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... emerged after three hours’ submersion with about two hundredweight of ore containing gold in the un- paralleled quantity of seventeen ounces to the t... ...ubject. Pictures of flying and flying machines returned to the newspapers; articles and allusions increased and multiplied in the serious magazines. P... ...the camp—now and then we get a peep. It isn’t only us neither. There’s the Japanese; you bet they got, it too—and the Germans!” The soldier stood with... ...big jar of water for washing, a portfolio, maps, and a compass, a rucksack containing a number of conve- niences, including curling-tongs and hair-pin... ...sailed the locker. He found among other items several tins of liquid cocoa containing explicit direc- tions for opening that he followed with minute c... ...ish had an over- whelming gun, now the French an invincible rifle, now the Japanese a new explosive, now the Americans a submarine that would drive ev... ...litics to this uncompromising, forceful figure. Frenchmen believed in him. Poems were writ- ten to him in American. He made the war. Quite equally wit... ...en Asiatic and white had become unusually violent and danger- ous, and the Japanese government had shown itself quite unprecedentedly difficult. The G... ...hat he needn’t clutch. He opened the locker and got inside among the loose articles, and sprawled there helplessly , with his head sometimes bump- ing...

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... a Pompadour writing-table carved and gilt, brocade window curtains, and a Japanese bowl full of flowers on the round table among a selection of the n... ... eries in science or art, or the latest pieces at the theatres, the newest poems, and by airing the cant words of the day she made a show of uttering ... ...rait have served so often as those of the courtesan in so many self-styled poems, that it would be tiresome to quote here the hundred lines of descrip... ...poetry. An elegy called Tristesse (Melancholy), written at school; the two poems Paquita la Sevillane and Le Chene de la Messe; three sonnets, a descr... ...t against me. On my honor as a journalist, I have launched above a hundred articles against the writers you speak of; but I confess that in attacking ... ... of the Vaudeville Theatre were but bold enough to pay for a few newspaper articles, that would secure fifty performances, and six thou- sand francs f... ...n the paper, two novels a year for weekly magazines, and his miscellaneous articles were the tax he paid for this easy-go- ing life. And yet, to reach... ...the end of July, Dinah crumbled up in her wrath the letter from her mother containing Mon- sieur de la Baudraye’s ultimatum: “Madame de la Baudraye ca...

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...hockingly short, and to show a great display of black legs; but as the box containing the clothes in present wear had not come to hand, this must stan... ...I know it is very disagreeable; but every one who has the care of precious articles like young ladies is bound to look after them.’ Dolores took the l... ...?’ ‘No; it was not her line. She used to write metaphysical and scientific articles in the first-class reviews and magazines, and the Many T ongues is... ...p or grandees. He has other pursuits. I can show you some of dear mother’s articles. There’s one called ‘Unconscious V olition,’ and another on the ‘P... ...still fun should be ex- tracted from her. Jasper had brought home a box of Japanese fireworks, and Wilfred, who was superintending his unpack- ing, pr... ...t not. We never spoke of it, but Miss Hacket has been giving mamma all the poems, and Jasper must have got at them. Don’t you see?’ ‘Oh yes, you say s... ...et,’ said Wilfred. ‘Or sweet Constance,’ put in Jasper. ‘She’ll be writing poems next.’ ‘Hush! hush! boys,’ said Lady Merrifield. ‘I do not mean to in... ...Dolores handed over to Constance an envelope directed to Mr. Flinders, and containing Mr. Maurice Mohun’s cheque. It was off her mind now, she thought... ..., and as to sweets, everybody-servants and all—had some delightful devices containing them, whether drum, bird, or bird’s nest. Before the distributio...

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...rench, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the T urks—a thousand wild and tame reli... ...It is true. Jean is dead. A month ago I was writing bubbling and hilarious articles for magazines yet to appear, and now I am writing—this. CHRISTMAS ... ...ss was a great boon for me, for I had the habit of leaving books and other articles lying around everywhere, and had not previously been able to defin... ...ssisted by remote fact: Plagiarist, a writer of plays. Demagogue, a vessel containing beer and other liquids. I cannot quite make out what it was that... ...nery for clari fying and expanding their minds. They are required to take poems and analyze them, dig out their common sense, re duce them to statis... ...er’ s Essays Virgil the Aenid and Paradise lost some people say that these poems were not written by Homer but by another man of the same name. A sort... ... another man of the same name. A sort of sadness kind of shone in Bryant’s poems. Holmes is a very profligate and amusing writer. When the public scho...

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...he delicacy of point lace. She knew her Aus- tin Dobson by heart. She read poems, essays, the ideas of the seminary at Marysville persisting in her mi... ...al, she had been sitting, thoughtful, in her long chair, an open volume of poems 141 Frank Norris turned down upon her lap, her glance losing itself ... .... Some were balanced on the topmost rounds of ladders, hanging festoons of Japanese lanterns from tree to tree, and all across the front of the barn i... ...ch, look- ing about him to see if everything was in order. The festoons of Japanese lanterns in and around the, barn were not yet lighted, but some ha... ...uses one could see a group of men on step-ladders lighting the festoons of Japanese lanterns. In the darkness, only their faces appeared here and ther... ... the picture, upon which one of the hall boys had just placed a ballot box containing the num- bers. The ladies, holding their tickets in their hands,... ...th the most violent condemnation. Editorials were written upon it. Special articles, in literary pamphlets, dis- sected its rhetoric and prosody. The ... ...t Mrs. Hooven adrift in even worse condition than her daughter. Her purse, containing a miserable handful of dimes and nickels, was in her trunk, and ... ...ed the rooms. The servants came and went with armfuls of books, ornaments, articles of clothing. Presley took from his room only a few manuscripts and...

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...ted windows. At the other end of the canal we see Blangy, the county-town, containing about sixty houses, and the village church, which is nothing mor... ...and gold, twist their tails in curious convolutions around rich vases, and Japanese fantasy embroiders its de- signs of many colors; where sofas and r... ...dow. Under this rustic stairway opened a cellar built of Bur- gundy brick, containing several casks of wine. Though the kitchen utensils of the peasan... ...um- niated than you can the spoilers and the despoiled. It is only in epic poems that men curse each other before they kill. The savage, and the peasa... ...e seemed gorgeous in his linen trousers, boots, and short waistcoat. These articles, bought at the time of his liberation, were, it is true, somewhat ... ...peace. The Revolution produced many poets like old Niseron, who sang their poems in the country solitudes, in the army, openly or secretly, by deeds b... ...These treasures, laid out on shelves with glass doors (the drawers beneath containing the insects), occupied the whole of the first floor of the docto... ... “Monsieur l’Abbe Delille,” with exaggerated po- liteness. 217 Balzac The poems manufactured between 1780 and 1814 were all of one pattern, and the o...

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...r that was the accountant’s name, would return half the money paid for the articles. This settled it, and it was arranged that Philip should start wor... ...ork he could leave after a year , and get back half the money paid for his articles. He felt that he was fit for something better than to add up accou... ... Mr. Goodworthy thought of Philip because he could best be spared, and his articles gave him some claim upon a job which was one of the pleasures of t... ... strong with the English and his compatriots, and the discerning collected Japanese prints. The old masters were tested by new standards. The esteem i... ...ne if he had perished on the day 236 Of Human Bondage the first series of Poems and Ballads was pub- lished!” The suggestion pleased, for no one at t... ...,” he said himself. “What I want is a pa- tron. I should have published my poems by sub- scription and dedicated them to a nobleman. I long to compose... ...oked at the branches of a tree silhouetted against the sky , it was like a Japanese print; and he found a continual magic in the beautiful Thames with... ...gs; and in the wharfs and storehouses there was the severity of grace of a Japanese print. They went further down; and the splendid channel, a symbol ... ...ng in his hat and great-coat on the bed, with a small, shabby portmanteau, containing his clothes and books, already packed: it was on the floor by hi...

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...eau with its great clear mirror, Mrs. Babbitt’s dressing-table with toilet-articles of almost solid silver, the plain twin beds, between them a small ... ...f gold-threaded Chinese fab- 82 Babbitt ric, four magazines, a silver box containing cigarette- crumbs, and three “gift-books”—large, expensive editi... ... room, and strolled away. Babbitt melodramatically crept into an apartment containing four round tables, eleven chairs, a brewery calendar, and a smel... ...as tough things as I ever tackled. You might think it’d be harder to do my poems— all these Heart Topics: home and fireside and happiness— but they’re... ...edrooms were converted into living-rooms. The kitchens were cupboards each containing an electric range, a copper sink, a glass refrigerator, and, ver... ...s composed of the Zenith brokers, dressed as cowpunchers, bareback riders, Japanese jugglers. At the head was big Warren Whitby, in the bearskin and g... ...ou will permit me, I’ll take a chance and read it. It’s one of the classic poems, like “If” by Kipling, or Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s “The Man Worth While”... ...ntories of furnished houses so that when the tenant left he had to pay for articles which had never been in the house and the price of which Graff put... ...ment, with evening classes in English and history and economics, and daily articles in the newspa- pers, so that newly arrived foreigners might learn ...

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...tle difficult to understand. He says I am one of the samurai, which sounds Japanese, “but you will be degraded,” he says, with a gesture almost of des... ...least lie in one plane, but a series of problems upon different levels and containing in- commensurable factors. It is very easy to repeat our initial... ...construction, and in his admission of the necessity of recurrent books and poems about Utopias—and at first this recognition appears to admit only an ... ...which they called, collectively, the Book of the Samurai, a compilation of articles and extracts, poems and prose pieces, which were supposed to embod... ...ectively, the Book of the Samurai, a compilation of articles and extracts, poems and prose pieces, which were supposed to embody the idea of the order... ...refine the interpretation of his feelings and bor- row expression from the poems and music of poietic men, so an individual man may at his discretion ...

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...’s conventional abode, or rather sleep- ing-place; it contained a few poor articles of household furniture — a bed, a table, two chairs, a stone pitch... ...peerage?” “He has composed two or three comic operas, written four or five articles in the Siecle, and voted five or six years on the ministe- rial si... ...all be- queath the packet to his son, with an injunction to preserve it as containing an important document.’ “Well, sir,” asked Franz, “what do you w... ...re, then, really women who bear the name of Haidee anywhere but in Byron’s poems?” “Certainly there are. Haidee is a very uncommon name in France, but... ..., with all the accoutrements for hunting; a lofty room on the ground-floor containing all the in- genious instruments the English — eminent in piscato... ...nt of Morcerf alone was ignorant of the news. He did not take in the paper containing the defamatory article, and had passed the morning in writing le... ...n he arranged all his beautiful Turkish arms, his fine En- glish guns, his Japanese china, his cups mounted in silver, his artis- tic bronzes by Feuch...

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...s and the public who are certainly indifferent and frequently averse. Many articles had been written on this notable man. One after another had leaned... ... what is imperishably good, lovely, human, or divine, in his extraordinary poems. That was perhaps the right road; yet I cannot help feeling that in t... ...een given me in my life, full of enthusiasm for the intrinsic merit of the poems, and conceived in the noisiest extreme of youthful eloquence. The pre... ... find somewhat the same greatness, somewhat the same in- firmities. In his poems and plays there are the same unac- countable protervities that have a... ...his would be a loss not easy to exagger- ate. It is still wonderful to the Japanese how far he contrived to push these explorations; a cultured gentle... ...er another, and the main work still halted; but so long as he had a single Japanese to enlighten and prepare for the better future, he could still fee... ...y European creature the same face of awe and terror as to these courageous Japanese. The descent of Ulysses into hell is a parallel more near the case... ...lia- ment; the envoi, like the proverbial postscript of a lady’s let- ter, containing the pith of his performance in a request for three days’ delay t...

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...d, Germany, Italy, and France. If he were dull, he would write stories and poems. ‘I have written,’ he says at thirteen, ‘a very long story in heroic ... ...tch, or finish, delighted and inspired him. I remember him with a twopenny Japanese box of three drawers, so exactly fitted that, when one was driven ... ... all, his sweetheart. But more remains behind; for when it came to signing articles, it turned out that O–, the new first mate, had not a certificate ... ...ogmas can- vassed; not to the painfully refined, whose sentiments be- come articles of faith. The spirit in which he could write that he was ‘much rev... ...a new de- parture in the exposition of electricity, as the first text-book containing a systematic application of the quantitative meth- ods inaugurat...

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...r father’s name, a few devotional books of her mother’s, and Mrs. Hemans’s poems with “To Lina, from her devoted J. A.” Caroline would fain have been ... ...dling folly.” For the awkward thing was that the clasped memorandum- book, containing “Magnum Bonum,” was in her hand, locked out of, instead of into,... ...rincipal to a European college at Yokohama for the higher education of the Japanese. “Mother has not heard of it,” said Jock. “She need not till it is... ...id affair. A whole back garden, had been transformed into a vast pavilion, containing an Armida’s garden, whose masses of ferns and piles of gorgeous ... ...rly in the next year, he was to go out with his Principal to confer on the Japanese the highest possible cul- ture in science and literature without a... ...absence, rather than to his association with the Principal, a writer whose articles she kept out of reach of Armine and Barbara. The matter had become... ... deign to save, Yea, goddess, it is she, Kailyal—” “Are you learning Japanese?” asked Jock, advancing, so that Armine started like Ladurlad hims... ...een sent from Belforest, and this included a great many choice and curious articles, small and great, all indeed that any one cared much about, except... ...ished and revise the proofs. It proved to be a disser- tation on Buddhism, containing such a bitter attack upon Christianity that Jock was strongly te...

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... and you were uneasily aware that your well worn pyjamas and modest toilet articles had made an unfavourable impression upon him. For all that, I foun... ... I daresay it was a pretty piece of vituperation, but prob ably, like his poems, intolerably verbose. I do not remember what success, if any, my nove... ...nt. The evidence is ten times stronger than any upon which men believe the articles of their religion. If it related to less wonderful sub jects, you... ...ain tree upon which her eyes now rested. It had all the slim delicacy of a Japanese print. The leaves were slender and fragile, half gold with autumn,... ...o the dress maker and there discovered that by Margaret’s order the boxes containing her things had gone on the previous day to the luggage office of... ...ere were rows of bottles, like those in the dispensary of a hospital, each containing great quantities of a different chemical. The three friends stoo...

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...-bearing expectations, such, for example, as ideas associated with certain articles of food, the dread of the east wind, the terrors of hot weather, t... ...ion it, I believe that we shall have to admit it our- selves in the end as containing an element of truth. The mind-cure gospel thus once more appears... ...that a friend with whom he was talking of the self-control attained by the Japanese through their practice of the Buddhist discipline said:— “‘You mus... ...,’ said I, ‘is that possible?’ ‘Yes,’ replied he; ‘it is pos- sible to the Japanese, and ought to be possible to us.’ “On my way back I could think of... .... He gives other cases of drunkards’ conversions which are purely ethical, containing, as recorded, no theological beliefs whatever. John B. Gough’s c... ... Most of us can remember the strangely moving power of passages in certain poems read when we were young, irratio- nal doorways as they were through w... ...what is illusory, and religion must on the whole be classed, not simply as containing elements of delu- sion—these undoubtedly everywhere exist—but as... ...er much those with whom we deal may wish to be paid only by the week.” The articles needed of which Muller speaks were the food, fuel, etc., of his or...