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...alist composition, or first and last draft - How not to be bored in company - How to make speeches - How to write false novels - How to catch the eye of a woman you pass in the street - Against death...

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...rlepooles suck, smack, and embrace, Yet drowne them; so, the tapers beamie eye Amorously twinkling, beckens the giddie flie, Yet burnes his wing... ...I shall survay thee,’and spie Death in thy cheekes, and darknesse in thine eye. 40 Though hope bred faith and love: thus taught, I shall As natio... ...Too subtile: Foole, thou didst not understand The mystique language of the eye nor hand: Nor couldst thou judge the difference of the aire 5 Of s... ...e horse, upon the way I overtooke, the wench a pretty peate, And (by her eye) well fitting for the feate. I saw the lecherous Citizen turne back... ...OSTULATION John Donne: Elegies Let all eyes shunne him, and hee shunne each eye, Till hee be noysome as his infamie; May he without remorse d... ... Lovers, but two Loves the neasts) Succeeds a boundless sea, but yet thine eye Some Island moles may scattered there descry; And Sailing towards... ...en use 35 Are like Atlanta’s balls, cast in mens views, That when a fools eye lighteth on a Gem, His earthly soul may covet theirs, not them. L...

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...should beare the sinne of scorning it? Who from the picture would avert his eye, How would he flye his paines, who there did dye? From mee, no Pulp... ...both they, and thou Must perish soone, and to destruction bowe. For if the’eye seeke good objects, and will take - 9 - THE CROSSE John Donne: Holy ... ...rosse the rest, Make them indifferent all; call nothing best. But most the eye needs crossing, that can rome, And move; To th’other th’objects must... ...these things I durst not looke, durst I Upon his miserable mother cast mine eye, Who was Gods partner here, and furnish’d thus Halfe of that Sacrif... ... Sacrifice, which ransom’d us? Though these things, as I ride, be from mine eye, They’are present yet unto my memory, For that looks towards them; ... ... Trod upon Juda’s daughter in his wrath. For these things doe I weepe, mine eye, mine eye Casts water out; For he which should be nigh To comfo... ...ll Downe like a river, day and night; take thee No rest, but let thine eye incessant be. Arise, cry in the night, poure, for thy sinnes, T... ...e With ruine, and with waste, upon us are. With watry rivers doth mine eye oreflow For ruine of my peoples daughter so; Mine eye doth drop... ... Lord looke downe from heaven to see. And for my citys daughters sake, mine eye Doth breake mine heart. Causles mine enemy, Like a bird chac’d ...

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...esy Which little cared for fades not yet. 20 But since it pleased a vanish’d eye, I go to plant it on his tomb, That if it can it there may bloom, Or ... ... lapse of moons can canker Love, Whatever fickle tongues may say. And if that eye which watches guilt 5 And goodness, and hath power to see Within the ... ...n the moulder’d tree, And towers fall’n as soon as built— Oh, if indeed that eye foresee Or see (in Him is no before) 10 In more of life true life no ... ...t, looking each at each. Then echo like our voices rang; We sung, tho’ every eye was dim, A merry song we sang with him 15 Last year: impetuously we s... ...hose applause I strove, 5 I had such reverence for his blame, See with clear eye some hidden shame And I be lessen’d in his love? I wrong the grave wi... ... can The soul of Shakespeare love thee more. 64 In Memoriam LXI. THO’ if an eye that’s downward cast Could make thee somewhat blench or fail, Then be... ... the breaking morn. But what is this? I turn about, I find a trouble in thine eye, 10 Which makes me sad I know not why, Nor can my dream resolve the d... ...XVI. 79 LXXVI. WHAT hope is here for modern rhyme To him, who turns a musing eye On songs, and deeds, and lives, that lie Foreshorten’d in the tract o... ...ook to all the liberal air The dust and din and steam of town: He brought an eye for all he saw; He mixt in all our simple sports; 10 They pleased him...

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...battered triumphal arch of Septimius Severus, right below. Farther on, the eye skirts along the edge of the desolate Forum (where Roman washerwomen ha... ..., after examining the marble and the man with the accuracy of a sculptor’s eye. “There is one point, however, or, rather, two points, in respect to wh... ... character of the Faun, that makes it so delightful an object to the human eye and to the frailty of the human heart. The being here represented is en... ...our, that the same set of features has often no keeping with itself; to an eye, at least, which looks at expression more than outline. How sad and som... ...on occasion; the woman poet can use it as adroitly as her pen; the woman’s eye, that has discovered a new star, turns from its glory to send the polis... ... vases turned their backs on the spectator, presenting only a blank to the eye, and churlishly concealing whatever riches of scenery or human beauty M... ...subtilely idealized that they seemed such as we may see at any moment, and eye,where; while still there was the indefinable something added, or taken ... ...nto this airy region, and hold up their golden crosses on a level with her eye; except that, out of the very heart of Rome, the column of Antoninus th... ... performances, it is true, are often wonderfully decep- tive to a careless eye; but working entirely from the outside, and seeking only to reproduce t...

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...hat is strooken blind, cannot forget 241 The precious treasure of his eye- sight lost: 242 Shew me a Mistresse that is passing faire, 243 ... ...cures with anothers languish: 297 Take thou some new infection to the eye, 298 And the rank poyson of the old wil die. 299 Rom. You... ... the admired Beauties of Verona, 334 Go thither and with vnattainted eye, 335 Compare her face with some that I shall show, 336 And I ... ...thinke thy Swan a Crow. 337 Rom. When the deuout religion of mine eye 338 Maintaines such falshood, then turne teares to fire: 339 ... ...aire, none else being by, 344 Herselfe poys’d with herselfe in either eye: 345 But in that Christall scales, let there be waid, 346 You... ...ike, if looking liking moue. 444 But no more deepe will I endart mine eye, 445 Then your consent giues strength to make flye. 446 Enter... ...visage in, 483 A Visor for a Visor, what care I 484 What curious eye doth quote deformities: 485 Here are the Beetle- browes shall blus... ...e, 804 She speakes, yet she sayes nothing, what of that? 805 Her eye discourses, I will answere it: 806 I am too bold ’tis not to me sh... ...cheeke would shame those starres, 812 As day- light doth a Lampe, her eye in heauen, 813 Would through the ayrie Region streame so bright, ...

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...sh too. 14 Kim The old man halted by Zam Zammah and looked round till his eye fell on Kim. The inspiration of his pilgrimage had left him for awhile,... ...rowling in his beard. But it was Kim who had wakened the lama–Kim with one eye laid against a knot hole in the planking, who had seen the Delhi man’s ... ...stepped out with her bundles, and it was on her that Kim kept his watchful eye. Ladies of that persua sion, he knew, were generous. 30 Kim ‘A ticket... ... to repay courtesy with courtesy. ‘I see–and hear.’ The headman rolled his eye where Kim was chatting to a girl in blue as she laid crackling thorns o... ...raight back and a close clinging knee once more; a quick wrist and a keen eye; and the marrow that makes a man. Oh, the old days–the good days of my ... ...arcoal ball in the cup of a wayside carter’s hookah glowed red while Kim’s eye mechanically watched the last flicker of the sun on the brass tweezers.... ...lephant. This was perfectly true. ‘Ahai! I am only a beggar’s brat, as the Eye of Beauty has said,’ he wailed in extravagant terror. ‘Eye of Beauty, f... ...f fires and cooking of food, and new sights at every turn of the approving eye. The morning mist swept off in a whorl of silver, the parrots shot away... ...curtains and peered out, her veil a third across her face. Her men did not eye her 71 Rudyard Kipling directly when she addressed them, and thus the ...

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...en because she was strenuous, not because she was genial; she had had in her eye—and what an extraordinary eye it was!—not a pleasure, but a duty. She... ... American matron and the public character. There was something public in her eye, which was large, cold, and quiet; it had acquired a sort of exposed ... ...secure attention. She was a plain, spare young woman, with short hair and an eye glass; she looked about her with a kind of nearsighted deprecation, a... ...rs. Farrinder inquired, looking at her interlocutress, up and down, with the eye of business, in which there was a certain chill. ‘Have you got money?... ...whereas Doctor Prance appeared to bear none whatever. Except her intelligent eye, she had no features to speak of. 32 The Bostonians Ransom asked her... ...ippi— with a richness of compliment that made her turn her acute, suspicious eye upon him. This checked him; she was capable of thinking that he talke... ...k that queer)—was the tall, pale gentleman, with the black moustache and the eye glass. She knew him because she had met him in society; but she didn’... ..., I don’t know that the interest in singing is so general,’ said Miss Birds eye, quite unconscious of any slackness in preparing a substitute for the... ...urning over the whole assembly a glance like the flash of a watchman’s bull’s eye, and then quickly passed out. Ransom could see that she was impatient...

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...his is your dinner, is it?” “Yes, sir,” repeated Trotty, looking with a fixed eye and a watery mouth, at the piece of tripe he had reserved for a last ... ...se, as much as to say to both his friends, “Observe me, will you! Keep yohur eye on the practical man!” — and called Meg to him. “Come here, my girl!”... ...ear, so active a Justice always! Who such a mote of brightness in the public eye, as Cute! “You are going to be married, you say,” pursued the Alderma... ...er; that he might only see her. Ah! Changed. Changed. The light of the clear eye, how dimmed. The bloom, how faded from the cheek. Beautiful she was, ... ...ir Friends and Fathers, were to form a family assemblage, with not one manly eye therein unmoistened by emotion. But, there was more than this to happ... ...e Lilian, when her mother died and left her!” Why was her step so quick, her eye so wild, her love so fierce and terrible, whenever she repeated those ...

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...im wet return’d from field at Eve, He saw approach, who first with curious eye Perus’d him, then with words thus utt’red spake. 320 Sir, what... ...r Asmodai The fleshliest Incubus, and thus advis’d. Set women in his eye and in his walk, Among daughters of men the fairest found; Many a... ...of this Age the wonder and the fame, On whom his leisure will vouchsafe an eye 210 Of fond desire? or should she confident, As sitting Queen ador... ... Natures own work it seem’d (Nature taught Art) 295 And to a Superstitious eye the haunt Of Wood-Gods and Wood-Nymphs; he view’d it round, When... ...a, Nisibis, and there Artaxata, Teredon, Tesiphon, Turning with easie eye thou may’st behold. All these the Parthian, now some Ages past, ... ... In Cedar, Marble, Ivory or Gold. 60 Thence to the gates cast round thine eye, and see What conflux issuing forth, or entring in, Pretors, Proc... ... luxury, though call’d magnificence, More then of arms before, allure mine eye, Much less my mind; though thou should’st add to tell Thir sumptu... ... As by that early action may be judg’d, 215 When slipping from thy Mothers eye thou went’st Alone into the Temple; there was found Among the gra... ...a City stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil, Athens the eye of Greece, Mother of Arts 240 And Eloquence, native to famous wits ...

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...place, without the help of his hands, by the contraction of his cheek, and eye-socket, the chief towns of some departments had their sub-lions, who pr... ...ain prospect of seeing ere long a charm- ing observatory built, whence her eye would command the lawyer’s private room. And there are men for whose sa... ...sailor, and rowing with all the more grace because he was under the lady’s eye. “They are happy!” exclaimed Rodolphe, with bitter em- phasis. “Claire ... ...esh struggles, lighted on 54 Albert Savarus his way by an always friendly eye, an ever faithful heart. Lovers! Pray for him! * * * As she fin...

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...titch a model at once of elegance and of good sense; and the two oranges, even if one of them be rotten, kept dancing with inimitable grace. Up to thi... ...nd in declaiming a so-called iambic verse, it may so happen that we never utter one iambic foot. And yet to this neglect of the original beat there is... ...ies, a good heroic line; for though it scarcely can be said to indicate the beat of the iamb, it cer- tainly suggests no other measure to the ear. But... ...d you will find another and much stranger circum- stance. Literature is written by and for two senses: a sort of internal ear, quick to perceive ‘unhe... ...s: a sort of internal ear, quick to perceive ‘unheard melodies’; and the eye, which directs the pen and deciphers the printed phrase. Well, even as th... ...hrase. Well, even as there are rhymes for the eye, so you will find that there are assonances and alliterations; that where an author is running the o... ...l, are points in which honour and morality are concerned. If the writer to whom I refer suc- ceeds in persuading a number of young persons to adopt th... ...an unworthy sacri- fice to prettiness, and the omission of a tedious passage as an infidelity to art. We have now the matter of this difference before... ...temperance, will not suffer the presence of anything so dead as a convention; he shall have all fiery, all hot-pressed from nature, all charactered an...

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...o whom as they approched, they espide A sorie sight, as euer seene with eye; An headlesse Ladie lying him beside, In her owne blood all... ...hich now here doth headlesse lie. He, whether mine seem’d fayrer in his eye, Or that he wexed weary of his owne, Would change with me; ... ...ebus charet fierie bright, Both darting forth faire beames to each mans eye, And both adorn’d with lampes of flaming light, All that be... ...he powre she did apply, It made her stagger oft, and stare with ghastly eye. Like to an Eagle in his kingly pride, Soring through his w... ... vpstarting from her swoune, she star’d A while about her with confused eye; Like one that from his dreame is waked suddenlye. Soone as... ...o be so scorned of a base borne thrall, Whose life did lie in her least eye lids fall; Of which she vow’d with many a cursed threat, Th... ...that, she promist that she would, In case she might finde fauour in his eye, Deuize how to enlarge him out of hould. The Fayrie glad to... ...ieued, Not suffering the least twinckling sleepe to start Into her eye, which th’heart mote haue relieued, But if the least appear’d, h... ...seemed best to ease. Ne lesse did Talus suffer sleepe to seaze His eye lids sad, but watcht continually, Lying without her dore in grea...

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...oubtlesse, he that shall manage and meditate upon them with an impartiall eye, they will assuredly, in tract of time, become familiar to him: Otherw... ...at without ever missing he would every time make it goe through a needles-eye, and being entreated to bestow some thing upon him (as a reward for so... ...vedly soever, I cannot endure to behold the execution with an unrelenting eye. Some one going about to witnesse the clemencie of Julius Cæsar; 'He w... ...ast, threaten, exhort, warrant, assure, and enquire? What doe we with our eye-lids? and with our shoulders? To conclude, there is no motion nor jestu... ... it in that sex which seemeth to have and challenge the greatest share of eye-pleasing beautie) and view his defects, his naturall subjection, and m... ...zeale hath universally beene regarded of heaven with a gentle and gracious eye. All policies have reaped some fruit by their devotion; Men and impiou... ...005 4:20:47 AM Montaigne's Essays The common light, The worlds eye: and if God beare eyes in his cheefe head, His most resplendent eyes t... ...bsolutely and perfectly other than those of our miserable experience. 'No eye can behold (saith Saint Paul) the hap that God prepareth for his elect,... ...spicere ipse oculus rem, seorsum corpore toto. -- Ibid. 580. Ev'n as no eye, by th' root's pull'd out, can see Ought in whole body severall to bee...

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...even yeares heate, Shall not behold her face at ample view: But like a Cloystresse she will vailed walke, And water once a day her Chamber round With eye- offending brine: all this to season A brothers dead love, which she would keepe fresh And lasting, in her sad remembrance. Du. O she that hath a heart of that fine frame ......

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...ailed walke, 35 And water once a day her Chamber round 36 With eye- offending brine: all this to season 37 A brothers dead loue, whi... ...t. 605 Ol. I do I know not what, and feare to finde 606 Mine eye too great a flatterer for my minde: [Y4v 607 Fate, shew thy forc... ...o return’d: If it bee worth stoo-ping 671 for, there it lies, in your eye: if not, bee it his that 672 findes it. Exit. 673 Vio. I... ...shape of his 849 legge, the manner of his gate, the expressure of his eye, 850 forehead, and complection, he shall finde himselfe most 851 ... ...dost speake masterly, 908 My life vpon’t, yong though thou art, thine eye 909 Hath staid vpon some fauour that it loues: 910 Hath it no... ...espeare: First Folio 1061 To. O for a stone- bow to hit him in the eye. 1062 Mal. Calling my Officers about me, in my branch’d 1063 ... ... Mal. And then I. comes behind. 1142 Fa. I, and you had any eye behinde you, you might 1143 see more detraction at your heeles, the... ...d like the Haggard, checke at euery Feather 1276 That comes before his eye. This is a practice, 1277 As full of labour as a Wise- mans Art: 1... ... haue me. 1512 Seb. Why I your purse? 1513 Ant. Haply your eye shall light vpon some toy 1514 You haue desire to purchase: and you...