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....................................................................... 16 ON DEATH. ....................................................................... .......................................................................... 46 DEATH. ....................................................................... ......................................................................... 151 DEATH. ....................................................................... ............................................................... 166 FRAGMENT: DEATH IN LIFE. ............................................................... ................................ 180 LINES WRITTEN ON HEARING THE NEWS OF THE DEATH OF NAPOLEON. ..................................... 181 SONNET: POLITI... ...as kept up to guide them across the ford; and the forms of the men and the animals showed in dark relief against the red glare of the flame, which was... ...streams, and all things common, In music and the sweet unconscious tone Of animals, and voices which are human, _35 Meant...

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...ed upon the site of the Jacobin Club House in Paris. I was sick, sick unto death, with that long agony, and when they at length unbound me, and I was ... ...I felt that my senses were leaving me. The sentence, the dread sentence of death, was the last of distinct accentuation which reached my ears. After t... ...t lost. In the deepest slumber — no! In delirium — no! In a swoon — no! In death — no! Even in the grave all was not lost. Else there is no immortalit... ...with real existence; — but where and in what state was I? The condemned to death, I knew, perished usually at the auto da fes , and one of these had ... ...r what fate perhaps even more fearful awaited me? That the result would be death, and a death of more than customary bitterness, I knew too well the c... ... my hand from the floor, I lay breath lessly still. At first the ravenous animals were startled and terrified at the change — at the cessation of mov...

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...of the programme. “By what means,” she continued, “can he have tamed these animals to such a point as to be certain of their affection for—” “What see... ...speed, that its flanks were lacerated with his spurs, and at last the poor animal died, leaving the Frenchman alone in the desert. After walking some ... ...ht before had served him for shelter. A vague memory made him think of the animals of the desert; and in case they might come to drink at the spring, ... ...ly to distinguish the objects around him in the cave, and he beheld a huge animal lying but two steps from him. Was it a lion, a tiger, or a crocodile... ...hat in a cage, the Provencal would doubtless have admired the grace of the animal, and the vig- orous contrasts of vivid color which gave her robe an ... ...old sweat which sprang forth on his brow. Like men driven to bay, who defy death and offer their body to the smiter, so he, seeing in this merely a tr... ...dier, caressing her enthusi- astically; “we’re bound together for life and death but no jokes, mind!” and he retraced his steps. From that time the de... ...urricane over the plain where the whirl- ing sands made red, dry mists and death-bearing clouds, he would welcome the night with joy, for then fell th...

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...n his actions bind him to the plane of ignorance or the plane of birth and death; but when the same actions are performed with surrender to God, they ... ...ngs to the perishable body and regards it as his true Self must experience death many times. IV That One, though motionless, is swifter than the mind.... ...this. XI He who knows at the same time both Vidya and Avidya, crosses over death by Avidya and attains immortality through Vidya. Those who follow or ... ...se of manifestation) and the destructible or mani- fested, he crosses over death through knowledge of the destructible and attains immortality through... ...s behind activity, conquers Nature and thus over- 14 The Upanishads comes death. By work, by making the mind steady and by following the prescribed r... ...robably a lad about twelve years of age, ob- served how worthless were the animals which his father was offering. His heart at once became filled with...

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...he Island of Jamaica, for the purpose of barter and traffic in four-footed animals; but never before have I be- held a beast which verified the true s... ...al was quietly making its morning repast, on the opposite side of the same animal. A young man, in the dress of an officer, conducted to their steeds ... ..., or one of those unaccountable freaks which nature sometimes plays in the animal world, gave rise to a breed of horses which were once well known in ... ...n a trot and a walk, and at a rate which kept the sure-footed and peculiar animals they rode at a fast yet easy amble. The youth had turned to speak t... ...debate. his body, which was nearly naked, pre- sented a terrific emblem of death, drawn in intermingled colors 25 James Fenimore Cooper of white and ... ...gesture of the hand, Uncas threw himself on the ground, and approached the animal with wary movements. When within a few yards of the cover, he fitted... ...O, Egypt! wonders sent ‘midst thee, On Pharaoh and his servants too!” “The death of the colt sits heavy on the heart of its owner,” said the scout; “b... ...for the colt; ’twas an innocent thing, and had not seen much hardship. Its death will save the creature many a sore back and weary foot!” Uncas did as... ... sounds of the woods for thirty years, as a man will listen whose life and death depend on the quickness of his ears. There is no whine of the panther...

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...r had she known such a pang of utter and final hopelessness. It was beyond death, so utterly null, desert. The bridegroom and the groom’s man had not ... ...now then, toasts! Speech! Speech!’ Birkin, thinking about race or national death, watched his glass being filled with champagne. The bubbles broke at ... ...ys work small things, that one can put between one’s hands, birds and tiny animals. She likes to look through the wrong end of the opera glasses, and ... ...r is it better to leave them untouched, spontaneous. Hadn’t they better be animals, simple animals, crude, violent, anything, rather than this self-co... ...us, always aware of themselves. Isn’t anything better than this? Better be animals, mere animals with no mind at 37 all, than this, this nothingness—... ...iness. It irritated him bitterly. ‘It is the mind,’ she said, ‘and that is death.’ She raised her eyes slowly to him: ‘Isn’t the mind—’ she said, with... ... mind—’ she said, with the convulsed move- ment of her body, ‘isn’t it our death? Doesn’t it destroy all our spontaneity, all our instincts? Are not t... ...rely making words,’ he said; ‘knowledge means everything to you. Even your animalism, you want it in your head. You don’t want to BE an animal, you wa... ...in your head. You don’t want to BE an animal, you want to observe your own animal functions, to get a mental thrill out of them. It is all purely seco...

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... ground between the reverie of a thinker and the comfort of the ruminating animals; a condition which we may call the material melancholy of gastronom... ...as a pretty daughter, whom he refused for many years to recognize; but the death of his son, unfor- tunately killed in a duel, has compelled him to ta... ...e poor girl has suddenly become one of the richest heiresses in Paris. The death of his son threw the poor man into an agony of grief, which sometimes... ...with extraordinary ardor to plan a crime theoretically. While fancying the death of the merchant he saw distinctly the gold and the diamonds. His eyes... ...way under him. 20 The Red Inn “This coward of a sawbones deserves a dozen deaths! Get on!” cried the two soldiers who had him in charge, lending him ... ...e restores to me my innocence. My life would always have been wretched; my death leaves me without reproach. But is there a future?” The whole eightee... ...trait-jacket and fastened to his bed. The poor man declares there are live animals in his head gnawing his brain; every nerve quivers with horrible sh...

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...ing to force her to his wish, Nor bent, nor broke, nor shunned a soldier’s death, But now when all was lost or seemed as lost— Her stature more than m... ...her tiny silken-sandaled foot: ‘That’s your light way; but I would make it death For any male thing but to peep at us.’ Petulant she spoke, and at her... ...rit letters of the king. He with a long low sibilation, stared As blank as death in marble; then exclaimed Averring it was clear against all rules 12... ...ow saw you not the inscription on the gate, Let no man enter in on pain of death?’ ‘And if I had,’ he answered, ‘who could think The softer Adams of y... ...ce have altered: I am sad and glad To see you, Florian. ~I~ give thee to death My brother! it was duty spoke, not I. My needful seeming harshness, p... ..., Purpose in purpose, will in will, they grow, The single pure and perfect animal, The two-celled heart beating, with one full stroke, Life.’ An...

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...own skin, and they themselves mistaken at first sight for a species of the animal which served them as clothing. But through this tangle of hair their... ... belong far less to our fine Caucasian race than to a breed of herbivorous animals. The total absence of all the usual characteristics of the social m... ...em disappear. The commandant himself feared that he had sent them to their deaths, and an involuntary shudder seized him as he saw the last of them. O... ...g to oppose, came upon their flanks, and, with a close, quick volley, sent death and disorder among the enemy. This manoeuvre very nearly equalized th... ...ach man, observant of danger, was silent. The scene was gloomy and cold as death itself. Nothing was heard through the clash of arms and the grinding ... ... who have gone through a goodly number of catarrhs and apoplexies and whom death respects; it moaned as it rolled, and squeaked spasmodically. Like a ... ...sprang towards the man, but he, seeming to move with the agility of a wild animal, had already darted through a side door which opened on the courtyar... ...ight rustling, like that which might be made by the footfalls of some wild animal in the silence of the forest. She quivered, but did not tremble. Tho... ...other sign of resistance than the instinctive and convulsive motions of an animal, uttering a few smothered groans, which ceased when the axe fell. Th...

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...ut of the bandbox, and their manners were as fine as their clothes. In one of the shops I had the luck to stumble upon a book which has charmed me nea... ...they said who the sup- posed knight was. It was the executioner of Bergen. But glow- ing with rage, the King commanded to seize the criminal and lead ... ... gnomes and fairies as realities. One afternoon I got lost in the woods about a mile from the hotel, and presently fell into a train of dreamy thought... ..., pull down your vest!” and that sort of thing, it hurts you and humiliates you, and there is no getting around it with fine reasoning and pretty argu... ...er, some ani- mals have only a limited education, and some use only simple words, and scarcely ever a comparison or a flowery figure; whereas, certain... ...the end of it fly up behind his antagonist’s ear and cut an artery which could not be reached if the sword remained whole. This has happened, sometime... ...tudent’s armpits were not protected—and at that time the swords were pointed, whereas they are blunt, now; so an artery in the armpit was sometimes cu... ... miles an hour out of the mules against the stiff current. The Neckar has always been used as a canal, and thus has given employment to a great many m... ...list Tavern” was not a meaningless name; for all the halls and all the rooms were lined with large glass cases which were filled with all sorts of bir...

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... treasure in the womb of earth, For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death, Speak of it: stay, and speak! Stop it, Marcellus. MARCELLUS: Sha... ..., and Attendants .] KING CLAUDIUS : Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s death The memory be green, and that it us befitted To bear our hearts in ... ...Holding a weak supposal of our worth, Or thinking by our late dear brother’s death Our state to be disjoint and out of frame, Colleagued with the drea... ...st the dead, a fault to nature, To reason most absurd: whose common theme Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried, From the first corse till he ... ... Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death, Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre, Wherein we saw thee... ...el! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quin tessence of dust? man deligh...

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...world. Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher death, and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know , But ... ...s.’ But errs not nature from this gracious end, From burning suns when livid deaths descend, When earthquakes swallow , or when tempests sweep Towns t... ...As Man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his grow... ... int’rests to resign; Taught half by reason, half by mere decay , To welcome death, and calmly pass away . Whate’er the passion– knowledge, fame, or p... ...hunger craves, He saves from famine, from the savage saves; Nay , feasts the animal he dooms his feast, And, till he ends the being, makes it blest: W... ...reads it, makes him hope it too: The hour conceal’d, and so remote the fear, Death still draws nearer, never seeming near. Great standing miracle! tha...

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...ng solemn proclama- tion— “ ! Let none list to this false and foolish matter, upon pain of death, nor discuss the same, nor car... ...n when my body is refreshed.” Tom, heavy-hearted, was conducted from the pres- ence, for this last sentence was a death-blow to the hope he had cheris... ...upants of it. Two frowsy girls and a middle-aged woman cowered against the wall in one corner, with the aspect of animals habituated to harsh usage, a... ...King my father restore him to thee.” “The King thy father! Oh, my child! unsay these words that be freighted with death for thee, and ruin for all tha... ... now to a worser fate?—for whether thou art his father or no—and sooth to say, I think it is a lie—a decent swift death were better for such a lad tha... ...er, Arthur; my other brother, Hugh— but I will crack his crown an he interfere, the fox- hearted, ill-conditioned animal! Yes, thither will we fare—an... ... company; for he had been feeling so lonesome and friendless that the company and comradeship of even this humble animal were welcome. And he had been... ...idling shyly around and about him, examining him minutely from all points, as if he were some strange new kind of animal, but warily and watchfully th... ...ome strange new kind of animal, but warily and watchfully the while, as if they half feared he might be a sort of animal that would bite, upon occasio...

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...ng a sovereign prince at the gates of France. Sometime before Henri III.’s death, a court lady murdered a nobleman who made offensive remarks about he... ...ely, the legitimacy of children coming into the world ten months after the death of their fathers, or seven months after the wedding day. “Madame,” sa... ...brutally, turning to his wife, “if you give me a child ten months after my death, I cannot help it; but be careful that you are not brought to bed in ... ... a pity she had vainly sought there when awake. The child, threatened with death before its life began, made so vigorous a movement that she cried alo... ...e and her mother found refuge in a little town of Lower Normandy. Soon the deaths of other relatives made her one 14 The Hated Son of the richest hei... ...er; sometimes he descended, humble and resigned, to the quiet happiness of animals. T o him the stars were the flowers of night, the birds his friends... ...ellini did for metal. Gabrielle had put one of these vases, decorated with animals in relief, on a table in the middle of the hall, and was filling it... ...e by one, but chaste as the merry play—so graceful, so coquettish—of young animals. The sentiment which induced them to express their souls in song le...

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... the generation preceding us; with due reserve of credit, of course, to an animal vivaciousness that seems to have wanted so small an incitement. Our ... ...larity and also fleshly vile; a guide to life and a biter at the fruits of death; both open mind and hypocrite. It has not yet been taught to apprecia... ...y have served his turn; we have no grounds for thinking him malignant. The death of his enemy closes his allusions to Mrs. Warwick. He was growing anc... ..., ‘we lash ourselves into the persuasive speech distinguishing us from the animals.’ The instances of her drollery are rather hinted by the Dia- rists... ...the French and English styles of pushing flatteries—’piping to the charmed animal,’ as Mrs. Warwick terms it in another place: but Lady Pennon was acq... ...ments, riddled to threads, that gained the day. That is life— when we dare death to live! I wonder at men, who are men, being anything but soldiers! I... ...nd a man two removes from a baronetcy has no right to set his reckoning on deaths:—if he does, he becomes a sort of meditative as- sassin. But what we... ...uch skies, a husband who is not the fountain of it, certainly is a foreign animal: he is a discordant note. He contracts the ethereal world, deadens r... ...ss old than sin; and it offers a merry day of frisky truant running to the animal made unashamed by another and another stripped, branded, and stretch...

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..., the sub- ject of learned researches comparable to those of Cuvier on the animals discovered in the chalk pits of Montmartre. These petty enterprises... ...us to pay his debt of grati- tude, enabled Moreau, lying under sentence of death, to make his escape; in 1804 he asked for his pardon, obtained it, of... ..., very intimately allied with Madame Husson, was at that time condemned to death; he was unable therefore to marry the widow, being forced to leave Fr... ...ot by the bridle and gave that gut- tural cry, “Ket, ket!” to tell the two animals to collect their energy; on which, though evidently stiff, they pul... ...ns, and Giaours, and Vechabites, Bedouins, and Cophs. But all that kind of animal is very uninteresting, and I was glad enough to embark on a Genoese ... ...of the Gov- ernor of Smyrna, whom the Sultan had ordered Chosrew to put to death. It was one of the most curious things I ever saw, though I’ve seen m... ...r you from end to end of the principal street of a town, shouting for your death! Ah! those eyes were so many flames, all mouths were a single curse, ... ...ways punished for disregarding them. There is one in particular, which the animals themselves obey without discussion, and invariably; it is that whic... ...beside his driver, a young man in a blouse, who called out: “Pull!” to his animals, and the vehicle, drawn by four horses brought at Roye, mounted the...

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...th a black rib bon. The top of the cap was surmounted with the tail of the animal whose skin had furnished the rest of the materials, which fell back,... ...e city of New York could only offer at that period. A few months afterward death had deprived him of the remaining companion of his solitude; but stil... ...riming, and was about to move forward, when the light bounding noise of an animal plunging through the woods was heard, and a fine buck darted into th... ... darted into the path a short distance ahead of him. The appearance of the animal was sudden, and his flight inconceivably rapid; but the traveller ap... ...ctly a second discharge, similar in sound to the first, followed, when the animal came to the earth, failing head long and rolling over on the crust w... ...th, which was stuck through his girdle, or sash, and cut the throat of the animal, “If there are two balls through the deer, I would ask if there were... ...he exclaimed: “I would fain establish a right, Natty, to the honor of this death; and surely if the hit in the neck be mine it is enough; for the shot... ... me the venison; and the deuce is in it, but I make a good story about its death.” “The meat is none of mine to sell,” said Leather-Stocking, adopting... ...a view to offer any assistance that it was now in his power to bestow. The death of Marmaduke’s father, and the consequent di- vision of his small est...

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...should transpire, I will for ward them by express.’ ‘HALF PAST EIGHT. ‘The animal has been procured. He is a pug dog, of rather intelligent appearan... ...o on his knees, hold ing forth a small bottle of prussic acid, to which the animal, Mudfog and Other Sketches Charles Dickens 23 who was crouched... ...een sent down stairs to be washed; from which circumstance we infer that the animal is no more. His forelegs have been delivered to the boots to be br... ...case, but greatly enhanced in this, by the amiable qualities of the deceased animal, who appears to have been much and deservedly respected by the who... ... favourite attendant. The account stated in the most emphatic terms that the animal’s name was not Toby, but Solomon; and distinctly proved that he co... ...eopathic remedy, the section would ob serve), placed upon his tongue, after death, would restore him. What was the obvious inference? That Thorn, who...

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...ders; but, somehow, those whom he obliged felt that they would sooner face death than fail to repay him; a certain resolute look, sometimes seen on hi... ...hat felt moved to pity by a tale of misfortune, not one who did not see in death the solution of the all-absorbing problem of misery which left them c... ...ok of stupid good-nature. This, in all probabil- ity, was a strongly-build animal, whose brains mostly con- sisted in a capacity for affection. His ha... ... Thus equipped for the cam- paign, the widow looked exactly like the prize animal hung out for a sign above an a la mode beef shop; but she herself wa... ...ce of the night. It vibrated through the student, who took the sound for a death groan. He opened his door noiselessly, went out upon the landing, and... ...eloped in him till it almost became a mania. All the af- fection balked by death seemed to turn to his daughters, and he found full satisfaction for h... ...find more than one proof of the material nature of our sentiments in other animals. What physiognomist is as quick to discern character as a dog is to... ...nough to make me murder him, but it would not be manslaughter to kill that animal; he is a pig with a calf’s brains.—You will take me with you, will y... ...ver, and the fun grew fast and furious. Imitations of the cries of various animals mingled with the loud laughter; the Museum official having taken it...

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...of the attain- ment of external power. Man is the tool-using, fire- making animal. From the outset of his terrestrial career we find him supplementing... ...the rocks full of iron ore and the promise of sword and spear; he froze to death upon a ledge of coal; he drank water muddy with the clay that would o... ...wealth of Power that offered itself on every hand to him. He tamed certain animals, he developed his primordially haphazard agriculture into a ritual,... ...ose distrusts and fiercenesses, that self-concentra- tion and intensity of animalism, that tie his hands from tak- ing his inheritance. The ape in us ... ...he last polished phase of the stone age was over he had become a political animal. He made astonishingly far-reaching discoveries within him- self, fi... ...ly day and night, seed- time and harvest, loving and begetting, births and deaths, walks in the summer sunlight and tales by the winter fire- side, th... ...he writings of Rousseau and Voltaire seemed to have had at the time of the death of the latter. They were fermenting in men’s minds, and it needed onl... ...d Set Free ligerent schemer. Primitive man had been a fiercely combat- ive animal; innumerable generations had passed their lives in tribal warfare, a... ...de this swift rush, this crash, this giddy triumph, this headlong swoop to death? And then athwart this whirling rush of aerial duels that swooped and...