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...ame home again from rosy Italy to their own Germany. And how much has that old imperial vanity clung to the German soul? Did not the German kings inhe... ... of withered poppies. It was the poppies I saw, then the Christ. It was an old shrine, the wood-sculpture of a Bavarian peas- ant. The Christ was a pe... ...e more. Bavaria is remote in spirit, as yet unattached. Its crucifixes are old and grey and abstract, small like the kernel of the truth. Further into... ...ar for the way to St Jakob. So one follows the blue and white ring, or the three stripes of blue and white, or the red smear, as the case may be. And ... ...t in the baroque manner, florid pink and cream outside, with opulent small arches. And in- side is the most startling sensational Christus I have ever... ...wer than the gardens round it, and the sunshine came through the trellised arches on to the flagstones, where the grass grew fine and green in the cra... ...ous, unsightly buildings bulge out on the mountain-sides, rising in two or three receding tiers, blind, dark, sordid-look- ing places. In the morning ... ...voulez-vous entrer, monsieur?’ I went into the lemon-house, where the poor threes seem to mope in the darkness. It is an immense, dark, cold place. T ...

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...treets about the Hotel de Ville, zigzagged round the little gardens of the Paris Prefecture, and ended at the Rue Martroi, exactly at the angle of an old wall now pulled down. Here stood the turnstile to which the street owed its name; it was not removed till 1823, when the Municipality built a ballroom on the garden plot adjoining the Hotel de Ville, for the fete given in...

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...Paris Prefecture, and ended at the Rue Martroi, exactly at the angle of an old wall now pulled down. Here stood the turnstile to which the street owed... ...Hence in rainy weather the gut- ter water was soon deep at the foot of the old houses, sweep- ing down with it the dust and refuse deposited at the co... ...think he had passed through cellars all the way. Almost all the streets of old Paris, of which ancient chronicles laud the magnificence, were like thi... ...s of these old dwellings; for, to preserve the ground-floor from damp, the arches of the cellars rose about two feet above the soil, and the house was... ...e cellars rose about two feet above the soil, and the house was entered up three outside steps. The door was crowned by a closed arch, of which the ke... ..., of which the keystone bore a female head and some time-eaten arabesques. Three windows, their sills about five feet from the ground, belonged to a s... ...er the paneling of an old-fashioned alcove; but in the afternoon, by about three o’clock, when the candles were lighted, through the pane of the first... ... were made for love and cheerfulness—for love, which had drawn two perfect arches above her eyelids, and had given her such a mass of chestnut hair, t... ...bands and fell over her cheeks, like the shadow of leaves on a flower. The arches of her eyebrows were drawn with the accuracy we admire in the best C...

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...e lady, I shall have the hap- piness of finding names already dear to your old Italian romancers among those of women whom we love, and to whose memor... ... secret of this behavior, now dilatory and again hurried, is known only to old women and to certain experi- enced loungers. In this immense assembly t... ...ly sure of his evening; he must be the hero of one of those mysteries with three actors which constitute an opera ball, and are known only to those wh... ...ey of interests is as legible to them as any amus- ing novel. So, to these old hands, this man could not be here by appointment; he would infallibly h... ...rushing into the wasps’ nest of the rakes of the day,” said Rastignac. The three speakers looked towards a corner where a group of recognized wits had... ...eing a woman come by, whom he rushed to meet. “Oh! oh! oh!” said Bixiou on three notes, with a mocking glance, and seeming to recognize the mask to wh... ...ccom- modate as many prisoners as possible, by choking the capi- tals, the arches, and the vaults of this magnificent cloister with plaster, barred lo...

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...d again he said ‘Dombey and Son, in exactly the same tone as before. Those three words conveyed the one idea of Mr Dombey’s life. The earth was made f... ...ed, she wore round her neck the barrenest of lockets, representing a fishy old eye, with no approach to speculation in it. These and other appearances... ..., and suggested that her clipping a step of ordi- nary compass into two or three, originated in her habit of making the most of everything. ‘I am sure... ...er, pressing the foot of the wine-glass on Miss Tox’s hand, at each of the three clauses, ‘that Miss Tox has very prettily adapted the sentiment to th... ...out dexterously , Miss T ox had made the inquiry as in condescension to an old acquaintance whom she hadn’t seen for a fortnight or so. ‘I’m glad to h... ...m a going to, Sir. One of my little boys is a going to learn me, when he’s old enough, and been to school himself.’ ‘Well,’ said Mr Dombey, after look... ...tions; carcases of ragged tenements, and fragments of unfinished walls and arches, and piles of scaffolding, and wildernesses of bricks, and giant for... ...arpet on the road—or onward, where the overhanging trees formed aisles and arches, dim with the softened light that steeped through leaves—one corner ...

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...aught air of reverting to a bygone place and time, or of listening to some old echoes in his mind, but might have said it was the manner of a haunted ... ...lived on haunted ground? His dwelling was so solitary and vault like, — an old, retired part of an ancient endowment for students, once a brave edific... ... on every side by the over growing of the great city, and choked, like an old well, with stones and bricks; its small quadrangles, lying down in very... ...they were stifled in the heavy air of the forgotten Crypt where the Norman arches were half buried in the earth. You should have seen him in his dwel... ...obacco trade, and had stuck up a representation of a native of each of the three integral portions of the British Empire, in the act of consuming that... ...cer, which, on being uncovered, sent forth an odour so agreeable, that the three pair of eyes in the two beds opened wide and fixed themselves upon th... ...d stealthily rubbing it bright upon his shreds of dress, as he went along. Three times, in their progress, they were side by side. Three times they st... ...ghted, and bordered by a sluggish ditch; from that, to the sloping line of arches, part of some neighbouring viaduct or bridge with which it was surro... ...th from his place of ref uge, and was ready for him before he reached the arches. “Back to the woman’s?” he inquired. “Back, quickly!” answered Redla...

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... mention that two countenances before me were familiar. One was that of an old man-of- war’s-man, whose acquaintance I had made in Rio de Janeiro, at ... ...ion with something from the medicine- chest, rolled it up in a piece of an old sail, making so big a bundle that, with my feet resting on the windlass... ...zar fare of the valley, was posi- tively delicious. While thus engaged, an old sailor on a chest just under me was puffing out volumes of tobacco smok... ...wo souls; now, they mustered about twenty; the rest had deserted. Even the three junior mates who had headed the whaleboats were gone: and of the four... ...nutes, he brought along with him two officers in undress and whiskers, and three or four drunken obstreperous old chiefs; one with his 17 Melville le... ...y. Nor was the rise of his domestic fortunes at all behind the Corsican’s: three days after landing, the exquisitely tattooed hand of a princess was h... ...hing places that ever was seen. High overhead are ranges of green rustling arches; through which the sun’s rays come down to you in sparkles. You seem...

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...ency in explosive repartee—using a friend’s term for the ready gift—was an old and a rueful one with Victor Radnor. His godmother Fortune denied him t... ...lly in dissent naming him Colney; and under pressure of the name, reviving old wrangles between them upon man’s present achievements and his probable ... ...y. Colney had to be overcome afresh, and he fled, but managed, with two or three of his bitter phrases, to make a cuttle-fish fight of it, that oppres... ...stant. Down went the twirling horizontal pillars of a strong tide from the arches of the bridge, breaking to wild water at a remove; and a reddish Nor... ...m- merce: frontispiece of a tale to fetch us up the out-wearied spectre of old Apicius; yea, and urge Crispinus to wheel his purse into the market for... ...o quick was he, through this fine animation, to feel, think, act, that the three successive tributaries of conduct appeared as an irreflective flash a... ...it for Fredi,—and should have caught it myself, if I had! The truth is, we three are country born and bred; we pine in London. Good for a season; you ...

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......................................................................... 495 THREE EARLY DRAFTS OF THE PREFACE ............................................ ...ked for all time to Shelley’s by a long series of notable words, including three successive editions (1876, 1882, 1892) of the Poems, an edition of th... ...903:— ‘From the textual point of view, Shelley’s works may be divided into three classes—those published in his lifetime under his own direction; thos... ... love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave. ‘The good die first, And those whose hearts are ... ...tep, Obedient to high thoughts, has visited The awful ruins of the days of old: Athens, and Tyre, and Balbec, and the waste Where stood Jerusalem, the... ...iced chamber. He did place His pale lean hand upon the rugged trunk Of the old pine. Upon an ivied stone Reclined his languid head, his limbs did rest... ...e extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of... ...alm, I feel: and then … O, multitudinous Hell, the fiends will shake Thine arches with the laughter of their joy! There shall be lamentation heard in ... ...of islets of reeds and osiers, and cast the jagged shadows of their broken arches on the solitary stream, some transatlan- tic commentator will be wei...

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... as you have your life. If you haven’t had that what HAVE you had? I’m too old—too old at any rate for what I see. 4 The Ambassadors What one loses o... ...aid as chance would have, and so easily might, in Paris, and in a charming old gar- den attached to a house of art, and on a Sunday after- noon of sum... ...hint to more than the bulk of hints in general was the gift with it of the old Paris garden, for in that token were sealed up values infinitely precio... ...east we hope we have) certain indispensable facts; we have seen our two or three immediate friends all conveniently and profitably in “action”; to say... ...concerns us too closely to permit us to multiply our illustrations. Two or three, however, in truth, we should perhaps regret to lose. The tortuous wa... ...himself unable to fill. He had no recollection of Miss Gostrey, and two or three questions that she put to him about those members of his circle had, ... ... not in relation. He was that at no moment so much as while, under the old arches of the Odeon, he lingered before the charming open-air array of lite...

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...olved to reprint a few of these details of legal proceedings, from certain old newspapers. One other quotation from the same Preface may serve to 7 C... ...h or rich enough to aspire to the hand of a lady of fortune, had wedded an old flame out of mere attachment, who in her turn had taken him for the sam... ... examination, however, they turned out to be strictly correct. The amiable old gentleman, it seemed, had intended to leave the whole to the Royal Huma... ...o save the life of a poor relation to whom he paid a weekly allow- ance of three shillings and sixpence, he had, in a fit of very natural exasperation... ...me five after his wife, he was enabled to leave, to his eldest son, Ralph, three thousand pounds in cash, and to his youngest son, Nicholas, one thous... ...y the orders,—all live in Golden Square, or within a street of it. T wo or three violins and a wind instrument from the Opera band reside within its p... ...t possible pleasure. Do you know, Mr Nickleby,’ said Mrs Browdie, with her archest smile, ‘that I really think Fanny Squeers was very fond of you?’ ‘I... ..., meeting far above their heads, formed a long green perspective of Gothic arches, terminating, like some old ruin, in the open sky. After a pause, an...

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...y Alexandre Dumas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ...tate University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas [Pere] AUTHOR’S PREFACE IN WHICH IT IS ... ...erved of all observers. It was a Bearn pony, from twelve to fourteen years old, yellow in his hide, without a hair in his tail, but not without windga... ...which had accompanied the present were above all price. “My son,” said the old Gascon gentleman, in that pure Bearn patois of which Henry IV could nev... ...ke you love it. Never sell it; allow it to die tranquilly and honorably of old age, and if you make a campaign with it, take as much care of it as you... ...aken to Paris by Claude de St. Simon, and suspended with great pomp in the arches of Notre Dame. T e Deums were chanted in camp, and afterward through... ...d not French- men. He entered by the Faubourg St. Jacques, under ver- dant arches. D’Artagnan took possession of his command. Porthos left the service...

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...rning, when the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ramparts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, composed of three men and two pages, re-entered the city by the bridge, without producing any other effect upon the passengers of the quay beyond a first movement of the hand to the head, as a salute, and a second movement of the tongue ...

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... ... ...d with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic tr... ...nth of May, in the year 1660, at nine o’clock in the morning, when the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ram- part... ..., and an early rose- tree, the foliage of which, beautifully green, was variegated with numerous red specks announcing future roses. In the chamber li... ...r little lamb, our gentle dove, angry! Don’t be afraid, Louise — Madame de Saint-Remy will not come; and if she should, you know I have a quick ear. B... ...xious I must be to pay my duty to M. le Comte, my father.” “That is true, that is true, Monsieur Raoul; present him, at the same time, my humble respe... ...d you?” “Y es; but how did you discover and join me?” “Stop a bit. I was going to tell you how. Do you imagine Mouston —” “Ah! it was that fellow, Mou...

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...eat iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head. A man who had been soaked in wa- ter, and smot... ...orning early, that file and them wittles. You bring the lot to me, at that old Battery over yon- der. You do it, and you never dare to say a word or d... ...last spell, about five minutes, Pip. She’ s a-coming! Get behind the door, old chap, and have the jack- towel betwixt you.” I took the advice. My sist... ...e stopped a few minutes by a signal from the sergeant’s hand, while two or three of his men dispersed themselves among the graves, and also examined t... ... more attentive. The soldier with the basket soon got a light, and lighted three or four torches, and took one himself and distributed the others. It ... ...river. “ All right,” said the sergeant. “March.” W e had not gone far when three cannon were fired ahead of us with a sound that seemed to burst somet... ..., having been down the river, I could not get back through the eddy-chafed arches and starlings of old London Bridge; then, I left my boat at a wharf ...

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... eternal space, Where thou shalt hear despairing shrieks, and see Spirits of old tormented, who invoke A second death; and those next view, who dwell ... ...breast Harbour vile fear? why hast not courage there And noble daring? Since three maids so blest Thy safety plan, e’en in the court of heaven; And so... ...the river, I from speech Abstain’d. And lo! toward us in a bark Comes on an old man hoary white with eld, 10 The Divine Comedy of Dante Hell Cryi... ... began: “Mark him, Who in his right hand bears that falchion keen, The other three preceding, as their lord. This is that Homer, of all bards supreme:... ...’s eye Caesar all arm’d, and by Camilla there Penthesilea. On the other side Old King Latinus, seated by his child Lavinia, and that Brutus I beheld, ... ...est fell. Cerberus, cruel monster, fierce and strange, Through his wide threefold throat barks as a dog Over the multitude immers’d beneath. His ... ...our doth its faint reflex. As when, if Juno bid her handmaid forth, Two arches parallel, and trick’d alike, Span the thin cloud, the outer taking...

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........ 113 PROLOGUE, DESIGNED FOR MR D?URFEY?S LAST PLAY. ....................................................................... 114 PROLOGUE TO ?THE THREE HOURS AFTER MARRIAGE? ...................................................................... 115 EPILOGUE TO MR ROWE?S ?JANE SHORE.? .........................................................................................

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........................................................ 114 PROLOGUE TO ‘THE THREE HOURS AFTER MARRIAGE’ .................................................. ..................................................................... 132 THE THREE GENTLE SHEPHERDS. ...................................................... ................................................................... 159 ON AN OLD GATE. .................................................................... ...and, Pope’s ardent friends erred in classing him with or above these great old writers; and on the other, his enemies were thus provoked to thrust him... ...ilton has winged his daring flight from heaven to earth, through Chaos and old Night; Pope’s Muse never wan- dered in safety, but from his library to ... ...elations, be- comes the foundation, and furnishes out the subjects, of the three following; so that— The second book takes up again the first and seco... ... all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very tombs now vanish’d, like their dead... ...ed; No labour’d columns in long order placed, No Grecian stone the pompous arches graced: No nightly bands in glittering armour wait Before the sleepl...

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... by her first marriage, and others by her second. By intermarriage, two or three generations later, I am descended from both the wives of Mathew Grant... ...killed that year. My grandfather, also named Noah, was then but nine years old. At the breaking out of the war of the Revolution, after the battles of... ...nt. The elder, Solomon, remained with his rela- tives in Connecticut until old enough to do for himself, when he emigrated to the British West Indies.... ...e had ever known. He remained with the T od family only a few years, until old enough to learn a trade. He went first, I believe, with his half-brothe... ...eyond dispute, and perfected the claim of the owners for a consider- ation—three thousand dollars, I think. I remember the cir- cumstance well, and re... ...mont County, Ohio, about the year 1819, taking with him his four children, three daugh- ters and one son. My mother, Hannah Simpson, was the third of ... ... Mexico is supplied with water by two aque- ducts, resting on strong stone arches. One of these aque- ducts draws its supply of water from a mountain ... ...n the middle of a broad road-way, thus leav- ing a space on each side. The arches supporting the aque- duct afforded protection for advancing troops a... ... tion was encountered our troops sheltered themselves by keeping under the arches supporting the aqueduct, advanc- ing an arch at a time. We encounter...