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...mencement was a dream, dreamt some weeks after reading that most interesting collection of sketches. The return of the squire with the tidings of the death of the two knights was vividly depicted in sleep; and, though without local habitation or name, the scene was most likely to have been a reflection from the wild scenes so lately read of....

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...g collection of sketches. The return of the squire with the tidings of the death of the two knights was vividly depicted in sleep; and, though without... ...y familiar to us as failing to keep up his authority in Flanders after the death of Mary of Burgundy, as lingering to fulfil his engagement with Anne ... ...’s own father was an avaricious, undig- nified old man, not until near his death Archduke of even all Austria, and with anarchy prevailing everywhere ... ...e cherished in her window, to supply her future bridal wreath. Now pale as death, but so resolutely composed as to be almost disappointing to her demo... ...ly in mind of Barbara Schmidt’s little sister, who had pined and wasted to death. “Never mind, Trudchen,” answered the brother kindly; “meantime I hav... ...g girl, who would hardly find a mate of her own rank, and who had not even dowry enough for a convent, was such a shame and burthen to her as to be al... ...money and your fee to the heralds, and largess to the crowd.” “Mother, the dowry,” said Ebbo. “At your service, my son,” said Christina, anxious to ch...

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... change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky, And with them scourge the bad revolting stars That have consented unto Henry?s death! King Henry the Fifth, too famous to live long! England ne?er lost a king of so much worth....

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...d with them scourge the bad revolting stars That have consented unto Henry’s death! King Henry the Fifth, too famous to live long! England ne’er lost ... ...d? Henry is dead and never shall revive: Upon a wooden coffin we attend, And death’s dishonorable victory We with our stately presence glorify, Like c... ... or the loss of those great towns Will make him burst his lead and rise from death. GLOUCESTER: Is Paris lost? is Rouen yielded up? If Henry were rec... ...will rush on them. Now for the honor of the forlorn French! Him I forgive my death that killeth me When he sees me go back one foot or fly. [Exeunt.] ... ...o enlarge itself Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought. With Henry’s death the English circle ends; Dispersed are the glories it included. Now... ...fers his only daughter to your grace In marriage, with a large and sumptuous dowry. KING HENRY VI : Marriage, uncle! alas, my years are young! And fi...

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...uestion was for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways--Who was to be the new Bishop? The death of old Dr. Grantly, who had for many years filled the chair with meek authority, took place exactly as the ministry of Lord--was going to give place to that Lord--....

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... and answered every hour in various ways—Who was to be the new Bishop? The death of old Dr Grantly, who had for many years filled the chair with meek ... ...The breath ebbed from him almost imperceptibly, and for a month before his death, it was a question whether he was alive or dead. A trying time was th... ...ed at the dying man’s impas- sive, placid face. There was no sign there of death or dis- ease; it was something thinner than of yore, somewhat grayer,... ...hen at last dared to ask himself whether he really longed for his father’s death. The effort was a salutary one, and the question was answered in a mo... ...as no loud rattle in the throat, no dreadful struggle, no palpable sign of death; but the lower jaw fell a little from its place, and the eyes, which ... ...rchdeacon. Miss Thorne thought that a young lady, marriageable, and with a dowry, might be of more efficacy. In looking through the catalogue of her u...

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...ILLE and DUMAIN.] FERDINAND: Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live register?d upon our brazen tombs And then grace us in the disgrace of death; When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, The endeavor of this present breath may buy That honor which shall bate his scythe?s keen edge And make us heirs of all eternity. Therefore, brave conquerors,--for so you are, T...

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..., Live register’d upon our brazen tombs And then grace us in the disgrace of death; When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, The endeavor of this pres... ...man may owe, Matchless Navarre; the plea of no less weight Than Aquitaine, a dowry for a queen. Be now as prodigal of all dear grace As Nature was in ... ...lled. HOLOFERNES: Sir Nathaniel, will you hear an extemporal epitaph on the death of the deer? And, to humor the ignorant, call I the deer the princ... ...leaves the wind, All unseen, can passage find; That the lover, sick to death, Wish himself the heaven’s breath. Air, quoth he, thy cheeks ... ...t. ROSALINE: But shall we dance, if they desire to’t? PRINCESS: No, to the death, we will not move a foot; Nor to their penn’d speech render we no g... ...at is this? BOYET: A cittern head. DUMAIN: The head of a bodkin. BIRON: A Death’s face in a ring. LONGAVILLE: The face of an old Roman coin, scarc...

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...by the brooke, The trembling foule dismayd with dreadfull sight Of death, the which them almost ouertooke, Doe hide themselues from her... ... fight. But he for nought could him thereto constraine. For as the death he hated such despight, And rather had to lose, then trie in a... ...that doe strive, Saues Terpine from the gallow tree, and doth from death repriue. VVho so vpon him selfe will take the skill T rue... ...to the Sea her selfe did headlong throw, Thinking to haue her griefe by death bereaued. But see how much her purpose was deceaued. Whil... ...d. Whilest thus amidst the billowes beating of her T wixt life and death, long to and fro she weaued, She chaunst vnwares to light vppo... ...ortion of that good, which Fortune gaue her, Together with her selfe in dowry free; Both goodly portions, but of both the better she. Y... ...owne. Your brothers threasure, which from him is strayd, Being the dowry of his wife well knowne, By what right doe you claime to be yo...

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...bout her bleeding wound, And sucked vp their dying mothers blood, Making her death their life, and eke her hurt their good. That detestable sight him ... ...ched state You, whom my hard auenging destinie Hath made iudge of my life or death indifferently. 16 THE FIRST BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QVEENE Your owne d... ...as afterward, I know not how, conuaid And fro me hid: of whose most innocent death When tidings came to me vnhappy maid, O how great sorrow my sad sou... ...And to this wretched Lady, my deare loue, O too deare loue, loue bought with death too deare. Astond he stood, and vp his haire did houe, And with tha... ...due auenging wrong? Whose yeelded pride and proud submission, Still dreading death, when she had marked long, Her hart gan melt in great compassion, A... ...t a while Till morrow next, that I the Elfe subdew, And with Sans foyes dead dowry you endew. Ay me, that is a double death (she said) With proud foes...

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...ver of the King of England’s own proper cost and charges, without having any dowry.’ KING HENRY VI : They please us well. Lord marquess, kneel down: ... ...rge style Agrees not with the leanness of his purse. SALISBURY: Now, by the death of Him that died for all, These counties were the keys of Normandy.... ...e duke yet lives that Henry shall depose; But him outlive, and die a violent death. [As the Spirit speaks, SOUTHWELL writes the answer .] BOLINGBROKE:... ... duke yet lives, that Henry shall depose; But him outlive, and die a violent death.’ Why, this is just ‘Aio te, AEacida, Romanos vincere posse .’ Well... ...sing up wicked spirits from under ground, Demanding of King Henry’s life and death, And other of your highness’ privy council; As more at large your g... ...y son, Henry VI, Part Two, Act II, scene ii 30 Who after Edward the Third’s death reign’d as king; Till Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster, The eld...

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...as a pretty daughter, whom he refused for many years to recognize; but the death of his son, unfor- tunately killed in a duel, has compelled him to ta... ...e poor girl has suddenly become one of the richest heiresses in Paris. The death of his son threw the poor man into an agony of grief, which sometimes... ...with extraordinary ardor to plan a crime theoretically. While fancying the death of the merchant he saw distinctly the gold and the diamonds. His eyes... ...way under him. 20 The Red Inn “This coward of a sawbones deserves a dozen deaths! Get on!” cried the two soldiers who had him in charge, lending him ... ...e restores to me my innocence. My life would always have been wretched; my death leaves me without reproach. But is there a future?” The whole eightee... ... right to be- tray a secret surprised by me,—to add a murdered head to the dowry of an innocent girl, to give her for the rest of her life bad dreams,...

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... treasure in the womb of earth, For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death, Speak of it: stay, and speak! Stop it, Marcellus. MARCELLUS: Sha... ..., and Attendants .] KING CLAUDIUS : Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s death The memory be green, and that it us befitted To bear our hearts in ... ...Holding a weak supposal of our worth, Or thinking by our late dear brother’s death Our state to be disjoint and out of frame, Colleagued with the drea... ...st the dead, a fault to nature, To reason most absurd: whose common theme Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried, From the first corse till he ... ... Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death, Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre, Wherein we saw thee... ...eet heavens! HAMLET: If thou dost marry, I’ll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou Hamlet, Act III,...

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...t in his absence from the press; and those published after 13 Shelley his death. The first class includes “Queen Mab”, “The Re- volt of Islam”, and “... ...rd class of Shelley’s writings— those which were first published after his death—sufficient facsimiles have been published to prove that Trelawny’s gr... ... passed from her to her son and daughter-in-law. After Sir Percy Shelley’s death, Lady Shelley took the occasion of the erec- tion of the monument to ... ...protracted. ‘If I die to-morrow,’ he said, on the eve of his unanticipated death, ‘I have lived to be older than my father.’ The weight of thought and... ...rumque premunt tot saecula pectus. —Lucan, Phars. v. 176. How wonderful is Death, Death and his brother Sleep! One pale as yonder wan and horned moon,... ...or a firm man to bear: but I Have a dear wife, a lady of high birth, Whose dowry in ill hour I lent my father _20 Without ... ... _125 And such is Cenci: and while Cenci lives His daughter’s dowry were a secret grave If a priest wins her.—Oh, fair Beatrice! Would th... ... tell you what he did. This old Francesco Cenci, as you know, Borrowed the dowry of my wife from me, _300 And then denie... ...s. And then, that I might strike him dumb with shame, I spoke of my wife’s dowry; but he coined A brief yet specious tale, how I had wasted The sum in...

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...used it for their own purposes. About the year 1150, five years before the death of Geoffrey, an Anglo Norman, Geoffrey Gaimar, wrote the first French... ...fth century. We cannot be certain of the exact year of his birth or of his death, but we know that he lived approximately from 1100 to 1175. Practical... ...d; the hawks him smite, the hounds him bite, then is the royal fowl at his death time.” 15 Layamon lets his imagination display itself not merely in t... ...thy castles are held of none save those true men who will hold them to the death. If you act not after this counsel right speedily there must reign an... ...to do him mischief, had not Vortigern required of them such deed. When the death of the king was told to them who held the two brothers in ordinance, ... ... damsel only on such covenant that the king should deliver him Kent as her dowry. The king coveted the maiden so greatly, he doted so dearly, that he ... ...that he espoused her the same evening, and bestowed on Hengist Kent as her dowry. Hengist went into Kent, and seized all the country into his hand. He...

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...over deceiving her, by not know- ing how to die for her pleasure. Thus the death of Philippe was foreshadowed in the viper’s glance she cast at him to... ... essential properties. “Ha!” said she, drawing back, “you wish to cause my death, you ecclesiastical idiot. The principal thing for you is to en- joy ... ... yourself; my sweet carcass, a thing accessory. Your plea- sure will be my death, and then you’ll canonise me perhaps? Ah, you have the plague, and yo... ...sire that you leave me instantly. If you are touched with the dis- ease my death will not worry you. I know you well enough to know at what price you ... ..., my love,— my gentle Dove—I promise you the best place in heaven. Eh? No. Death to you then—death to the sorceress.” “Oh, oh! I will kill you, Monsei... ...find objections to her pursuer, she made him give her a fat settlement and dowry as the price of her conquest, and then gave the old knave leave to wi...

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...wish to dispose of all?” “Yes.” “But they will contest the will after your death?” “No.” “My father knows me,” replied Villefort; “he is quite sure th... ...u, and M. d’Epinay , even if he took Mademoiselle de Villefort without any dowry, which he will not do, would be delighted with the idea of entering a... ... feared to find under their stone wings some little human genius fagged to death with cabals, factions, and government in- trigues. But one fine day I... ...oting a new railway line; you, M. de Villefort, in condemning a culprit to death; you, M. Debray, in pacifying a king- dom; you, M. de Chateau-Renaud,... ...ck in this house,” said Debray. 47 Alexandre Dumas Ever since Valentine’s dowry had been mentioned, Morrel had been silent and sad. “Can you imagine,... ...s relating horrible stories to us, doubt- less intending to frighten us to death.” “Yes,” said Villefort, “really, count, you frighten the ladies.” “W... ...d Danglars, “have always intended giving my daughter 500,000 francs as her dowry; she is, besides, my sole heiress.” 214 The Count of Monte Cristo “A... ...e look towards heaven. “I accept it,” said she; “he has a right to pay the dowry, which I shall take with me to some convent!” Putting the letter in h... ...e to pay M. Cavalcanti the five hundred thousand francs you promise for my dowry?” “He shall receive then on returning from the mayor’s.”* “Very well!...

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...f Ios, now Ino, where he fell extremely ill, and died. It is said that his death arose from vexation, at not having been able to unravel an enigma pro... ...whole creation springs, The source of power on earth derived to kings! His death was equal to the direful deed; So may the man of blood be doomed to b... ...ns the Greek to roam, 31 Pope A hopeless exile from his native home, From death alone exempt but cease to mourn; Let all combine to achieve his wis... ... delusion fed, Deaf to the rumour of fallacious fame, Gives to the roll of death his glorious name! With venial freedom let me now demand Thy name, th... ...y not the rich Icarian dome? If she must wed, from other hands require The dowry: is Telemachus her sire? Yet through my court the noise of revel ring... ...uous anger rise; Your fame revere, but most the avenging skies. By all the deathless powers that reign above, By righteous Themis and by thundering Jo...

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...murderer into the hands of the mother of him he had so caused to be put to death, for they were only brothers by the father’s side; she, in his presen... ... horrid crimes as upon men who reproach them with them, and think by their deaths to erase the memory and testimony of such proceedings. Or if, perhap... ...ion of conscience. Seeing that the daughter of Sejanus could not be put to death by the law of Rome, because she was a virgin, she was, to make it law... ...intro- duced into the nation the practice that the criminal con- demned to death should with his own hand execute the sen- tence, thinking it strange ... ...great courage of his, so full, so obstinate against pain and 19 Montaigne death and poverty, to such an extreme degree of sweetness and compassion? D... ...in familiarities derived from any other title, as marriage is: alli- ance, dowry, therein sway by reason, as much or more than grace and beauty. Men d... ...uality of a woman, which a man ought to seek before any other, as the only dowry that must ruin or preserve our houses. Let men say what they will, ac...

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...LCH and MARIA.] SIR TOBY BELCH: What a plague means my niece, to take the death of her brother thus? I am sure care s an enemy to life. MARIA: By m... ...wn: Good madonna, why mournest thou? OLIVIA: Good fool, for my brother s death. Clown: I think his soul is in hell, madonna. OLIVIA: I know his so... ...Malvolio? doth he not mend? MALVOLIO: Yes, and shall do till the pangs of death shake him: infirmity, that decays the wise, doth ever make the better... ... SONG. Clown: Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; ... ... O, prepare it! 53 Act II, scene iv My part of death, no one so true Did share it. ... ...his device. SIR ANDREW: So could I too. SIR TOBY BELCH: And ask no other dowry with her but such another jest. SIR ANDREW: Nor I neither. FABIAN: ... ...a spe- cial care of him: I would not have him miscarry for the half of my dowry. [Exeunt OLIVIA and MARIA.] MALVOLIO: O, ho! do you come near me no...

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...ed; But leaden-hearted, leaden-heeled, I marked them steadfast in the field. Death grimly sided with the foe, And smote each leaden hero low. Proudly ... ...y rector; Opened his eyes and held his breath, And flattered to the point of death; And was at last, by that good fairy, Apprenticed to the Apothecary... ...ion (Smooth, honourable, fat and flowery, With Heaven knows how much land in dowry), Look at me - Am I in good case? Look at my hands, look at my face... ...er?’ Robin cried. ‘O she!’ said Ben - ‘I think she died.’ ‘Battle and blood, death and disease, Upon the tainted Tropic seas – The attendant sharks th... ... to their inmost heart. 21 Moral Emblems There shall the simple tenant find Death in the falling window-blind, Death in the pipe, death in the faucet...

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...Caux, not Caus. That great man has always been unfortunate; even after his death his name is mangled. Salomon, whose portrait taken at the age of fort... ...nal made, and imparted to Louis XIII., of secret documents relating to the death of Henri IV . Catherine dé Medici, on the contrary, saved the crown o... ...t time, de Thou, knew well the value of this woman when, on hearing of her death, he exclaimed: “It is not a woman, it is monarchy itself that has die... ...n. Catherine wrote, from the cabinet of the kings of France, a sentence of death to that spirit of inquiry which then began to threaten modern society... ...f modern societies, una fides, unus dominus, using their power of life and death upon the inno- vators. Though Catherine was vanquished, succeeding ce... ...cousin of Mary Stuart, her daughter-in-law. Catherine now learned that her dowry in money was a hun- dred thousand ducats. A ducat was a gold piece of... ...wenty). The Comtes of Auvergne and Lauraguais were also made a part of the dowry, and Pope Clement added one hundred thousand ducats in jewels, precio... ...ire de Montmorency, and the Cardinal de Givry.” When Strozzi delivered the dowry in presence of the court he noticed some surprise on the part of the ... ...ave to the simplest gentlemen. Though Diane de Poitiers offered an immense dowry, a fine office under the crown, and the favor of the king, the vidame...

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...hare of the Vicomtesse de Fontaine hav- ing been bought out by them on the death of the elder Mongenod in 1827. Frederic Mongenod, a handsome young ma... ...effaced. But there had never been the slightest jar between us two. At the death of his father, in 1787, Mongenod was left richer than I. Though I had... ...follows! I hope you never may know it; it is far worse than the anguish of death. You have written me letters which, if I had written them to you in a... ... been brought up in the thought of becoming your wife, and she will have a dowry of five hundred thousand francs.’ ‘God forbid that I should make her ... ...r the Restoration. His daughter, to whom he subsequently gave a million in dowry, married the Vicomte de Fontaine. The eldest son, whom you know, is n... ...e.” “That must mean,” said Godefroid, “that you are against the penalty of death?” Monsieur Nicolas rose hastily and left the room. “Do not ever menti... ...icolas rose hastily and left the room. “Do not ever mention the penalty of death again before Monsieur Nicolas,” said Monsieur Alain. “He recognized i... ...less she could make a mar- riage which renounced on the husband’s side the dowry her family could not give her. This was frequently the case in the fa... ...of Mademoiselle Philiberte for his son, provided he would take her without dowry. He went to Bayeux, had several interviews with the Champignelles’s f...

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..., fate sets its mark on the faces of those who are doomed to die a violent death of any kind. Now, this sign, this seal, visible to the eye of an obse... ...of four rows of elms where Michu’s dog was now suspecting spies. After the death of the Grand Marquis this pavilion fell into disuse. The vice-admiral... ...Cobourg, the marquis and his wife were thrust into prison and condemned to death by the revolu- tionary tribunal of T royes, of which Madame Michu’s f... ...loodless, his thin flat nose had the sardonic expression which we see in a death’s head, and his green eyes were inscrutable; their glance was discree... ...that copse. It is en- closed in a tin tube. Do not touch it until after my death. And remember, Marthe, whatever happens to me, that in spite of man’s... ...nsieur d’Hauteserre at the moment when consols fell in 1830, gave Berthe a dowry of eighty thousand francs a year in 1833, when she was twenty. About ... ..., or whether it was only the princess who coveted for her son the splendid dowry. Did the celebrated Diane court the noble provincial house? and was t...