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...e finest that could be selected for fictitious composi- tion, founded upon real or probable incident. This civil war and its remarkable events were re... ... character turning upon points more adapted to poetry than to the prose of real life. Their prince, young, valiant, patient of fatigue, and despising ... ...r, which might thus have been believed to be more widely diffused than was really the case. In one instance alone this very prudential and humane line... ...le com- pany for any other day of the week. And here, I suspect, lies your real objection to taking a ramble with me through the southern counties in ... ...and having now lived under my roof since he left the school, why, there is really no great matter in coming under this small obligation to him.’ As I ... ...ike castanets, whooped like a Bacchanal, and bounded from the floor like a tennis-ball,— aye, till the colour of her garters was no particular mystery...

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...that Saxon girl who gave you the golden goblet of wine at the feast!’ And, really, I don’t see how the King could help himself. Ah! We must all die! I... ... have been a British Prince in those old times. But, whether such a person really lived, or whether there were several persons whose histories came to... ... all my life, and they have done nothing for me; whereas, if they had been really powerful, they could not have decently done less, in return for all ... ...d passed away. Then came the boy king Edwy, fifteen years of age; but the real king, who had the real power, was a monk named Dunsstan—a clever prie... ..., Edgar, called the Peaceful, fifteen years old. Dunstan, being still the real king, drove all married priests out of the monasteries and abbeys, and... ...rother in law, at the palace at Whitehall. There he played a great game at tennis, in his shirt, though it was very cold weather, and was seized with ...

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...ng a sign—an advertisement. It was all but finished and read, “S. Behrman, Real Estate, Mortgages, Main Street, Bonneville, Opposite the Post Office.”... ...omplete up to that point. There it broke, there it failed, there it became realism, grim, unlovely, unyielding. To be true—and it was the first articl... ...s wheel rumbling across the bridge over Broderson Creek. “The romance, the real romance, is here somewhere. I’ll get hold of it yet.” He shot a glance... ...ead. He had lived too late. T o write of the past was not what he desired. Reality was what he longed for, things that he had seen. Yet how to make th... ...alajara, Father Sarria. He remained always a mys- tery, living a life half-real, half-legendary. In all those years he did not seem to have grown olde... ...sudden passion for stamped leather work and had made a quantity of purses, tennis belts, and hat bands, which he presented to young ladies of his acqu...

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...e, I shall make this no longer than to add this following truth, that I am really, Sir, your most affectionate Friend, and most humble Servant, Iz. Wa... ...rst, I shall tell you what some have observed, and I have found it to be a real truth, that the very sitting by the river’s side is not only the quiet... ...t is, that from henceforth you would allow me to call you Master, and that really I may be your scholar; for you are such a companion, and have so qui... ...some praise, and some the hawk Some, better pleas’d with private sport Use tennis, some a mistress court: But these delights I neither wish Nor envy, ... ...rself more engaged to me than indeed you The Compleat Angler — Walton 76 really are, I will freely give you such directions as were lately given to ... ...onder in you, or unbe lief, or both: and yet I will venture to tell you a real truth concerning one lately dissected by Dr. Wharton, a man of great l...

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...ad a scheme, Kim was quite ready with one of his own; and, boylike, he had really thought for as much as twenty minutes at a time of his father’s prop... ...ed, shook himself, and thrilled with delight. This was seeing the world in real truth; this was life as he would have it–bustling and shouting, the bu... ... sent them away so angry that they cursed the whole retinue (which was the real reason of the second off side bullock going lame, and of the pole brea... ...s across the street?’ Kim looked up hurriedly and saw Colonel Creighton in tennis flannels. ‘Oh, that is some Sahib who knows the fat priest in the ba... ...haracter, as shown in his face, talk, and manner, and their notions of his real er rand. After dinner, Lurgan Sahib’s fancy turned more to what might... ...g ago,’ said Lurgan. ‘The younger the better. That is why I always have my really valu able jewels watched by a child. You sent him to me to try. I t...

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...f them very much at your ease, dear child! — you, who are left quite free amidst this tedious court. You are the only person that reaps the advantages... ...o you know him?” “Why, yes; but request him, if you please, that my visit be announced to his royal highness as soon as possible.” “It appears to be p... ...the king, on his way to Poitiers, will stop at Blois, to visit his royal high- ness.” “The king here!” exclaimed Montalais, clapping her hands. “What!... ... his like the weaker sword in a single combat. At this time, in which men, all created equal by God, were divided, thanks to prejudices, into two dist... ...“Oh, monsieur, I hope people are not so dishon- est at Blois as you seem to think, and that the diamond, being worth what you say —” The unknown here ... ...wed his guards to eat his dinner, and his generals to govern the republic; Richard abdicated the protectorate on the 22nd of April, 1659, more than a ...

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...ling for a wager, shrank visibly; and presently through the gap of Tari’s isth- mus, Ua-huna was seen to hang cloudlike on the horizon. Over the summi... ...him to meat, and rises with him from his bed; he lives and breathes under a shadow of mortality awful to support; and he is so inured to the apprehens... ... my eye an able and amiable pamphlet by the Rev. S. E. Bishop: ‘Why are the Hawaiians Dying Out?’ Any one interested in the subject ought to read this... ...in the light of demi-gods, as appears plainly in the 33 Robert Louis Stevenson reception of Cook upon Hawaii; and again, in the story of the discover... ...Monsieur le Resident, qu’elles sont allees quelquepart faire une visite.’ It had been the design of M. Delaruelle, who was much in love with the whims... ...t, between the fringe of the wood and the crown of the beach, there had been de- signed a regular figure, like the court for some new variety 231 Rob...

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...ugh indeed nine-tenths of it existed but in rumor), was looked upon as the real queen of the Castle, and mistress of all it contained. CHAPTER III WHI... ... the works of Bishop Taylor, nay, those of Mr. Baxter and Mr. Law, have in reality found more favor with my Lady Castlewood than the severer volumes o... ...thought him, now that he saw what my lord’s state of mind was, and that he really had a great deal of that love left in his heart, and ready for his w... ... comrade’s sight. They sported together, they drank, they played bowls and tennis: my Lord Castlewood would go for three days to Sark, and bring back ...

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...jected, in consideration of the immense profits which they were enabled to realize in a country naturally so wealthy as England. In spite of every kin... ...lt as much interested as the half-starved citizen of Madrid, who has not a real left to buy provisions for his family, feels in the issue of a bull-fe... ... that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minu... ...his accomplices were most haunted, he boldly treated that event, should it really take place, as one which ought not to alter their political calculat... ...er. Hear me, and I will tell thee of an enterprise, in which, if thou best really that which thou seemest, thou mayst take an honourable part. A band ... ... striking the Black Prince a blow with his racket, when they quarrelled at tennis;— “T ring, Wing, and Ivanhoe, For striking of a blow, Hampden did fo...

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...Excerpt: Introduction to the bride of Lammermoor. The author, on a former occasion, declined giving the real source from which he drew the tragic subject of this history, because, though occurring at a distant period, it might possibly be unpleasing to the feelings of the descendants of the parties. But as he finds an account o...

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... BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR THE AUTHOR, on a former occasion, declined giving the real source from which he drew the tragic subject of this history, because,... ... flourish. What was the old lady’ s motive for the request, or whether she really made such a promise, I shall not take upon me to determine; but it’s... ...astle. The Author is not competent to judge of the resemblance betwixt the real and imaginary scenes, having never seen Fast Castle except from the se... ... sport for the Philistine lords and ladies. This proceeds from no dislike, real or affected, to the aristocracy of these realms. But they have their p... ...the idea of his scene in language, in order to impress upon the reader its reality and its effect. On the contrary , I will be judged by most of your ... ...lace a treasurer or lord commissioner as they would take a rook or a pawn. Tennis for my sport, and battle for my earnest! And you, Master, so dep and...

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...uth, and, giving them, like many another old man, a higher place than they really hold in life, Monsieur de Manerville became increasingly economical,... ...e art of fenc- ing and the use of arms, to ride well on horseback, to play tennis, to acquire good manners,—in short, to possess all the frivolous acc... ...iety of the class below them. Madame Evangelista, who belonged to the Casa-Reale, an illustrious family of Spain, was a Creole, and, like all women se... ...ghtful girl. She is beautiful, graceful, elegant, and takes after the Casa-Reales through her mother. Y ou will make a charming couple; you have the s... ...errible, implacable, if the pride of the woman, the Spaniard, and the Casa-Reale was touched. She never forgave. This woman be- lieved in the power of... ...rmed him all the more because she seemed to seek no influence over him. In reality she was using her ascendancy to magnify herself, her daughter, and ...

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...but with—well, with something quite different, whose existence she had not realized before. Now the old man attacked Miss Bartlett al- most violently:... ...empted to rival the solid comfort of a Bloomsbury boarding-house. Was this really Italy? Miss Bartlett was already seated on a tightly stuffed arm-cha... ... which was proceeding tempestuously at the other end of the room. It was a real catastrophe, not a mere episode, that evening of hers at Venice, when ... ...the winds of heaven had entered the apartment. “Gentlemen sometimes do not realize— ” Her voice faded away, but Miss Bartlett seemed to understand and... ...nd and a conversation developed, in which gentlemen who did not thoroughly realize played a principal part. Lucy, not realizing either, was re- duced ... ...e lawn and smiled in at them, just as if she was going to ask them to play tennis. Then she saw her brother’s face. Her lips parted, and she took him ... ...s. They would descend—he knew their ways— past the shrubbery, and past the tennis-lawn and the dahlia-bed, until they reached the kitchen garden, and ... ...tation was just. “How tiresome!” she said. “Couldn’t you have es- caped to tennis?” “I don’t play tennis—at least, not in public. The neighbourhood is... ...d thirteen—an ancient and most honourable game, which consists in striking tennis- balls high into the air, so that they fall over the net and immoder...

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...sul- lied by all kinds of wearisome stories and foolish anecdotes, so that really there is more to weed out than to add. This injustice, at first wilf... ...ood one, is that all those whom he has mentioned as his friends, or in any real sense his contemporaries, were born at the very end of the fifteenth c... ...nder cover of a fastidious style, without one coarse expression, have been really and actively hurtful; and of that it is impossible to accuse Rabelai... ...Yet Rabelais forces comparison with Cervantes, whose precur- sor he was in reality, though the two books and the two minds are very different. They ha... ...hich are very rare. Yet, in spite of their curious in- terest, he owes his real distinction and the survival of his 15 Rabelais name to his translati... ...ed the Brack, or unto the meadows, where they played at the ball, the long-tennis, and at the piletrigone (which is a play wherein we throw a triangul... ...e glorious labyrinth. Between the two other towers were the courts for the tennis and the balloon. Towards the tower Criere stood the orchard full of ... ... part, I can conceive no other meaning in it but a description of a set at tennis in dark and obscure terms. The suborners of men are the makers of ma... ...riends. After the two chases are made, he that was in the upper end of the tennis-court goeth out, and the other cometh in. They believe the first tha...

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...uld have rather a good game, a kind of kriegspiel.”… Primitive attempts to realise the dream were interrupted by a great rustle and chattering of lady... ...ict his offspring, annex these advantages, and set about plan- ning a more realistic country. (I forget what became of the children.) The thick boards... ...ipes, and so forth, to repre- sent houses, castles, and churches in a more realistic manner, and, growing skilful, we made various bridges and so fort... ...g, and just that eventfulness one would expect in the hurry and passion of real fighting. It also made the game brisker. We have since also made a lim... ...lies generally, and we decided that it would add little to the interest or reality of the game. Our battles are little brisk fights in which one may s... ...indoor game. One can mark out high roads and streams with an ordinary lawn-tennis marker, mountains and rocks of stones, and woods and forests of twig...

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...d Confused Ideas .............................................................................. 345 Chapter XXX Of Real and Fantastical Ideas ........... ............................................................................................... 529 Chapter IV Of the Reality of Knowledge ................. ... the souls of men receive in their first beings, and which they bring into the world with them, as necessarily and really as they do any of their inhe... ...able, that this saying, that men know and assent to these maxims “when they come to the use of reason,” amounts in reality of fact to no more but this... ...nd will not, perhaps, appear so wonderful, if we consider the ways and steps by which it is brought about; and how really it may come to pass, that do... .... A little consideration of an obvious instance or two may make this clear. 9. Supposes understanding and will. A tennis-ball, 223 John Locke whethe... ... by any one taken to be a free agent. If we inquire into the reason, we shall find it is because we conceive not a tennis-ball to think, and consequen... ...y dancing; he is not at liberty in this action, but under as much necessity of moving, as a stone that falls, or a tennis-ball struck with a racket. O... ...a man that under- stands it not before, than if one should tell him that light was nothing but a company of little tennis-balls, which fairies all day...

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...h the power of distinguishing between the work of art on the stage and the real life of the spectator is confused and overwhelmed, will ever care for ... ...elligible and moving to crowds of unobservant, unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing. I have pointed out again and again that the influe... ...exquisite dresses, and the luxurious living, and will see that there is no real necessity for the consumption, the suicide, or the ejectment: mere pio... ...lty, too, most readers will say. I should not dispute it if dramatic poets really were what English public opinion generally assumes them to be during... ...play she is represented as vainly vowing vengeance upon him, whilst she is really falling in love with him under the influence of his imaginary crime ... ...r insurance. I dont even know arithmetic well. Out- side mathematics, lawn-tennis, eating, sleeping, cycling, and walking, I’m a more ignorant barbari... ... Shaw critically at her mother] You want some good walks and a little lawn tennis to set you up. You are shockingly out of condition: you were not abl...

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...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 all the house really, but it?s all that one notices--nine windows as you look up from the front garden....

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... in a row there, and three attics in a row above. That isn’t all the house really, but it’s all that one notices—nine windows as you look up from the ... ...you know train later. They are as angry as I am that you did not come too; really Tibby is too tiresome, he starts a new mortal disease every month. H... ...ve always put that down as ‘Meg’s clever non- sense.’ But this morning, it really does seem not life but a play, and it did amuse me enormously to wat... ...er. They are the very happiest, jolliest family that you can imagine. I do really feel that we are making friends. The fun of it is that they think me... ...r you. Anyhow, it’s been knocked into pieces, and, like all people who are really strong, Mr. Wilcox did it without hurting me. On the other hand, I l... ...t, a hermit’s house, a wonderful road that was made by the Kings of Mercia—tennis—a cricket match—bridge and at night we squeeze up in this lovely hou... ...d without impairing his independence; he must have a free library, or free tennis-courts; his rent must be paid in such a way that he did not know it ... ... greengage-trees that Helen had once 194 Howards End described, there the tennis lawn, there the hedge that would be glorious with dog-roses in June,... ...er CHAPTER XXV EVIE heard of her father’s engagement when she was in for a tennis tournament, and her play went sim- ply to pot. That she should marry...

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...left, and this space is occupied by a hat rack and umbrella stand in which tennis rackets, white parasols, caps, Panama hats, and other summery articl... ... I came out all brains and no more body than is absolutely necessary. I am really a good deal older than you, though you were born ten years sooner. E... ...ow you simply make me pity you. BENTLEY. “Romance of Business” indeed! The real romance of Tarleton’s business is the story that you understand any- t... ... is arrested when they are little more than col- lege lads. Bentley doesnt really mean to be offensive. You can always make him cry by telling him you... ...derful man, I think. JOHNNY. Oh, public work! He does too much of it. It’s really a sort of laziness, getting away from your own serious business to a... ...ould take more than your share of the world’s work. JOHNNY. So I say. It’s really a great encouragement to me to find you agree with me. For of course... ...ng the floor] Leave it at that. Thats good sense. Anybody on for a game of tennis? BENTLEY. Oh, lets have some more improving conversa- tion. Wouldnt ... ...IA. [suddenly, as if she could bear no more of it] Bentley: do go and play tennis with Johnny. You must take exercise. LORD SUMMERHAYS. Do, my boy, do...

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...at her machine whilst Morell opens the last of his morning’s let- ters. He realizes its contents with a comic groan of despair. PROSERPINE. Another le... ...Are you sure, Lexy? You’re not joking, are you? LEXY (earnestly). No, sir, really. 9 Candida MORELL (thoughtfully). Hm! Time for him to take another ... ... very nice, very good-hearted: I’m very fond of her and can appreciate her real qualities far better than any man can. (He shakes his head sadly and t... ...nobleman, I ‘spose. CANDIDA (delighted—nodding). Yes. His uncle’s a peer—a real live earl. BURGESS (not daring to believe such good news). No! CANDIDA... ... blue serge jacket, unbuttoned over a woollen 18 George Bernard Shaw lawn tennis shirt, with a silk handkerchief for a cravat, trousers matching the ... ...ve a good feed. MARCHBANKS. Thank you, I should like that very much. But I really mustn’t. The truth is, Mrs. Morell told me not to. She said she didn...

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... the rules,” said Miss 5 GB Shaw Wilson quietly. “We didn’t intend to. We really did not,” said the girl in holland, coaxingly. “Pray what was your i... ...is first intimation that her father’s house was no longer her home. A more real sense of desolation came upon her. Under its cold influence she began ... ... should be capable of repeating such a falsehood. But we had an awful row, really and truly. She lost her temper. Fortunately , I never lose mine.” “W... ...mean to say that you are going away?” said Jane, faltering as she began to realize the consequences. “I do. And what is to become of you when I am not... ...she contin- ued, as if goaded by some unbearable reminiscence, “if you are really going, I don’t care whether we part friends or not. I have not forgo... ...ion, and drawing were held in the morning. The afternoon was spent at lawn tennis, to which lady guests resident in the neighborhood were allowed to b... ... tiful; them young ladies ‘ll strain themselves with that heavy roller. If tennis is the word, I can put up nets fit to catch birds of paradise in. If... ...ldier in the chimney. By three o’clock the local visitors had arrived, and tennis was proceeding in four courts, rolled and prepared by Smilash. The t... ...actedly at a vase of flowers. Miss Wilson invited her visitors to join the tennis players. Mr. Jansenius looked sternly and disappointedly at Agatha, ...