the growing mass supply, 127 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope – V olume One Till t... ...s waits with civic crowns, And the great Father of his country owns. These massy columns in a circle rise, O’er which a pompous dome invades the skies... ... awakes, and dawns at every line; Or blend in beauteous tints the colour’d mass, And from the canvas call the mimic face: Read these instructive leave... ...nd the Lord Digby. 277 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope – V olume One Index of First Lines A A pleasing form; a firm, yet cautious mind; 155 A s...

...or that matter, I have a question to address to you. Why, being so great a body of men – for you are a great body – fifteen thousand, 29 Robert Louis... ...I thought I should astonish you,’ he said. ‘These are not the ideas of the masses.’ ‘They are not, I can assure you,’ Otto said. ‘Or rather,’ distingu... ...oks? The Herr Doctor might perhaps be asked for his advice; but we have no Index Expurgatorius in Grunewald. Had we but that, we should be the most ab... ...r wife. You are in everything a public creature; you belong to the public, body and bone. Y ou have with you the law, the muskets of the army, and the... ... the intoxicating joys of power. Meanwhile he continued, with that sort of massive arch- ness that so ill became him, ‘She has but one fault; there is... ...al hour, the council of Grunewald sat around the board. It was not a large body. At the instance of Gondremark, it had undergone a strict purgation, a... ...at home appeared the very antipode of Gondremark on duty. He had an air of massive jollity that well became him; grossness and geniality sat upon his ...

...pockets on one side of his coarse convict dress, are portions of the man’s body, on which he is regaling; in the pockets on the other side is an untou... ... small. We have a fine sea, whole some for all people; profitable for the body, profitable for the mind. The poet’s words are sometimes on its awful ... ... the government at home ought instantly to ‘take up.’ The British mind and body becoming heated by these fantasies, delirious answers are made to in ... ...den and our scraps of conversation car ried on in whispers. Above us, the massive iron girders of the arch were faintly visible, and below us its pon... ...penny, and of course a noble lord preserved it ever more. The treadle and index at the toll house (a most inge nious contrivance for rendering fraud... ...reditary Lords and Ladies—in the dominions of Prince Bull, among the great mass of the community who were called in the language of that polite countr... ...to the imperfect sewers of this overgrown city, you shall have the immense mass of corrup tion, engendered by these practices, lazily thrown out of s...

...e justified by the provocation, and the result. He scattered an unprepared body of many hundreds, who might have enveloped him, and who would presumpt... ..., and was punctilious in veracity, scrupu- lous in cleanliness of mind and body, devoted to the honour of his country, the interests of his class. She... ...a score of week- day miserable sinners to penal servitude or the rope. No- body laughs at the judge. Everybody will be laughing at the scornful man do... ...e. The Countess of Ormont’s manner toward him was to be read as a standing index of the course he should follow; and he thanked her. He could not quit... ... should have to season our handful of regulars and mob of levies, turn the mass into troops. With plenty of food, and blows daily, Englishmen soon get... ...fantry prove that their heterogeneous composition can be welded to a handy mass, and can stand fire and return it, and not be beaten by an acknowledge... ... than tactician, my lady? It may be,’ said Weyburn, smiling at her skips. ‘Massing his cannon to make a big hole for his cavalry, my brother says; and...

...ur guides), by a courier, two footmen, and two waiting-maids: which strong body of inconvenience was ac- commodated elsewhere under the same roof. The... ... seemed gone, and the mountain, a shining waste of immense white heaps and masses, to be a region of cloud floating between the blue sky above and the... ...al other small stores which were chiefly laid in for the use of the strong body of inconvenience. Mr Gowan and Blandois of Paris had already breakfast... ...much company being on the road, from the patched Italian V ettura—like the body of a swing from an English fair put upon a wooden tray on wheels, and ... ...t heights and distances, all softly lighted through stained glass, and the massive curtains that hung in the doorways. From these cities they would go... ...erhanging the canal, with other balconies below, and none above. It was of massive stone darkened by ages, built in a wild fancy which came from the E... ...olling his eyes round the Chief Butler’s shoes without raising them to the index of that stupendous creature’s thoughts, had signified to him his inte...

...been imputed by our historians to any of his ancestors, and is the certain index of a base and little mind. I know it may be urged in his vindication,... ...apartments in the Luckenbooths was to him like divorcing the soul from the body; yet Dr. R— did but hint that the better air of this new district was ... ...ewy frame, and a pair of trousers of a lighter colour, cut as close to the body as they are used by Highlandmen. His whole dress was of finer cloth th... ...And you were switching the water, I suppose,’ said I, ‘to discover my dead body?’ This observation produced a long ‘Na—a—a’ of acknowl- edged detectio... ...t more closely, the parlour chimney engaged my attention. It was a pile of massive stone, entirely out of proportion to the size of the apartment. On ... ... of them, I had nothing better to do than to watch the dial-plate till the index pointed to noon. Five minutes elapsed, which. I allowed for variation... ...the clerks of court, and the title, Peebles Against Plainstanes. This huge mass was deposited on the table, and my father, with no ordinary glee in hi... ...‘you will find it pretty strong.’ ‘If the kirk is ower muckle, we can sing mass in the quire,’ said Peter, helping himself in the goblet out of which ...

...E DAWN CHAPTER I – THE DAWN CHAPTER I – THE DAWN CHAPTER I – THE DAWN AN ANCIENT ENGLISH CATHEDRAL TOWER? How can the ancient English Cathedral tower ... ...opes his way down the broken stairs, gives a good morning to some rat-ridden doorkeeper, in bed in a black hutch beneath the stairs, and passes out. T... ...lves from the rest, will retrace their flight for some distance, and will there poise and linger; conveying to mere men the fancy that it is of some o... ...ing the Close, with an arched thoroughfare passing beneath it. Through its latticed window, a fire shines out upon the fast- darkening scene, involvin... ...e Secretary said, and what the Vice-Secretary said. And this was usually said in the unanimously- carried resolution under hand and seal, to the effec... ... part of his position, he is no sooner taken by the throat than he curls up his legs, forces his assailant to hang him, as it were, and gurgles in his... ...or a few words of consultation, and then asking for pen and ink, sketched out a line or two of agreement. In the meantime Mrs. Billickin took a seat, ...

...Excerpt: An ancient English cathedral tower? How can the ancient English Cathedral tower be here! The well-known massive gray square tower of its old Cathedral? How can that be here! There is no spike of rusty iron in the air, between the eye and it, from any point of the real prospect. What is the spike that intervenes, and who has set...

...sweated the flesh off your bones, and well-nigh fried the soul out of your body, you go home, to what?—three shillings a week and a puddn! Do you get ... ...L. No, not the snuff-box, but—a pinch of snuff,—ha! ha!—run me through the body if he didn’t. Could you but have seen the smile on Jack Churchill’s gr... ...ess, horseless, corporalless, with a gag in his mouth and a rope round his body, are we compelled to leave the gallant Galgenstein, until his friends ... ... have done. I can turn out a quo- tation from Sophocles (by looking to the index) as well as another: I can throw off a bit of fine writing too, with ... ... which had been hidden behind Westminster Abbey, rose above the vast black mass of that edifice, and poured a flood of silver light upon the little ch...

...e left in the repose to which they have long been consigned, so far as the mass of mankind is concerned, though they must always form part of the libr... ...at the book may prove dangerous has caused it to be inscribed on a sort of Index, and good folk who never read a line of it blush at its name. Its “se... ... I threw myself between them, embracing my brother, whom I covered with my body, receiving the strokes designed for him; I persisted so obstinately in... ... to efface it. He was a tall, lank, weakly boy, with a mind as mild as his body was feeble, and who did not wrong the good opinion they were disposed ... ...to dispose of me in a manner the most repugnant to them. I was sent to Mr. Masseron, the City Register, to learn (according to the expression of my un... ...thout feeling a kind of horror, which every day gained fresh strength. Mr. Masseron, who was not better pleased with my abili- ties than I was with th... ...impeding our journey. I was in the happiest circumstances both of mind and body that I ever recollect having experienced; young, full of health and se...