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...nd unthinking man. Abroad, how cheeringly the sunshine lay 480 Upon the open lawns! Vallombre’s groves Entering, we fed the soul with darkness; thence... ... naked huts, wood built, and sown like tents Or Indian cabins over the fresh lawns And by the river side. That very day, 525 From a bare ridge we also... ...truth) Summoned from streamy Morven—each and all Would, in their turns, lend ornaments and flowers To entwine the crook of eloquence that helped 570 Th... ...n, Fulfilling (could enchantment have done more?) A sumptuous dream of flowery lawns, with domes Of pleasure sprinkled over, shady dells 85 For eastern ... ...dless, here opening widely out, and there Shut up in lesser lakes or beds of lawn And intricate recesses, creek or bay 195 Sheltered within a shelter,... ...dismal look: the yew tree had its ghost, 380 That took his station there for ornament: The dignities of plain occurrence then Were tasteless, and trut...

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...ve, Bright as in their fountain wave.— Neither here, nor on the dew Of the lawny uplands feeding? Oh, you come!—a stone at you ... ...there, They fertilize the land they long deformed, Till from the breathing lawn a forest springs Of youth, integrity, and loveliness, Like that which ... ...nd howlings through the desert rang, Sloping and smooth the daisy-spangled lawn, Offering sweet incense to the sunrise, smiles To see a babe before hi... ... which has since become the victim of frenzy and despair, a most brilliant ornament to society. 247 Shelley In case the sale of these Fragments evinc... ... beams decline, Thy million hues to every vapour lendest, And, over cobweb lawn and grove and stream _5 Sheddest the liquid ...

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...ger. Once out on the asphalt of the street, he looked down the long row of lawns and porches where violet arc lamps al- ready contested the faint afte... ...n, of Sheba would advance towards him, covered with emeralds and dull-gold ornaments, with a monkey hopping behind holding up the 163 John Dos Passos... ...es, that was it, contraptions of tissue paper held at the end of a string, ornaments not to be taken seriously. He thought of all the long procession ... ...ube-shaped house set a little apart from the rest in the middle of a broad lawn which the constant crossing and recrossing of a staff of cars and trai... ... of pink and purple and apri- cot-color. And beyond it a brilliant emerald lawn full of dai- sies sloped down to an old grey house with, at one end, a... ...ed the sun, so that the hairy young leaves and the wind-blown grass of the lawn took on a silvery sheen. T wo white butterflies fluttered for a second... ...dered paths. “What I mean is this,” he stammered, following her across the lawn. “If I could once manage to express all that misery in music, I could ... ... bitter thought came to him. “Or is it that she wants a tame pianist as an ornament to a clever young woman’s drawing room?” He jumped to his feet and...

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...out in the great big spectacular Prussian station with the hammered bronze ornaments and the paintings of peasants and flowers and cows; and to hear F... ...I re- member. It was twilight. Branshaw Manor lies in a little hollow with lawns across it and pine-woods on the fringe of the dip. The immense wind, ... ...Not a thing stirred, except a couple of rabbits on the extreme edge of the lawn. It was Leonora’s own little study that we were in and we were waiting... ...f the window-blind cord desultorily round and round. She looked across the lawn and said, as far as I can remember: “Edward has been dead only ten day... ...mber: “Edward has been dead only ten days and yet there are rabbits on the lawn.” I understand that rabbits do a great deal of harm to the short grass... ...the lives of the saints and at the next she would be tumbling all over the lawn with the St Bernard puppy. She could ride to hounds like a Maenad and ...

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...umes freely and of the best, in food, drink, narcotics, shelter, services, ornaments, apparel, weapons and accoutrements, amusements, amulets, and ido... ...ther owned by the person viewing them or not; and even as regards personal ornaments it is to be added that their chief purpose is to lend áéáclat to ... ...se untutored by the requirements of pecuniary re- pute. Such a fact is the lawn, or the close-cropped yard or park, which appeals so unaffectedly to t... ...ich the dolicho-blond element predominates in an appreciable de- gree. The lawn unquestionably has an element of sensuous 90 The Theory of the Leisur... ...toral people in- habiting a region with a humid climate. The close-cropped lawn is beautiful in the eyes of a people whose inherited bent it is to rea... ...ng a well-preserved pasture or grazing land. For the aesthetic purpose the lawn is a cow pasture; and in some cases today — where the expensiveness of... ... of the dolicho-blond is rehabilitated in the introduction of a cow into a lawn or private ground. In such cases the cow made use of is commonly of an... ...d ourselves in everyday life, and even many articles of everyday dress and ornament, are such as would not be tolerated except under the stress of pre... ...sehold, which she should “beautify,” and of which she should be the “chief ornament.” The male head of the household is not currently spoken of as its...

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...ing, formerly a gentleman’s country- house. In front of it was a well-kept lawn with a few clipped holly-trees. At the rear, a quarter of an acre of l... ...enclosure of a fruit garden which lay at the side of the house between the lawn and the playground. When the two boys had crept along the parapet to a... ...f shadow which was made by a cedar-tree in the midst of a glittering green lawn. She did well to avoid the sun, for her complex- ion was as delicately... ...n to think and dream, uncon- scious of a prosaic black object crossing the lawn towards her. This was a young gentleman in a frock coat. He was dark, ... ...stle was a circular apartment, with a dome-shaped ceiling broken into gilt ornaments re- sembling thick bamboos, which projected vertically down- ward... ...d garnished with cheap cretonnes, Japanese paper fans, and knick-knacks in ornamental pottery. She felt now that if she slept once in the bed before h... ...in. All that she had read and be- lieved of the beauty of cheap and simple ornament, and the vulgarity of costliness, recurred to her as a hypocritica... ...or less or- namental, nothing had been placed in the rooms for the sake of ornament alone. Miss Carew, judged by her domestic ar- rangements, was a ut... ...sufficiently for the game to make myself proficient. You were equipped for lawn-tennis, I think, when I saw you yesterday. Miss Goff is a celebrated l...

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...row capacity of the human stomach; but the desire of the conveniencies and ornaments of building, dress, equipage, and household furniture, seems to h... ...ry sort of material which hu- man invention can employ, either usefully or ornamentally, in building, dress, equipage, or household furniture; for the... ...wever, arises from their beauty, which renders them peculiarly fit for the ornaments of dress and furniture. No paint or dye can give so splendid a co... ...ious stones arises altogether from their beauty. They are of no use but as ornaments; and the merit of their beauty is greatly enhanced by their scarc... ...ily degraded by its abundance. A service of plate, and the other frivolous ornaments of dress and furniture, could be purchased for a smaller quantity... ...n- crease the quantity of gold and silver. Thus, in Great Britain, Silesia lawns may be imported for home consumption, upon paying cer- tain duties; b... ...or home consumption, upon paying cer- tain duties; but French cambrics and lawns are prohibited to be imported, except into the port of London, there ... ...ese regulations only that we can import wrought silks, French cambrics and lawns, calicoes, painted, printed, stained, or dyed, etc. We are unwilling ...

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...trate stems of primitive forest trees. Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and culti vated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the imperv... ... yard fence was never an agreeable object of study to me; the most elaborate ornaments, acorn tops, or what not, soon wearied and disgusted me. Bring ...

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...ed it with new regularity, and rough and uneven fields stretched away with lawn like smoothness to the horizon, and the clouds, finely distinct and pi... ...equired to make the effort. As if plainness, and vigor, and sincerity, the ornaments of style, were better learned on the farm and in the workshop, th... ...eks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted to endure. The Sibyl, “speak ing with inspir... ...ands of years, so impersonally and scientifi cally true that they are the ornament of the parlor and the cabinet. Any moral philosophy is exceedingl... ...tration confirms the pages of history. “Rome living was the world’s sole ornament; And dead is now the world’s sole monument. ... ...d delicate in their finish. The workers in stone polish only their chimney ornaments, but their pyramids are roughly done. There is a soberness in a r...

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.... She was watching the large red poppies come out. Then she walked off the lawn to the meadow, whose cor- ner to the right I can just see. Trail, trai... ...them. The dog-roses are too sweet. There is a great hedge of them over the lawn—magnificently tall, so that they fall down in garlands, and nice and t... ...ed just as Helen’s letter had described her, trailing noiselessly over the lawn, and there was actually a wisp of hay in her hands. She seemed to belo... ..., ex- traordinarily solid, fell like trenches of purple across the frosted lawn. It was a glorious winter morning. Evie’s fox terrier, who had passed ... ...s, and their motor is regarding them plac- idly from its garage across the lawn. A short-frocked edition of Charles also regards them placidly; a pera... ...d say that she com- manded acceptance. He went. A scurf of books and china ornaments awaited him. The Basts had just been evicted for not paying their... ...bout four o’clock. The weather had changed, and the sun shone gaily on the ornamental steps—black and white marble in triangles. Leonard lowered his e...

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...ted some pieces of roll in a small basket to take them to the swans on the ornamental waters, and they went to walk in the hot-houses, where strange p... ... way. Then across an open space appears a white house beyond a grass mound ornamented by a Cu- pid, his finger on his lips; two brass vases are at eac... ... a word? And, gentlemen, I do not mean that superficial intelligence, vain ornament of idle minds, but rather that profound and balanced intelligence ... ...d on all the mo- mentous things that we get out of that modest animal, the ornament of poultry-yards, that provides us at once with a soft pillow for ... ...uting with laughter. In fact, the little girl was just then rolling on the lawn in the midst of the grass that was being turned. She was lying flat on... ...ng her face in her hands. The warm room, with its discreet carpet, its gay ornaments, and its calm light, seemed made for the intimacies of passion. T...

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..., and a fort called the Tower, of beautiful structure. It is magnificently ornamented with public buildings and churches, of which there are above one... ...holas Bacon, with his wife. Not far from this is a magnificent monu- ment, ornamented with pyramids of marble and alabaster, with this inscription: Sa... ... quilts of silk, velvet, gold, silver, and embroidery. IV . A little chest ornamented all over with pearls, in which the Queen keeps her bracelets, ea... ...den chain, to which is hung a golden fleece,* and besides, that particular ornament** which distinguishes the most noble order of the garter. During t... ... bed-furniture, such as cano- pies, and the like, some of them most richly ornamented with pearl; some royal dresses, so extremely magnificent as to r... ...ns of distinction can take the pleasure of seeing hunting and hawking in a lawn of sufficient space; for the fields and meadows, clad with variety of ...

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...e sunshine of her eyes, The rose within herself her sweetness closed, Each ornament about her seemly lies, By curious chance, or careless art, compose... ...ds in the air Her twenty-colored bow, through clouds of rain; Y et all her ornaments, strange, rich and rare, Her girdle did in price and beauty stain... ...t A king, so great, so grave, so rich, so old, And twined of sixty ells of lawn and more A turban strange adorned his tresses hoar. XI His right hand ...

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...cu- tion, and drawing were held in the morning. The afternoon was spent at lawn tennis, to which lady guests resident in the neighborhood were allowed... ... Wilson. At half-past one, luncheon being over, she went out of doors to a lawn that lay between the southern side of the college and a shrubbery. Her... ...own com- pany. Don’t worry thinking about him, but come and have a game at lawn tennis.” During this conversation they had left the drawing-room and m... ... the effect of her practical joke, hesitated a moment, and then ran to the lawn. “What is the matter?” said Fairholme. “Nothing. I want some water—qui... ...son” furnished a book of tomb designs, and Mr. Jansenius selected a highly ornamental one, and proposed to defray half the cost of its erection. Trefu... ...hey might provide against that loss by picking out a few of us to keep for ornament’s sake. No nation with a sense of beauty would banish Lady Brandon...

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... and vividly blue were its windows. The second cham- ber was purple in its ornaments and tapestries, and here the panes were purple. The third was gre... ...apartments was there any lamp or candelabrum, amid the profusion of golden ornaments that lay scattered to and fro or depended from the roof. There wa... ...he great catacombs of Paris. Three sides of this interior crypt were still ornamented in this manner. From the fourth the bones had been thrown down, ... ...ive the plants the appearance of being indig- enous. Besides all this, the lawn’s velvet was exquisitely spot- ted with sheep—a considerable flock of ...

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...tice is so fatally frequent. 117 Thomas de Quincey glimpse of some bright ornament, clasp, or aiguillette, on Kate’s dress. They were hunters and for... ...ellaneous Papers infant into some silent garden, I believe, or some forest lawn; and the opening words were, ‘Come, and I will show you what is beauti...

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...lasp. The clasp was set with green stones. She called my attention to the ornamented hinges. She held out the gold cup to my father... “I wish you h... ...gh the years, the many mistresses who came and went. As I look across the lawn of the manor house I can see the little chapel of St. Hubert and the ... ...own half of the books. A lovely prie dieu holds a Latin volume, its pages ornamented with pastel watercolor and gold leaf. The carpet is a mouse-che... ...carved in brownish ivory; SHAKESPEARE’S JOURNAL 417 here’s a tiara ornamented with pale yellow gems I can’t iden- tify...a pile of brass brace... ...rmine, a pair of crimson trousers, a leather breastplate and brass helmet ornamented with a dragon’s crest. It annoyed me that none of these things ... ... race. I look out of the window, at the statue of Thomas Jefferson on the lawn; it puts me in mind of that lonely bronze figure atop the White House... ...rses and Mexican saddles...you should see the one I got as booty...silver ornaments... It was good to get away from Washington. When I reviewed Gra...

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... high life high characters are drawn; A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn; A judge is just, a chancellor juster still; A gownman, learn’d; a bis... ...s of triumph to a garden-gate; 30 Reverse your ornaments, and hang them all On some patch’d dog-hole eked with ends of wal... ...ns to the plain, You’ll wish your hill or shelter’d seat again. Even in an ornament its place remark, Nor in an hermitage set Dr Clarke. 49 Behold Vil... ...heir yearly toil, Yet to their lord owe more than to the soil; Whose ample lawns are not ashamed to feed The milky heifer and deserving steed; Whose r... ...oft the satyrs and the wanton fauns, Who haunt the forests or frequent the lawns, The god whose ensign scares the birds of prey, And old Silenus, yout... ...rk upon the lees, it acquireth strength by old age, and becometh a lasting ornament to the little epic. It is true, indeed, there is one objection to ... ...d debauchery, springeth buffoonery, the source of ridicule, that ‘laughing ornament,’ as he well termeth it, 209 of the little epic. He is not ashamed... ... Morality, by her false guardians drawn. Chicane in furs, and Casuistry in lawn, Gasps, as they straiten at each end the cord, And dies, when Dulness ... ...im had I detained the pub- lication, since those names which are its chief ornaments die 248 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 off daily ...

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... seen,” she said, “One of my sisters, like myself array’d, Who cross’d the lawn, or in the forest stray’d? A painted quiver at her back she bore; Vari... ...ep foundations for a theater; From marble quarries mighty columns hew, For ornaments of scenes, and future view. Such is their toil, and such their bu... ...A trusty coat of mail to me he sent, Thrice chain’d with gold, for use and ornament; The helm of Pyrrhus added to the rest, That flourish’d with a plu... ...reless hind, Distracted with her pain she flies the woods, Bounds o’er the lawn, and seeks the silent floods, With fruitless care; for still the fatal... ...,) about his waist he wore; A sword, with glitt’ring gems diversified, For ornament, not use, hung idly by his side. Then thus, with winged words, the... ...e: This was ordain’d for Mnestheus to possess; In war for his defense, for ornament in peace. Rich was the gift, and glorious to behold, But yet so po... ...nd, Receiv’d the Trojan chief; and, o’er the bed, A lion’s shaggy hide for ornament they spread. The loaves were serv’d in canisters; the wine In bowl...

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...like a high tun- nel, traversing opaque masses, and winding round the turf lawns, on which baskets of flowers, in the pale darkness, could be indistin... ... pottery, painted statues, others of oak, Christs, Virgins, Saints, church ornaments, cha- subles, capes, even sacred vases, and an old gilded wooden ... ... as before, simple, and in the most cor- rect taste; but she soon began to ornament her ears with huge rhinestones which glittered and sparkled like r... ...to appear adorned with your beauty and modesty alone, which are the rarest ornaments of your sex.” But she would smile sweetly, and say: “What can I d... ... called his clerk and made some remarks in an under- tone; then he put the ornament back on the counter, and looked at it from a distance to judge of ... ...reason, to understand. His wife could not afford to purchase such a costly ornament. Certainly not. 215 Selected Writings But, then, it must have bee...

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... Nevertheless be it remarked, that even a Russian steppe has tumult and gold ornaments; also many a scene that looks desert and rock bound from the di... ...urpose of Clothes, as our Professor imagines, was not warmth or decency, but ornament. “Miserable indeed,” says he, “was the condition of the Aborigin... ...m,—to the length of sixpence.—Clothes too, which began in foolishest love of Ornament, what have they not become! In creased Security and pleasurable... ...ss? Was it on the hand of Herr Towgood; or of the Gn¨ adige Frau, who, as an ornamental Artist, might sometimes like to promote flirtation, especially ... ...e Mansion! There stoodest thou, in deep Mountain Amphitheatre, on umbrageous lawns, in thy serene solitude; stately, massive, all of granite; glitteri... ...stles that stood sheltered in these Mountain hollows; with their green flower lawns, and white dames and damosels, lovely enough: or better still, the ... ...mock me not with the name of Free, ‘when you have but knit up my chains into ornamental festoons.”’—Or what will any member of the Peace Society make ...

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... in Greek and of Virgil in Latin; rhyme be- ing no necessary adjunct of true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the inven... ...ERIAN Fables true, If true, here onely, and of delicious taste: Betwixt them Lawns, or level Downs, and Flocks Grasing the tender herb, were interpos’... ... pair that clad Each shoulder broad, came mantling o’re his brest With regal Ornament; the middle pair Girt like a Starrie Zone his waste, and round S... ...ducting, took perhaps More then enough; at least on her bestow’d Too much of Ornament, in outward shew Elaborate, of inward less exact. For well I und... ...s naked thus, of Honour void, Of Innocence, of Faith, of Puritie, Our wonted Ornaments now soild and staind, And in our Faces evident the signes Of fo...

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...re at least tolerably friendly. But that does not make a chain a desirable ornament nor the galleys an abode of bliss. Those who talk most about the b... ...d by the week to opulent American and English visitors. If we stand on the lawn at the foot of the garden and look uphill, our horizon is the stone ba... ...d clipped yew trees in the genteelest order. The garden is higher than our lawn; so we reach it by a few steps in the middle of its embankment. The pl... ...rden. Returning from the platform through the garden and down again to the lawn (a movement which leaves the villa behind us on our right) we find evi... ...ume. He opens the gate for an elderly gentleman, and follows him on to the lawn. This elderly gentleman defies the Spanish sun in a black frock coat, ... ...le gate, and admits Hector, who, snorting with indignation, comes upon the lawn, and is making for his father when Violet, greatly dismayed, springs u...

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...e sunshine of her eyes, The rose within herself her sweetness closed, Each ornament about her seemly lies, By curious chance, or careless art, compose... ...ds in the air Her twenty-colored bow, through clouds of rain; Y et all her ornaments, strange, rich and rare, Her girdle did in price and beauty stain... ...t A king, so great, so grave, so rich, so old, And twined of sixty ells of lawn and more A turban strange adorned his tresses hoar. XI His right hand ...

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...served that this notion of divine right would only make so many tyrants in lawn sleeves, but that the laws made so many citizens. With regard to the m... ...much purity as Dean Swift wrote in his closet, and who would have been the ornament and protector of that academy. Those only would have been chosen m...

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... in turn mounted the ladder, unhooking pictures and curtains, and dislodging ornaments as Edna directed. When he had finished he took off his dust cap... ...and singing their matins. When La Folle came to the broad stretch of velvety lawn that sur rounded the house, she moved slowly and with delight over ... ...gh an eager multitude that was besieging breastworks of shirting and figured lawn. An all gone limp feeling had come over her and she rested her hand ...

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...er forehead, Golden cross, and rings, and jewels, 64 The Kalevala Fitting ornaments to beauty. Now she leaves her many treasures, Leaves the store ho... ... shouldst tell me falsely, I shall break thy beauteous jewels, Break thine ornaments in pieces, Hurl them to the fire and furnace, Never forge thee ot... ...ent blacksmith, The eternal metal worker, Forged the wishes of his sister, Ornaments for fair Annikki, Rings, and bracelets, pins and ear drops, Forge... ...his glen I played and wandered, On these stones I rocked for ages, On this lawn I rolled and tumbled, Frolicked on these woodland borders, 310 The Ka... ...e hammer; Forges well the blade of magic, Well the heavy sword be tempers, Ornaments the hero weapon With the finest gold and silver. Wainamoinen, the... ..., Glimmering in the golden moonlight, Many colored as the rainbow, Fitting ornaments for heroes, Jewels for the maids of beauty. This the origin of se...

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...all flowers together. They were but garnishings, child- ish toys, trifling ornaments for ladies’ chimney-shelves. It was towards his cauliflowers and ... ...er-pots, and an outpost of savoys was once discovered in the centre of the lawn. He would prelect over some thriving plant with wonderful enthusiasm, ...