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...adicted him in anything. At the age of five Louis had begun by reading the Old and New Testaments; and these two Books, including so many books, had s... ...at he might rise to high fortunes in the Church. After remaining for about three years with his uncle, an old and not uncultured Oratorian, Louis left... ...es in the Church. After remaining for about three years with his uncle, an old and not uncultured Oratorian, Louis left him early in 1811 to enter the... ... in different places; but is it not still grander to think of it under the three aspects of soul, body, and motion? Merely to regard it in the ab- str... ... genius are they due? If it takes great intelligence to create a word, how old may human speech be? The combination of letters, their shapes, and the ... ...ding had on the whole been very well satisfied. The cure of Mer had two or three thousand vol- umes. This treasure had been derived from the plunder c... ...is prophetic brow lay principally in the exquisitely chiseled shape of the arches under which his black eyes sparkled, and which had the transparency ...

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...ndsome house and large income. All Huntingdon exclaimed on the greatness of the match, and her uncle, the lawyer, himself, allowed her to be at least three thousand pounds short of any equitable claim to it....

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... the match, and her uncle, the lawyer, himself, allowed her to be at least three thousand pounds short of any equitable claim to it. She had two siste... ...intenance of the eight already in being. Her eldest was a boy of ten years old, a fine spirited fellow, who longed to be out in the world; but what co... ...g them to undertake the care of her eldest daughter, a girl now nine years old, of an age to require more attention than her poor mother could possi- ... ...t considerations; and it will be just the same to Miss Lee whether she has three girls to teach, or only two—there can be no difference. I only wish I... ...owever it may put me to inconvenience to have my chief counsellor away for three days. I suppose, sister, you will put the child in the little white a... ...uppose, sister, you will put the child in the little white attic, near the old nurseries. It will be much the best place for her, so near Miss Lee, an... ...hing awful here, nothing melancholy, nothing grand. Here are no aisles, no arches, no inscrip- tions, no banners. No banners, cousin, to be ‘blown by ...

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...face of his watch by the light of his lantern as the traveller descended, “three min- utes here.” “More, I think.—For I am not going on.” “Thought you... ... pulling up the woollen muffler round his throat with both hands. “At past three o’clock of a tempestuous morning! So!” He spoke to himself. There was... ...ng to me to what quarter I turn my face.” Thus, at Mugby Junction, at past three o’clock of a tempestuous morning, the traveller went where the weathe... ...he scuttled and sank the galley. He prevented the gradual retirement of an old conventional business from him, by taking the initiative and retiring f... ...as, Young Jackson!—Not to mention its being a sadly satirical misnomer for Old Jackson.” He took up his hat and walked out, just in time to see, passi... ...has done. You see, her mother (who died when she was a year and two months old) was sub- ject to very bad fits, and as she had never mentioned to me t... ...ks of houses, high red brick chim- ney-shafts, vistas of red brick railway arches, tongues of fire, blocks of smoke, valleys of canal, and hills if co...

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...ly begin before the heavy bell of the great cathedral; some, tardily begin three, four, half a dozen, strokes behind it; all are in sufficiently near ... ...e is quietly closed again from within, and follows the young woman. Two or three streets have been traversed in silence before she, following close be... ... are numerous lookers-on at the dinner, as the custom is. There are two or three governors, whole families from the congregation, smaller groups of bo... ...kled about. She lifts her veil, and, stopping at the touched boy, asks how old he is? “I am twelve, ma’am,” he answers, with his bright eyes fixed on ... ...-Stairs. The court-yard itself had likewise been descriptively entitled in old time, Cripple Corner. Y ears before the year one thousand eight hundred... ...er to the doorway without visible support, like the sounding-board over an old pulpit. It had also a number of long narrow strips of window, so dis- p... ... his light towards a gloomy ragged growth of dark fungus, pendent from the arches with a very disagreeable and repellent effect. “W e are famous for t... ... were going back together, V endale, eyeing him as they walked through the arches, said: “Well, Joey? The colour.” “Is it like clotted blood, Master G... ...rough which the road is carried at that perilous point, a cave eked out by arches of great strength, was near at hand. They struggled into it, and the...

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...lly with the exaggerated opinions which set it down as a mile in width and three in length— we might fairly conclude that this mysterious being sur- ... ...rom one place to another with surprising velocity; as, in an inter- val of three days, the Governor Higginson and the Colum- bus had observed it at tw... ...es justi- fied in estimating the minimum length of the mammal at more than three hundred and fifty feet, as the Shannon and Helvetia were of smaller d... ...cles, but no nerves; good morals are understood. This boy was thirty years old, and his age to that of his mas- ter as fifteen to twenty. May I be exc... ...r as fifteen to twenty. May I be excused for saying that I was forty years old? But Conseil had one fault: he was ceremonious to a degree, and would n... ... no doubt. It was an opportunity for him to talk, and for me to hear, that old language of Rabelais, which is still in use in some Canadian provinces.... ... to serve him.” While we were talking thus, we were penetrating the sombre arches of the forest, and for two hours we sur- veyed it in all directions.... ...ced sometimes magical effects, following the rough outlines of the natural arches and pendants disposed like lustres, that were tipped with points of ... ... Then the funeral pro- cession returned to the Nautilus, passing under the arches of the forest, in the midst of thickets, along the coral bushes, and...

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...refore, here been attempted, together with a record of the building of the three churches erected since 1837, and a history of the changes that have t... ...ent (or V enta Belgarum, as the Romans called Winchester) and Sorbiodunum (Old Sarum). It can still be traced at Hursley, and fragments of another lea... ...t in the twelfth century, for though Hursley Church has been twice, if not three times, rebuilt, remains of early Norman mould- 8 John Kemble... ... been found built into the stone-work of the tower. And on the wall of the old Otterbourne Church a very rude fresco came partially to light. T raced ... ...parently bap- tizing. The rest had disappeared. These paintings surmounted three acutely-pointed arches, with small piers, and square on the side next... ...The rest had disappeared. These paintings surmounted three acutely-pointed arches, with small piers, and square on the side next the nave, but on the ... ...ng and bishop were reconciled; and the lat- ter spent a pious and penitent old age, only taking one meal a day, and spending the surplus in charity. H... ...on the side of a rapid slope from the Park, with a terrace raised on brick arches overlooking the lawn, only sepa- rated by a low wall from the Church...

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...Excerpt: ?Dearest Meg, ?It isn?t going to be what we expected. It is old and little, and altogether delightful--red brick. We can scarcely pack in as it is, and the dear knows what will happen when Paul (younger son) arrives tomorrow. From hall you go right or left into diningroom or drawing-r...

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... “Tuesday. “Dearest Meg, “It isn’t going to be what we expected. It is old and little, and altogether delightful—red brick. We can scarcely pack i... ... and there are the stairs going up in a sort of tunnel to the first-floor. Three bed-rooms in a row there, and three attics in a row above. That isn’t... ...rg to Speyer. Helen and I had got it into our heads that there was a grand old cathedral at Speyer—the Archbishop of Speyer was one of the seven elect... ...r was one of the seven electors—you know—’Speyer, Maintz, and Koln.’ Those three sees once com- manded the Rhine Valley and got it the name of Priest ... ...nt when you come to think of it. Lit- erature and Art. Most important. How old would the son be? She says ‘younger son.’ Would he be in a position to ... ...St. Pancras— implied a comment on the materialism of life. Those two great arches, colourless, indifferent, shoulder- ing between them an unlovely clo... ...th Welwyn Tunnel, of tragic fame. She traversed the immense viaduct, whose arches span untroubled meadows and the dreamy flow of Tewin Water. She skir... ...o Wickham Place in a state of collapse, and for a little time Margaret had three invalids on her hands. Mrs. Munt soon recov- ered. She possessed to a... ...hout it we are meaningless fragments, half monks, half beasts, unconnected arches that have never joined into a man. With it love is born, and alights...

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...ted anec- dotes. I wish to indicate here how this work, illu- mined by the three or four positive data which I have given, appears to me to demand it.... ... me instance “Saint-Antonin,” “ A Midnight Revel,” “The Little Cask,” and “Old Amable.” You close the book at the end of these vigorous sketches, and ... ...sensations are in turn those of a hunter and of a sailor, who have, as the old French say- ing expressively puts it, “swift foot, eagle eye,” and who ... ...tion, which does not often obtain between a renowned senior who is growing old and an ob- scure junior, whose renown is increasing. From 10 De Maupas... ...e-class adventures. 12 De Maupassant From this point of view, examine the three great romances of the Master from Rouen, and you will see that he has... ...riticism, Tolstoi adds: “I find in the book, in almost equal strength, the three cardinal qualities essential to great work, viz: moral purpose, perfe... ...tic ani-mals, with monstrous flowers, are joined together by finely carved arches, to the blue sky by day, and to the black sky by night. When I had r...

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...er ersonal Mer ersonal Mer it it it it it [T T T T The O he O he O he O he Old M ld M ld M ld M ld Man and the an and the an and the an and the an... ... ersing ersing ersing ersing.. ... T T T T The O he O he O he O he Old ld ld ld ld M M M M Man had asser an had asser an had asser an had asse... ...osition or his position or his position or his position or his position .] Old Man. What are the materials of which a steam en gine is made? Young Ma... ...M. Well, then, for instance. Take the case in the book here. The man lives three miles up town. It is bitter cold, snowing hard, midnight. He is about... ...enerous heart with a sharp pain. He could not bear it. He could endure the three mile walk in the storm, but he could not endure the tortures his cons... ... do? Not a solitary soul capture was sure. He played for a possible thirty three hundred per cent profit. It was gambling—with his family for “chips.”... ...t. There was marvelous freshness in the colors of the mosaics in the great arches of the fa cade, and all that gracious harmony into which the temple...

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...nd rules of skill, and courage bold, He took from Guelpho, and his fathers old. XI Thus when the Lord discovered had, and seen The hidden secrets of e... ...l of heavenly majesty and might, A stripling seemed he thrive five winters old, And radiant beams adorned his locks of gold. 7 Torquato Tasso XIV Of ... ...ay, yet was his courage green, Of worth and might the noble badge he bore, Old scars of grievous wounds received of yore. 17 Torquato Tasso LIV After... ...bizo of Tuscain land, Well worthy praise for many a worthy deed; Nor those three brethren, Lombards fierce and yond, Achilles, Sforza, and stern Palam... ...That soundeth glory, fame, praise in his ears. LX And then, though scantly three times five years old, He fled alone, by many an unknown coast, O’er A... ...adventurous, brave, and bold, Whereon a valiant prince might justly boast, Three years he served in field, when scant begin Few golden hairs to deck h... ... a wondrous bridge appeared, A bridge of gold, a huge and weighty mass, On arches great of that rich metal reared; When through that golden way he ent...

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...be said about them; on the third hand (allowing, for the sake of argument, three hands to one figure of speech), that the public has heard so much of ... ...d, and each is excellent, yet we intend to take a few more pages from the “Old Bailey Calendar,” to bless the public with one more draught from the St... ...Orange, who made us pay and fight for his Dutch provinces; or whether poor old Louis Quatorze did really frighten her; or whether Sarah Jennings and h... ...gentlemen now reposing at the “Bugle:” one young with gold hair, the other old with grizzled locks; both in red coats; both in jack-boots; putting the... ...lodpole, whose name was really Bullock, stated that his wages amounted to “three shillings and a puddn.” “Three shillings and a puddn!—monstrous!—and ... ...ones, and well-nigh fried the soul out of your body, you go home, to what?—three shillings a week and a puddn! Do you get pud- ding every day?” “No; o... ...s Castle, Arundel House, the Temple; of Old London Bridge, with its twenty arches, “on which be houses builded, so that it seemeth rather a continuall...

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...llowing week it returned again, and the distem- per was spread into two or three other parishes, viz., St Andrew’s, Holborn; St Clement Danes; and, to... ...e the next week, which was from the 9th of May to the 16th, there died but three, of which not one within the whole city or liberties; and St Andrew’s... ...mber of the plague was seventeen. But the burials in St Giles’s were fifty-three – a frightful number! – of whom they set down but nine of the plague;... ...because all the ruined families of the royal party flocked hither. All the old soldiers set up trades here, and abundance of families settled here. Ag... ...ague, as there did the year after an- other, a little before the fire. The old women and the phleg- matic hypochondriac part of the other sex, whom I ... ...phleg- matic hypochondriac part of the other sex, whom I could almost call old women too, remarked (especially afterward, though not till both those j... ...ially used with them in Spain and Italy. In T urkey and the islands of the Arches indeed, as they are called, as well those belonging to the T urks as...

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...he digits therein contained. It was such a room as is often to be found in old country town houses, the two large windows looking out on a broad old-f... ...of stools; a piano; a globe; a large table in the middle of the room, with three desks on it; a small one, and a light cane chair by each window; and ... ...!” as the gathers of her frock gave way in the rude grasp of a twelve-year-old boy. “Miss Winter, ’tis all right—Mr. Ernescliffe says he is quite up t... ...e girls crowding round to look at their little sister, not quite six weeks old. “Now, Margaret, will you take her up to the nursery?” said the mother,... ...le charge with the nurse, and try- ing to cheer up a solemn-looking boy of three, who evidently considered his deposition from babyhood as a great inj... ...at her mother, but did not speak. “May we go, mamma?” said Mary. “Yes, you three—all of you, indeed, unless you wish to say any more.” The “boys” avai... ...still day seemed to tell them the same, the sun beaming softly on the gray arches and fresh grass, the sky clear and blue, and the trees that showed o...

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...y side, seemed to flit by in motley dance like the fantastic groups of the old Dutch painter, and with the same stern moral for the unheeding restless... ...pletion and starvation laid them down together. But it was London; and the old country lady inside, who had put her head out of the coach-window a mil... ...alamitous in its nature that all were fearful of disclosing it to him. The old question arose again and again—What could it be? Nicholas walked till h... ...ew magnum. Little Kate Nickleby!’ ‘Little Kate Nickleby ,’ cried the other three. And the glasses were set down empty. Keenly alive to the tone and ma... ... in perfect silence for upwards of an hour—Nicholas would have thought for three hours at least, but that the little bell had only gone four times. Tw... ...ver, took a hurried farewell of Newman Noggs, and left him. Newman was not three minutes’ walk from Golden Square, but in the course of that three min... ...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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...a worthy Norman gentleman, well known to the Marechael de Richelieu, who married him to one of the richest heiresses of Bordeaux in the days when the old duke reigned in Guienne as governor. The Norman then sold the estate he owned in Bessin, and became a Gascon, allured by the beauty of the chateau de Lanstrac, a delightful residence owned by his wife. During the last day...

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...rried him to one of the richest heiresses of Bordeaux in the days when the old duke reigned in Guienne as governor. The Norman then sold the estate he... ...through the dissipations of his youth, and, giving them, like many another old man, a higher place than they really hold in life, Monsieur de Manervil... ... the college of Vendome in 1810, lived under close paternal discipline for three years. The tyranny by which the old man of seventy oppressed his heir... ... under close paternal discipline for three years. The tyranny by which the old man of seventy oppressed his heir influenced, necessarily , a heart and... ...ort my belongings to Bordeaux into my father’s old mansion, and I’ll spend three months of the year in Paris in this house, which I shall keep.” “Will... ...Marriage Contract thousand francs a year for one, because the two are soon three or four when the children come. You haven’t surely any love for that ... ...edding. Ask the intrepid soul why it shivers; why the chill of those black arches enervates it; why the sound of steps startles it; why it notices the...

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...o hear him, as he explains the state of the existing poor laws to the deaf old women in the board-room passage on business nights; and to hear what he... ...ks, ad- ministered with the cane before noticed, to the intense delight of three young men in an adjacent pew, who cough violently at intervals until ... ...aw a parish engine at a regular fire but once. It came up in gallant style—three miles and a half an hour, at least; there was a capital supply of wat... ...othing he ever did, or was concerned in, appears to have prospered. A rich old relation who had brought him up, and openly announced his intention of ... ...g clerks below him, died off as if there were a plague among them; but the old fellows over his head, for the rever- sion of whose places he was anxio... ...for love or money; and some people even went so far as to assert, that the three Miss Browns, who had an obscure family pew just behind the churchward... ... best Wallsend, brought up the posi- tive intelligence that several of the arches of the old bridge were stopped, and that preparations were actu- all... ...at he was the apparitor, and the other the court-keeper; that this was the Arches Court, and therefore the counsel wore red gowns, and the proctors fu...

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...o hear him, as he explains the state of the existing poor laws to the deaf old women in the board-room passage on business nights; and to hear what he... ...ks, ad- ministered with the cane before noticed, to the intense delight of three young men in an adjacent pew, who cough violently at intervals until ... ...aw a parish engine at a regular fire but once. It came up in gallant style—three miles and a half an hour, at least; there was a capital supply of wat... ...othing he ever did, or was concerned in, appears to have prospered. A rich old relation who had brought him up, and openly announced his intention of ... ...g clerks below him, died off as if there were a plague among them; but the old fellows over his head, for the rever- sion of whose places he was anxio... ...for love or money; and some people even went so far as to assert, that the three Miss Browns, who had an obscure family pew just behind the churchward... ... best Wallsend, brought up the posi- tive intelligence that several of the arches of the old bridge were stopped, and that preparations were actu- all... ...at he was the apparitor, and the other the court-keeper; that this was the Arches Court, and therefore the counsel wore red gowns, and the proctors fu... ...oked like steam-engines; nobody thought of ‘standing up’ under doorways or arches; they were painfully convinced it was a hopeless case; and so everyb...

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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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...ch in morals is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New; which carrieth the g... ...ater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God’s favor. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David’s harp, you shall hear as many hear... ...good faith and clearness of dealing, made them almost invisible. There be three degrees of this hiding and veiling of a man’s self. The first, clos... ...d be out of use. The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First, to lay asleep opposition, and to surprise. For where a man’... ...roth. As if there were no way of discovery, but by simulation. There be also three disadvantages, to set it even. The first, that simulation and dissi... ...jealous. Wives are young men’s mistresses; com panions for middle age; and old men’s nurses. So as a man may have a quarrel to marry, when he will. ... ...sides; and in the inside, cloistered on all sides, upon decent and beautiful arches, as high as the first story. On the under story, towards the garde... ...on the three sides; and cloistered on the inside, with pillars, and not with arches below. As for offices, let them stand at distance, with some low ... ...square, encom passed on all the four sides with a stately arched hedge. The arches to be upon pillars of carpenter’s work, of some ten foot high, and...

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...ty 15. Mrs Flintwinch has another Dream 16. Nobody?s Weakness 17. Nobody?s Rival 18. Little Dorrit?s Lover 19. The Father of the Marshalsea in two or three Relations 20. Moving in Society 21. Mr Merdle?s Complaint 22. A Puzzle 23. Machinery in Motion 24. Fortune-Telling 25. Conspirators and Others 26. Nobody?s State of Mind 27. Five-and-Twenty 28. Nobody?s Disappearance 29...

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...Rival 18. Little Dorrit’s Lover 19. The Father of the Marshalsea in two or three Relations 20. Moving in Society 21. Mr Merdle’s Complaint 22. A Puzzl... ...w, offered a supernaturally intelligent explanation of the locality in its old uses, and was very nearly correct. How this young Newton (for such I ju... ...urches were the freest from it. To come out of the twilight of pillars and arches— dreamily dotted with winking lamps, dreamily peopled with ugly old ... ...and arches— dreamily dotted with winking lamps, dreamily peopled with ugly old shadows piously dozing, spitting, and begging—was to plunge into a fier... ...aught-board rudely hacked upon it with a knife, a set of draughts, made of old buttons and soup bones, a set of dominoes, two mats, and two or three w... ...ade of old buttons and soup bones, a set of dominoes, two mats, and two or three wine bottles. That was all the chamber held, exclusive of rats and ot... ... of stone to this grating where the bottom of it was let into the masonry, three or four feet above the ground. Upon it, one of the two men lolled, ha... ... Fanny or poor uncle; desolate ideas of Covent Garden, as having all those arches in it, where the miserable children in rags among whom she had just ...

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...ty 15. Mrs Flintwinch has another Dream 16. Nobody?s Weakness 17. Nobody?s Rival 18. Little Dorrit?s Lover 19. The Father of the Marshalsea in two or three Relations 20. Moving in Society 21. Mr Merdle?s Complaint 22. A Puzzle 23. Machinery in Motion 24. Fortune-Telling 25. Conspirators and Others 26. Nobody?s State of Mind 27. Five-and-Twenty 28. Nobody?s Disappearance 29...

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...Rival 18. Little Dorrit’s Lover 19. The Father of the Marshalsea in two or three Relations 20. Moving in Society 21. Mr Merdle’s Complaint 22. A Puzzl... ...w, offered a supernaturally intelligent explanation of the locality in its old uses, and was very nearly correct. How this young Newton (for such I ju... ...urches were the freest from it. To come out of the twilight of pillars and arches— dreamily dotted with winking lamps, dreamily peopled with ugly old ... ...and arches— dreamily dotted with winking lamps, dreamily peopled with ugly old shadows piously dozing, spitting, and begging—was to plunge into a fier... ...aught-board rudely hacked upon it with a knife, a set of draughts, made of old buttons and soup bones, a set of dominoes, two mats, and two or three w... ...ade of old buttons and soup bones, a set of dominoes, two mats, and two or three wine bottles. That was all the chamber held, exclusive of rats and ot... ... of stone to this grating where the bottom of it was let into the masonry, three or four feet above the ground. Upon it, one of the two men lolled, ha... ... Fanny or poor uncle; desolate ideas of Covent Garden, as having all those arches in it, where the miserable children in rags among whom she had just ... ...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...

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...u never even see such a room ?” “No; I slept in the attic with the maid at old Aunt Mary’s, and always in a cubicle after I went to the asylum. Some o... ...ting on well, trusted and liked. She had been half sorry to leave her dear old school, half glad to go on to something new. She was evidently not so c... ...!” said Mr. Brownlow laughing—having just found her trying to make out the Old English of King Alfred’s 7 Yonge ‘Boethius’—”such as this?” “Just so! ... ...e exceptional thing the doctor was doing. Her mother had died when she was three years old, and she had never since that time lived with wed- ded folk... ...s on his part was great, it was accepted; and Caroline was carried off for three weeks to keep her residence, and make the house feel what a blank her... ...troduced her to quantities of people; but, oh dear! was it absolutely only three weeks since she had been away? It seemed just like three years, and s... ...looked into the rosary, a charming bowery circle of fragrance, inclosed by arches of trellis-work on which roses were trained, their wreaths now beari... ...dapted to European habits. The slender columns sup- porting the horse-shoe arches were trained with crimson passion-flower and bougainvillia, while or... ...erself!” exclaimed Mr. Ogilvie, as Mrs. Brownlow vanished under one of the arches. “Like! yes; but much more, much better,” said Mary, eagerly. “Ah, d...

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...wood Forest. About this time the notorious Hell Row, which through growing old had acquired an evil reputation, was burned down, and much dirt was cle... ...s. The Bottoms consisted of six blocks of miners’ dwell- ings, two rows of three, like the dots on a blank-six domino, and twelve houses in a block. T... ...l was not anxious to move into the Bottoms, which was already twelve years old and on the downward path, when she descended to it from Bestwood. But i... ...n station was not much consolation to Mrs. Morel. She was thirty-one years old, and had been married eight years. A rather small woman, of delicate mo... ... third baby. Her husband was a miner. They had only been in their new home three weeks when the wakes, or fair, began. Morel, she knew, was sure to ma... ...’ve a full hour.” The lad began hastily to lay the table, and directly the three sat down. They were eating batter-pudding and jam, when the boy jumpe... ...lnshire, meant to him the eternality of the will, just as the bowed Norman arches of the church, repeating themselves, meant the dogged leaping forwar...

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...volley of cannon balls, swooped away four country people with nosegays, and three men of business with portmanteaus, and fired itself off again, bang... ... as his way always is when he has nothing to do) had read of a certain black old Cumberland hill or mountain, called Carrock, or Carrock Fell; and had... ...and down hill, and twisting to the right, and twisting to the left, and with old Skiddaw (who has vaunted himself a great deal more than his merits de... ... Idle and Goodchild, as their conveyance stopped at the village shoemaker’s. Old Carrock gloomed down upon it all in a very ill tem pered state; and ... ...epness of the ascent was slightly mitigated; and here the exploring party of three turned round to look at the view below them. The scene of the moorl... ...isted in following. It appeared to the uninstructed mind of Thomas that when three men want to get to the bottom of a moun tain, their business is to... ...e was a frightful chasm somewhere near the foot of Carrock, called The Black Arches, into which the travellers were sure to march in the mist, if they... ...und the slope of the mountain, still desperately resolved to avoid the Black Arches, and to succeed in reaching the ‘certain point.’ A quarter of an h... ...public house bar. In one direction, confused perspectives of embankments and arches were to be seen from the platform; in the other, the rails soon di...

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......................................................... 278 Chapter 2.4.VI. Old-Dragoon Drouet. .......................................................... .................................................... 413 Chapter 3.2.VII. The Three V otings. .............................................................. ...by name, returning from Corsica, could see ‘with sorrow, at Compiegne, the old King of France, on foot, with doffed hat, in sight of his army, at the ... ...orever growing and changing. Does not the Black African take of Sticks and Old Clothes (say, exported Monmouth-Street cast-clothes) what will suffice,... ..., nevertheless, do we not see whole genera- tions (two, and sometimes even three successively) live, what they call living; and vanish,—without chance... ... hundred years ago, could make an Emperor wait barefoot, in penance-shift; three days, in the snow, has for centuries seen itself decaying; reduced ev... ...d loaves, is not plun- dered; nor are the Sevres Potteries broken. The old arches of Sevres Bridge echo under Menadic feet; Seine River gushes on with... ... westward to the Gate by the river (where also shall be wood, in triumphal arches), we count same thousand yards of length; and for breadth, from this... ...ere Carpentry and Painting have vied, for the upper Authorities; triumphal arches, at the Gate by the River, bear inscriptions, if weak, yet well-mean...

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...ountains. There they have gone on living ever since, and talking their own old language. The English called them Welsh, a name that meant strangers, a... ...t battle, he bade his friend fling his sword into the river, and that then three lovely ladies came in a boat, and carried him away to a secret island... ...LDREN A.D. 597 THE ANGLE CHILDREN A.D. 597 THE ANGLE CHILDREN A.D. 597 THE OLD ENGLISH who had come to Britain were heathen, and believed in many fals... ...Woden still, and thought that their kindred in England had fallen from the old ways. Besides, they liked to make their fortunes by getting what they c... ...r grand- sons had dreadful battles with the Danes all their lives, and the three eldest all died quite young. The youngest was the greatest and best k... ...1066 A.D. 1035—1066 A.D. 1035—1066 A.D. 1035—1066 A.D. 1035—1066 CNUT LEFT THREE SONS; but one was content to be only King of Denmark, and the other t... ...arons. You always know their work, because it has round pillars, and round arches, with broad borders of zig-zags, and all manner of patterns round th...

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...er known wonder on the subject, each little Gradgrind having at five years old dissected the Great Bear like a Pro fessor Owen, and driven Charles’s ... ...s proclaiming, through that brassy speaking trumpet of a voice of his, his old ignorance and his old poverty. A man who was the Bully of humility. A y... ...e best of my remembrance, my grand mother was the wickedest and the worst old woman that ever lived. If I got a little pair of shoes by any chance, s... ... to be a nuisance, an incumbrance, and a pest, was only to be satisfied by three sonorous repeti tions of the boast. HARD T IMES 16 ‘I was to pull t... ..., gradually insinuated themselves and him into the room. There were two or three handsome young women among them, with their two or three husbands, an... ...young women among them, with their two or three husbands, and their two or three mothers, and their eight or nine little children, who did the fairy b... ... again, and the Express whirled in full sight of the Fairy Palace over the arches near: little felt amid the jarring of the machinery, and scarcely he... ...e town, and accessible within a mile or two, by a railway striding on many arches over a wild country, undermined by deserted coal shafts, and spotted... ...itzer had come down by train, shrieking and rattling over the long line of arches that bestrode the wild country of past and present coal pits, with a...

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...by name, returning from Corsica, could see ‘with sorrow, at Compiegne, the old King of France, on foot, with doffed hat, in sight of his army, at the ... ...ever growing and chang- ing. Does not the Black African take of Sticks and Old Clothes (say, exported Monmouth-Street cast-clothes) what will suffice,... ...th, nevertheless, do we not see whole generations (two, and sometimes even three successively) live, what they call living; and vanish,—without chance... ... hundred years ago, could make an Emperor wait barefoot, in penance-shift; three days, in the snow, has for centuries seen itself decaying; reduced ev... ...n the snow, has for centuries seen itself decaying; reduced even to forget old purposes and enmities, and join interest with the King- ship: on this y... ...cesses alone wait at the loathsome sick-bed; impelled by filial piety. The three Princesses, Graille, Chiffe, Coche (Rag, Snip, Pig, as he was wont to... ...ked loaves, is not plundered; nor are the Sevres Potteries broken. The old arches of Sevres Bridge echo under Menadic feet; Seine River gushes on with...

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...t black chasms, huge black cliffs, rug- ged and over-hung gullies, natural arches, and deep green pools below them, almost too deep to let you see the... ...mp with continual droppings from above, with no more furniture than two or three tin pans, a truss of rotten straw, and a few ragged cloaks. In winter... ...ouble weights at the guys, and hope to get it up like a shot. What fun you three must be having! I hope the cold don’t disagree with you. – I remain, ... ...e night closes in and the sea slowly rising along with it; it looks like a three days’ gale. Last week has been a blank one: always too much sea. I en... ...g or other that looks fallible, it would be a relief. I sometimes wish the old Colo- nel had got drunk and beaten her, in the bitterness of my spirit.... ...t is a feature in art which seems to have come in with the Italians. Y our old Greek statues have scarce enough vitality in them to keep their monstro... .... Of course, I was glad to hear from you; you know, you and I have so many old stories between us, that even if there was nothing else, even if there ... ...z, a pretty and very melancholy village on the plain. A low bridge of many arches choked with sedge; great fields of white and yellow water-lilies; po...

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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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...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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...- panion throbs of your pulses. Interrogate them. They lump along like the old loblegs of Dobbin the horse; or do their business like cudgels of carpe... ... House, when his turn arrives; as if they had (possibly they had) smelt of old date a doomed colossus of Egoism in that unborn, unconceived inheritor ... ...le socially valuable, nationally serviceable. They wait. Aforetime a grand old Egoism built the House. It would appear that ever finer essences of it ... ...escued British sailor inebriate, and the haul- ing off to captivity of the three braves of the black dragon on a yellow ground, and the tying of them ... ...ity as the dogs and pets of the Comic Spirit, had been curiously attentive three years earlier, long before the public announcement of his engagement ... ...c people,” she said. Miss Durham had money, and she had health and beauty: three mighty qualifications for a Patterne bride. Her father, Sir John Durh... ...could. But history! there I am with you. Walking over ruins: at night: the arches of the solemn black amphitheatre pouring moonlight on us— the moonli...

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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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...vas and the sky god Ukko. The word, Ukko, seems related to the Magyar Agg, old, and meant, therefore, an old being, a grandfather; but ultimately it c... .... Among the other deities of the air are the Luonnotars, mys tic maidens, three of whom were created by the rubbing of Ukko’s hands upon his left kne... ...ecame 13 The Kalevala green, and the people danced around it, so that the old men grew joyous as the youth.” The chief water god is Ahto, on the etym... ...is own, and received it with gratitude. To the shepherd lad Ahto gave the three knives as a reward for his honesty. A general term for the other wate... ...ian of hidden treasures. This important office is also filled by a hideous old deity named Mammelainen, whom Renwall, the Finnish lexicographer, descr... ...dead. Thus, as described in The Kalevala, when the hero of Wainola needed three words of master magic wherewith 17 The Kalevala to finish the boat i... ...drous beauty, Lasting joy and pride of Suomi. Whence the harp’s enchanting arches? From the jaw bones of the monster. Whence the necessary harp pins? ...