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...ng the line of walls overtopped by the luxuriant veg- etation of the front gardens. The houses right and left were hidden behind the black masses of f... ...by its grace—to die by its will. That was the sea before the time when the French mind set the Egyptian muscle in motion and pro- duced a dismal but p... ...e Malay quarter whose bamboo houses, hidden in the verdure of their little gardens, were dark and si- lent. Men, women and children slept in there. Hu... ...lled out— “Syed Abdulla bin Selim is here!” Babalatchi answered aloud in a formal tone— “Allah gladdens our hearts! Come to the land!” Abdulla landed ... ... crowded close to the rail and looked down, whispering faintly. Below, the formal exchange of compliments went on for some time between Lakamba and Ab...

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...to fulfill his duty and earn fame as a great commander. Rostov charged the French be- cause he could not restrain his wish for a gallop across a level... ... of those who did the actual fighting. The cause of the destruction of the French army in 1812 is clear to us now. No one will deny that that cause wa... ...ort was made to hinder the only thing that could save Russia, while on the French side, despite Napoleon’s experience and so-called military genius, e... ...lf with special activity to building operations and the arrangement of the gardens and completely breaking off his relations with Mademoiselle Bourien... ...Empress. In Helene’s circle the war in general was regarded as a series of formal demonstrations which would very soon end in peace, and the view prev... ... therefore treated both his superiors and the men with great precision and formality. The booming cannonade and the fusillade of musketry were growing...

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...end of November or the beginning of December 1664 when two men, said to be Frenchmen, died of the plague in Long Acre, or rather at the upper end of ... ...d six. of the spotted-fever. It was, however, upon inquiry found that this Frenchman who died in Bearbinder Lane was one who, having lived in Long Acr... ...week the city continued free, there having never any died, except that one Frenchman whom I mentioned before, within the whole ninety-seven parishes. ... ...ers did not go about the streets indeed, for nobody put on black or made a formal dress of mourning for their nearest friends; but the voice of mourne... ...ch to shoot him if he stirred or called for help. In other cases, some had gardens, and walls or pales, be- tween them and their neighbours, or yards ...

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...a hundred varying stages of transition. You may go all over the States, and -- setting aside the actual intrusion and influence of foreigners, negro, French, or Chinese -- you shall scarce meet with so marked a difference of accent as in the forty miles between Edinburgh and Glasgow, or of dialect as in the hundred miles between Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Book English has gon...

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...d – setting aside the actual intrusion and influence of foreigners, negro, French, or Chinese – you shall scarce meet with so marked a difference of a... ...us nor quick about the life of others. In *1881. 6 Robert Louis Stevenson French colonies, and still more in the Dutch, I have read that there is an ... .... The English lad goes to Oxford or Cambridge; there, in an ideal world of gardens, to lead a semi-scenic life, costumed, disci- plined and drilled by... ...adet of Royal Ecossais or the Albany Regi- ment, as he mounted guard about French citadels, so may some officer marching his company of the Scots-Dutc... ...gy at large. Many who knew him not otherwise, knew – perhaps have in their gardens – his louvre-boarded screen for instru- ments. But the great achiev... ...aylor’s Life of Christ and greet me with the same open brow, the same kind formality of manner. His opin- ions and sympathies dated the man almost to ... ... own conscience, and draws, with a human nicety, the dis- tinction between formal and essential truth. Of his punning perversions, his legitimate dext... ...ed with the laughter of Fouquet himself, in the jesting controversy in the gardens of Saint Mande; once it is touched on by Aramis in the forest of Se...

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...ngers, deep family tenderness, love of knowledge, a nar- row, precise, and formal reading of theology – everything we learn of him hangs well together... ...k more and more towards the professional Don Juan. With a leer of what the French call fatuity, he bids the belles of Mauchline beware of his seductio... ...and after pass- ing regularly the intermediate degrees between the distant formal bow and the familiar grasp round the waist, I ven- tured, in my care... ...e sudden interest in politics which arose from his sympathy with the great French Revolution. His only political feeling had been hith- erto a sentime... ...ause he lay out of the way of active politics in his youth. With the great French Revolution, something living, practical, and feasible appeared to hi... ... The passionate tenacity of hunters, woodmen, early risers, cultivators of gardens and orchards and fields, he says, the love of healthy women for the... ...ed or in the excitement of great events. They are hardly literature in the formal meaning of the word; he has left his jottings for the most part as h... ...les was to know from the first all favours of nature and art. His father’s gardens were the admiration of his contemporaries; his castles were situate... ...ld have other grounds of intimacy with Villon. A room looking upon Windsor gardens is a different matter from Villon’s dun- geon at Meun; yet each in ...

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...s XLVII. Of the uncertaintie of our Judgement XLVIII. Of Steeds, called in French Destriers XLIX. Of ancient Customes L. Of Democritus and Heraclitus ... ...thes; taught it to talke our tongue (though many-times with a jerke of the French Iargon) wouldset it forth to the best service I might; and to bette... ...ot onely serve you two, to repeate in true English what you reade in fine French, but many thousands more, to tell them in their owne, what they wou... ...yet was he a man of letters and reputation, a graduate, and wore a goodly formall long gowne. Vos o patritius sanguis quos vivere par est Ooccipiti... ...ip is thereby cherished and increased. And besides, they cannot have more formal and regular pastimes allowed them, than such as are acted and repre... ...n the imitable height of some heroicke minds. It is much for me to have a formall and prescript judgement, if the effects bee not so, and at least t... ... gastly that all the bystanders were amazed. The Oxen, which in the Kings gardens of Susa were taught to water them and to draw water out of deepe w... ...tor after he had tasted the sweet fruits of the lazie, idle and delicious gardens of Epicurus, did not contemne them as full of falsehood and apparen... ...tyrannical subsidies, and grievances upon subjects; delicate and pleasant gardens; dancing, tumbling, leaping, and iugling, musicke http://www.uoreg...

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... the Custom-house. The fashion that is called En- glish in Paris is called French in London, and this is recipro- cal. The hostility of the two nation... ...Paris by an Englishwoman, were invented in Lon- don, it is known why, by a Frenchwoman, the notorious Duchess of Portsmouth. They were at first so jee... ...nd Brunet in Les Anglaises pour rire; but in 1816 and 1817 the belt of the Frenchwoman, which in 1814 cut her across the bosom, gradually descended ti... ...she had seen from her bed, gleaming through the trees of the two adjoining gardens, when she had happened to wake in the night. . . . “Then that was h... ...o net the little profits of this bargain. The Bergmanns had made beautiful gardens round their house, and had built a hothouse. The flowers, the fruit... ...uck!” The next day Rodolphe went to ask leave to visit the hot- houses and gardens, which were beginning to be somewhat famous. The permission was not... ... graciously led him to his wife. Rodolphe went through the ceremonial of a formal introduction to Prin- cess and Prince Colonna, and to Francesca. Whe...

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...inen-draper’s shop; a pipe and cigar shop; a lottery office; a station for French soldiers, with a sentinel pacing in front; and a fruit-stand, at whi... ...wthorne which anon, as his active motion heated him, he flung aside. Three French soldiers capered freely into the throng, in wide scarlet trousers, t... ...ithin the Precincts of this sunny glade, thawing mankind out of their cold formalities, releasing them from irksome restraint, mingling them together ... ...able an affair as it can well be. In this pleasant spot, the red-trousered French soldiers are always to be seen; bearded and grizzled veterans, perha... ...tle cap on the top of his head; a costume which became him better than tho formal garments which he wore whenever he passed out of his own domains. Th... ...loomy apartment of an eminent member of the aesthetic body. It was no more formal an occasion than one of those weekly receptions, common among the fo... ...HAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXII THE MEDICI GARDENS THE MEDICI GARDENS THE MEDICI GARDENS THE MEDICI GARDENS THE MEDICI... ...ARDENS THE MEDICI GARDENS THE MEDICI GARDENS THE MEDICI GARDENS THE MEDICI GARDENS “DONATELLO,” said Miriam anxiously, as they came through the Piazza... ...As soon as she could collect her thoughts, Miriam led the young man to the gardens of the Villa Medici, hoping that the quiet shade and sunshine of th...

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... as in the Annunciation, the Cu rator supplied it from his mound of books–French and Ger man, with photographs and reproductions. Here was the devou... ...en prepared the day’s last meal. They had passed beyond the belt of market gardens round hungry Umballa, and were among the mile wide green of the sta... ...e is your master’ s house?’ ‘ A little behind Saharunpore, among the fruit gardens.’ He named the village. ‘That was the place,’ said the lama. ‘So fa... ... railway people to abandoned cantonments like Monghyr and Chunar; lost tea gardens Shillong way; villages where their fathers were large landholders i... ...attention to Latin and Wordsworth’s Excursion (all this was Greek to Kim). French, too was vital, and the best was to be picked up in Chandernagore a ... ...y we may see him), I would fill thy mouth with gold.’ He laid the garments formally at Kim’s feet. There was a gold embroidered Peshawur turban cap, r... ...ss window, whereas he was but a growing lad faint with emptiness. Long and formal were the farewells, thrice ended and thrice renewed. The Seeker – he... ...ion for any gift under heaven. None the less, she made great parade of her formal inspections, the riot of which could be heard half way to Mussoorie... ...ait for them. I want to walk with them to Simla. You see, one Russian is a Frenchman, and I know my French pretty well. I have friends in Chandernagor...

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...ddressing her with the single word which consti- tuted the strength of his French vocabulary, and holding up one finger in a manner which appeared to ... ...n English. “Combien?” “Monsieur wishes to buy it?” asked the young lady in French. “Very pretty, splendide. Combien?” repeated the Ameri- can. “It ple... ... fixed him with her conscious, perceptive eye and asked him if he spoke no French. Then, “Donnez!” she said briefly, and took the open guide-book. 7 ... ... given, and he emerged from dialogues in foreign tongues, of which he had, formally, not understood a word, in full possession of the particular fact ... ...ring the next three weeks Newman saw Bellegarde several times, and without formally swearing an eternal friendship the two men established a sort of c... ...old garden which spread itself behind it—one of those large, sunless humid gardens into which you look unexpectingly in Paris from back windows, wonde... ...stice. One of these occurred when Newman related to her that he had made a formal proposal to Madame de Cintre. He repeated in a few words what he had... ...eat windows, and looked out at the stiffly embanked river and the for- mal gardens which lay beyond it. When he turned round, Madame de Cintre had ris... ...s and explored London in every direction; he sat by the hour in Kensington Gardens and beside the adjoining Drive, watching the people and the horses ...

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...mplicity of a decimal coinage which is revolting to the human mind; thus the French, in small affairs, reckon strictly by halfpence; and you have to s... ...e had been going to so long. By afternoon we were at Sacramento, the city of gardens in a plain of corn; and the next day before the dawn we were lyin... ...my little restaurant at Monterey, we have sat down to table day after day, a French- man, two Portuguese, an Italian, a Mexican, and a Scotchman: we h... ... lost to the arts. Curious and not always edify- ing are the shifts that the French student uses to defend his lair; like the cuttlefish, he must some... ... breathing distinction and peopled by historic names, stands smokeless among gardens. Perhaps the last attempt at savage life was that of the harm- le... ...ub. The guests protected themselves, and, in so doing, they protected Siron. Formal manners be- ing laid aside, essential courtesy was the more rigidl... ...een talking for twelve months; and it is thought I should take my leave in a formal and seasonable manner. Valedictory eloquence is rare, and death-be... ...dness and life-long disappointment will scarce even be required in this last formality of laying down his arms. Give him a march with his old bones; ...

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...inen-draper’s shop; a pipe and cigar shop; a lottery office; a station for French soldiers, with a sentinel pacing in front; and a fruit-stand, at whi... ...wthorne which anon, as his active motion heated him, he flung aside. Three French soldiers capered freely into the throng, in wide scarlet trousers, t... ...ithin the Precincts of this sunny glade, thawing mankind out of their cold formalities, releasing them from irksome restraint, mingling them together ... ...able an affair as it can well be. In this pleasant spot, the red-trousered French soldiers are always to be seen; bearded and grizzled veterans, perha... ...tle cap on the top of his head; a costume which became him better than tho formal garments which he wore whenever he passed out of his own domains. Th... ...loomy apartment of an eminent member of the aesthetic body. It was no more formal an occasion than one of those weekly receptions, common among the fo... ...HAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXII THE MEDICI GARDENS THE MEDICI GARDENS THE MEDICI GARDENS THE MEDICI GARDENS THE MEDICI... ...ARDENS THE MEDICI GARDENS THE MEDICI GARDENS THE MEDICI GARDENS THE MEDICI GARDENS “DONATELLO,” said Miriam anxiously, as they came through the Piazza... ...As soon as she could collect her thoughts, Miriam led the young man to the gardens of the Villa Medici, hoping that the quiet shade and sunshine of th...

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... time permits and teaches every one so to do, yet have I not plundered any Frenchman’s goods, or taken his money, and have lived upon what is my own, ... ... The Latin tongue is as it were natural to me; I understand it better than French; but I have not been used to speak it, nor hardly to write it, these... ... to be weaned from her childish simplicity. She was reading before me in a French book where the word ‘fouteau’, the name of a tree very well known, o... ...onqueror that ever was, to see that when he subdued Egypt, the beau- tiful gardens about Damascus being all open, and in a con- quered land, and his a... ... me with one face; my life and my ac- tions with another. They did not lay formal accusations to my charge, for they had no foundation for so doing; I...

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......................... 21 OUR ENGLISH WATERING-PLACE ......................................................................................... 24 OUR FRENCH WATERING-PLACE........................................................................................... 33 BILL-STICKING ..................................................................................................

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...................................................................... 24 OUR FRENCH WATERING PLACE......................................................... ............................................. ............. 202 A MONUMENT OF FRENCH FOLLY.................................................................. ...kling, heaving, swelling up with life and beauty, this bright morning. OUR FRENCH WATERING PLACE HAVING EARNED, BY MANY YEARS of fidelity, the rig... ...istence a top, and having doors and 36 Reprinted Pieces windows, and even gardens, on these ramparts. A child go ing in at the courtyard gate of one... ...the appearance of having come express on his hind legs from the Zoological Gardens; and he incontinently strikes up the chief’s praises, plunging and ... ...public health, have been fired off in a volley. Whizz! Dust heaps, market gardens, and waste grounds. Rattle! New Cross Station. Shock! There we were... ...y, this Tape, and was a bright red all over. She was disgustingly prim and formal, and could never bend herself a hair’s breadth this way or that way,...

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...nd came across the Wilcoxes as we were eating our sandwiches in the public gardens. They too, poor things, had been taken in—they were actually stop- ... ...pen windows, some had whitened the roses and gooseberries of the way- side gardens, while a certain proportion had entered the lungs of the villagers.... ...means pleased by everything. There was a thing—some- thing about a faun in French—which Helen went into ecstasies over, but I thought it most tinkling... ... lady’s lap-dog Leonard did not excel. He was not an Italian, still less a Frenchman, in whose blood there runs the very spirit of persiflage and of g... ... cried: “And that’s the man who beat the Austrians, and the Danes, and the French, and who beat the Ger- mans that were inside himself. And we’re like... ...such a notion! Charles dead, all people dead, nothing alive but houses and gardens. The obvious dead, the intan- gible alive, and no connection at all... ... Margaret claimed a few words with him. It was always best to approach him formally. She asked for the interview, because he was going on to shoot gro... ...and they would have to give up the mo- tor. Margaret sympathised, but in a formal fashion, 256 Howards End and Dolly little imagined that the stepmot...

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...ikewise that a broad distinction was made by the better informed among the French between Calvinism and Protestantism or 5 The Chaplet of Pearls Luth... ...is brother, the Chevalier de Ribaumont, was, according to the usual lot of French juniors, a bachelor, so that it was expected that the whole inherita... ...arose assenting hums over an undercurrent of sobs, as though the excitable French assembly were strongly affected. The thicket was so close that Beran... ... tified, when the Chevalier and his son came the next day to bring him the formal letter requesting the Pope’s annulment of his marriage. After he had... ... invite the two young gentle- men to a part at pall-mall in the T uileries gardens. Pall-mall was either croquet or its nearest relative, and was 52 ... ...ose seductive arts on which Queen Catherine placed so much dependence. The formal gardens, with their squares of level turf and clipped alleys, afford... ...uctive arts on which Queen Catherine placed so much dependence. The formal gardens, with their squares of level turf and clipped alleys, afforded exce... ...nd keeping guard in the walk that led to the more fre- quented part of the gardens. 53 The Chaplet of Pearls ‘Hold!’ thundered Berenger. The assailan... ... her young husband had turned Englishman and heretic, and that after a few formali- ties had been complied with, she would become the wife of her cous...

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...med appropriate to this orga- nization in the opinion of the more advanced French T rade Unions. But the ideas are, in the main, derived from Anar- ch... ...is, where he be- came known as a Socialist and acquired a knowledge of his French predecessors.[Chief among these were Fourier and Saint-Simon, who co... ...its 15 Bertrand Russell expression, according to him, particularly in the French Revo- lution. The one in the future is the revolution of the wage- e... ...nd, in spite of differences of opinion among its members, it preserved its formal unity with that instinct for military discipline which characterizes... ... yearly to sell some of it; otherwise it would raise up the level of their gardens by half an inch every year. They aim at cropping, not five or six t... ...psychological sympathy, into co-op- eration with the powers that be. Their formal installation in authority through the Guilds Congress would accelera...

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...................................................................................................................................... 47 WHY THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN WEARS HIS HAND IN A SLING ...................................................................... 61 BON-BON...............................................................................................................

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........................................................... 47 WHY THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN WEARS HIS HAND IN A SLING .......................................... ...rarely well disposed, or well chosen in respect to other decorations. With formal furniture, curtains are out of place; and an extensive volume of dra... ...and led happily ever afterward a new life. 61 V olume Five WHY THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN WEARS HIS HAND IN A SLING IT’S ON MY VISITING CARDS sure enough (... ... Sans que mon cœur fit tic ni tac, Présenter du tabac. French Vaudeville THAT PIERRE BON-BON was a restaurateur of uncommon qualif... ...as tied with extreme precision around the throat and the ends hanging down formally side by side gave (although I dare say unintentionally) the idea o... ...e in your strength— O spells more sure than e’er Judæan king Taught in the gardens of Gethsemane! O charms more potent than the rapt Chaldee Ever drew... ... to. Good-night, Politian. Pol. Good-night, my friend, good-night. IV. The gardens of a Palace—Moonlight Lalage and Politian. Lalge. And dost thou spe... ...o I might have been induced, by an occasion like the present, to attempt a formal refutation of their doc- trine; at present it would be a work of sup... ...rthly save the ray (Thrown back from flowers) of Beauty’s eye, As in those gardens where the day Springs from the gems of Circassy— O! nothing earthly...