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... can studiously travel through sheets of leaves now ca- pable of a stretch from the Lizard to the last few poor pul- monary snips and shreds of league... ...ulness, and that prolongation of the vasty and the noisy, out of which, as from an undrained fen, steams the malady of sameness, our modern malady. We... ...nd aft. We were the same, and animals into the bargain. That is all we got from Science. Art is the specific. We have little to learn of apes, and the... ...numerous when the fifth head of the race was the hope of 8 The Egoist his county. A Patterne was in the Marines. The country and the chief of this fa... ...th tell us, royal blood in common trades. For all our pride we are a queer people; and you may be ordering butcher’s meat of a T udor, sitting on the ... ...he was to hit the mark that rang the bell; and away her word went over the county: and had she been an unchari- table woman she could have ruled the c... ...d of caricature, so sharp was her touch. A grain of malice would have sent county faces and characters awry into the currency. She was wealthy and kin... ...had been strictly sagacious. “Patternes marry money; they are not romantic people,” she said. Miss Durham had money, and she had health and beauty: th... ...ughby and Miss Dale. It was a pleasant and romantic story, and it put most people in good humour with the county’s favourite, as his choice of a porti...

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...le Princes, that protect and save The Pilgrim Muses, and their ship defend From rock of Ignorance and Error’s wave, Y our gracious eyes upon this labo... ...g Ismaelites deprive Of woful Thrace, which now captived stands, Y ou must from realms and seas the Turks forth drive, As Godfrey chased them from Jud... .... VII The sullen season now was come and gone, That forced them late cease from their noble war, When God Almighty form his lofty throne, Set in those... ...ir sovereign’s younger son, These archers be, and with them come withal, A people near the Northern Pole that wone, Whom Ireland sent from loughs and ... ... Y et armed to point in well-attempted plate, The land did like itself the people breed, The soil is gentle, smooth, soft, delicate; Boldly they charg... ..., Let us destroy this serpent on his nest; Both young and old, let us this people kill, The tender infants at their mothers’ breast, Their houses burn... ...and the foremost taken The Earl of Pembroke was, Artemidore, Doubtless the county thought his bread well baken; Next Gerrard followed, then with tress... ... quoth he, “thou mayest Till Phoebus shine again, here take thine inn, The County of Cosenza, three days past, This castle from the Turks did nobly wi... ...ory know, Old men and babes thy foes can overthrow!” LXXIX Thus prayed the County, and his prayers dear Strengthened with zeal, with godliness and fai...