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... sorry for him, if his daughter were ugly? Andros is the next thing to a dwarf in size. He has the face of a twenty-year- old, although he must be w... ...o hide beauty behind a mask. The King is wearing my skeleton cloak. Three dwarfs will appear as miniature elephants. I will wear a replica of a came... ...pages. On the distant shore of a lake, a castle breaks through a grove of beech. Hamnet is laughing at his unhooded bird. “Have you unseeled him?” ... ...ody prolonged patience. The White House December 29, ’63 I met Harriet Beecher Stowe the other day, and liked her. We sat in front of my white fi... ...lebrations. Longfellow, Whittier, Emerson and politicos attended. Harriet Beecher Stowe came. Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony was played. Throughout the...

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...rough a gap in the hedge, I began to go down hill through a pretty extensive tract of young beeches. I was soon in shadow myself, but the afternoon su... ...tion that this must be a lunatic who stood laughing aloud at a white don- key in the placid beech-woods. I was sure, by her face, that she had already... ...ndover and, as far as I could see, all the hills in Buckinghamshire, wear a sort of hood of beech plantation; but in this particular case the hood had... ...ard. And sure enough, a rickyard it proved to be, and a neat little farm-steading, with the beech- woods growing almost to the door of it. Just before... ...more ordinary barn-door fowls, were all feeding together on this little open lawn among the beeches. They fed in a dense crowd, which swayed to and fr... ...heavy beat of surf; one much broken in 134 Essays of Travel outline, with small havens and dwarf headlands; if possible a few islets; and as a first ...

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... the leaves labouring in the wind and the ribbon of the road; and, on turning my head, there was Modestine tied to a beech, and standing half across t... ...as to find a fraction of my day-dreams realised. I was on the skirts of a little wood of birch, sprinkled with a few beeches; behind, it adjoined anot... ...trace of his passage, save where generation after generation had walked in twisted foot- paths, in and out among the beeches, and up and down upon the... ...p hollow, set itself to cross the mountain of La Goulet. It wound up through Lestampes by upland fields and woods of beech and birch, and with every c... ...s. The road zigzagged so widely on the hillside, that I chose a short cut by map and compass, and struck through the dwarf woods to catch the road aga... ...ion; and look- ing across the valley, I saw a little urchin sitting in a meadow, with his hands about his knees, and dwarfed to almost comical smallne... ...s going to the devil. It was not until I was fairly seated by the driver, and rat- tling through a rocky valley with dwarf olives, that I became aware...

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...ch each eve, Gliding peacefully below Oh, the poplars on yon spot! Oh, the beech trees in yon grove! And behind we’ll build a cot, Where to taste the ... ...he but crumbs there outspread! But lo! there appears a diminutive wight, A dwarf ’tis, yet graceful, and bearing a light, With orator-gestures that no... ... e’en now we were bent. And if thou’lt allow it, and seek not to chide, We dwarfs will all banquet with pleasure and pride, T o honour the wealthy, th... ...ong. DAMON. Thou’rt welcome, friend! but suffer me to roam Where these old beeches hide me from man’s view: Love seeks in solitude a home, And homage ... ... vie with earnest will. One amongst the band betimes Goes to wander By the beeches, ‘neath the limes, Yonder seeking, finding yonder That which in the... .... From my couch then boldly spring I, And I seek the darling Muses, in the beechen-grove I find them, Full of pieasure to receive me; And to the torme... ... and peep through my red-colourd palings At my beggars of stone, and at my dwarfs, which were painted, He to whom I gave coffee inside my beautiful gr...

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...r luckless flight Thy brother bold I slew. ‘Now must I teach to hew the beech The hand that held the glaive, For leaves to spread our lowly bed,... ... ’tis merry, in good greenwood; So blithe Lady Alice is singing; On the beech’s pride, and oak’s brown side, Lord Richard’s axe is ringing. Up s... ... ruined church, His voice was ghostly shrill. ‘Why sounds yon stroke on beech and oak, Our moonlight circle’s screen? Or who comes here to chase... ...ce raise, And Richard is fagots bringing. Up Urgan starts, that hideous dwarf, Before Lord Richard stands, And, as he crossed and blessed himsel... ...s our inconstant shape, Who now like knight and lady seem, And now like dwarf and ape. ‘It was between the night and day, When the Fairy King ha... ...post With hardihood against a host. The rugged mountain’s scanty cloak Was dwarfish shrubs of birch and oak With shingles bare, and cliffs between And... ...nison. ... This jealousy was also an attribute of the northern Duergar, or dwarfs; to many of whose distinctions the fairies seem so have succeeded, i... ...perate adventures, from a rash violation of the rose-garden of an Elfin or Dwarf King. “There are yet traces of a belief in this worst and most ma- li...

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...urse of the stream was marked by tall ferns and weeds, then into a wood of beeches, where the sun lighted the deli- cate young foliage, while the hors... ...e—a piece of civilisation such as the Dunbar captivity had not known—three beechen bowls and spoons, and a porringer containing a not unsavoury stew o... ... the dark masses of pine throwing out the lighter, more delicate sweeps of beech, and pale purple distance beyond—not another building within view, gi... ...ux, with its wonderful chivalrous adventures, and the appear- ances of the dwarf Oberon; and she greatly enjoyed the idea of the pleasure it would giv... ...avine. Nothing was to be seen all round but the tops of trees— dark pines, beeches, and chestnuts in the gay, light green of 139 Yo n g e spring, a h... ...en suffi- ciently trampled for the track to be easy to find, but after the beech-trees with no underwood had been reached, he had of- ten very slight ...

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...nd of the duty 23 Kipling thereto of the mistress of Pardons. A gate in a beech hedge, reached across triple lawns, let them out before tea-time into... ...I want your hand, please,” said Sophie as soon as they were safe among the beech boles and the lawless hollies. “D’you remember the old maid in ‘Provi... ... from laying, now and then, when they overfeed themselves. They only raise dwarf drones.” But we’re hatching out drones with workers’ stomachs; worker... ...ers who can’t pack pollen—like that poor little beast yonder. I don’t mind dwarf drones any more than you do (they all die in July), but this steady h... ... it also crumbled to pieces. The little swarm shivered as they watched the dwarf drone- grubs squirm feebly on the grass. Many sound bees had nursed o... ...e two Jersey cows grazed. Tea was ready in the shade of a promising copper beech, and I could see groups on the lawn of young men and maidens appropri... ...I expect the run tired you. My good lady is sitting there under the copper beech.” She was a fat woman in an apricot-coloured gown, with a heavily pow... ...id. “A very good man.” He turned towards me in the evening light among the beeches, and his face was changed to what it might have been a generation b...

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...ternoon of Spring, with the full red disk of sun dropping behind the brown beech-twigs. She remembered long afterward the sweet simpleness of her feel... ...d pointed to a new direction of the road on that fine spring morning, when beech-buds were near the burst, cowslips yellowed the meadow-flats, and sky... ... through two Winters. The opportunities had been numberless. Here, in this beech wood; near that thornbush; on the juniper slope; from the corner of c... ...-ridge to sand, where he had a pleasant footing in familiar country, under beeches that browned the ways, along beside a meadowbrook fed by the height... ... the sturdy wheels of a waggon, which sent it reclining for support upon a beech-tree’s huge intertwisted serpent roots, amid strips of brown bracken ... ...true descendant of practical hard-grained fighting Northerners, of gnarled dwarf imaginations, chivalrous though they were, and heroes to have service... ...ng sands of the ebb in semicircle: a desolate place at that season; with a dwarf fishing-village by the shore; an East wind driving landward in stream... ...w. Diana said: ‘There are many Alexanders, but Alexander of Macedon is not dwarfed by the number.’ She gave him an opening for a smarter reply, but he...

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...ous concords, seized at once With savage inspiration,—pine, And larch, and beech, and fir, and thorn, And ash, and oak, and oakling, rave 41 And shri... ...ge ocean-strand With one incessant drowning screech. Here stood a solitary beech, That gave its gold with open hand, And all its branches, toning chil... ...ed shoots Of stubborn and prickly kind, The juniper flat on its roots, The dwarf rhododaphne, behind She left, and the mountain sheep Far behind, goat... ...in grasses and rubble of woody wreck. 222 LOVE IN THE VALLEY Under yonder beech-tree single on the greensward, Couched with her arms behind her golde... ...at her leisure steps the moon aglow. Nightlong on black print-branches our beech-tree Gazes in this whiteness: nightlong could I. Here may life on de... ...re that spoke 230 Of provender, its pale flame puffed, And rolled athwart dwarf furzes grey-blue smoke. Soon on the dark edge of a ruddier gleam, The... ...n, Restrain, lest we backslide on whence we sprang, Scarce better than our dwarf beginning shoot, Of every gathered pearl and blossom shorn; Through t... ...nging sconce. Or heard she from scarred ranks of jolly growls His veterans dwarf their reverence and, like owls, Laugh in the pitch of discord, to exa... ... runs, the Goddess hies, The generous Goddess yields. And she can arm Her dwarfed and twisted with her secret charm; Benevolent as Earth to feed her ...

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...ot because the firs were many, but because they were few. It was a wood of beeches and limes, with here and there a light silver-stemmed birch—just th... ...u look with a too curious sacrilegious eye, they vanish behind the silvery beeches, they make you believe that their voice was only a running brooklet... ...f these paths that Arthur Donnithorne passed, under an avenue of limes and beeches. It was a still afternoon—the golden light was lingering languidly ... ...o get out of the Grove, which surely was haunted by his evil genius. Those beeches and smooth limes— there was something enervating in the very sight ... ...ehaved with true feminine folly, though looking all the while as wise as a dwarf with a large old-fashioned head and body on the most abbre- viated le... ... The fine old remnant stood a little backward and under the shadow of tall beeches, but the sun was now on the taller and more advanced front, the bli...

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...hing the tree tops, and the water courses are full; when the moss on every beech he sees will tell him in what quarter the north star will shine at 3... ...rom briers! Seat yourselves in the shade which the moon throws from yonder beech—’tis thicker than that of the pines— and let us wait for that which t... ...ll, while the remains of their provisions were spread under the shade of a beech, that stretched its horizontal limbs like a canopy above them. Notwit... ...y any suggestion of his own, and to strengthen the temptation, he left the beech, and straggled, as if without an object, to the spot where Le Renard ... ... perceived another portion of the veil fluttering on the lower branch of a beech. “Softly, softly,” said the scout, extending his long rifle in front ... ...e of Uncas; and, moving deliberately, with a sort of grave march, toward a dwarf pine that grew in the crevices of the rocky terrace, he tore the bark...

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...t is adorned with vines; which here, as in Italy, they train to grow about dwarf elm trees, whose leaves are stripped off to feed the cattle. Nature, ... ...f granite that rise above it, their sides covered with the leafage of tall beeches and dark fir trees to the height of a hundred feet. The trees, with... ...n door; and here and there were a few stools consisting of rough blocks of beech-wood, each set upon three wooden legs; a hutch for bread, a large woo... ...n set by the little streams in the garden space. A thick belt of pines and beeches grew behind the house, so that the picturesque little dwelling was ... ...tronger.” “The shot came from that quarter,” said Genestas, indi- cating a beech-wood up above them on the mountain side. “Yes, up there; you may trus...

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...ir meed; In love I proved my truth and loyalty; The hugest giant was a dwarf for me; Ever to knighthood’s laws gave I good heed. My mastery the ... ...ed, and at a short distance from it he checked Rocinante, hoping that some dwarf would show himself upon the battlements, and by sound of trumpet give... ...h it seemed to Don Quixote to be what he was expecting, the signal of some dwarf announcing his arrival; and so with prodigious satisfaction he rode u... ...ccour them at once by fetching through the air upon a cloud some damsel or dwarf with a vial of water of such virtue that by tasting one drop of it th... ...ot far from this there is a spot where there are a couple of dozen of tall beeches, and there is not one of them but has carved and written on its smo... ...nly through the door of the hall there will enter a hideous and diminutive dwarf followed by a fair dame, between two giants, who comes with a certain... ...n Quixote settled him- self at the foot of an elm, and Sancho at that of a beech, for trees of this kind and others like them always have feet but no ... ..., and Ricote drawing Sancho aside, they seated themselves at the foot of a beech, leaving the pilgrims buried in sweet sleep; and without once falling... ...bt, or trouble of any sort. Don Quixote, propped up against the trunk of a beech or a cork tree—for Cide Hamete does not specify what kind of tree it ...

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... runs, the Goddess hies, The generous Goddess yields. And she can arm Her dwarfed and twisted with her secret charm; Benevolent as Earth to feed her ... ...should kind occasion nod, Aspiring blends the Titan with the God; Yet unto dwarf and mortal, she, submiss In her high Lady’s mandate, yields the kiss;... ...eath we drew Delighted with our world’s embrace: The moss-root smell where beeches grew, And watered grass in breezy space; The silken heights, of gho...

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...ir meed; In love I proved my truth and loyalty; The hugest giant was a dwarf for me; Ever to knighthood’s laws gave I good heed. My mastery the ... ...ed, and at a short distance from it he checked Rocinante, hoping that some dwarf would show himself upon the battlements, and by sound of trumpet give... ...h it seemed to Don Quixote to be what he was expecting, the signal of some dwarf announcing his arrival; and so with prodigious satisfaction he rode u... ...ccour them at once by fetching through the air upon a cloud some damsel or dwarf with a vial of water of such virtue that by tasting one drop of it th... ...ot far from this there is a spot where there are a couple of dozen of tall beeches, and there is not one of them but has carved and written on its smo... ...nly through the door of the hall there will enter a hideous and diminutive dwarf followed by a fair dame, between two giants, who comes with a certain...

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...f his body. The chest- nuts down the hill to the right were flowering, the beeches were luminously green, and the oaks in the valley foaming gold. And... ...d there was the first view of the blue Lake of Presba seen between silvery beech stems, and that too had Olympus in the far background, plain now and ... ...ring through their parted branches, there were ilex woods, chestnut woods, beech woods, and there were strings of heavily-laden mules staggering up to... ...Wells secutions, why we let famine, disease and beasts assail us, and want dwarf and cripple vast multitudes in the midst of possible plenty. And when...

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...ere a cedar two hundred years old, weeping willows, a Norway spruce, and a beech which overtops them all; and there, in front of the main tower, some ... ...ng ef- fect when you first meet him; he seems a Titan, but he con- tains a dwarf, like the pasteboard giant who saluted Queen Elizabeth at the gates o... ...ere content ourselves with two paragraphs. A projecting rock, covered with dwarf trees and abraded at its base by the Avonne, to which circumstance it... ...elegantly dressed woman within it, will be understood. This girl, almost a dwarf, of Montenegrin vigor, loved the handsome, noble bailiff, as children... ...any attitudes; here the trunks twine down like boa-constrictors, there the beeches stand erect as a Greek column. The snails and the slugs move peacef...

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...wful sense Of one mute Shadow watching all. We paused: the winds were in the beech: We heard them sweep the winter land; 10 And in a circle hand in ha... ...; And if thou cast thine eyes below, 5 How dimly character’d and slight, How dwarf’d a growth of cold and night, How blanch’d with darkness must I gro... ..., the garden bough shall sway, The tender blossom flutter down, Unloved, that beech will gather brown, This maple burn itself away; Unloved, the sun flo...

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...rough the grass, to a neighboring brook, that babbled along among alders and dwarf willows. Hard by the farm house was a vast barn, that might have s... ... high in the air; the bark of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory nuts, and the pensive whistle of the quail at intervals...

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...nd im- pressive charm in any country; but German legends and fairy tales have given these an added charm. They have peopled all that region with gnome... ...on to a publication of the same contents as well as to the pirated edition of it.” “An evening landscape. In the foreground near a pond and a group of... ...st as the children might have left them when done with play the day before; the forest tracts were diminished to cushions of moss; one or two big lake... ...he size of a kneeling little boy in the center of the fore- ground; and according to the same scale, the Pope is seven feet high and the Doge is a shr...