...d told our partners that we had cheated the first time we might have had a chance to be forgiven. Solving problems makes people stronger. It is better... ...nt. T ony Phillips, a VH1 correspondent, writes on their self-titled first album, “This album has more in common with a pack of baseball cards than th... ... stick of bubble gum stale enough to break a tooth.” He is saying that the album is “bubble-gum, teenaged girl” pop music at it’s worst. It seems like... ...Backstreet Boys have made history with their work. Their self-titled first album, Backstreet Boys, has sold more than ten million copies. The second, ... ...w Year is a day to spend quality time with family. Nine years ago, I had a chance to spend Chinese New Year in Korea. On February 8, 1990 I was in a s... ...ow, when most people hear something like that they decide that there is no chance that they will ever play so they decide to quit. That was not my att... ...ed to give it a shot The next day my coach introduced me to the new event. Meeting my new coaches and having a new audience, I was sure that I would m...

...ry offering to the gods of shipwreck; I trust my cargo unreservedly to the chances of the sea; and do not, by criticising myself, seek to disarm the w... ...rsailles; and the days were distinguished from each other by love-letters, meetings, tiffs, reconciliations, and expan- sions to the chosen confidant,... ...e time after, as the girl was bleaching clothes on Mauchline green, Robert chanced to go by, still accompa- nied by his dog; and the dog, “scouring in... ...sense and generous feeling to his hottest excess. What he asked was a fair chance for the individual in life; an open road to success and distinction ... ...ity. When he was in Holland, he was “with child” to see any strange thing. Meeting some friends and singing with them in a palace near the Hague, his ... ...oned how he conversed with one as he rode; when he saw some brought from a meeting under arrest, “I would to God,” said he, “they would either conform... ...t upon that of her mother. However, we know what Heine wrote in his wife’s album; and there is, after all, one passage that may be held to intimate so...

................................................................. 258 FROM AN ALBUM OF 1604. ............................................................... ........................................................... 273 THE FRIENDL Y MEETING ...................................................................... ...e, Upon the well-till’d height. When ‘neath the linden tree, Young folks I chance to see, I set them moving soon; His nose the dull lad curls, The for... ... WEEP, maiden, weep here o’er the tomb of Love; He died of nothing—by mere chance was slain. But is he really dead?—oh, that I cannot prove: A nothing... ...s slain. But is he really dead?—oh, that I cannot prove: A nothing, a mere chance, oft gives him life again. 1767-9. November Song. T o the great arch... ... combining, Each zephyr that blows Its brother is greeting, All flying and meeting, With balsam full laden, When waken’d to life. 209 Goethe CHORUS. ... ...e night-rambles Under the moon’s cold twilight! Loathsome toads hold their meetings Y onder at every crossway. 217 Goethe Injuring not, Fear will the... ...is, And made mine own, to mine exceeding bliss. 1820.* 266 Goethe FROM AN ALBUM OF 1604. HOPE provides wings to thought, and love to hope. Rise up to...

...e’s witticism at the T uileries. The old V endeen did not let such a happy chance slip; he told his history with so much vivacity that a king, who nev... ...endeavor to settle you suitably; and you would be guilty of ingratitude in meeting with levity those proofs of kindness which I am not alone in lavish... ...rriages which pow- der the philosophical pedestrian with dust. The hope of meeting some women of fashion, and of being seen by them—and the hope, less... ...arpened her pencils for the scenes she proposed to sketch in her satirical album. Sun- day could not come soon enough to satisfy her impatience. The p... ...n- 30 The Ball at Sceaux dered long about the village of Chatenay without meeting her Unknown. The fair Clara—since that was the name Emilie had over... ... when gallantry was held in honor, not to guess at once that by the merest chance Emilie had met the Unknown of the Sceaux gardens. In spite of the fi... ...tures from the dreams with which she had fed her hopes. At last, thanks to chance, to which she had so often appealed, Emilie could now see some- thin...

...f the mountain. We were passing over “Burnt Lands,” burnt by lightning, per chance, though they showed no recent marks of fire, hardly so much as a ch... ...There were very few flowers, even allowing for the lateness of the season. It chanced that I saw no asters in bloom along the road for fifty miles, thou... ...at are we coming to in our Middlesex towns? — a bald, staring town house, or meeting house, and a bare liberty pole, as leafless as it is fruitless, fo... ...hat it must be phosphorescent wood, which I had so often heard of, but never chanced to see. Putting my finger on it, with a little hesitation, I found... ...ces. They go right ashore, — stop there, go no farther that day, — they have meeting there, preach and pray just like Sunday. Then they get poles and ... ...y ver good men.” I judged from this account that their every camp was a camp meeting, and they had mistaken their route, — they should have gone to Ea... ...Ranunculus acris (buttercups), Plantago major (common plantain), Chenopodium album (lamb’s quarters),Capsella bursa pastoris, 1853 (shepherd’s purse),... ...pus Europæus (water horehound), var. sinuatus, Heron Lake shore. Chenopodium album (lamb’s quarters), Smith’s. Mentha Canadensis (wild mint), very com...

...suaded him to travel with him as far as Moscow and to stay with him there. Meeting a comrade at the last post station but one before Moscow, Denisov h... ...Rostov was very happy in the love they showed him; but the first moment of meeting had been so beatific that his present joy seemed insufficient, and ... ...w how to behave with her. The evening before, in the first happy moment of meeting, they had kissed each other, but today they felt it could not be do... ...eared now to look at Dolokhov, who was sitting opposite him. Every time he chanced to meet Dolokhov’s handsome insolent eyes, Pierre felt something te... ... and unappreciated bliss, long past. He could not con- ceive that a stupid chance, letting the seven be dealt to the right rather than to the left, mi... ... but Nicholas now considered himself unworthy of her. He filled the girls’ albums with verses and music, and having at last sent Dolokhov the whole fo...

...ple, especially to men who judge those near to them severely, he always on meeting anyone new-especially anyone whom, like Speranski, he knew by reput... ...r that he thought it necessary to interest himself in Bolkonski. “I had no chance to talk with you, Prince, during the ani- mated conversation in whic... ...e to notice that he was thinking of nothing. As he had done on their first meeting at Kochubey’s, Speranski produced a strong impression on Prince And... ... in Prince Andrew the feeling he had experienced toward him at their first meeting. He saw in him a remarkable, clear- thinking man of vast intellect ... ... were quite changed. And I said, “I should have known you had I met you by chance,” and I thought to myself, “Am I telling the truth?” And suddenly I ... ...love with Boris as of old. She sang him his favorite songs, showed him her album, making him write in it, did not allow him to allude to the past, let... ...ughtfully, referring to some verses Prince Andrew had written in Natasha’s album. “Mamma, one need not be ashamed of his being a wid- ower?” “Don’t, N... ... economy with the count, fashions with the countess and Natasha, and about albums and fancy- work with Sonya. Sometimes the household both among them-...

...t that stage in the life of a soci- ety woman when she feels that her last chance of marrying has come and that her fate must be decided now or never.... ...in private on the vanity of all worldly things, and to them she showed her albums filled with mournful sketches, maxims, and verses. To Boris, Julie w... ...as she who had herself suffered so much could ren- der, and showed him her album. Boris sketched two trees in the album and wrote: “Rustic trees, your... ...an once inter- rupted the reading because of the emotions that choked him. Meeting at large gatherings Julie and Boris looked on one an- other as the ... ...s with you.” “All right. All right. They’ll be safe with me, as safe as in Chancery! I’ll take them where they must go, scold them a bit, 26 War and ... ... was fixing her gaze on her for the second time the lady looked round and, meeting the count’s eyes, nodded to him and smiled. She was the Count- ess ... ...had left her. “A nice girl! V ery nice!” said Marya Dmitrievna. “Arranging meetings with lovers in my house! It’s no use pretending: you listen when I...

...en rather silly look, which seemed to ask forgiveness. The vicomte who was meeting him for the first time saw clearly that this young Jacobin was not ... ...t it would be difficult to get rid of Anna Mikhaylovna. “W ould not such a meeting be too trying for him, dear Anna Mikhaylovna?” said he. “Let us wai... ...tude her consciousness of the pathetic importance of these last moments of meeting between the father and son. This lasted about two minutes, which to... ... Petersburg and it is thought intends to expose his precious person to the chances of war. God grant that the Corsican monster who is destroying the p... ...t those Hofs- kriegs-wurst-Raths are! Suvorov couldn’t manage them so what chance has Michael Kutuzov? No, my dear boy,” he continued, “you and your g... ... his elbows on the table with his pen in his hand and, evidently glad of a chance to say quicker in words what he wanted to write, told Rostov the con... ... but Nicholas now considered himself unworthy of her. He filled the girls’ albums with verses and music, and having at last sent Dolokhov the whole fo... ...love with Boris as of old. She sang him his favorite songs, showed him her album, making him write in it, did not allow him to allude to the past, let... ...ughtfully, referring to some verses Prince Andrew had written in Natasha’s album. “Mamma, one need not be ashamed of his being a widower?” “Don’t, Nat...

... with our politicians, administrators, and newspaper pro- prietors, or any chance of sharing or influencing their activi- ties. But they shrank from t... ...of sentimental ethics, could weigh for a mo- ment against the remotest off-chance of an addition to the body of scientific knowledge, they operated an... ...onable and salutary, that did not smack of war delirium, had the slightest chance of acquittal. There were in the country, too, a certain number of pe... ...a good deal of opera music. I 28 Heartbreak House had seen in my mother’s album photographs of all the great opera singers, mostly in evening dress. ... ...e captain. Mangan, carefully frock-coated as for church or for a dirctors’ meeting, is about fifty-five, with a careworn, mistrustful expres- sion, st...

...at he would not survive the fall of Moscow, and now wrote French verses in albums concerning his share in the affair— this man did not understand the ... ...allowed herself plainly to express an opinion contrary to the general one. Meeting Helene at a ball she stopped her in the middle of the room and, ami... ...and the same thing a hundred times, re- marked to his daughter whenever he chanced to see her: “Helene, I have a word to say to you,” and he would lea... ...—he meant the younger man—and he crooked one finger, “you forever lose the chance of marrying the other, and you will displease the court besides. 24... ...ered his 29 Tolstoy benefactor at T orzhok. And now a picture of a solemn meeting of the lodge presented itself to his mind. It was taking place at t... ...ord since his last letter, in which he had given a detailed account of his meeting with Princess Mary. The countess did not sleep at night, or when sh... ...d bury themselves in the steppes when the French army is in Moscow. What a chance those girls have missed! Y our peasants, now—that’s another thing; b...