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...he good Angel to Raimond in Tasso (Tas. Gior. can. 7) for my assistant to combat this great Argante: Who as he is happy in you, and you in him, that... ... Yet death his head enclosed thence with hale. Let us learne to stand, and combat her with a resolute minde. And being to take the greatest advantage... ...circumcised, and alike baptised. Where the souldier, that in one or divers combats hath presented his King with seven enemies heads, is made noble. W... ...it not ill husbanded to advance so many certaine and knowne vices, for to combate contested and debatable errors? Is ther e any worse kinde of vices ... ...ateth. In liew of bringing helpe unto her when shee most striveth, and is combated by sicknesse I greatly feare lest I bring succor unto her adversa... ...nother Westward: They loose the principall, and stray it in the throng of incidents. At the end of an houres wrangling they wot not what they seeke ...

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...yet more must be told of his good fortune before we can come to the actual incidents of our story. Lady Lufton, who, as I have said, thought much of c... ...g Dr Thorne, had remained in the ante-chamber during the battle. The whole combat did not occupy above two minutes, and the three of them were hemmed ...

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...other, and the people were as eager, laughing and shouting, as though the combatants had been men. There had been a disappointment about the bull;... ...yards in the chase, and had killed two coati at differ- ent times in single combats. We often had fine sport with these fellows. A quick, sharp bark ... ...an. He was probably a natural son, for in scarcely any other way could the incidents of his early life be accounted for. He said that his parents di... ...beyond their latitude. The first day of ‘‘all hands,’’ one of those little incidents occurred, which are nothing in themselves, but are great matte... ... for two years and a quarter. There were, in the course of the voyage, many incidents which made, for the time, serious impressions upon our minds, ...

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...and look at the performances. There are scenes of all sorts; some dreadful combats, some grand and lofty horse-riding, some scenes of high life, and s... ...he place uttered that cry for the first two or three rounds of this famous combat; at the commencement of which the scientific Cuff, with a contemptuo... ...t, Figs my boy.” Figs’s left made terrific play during all the rest of the combat. Cuff went down every time. At the sixth round, there were al- most ... ... had the pen of a Napier, or a Bell’s Life, I should like to describe this combat properly. It was the last charge of the Guard—(that is, it would hav... ...ley’s new femme de chambre refused to go to bed without a wax candle; such incidents might be made to provoke much delightful laughter, and be suppose... ...of it with a sweet and tender regret. Where is the road now, and its merry incidents of life? Is there no Chelsea or Greenwich for the old honest pimp... ...e there are, and very successful too, mere quacks and fools: and it was to combat and expose such as those, no doubt, that Laughter was made. 80 V an... ...l who is in the pater- nal nest as yet, can’t have many of those thrilling incidents to which the heroine of romance commonly lays claim. Snares or sh... ...tably, and panting for further promotion—was not so much affected by other incidents which would have interested him at a more quiet period. He was no...

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... having instigated his death. It may be said, in general, that most of the incidents intro- duced in the following tale are fictitious, and that reali... ...s own. Planting his long spear in the sand at a distance from the scene of combat, he strung, with great address, a short bow, which he carried at his... ...was much softened by a feeling so natural 23 Sir Walter Scott to generous combatants, and especially cherished by the spirit of chivalry. This last s... ...knight as poor as I am, he could not, by the law of chivalry, deny him the combat.” “Methinks I should like to look upon so strange a scene,” said the... ...ejaculated the Saracen; “what have these Spaniards to do to come hither to combat the true believers, who, in their own land, are their lords and task... ...he Leopard. “ But,” added he, smiling at the recollection of the morning’s combat, “if, instead of a reed, you were inclined to stand the cast of a ba... ...scenes of discord, and in some instances the effusion of blood. Details of incidents mortifying to his pride, and derogatory from his authority, were ... ...ustace Grey. OUR NARRATIVE RETROGRADES to a period shortly previous to the incidents last mentioned, when, as the reader must re- member, the unfortun...

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...ut this was impossible, nor was the resolution of any long duration, being combated by too many secret motives to stand any chance of gaining the vict... ...s overbearing looks: and being sensible that I could maintain my ground, I combated his assertions, exposed his mistakes, and laid about me in the bes... ...ined the greatest victory, and fearful 97 Rousseau of sustaining a second combat even had the ingratitude to leave the house without thanking the abb... ... the excess to which my heart is subject to be heated by the most trifling incidents, and the ardor with which my imagi- nation seizes on the most att... ...emained, I should certainly abandon the work I have undertaken. Of all the incidents I have yet related, a few traces are re- maining in the places wh... ...that, as he expressed it, they might see cou- plets start up next day like incidents in a comic romance. In the night (not being able to sleep) I comp... ...h from being of the same opinion in this particular, I confess I dared not combat hers; indeed, as I was situated, it would have been putting myself i... ... it; because it does not abso- lutely result from a concourse of favorable incidents, but is an affection of the mind itself. I am frequently guilty o... ... The very idea struck me with horror, and I took the firmest resolution to combat and vanquish this unhappy attachment, should I be so unfortunate as ...

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...oaches, put, her head to the window, and coolly looked at the whole of the combat. It soon made a great noise. My father was complimented everywhere. ... ...me. The Duke, raising his eyes to heaven, protested that he had never been combated in this manner, and that he was obliged to gather up all his force... ...t against other lords, or in the armies that our kings used to assemble to combat their enemies before the creation of a standing army put an end to t... .... She had passed her life with the most frivolous of the great world. T wo incidents amongst a thousand will characterise her. She was very straitened... ...ght at one and the same time of retreat. Towards the evening therefore the combat slackened on both sides, until our troops made a last effort to driv... ...lieve this, but ordered his horse, mounted, and, pushing on, concluded the combat gloriously. He did not fail, of course, to claim all the honours of ... ... my steps to the point from which I have been led away in relating all the incidents which arose out of the terrible winter and the scarcity it caused... ... a personage whose intimacy was forced upon me at this period; for the two incidents are in a certain degree associated together. M. d’Orleans for som... ... the reign of this vain-glorious monarch. Let me touch now upon some other incidents in his ca- reer, and upon some points in his character. He early ...

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... cousin might have betrayed or misrepresented him, would perhaps defy him to combat, and he wondered whether he could pull himself together (he was ex... ...not been lectures, announced in advance, to which tickets had been sold, but incidents, of abrupt occurrence, of certain multitudinous meetings, where... ...g in the water, and talked over the doings of the morning, the speeches, the incidents, the fresh contributions to the cause. We had some tremendously... ...ss. She meant her request that he should go away for a few days as something combative; but, decidedly, he scarcely felt the blow. He liked to think t...

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...roke into a fusillade of exciting and admiring ejaculations over the strange incidents of the tale; and this, along with a rattling fire of questions,... ...ks’ bombardment of the city—May 8 to July 4, 1863. They were used by the non combatants—mainly by the women and children; not to live in constantly, b... ...uce it:— Population, twenty seven thousand soldiers and three thou sand non combatants; the city utterly cut off from the world—walled solidly in, th... ...aring along the streets; nothing for them to do, among that hand ful of non combatants of exhausted means; at three o’clock in the morning, silence; ... ... a landsman’s pulse. Years ago, I talked with a couple of the Vicksburg non combatants—a man and his wife. Left to tell their story in their own way,... ...met the bear, who in another leap would have reached the lodge. A ter rible combat ensued. The skies rang with the howls of the fierce monsters. The ...

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...tage. The very last man on this earth with whom I would enter the lists to combat with gentle compliments and masked faces, is Mr Chester, I do assure... ...h mis chief, and yielded as much excitement below stairs, as above. While incidents like these, arising out of drums and masquerades and parties at q... ... each other in convulsed and distracted times, that more than the stirring incidents of a whole life often become compressed into the compass of four ... ..., raving and fighting to the last. All these things, and even such trivial incidents as a man with his hat off, or turning round, or stooping down, or...

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...ike yourself cannot fail, I should think, to have observed many scenes and incidents worth recording, in the course of your experience as a minister o... ...l.’ ‘I have witnessed some certainly,’ replied the old gentleman, ‘but the incidents and characters have been of a homely and ordinary nature, my sphe... ...n seen pacing the churchyard to and fro, while Mr. Pickwick was engaged in combating his companion’s resolution. Any repetition of his arguments would... ...d ferocious countenances, by a vast cloud of dust, and by a dense crowd of combatants. He represents himself as being forced from the carriage by some... ...uel Slumkey, his blood being up, defied Horatio Fizkin, Esquire, to mortal combat. At this violation of all known rules and precedents of order, the m... ...e, just as the latter had con cluded the third and last round of a single combat with the town beadle. ‘Run to the justice’s!’ cried a dozen voices. ...

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...tendency to melancholy; the young farmer was a man of affairs, de- cisive, combative, whose only reflection upon his inte- rior economy was a morbid c... ...n. The return of Vanamee had stimulated the poet’s memory. He recalled the incidents of Vanamee’s life, reviewing again that terrible drama which had ... ... slowly from point to point amid the tiny gravelled walks, recall- ing the incidents of eighteen years ago. On the bench he had quitted he and Angele ... ...woman. His world was harsh, crude, a world of men only— men who were to be combatted, opposed—his hand was against nearly every one of them. Women he ... ...e glare of paper lanterns and kerosene lamps. But the affair had aroused a combative spirit amongst the men of the assembly. Instantly a spirit of agg... ...nty seat. It was the preliminary skirmish, the reconnaisance in force, the combatants feeling each other’s strength, will- ing to proceed with caution... ...ick’s League was locking horns. The great struggle had begun to invest the combatants with interest. Daily, almost hourly, Dyke was in touch with the ...

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... hand, has more of magnanimity in it, and less of sentiment, the ardour of combat taking away part of the latter. There are some governments who have ... ... habita- tions, lest he should have surprised them raw and inexpert in the combat, but sallied out to meet her, and purposely threw themselves into th... ... “Multum sibi adjicit virtus lacessita.” [“Virtue is much strengthened by combats.” or: “Virtue at- tacked adds to its own force.”—Seneca, Ep., 13.] ... ...roach, but eagerly sought it; for being content that he had engaged in the combat, he made it a point of bravery to see the end; ’tis far beyond not f... ...who pleases may fight with him again, so that, by having come off from one combat, he has engaged himself in many. If we thought by virtue to be alway... ...t I do nothing for them in so doing, because sharpness and strangeness are incidents of the very essence of physic. Lycurgus ordered wine for the sick...

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... shall watch around him: the last veteran, as he has shed his blood in his combats, shall breathe his last sigh near his tomb, and all these tombs sha... ...nce” upon the deck of the famed “Belle Poule” in the days of her memorable combat with the “Saucy Arethusa.” “These five hundred sailors,” says a Fren... ... which somebody had not claimed and she had kept. Are not these remarkable incidents? The next wonder we saw was the arrival of a set of tottering old...

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... his friend was attacked; nor was he much displeased with that part of the combat which fell to his share; he therefore returned my landlady’s blows a... ... with one of either sex. Here she presently challenged Partridge to single combat. He accepted the challenge, and a most desperate fight began began b... ...ed accident put suddenly an end to the bloody fray, with which half of the combatants had already sufficiently feasted. This accident was the arrival ... ...less quarrels which tend rather to the production of comical than tragical incidents. The serjeant asked Partridge whither he and his master were tr... ...the army, and offered to box for a guinea. The mili tary man accepted the combat, but refused the wager; upon which both immediately stript and engag... ...he god of drink, no less than to the god of war; for, in reality, both the combatants had sacrificed as well to the former deity as to the latter. To... ... author. First, then, we warn thee not too hastily to condemn any of the incidents in this our history as impertinent and for eign to our main desi... ...would alike contradict both these conclu sions, and would show that these incidents contribute only to confirm the great, useful, and uncommon doctri... ...of them, expressly holds the contrary; and cer tain it is, there are some incidents in life so very strange and unaccountable, that it seems to requi...

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... of its publication, comparatively little was known in this country of the incidents of his career, and my sketch was avowedly written as a temporary ... ...Our homes who’ll liberate? Go, loved one, hasten to the gate, And dare the combat straight! There is no need as yet, However fierce his threat; Thy ro... ...re! Within my bosom heaves a mighty force, Where death and life contend in combat dire. Medicines may serve the body’s pangs to still; Nought but the ... ...And by the Lord we’re guarded; who then would foolishly tremble? Weary the combatants are, and all things indicate peace soon; And when at length the ...

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...terriers. A habit rather blamable, which is That of despising those we combat with, Common in many cases, was in this The cause of killing... ...ve city, sore beset By Christian soldiery, a single spot Which did not combat like the devil, as yet, He found a number of Chasseurs, all scat... ... to cast an awe Into the hearts of those who fought till now As tigers combat with an empty craw, The Duke of Wellington had ceased to show ... ...ns, poesy, And prophecy— except it should be dated Some years before the incidents related. Praised be all liars and all lies! Who now Can t... ...Ghost, or none, ‘T were difficult to say; but Juan look’d As if he had combated with more than one, Being wan and worn, with eyes that hardl...

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... Mother, and bids her see to it that Hunding shall fall in the approaching combat. But he is reckoning without his consort, Fricka. What will she, the... ...rows Wotan’s command to the winds, and bids Siegmund nerve himself for the combat with Hunding, in which she pledges him the protection of her shield.... ... day on which the curtain rises begins with one of these trying do- mestic incidents. Mimmy has just done his best with a new sword of surpassing exce... ...s begotten a son to do for him what he cannot do for himself. In the above incidents, those gentle moralizers who find the serious philosophy of the m... ...nicle. The imputation of falsehood to Brynhild was strongly re- sented and combated, in spite of the unanswerable evidence of the text. It was contend... ...nd dignity, the impossibility of any credible scenic presen- tation of the incidents, and the extreme staginess of the con- ventions by which these im...

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...t I send thee back to the children of the world—to the cold charity of the combat, and to a land of victory. I read an other destiny in thy countenan... ...and trample on his veneration, and deliver him over to the cold charity of combat, and blot him out with his own lighted torch. But the feeling does n... ...among the uncivilized inhabitants of America. I have met with friends, and combated with foes; but none of these gratify my ambition, or decide what i... ...ectations; but he was always promptly sent back to the cold charity of the combat again; he learned to play the fiddle, and made a name for himself in... ...t I send thee back to the children of the world—to the cold charity of the combat, and to a land of victory. I read an other destiny in thy countenan... ...dent, and also at his funeral, and distinctly remembered all the prominent incidents connected with those noted events. From this period we hear no mo...

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...lusively with cases of sexual attraction, and yet forbidden to exhibit the incidents of that attraction or 5 Man & Superman even to discuss its natur... ... do in Shakespear’s tragedies: that is, dissect out the absurd sensational incidents and physical violences of the borrowed story from the genuine Sha... ...aded of his honey by beings inferior to himself in simple acquisitiveness, combat- iveness, and fecundity, but superior to him in imagination and cunn... ...tween Hector and a strange elder, both apparently on the verge of personal combat. He looks from one to the other for an explanation. They sulkily avo...

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...ee the various manifestations of these instincts. Some are quarrelsome and combative and will fight on the slightest provocation. Oth- ers are distinc... ...fing place for boys like himself. These 39 gather nightly and talk of the incidents that interest most people, mainly the abnormal things of life and... ...about under favorable conditions, is shown by the methods and virulence of combat during the vicious mas- sacre in the war just ended. Can the conclus...

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...eroes and kings of Scotland have been tragically fated; the most mark- ing incidents in Scottish history – Flodden, Darien, or the Forty-five were sti... ... graves. There, in the hot fits of youth, I came to be un- happy. Pleasant incidents are woven with my memory of the place. I here made friends with a... ...the process, they are always worthily shared. There is a certain attitude, combative at once and deferen- tial, eager to fight yet most averse to quar... ... there stood displayed a theatre in working order, with a “forest set,” a “combat,” and a few “robbers carousing” in the slides; and below and about, ... ...- ing of that inn more fully. So it is with names and faces; so it is with incidents that are idle and inconclusive in themselves, and yet seem like t... ...’s wife, Mr. Melnotte dal- lying in the deserted banquet-room, are typical incidents, epically conceived, fitly embodying a crisis. Or again look at T... ... of perfect story- telling; the man never breathed who shared these moving incidents without a tremor; and yet Faria is a thing of pack- thread and Da... ...e and formidable. So as they appear insidi- ous in deceit and fatal in the combat, they have served their end. Danger is the matter with which this cl...