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...he Wreck of the Royal Charter, Australian trader and passenger ship, Homeward bound, that struck here on the terrible morning of the twenty-sixth of t... ...cargo blew in with the salt foam and remained upon the land when the foam melted, they saw the ship’s life-boat put off from one of the heaps of wreck... ...turned to the spot where the boat had been. The divers were down then, and busy. They were ‘lifting’ to-day the gold found yesterday—some five-and-twe... ...self to have our co-religionists buried in our ground, and according to our rites. May our heavenly Father reward you for your acts of humanity and tr... ...churchyard in the years to come; I thought of the many people in Australia, who would have an interest in such a shipwreck, and would find their way h... ...inking in my idle manner of Tippoo-Sahib and Charles Lamb, and had got past my little wooden midshipman, after affection- ately patting him on one leg... ... region of fire, now in the region of unmelting ice and snow. Here, I passed over trembling domes of ice, beneath which the cataract was roaring; and ... ...he small hours to unfortunate suitors. Westminster Abbey was fine gloomy society for another quarter of an hour; suggesting a wonderful procession of ...

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...tain) merely as an occasion for healthy suspense. He is surrounded by fine old traditions, reli- gious, social, architectural, culinary; and he may ha... ... sabots clicked cheerfully on the hard, clean roads. Touraine is a land of old chateaux,—a gallery of architectural specimens and of large hereditary ... ...at sur- mount the agricultural blouse. This is, moreover, the heart of the old French monarchy; and as that monarchy was splendid and picturesque, a r... ...as an appearance of great richness, although the niches which surround the three high doors (with recesses deep enough for several circles of sculptur... ...) is a truly enchanting piece of work; the cor- nice and the angles of the arches, being covered with the daintiest sculpture of arabesques, flowers, ... ...imneys beautifully treated, and with the embroidered caps of pinnacles and arches, with the porcupine of Louis, the ermine and the festooned rope whic... ...hrough the Vatican looks down from neglected windows. They show you two or three furnished rooms, with Bourbon portraits, hideous tapestries from the ... ...from the battlements and terraces, pre- sents itself under a friendly sky. Three persons, of whom the author of these lines was one, spent the greater... ...ne to the false and blood- polluted Catherine. (To be exact, I believe the arches of 45 Henry James the bridge were laid by the elderly Diana. It was...

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...erturned? Could Desire be dead? Or was it nothing worse than a broken leg? Three distinct volleys of cracking whips rent the air like a 8 Ursula disc... ...s to his beast and came on in advance of the five diligence horses and the three other carriage-horses, and soon reached his master. “Have you seen th... ...tle girl of fifteen can’t invent such plans and carry them out, or make an old man of eighty-three, who has never set foot in a church except to be ma... ...n can’t invent such plans and carry them out, or make an old man of eighty-three, who has never set foot in a church except to be married, change his ... ...evening for the last fifteen years of his life with the Abbe Chaperon. The old hypocrite never fails to give Ursula twenty francs for wax tapers every... ...r the sake of his poor. He must have mined and under- mined uncle, and the old man has just tumbled into piety. We did nothing, and here he is pervert... ...ed a power which came of a gentleness that was not devoid of strength. The arches of his brow formed caverns shaded by huge gray eyebrows which alarme...

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...lter. That, indeed, is the cardinal assumption of all Utopian speculations old and new; the Republic and Laws of Plato, and More’s Utopia, Howells’ im... ... who know where to look, with a good opera- glass aiding good eyes, it and three fellows that seem in a cluster with it—though they are incredible bil... ...d Villa and Fontana and Airolo try to hide from us under the mountain side—three-quarters of a mile they are verti- cally below. (Lantern.) With that ... ...ck from my momen- tary contemplation of those popular effigies inflated by old newspapers and windy report, the earthly great. He sets me thinking of ... ...pian mountain side down which this discourse marches, to the confusions of old earth, we may remark that the need and desire for privacies there is ex... ...ravel about the earth from one chief point to another at a speed of two or three hundred miles or more an hour. That will abolish the greater distance... ...o this place as one comes into a noble mansion. They will have flung great arches and domes of glass above the wider spaces of the town, the slender b...

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...a greater degree than those of other domiciles, the characteristics of the old Flemish buildings, so naively adapted to the patriar- chal manners and ... ... ish life. English comfort is harsh in tone and arid in color; whereas the old-fashioned Flemish interiors rejoice the eye with their mellow tints, an... ...a it learned the ponderous diplomacy which, to use a popular saying, takes three steps backward to one for- ward; while its trade with India poured in... ... dikes, husbandry , nor revolutions; and they *Flanders was parcelled into three divisions; of which East- ern Flanders, capital Ghent, and Western Fl... ...of solid stability, we could do no better than point to a portrait of some old burgomaster, capable, as was proved again and again, of dying in a comm... ...ing at the sides into the arch. The coping of the arch was ornamented with three rows of brick, placed one above the other, the bricks alternately pro... ...e longed for a swallow to build her nest in the red coping that roofed the arches of the windows. The precise and immaculate air of this facade, a lit... ...n to them for love, the sentiment that budded into life beneath the gloomy arches of the picture-gallery, beside the stern old abbe, in a still and si...

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...one.” “Madame de Nucingen is six-and-thirty, Bianchon.” “And this woman is three-and-thirty,” said the doctor 4 The Commission in Lunacy quickly. “He... ...ne gentlemen doing more 6 The Commission in Lunacy usurious business than old Gobseck! T o the shame of man- kind, when I have wanted to shake hands ... ...o heat up her cold nature, a craving for excitement and enjoyment, like an old man who stands night after night by the footlights at the opera. As she... ...r- tain contempt of all that is beneath her—” “Thank you!” said Bianchon. “Old curmudgeon!” said Rastignac, laughing. “Come— do not be so common, do l... ... unlike the barbican of a prison. T o the right of this entrance there are three windows, protected outside by iron gratings of so close a pattern, th... ...ll, consists of wooden pillars resting on square stone blocks, and forming arches. T wo archways open on to the little gar- den; two others, facing th... ...heels of the great machine known as Justice. M. Popinot was classed by the three Presidents who successively controlled the Court of the Seine under t...

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... for me by your kind hand. The sight of his name will carry you back to an old wooden house embowered in creep- ers; a house that was far gone in the ... ... ‘I give him twelve days to get home. No, it’s begun again; it’s as it was three years ago, before he married; a disgrace! Hereditary prince, he- redi... ... chorus of dogs from the farmyard were making an- gry answer. A very tall, old, white-headed man came, shad- ing a candle, at the summons. He had been... ... and have entirely lost my way.’ 9 Robert Louis Stevenson ‘Sir,’ said the old man, in a very stately, shaky manner, ‘you are at the River Farm, and I... ...and I, we have all tilled these acres, my furrow following theirs. All the three names are on the garden bench, two Killians and one Johann. Yes, sir,... ...do so? For what reason?’ Otto asked. ‘The reason? The place is to be sold; three thousand crowns,’ replied Mr. Gottesheim. ‘Had it been a third of tha... ...window; and when she reached the lime-tree walk, with its high, umbrageous arches and stir of passers-by in the dim alleys, she took her place upon a ...

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...e she and her misfortunes were often uppermost in it. Her misfortunes were three in number: first, she had lost her husband; second, she had lost her ... ...museum. He had seen himself in imagination, more than once, in some mouldy old saloon of a Florentine palace, turning toward the deep embrasure of the... ...e better represented. There are some excellent girls, and there are two or three very pretty ones. I will have them here, one by one, to tea, if you l... ... rosy, and his measure- ment around the waist, when he was about ten years old, quite alarmingly large. This, however, was but an episode in his growt... ...’s count- ing-house, to do small drudgery on a proportionate sal- ary. For three years he earned his living as regularly as the obscure functionary in... ...o is Hudson?” “A young man of this place,” said Cecilia. “A young man? How old?” “I suppose he is three or four and twenty.” “Of this place, you say—o... ...th any other. Within, it had a great, cool, gray cortile, with high, light arches around it, heavily- corniced doors, of majestic altitude, opening ou... ...as and the walls of vine- yards, through little hamlets propped on a dozen arches, and bathing their feet and their pendant tatters in the gray-green ...

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...ledge is now tardily and imperfectly redeemed. The reader may recognize an old friend under new circum- stances in the principal character of this leg... ...n the principal character of this legend. If the exhibi- tion made of this old acquaintance, in the novel circumstances in which he now appears, shoul... ...there is a look of humanity in that smoke,” returned 8 The Pathfinder the old seaman, “which is worth a thousand trees. I must show it to Arrowhead, ... ...edience, soli- tude, and the gloom of the forest to feel apprehension. The three who remained in the wind-row now picked their way around its tangled ... ...enough, and eating their grub as quietly as if they were in the cabin of a three-decker.” “Arrowhead is but half right!” whispered Mabel, “for there a... ...Master Cap, glancing his eyes about him uneasily at the apparently endless arches of the forest. “No white man is ever condemned to undergo these tria... ...heir places with perfect composure; nor did the addi- tional weight of the three guides tax its power in any particular degree, the breath of the roun... ...gave the war-whoop in its most frightful intonations, and for a minute the arches of the silent woods and the deep vista formed by the course of the r... ...east, her joyous laugh, did his soul pine to be wandering beneath the high arches of the maples, oaks, and lindens, where his habits had induced him t...

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...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 it up? Maybe it is set up by the...

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...ER I – THE DAWN CHAPTER I – THE DAWN AN ANCIENT ENGLISH CATHEDRAL TOWER? How can the ancient English Cathedral tower be here! The well-known massive g... ...ses in the background, where it cannot be, and still no writhing figure is on the grim spike. Stay! Is the spike so low a thing as the rusty spike on ... ...s, and no ships coming in, these say! Here’s another ready for ye, deary. Ye’ll remember like a good soul, won’t ye, that the market price is dreffle ... ...ng-to, and I ses to my poor self, “I’ll have another ready for him, and he’ll bear in mind the market price of opium, and pay according.” O my poor he... ...g over on her face. 5 Charles Dickens He rises unsteadily from the bed, lays the pipe upon the hearth-stone, draws back the ragged curtain, and looks... ...ary from the chancel, and all of the procession having scuttled into their places, hide their faces; and then the intoned words, ‘When the wicked man ... ...ee he’s having his fire kindled up, for it’s chilly after the wet, and the Cathedral had both a damp feel and a damp touch this afternoon, and he was ... ...the grain. How does our service sound to you?’ ‘Beautiful! Quite celestial!’ ‘It often sounds to me quite devilish. I am so weary of it. The echoes of... ... to a stand-still by the spectacle of Stony Durdles, dinner-bundle and all, leaning his back against the iron railing of the burial-ground enclosing i...

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...queline of Hainault, and her pranks, they are to be found in Monstrelet of old, and now in Barante; though justice to her and Queen Isabeau compels me... ...he early part of the century, with an account of the history of that grand old foundation, and the struggle for appointments between the parent house ... ...ll as her bane. Either by nature or art, the rock had been scarped away on three sides, so that the walls of the castle rose sheer from the steep desc... ...bitants of Glenuskie. Wondrous as were the walls, and deep-set as were the arches, they had all that peculiar slenderness of contour that Scot- tish t... ...eway towers and the donjon, by a projecting cornice of beautifully vaulted arches supporting a battlement, that gave the building a crowned look. On t... ...h there sat, with a light blue cloth cloak drawn tightly round him, a tall old man, of the giant mould of Scotland, and with a massive thoughtful brow... ...knight, ‘of what kind, Lily?’ ‘A knight—a knight in bright steel, and with three atten- dants,’ said Lilias; ‘one of Patrick’s French comrades, say I,... ...ames. ‘Full a hundred lances,’ replied Halbert (and a lance meant at least three men). ‘It wad be a fule’s wark to withstand them. Best bide fast in t...

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...oung Fathers, the travellers presently drew round the hearth. They were in three parties; of whom the first, as the most numerous and important, was t... ...ty that had overtaken them, and followed in their train, consisted of only three members: one lady and two gentlemen. The third party, which had ascen... ...ple- thoric, hungry, and silent German tutor in spectacles, on a tour with three young men, his pupils, all plethoric, hungry, and si- lent, and all i... ...ared. With the supper came one of the young Fathers (there seemed to be no old Fathers) to take the head of the table. It was like the supper of an or... ...I am very glad of it.’ ‘I was dreaming of home when I woke just now. Of my old home, I mean, before I was married.’ ‘And before you were so far away f... ...upper-room of last night, a new fire, piled upon the feathery ashes of the old one, shone upon a homely breakfast of loaves, butter, and milk. It also... ...rches; where there were winking lamps of gold and silver among pillars and arches, kneeling figures dotted about at confessionals and on the pave- men... ...of the vast old Amphitheatre, of the old Temples, of the old commemorative Arches, of the old trodden highways, of the old tombs, be- sides being what...

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...day forcibly sent away all her servants from her to Abington market, about three miles distant from this place; they (I say, whether first stifling he... ... restraint. This is spe- cially suitable when the scene is laid during the old days of merry England, when the guests were in some sort not merely the... ...esent themselves to each other, and to their landlord, with the freedom of old acquaintance. The village of Cumnor, within three or four miles of Ox- ... ...dlord, with the freedom of old acquaintance. The village of Cumnor, within three or four miles of Ox- ford, boasted, during the eighteenth of Queen El... ...boasted, during the eighteenth of Queen Elizabeth, an excellent inn of the old stamp, conducted, or rather ruled, by Giles Gosling, a man of a goodly ... ...le relish,—”I know nothing of superlative, nor is there such a wine at the Three Cranes, in the Vintry, to my knowledge; but if you find better sack t... ... was called the Pleas- ance; a space of ground enclosed and decorated with arches, trophies, statues, fountains, and other architectural monu- ments, ...

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...rial uni- 7 H G Wells verse swims. Near it in the field, I remember, were three faint points of light, three telescopic stars infinitely remote, and ... ...Ottershaw bridge to the sand pits. CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER THREE THREE THREE THREE THREE ON HORSELL COMMON ON HORSELL COMMON ON HORSEL... ..., a girl carrying a baby, Gregg the butcher and his little boy, and two or three loafers and golf caddies who were accustomed to hang about the railwa... ...te of things on Friday night. In the centre, sticking into the skin of our old planet Earth like a poisoned dart, was this cylinder. But the poison wa... ...ke and noise, and spanking down the opposite slope of Maybury Hill towards Old Woking. In front was a quiet sunny landscape, a wheat field ahead on ei... ... through Ockham (for that was the way I returned, and not through Send and Old Woking) I saw along the western horizon a blood-red glow, which as I dr... ...n the thinning remnant of a cloud of the black vapour appeared between the arches of Blackfriars Bridge. At that the Pool became a scene of mad confus...

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...cross the curious stranger whom I am going to talk about. He attracted me by three things: his candid simplicity, his marvelous familiarity with anci... ...away imperceptibly out of this world and time, and into some remote era and old forgotten country; and so he gradually wove such a spell about me tha... ...ke, Sir Galahad, and all the other great names of the Table Round — and how old, old, unspeakably old and faded and dry and musty and ancient he came... ...the wind roared about the eaves and corners. From time to time I dipped into old Sir Thomas Malory’s enchanting book, and fed at its rich feast of pr... ... the middle. Then Sir Launcelot went into the hall, and there came afore him three score ladies and damsels, and all kneeled unto him, and thanked God... ...ard this he rose up, and looked out at the window, and saw by the moonlight three knights come riding after that one man, and all three lashed on hi... ... was lowered, and the head of the cavalcade swept forward under the frowning arches; and we, following, soon found our selves in a great paved court,...

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...ir sovereign, threatening Afric’s fires and savagery. The case occurred in old days now and again, sometimes, upon imagined provocation, more furiousl... ...ad them against us, as the origin of his title had led the army of Gaul of old gloriously, scared sweet 4 Beauchamp’s Career sleep. We saw them in im... ...atement that we had no navy and no army. At the most we could muster a few old ships, a couple of experimental ves- sels of war, and twenty-five thous... ...s Whig mean ven- geance on account of his erratic vote and voice on two or three occasions that denied him a peerage and a seat in ha- ven. Thither le... ...rds and Commons suggest the decapitation of the leading figure. The united three, however, no longer cast re- flections on one another, and were an as... ...ry poised, that an attack on them threatened the structure of justice. The three conjoined Estates were therefore his head gamekeepers; their duty was... ...t accompany- ing her, and when she drove over Steynham Common, tri- umphal arches and the odour of a roasting ox richly brown- ing to celebrate the he...

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...of bloodshed suf- fered or inflicted. Judas and Simon Maccabæus in days of old, Gustavus Adolphus* in modern days, fighting for the *The Thirty Years’... ...te present, he will be apt to adopt the ordinary view, namely, that in the Old T estament severity prevails approaching to cruelty. Y et, on considera... ...nch su- periority—that is the object of French wars. Like the Spar- tan of old, the Frenchman would hold that a state of peace, and not a state of war... ...antially in the FIRST or introductory section (“The Glory of Motion”). The three first were distinctions maintained at all times; but the fourth and g... ... under the solemn lights described, with lofty trees meet- ing overhead in arches. The guard’s horn, again—a humble instrument in itself—was yet glori... ...ortrait of Charles I. (then Prince of Wales), was amongst those who in the three or four following years ministered to this demand. It is believed, al... ... upon the unhappy desti- nation which I believed myself approaching within three or four months, never had I weathered a journey that seemed to me so ...

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...hips at Sea.......................11 To Foreign Lands................................12 To a Historian.....................................12 To Thee Old Cause..............................13 Eidolons................................................14 For Him I Sing....................................18 When I Read the Book........................18 Beginning My Studies.......

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...............12 To a Historian.....................................12 To Thee Old Cause..............................13 Eidolons.......................... ....................174 BOOK X..........................................179 Our Old Feuillage.............................179 BOOK XI....................... ...................229 A Song of the Rolling Earth..............229 Youth, Day, Old Age and Night.........235 BOOK XVII. BIRDS OF PASSAGE .236 Song of th... ...a cabinet council is surrounded by the great Secretaries, On the piazza walk three matrons stately and friendly with twined arms, The crew of the fish... ...Leaves of Grass –Whitman 76 How he follow’d with them and tack’d with them three days and would not give it up, How he saved the drifting company at... ...ssassin till two more came to release him, Leaves of Grass –Whitman 79 The three were all torn and cover’d with the boy’s blood. At eleven o’clock b... ... transparent shells might expose so much! You doors and ascending steps! you arches! You gray stones of interminable pavements! you trodden crossings!... ...s of railroads, Shapes of the sleepers of bridges, vast frameworks, girders, arches, Shapes of the fleets of barges, tows, lake and canal craft, river... ...on it, (Did you think it was in the white or gray stone? or the lines of the arches and cornices?) All music is what awakes from you when you are remi...

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...l “the language of the soul,” and it was in Ukrainian songs rather than in old chronicles, of which he was not a little contemptuous, that he read the... ... became a land subject to constant attack and despolia- tion. “There where three hostile nations came in contact it was manured with bones, wetted wit... ...ot on? Does everybody at the academy dress like that?” With such words did old Bulba greet his two sons, who had been absent for their education at th... ...g and looking at each other, now attacking afresh. “Look, good people! the old man has gone man! he has lost his senses completely!” screamed their pa... ...essaries. He and his Cossacks executed justice, and made it a rule that in three cases it was abso- lutely necessary to resort to the sword. Namely, w... ...r the sword, for his comrades and his carouses. She saw her husband two or three days in a year, and then, for several years, heard nothing of him. An... ... lay beyond the door; then the echo changed as if resounding through lofty arches. In a couple of minutes, keys rattled, and steps were heard descendi... ... found themselves 63 Taras Bulba & Other Tales beneath the dark and lofty arches of the monastery church. Before one of the altars, adorned with tall... ...em. A few men stood sadly, leaning against the columns upon which the wide arches rested. The stained-glass window above the altar suddenly glowed wit...

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...their shaven heads; they all wore wooden shoes, and yet made a noise as of old iron like driving chariots. They reached the avenue of cypress, where t... ...p, and the tears fell into the water continually.” She sang all this in an old Chanaanite idiom, which the Barbarians did not understand. They asked o... ...rom time to time they would draw forth a mournful chord; for, feebler than old women, they trembled at once with mystic emotion, and with the fear ins... ... saw him run between the prows of the galleys, and then reappear along the three staircases until he reached the red door against which he dashed his ... ...hem. They gave them amulets to avert sickness; but they had spit upon them three times to attract death, or had enclosed jackal’ s hair within them to... ...arch at the capture of Drepanum. The Republic owed him four horses, twenty-three medimni of wheat, and a winter’s pay . He feared the gods, and wished... ...een her great eyes beneath her great eyebrows, like suns beneath triumphal arches? Think: when she appeared all the torches grew pale. Her naked breas... ...bloated, was seen resting on a large pillow; the eyebrows, which were like arches of ebony , met each other at the points; golden dust sparkled in the... ... just as Rome herself had built Punic galleys; and five rows of superposed arches, of a dumpy kind of architecture, with buttresses at their foot and ...

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...curity, on very small means, unvisited, un- approachable, in a dilapidated old palace on an out-of- the-way canal: this was the substance of my friend... ...at she belonged to a generation as extinct. “Why, she must be tremendously old—at least a hundred,” I had said; but on coming to consider dates I saw ... ... and one of the handsomest. The niece, according to Mrs. Prest, was not so old, and she risked the conjecture that she was only a grandniece. This was... ...t Mrs. Prest had never hap- pened to mention her to me, though I had spent three weeks in Venice—under her nose, as it were—five years before. Mrs. Pr... ...omprehensive description of it. It was not par- ticularly old, only two or three centuries; and it had an air not so much of decay as of quiet discour... ...ant floor, was architectural enough, with the aid of various pilasters and arches; and the stucco with which in the intervals it had long ago been end... ...enry James burst of hope and cheer I demanded: “Couldn’t you let me two or three? That would set me up!” I had not struck the note that translated my ...

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... Compan- ions, an “Obade,”—a sort of halting-place, kept by a “Mother,” an old woman, half-gypsy, with nothing to lose, knowing everything that happen... ...would be out of place here. The author must, however, add that un- der the old monarchy it was not an unknown thing to find a “T rempe-la-Soupe” ensla... ..., disposing each and all of a 8 Ferragus common fortune, like that of the Old Man of the Moun- tain; having their feet in all salons, their hands in ... ...e narrow streets exposed to the north, where the sun never comes more than three or four times a year, are the cut-throat streets which murder with im... ...s Paris, ignoble, vulgar, narrow, yellowish in tone, with four storeys and three windows on each floor. The outer blinds of the first floor were close... ...e in the line, but was recalled later to the Royal Guard, where, at twenty-three years of age, he found himself major of a cavalry regiment,—a splen- ... ...philoso- phers themselves? As we hear it, we think God speaks; the vaulted arches of no church are mere material; they have a voice, they tremble, the...

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...came tutor to a young Silesian nobleman, with whom he set out in 1597 on a three years’ tour through Switzerland, France, England, and Italy. After hi... ... with notes by the translator and the editor. Sir Robert Naunton was of an old family with large estates, settled at Alderton, in Suffolk. He was at C... ... he returned to Cambridge, and was made Proctor of the University in 1601, three years after Paul Hentzner’s visit to England. Then he became Public O... ... twenty piers of square stone, sixty feet high and thirty broad, joined by arches of about twenty feet diameter. The whole is covered on each side wit... ...II. by Jane Seymour. He succeeded to his father when he was but nine years old, and died A.T. 1553, on the 6th of July, in the sixteenth year of his a... ...d glass. VI. Portraits: among which are, Queen Elizabeth, at sixteen years old; Henry, Richard, Edward, Kings of England; Rosamond; Lucrece, a Grecian... ...for horses in horse-fights; the lance of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, three spans thick; two pieces of cannon, the one fires three, the other sev...

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...people’s chiefs Were wont to gather round our father’s hearth, To read the old imperial charters, and To hold sage converse on the country’s weal. The... ... upstart house of princes, And kept them staunch, like their good sires of old, In true allegiance to the Empire. Say, Is’t not so, Werner? Tell me, a... ...Attinghaus. High though of blood he be, He loves the people, honours their old customs. With both of these I will take counsel, how To rid us bravely ... ...ets his strong horn, And tosses his tormentor to the clouds. FURST. If the three Cantons thought as we three do, Something might then be done, with go... ...y according to the conditions of his service. *The League, or Bond, of the Three Cantons was of very ancient origin. They met and renewed it from time... ... it be. And now your true right hand! Yours, too, young man! and as we now three men Among ourselves thus knit our hands together In all sincerity and... ...ome all, fall to—come, men and women, all! Destroy the scaffold! Burst the arches! Down, Down with the walls, let not a stone remain! MASON. Come, com...