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...thing unearthly about them. “Whenever, in after times, I have gone through museums of old furniture in Paris, London, Munich, or Vienna, with the gray... ...eshing coolness to the atmosphere of any room in which a certain number of British females are gathered together. The young men grew serious as a coup... ... colors, and always appeared at balls adorned with the turban, dear to the British female, and lovingly cultivated in out-of-the-way districts in Fran...
...y father led me before the cathe- dral monuments, talking in a low tone of British victories, and commending the heroes to my undivided attention. I u... ... father’s elo- quent talk of ruling a realm, shepherding a people, hurling British thunderbolts. The day’s discipline was, that its se- lected hero sh... ... that child’s father worrits about his learning to speak the language of a British gentleman,’ Mrs. Waddy exclaimed. ‘Before that child your h’s must ... ... the House of Commons; and my father, though he complained of the decay of British eloquence, and mourned for the days of Chatham, and William Pitt (o... ...id, ‘Richie, the notion of training you for a General commandership of the British army is a good one, but if you have got the winning tongue, the woo... ...gravine’s tentatives for gossip of this and that of the German Courts. His museum, hunting, and the Opera absorbed and divided his hours. I guessed hi... ...en. Sarkeld visibly expressed satisfaction. One remark, ‘We shall have his museum in the town!’ left me no doubt upon the presumed object of his visit... ...ed me honestly, was to study certain editions of Tibullus in the Brit- ish Museum. When he deigned to speak of Sarkeld, it was to say that Prince Herm... ...ulein. The Margravine and Prince Ernest were absent. Hermann worked in his museum, dis- playing his treasures to Colonel Heddon. I sat with the la- di...
...ding audibly; and once I remember—one midday in the vanished past—when the British Association was at Dover, coming on Section C or D, or some such le... ...und of the munching of buns and sandwiches and things that the as- sembled British Associates had come there to eat under cover of the magic-lantern d... ...c of the fifty appearances was certainly that of the wasp that visited the British Museum about mid- day, dropping out of the blue serene upon one of ... ... fifty appearances was certainly that of the wasp that visited the British Museum about mid- day, dropping out of the blue serene upon one of the innu... ...to devour its victim at leisure. After that it crawled for a time over the museum roof, entered the dome of the reading-room by a skylight, buzzed abo... ...ll bushes of broom was the new grass, and amidst these things a company of British soldiers—red-coated as ever—was skirmishing in accordance with the ...
...orward, had such a profile as may be seen amongst the bronzes of classical museums, pure under a crested helmet—recalled vaguely a Minerva’s head. 31... ...t be- cause he was Cuban however; he was indeed the best type of a genuine British tar of that time, and a man-of-war’s man for years. He came by the ...
...ren, instead of thinking of improving the world you live in—” “We hang on, British bulldog breed,” said Brewitt. There was a general laugh. “Yes, and ... ... even than the people of England. Because they have no responsibility. The British Government takes the responsi- bility. And the people have nothing ... ...em. “Y es, they have to earn their living—and then no more. That’s why the British Government is the worst thing possible for them. It is the worst th... ... he smiled faintly. He had not re- ally listened to the doctor. The terms “British Government,” and “bad for the people—good for the people,” made him... ...on the pavement, as they walked east. They crossed Holborn, and passed the Museum. And neither of them said anything. When they came to the corner, sh... ...d think he would,” said Jim, screwing up his eyes. “Do you hate the normal British as much as I do?” she asked him. “Hate them! Hate them!” he said, w...
...ot look to right or left again. Beyond the Circus Ann Veronica went into a British Tea- Table Company shop to get some tea. And as she was yet waiting... ...tmost of their skill and care, making now and then a raid into the compact museum of illustration next door, in which specimens and models and directi... ...erself anxious to read more of him, and the next Wednesday she went to the British Museum and hunted first among the half-crown magazines for his essa... ...nxious to read more of him, and the next Wednesday she went to the British Museum and hunted first among the half-crown magazines for his essays and t... ... nity, and spent most of the intervening time in the Assyrian Court of the British Museum, reading and thinking over a little book upon the feminist m... ...nd spent most of the intervening time in the Assyrian Court of the British Museum, reading and thinking over a little book upon the feminist movement ...
... too. Ho! ho! Onct Dad has a jedgment, he’ d sooner dip his colours to the British than change it. I’m glad it’ s settled right eend up. Dad’ s right ... ... “Wa-al, Enoch Fuller he made a model o’ the old Ohio, and she’ s to Calem museum now . Mighty pretty model, too, but I guess Enoch he never done it f... ... a retired dory full in the front yard and a shuttered parlour which was a museum of oversea plunder. There sat a large woman, silent and grave, with ...
... Ausonii Epistola, xvi. 75 80. 10 Both these publications are in the British Museum, and are placed in the library in cases under glass, for t... ...sonii Epistola, xvi. 75 80. 10 Both these publications are in the British Museum, and are placed in the library in cases under glass, for the in s... ...liam Shepherd. Liverpool. 1801. 14 Professor Theodore Bergh. See Classical Museum, No. viii. July, 1849. 15 Vavassor’s treatise, entitled “De Ludic...
...ed to the westward ‘Beach-la-Mar,’ comes easy to the Polynesian; it is now taught, besides, in the schools 9 Robert Louis Stevenson of Hawaii; and fr... ...urprise. Her Majesty was often recognised, and I have seen French subjects kiss her photograph; Captain Speedy—in an Abyssinian war-dress, supposed to... ... mentioned; and the agents of the farmer blush for their employment. Those that live in glass houses should 53 Robert Louis Stevenson not throw stone... ...ses should 53 Robert Louis Stevenson not throw stones; as a subject of the British crown, I am an unwilling shareholder in the largest opium business... ...ear of the same Gorgon follows and troubles them at home. Maiana once paid him tribute; he once fell upon and seized Nonuti: first steps to the empire... ...is art. To feel, to use his power, to embellish his island and the picture of the island life after a private ideal, to milk the island vigor- ously, ...
... naturalists are acquainted with this spider, though it is a rare one; the British Museum has a specimen, and, doubtless, so have many other scientifi... ...ists are acquainted with this spider, though it is a rare one; the British Museum has a specimen, and, doubtless, so have many other scientific instit... ...his own shape! It were well that our townsmen tarred and feathered the old British wizard!” And, as he got further off, two or three little blackguard... ...ish, and become more American than the Americans themselves in repudiating British prejudices or principles, habits, mode of thought, and everything t... ...migrated to this part of America, then a wilderness, and long afterwards a British colony. He was on ill terms with his family . There is reason to be... ...ed castles, churches, cathedrals, the seats of nobility and gentry; Roman, British, and Saxon remains, painted windows, oak carvings, and so forth. An...
...but more faded; and she had the effi- cient air, as though she carried the British Em- pire in her pocket, which the wives of senior of- ficers acquir... ...g any. I missed a wonderful chance. Most of them have found their way into museums, and the rest are the treasured possessions of wealthy amateurs. I ...
...nger and disgrace of Cali- fornia; and the holders are mostly of American or British birth. We have here in England no idea of the troubles and inconv... ...There were many works burnt at Alex- andria, there are many treasured in the British Museum, that I could better spare than the proces-verbal of Chati... ...re many works burnt at Alex- andria, there are many treasured in the British Museum, that I could better spare than the proces-verbal of Chatillon. Po...
...e on, nothing daunted, proceeded to entertain him with an ordinance of the British Government, regulating the state he should preserve, and the furnit... ...uld gaze upon the favourite comic scene of the travelling English, where a British nobleman (Lord John), with a very loose stomach: dressed in a blue ... ...ladder and this man, something like (I should think) a charge of the heavy British cavalry at W aterloo. The man was never brought down, how ever, no... ...lls in the roofless cham bers of both cities, or carefully removed to the museum at Naples, are as fresh and plain, as if they had been executed yest...
...as no objection to an interminable Chancery suit. It is a slow, expensive, British, constitutional kind of thing. T o be sure, he has not a vital inte... ...be in part a little library of books and papers and in part quite a little museum of his boots and shoes and hat boxes. “Sit down, my dear,” said Mr. ... ...dmiring Mrs. Snagsby the regular acute professional eye which is thrown on British jurymen. “Now, ma’am, perhaps you’ll have the kindness to tell us ... ...om that truly national work The Divinities of Albion, or Galaxy Gallery of British Beauty, representing ladies of title and fash ion in every variety... ...e market gardens, he decorates his apartment; and as the Galaxy Gallery of British Beauty wears every variety of fancy dress, plays every variety of m... ...orrow gives him a thrill of joy. To be informed what the Galaxy Gallery of British Beauty is about, and means to be about, and what Galaxy marriages a...
... instead of going straight back to the office to-day, Mary turned into the British Museum, and strolled down the gallery with the shapes of stone unti... ... of going straight back to the office to-day, Mary turned into the British Museum, and strolled down the gallery with the shapes of stone until she fo... ...it, and filled her eyes with brightness. Nevertheless, before she left the Museum she was very far from saying, even in the privacy of her own mind, “... ...the rightness of her own thought as to wish to bring the population of the British Isles into agreement with it. She looked at the lemon-colored leafl... ...ed upon sufficiently intel- lectual grounds. A mistake, in my opinion. The British public likes a pellet of reason in its jam of eloquence—a pill of r... ...atharine in possession of some of the fundamental distinctions between our British trees. She then asked him to inform her about flowers. To her they ... ...ne of her willing, but confronted with wet pavements and only some belated museum or Tube station for shelter, she was forced, for Ralph’s sake, to fa...
...stairs, rushes into his Hansom, and directs the driver to be up and at the British Public, and to charge into the City. Meanwhile T wemlow, in an incr... ...grapple, sir, or she flies! —that is to say, regarded in the light of true British Oak, for such you are explain, Mr V enus, the expression “papers”!’... ...n. ‘The natural curiosity which forms the sole ornament of my professional museum,’ he resumes, ‘hereupon desires his Secretary—an individual of the h...
...New England port during the war of 1812, she had been captured at sea by a British cruiser, and, after seeing all sorts of service, was at last employ... ... It purported to be, “the affidavit of John Jennin, first of- ficer of the British Colonial Barque Julia; Guy, Master;” and proved to be a long statem... ...eman is being measured for a coat. While we were amusing ourselves in this museum of curi- osities, our conductor plucked us by the sleeve, and whis- ...
...n race have not been ugly, and even among those “lords of their kind,” the British, squat figures, ill-shapen nostrils, and dingy complexions are not ... ...een in comparison with the people round them. Arthur’s was a much commoner British face, and the splendour of his 246 Adam Bede new-fashioned clothes... ... idleness is eager now—eager for amusement; prone to excursion-trains, art museums, peri- odical literature, and exciting novels; prone even to scient...
... for some time, between the years 1824 and 1828, senior officer of a small British Squadron on the West Coast of South America. His book published in ... ...i e poi mori.” THE FIRST TIME we got into conversation was in the National Museum in Naples, in the rooms on the ground floor containing the famous co...