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... arest . . . . . . . . . . . 77 75: So are you to my thoughts as food to life . . . . . . . . . . . 78 76: Why is my verse so barren of new pride? ... ... for feare to wet a widdowes eye, That thou consum’st thy selfe in single life? Ah; if thou issulesse shalt hap to die, The world will waile thee l... ...lowers, Much liker then your painted counterfeit: So should the lines of life that life repaire Which this (Times pensel or my pupill pen) Neither... ... deserts? Though yet heauen knowes it is but as a tombe Which hides your life, and shewes not halfe your parts: If I could write the beauty of your... ...ong as men can breath or eyes can see, So long liues this, and this giues life to thee, - 20 - 18: Shall I compare thee to a Summers day? Shakespear... ...n these quicker Elements are gone In tender Embassie of loue to thee, My life being made of foure, with two alone, Sinkes downe to death, opprest w... ...at he shall neuer cut from memory My sweet loues beauty, though my louers life. His beautie shall in these blacke lines be seene, And they shall li... ...of the dead, The right of sepulchers, were shorne away, To liue a second life on second head, Ere beauties dead fleece made another gay: In him th... ... Do not so much as my poore name reherse; But let your loue euen with my life decay. Least the wise world should looke into your mone, And mocke y...

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...it by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens is a publicatio... ... the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvan... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Charles Dickens Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens PREFACE WHAT IS... ... set down. It is this: I have never touched a character precisely from the life, but some coun- terpart of that character has incredulously asked me: ... ...r her consideration of this tale, because nothing is more com- mon in real life than a want of profitable reflection on the causes of many vices and c... ...r cities almost out of recognition, changes in the graces and amenities of life, changes in the Press, without whose advancement no advancement can ta... ...himself in a very marked and extraordinary manner as one surfeited of High Life and Gracious Company. It has been rumoured, and it is needless to say ... ...father’s birth was supposed to have been communicated by his father in his lifetime, lay upon his deathbed, this question was put to him in a distinct... ...to her more sensitive and joyous favourites she grants the longest term of life. Still athwart their darker boughs, the sunbeams struck out paths of d...

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...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of greater importa...

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...rles Grosvenor Osgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction ... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction ... ...sylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Boswell’s Life of Johnson Life of Johnson by James Boswell Boswell’s Life of Johnson ... ...sh at Princeton University Preface IN MAKING THIS abridgement of Boswell’s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell’s criti- cisms, comments, an... ...ges, I hope, have been retained, and enough of the whole book 4 Boswell’s Life of Johnson to illustrate all the phases of Johnson’s mind and of his t... ...ompan- ionship, and an innocent refuge from the cares and perturbations of life. Princeton, June 28, 1917. INTRODUCTION PHILLIPS BROOKS ONCE told the ... ...solicitous, withdraws into the background. Some think that Boswell, in his Life of Johnson, did not sufficiently realize his duty of self-effacement. ... ..., should get a hearing. In general, Boswell’s faults are eas- 5 Boswell’s Life of Johnson ily noticed, and have been too much talked about. He was mo... ...kil- ful and devoted artist, is almost unrecognized. As the creator of the Life of Johnson he is al- most as much effaced as is Homer in the Odys- sey...

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...ss. So, perhaps, his eye shall be opened to behold the series of the generations, and he shall weigh with surprise his momentous and nugatory gift of life....

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...he generations, and he shall weigh with surprise his momentous and nugatory gift of life. You are still – as when first I saw, as when I last addresse... ...ith the news of which the country rang. T o-day I was served heir to my position in life, a landed laird, a bank porter by me carrying my gold, recomm... ...t me. Thence to an armourer’s, where I got a plain sword, to suit with my degree in life. I felt safer with the weapon, though (for one so ignorant of... ...Here is a forfeited rebel and an accused mur- derer, with two hundred pounds on his life, and ye ask me to meddle in his business, and then tell me ye... ...l to your safety.” “My purpose in this,” I replied, “is just entirely as serious as life and death, and you have understood me perfectly. I am the boy... ...y word we may have a ’45 again with the Campbells on the other side. To protect the life of this man Stewart – which is forfeit already on half-a- doz... ...f music, and she without, and her father in the same house, perhaps begging for his life with tears, and myself come but newly from rejecting his peti... .... So now you are to guess your part of glory if you choose to die. On the one hand, life, wine, women, and a duke to be your handgun: on the other, a ... ... trembled. “There is a gentleman in this room,” cried I. “I appeal to him. I put my life and credit in his hands.” 43 Catriona Prestongrange shut his...

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...ht of stairs, wanting to take the extra time with Pierrot. This was not the life I had envisioned for myself. 5 Chapter 2 Baincthuin, France 1857-18... ... a little arbor behind the modest house. My mother, who had been born to a life of leisure, worked for a milliner. According to my father, they we... ... prepared to discuss the latest books. I loved to hear Philippe’s tales of life in Paris and hoped to go there one day. Still, I was astonished whe... ... thirty-six. My father gladly gave his blessing and we began to plan for a life together. I would eventually move into Philippe’s much larger home ... ...o amount of black clothing would bring my father back. He had lived a happy life and I did not want to remember him in misery. I rejoiced in his me... ...0 “You see, Cesare,” I finished as I braided his mane, “Philippe risked his life to go into the burning barn after Josephine, my mare. He himself w... ...autiful ... is beautiful. And she was a child. I have seen so much more of life.” I reached out to touch the damaged side of his face. “This does... ...the underground lake, and marveled at the unusual trappings of Erik’s daily life. 19 A portcullis raised in the distance, and the boat glided thro... ... was grave in his response: “Claire, I would die for you and consider it a life well-lived.” “Don’t say that,” I whispered. “I couldn’t bear to los...

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...Excerpt: The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth; THE PROLOGUE -- I Come no more to make you laugh, Things now, That beare a Weighty, and a Serious Brow, Sad, high, and working, full of State and Woe: Such Noble Scoenes, as draw the Eye to flow...

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...The Famous History of the Life of King HENRY the Eight. by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Foli... ... Folio Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 THE PROLO... ... . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Scena Quarta. - i - The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight t3 THE PROLOGVE. 2 I Come no mor... ... may weepe vpon his Wedding day. [ - 1 - The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight Shakespeare: First Folio Actus Primus. Scoena... ...y phrase ’em) by their Heralds challeng’d - 2 - The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight Shakespeare: First Folio 79 The Noble Sp... ..., the tract of eu’ry thing, 86 Would by a good Discourser loose some life, 87 Which Actions selfe, was tongue too. 88 Buc. All w... ... this French going out, tooke he vpon him - 3 - The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight Shakespeare: First Folio 125 (Without the... ...harpe edge: It’s long, and’t may be saide - 4 - The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight Shakespeare: First Folio 171 It reaches f... ... And lose by ouer- running: know you not, - 5 - The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight Shakespeare: First Folio 217 The fire tha...

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...s passed. Then something recalled to the woman the companion of her young days and she wrote to him: ?I have been hearing of you lately. I know where life has brought you. You certainly selected your own road. But to us, left behind, it always looked as if you had struck out into a pathless desert....

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...ays and she wrote to him: “I have been hearing of you lately. I know where life has brought you. Y ou certainly selected your own road. But to us, lef... ...have been there yourself. I may overtax your patience with the story of my life so different from yours, not only in all the facts but altogether in s... ...with proper credentials and who apparently was doing his best to waste his life in an eccentric fashion, with a bohemian set (one poet, at least, emer... ...d, nor yelling, nor in any other way in harmony with the bedlam element of life. But I was not sad. I was merely in a state of sobriety. I had just re... ...- pose, but you may take it from a man who has lived a rough, a very rough life, that it is the subtleties of personalities, and contacts, and events,... ...tty well nothing else. This—you see—is the last evening of that part of my life in which I did not know that woman. These are like the last hours of a... ... any character of its own that it was merely disturbing. “But she radiated life,” continued Mills. “She had plenty of it, and it had a quality. My cou... ...uld seem such a liberty to take with a person one had known so slightly in life.” “And yet Henry Allegre is the only person to ask about her, after al... ... so many wonders of art could have discov- ered something so marvellous in life. I suppose Allegre lost his temper altogether then; or perhaps he only...

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... But sigh’st my soule away, When thou weep’st, unkindly kinde, My lifes blood doth decay. It cannot bee That thou lov’st mee, as th... ... It cannot bee That thou lov’st mee, as thou say’st, If in thine my life thou waste, That art the best of mee. Let not thy divining hear... ...here hearts did lye; It kill’d mee againe, that I who still was true, In life, in my last Will should cozen you. Yet I found something like a hear... ...h honor, when thou yeeld’st to mee, Will wast, as this flea’s death tooke life from thee. - 31 - THE FLEA John Donne’s "Songs and Sonnets" THE CURS... ...all balme th’hydroptique earth hath drunk, Whither, as to the beds-feet, life is shrunken Dead and enterr’d; yet all these seeme to laugh, Compar’... ...things which are not. All others, from all things, draw all that’s good, Life, soule, forme, spirit, whence they beeing have; I, by loves limbe... ...ares, By being to thee then what to me thou wast; But, so great Joy, our life at once outweares, Then, lest thy love, by my death, frustrate bee, ... ...you; Or in a thousand more, forgot that too. Yet call not this long life; But thinke that I Am, by being dead, immortall; Can ghosts die? - ... ...ove, and stirre a while, It doth the sense beguile. Such life is like the light which bideth yet When the lights li...

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...and fro, And tryde all waies, how each mote entrance make Into the life of his malignant foe; They hew’d their helmes, and plates asund... ... was plast, Cryde out, Ah mercie Sir, doe me not slay, But saue my life, which lot before your foot doth lay. With that his mortall han... ...since ye mercie now doe need to craue, I will it graunt, your hopelesse life to saue; With these conditions, which I will propound: Fir... ...r selfe acknowledg’d bound for that accord, By which he had to her both life and loue restord. The Faerie Queene: Book VI. 16 So all return... ...id reare, And twixt them both with parted paines did beare, T wixt life and death, not knowing what was donne. Thence they him carried ... ...ow brought her selfe, and blam’d her noble blood: For first, next after life, he tendered her good. The Faerie Queene: Book VI. 32 Which sh... ...eare: Witnesse thereof he shew’d his head there left, And wretched life forlorne for vengement of his theft. Most ioyfull man her sire ... ..., which he had done: With that ran at him, as he would deuoure His life attonce; who nought could do, but shun The perill of his pride,... ...his Ladies cry; Not satisfyde till on the fatall ground He saw his life powrd forth dispiteously: The which was certes in great ieopard...

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...shone brightly; the tide was making – four jolly miles an hour; the wind blew steadily, with occasional squalls. For my part, I had never been in a ca... ...a canoe, and with these charging squalls, I was not prepared to find myself follow the same prin- ciple; and it inspired me with some contemptuous vie... ...mankind from trumpeting this cheerful sentiment abroad. I wish sincerely, for it would have saved me much trouble, there had been some one to put me i... ...o the note of Diana’s horn; moving among the old oaks, as fancy-free as they; things of the forest and the starlight, not touched by the commotion of ... ...he commotion of man’s hot and turbid life – although there are plenty other ideals that I should prefer – I find my heart beat at the thought of this ... ...nd to see the barges waiting their turn at a lock, affords a fine lesson of how easily the world may be taken. There should be many contented spirits ... ...He may take his afternoon walk in some foreign country on the banks of the canal, and then come home to dinner at his own fireside. There is not enoug... ...ny high measure of health; but a high measure of health is only necessary for unhealthy people. The slug of a fellow, who is never ill nor well, has a... ...e the words. They were all employed over the frivolous mercantile concerns of Belgium during the day; but in the evening they found some hours for the...

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... himself from admiring another. “Was there ever,” said he, “in your former life, any event, any thought or wish which told you what your vocation was?... ...isinterested other self, who looks on as a spectator at all the changes of life, noting our passions and our sentiments, and whispering to us in every... ...if I placed any obstacle in the way of this prospect, this distin- guished life, this splendid alliance. Ah! Charlotte, some day you will do me justic... ... she found some tears of vexation. ‘You disgust me with the world and with life.’ she said; ‘you snatch away all my illusions; you deprave my heart.’ ... ...ver hill and dale in his pursuit of plants, among the vulgarities of Paris life you have at last found a rare flower. This woman is attended by two ve... ...vernment Clerks Pierrette A Study of Woman Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life Honorine The Seamy Side of History The Magic Skin A Second Hom... ...ry T own A Distinguished Provincial at Paris Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life Modeste Mignon The Secrets of a Princess A Daughter of Eve The... ...achelor’s Establishment A Distinguished Provincial at Paris A Start in Life Modeste Mignon Pierre Grassou Letters of T wo Brides Cousin Be... ...guished Provincial at Paris Modeste Mignon The Magic Skin A Start in Life Beatrix The Unconscious Humorists The Member for Arcis Dudley, L...

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... on the old round of 1600 miles and thirty days. Not a very en- terprising life, this, for Captain Whalley, Henry Whalley, otherwise Dare-devil Harry—... ...ey of the Condor, a famous clipper in her day. No. Not a very enterprising life for a man who had served fa- mous firms, who had sailed famous ships (... ...from December to April inclusive. This was the clearest gain he had out of life. Noth- ing could rob him of this kind of fame. The piercing of the Ist... .... It had changed the face of the Eastern seas and the very spirit of their life; so that his early experiences meant nothing whatever to the new gener... ...airs; and his acquisition of the Fair Maid preserved the continuity of his life. He introduced her to his acquaintances in various ports as “my last c... ...talism of regret; and a little wistfully withal, because he was at home in life, taking a genuine plea- sure in its feelings and its possessions; in t... ... But Captain Whalley could in a half hour of soli- tude live again all his life, with its romance, its idyl, and its sorrow. He had to close her eyes ... ...ne of her black skirts. He was not likely to forget; but you cannot dam up life like a sluggish stream. It will break out and flow over a man’s troubl... ... of things she would probably elect to cling to someone else. But he loved life well enough for even that event to give him a certain satisfaction, ap...

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...ave us alone?’ ‘Tut, tut, dear boy,’ Mr. Jasper remonstrates, in a tone of gentle deprecation. ‘Tut, tut? Yes, Jack, it’s all very well for you. You c... ...icion that you are forced upon anybody, nor has anybody an uncomfortable suspicion that she is forced upon you, or that you are forced upon her. You c... ...omething of raillery or banter in it – thus addresses him: ‘There is said to be a hidden skeleton in every house; but you thought there was none in mi... ... to consider that even in Pussy’s house – if she had one – and in mine – if I had one – ‘ ‘You were going to say (but that I interrupted you in spite ... ...n sounds to me quite devilish. I am so weary of it. The echoes of my own voice among the arches seem to mock me with my daily drudging round. No wretc... ...ke) to carving demons out of the stalls and seats and desks. What shall I do? Must I take to carving them out of my heart?’ ‘I thought you had so exac... ...nly gloves for Pussy; as many pairs of gloves as she is years old to-day. Rather poetical, Jack?’ Mr. Jasper, still in the same attitude, murmurs: ‘“N... ...ently in a slow perspiration, tarnished sugar-tongs with ineffectual legs, and odd volumes of dismal books. The most abundant and the most agreeable e... ...there, as steadily deteriorating generations found, more and more, that they preferred air and light to Fever and the Plague. Over the doorway is a wo...

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...! With what determi- nation it defended itself, and how dearly it sold its life!” thought I, remembering the effort it had cost me to pluck the flower... ...!” thought I, invol- untarily looking around for some living thing in this lifeless black field. In front of me to the right of the road I saw some ki... ...man. “Habar yok” (“Nothing new”), replied the old man, looking with his lifeless red eyes not at Hadji Murad’ s face but at his breast. “I live at ... ...table, handed him the ewer and basin. Sado knew that he was risking his life by receiving such a guest in his house, for after his quarrel with Sha... ... this was true, said with some solem- nity— “Mayst thou receive joy and life!” Sado silently laid his hand on his heart in token of thanks for t... ...n more to his wife, it seemed that they were not only living a very modest life, but one full of privations, while to the inhabitants of the place the... ...et a woman belonging to their own circle after months of isolated military life, and moreover a woman like Princess Vorontsov . When he reached the... ...rdnance sergeant, Ivan Petrovich. On returning home he began comparing his life with that of the latter. Ivan Petrovich had a salary , was married, an... ...ough he was already over forty he was not married, but lived a campaigning life with his harum- scarum young master. He was a good master, who sel- do...

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...ge, he is not at all likely ever to do. In the meantime his pros pects in life are ended. Another ruined suitor, who periodi cally appears from Shro... ...erself, I thought, that the badness of other people made her frown all her life. I felt so different from her, even making every allowance for the dif... ...this, “Submission, self denial, diligent work, are the preparations for a life begun with such a shadow on it. You are different from other chil 22... ... she shall be eminently qualified to discharge her duty in that station of life unto which it has pleased—shall I say Providence?—to call her.” My hea... ...view took place at Windsor, where I had passed (as far as I knew) my whole life. On that day week, amply provided with all necessaries, I left it, ins... ...e a great while and almost to have dreamed rather than really lived my old life at my godmother’s. Nothing could be more precise, exact, and orderly t... ...rite all this about myself! As if this narrative were the narrative of my life! But my little body will soon fall into the background now. Six quiet ... ...on as if he never had been, and never could again be, so astonished in his life—looking very miserable also, cer tainly, but making no complaint, and... ...urney to Reading. I was certain it was he. I never was so frightened in my life as when I made the discovery, for he caught my glance, and appearing t...

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...ge, he is not at all likely ever to do. In the meantime his pros pects in life are ended. Another ruined suitor, who periodi cally appears from Shro... ...erself, I thought, that the badness of other people made her frown all her life. I felt so different from her, even making every allowance for the dif... ...this, “Submission, self denial, diligent work, are the preparations for a life begun with such a shadow on it. You are different from other chil 22... ... she shall be eminently qualified to discharge her duty in that station of life unto which it has pleased—shall I say Providence?—to call her.” My hea... ...view took place at Windsor, where I had passed (as far as I knew) my whole life. On that day week, amply provided with all necessaries, I left it, ins... ...e a great while and almost to have dreamed rather than really lived my old life at my godmother’s. Nothing could be more precise, exact, and orderly t... ...rite all this about myself! As if this narrative were the narrative of my life! But my little body will soon fall into the background now. Six quiet ... ...on as if he never had been, and never could again be, so astonished in his life—looking very miserable also, cer tainly, but making no complaint, and... ...urney to Reading. I was certain it was he. I never was so frightened in my life as when I made the discovery, for he caught my glance, and appearing t...

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...iginall, Death it selfe may succeed, and that so I might have death to the life. It was part of Adams Punishment, In the sweat of thy browes thou shal... ...low as his own foot, today. When God came to breath into Man the breath of life, he found him flat upon the ground; when he comes to withdraw that brea... ..., and Symptom of death, but another, and another Assistant, and Proctor of life: Nor doe they so much feed the imagination with apprehension of danger... ... but we shall never heare their Names, till wee reade them in the Booke of life, with our owne. How many are sicker (perchance) than I, and thrown int... ...and that it is Natures eldest Sonne in us, the part which is first borne to life in man, and that the other parts, as younger brethren, and servants in... ...e by haile shot: A man is more worth, than to bee sold for single money; a life to be valued above a trifle. If this were a violent shaking of the Ayre... ...that ties all together, is the Sinewes, which proceed from thence; and the life of all is Honour, and just respect, and due reverence; and therfore, w... ...all outlive Tyme and be, when Tyme shall bee no more, what A Minute is the life of the Durablest Creature, compared to that! And what a Minute is Mans... ...ife of the Durablest Creature, compared to that! And what a Minute is Mans life in respect of the Sunnes, or of a Tree! and yet how little of our life...

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... 120 death of her brother thus? I am sure care’s an enemie to 121 life. 122 Mar. By my troth sir Toby, you must come in earlyer 12... ... when did 195 I see thee so put downe? 196 An. Neuer in your life I thinke, vnlesse you see Ca-narie 197 put me downe: mee thinkes ... ...in estate, yeares, nor wit: I haue heard her 220 swear’t. Tut there’s life in’t man. [Y3 221 And. Ile stay a moneth longer. I am a fel... ...loue you in my masters flame, 557 With such a suffring, such a deadly life: 558 In your deniall, I would finde no sence, 559 I would no... ... 734 Clo. Would you haue a loue- song, or a song of good 735 life? 736 To. A loue song, a loue song. 737 An. I, I. I c... ... To. A loue song, a loue song. 737 An. I, I. I care not for good life. 738 Clowne sings. 739 O Mistris mine where are you romi... ...e loue is thron’d. 907 Du. Thou dost speake masterly, 908 My life vpon’t, yong though thou art, thine eye 909 Hath staid vpon some ... ...of humors intimate rea-ding 1099 aloud to him. 1100 Mal. By my life this is my Ladies hand: these bee her 1101 very C’s, her V’s, an... ... With bloodlesse stroke my heart doth gore, M.O.A.I. doth 1117 sway my life. 1118 Fa. A fustian riddle. 1119 To. Excellent Wench, ...

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...Absence Easy Talking of Power and Love The Beloved Max Ernst Series Obsession Nearer To Us Open Door The Immediate Life Lovely And Lifelike The Season of Loves As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body’s Senses Barely Disfigured In A New Night Fertile Eyes I Said It To You It’s The Sweet Law Of Men The Curve Of Your Eyes Liberty Ring...