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...estorides, like some would be literary publishers, neglected the man whose brains he had sucked, and left him. At his departure, Homer is said to hav... ...s decree She shines with fatal excellence, to thee: With thee, the bowl we drain, indulge the feast, Till righteous heaven reclaim her stubborn breast... ... part. Indulge the genial hour, unbend thy soul, Leave thought to age, and drain the flowing bowl. Studious to ease thy grief, our care provides The b... ...lging in the genial rite: Nor wines were wanting; those from ample jars We drain’d, the prize of our Ciconian wars. The land of Cyclops lay in prospec... ...and; And dash’d like dogs against the stony floor: The pavement swims with brains and mingled gore. Torn limb from limb, he spreads his horrid feast, ... ...ce devours it like a mountain beast: He sucks the marrow, and the blood he drains, Nor entrails, flesh, nor solid bone remains. We see the death from ... ...heir udder to the lambs. Next seized two wretches more, and headlong cast, Brain’d on the rock; his second dire repast. I then approach’d him reeking ... ...is fear: Swung round and round, and dash’d from rock to rock, His battered brains should on the pavement smoke No ease, no pleasure my sad heart recei... ...ing strength, these poisons to sustain! Not mortal thou, nor mortal is thy brain. Or art thou he, the man to come (foretold By Hermes, powerful with t...

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...shaws any more, nor was he given dances which never came off, nor were the drains on his purse continued. Mrs. Hauksbee held him on the snaffle; and a... ...sack-Bremmil. She heard of the lamentable condition of Peythroppe, and her brain struck out the plan that saved him. She had the wisdom of the Ser- pe... ... liqueurs, and filth of that kind. He had a sound constitution and a great brain, or else he would have broken down and died like a sick camel in the ... ...s cold and hard, he said she was stately and dignified. Because she had no brains, and could not talk cleverly, he said she was reserved and shy. Mrs.... ...y drunk—most—most phenom- enally tight. But not in respect to my head. ‘My brain cries out against’—how does it go? But my head rides on the—rolls on ... ...ng watered orange-pulp— In three sips the Aryan frustrate, While he drains his at one gulp.—’ and many other things which now are hidden from y... ...u will understand it. It is a gift more honorable than …. Bah! where is my brain rambling to? Y ou will mutilate it hor- ribly. You will knock out the...

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... If you’ll excuse my saying so. Alone! As you say; body fag is no cure for brain fag. Who told you to? No wonder; walking! And the sun on your head, h... ...ng ever and again, and speaking fragmentary things concerning his whirling brain. At the headland they stood for a space by the seat that looks into t... ...ck. For a moment he regretted his flight. He dared not look again, and his brain spun as he waded through the half liquid snow. Then out of the gutter... ...p, tramp. The whole world seemed marching. Tramp, tramp, tramp, tramp; his brain was tramping. The garments waved onward, the faces poured by more abu... ... grow?” “Eh!—but you’re not up to things. Money attracts money— and twelve brains are better than one. They played it clev- erly. They worked politics... ...d its men, its railway police, its roadway po- lice, its house guards, and drain and cable guards, its hosts of land-workers. Their unions it did not ...

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... to tell me that his sister had more merit than mine, by G— I’ d knock his brains about his ears. Poor little Betsy! she is the honestest, worthiest g... ...im?” “O beastly!” cries Mrs. Ellison; “how could such a thought enter your brains? I protest, madam, I begin to grow ashamed of this husband of yours.... ...h regard to the colonel’s suspi- cions, yet some chimeras now arose in his brain which gave him no very agreeable sensations. What these were, the sag... ...ll repining! could tears wash back again my angel from the grave, I should drain all the juices of my body through my eyes; but oh, could we fill up t...

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...pathetic tone, and he went on to tell me about that business of the Bonham drain. Things of that kind, I observe, are apt to weigh on the minds of Med... ...hip, and it’s for me to say just where she went down.’ It didn’t need much brains to tumble to that. And he was the leader from the first to the last.... ...ers cut and run, the others started in a great hurry trying to knock their brains out on the ground. And on I went as slow and solemn and silly-lookin... ...ocal in their operation. One wakes up the heart and viscera and leaves the brain stu- pefied, one gets at the brain champagne fashion and does nothing... ...ral thousand times faster than you ever did before, heart, lungs, muscles, brain—every- thing—and you will hit hard without knowing it. You won’t know... ...ace in Mr. Vincey’s dreams seemed a problem beyond solution. He racked his brains in vain to explain this. It seemed to him at last that not simply Mr...

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... hearsal, &c.)—were mercy to the new tempest of havoc which burst from the brain of this remorseless poet. A storm of universal laughter filled every ... ...ep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. Fired at first sight with what... ...The following license of a foreign reign Did all the dregs of bold Socinus drain; Then unbelieving priests reform’d the nation, And taught more pleasa... ...ks of Alexander Pope – V olume One Even to the dregs and squeezings of the brain, Strain out the last dull droppings of their sense, And rhyme with al... ...hen offers are disdain’d, and love denied; Then gay ideas crowd the vacant brain, While peers, and dukes, and all their sweeping train, And garters, s... ...ough all things with his half-shut eyes) Sent up in vapours to the Baron’s brain New stratagems, the radiant lock to gain. 120 Ah... ...l drop remains, 90 If our intemperate youth the vessel drains? Our fathers praised rank ven’son. You suppose, Perhaps, young men! ... ...nd would buy, and half be sold: Their country’s wealth our mightier misers drain, Or cross, to plunder provinces, the main; The rest, some farm the po...

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...e, good in the saddle was good for every- thing; but now you must get your brains where you can— pick here, pick there—and sell ‘em like a huckster; s... ...is a generous woman, a magnanimous woman; wear her chains and she will not brain you with her club. She is the light, the centre of every society wher... ...ike what shall I say? like the moon in a bowl of old Rhenish. And you will drain that bowl to the bottom to seize her, as it were—catch a correct idea... ... bottom to seize her, as it were—catch a correct idea of her; ay, and your brains are drowned in the attempt. Yes, Richie; I was aware of your residen... ...ung princes and princesses astonishingly revolutionary when they entertain brains. Now at present, just at present, an English naval officer, and a po... ...’s clear the girl’s mad- head’s cracked as a cocoa-nut bowled by a monkey, brains nowhere. Harry, you’re not a greenhorn; you don’t suspect you’re cal... ... you are to have, fabulous wealth—a dragon’s heap. You are one of the main drainpipes of English gold. What is your object? To spend it?’ ‘I shall hop... ...r of those huge human pumpkins called rich men, who cover your country and drain its blood and intellect—those impoverishers of nature! Here we have o...

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...ese houses on the river bank were very valuable. In those days a system of drains and fountains was still to be invented; nothing of the kind as yet e... ...ssary for the purposes of life, and also made the river serve as a natural drain for rain-water and household refuse. The great works that the “mercha... ...rt as queen, was overtaken by a shower and so nearly washed down the great drainhole in the rue du T emple that she would have disappeared had it not ... ...ut yourself in the hands of that Italian, who has no passion except in her brain; and that’s a bad kind of woman! Yes, what they are sending you to do... ...nd what trap the astute Balafre was setting for him. In vain he worked his brains, for it was not until Queen Mary herself betrayed it that he guessed... ...own existence. The king, my old friend, has a morbid ulcer pressing on his brain, which will presently suffice it if no vent is given to it, and the d... ...ns of domination, gives birth to political misers,— men who enjoy by their brains only, and, like the Jesuits, want power for power’s sake. Pitt, Luth... ...ounsellor to the Parliament! The words worked power- fully in Christophe’s brain. Sometime after this conversation, one morning when Christophe was ga...

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...p, or taste not the Pierian Spring: There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. Fir’d at first Sight with w... ... The following Licence of a Foreign Reign Did all the Dregs of bold Socinus drain; Then Unbelieving Priests reform’d the Nation, And taught more Ple... ...ll run on Poets in a raging Vein, Ev’n to the Dregs and Squeezings of the Brain; Strain out the last, dull droppings of their Sense, And Rhyme with...

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... carriage with him, and they talked about distraining, and selling up, and draining and subsoiling, and a great deal about tenants and farming—much mo... ...lthy—if he had been an attorney in a country town, with no capital but his brains, it is very possible that he would have turned them to good ac- coun... ...ughly gained, her method was pretty simple. She did not pester their young brains with too much learning, but, on the contrary, let them have their ow... ..., my love, are a little para- gon—positively a little jewel—Y ou have more brains than half the shire—if merit had its reward you ought to be a Duch- ... ...t. Birth be hanged. Y ou’re as good a lady as ever I see. Y ou’ve got more brains in your little vinger than any baronet’s wife in the county. Will yo... ...y liberal and generous now there was no call for her sacrifices). “She has brains in plenty (much more wit in her little finger than you have, my poor... ... ho- tel bill, losses at billiards and cards to Captain Crawley had almost drained the young man’s purse, which wanted replen- ishing before he set ou... ...eciate them indeed; and hardly needed any of his cousin’s encouragement in draining off the second bottle supplied by Mr. Bowls. When the time for cof... ...r. Rawdon listened with sympathy to his senior’s prospects of planting and draining, gave his advice about the stables and cattle, rode over to Mudbur...

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...e field beyond the garden. It seemed as though there were knots inside his brain. Then panic seized him that he would not know the words by tea- time,... ...rce of bitter disappointment. Presently he began to read other things. His brain was precocious. His uncle and aunt, seeing that he occupied himself a... ...hilip had conceived for his headmaster a dog-like adoration. He racked his brains vainly for some way to please him. He treasured the smallest word of... ...maining weeks of the term set himself to make up for his long neglect. His brain worked easily , and he took a keen pleasure in the activity of his in... ...er if you realise how de- lightful the life is up there for anyone who has brains.” “I’ve made all my arrangements now to go to Germany , sir,” said P... ...ve me art,” cried Athelny . “I’ve got nine children and they thrive on bad drains. No, no, I’m not going to take any risk. None of your new-fangled no... ...w-fangled notions for me! When I move from here I’m going to make sure the drains are bad before I take anything.” There was a knock at the door , and...

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...e sullenly replies, without looking up. Conceive the fancies of a feverish brain, in such a place as this! Ascend these pitch dark stairs, heedful of ... ... every night, and keep the keys. Do you see what they are? Do you know how drains are made below the streets, and wherein these human sew ers differ,... ...w creature. I hold this slow and daily tampering with the mysteries of the brain, to be immeasurably worse than any torture of the body: and because i... ...hands clasped on his uplifted head, hears spirits tempting him to beat his brains out on the wall. Again he falls upon his bed, and lies there, moanin... ...t, he took a strange dislike to it; feeling as though it gave birth in his brain to something of corre sponding shape, which ought not to be there, a... ...ly outdo his worst belief. That travelled creation of the great satirist’s brain, who fresh from living among horses, peered from a high casement down... ...oughout the whole of every town and city, the sys tem of ventilation, and drainage, and removal of impu rities requires to be thoroughly revised. Th...

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...n, darting fiercely aslant into their little cells, seemed to dry up their brains, and worry them, as if they were baited by a pack of dogs. We were p... ...f the postchaise, down amongst the horses’ tails—convenient for having his brains kicked out, at any moment. To this Brigand, the brave Courier, when ... ...withered town. In short, I had that incoherent but delightful jumble in my brain, which travel lers are apt to have, and are indolently willing to en... ...thing, and had no idea that they might shake him off, and blindly mash his brains upon the road, in the noon tide of his tri umph. Standing in one of... ...and hung up to propitiate offended Heaven: as if the blood upon them would drain off in consecrated air, and have no voice to cry with. It is all so s...

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...s us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearn- ing and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings t... ...and turning even the muddy water that is hurrying along the channel to the drain into a mirror for the yellow-billed ducks, who are seizing the opport... ...you over into the ditch. I allays said I’d never marry a man as had got no brains; for where’s the use of a woman having brains of her own if she’s ta... ...ouble and vexation in your life, Adam. I don’t think you’ve ever been hare-brained and light-hearted, like other youngsters. Y ou’ve always had some c... ...’ve had enough to be thankful for: I’ve allays had health and strength and brains to give me a delight in my work; and I count it a great thing as I’v... ...en mind you fall in love in the right place, and don’t get a wife who will drain your purse and make you niggardly in spite of yourself. My mother and... ...d by; but he could not be satisfied with a vague confidence in his arm and brain; he must have definite plans, and set about them at once. The partner... ...over the hills in the breezy autumn days, looking after favourite plans of drain- age and enclosure; then admired on sombre mornings as the best rider... ...es; he’s a sensible man enough; understands farm- ing—he’s carrying on the draining, and all that, capital. Y ou must go some day towards the Stonyshi...

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...to go away. It was a dagger in the haughty father’s heart, an arrow in his brain, to see how the flesh and blood he could not disown clung to this obs... ...ly resounding to the noises of the street in its jan- gling and distracted brain. Of motionless clocks that never 124 Dombey & Son stirred a finger, ... ...h young T oots, and that when he began to have whiskers he left off having brains. There young T oots was, at any rate; possessed of the gruffest of v... ...rva, and made, among 167 Charles Dickens other costly ingredients, of the brains of pheasants—’ ‘Ow, ow, ow!’ (from Johnson.) ‘Woodcocks—’ ‘Ow, ow, o... ...ith your raw materi- als when they came into your ports in return for your drain of gold. Mr Toots, to whom the question seemed perplexing, suggested ... ...with your raw materials, when they came into your ports in return for your drain of gold—which was such a mystery to Paul that he was quite desirous t... ...rom the air, before he breaks the silence. It may pass as quickly from his brain, as he believes, but it is there. Let him remember it in that room, y... ...k in a fresh supply from a reserve he carried in his hand. ‘There ain’t no drain of nothing short handy , is there?’ said the Chicken, generally . ‘Th... ... Dombey’s face at the door, ‘and wishing her the same and many of ‘em!’ He drained the glass to these two sentiments, and set it down. ‘Well, I say , ...

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..., which so exhausts finances, patience, courage, hope, so over throws the brain and breaks the heart, that there is not an honourable man among its p... ...ces left upon the earth perhaps since old Tom Jarndyce in despair blew his brains out at a coffee house in Chancery Lane; but Jarndyce and Jarndyce s... ...pers on his desk—”grandfather.” “Begludship’s pardon—victim of rash action—brains.” Suddenly a very little counsel with a terrific bass voice arises, ... ...ge to the rotting door. When I brought what remained of him home here, the brains seemed to me to have been blown out of the house too, it was so shat... ...ight. And yet I stood before that fellow face to face and didn’t knock his brains out!” “Teeth, you mean?” said Mr. Jarndyce. “Ha, ha, ha!” laughed Mr... ... was asleep and another boy he thieved ninepence and the landlord he stood drains round with a lot more on it.” “You don’t expect anybody to believe t...

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...sneering detractors who weave such miserable figments from their malicious brains, are stricken dumb by evi- dence. For letters are yet in the possess... ...ied the sisters. ‘Why, you see,’ said Mr Jonas, ‘he’s been addling his old brains with figures and book-keeping all his life; and twenty years ago or ... ...h him for my teacher; I swear to you that I almost despise myself.’ Martin drained his glass, and looked at the fire. ‘I don’t mean to say that is a r... ...d put this instrument in his pocket, after screwing off the mouth-piece to drain it; ‘Lummy Ned of the Light Salisbury, HE was the one for musical tal... ...only place in which he could hope to achieve any high end, and worried his brain with the thought that men going there in the meanwhile might anticipa... ...d cast up his eyes once in ecstasy. He paused no more until the goblet was drained to the last drop. ‘There, sir!’ said Mark, taking it from him with ... ...nt opinion was that 376 Martin Chuzzlewit she was a phantom of Mrs Gamp’s brain—as Messrs. Doe and Roe are fictions of the law—created for the expres... ...rprise; but remembering how very much reduced he was, and how recently his brain had been on fire with fever, believed that he was labouring under som... ...hat I never 655 Charles Dickens could have kep myself up but for a little drain o’ spirits, which I seldom touches, but could always wish to know whe...

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...did a man like him good; brightened his eyes, swept the cobwebs out of his brain, and regulated his pulse. But the worst of it was, that sometimes he ... ...ew how he managed to separate it from the astral host revolving in his own brain. However, by hook or by crook, he piloted us along; and before many d... ...such a fricassee of vowels and consonants that it was enough to turn one’s brain. The next morning, on waking, I heard a voice from the tombs. It was ... ... with one stroke of a knife, he summarily beheaded it, and commanded me to drain it to the bottom. He then told me that if I would come on board his v...

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...the same thoughts recurred and the same images retained pos session of my brain. I had ever before me the old dark murky rooms the gaunt suits of m... ... is there one of my size, you dog?’ returned Quilp. ‘Take the key, or I’ll brain you with it’ indeed he gave him a smart tap with the handle as he s... ...rangely, having been occasioned by some unlawful pursuit; flocked into her brain and rendered her afraid to question him. She rocked herself upon a ch... ...re hand in hand as usual. The noise and motion in the streets fatigued his brain at first, but he was not surprised, or The Old Curiosity Shop – Dick... ...pressively on the forehead to imply that there was some slight quantity of brain be hind it. ‘I’ve got a little trifle here, now,’ said Mr Slum, taki... ...’ said Dick. ‘Sharks, I suppose?’ said the lodger. Dick nodded assent, and drained his glass. ‘Let them know my humour,’ said the single gentle man, ... ...d although she well knew where he went, and why—too well from the constant drain upon her scanty purse and from his haggard looks—he evaded all inquir... ...pportunity, not to be lost. Let us find them first, and I’ll find means of draining you of some of your superfluous cash, sir, while there are prison ... ...s child had undergone; when the young man’s profligate and hardened course drained him of money as his father’s had, and even sometimes occasioned the...

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... to see it. But I do want to look about me.” 165 Henry James “You want to drain the cup of experience.” “No, I don’t wish to touch the cup of experie... ...er. Isabel travelled rapidly and recklessly; she was like a thirsty person draining cup after cup. Madame Merle meanwhile, as lady-in-waiting to a pri... ...against your native land.” “I only say that we’re too infatuated with mere brain- power; that, after all, isn’t a vulgar fault. But I AM changed; a wo...

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...g 915 The Destruction of All Language Pg 916 Consumers and Honesty Pg 919 Brainwashing Pg 935 The Protestant Work Ethic Pg 1013 The Sale of I... ...9 Conclusion Pg 1483 The Alternative Pg 1497 Constructive Use of the Tool-Brain Pg 1498 The Idea of Human Balance Pg 1499 Wonder Pg 1501 Re... ... see the same dynamic of Organic Splitness in the designed shape of the human brain: The Path of Splitness Chapter One: The Universe 30 ... ...o Tse saw as a Basic Duality of Nature was also a Basic Condition of his own brain. You can see the same condition of Splitness in the most conce... ...organic seeds, plants, insects, reptiles, shellfish, fish, birds, mammals and brains. This basic design of Splitness is older than Nature itself, i... ...ramidal accumulation continues, until the weight of this accumulation leaches-drains the structural stability and strength of the entire social syste... ... set of Biosphere buildings. Oops. An entire scientific experiment down the drain. The entire myth-culture and set of superstitions based upon the... ...power structures, sacred hierarchies, etc.. There goes civilization down the drain. And we can’t have that, now; can we? Then there would be chaos... ... nation, which has managed to slightly slow down in one small town: the steady draining of its THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Chapter Six A: Civilization T...

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...mber we only acknowledge its existence. It exists either as neural networks in our brains, or as some other entity (Platonic Idea). But, it exists ... ...w can a machine which is bound to be discrete by virtue of its "naturalness" - the brain - perceive a continuum? The continuum is an external, ment... ... possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?', because you will get 'down the drain' into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nob... ...That what we, humans, call a soul is the way that we experience the workings of our brain (introspection experienced). This often leads to infinite... ... correlation is not causation. In other words, the electrochemical activity in the brain, which corresponds to mental phenomena does not mean that... ... phenomena does not mean that it IS the mental phenomena. Mental phenomena do have brain (hardware) correlates but these correlates need not be co... ...n possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?', because you will get 'down the drain' into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nob...

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...n desperate straits, and if the latter be so, I need, and shall need, all my brains to get through. I had hardly come to this conclusion when I hear... ... Bah! What good are peasants without a leader? Where ends the war without a brain and heart to conduct it? Again, when, after the battle of Mohacs, w... .... Ah, young sir, the Szekelys, and the Dracula as their heart’s blood, their brains, and their swords, can boast a record that mushroom growths like t... ...lets! `tis meet that I put it down,” etc., For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its und... ... 17 June.—This morning, as I was sitting on the edge of my bed cudgelling my brains, I heard without a crackling of whips and pounding and scraping of... ... the operation. After a time, it did not seem a short time either, for the draining away of one’s blood, no matter how will ingly it be given, is a... ...in how Lucy had made such a retrograde movement, and how she could have been drained of so much blood with no sign any where to show for it. I think I... ... momentarily, for her poor wasted veins could not stand for long an unwonted drain to the head. The reaction came in excessive pallor as she turned im...

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...up shop — he Could never make a memory so fine as That which adorn’d the brain of Donna Inez. Her favourite science was the mathematical, He... ...hey can, Have moments, hours, and days, so unprepared, That you might ‘brain them with their lady’s fan;’ And sometimes ladies hit exceeding... ...r husband died, But Heaven forbid that such a thought should cross Her brain, though in a dream! (and then she sigh’d) Never could she survi... ...know not why: ‘T was strange that one so young should thus concern His brain about the action of the sky; If you think ‘t was philosophy that ... ...divided, part thrown in the sea, And such things as the entrails and the brains Regaled two sharks, who follow’d o’er the billow The sailors ... ...grants. An infant when it gazes on a light, A child the moment when it drains the breast, A devotee when soars the Host in sight, An Arab ... ... odd labyrinth; or as the kelp Holds by the rock; or as a lover’s kiss Drains its first draught of lips:— but, as I said, I won’t philosophise... ...er worm Will feed upon the fairest, freshest cheek, As well as further drain the wither’d form: Care, like a housekeeper, brings every week ... ...r rather, who can not Remember, without telling, passion’s errors? The drainer of oblivion, even the sot, Hath got blue devils for his morni...

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... Mark Twain 16 something attractive and lovable. There did not seem to be brains enough in the entire nursery, so to speak, to bait a fish hook wit... ...but you didn’t seem to mind that, after a little, because you soon saw that brains were not needed in a society like that, and indeed would have mar... ...rable I must do as he did — invent, contrive, create, reorganize things; set brain and hand to work, and keep them busy. Well, that was in my line. On... ...t for the twentieth. Look at the opportunities here for a man of knowledge, brains, pluck, and enterprise to sail in and grow up with the country. Th... ...k of —” “Man of prowess — yes, that is the man to please them, Sandy. Man of brains — that is a thing they never think of. T om Sayers — John Heenan ... ...dea that the court is carrying on like everything; this excites you, and you drain the whole column, with a good appetite, and perhaps never notice th...

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...is forehead: ‘I must not think of this. This is enough to soften any man’s brain,’— and yet was always thinking of it, and could never form a conclusi... ...as them in his grasp;— Twemlow having profited by these studies, finds his brain wholesomely hardening as he approaches the conclusion that he really ... ...aches the conclusion that he really is Veneering’s oldest friend, when his brain softens again and all is lost, through his eyes encountering V eneeri... ...chop you over the fingers with my boat’ s stretcher, or take a aim at your brains with my boathook. I did so on accounts of your looking too hard at w... ...fro for an evening walk, to the end that the murky cobwebs in Mrs Boffin’s brain might be blown away. There, my dear!’ said Mr Boffin when they came i... ...go all round the compass. Sometimes, I walk; sometimes, I proceed in cabs, draining the pocket of the schoolmaster who then follows in 538 Our Mutual... ... me, I’ll be paid for it—I’ll be paid for it—I’ll be paid for it—till I’ve drained you dry!’ Bradley looked at the fire, with a working face, and was ... ...nable, Bradley Headstone, Mas- ter,’ said Riderhood, passing him, ‘or I’ll drain you all the dryer for it, when we do settle.—Ah! Would you!’ 792 Our...

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... them shall first serve me as the friar serves my flasks of canary: he shall drain me dry as hay. Am I not disparaged? Am I not outraged? Is not my da... ...wacked baron; cracked, cracked, cracked baron; bone cracked, sconce cracked, brain cracked baron!” “What do you mean,” said the baron, “bully friar, b... ...petus that would have gone nigh to fathom even that extraordi nary depth of brain which always by divine grace furnishes the interior of a head royal...

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...e might forget the cares of his narrow lot in the intoxication of soul and brain, stood Lucien, graceful as some sculptured Indian Bacchus. For in Luc... ...e and there in- dulge. The heat of her language communicated itself to the brain, and the dithyrambs on her lips were spoken out of the abundance of h... ..., and you alone, will fully compre- hend the ferment in Lucien’s heart and brain, when his awe- 46 Two Poets inspiring headmaster told him that the g... ...families might suffer at first from the all-absorbing exactions of a giant brain, but at a later day they were repaid a hundredfold for self-denial of... ...oosen the swaddling-bands of provin- cial life that confined the heart and brain of her poet that the said poet determined to try an experiment upon h... ...le group where Lucien stood, the circle who gave him the cup of hemlock to drain by little sips watched him with redoubled interest. The poet, luckles... ...attern of a thrifty parent, kindly con- senting not to demand the rent and drain the savings to which David imprudently owned. David went back again i... ... you not see that last night? The bloodthirsty insects are quick enough to drain every wound that they pierce. But I was happy; I lived. It is so long...

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...he prettiness of home scenery is a work of art. It comes from the thorough draining of land, from the planting and sub- sequent thinning of trees, fro... ... and the praise of ones’s brother men the sweetest draught which a man can drain. But now, and for coming ages, Wolfe’s name stands higher than it pro... ...s very nature odious to me. I know that much may be said in its favor—that drainage and gas-pipes come easier to such a shape, and that ground can be ... ...ciously increase 198 North America V ol. 1 their draughts, and take their drains stronger and stron- ger, till a breath of fresh air is felt to be a ... ...name is there a household word, that citizens of the United States carried brains in their fingers as well as in their heads; whereas “common people,”... ... for you to give the number as you enter. Even an American conductor, with brains all over him, and an anxious desire to accommodate, as is the case w... ...g of such, Wendell Phillips would have been right in saying that they have brains all over them. So much for those who are bright and beautiful, who a... ...It was on this occasion that he told us more than once how Yankees carried brains in their fingers, whereas “common people”—alluding by that name to E... ...—alluding by that name to Europeans—had them only, if at all, inside their brain-pans. And then he informed us that Lord Palmerston had always hated A...

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...uous energy of the day, that he may calm his nerves and cool his liver and brain for a few hours of iron slumber. If the enterprise were as heroic and... ...dow there was nothing to redeem it, forsooth, in his eyes and would have drained and sold it for the mud at its bottom. It did not turn his mill, an... ...lk! Under a high state of culti vation, being manured with the hearts and brains of men! As if you were to raise your potatoes in the churchyard! Suc... ...d, and could not be driven from it. While he was thinking one thing in his brain, I was endeavoring to divine his thought in mine. It was a pretty gam... ...m to the worldnhe peddled first her wares, afterwards, as he declares, his brains. These he peddles still, prompt ing God and disgracing man, bearing... ...e peddles still, prompt ing God and disgracing man, bearing for fruit his brain only, like the nut its kernel. I think that he must be the man of the... ...ponds are not so deep in proportion to their area as most suppose, and, if drained, would not leave very remarkable valleys. They are not like cups be... ...rs, brown, gray, yellowish, and reddish. When the flowing mass reaches the drain at the foot of the bank it spreads out flatter into strands, the sepa...

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...arved work of festooned jack-towels and children’s heads with water on the brain, designed after a once-popular monu- mental pattern, and knocked. A s... ...e counter among her cloudy bottles of syrups, baskets of cakes, and leaden drain- age for glasses, working at her needle. Making his way to an empty l... ...ht and looked about at the spotted and blotched walls. ‘Rats, cats, water, drains,’ said Jeremiah. Mistress Affery negatived each with a shake of her ... ... so few signs of reason, that a by-word went among his companions that his brain had been frozen up in a mighty frost which prevailed at St john’s, Ne... ...yond which no man could go; that the point varied with various textures of brain and peculiarities of constitution, as he had had occasion to notice i... ...ed, and with the deadliest animosity observed: ‘Y ou can’t make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. Y ou couldn’t do it when you... ...lover in a distracted whisper (which she very much enjoyed), that they had drained the cup of life to the dregs; and further to hint mysteriously that... ...out the husband she might have, with an affection for her which would have drained her heart of its dearest drop of hope, and broken it. Everything ab... ...e faintest knowledge of her. Some injurious suspicion lodged itself in his brain, that she wanted to supplant Mrs Bangham, and that she was given to d...

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...ch’s face, shook his head and smiled. “I know, those peasant folks have no brains. Igno rance, of course. Don’t you be uneasy. I know what I have to ... ...rked in a roofed barn, the forage was kept in a separate shed, and a paved drain was made from the stables. The cows were home bred, not very large, b... ...in com mon the sense that they both excelled their enemies in culture, in brains, as well as in morals. Katia Turchaninova was a gifted girl, possess...

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...ue, all ruled straight like a botanical account book. Gas and ventilation, drainage and water service, all of the primest quality. Iron clamps and gir... ... bad stuff to leave about, though ever so little of it.’ As she spoke, she drained the basin into the ashes of the fire, and broke the bottle on the h... ...n, when the train stopped at its destination. Gutters and pipes had burst, drains had overflowed, and streets were under water. In the first instant o... ... deal.’ ‘The poor man being about to leave the town, it came into his evil brain to cast suspicion on him?’ ‘I think it must have flashed upon him whi...

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... doctors called it overwork, and he lay in a darkened 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. ...

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...ed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At l... ...nd, strike the furious blast of gas into a chill greyish-green liquid that drains (you can hear it trickle) from the far end of the vacuum through the... ...st convinced, the Hajji breathed on our Sahib’s forehead, to sink into his brain news concerning a slave-dealer in his district who had made a mock of... ...n-eaters—the Hajji breathed all that on his forehead to sink into his sick brain. A little, as ye have heard, has remained . . . . Ah, but when the fe... ...st story about the Curse on the family’s first-born.” “It turned out to be drains,” I explained. “As soon as new ones were put into the house the Curs... ...e was lifted, I believe. I never knew the people myself.” “Ah! I’ve had my drains up twice; I’m on gravel too.” “You don’t mean to say you’ve a ghost ... ...against the light, floating at an immense distance in the background of my brain. It annoyed me, and I shook my head to get rid of it. Then my brain t... ...th of time, until at last they blurred together, and I heard a click in my brain like the click in the ear when one descends in a diving bell, and I k...

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... Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul ..........60 108 What’s in the brain that ink may character ...........61 109 O, never say that I was f... ...an vile esteem’d, ...............67 122 Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain ...............68 123 No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do cha... ... 59 If there be nothing new, but that which is Hath been before, how are our brains beguiled, Which, labouring for invention, bear amiss The second bu... ... I am now, With Time’s injurious hand crush’d and o’er worn; When hours have drain’d his blood and fill’d his brow With lines and wrinkles; when his y... ... waste blanks, and thou shalt find Those children nursed, deliver’d from thy brain, To take a new acquaintance of thy mind. These offices, so oft as... ...Bound for the prize of all too precious you, That did my ripe thoughts in my brain inhearse, Making their tomb the womb wherein they grew? Was it his ...

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...your tenants don’t sell their straw, and that kind of thing; and give them draining-tiles, you know. But your fancy farm- ing will not do—the most exp... ...n English layman. “Oh, he dreams footnotes, and they run away with all his brains. They say, when he was a little boy, he made an ab- 64 Middlemarch ... ...idle man ought not to exist, much less, be married.” “Then I am to blow my brains out?” “No; on the whole I should think you would do better to pass y... ...d left his imagina- tion quite unbiassed, so that for anything he knew his brains lay in small bags at his temples, and he had no more thought of repr... ...isting of certain primary webs or tissues, out of which the various organs—brain, heart, lungs, and so on— are compacted, as the various accommodation... ...s resolu- tion that his action should be beneficent, and with ideas in his brain that made life interesting quite apart from the cultus of horseflesh ... ...er of firmaments, if they did not obviously inter- fere with the best land-drainage, solid building, correct mea- suring, and judicious boring (for co... ...him, he liked good solid carpentry and ma- sonry, and had a notion both of drains and chimneys. In fact, the Hospital had become an object of intense ... ... who had met him by appointment to give an opinion on a question of stable drainage, and was now advising the bailiff in the rick-yard. Mr. Bulstrode ...

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...t the chemical con- tributions which the sex-organs make to the blood, the brain would not be nourished so as to carry on religious activities, this f... ...u long enough. I say raved, for I can write no other- wise, having neither brain nor thoughts left. O God! what a misfortune to be born! Born like a m... ...ons of my age. I could mow as well as the peas- ants, I could work with my brain eight hours unin- terruptedly and feel no bad effects. “And yet I cou... ...to stop—so we drop down, give up, and don’t care any longer. Our emotional brain-centres strike work, and we lapse into a temporary apathy. Now 210 T... ...ation of this feature in the conversion process. That genuine saint, David Brainerd, describes his own crisis in the following words:— “One morning, w... ...in- ner dam, and let all sorts of ancient peccancies and moral stagnancies drain away, leaving us now washed and soft of heart and open to every noble... ... have at sundry times walked over ground where much of their dyestuffs has drained away. This hath produced a longing in my mind that people might com...

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... that lifeless arm, or whether some other thought flitted across his dying brain, at any rate he glanced at the refractory arm, at Pierre’s terror-str... ...ll these things a fantastic world of his own had taken pos- session of his brain and at that moment afforded him pleasure. The enemy’s guns were in hi... ...inge to anybody and not be anyone’s lackey , but I who have nothing but my brains have to make a career and must not miss opportunities, but must avai... ...ed him most. “It’s all up! I’m lost!” thought he. “Now a bullet through my brain-that’s all that’s left me! “ And at the same time he said in a cheerf... ...the prelude. “My God, I’m a ruined and dishonored man! A bullet through my brain is the only thing left me—not singing! “ his thoughts ran on. “Go awa... ...e wars. The old prince disputed it chaffingly, but without getting angry. “Drain the blood from men’s veins and put in water instead, then there will ...

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...in the vat; the same number to haul from the vat and put on the platform to drain; the same number to spread and stake out and clean; and the same nu... ...er sailor, and probably a better navigator, than the captain, and had more brains than all the after part of the ship put together. The sailors said... ...ns of a pretty good education, which enabled him to talk perhaps beyond his brains, and a high spirit and sense of honor, which years of a dog’s life... ... * *,handsome, showy, and superficial; * * * *,with his strong head, clear brain, cool self posses sion; * * * modest, sensitive, and underrated;... ...e way. Stockings, mittens, and all, were wrung out also and then hung up to drain and chafe dry against the bulk heads. Then, feeling of all our clot...

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...r, because, as before stated, I al- ways thought the mutiny was all in the brain of a very weak and sick man. After reaching shore, or Shell Island, t... ...ment, while the splinters from the mus- ket of the killed soldier, and his brains and bones, knocked down two or three others, including one officer, ... ... life ex- ceed in strangeness and interest any of the mere products of the brain of the novelist. Those early days in California brought out character... ...ms, some of them of consider- able volume. Dalton is on ground where water drains to- wards Atlanta and into one of the main streams rising north- eas...

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...CH TOIL and grow rich, What’s that but to lie With a foul witch And after, drained dry, To be brought To the chamber where Lies one long sought With d... ...ng again And so to the other tree at a bound. Nor the tame will, nor timid brain, Nor heavy knitting of the brow Bred that fierce tooth and cleanly lim... ...glish shot? Did words of mine put too great strain On that woman’s reeling brain? Could my spoken words have checked That whereby a house lay wrecked?... ...it. First Sailor. What good is there in this hard way of living, Unless we drain more flagons in a year And kiss more lips than lasting peaceable men I... ... on us dreams that waste our life, Shadows and shows that can but turn the brain.’ But finding him still silent I stooped down 452 THE COLLECTED POEMS...