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...lace. [Enter BERTRAM, the COUNTESS of Rousillon, HELENA, and LAFEU, all in black.] COUNTESS: In delivering my son from me, I bury a second husband. B... ...d lord, Young Bertram. KING: Youth, thou bear st thy father s face; Frank nature, rather curious than in haste, Hath well composed thee. Thy fa... ...an, yet it will do no hurt; it will wear the surplice of humility over the black gown of a big heart. I am going, forsooth: the business is for Hele... ...ing, O er whom both sovereign power and father s voice I have to use: thy frank election make; Thou hast power to choose, and they none to forsake. H... ...ord: Holy seems the quarrel Upon your grace s part; black and fearful On the opposer. DUKE: Therefore we marvel much our cousi... ...more hotter in France than there. LAFEU: What prince is that? Clown: The black prince, sir; alias, the prince of darkness; alias, the devil. LAFEU: ...

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...searchingly). Have ye ever haird of a bad charac- ter in these seas called Black Paquito? DRINKWATER (with a sudden radiance of complete enlight- enme... ...: Ev aw said a word agin him? Ev aw nah? RANKIN. But is Captain Brassbound Black Paquito then? DRINKWATER. Waw, it’s the nime is blessed mather give i... ...lidy mawt call er little boy Birdie. RANKIN (not quite convinced). But why black Paquito? DRINKWATER (artlessly). Waw, the bird in its netral stite be... ...Y. What a pleasant face your sailor friend has, Mr. Rankin! He has been so frank and truthful with us. You know I don’t think anybody can pay me a gre... ...e is now a converted man. LADY CICELY. Of course he is. His telling you so frankly proves it. You know, really, Howard, all those poor people whom you... ...m. LADY CICELY. Captain Brassbound: I have heard all that before about the blacks; and I found them very nice people when they were properly treated. ... ...Sunday School! The darlings would love this place, with all the camels and black men. I’m sure you would enjoy having them here, Captain Brassbound; a...

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...ll, And flower-paven plains, great Hermes passed; _120 Till the black night divine, which favouring fell Around his steps, grew gray, and m... ...n he saw that everything was clear, He quenched the coal, and trampled the black dust, _180 And in the stream his bloody sandals tossed. 24. 24. 24... ...from the herd in high Pieria, _250 Where a black bull was fed apart, between T wo woody mountains in a neighbouring gl... ...fers every one, _255 But the four dogs and the black bull are left:— Stolen they were last night at set of sun, Of their s... ...ll eternally; Nor shall your father nor your mother loose The bars of that black dungeon—utterly You shall be cast out from the light of day, ... ... — [Hattie], accept my best thanks, Rendered long and amusing by virtue of franks, Though concise they would please, yet the longer the better, The mo...

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...quary, Robert Milne, who, as a virulent Jacobite, willingly lent a hand to blacken the family of Stair. Another poet of the period, with a very differ... ...llage of Eyemouth, looked out on the lonely and boisterous German Ocean. A black domain of wild pasture-land surrounded their new residence, and forme... ...A heavy fine might be imposed; an order for committing him to Edinburgh or Blackness Castle seems not improper; even a charge of treason might be laid... ...e corbeilles from which the vaulted roof of the apartment sprung. It was a black bull’s head, with the legend, “I bide my time”; and the occasion upon... ... whose life is too important to be hazarded in defence of his honour. I am Frank Hayston of Bucklaw, and no man injures me by word, deed, sign, or loo... ...st for the present. And now that I have answered your questions fairly and frankly, tell me what makes you associate with Craigengelt, so much beneath... ...it of the family as weel as things will permit of,—only Bucklaw is aye sae frank and sae forward. And there he has brought out your lordship’s palfrey... ...venswood, to his own surprise, found himself in the situa- tion of one who frankly does his best to entertain welcome and honoured guests. How much of... ...anges of state, from the reign of Henry VIII. to that of Elizabeth, by the frank avowal, that he was born of the willow, not of the oak. It had accord...

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...s by almost such passage made; And whiteness had o’erspread that hemisphere, Blackness the other part; when to the left The Divine Comedy of Dante ... .... Hence weepeth still Sad Cleopatra, who, pursued by it, Took from the adder black and sudden death. With him it ran e’en to the Red Sea coast; With h... ...thirst of sweet desire, May be contended fully, let thy voice, Fearless, and frank and jocund, utter forth Thy will distinctly, utter forth the wish, ... ...e fair child of him, Whose welcome is the morn and eve his parting, To negro blackness change her virgin white. “Thou, to abate thy wonder, note ... ...nt with him, is said to have dreamt that she should bring forth a white and black dog, with a lighted torch in its mouth. v. 59. The dame.] His god...

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...Excerpt: ACT I. At the most wretched hour between a black night and a wintry morning in the year 1777, Mrs. Dudgeon, of New Hampshire, is sitting up in the kitchen and general dwelling room of her farm house on the outskirts of the town of Websterbridge. She is not a preposses...

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...EVIL ’S DISCIPLE By Bernard Shaw ACT I At the most wretched hour between a black night and a win- try morning in the year 1777, Mrs. Dudgeon, of New H... ... side of the window the clock hangs on a nail, with its white wooden dial, black iron weights, and brass pendulum. Between the clock and the corner, a... ...pposite the fireplace, between the door and the corner, a shamelessly ugly black horsehair sofa stands against the wall. An inspection of its stridulo... ...teen has fallen asleep on it. She is a wild, timid looking crea- ture with black hair and tanned skin. Her frock, a scanty garment, is rent, weatherst... ...e fireplace; and places it for Mrs. Dudgeon, who comes from the bedroom in black, with a clean handkerchief to her eyes. All rise, except Essie. Mrs. ... ...d bluntly). Not a scrap. Oh, you ex- pressed your feelings towards me very frankly yesterday. What happened may have softened you for the moment; but ... ...onor when the privileges and prestige of the aristocracy are at stake. Mr. Frank Harris said, after the di- sastrous battle of Modder River, that the ...

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..... 61 THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR ................................................................................................... 70 THE BLACK CAT...................................................................................................................................................... 79 THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER ..................................

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...................................................................... 70 THE BLACK CAT .................................................................... ...was not less ingenious than bold. The document in question—a letter, to be frank—had been re- ceived by the personage robbed while alone in the royal ... ...p as worthless, had been altered, or stayed, in the second. It had a large black seal, 19 V olume Two bearing the D— cipher very conspicuously, and w... ...Pre- fect had read us so minute a description. Here the seal was large and black, with the D—cipher; there it was small and red, with the ducal arms o... ... would and did marry him, I say, will I, nill I, it was with her beautiful black eyes as thoroughly open as the nature of the case would allow. It see... ...ird had traversed the air. *He observed a flock of pigeons passing betwixt Frankfort and the Indian territory, one mile at least in breadth; it took u... ...nk a Roman nose. There is some defect in one of his feet. His ad- dress is frank, and his whole manner noticeable for bonhomie. Altogether, he looks, ... ...d no relatives in America who would be likely to interfere. I spoke to him frankly upon the subject; and, to my surprise, his interest seemed vividly ... ... evidence of his senses, than have suspected of such courses, the gay, the frank, the generous William Wilson—the noblest and most commoner at Oxford ...

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...titution in England; and the playwright who criticizes it is slighted as a blackguard agitating for impunity. Consequently nothing can really shake th... ...estion Mr Redford’s honesty. I am quite sure that he sincerely thinks me a blackguard, and my play a grossly improper one, because, like Tolstoy’s Dom... ...footing, and we shall promptly have a similar revolution: a whole class of frankly blackguardly plays, in which unscru- pulous low comedians attract c... ... and we shall promptly have a similar revolution: a whole class of frankly blackguardly plays, in which unscru- pulous low comedians attract crowds to... ...omes into my mind, do you know, sir,” said Wegg with an air of insinuating frankness (having first again looked hard at the book), that you made a lit... ...ot wicked enough, and names several ro- mancers who would have clothed her black soul with all the terrors of tragedy. I have no doubt they would; but... ...ough as Mrs Warren, Charles Goodhart as Crofts, Harley Granville-Barker as Frank, and Cosmo Stuart as the Reverend Samuel Gardner.] 28 Mrs. Warren’s ... ... much what you hope as what you believe, that I want to know. PRAED. Well, frankly, I am afraid your mother will be a little disappointed. Not from an... ...ht sporting magazine rifle. THE YOUNG GENTLEMAN. Hallo! Praed! PRAED. Why, Frank Gardner! [Frank comes in and shakes 39 G B Shaw hands cordially]. Wh...

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...ctory degree. Introduction T he details of Mr. Washington’s early life, as frankly set down in “Up from Slavery,” do not give quite a whole view of hi... ...uction had made of it; I recalled the low level of public life in all the “black” States. Every effort of philanthropy seemed to have miscarried, ever... ...still hold to the conviction that a mere book educa- tion for the Southern blacks under present conditions is a positive evil. This is a demonstration... ...te them are the only men who have written of the subject with that perfect frankness and perfect knowledge and perfect poise whose other name is geniu... ...ERY Chapter I. A Slave Among Slaves I was born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia. I am not quite sure of the exact place or exact ... ...ery much attention was given to family history and family records—that is, black family records. My mother, I suppose, attracted the attention of a pu... ...re often in great straits. Parched corn was used for coffee, and a kind of black molasses was used instead of sugar. Many times nothing was used to sw... ...ally, and that at the bottom of everything she wanted absolute honesty and frankness. Nothing must be sloven or slipshod; every door, every fence, mus... ... treasurer of the Hampton Institute, General J.F.B. Marshall, and told him frankly my condition. To my gratification he told me that I could reenter t...

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...ent light struggling through the clouds to make Panley Common visible as a black ex- panse, against the lightest tone of which a piece of ebony would ... ...ofession slightly parted in a good-humored but cunning smile. His hair was black and close-cut; his skin indurated; and the bridge of his nose smashed... ...oof, and was surmounted by an open pediment, in the cleft of which stood a black-marble figure of an Egyp- tian, erect, and gazing steadfastly at the ... ... dropped her book and began to think and dream, uncon- scious of a prosaic black object crossing the lawn towards her. This was a young gentleman in a... ...t myself with frugal ones throughout my life.” “Not necessarily. T ell me, frankly: how had you proposed to exert yourself? As a teacher, was it not?”... ...vening—I’m very sorry I forgot myself. Good-night.” Mrs. Hoskyn, naturally frank, felt some vague response within herself to this address. But, though... ...that is new in my experience of you. But what have you to tell me, Lucian? Frankly, your hesitation is becoming ridiculous.” “You have certainly not m... ...s endeavor to spare one another’s feel- ings are pretty disloyalties. I am frank with you. Would you have me otherwise?” “Of course not. I have no rig... ... and over again—” “Excuse me,” said Lydia, interrupting. “We had better be frank with one another. It is useless to assume that he mis- took my feelin...

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...rubbed in the lady’s complexion in his sonnets mercilessly; for in his day black hair was as unpopular as red hair was in the early days of Queen Vict... ...hair was in the early days of Queen Victoria. Any tinge lighter than raven black must be held fatal to the strongest claim to be the Dark Lady. And so... ...ned. But he never told me that or anything else about his affairs; and his black pessimism would have shot him violently out of any church at present ... ... quite con- siderable and dignified soul in a grotesquely disfigured body. Frank Harris T o the review in the Pall Mall Gazette I attribute, rightly o... ...tte I attribute, rightly or wrongly, the introduction of Mary Fitton to Mr Frank Har- ris. My reason for this is that Mr Harris wrote a play about Sha... ... ghost, reminded the world that it was to Tyler we owed the Fitton theory, Frank Harris, who clearly had not a notion of what had first put Mary into ... ...able one; and after all, the wrong road always leads somewhere. 7 GB Shaw Frank Harris’s play was written long before mine. I read it in manuscript b... .... But there could not in the nature of things be much resemblance, because Frank conceives Shakespear to have been a broken-hearted, melancholy, enorm... ...ous, fond of quoting obscene schoolboy anec- dotes, adepts in that sort of blackmail which consists in mer- cilessly libelling and insulting every wri...

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...e sculptures on the capitals and the modillions of churches, and the crude frankness of certain painted windows of the fifteenth century. Queen Anne w... ...ullen things, and must Be laugh’d aright, and cheated into trust; Whilst a black piece of phlegm, that lays about Dull menaces, and terrifies the rout... ... And for lewd women does be-whore ‘em, And brings their painted faces and black patches to th’ quorum. VI. To drink he was a furious enemy Content... ..., and, in earnest, excellent godebillios of the dun ox (you know) with the black streak. O, for God’s sake, let us lash them soundly, yet thriftily. D... ...in their kind, as good and evil, virtue and vice, heat and cold, white and black, pleasure and pain, joy and grief,—and so of oth- ers,—if you couple ... ...ver. I will bestow upon you, said he, this Friesland horse; I had him from Frankfort, yet will I give him you; for he is a pretty little nag, and will... ... set you at liberty, and every way make you 154 Gargantua & Pantagruel as frank and free as ever you were before. Moreover, at your going out of the ... ...ered with this Septembral juice. You shall have the rest of the history at Frankfort mart next coming, and there shall you see how Panurge was married... ...rove agreeable to the tastes of their worshipful worships, let them drink, frankly, freely, and boldly, without paying anything, and welcome. This is ...

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...onsive grin, visiting informally the tired cheeks of my confrère, ended by frankly connecting his worthy and enor- mous ears which were squeezed into ... ...on which is peculiar to gendarmes. On me he stared cynically, then sneered frankly. With a little tooty shriek the funny train tottered in. My captors... ...igue, their eyes burning, apparently by themselves—faceless in the equally black mist. By threes and fives they assaulted the goblin who wailed and sh... ... correcting his own large slovenly procedure out of earshot …. Some of the Black People sat down near me and smoked. Their enormous faces, wads of vit... ... friend, whom I face. She must have been very pretty before she put on the black. Her friend is also a veuve. How pleasantly they talk, of la guerre, ... ...irst time) was older than the other, and rather handsome with his Van Dyck blackness of curly beard. He said that it was too early for the metro, it w... ...ll fell asleep.” I began to be afraid that I was asleep myself. “Please be frank,” I begged. “Strictly entre nous: am I dreaming, or is this a bug-hou... ...n-faced personage of about fifty with sparse greyish hair and a Ben- jamin Franklin expression appeared on the other side of the fence, from the direc... ...y and responsible office. This solemnity, however, met its Waterloo in his frank and stupid eyes, not to say his tril- ogy of cheerful chins—so much s...

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... with a huntsman painted on the dial, a check cotton handkerchief, a round black snuff-box, and a green spectacle-case, The neatness and orderliness o... ...e other one his—quite a new one), with, on the further side of the door, a blackboard on which our more serious faults were marked by circles and our ... ...ere marked by circles and our lesser faults by crosses. To the left of the black- board was the corner in which we had to kneel when naughty. How well... ...iced nothing. In the middle of the room stood a table, covered with a torn black oilcloth so much cut about with penknives that the edge of the table ... ...h already.” As these thoughts crossed my mind I stood looking sadly at the black ribbons on my shoes, After a few words to Karl Ivanitch about the dep... ...ngs or themes from operas; but he had no love for serious music, and would frankly flout received opinion by declaring that, whereas Beethoven’s sonat... ...to tell him all that was in my heart, yet was too much afraid of him to be frank in any way, and, while submitting myself to his will, tried to appear... ...espite her lengthened face, 91 Tolstoy looked as lovely as ever. Woloda’s frank nature was frank also in grief. He stood looking grave and as though ...

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... the House of the Queen. VOICE. Go anoint thy javelin with fat of swine, O Blackamoor; for before morning the Romans will make thee eat it to the very... ...him). Peace, peace, poor Ethiop: destiny is with the gods who painted thee black. (T o Belzanor) What has this mortal (indicating the Persian) told yo... ... But there came the sound of a trumpet whose voice was as the cursing of a black mountain. Then saw we a moving wall of shields com- ing towards us. Y... .... BELZANOR. Ay: that is because she is descended from the river Nile and a black kitten of the sacred White Cat. What then? PERSIAN. Why, sell her sec... ... interest of Caesar, who looks at the scene, which is new to him, with the frank curiosity of a child, and then turns to the King’s chair: Britannus a... ...ttribute nothing but originality to him. Originality gives a man an air of frankness, generosity, and magnanimity by enabling him to estimate the valu... ...eat. Having virtue, he has no need of goodness. He is nei- ther forgiving, frank, nor generous, because a man who is too great to resent has nothing t... ... a man who says things that other people are afraid to say need be no more frank than Bismarck was; and there is no generosity in giv- ing things you ... ...bi- tion was an instinct for exploration. He had much more of Columbus and Franklin in him than of Henry V. However, nobody need deny Caesar a share, ...

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...not expert at: he could distil brandy, build a waggon, make powder, and do blacksmith’s and gunsmith’s work, in addition to committing wild ex- cesses... ...f their dirty old 23 Taras Bulba & Other Tales ones; trousers wide as the Black Sea, with countless folds and plaits, were kept up by golden girdles ... ...little sunburnt, seemed to have grown hand- somer and whiter; their slight black moustaches now cast a more distinct shadow on this pallor and set off... ...off their healthy youthful complexions. They looked very handsome in their black sheepskin caps, with cloth-of-gold crowns. When their poor mother saw... ...reams; listening to philosophical discussions, he still beheld her, fresh, black-eyed, tender; before him con- stantly flitted her elastic bosom, her ... ... With growing amazement the maiden listened, losing no single word, to the frank, sincere language in which, as in a mirror, the young, strong spirit ... ...ion in its clear and actual light, and to argue with himself, sensibly and frankly, as with a reason- able friend with whom one can discuss private an... ...her look at his cloak. Akakiy Akakievitch, although somewhat confused, was frank- hearted, and could not refrain from rejoicing when he saw how they p... ...three household servants: that is the kind of lodgers I have. I say to you frankly, that this is not an establishment where people do not pay their re...

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...his windows, locks far daylight out And makes himself an artificial night: Black and portentous must this humor prove, Unless good counsel may the cau... ...te, in question more: These happy masks that kiss fair ladies’ brows Being black put us in mind they hide the fair; He that is strucken blind cannot f... ...EO: Wouldst thou withdraw it? for what purpose, love? JULIET: But to be frank, and give it thee again. And yet I wish but for the thing I have: My ... ...CUTIO: Alas poor Romeo! he is already dead; stabbed with a white wench’s black eye; shot through the ear with a love song; the very pin of his heart... ...he clouds, Which too untimely here did scorn the earth. ROMEO: This day’s black fate on more days doth de pend; This but begins the woe, others must ... ...on makes him false; he speaks not true: Some twenty of them fought in this black strife, And all those twenty could but kill one life. I beg for justi...

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...ater. He would say nothing else-repeating his cry impatiently, back water! black water! The men put back as speedily as possible, but by this time the... ...ter over—but never without a shudder. In one of our conversations Augustus frankly confessed to me, that in his whole life he had at no time expe- rie... ...ee’nt nothing at all like Goddin, and I’d want you for to know better, you blackguard, than to call my new obercoat a darty one.” For my life I could ... ...ere concealed in wide-spreading morasses, whose dreary water lay intensely black, still, and altogether terrible, beneath. And the strange trees seeme... ...ead from an axe. The poor fellow fell to the deck without a groan, and the black cook lifted him up in his arms as he would a child, and tossed him de... ...ltogether, on condition of joining the mutiny and sharing the profits. The black cook, however (who in all respects was a perfect demon, and who seeme... ...tion. I concluded the most wildly enthusiastic epistle ever penned, with a frank declaration of my worldly circumstances—of my affluence—and with an o... ...ied her noble heart. Like a true Frenchwoman as she was she had obeyed the frank dictates of her reason—the generous impulses of her nature—despis- in... ... by her candor upon the delicate point of her age, I entered, with perfect frankness, not only into a detail of my many minor vices, but made full con...

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...day when you came out there and asked me if I would be yours, you spoke so frankly and honestly to me about your first marriage. It had been so happy,... ... am referring to it now. I only want to remind you that I, on my side, was frank with you. I told you quite openly that once in my life I had cared fo... ...ing. Yes—they’re in the habit of saying that sort of thing. Arnholm. Well, frankly, I’ve noticed that, too. Bolette. But really there’s not an atom of... ...word for me with father? Arnholm. Certainly. But first of all I must speak frankly and freely with you yourself, dear. Bolette (looks out to the left)... .... Arnholm. You need not fear that, Bolette. But now you must tell me quite frankly—if there is anything—any- thing you are bound to here. Bolette. Bou... ...taste. Hilde. But tell me, as an artist, how do you think I should look in black? Lyngstrand. In black, Miss Hilde? Hilde. Yes, all in black. Do you t... ...de? Hilde. Yes, all in black. Do you think I should look well? Lyngstrand. Black’s hardly suitable for the summer. How- ever, you’d probably look rema... ...suitable for the summer. How- ever, you’d probably look remarkably well in black, espe- cially with your appearance. Hilde (looking straight in front ... ...lly with your appearance. Hilde (looking straight in front of her). All in black, up to 87 Henrik Ibsen the throat; black frilling round that, black ...

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...n of about 30, with reddened nose and furtive eyes. He is dressed in seedy black, almost clerically, and might be a tenth-rate school- 6 John Bull’s ... ...he National League, I saw at once that you were—You won’t mind my speaking frankly? 9 GB Shaw TIM. Tell me all me faults as man to man. I can stand a... ...le and his hands clenched]. Don’t despair, Larry, old boy: things may look black; but there will be a great change after the next election. DOYLE [jum... ...glories of the sunset and see into the streets of heaven. He is dressed in black, and is rather more clerical in appearance than most English curates ... ...s say that. KEEGAN. Why not? Don’t you know the story? how I con- fessed a black man and gave him absolution; and how he put a spell on me and drove m... ...! KEEGAN. It’s not nonsense at all: it’s true—in a way. But never mind the black man. Now that you know what a trav- elled man I am, what can I do for... ...t lady? HODSON [surprised]. No, sir. BROADBENT. Not any—er—? You may speak frankly. HODSON. I didn’t notice nothing, sir. What sort of thing ded you m... ... of my feelings. Well, I feel now that the time has come to be open, to be frank, to be explicit. Miss Reilly: you have inspired in me a very strong a...