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... that the personality of the narrator was extremely suggestive quite apart from the story he was telling me. I heard a few years ago that he had died ... ...story he was telling me. I heard a few years ago that he had died far away from his beloved Naples where that “abominable adventure” did really happen... ...n, or at any rate be- gun, within a month of finishing Nostromo; but apart from the locality, and that a pretty wide one (all the South American Conti... ...lity all round the table interrupted the General; and while they lasted he stroked his white beard gravely. “Señores,” he protested, “a Royalist was a... ...ous than so many armed giants.” The General’s voice rose, but his big hand stroked his white beard twice with an effect of venerable calmness. “Si, Se... ...e detachments sent out to cut off his retreat. General Robles nearly had a stroke of apo- plexy from rage. He found another cause of insom- nia than t... ...ts joys and sorrows regulated by the course of Na- ture—marriages, births, deaths—ruled by the pre- scribed usages of good society and protected by th... ... upon such lonely men, whose only business is to wait for the unavoidable. Deaths and marriages have made a solitude round them, and one really cannot...

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...le quickly 79 flye. 80 Henry. Farre be the thought of this from Henries heart, 81 To make a Shambles of the Parliament House. ... ...shall disproue it. You forget, 103 That we are those which chas’d you from the field, 104 And slew your Fathers, and with Colours spread 10... ...w, 128 And yet me thinkes you loose: 129 Father teare the Crowne from the Vsurpers Head. 130 Edward. Sweet Father doe so, set it on... ...ith a Race, 1058 I lay me downe a little while to breath: 1059 For strokes receiu’d, and many blowes repaid, 1060 Haue robb’d my strong kn... ...s that which takes hir heauy leaue? 1325 A deadly grone, like life and deaths departing. 1326 See who it is. 1327 Ed. And now the Batt... ...from Winters pow’rfull Winde. 2817 These Eyes, that now are dim’d with Deaths black Veyle, 2818 Haue beene as piercing as the Mid- day Sunne, ... ... a Childe, 3046 Looke in his youth to haue him so cut off. 3047 As deathsmen you haue rid this sweet yong Prince. 3048 King. Away with...

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... could do it when I wanted to chuck it and hide under my bed. Susan, my sis from another mother. Val, who loves a good Vampire story and demands y... ...astic Slayer, but this being my first night on the job I doubted it resulted from anything but dumb luck with a smattering of innate skill. Then agai... ...taken down a flipping Vampire not three hours out of the gate! The euphoria from that alone would quell the little voices pointing out all my inadeq... .... By the time he’d made it to his feet, my silver friend began its downward stroke. I let fly a semi-hysterical giggle as I smelled the scent of m... ...usty urges would dry up. It could work. Of course his fingers continuing to stroke my neck totally contradicted that ever from happening. At least... ... weight of all those years had finally caught up with him. I reached out and stroked his cheek. Twisting his head, he kissed the cupped palm as he ... ...ogether. As good as he felt against me, come tomorrow we’d either go to our deaths or our separate ways. Damn life for conspiring against us. Just...

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...ESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY original from the publishers Boston, Estes and Lauriat, Publishers To the Right Hono... ...ll the produce that, for long after the Restora- tion, our family received from their Virginian estates. My dear and honored father, Colonel Henry Esm... ...d here in our Republic, or at home in the always beloved mother coun- try, from which our late quarrel hath separated us, may surely be proud to be de... ... Tusher, delivered himself of them nevertheless simply to Father Holt; who stroked his head, smiled at him with his inscrutable look, and told him tha... .... But the case was different with Mr. Esmond. His life was changed by that stroke of the sword which destroyed his kind patron’s. As he lay in prison,... ...ever faltered, and in every line from Addison’s pen, Steele found a master-stroke. By the time Dick had come to that part of the poem, wherein the bar... ...ith crime and passion now; it wore the anxious look of a man who has three deaths, and who knows how many hidden shames, and lusts, and crimes on his ... ...and matrons in those dreadful days, when every Gazette brought accounts of deaths and battles, and when the present anxiety over, and the beloved pers...

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...I cannot at any time fail to remember you; and although I have been compelled by the causeless raging of your impious flatterers against me to appeal from your seat to a future council-- fearless of the futile decrees of your predecessors Pius and Julius, who in their foolish tyranny prohibited such an action-- yet I have never been so alienated in feeling from your Blesse...

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...ed by the causeless raging of your impious flatterers against me to appeal from your seat to a future council— fearless of the futile decrees of your ... ... prohibited such an ac- tion—yet I have never been so alienated in feeling from your Blessedness as not to have sought with all my might, in dili- gen... ...t, not of their bad morals, but of their impiety. And for this I am so far from being sorry that I have brought my mind to despise the judgments of me... ...ord of God with so many groanings and words. Again, there is no more cruel stroke of the wrath of God than when He sends a famine of hearing His words... ...more of a Christian any man is, to so many the more evils, sufferings, and deaths is he subject, as we see in the first place in Christ the First-born...

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...ntony. SILIUS: an officer in Ventidius s army. EUPHRONIUS: an ambassador from Antony to Caesar. ALEXAS MARDIAN: a Eunuch, SELEUCUS: attendants on ... ... [Enter an Attendant.] Attendant: News, my good lord, from Rome. MARK ANTONY: Grates me: the sum. CLEOPATRA: ... ...nay, and most like: You must not stay here longer, your dismission Is come from Caesar; therefore hear it, Antony. Where s Fulvia s process? Caesar s... ...ove-sick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of ... ..., and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar d all description: she did lie In ... ...aster, My captain, and my emperor, let me say, Before I strike this bloody stroke, farewell. MARK ANTONY: Tis said, man; and farewell. EROS: Farewe... ...at our purposes, and, being royal, T ook her own way. The manner of their deaths? I do not see them bleed. DOLABELLA: Who was last ...

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.... The beginning of everything was in a railway-train upon the road to Mhow from Ajmir. There had been a Deficit in the Budget, which necessitated trav... ..., or Loafer, which is amusing though intoxicated. Intermediates do not buy from refreshment-rooms. They carry their food in bundles and pots, and buy ... ...freshment-rooms. They carry their food in bundles and pots, and buy sweets from the native sweetmeat- sellers, and drink the roadside water. This is w... ...he telephone becomes a tinkling terror, because it tells you of the sudden deaths of men and women that you knew inti- mately, and the prickly heat co... ...ms about, same as Dravot used, and very much surprised that Chief was, and strokes my eyebrows. Then Carnehan goes alone to the Chief, and asks him in... ...any one; and you know we never held office in any Lodge.’ “ ‘It’s a master stroke o’ policy,’ says Dravot. ‘It means run- ning the country as easy as ...

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.......................................................................... 72 From the Mountain. ........................................................... ......................................................................... 256 FROM ‘THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER.’ ......................................... ......................................................................... 258 FROM AN ALBUM OF 1604. ....................................................... ...and ne’er; Live still as a Bayadere, And no duty thou need’st share. T o deaths silent realms from life, None but shades attend man’s frame, 196 ... ...hear them sing! Yes! I hear them touch the string, And with mighty godlike stroke Right and duty they inspire, And evoke, As they sing, and wake the l... ..., for a dog, too wild, So shaggy, clumsy, rough!” Upon his back she gently strokes her foot; He thinks himself in Paradise. What feelings through his ... ... the ground; at her feet straight fell he, all bleeding, Then with doughty strokes the maidens she bravely deliver’ d. Wounded four more of the robber...

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... American Civil War by Stephen Crane CHAPTER I THE COLD PASSED reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the... ...aled an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awak-ened, and began to tremble with eagernes... ...t the noise of rumors. It cast its eyes upon the roads, which were growing from long troughs of liquid mud to proper thoroughfares. A river, am- ber-t... ... He turned toward the colonel and saw him lift his gigantic arm and calmly stroke his mustache. At last he heard from along the road at the foot of th... ...ded to be killed in insignificant ways after the times for proper military deaths had passed. Or, perhaps, they thought it would be too ironical to ge...

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...antinople and Bombay and between Baku and Bombay in the next half-century. From such grades of certainty as this, one may come down the scale until th... ...ter a num- ber of more or less obvious prophecies through his other books. From first to last he has been writing for twenty years, so that it is poss... ...tes are too short; he foretold, for ex- ample, a special motor track apart from the high road be- tween London and Brighton before 1910, which is stil... ...idity, and holds back women from the face of danger and brave and horrible deaths. It is West to Miss Robins’ East. And yet I believe I am right in sa... ...shment of Islamic university teaching in Egypt, but that is the mere first stroke of the pick at the open- ing of the mine. English, French, Russian, ...

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...ultimately prove futile and wishes instead to preserve his people's lifeblood through appeasement. In a final speech, Seattle explains that man comes from the land and that all men share equally the responsibility to protect the Web of Life on Earth. 150 years later, Dr. Richard Hawk, a lowly archaeology professor, explores the forests of his ancestors. Here he discove...

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...he day on a flat boulder along the bank ofthe river. A thin rawhide string hung from the pole, a bent hook was attached to the end of the string wit... ...ely about them. And it was, then, that a special bond between them was created. From that day on his grandfather spent every spare moment with him. ... ...understand the words he had been given. And soon after that he changed his name from Sealt to his grandfather's name. Seattle. As they walked throu... ...ged, retained its brilliance. Gingerly scalping around it, he ex­ tracted it and stroked it with a soft cloth like a precious jewel. The ragged edges... ...g hitting the hardwood floor; it was the silver artifact. He picked it up, and stroked it like a genie's lamp. Was it a dream, or a night vi­ sion? ... ... pathologist, ·was completely smmped. There had been at least two dozen cancer deaths, and he was unable to find any common denomi­ nator. No doctor... ...mpant out-break of so many serious illnesses, let alone the unexplained cancer deaths. It was 12 :42 am when Dr. Alex Greene met with an exhausted ... ...ore Greene arrived on the scene some six years before, spoke up, "Alex, all the deaths do have one thing in common." "What's that?" "They all died ... ...will always remember," she said excitedly and touched Richard's face gently and stroked his cheek. "What is it, my love? You look so sad." She frown...

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...he Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM THE CAVES OF BARBARISM AND THE CRUDE CORACLE TO THE CHRISTIANIZI... ... priest -- Collection of Peter's pence in the New World -- Crusader volunteers from America -- Interruption of communication -- Disappearance of the N... ... CHAPTER IV. Early Navigators and Examples of their monster Vessel. -- A view from the plateau of the nineteenth century -- Passage of the Atlantic b... ...rew -- Other cruel and desperate pirates -- Cutting a Spaniard in two with one stroke of a cutlass -- Severing ears from the heads, and toes from the ... ...ll-luck will follow it and all on board. He reviews its building; if the first stroke of the hammer drew fire from the nail, the vessel whose construc... ...d. They were men of generally irregular lives and violent temper, whose bloody deaths were in most cases a fitting conclusion to careers of unbridled ... ...or foot, and then tickling them to death; and Otto the Dutchman, who, with one Stroke of his ten-pound cutlass, cut a Spaniard exactly in half; and Pi...

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...Stack up on that fer a high cyard,” approved Big Jim Belden, who had come down from his claim on Mazy May to spend Christ mas, and who, as every one ... ... ask Father Roubeau here: he performed the ceremony.” The Jesuit took the pipe from his lips, but could only express his gratification with patriarchal... ...ow, and jest and song and tales of past adventure went round the board. Aliens from a dozen lands, they toasted each and all. It was the Englishman, P... ...ree with his axe. The steel rang merrily as it bit into the frozen trunk, each stroke being accom panied by a forced, audible respiration, the “Huh!”... ...ghtly about him, fastening either end of the robes to the bent pines. A single stroke of his hunting knife would release them and send the body high i... ...ther man’s share. If they toiled at the oars, they slyly cut the water at each stroke and allowed the boat’s momentum to In a Far Country 27 float up ... ...s. There is no way. Those men are not wiser than goats. They may fall to their deaths. Let us watch.” “They are brave men,” said Koolau. “Let us watch...

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...ned room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two years return to the arena, but for the present he must go across the water and do no work whatever. He accepted the terms. It was capitulation; but th...

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...doth wrest thee, Ere folly hath much oppressed thee, Far from acquaintance kest thee Where country may digest thee . . . ... ...ndering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two ... ...palate. An hour later he said: “Sophie, I feel sorry about taking you away from everything like this. I—I suppose we’re the two loneliest people on Go... ...grew, they launched, with observed and acquired detail, into the lives and deaths and doings of the Elphicks and the Moones and their collaterals, the... ...ng fan stopped I would call out to the coolie and bid him pull with a long stroke. If the man still slept I would wake him up. He discovered, too, tha... ...took firm hold with her fore-feet, and fanned obediently at the regulation stroke three hundred beats to the second. Fanning tries a bee’s temper, bec... ...he two hours together. Af- ter a fortnight he could give me no more than a stroke a hole, and when, with this allowance, I once managed to beat him by...

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... Berenger’s education and opinions are looked on as not sufficiently alien from Roman Catholicism, a reference to Froude’s ‘History of Queen Elizabeth... ...of personal combat before the walls of Calais, Edward III. of England took from his helmet and presented to Sir Eustache de Ribaumont, a knight of Pic... ...aumont, a knight of Picardy, bidding him say everywhere that it was a gift from the King of England to the bravest of knights. The precious heirlooms ... ... tricks at his mother’s feet, and had received so many admonitory nips and strokes of her fan. All he saw there was not congenial to him, but he liked... ...thren, to free the young King from evil influences, and to strike one good stroke against the old national enemy. He talked eagerly to Sidney of allia... ...decent Christianable bell, but a great clash, then an- other, and a lot of strokes enough to take away one’s breath. Then half the windows were lighte... ...t is impossible.’ ‘And after what my aunt has said, I would die a thousand deaths ere speaking that word. I asked her, Veronique! She would have venge... ...into this abhorrent marriage. No—no— no—my child and I would die a hundred deaths together rather than fall into the hands of Narcisse.’ ‘Calm yoursel...

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...ar, before he won The Latian realm, and built the destin?d town; His banish?d gods restor?d to rites divine, And settled sure succession in his line, From whence the race of Alban fathers come, And the long glories of majestic Rome....

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...’d gods restor’d to rites divine, And settled sure succession in his line, From whence the race of Alban fathers come, And the long glories of majesti... ...l combin’d T o kindle vengeance in her haughty mind. For this, far distant from the Latian coast She drove the remnants of the Trojan host; And sev’n ... ...ffending foe, The bolts of Jove himself presum’d to throw: With whirlwinds from beneath she toss’d the ship, And bare expos’d the bosom of the deep; T... ...ome land, and seek their wish’d repose. First, good Achates, with repeated strokes Of clashing flints, their hidden fire provokes: Short flame succeed... ...nd. Himself, among the foremost, deals his blows, And with his ax repeated strokes bestows On the strong doors; then all their shoulders ply, Till fro... ...ent; Rent like a mountain ash, which dar’d the winds, And stood the sturdy strokes of lab’ring hinds. About the roots the cruel ax resounds; The stump... ... skies, and torrents tear the ground, Thus rag’d the prince, and scatter’d deaths around. At length Ascanius and the Trojan train Broke from the camp,... ... dart, and draw the far deceiving bow. The Aeneid Virgil 269 Thus equal deaths are dealt with equal chance; By turns they quit their ground, by tur... ...sh, and horse to horse. The face of heav’n their flying jav’lins hide, And deaths unseen are dealt on either side. T yrrhenus, and Aconteus, void of f...

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...ssages in the poem, viz. vi. 531 sqq., in which occurs an illustration drawn from the man and beast fights of the amphitheatre, which were suppressed ... ... these poets consist of fragments amounting to no more than a very few lines from each, and of the “summaries of contents” made by the grammarian Proc... ... descriptions of incident that are found in the fragments differ essentially from the corresponding incidents as described by Quintus, but even in th... ...y my stricken heart withal! Thou know’st All agonies I have suffered in the deaths Of dear sons whom the Fates have torn from me By Argive hands in t... ...ep mountain’s precipice brow Leaps a huge crag, which all resistless Zeus By stroke of thunderbolt hath hurled from the crest; Crash oakwood copses, e... ...; for the wise man’s soul endures Bravely, and cowers not under affliction’s stroke. But Peleus’ son, wroth for Antilochus His dear friend, armed for ... ...ught home A blow to his eyebrow, cutting to the bone. Even then with counter stroke Epeius reached Acamas’ temple, and hurled him to the ground. Swift... ...alls That shrieking daughter of King Eetion. Then, as on those three fearful deaths she thought Of husband, child, and father, Andromaehe Longed sore ... ... footsteps lightly touched the ground; And, as he quaked to see that work of deaths His father led him through the roar of fight, And clinging hung on...

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...na Pavlovna had had a cough for some days. She was, as she said, suffering from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg, used only b... ... in the coun- try. He is the well-known Prince Bolkonski who had to retire from the army under the late Emperor, and was nicknamed ‘the King of Prussi... ...ld lady , wearing large bows of ribbon in her cap, who had come sailing in from another room as soon as the guests began to arrive; and slowly turning... ...’s my Cossack?” (Marya Dmitrievna always called Natasha a Cossack) and she stroked the child’s arm as she came up fearless and gay to kiss her hand. “... ... cooks were 40 War & Peace getting the supper, Count Bezukhov had a sixth stroke. The doctors pronounced recovery impossible. After a mute confession... ... German doctor was saying to an aide-de-camp, “dat one liffs after de sird stroke.” “And what a well-preserved man he was!” remarked the aide-de-camp.... ...had shriveled, her upper lip had sunk in, and her eyes were dim. After the deaths of her son and husband in such rapid succession, she felt herself a ...

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...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s ca...

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...ganization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation?and Nonadaptation? . . . in the Law Enforcement Community 73 3.3 . . . and in the Federal Aviation Administration 82 3.4 . . . and in t...

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...newal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 7... ... We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, ... ...ommissioners—five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation’s capital at a time of great partisan division—have come to... ...lled 11 more peo- ple, none of them Americans. Interviewed later about the deaths of the Africans, Bin Ladin answered that “when it becomes apparent t... ...tation, whom we will call “Mike,” saw Bin Ladin’s move to Afghanistan as a stroke of luck.Though the CIA had virtually abandoned Afghanistan after the... ...ed? Even after the embassy attacks, Bin Ladin had been responsible for the deaths of fewer than 50 Americans, most of them overseas.An NSC staffer wor... ... three-year period since accurate measurements began in 1946.Fire- fighter deaths—a total of 22 during the 1990s—compared favorably with the most tran...

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...t of them, at three yeares old 68 I’th’ swathing cloathes, the other from their Nursery 69 Were stolne, and to this houre, no ghesse in kn... ...ay informe you. 94 Post. ’Please your Highnesse, 95 I will from hence to day. 96 Qu. You know the perill: 97 Ile fetch... ...entle Gods, giue me but this I haue, 137 And seare vp my embracements from a next, 138 With bonds of death. Remaine, remaine thou heere, 13... ...eeches to her. Shee’s a Lady 1938 So tender of rebukes, that words are stroke; 1939 And strokes death to her. 1940 Enter a Messenger. 194... ...e: 2516 Thus smiling, as some Fly had tickled slumber, 2517 Not as deaths dart being laugh’d at: his right Cheeke 2518 Reposing on a Cushi... ... of this Peace: the Vision 3800 Which I made knowne to Lucius ere the stroke 3801 Of yet this scarse- cold- Battaile, at this instant 3802 ...

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................................................................ 121 VERBATIM FROM BOILEAU. ................................................................ ................................................................. 143 EPIGRAM FROM THE FRENCH. ............................................................. ...atue beside those of the acknowledged masters of English poetry. But apart from this, we do think that Lord Carlisle has exaggerated the “De- cline an... ...o unerring line; Some wandering touches, some reflected light, Some flying stroke alone can hit ‘em right: For how should equal colours do the knack? ... ...carce less alive than they! 10 Some felt the silent stroke of mouldering age, Some hostile fury, some religious rage, Barbarian... ...es no more with Eastern incense smoke, Nor victims sink beneath the sacred stroke! But to your Isis all my rights transfer, Let altars blaze and templ... ...their execution at Tyburn, and no less customary to print elegies on their deaths, at the same time, or before.—P . 249 ‘Sepulchral lies:’ is a just ...

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...t Louis Stevenson PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan... ...iderable an amount of copy. These nine worthies have been brought together from many different ages and countries. Not the most erudite of men could b... ... strain of thought in Scotland, – a country far more essentially different from England than many parts of America; for, in a sense, the first of thes... ...hes life and makes it worth having, have to be purchased by death – by the deaths of animals, and the deaths of men wearied out with labour, and the d... ... the deaths of those criminals called tyrants and revolutionaries, and the deaths of those revolutionaries called criminals. It is to something of all... ...as a bound and printed poet in the world’ s bookshops. A few more intimate strokes are necessary to complete the sketch. This strong young plough-man,... ...y in the next year the natural consequence became manifest. It was a heavy stroke for this unfortunate couple. They had trifled with life, and were no... ...ad if she could get what she would never have chosen. As for Burns, at the stroke of the calamity he recognised that his voyage of discovery had led h...