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...Excerpt: A terrible shriek rang through the great Manor-house of Amesbury. It was preceded by a loud explosion, and there was agony as well as terror in the cry. Then followed more shrieks and screams, some of pain, some of fright, others of anger and recrimination. Every on...

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...akespeare King Henry IV., Part I. A TERRIBLE SHRIEK rang through the great Manor-house of Amesbury. It was preceded by a loud explosion, and there was... ... dismal little circular room in a turret of 8 Grisly Grisell the manorial house, with merely a narrow loophole to look out from, and this wa... ...r William Copeland was devoted to the Somerset family, of whom he held his manor; and had had a furious quarrel with the Baron of Whitburn, when both ... ... her of the King’s interest and de- light in his beautiful freshly-founded Colleges at Eton and Cambridge, how the King rode down whenever he could to... ... much. Great families with all their train used to move from one castle or manor to another so soon as they had eaten up all the produce of one place,... ...ry, needlework, notability, and surgery which made the lady of a castle or manor so important, and within the last century in the more fashion- able a...

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...of expectant youth. It is Carol Milford, fleeing for an hour from Blodgett College. The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, and bears killed... ...irit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest. II Blodgett College is on the edge of Minneapolis. It is a bulwark of sound religion. I... ...ting scenery for the dramatic club, over soliciting advertisements for the college magazine. She was on the peak that Sunday afternoon when she played... ...ked behind the others in the muck of the South St. Paul stockyards, “These college chumps make me tired. They’re so top-lofty. They ought to of worked... ...n pillow while she read. About her was the clothy exuberance of a Blodgett College room: cretonne-covered window-seat, photographs of girls, a carbon ... ... the dearest thing I ever saw. And she adores you. You are the Lord of the Manor.” “Oh no,” much pleased, “but still they do ask my advice about thing... ...-book suburb of Forest Hills on Long Island. Devonshire cottages and Essex manors and a Yorkshire High Street and Port Sun- light. The Arab village of...

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... in his life, as well as in that of his son. The elder John Patteson was a colleger, and passed on to King’s College, Cambridge, whence, in 1813, he c... ...r his grandparents lived at Heath’s Court, close to the church, and in the manor-house near at hand their third son, Francis George Coleridge, a solic... ...vity. Their tumultuous loyalty and audacity appear in Coley’s letter:— ‘In college, stretching from Hexter’s to Mother Spier’s was a magnificent repre... ...dreadful pain for some time. Then came the Queen’s carriage, and I thought college would have tumbled down with the row. The cheering was really treme... ...t led him to choose, amongst his most intimate friends and associates, two collegers, who ultimately became Newcastle scholars and medallists. ‘That t... ...embering the Jew and Samaritan state that pre- vailed between oppidans and collegers, I remember with pride that Patteson did so much to level the dis... ...you will all be happy about me; and what has just been taking place at the Manor House teaches us to look, 91 Yo n g e on a little to a blessed meeti...

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...pplied to any district of extent thus con- ceded; though under the crown’, manorial rights being often granted with the soil, in the older counties th... ... rights being often granted with the soil, in the older counties the word “manor” is frequently used. There are many manors in New York though all pol... ...hose little niceties; though, for the matter of that, my grandfather was a college-bred physician, and the best in the colony , too—that is, in his ne... ...h disposed to have the institution designated a university , or at least a college. Meet- ing after meeting was held, for this purpose, year after yea... ...the trustees of this institution employed a graduate of one of the Eastern colleges to instruct such youth as aspired to knowl- edge within the walls ... ...n of their children, whom they frequently sent to England, and even to the colleges; and this is the way that he accounts for the liberal manner in wh...

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...ated the departure of his wife, crises in which a number of old school and college friends very generously assisted—spending weekends at Seagate for t... ...h her at the Carlton, and in the summer she had him with her at Chexington Manor, the Hertfordshire house Sir Godfrey had given her. And always when t... ...rnoon when she had got him to herself during his first visit to Chexington Manor. “How do you like Cambridge? Are you making friends? Have you joined ... ... “Y ou must make good friends,” she said. “Isn’t young Lord Breeze at your college? His mother the other day told me he was. And Sir Freddy Quenton’s ... ...nings of savoir faire. Was he in the right set? Was he indeed in the right college? Trinity, by his account, seemed a huge featureless place—and might... ...at monster packet of everything. He ought to have gone to some little good college, good all through. She ought to have asked some one who knew. 11 11... ...ce to Cambridge, and the bicycle repair shop in Bridge Street, and Trinity College. At the gate of Trinity Benham stopped, and conveyed rather by acts...

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... bank on the farm of Woodhouse, in the sequestered vale of the small river Manor, in Peeblesshire. The few people who had occasion to pass that way we... ...lly allowed to be a tolerably exact and unexaggerated portrait of David of Manor Water. He was not quite three feet and a half high, since he could st... ...his mind, however, and was finally interred in the common burial-ground of Manor parish. The author has invested Wise Elshie with some qualities which... ...torian, who then resided at the mansion- house of Halyards, in the vale of Manor, about a mile from Ritchie’s hermitage, the author was upon a visit a... ..., by offering to surrender his game, as he would to an earthly Lord of the Manor. The proposal only redoubled the offence already taken by the dwarf, ... ... never deny it.—But will ye tell me now, Earnscliff, you that have been at college, and the high-school of Edinburgh, and got a’ sort o’ lair where it... ...d like well to have a thrust with him on the green turf. I was reckoned at college nearly his equal with the foils, and I should like to try him at sh... ...have re- course to the violent expedients of the Romans which I read of at College. It would be hard upon my pretty cousin to be run away with twice i...

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... of immense importance. He has his hero, his great man, a professor at the College de France, paid to talk down to the level of his audience. He adjus... ...ed, with loftier ambitions, and saw things as they were at home in the old manor house. His father and mother, his two brothers and two sisters, with ... ...led. He knew the spotless nobleness of the lives buried away in the lonely manor house; he knew what trouble and what joy his request would cause his ... ...s to wonder what mental aberra- tion prompted the State to establish great colleges and schools there, and assemble young men in the capital; how it i...

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... Are you not prepared to admit That l, who inherited riches and was to the manor born, Was second to none in Spoon River In my devotion to the cause o... ... nor my wife Believed a word she said. Searcy Foote I WANTED to go away to college But rich Aunt Persis wouldn’t help me. So I made gardens and raked ... ...the oak tree, Where we children had our swing. Y et the little house was a manor hall Set in a lawn, and by the lawn was the sea. I was in the room wh... ...red, friends, Let it not be because I taught The lore of the stars in Knox College, But rather for this: that through the stars I preached the greatne... ... the nomination 81 I wanted to be County Judge 90 I wanted to go away to college 78 I was a gun-smith in Odessa. 99 I was a lawyer like Harmon Whi...

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..., who was studying the classics with the vicar’s assistance, preparing for college, with a view to enter the church. Their sister Jane was a young lad... ...eground will finish it, I should think. But why have you called it Fernley Manor, Cumberland, instead of Wildfell Hall, -shire?’ I asked, alluding to ... ...t last. I am married now, and settled down as Mrs. Huntingdon of Grassdale Manor. I have had eight weeks’ experience of matrimony. And do I regret the... ...ll to himself, and to see me safely installed as the mistress of Grassdale Manor, just as single-minded, as naive, and piquante as I was; and as if I ... ...er to see her, and once or twice I had her to spend the day with me at the Manor. Mrs. Hargrave did not visit Lon- don that season: having no daughter... ...his mother, who, as he was riding that way, had desired him to call at the Manor and beg the pleasure of my company to a friendly family din- ner to-m...

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...rance. The number of electors which this rich valley sent to the electoral college was sufficient to insure, if only through private dealing, the cons... ...ect, on condition that the Mar- quis de Ronquerolles was maintained in the college. Thus Gaubertin, who was the first to broach the idea of this ar- r... ...ried Monsieur Herve, a school- master, whose school was transformed into a college as a re- sult of this marriage, so that for the past year Soulanges... ...plained as the corruption of the words (in low Latin) “Villa in Fago,”—the manor of the woods. This name indicates that a forest once covered the delt...

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...s had never received more than fifteen thousand francs per annum from this manor, once among the richest tenures of the kingdom, the lands of which ha... ... my parishioners have done to testify their grati- tude to the lady of the manor,” he said, pointing to the line, which was really a road; “we can now... ...Christian Chastity caressing the Ce- lestial Unicorn.” The mistress of the manor, whose silence was respected by her companions when they saw that her... ...his intellect, which was thor- oughly Gallican, would enlighten the Sacred College. Horace Bianchon returned to Paris; before departing, he came to bi...

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...ld and not uncultured Oratorian, Louis left him early in 1811 to enter the college at V endome, where he was maintained at the cost of Madame de Stael... ... High School at Vendome; then she probably forgot him. Having entered this college at the age of fourteen, early in 1811, Lambert would leave it at th... ...n her and the boy left Blois just at the time when Louis passed out of the college. The political events that ensued were then a sufficient excuse for... ... succeeding the Jesuits, in fact, in certain of their establish- ments—the colleges of Vendome, of Tournon, of la Fleche, Pont-Levoy, Sorreze, and Jui... ...ducational bodies, decreed by the convention, had but little effect on the college at Vendome. When the first crisis had blown over, the authorities r... ...- fore us to spend in walks in the country round the town of V endome. The manor of Rochambeau was the most interest- ing object of our excursions, pe...

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...st, 1855, Hawthorne went by invitation to Smithell’s Hall, the lady of the manor, on his taking leave, asked him “to write a ghost story for her house... ...hero an American who goes thither to assert his inherited rights in an old manor house possessing the peculiarity of a supposed bloody foot print on t... ...y. By the kind aid of the good minister of the town he had been fitted for college; had passed through Cam bridge by means of what little money his f... ...t who knows?” “I thought you knew,” said Robert Hagburn. “You have been to college, and have learned, no doubt, a great many things. You are a student... ...and aid it was owing that Septimius had followed his instincts by going to college, instead of spending a thwarted and dissat isfied life in the fiel... ...an who might do God service. Your reputa tion as a scholar stands high at college. You have not a turn for worldly business.” “ Ah, but, sir,” said S... ... only to be brought out by what was hidden. Septimius had read, in the old college library during his pupilage, a work on ciphers and cryptic writing,...

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... so while he was still a little boy he was sent to “one of them old, ancient colleges”—he couldn’t remember which; and by and by his father died and h... ...the Mississippi Mark T wain 106 Red Church 1 39 Bonnet Carre 2 38 College Point 3 50(half) Donaldsonville 4 59 Plaquemine 7 05(half... ...for thoroughness as any similar institu tion in Missouri. There was another college higher up on an airy summit—a bright new edifice, picturesquely a... ...said that Cape Girardeau was the Athens of Missouri, and contained sev eral colleges besides those already mentioned; and all of them on a religious ... ...was a man of good parts, and Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 151 was college bred. His loose grammar was the fruit of careless habit, not igno... ...appy looking region. And now and then you see a pillared and porticoed great manor house, embowered in trees. Here is testimony of one or two of the p...

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...t, I can hear her: ‘Depend upon it, a woman of intellect will marry Dayton Manor.’ Should that mighty event not come to pass, poor Charles will have t... ...id adieu. 23 George Meredith CHAPTER IV SHE BEHOLD ME installed in Dayton Manor House, and brought here for the express purpose (so Charles has writt... ...g a study of him. Which of us two will know the other first? He was papa’s college friend—papa’s junior, of course, and infinitely more papa’s junior ...

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... of Greek took precedence. At six years of age young Montaigne went to the College of Guienne at Bordeaux, where he had as preceptors the most eminent... ... worth taking notice of: I have heard men of good understanding say, these colleges of ours to which we send our young people (and of which we have bu... ...y) make them such animals as they are.—[Hobbes said that if he Had been at college as long as other people he should have been as great a block- head ... ... young pupil will be much more and better employed than his fellows of the college are. But as the steps we take in walking to and fro in a gallery, t... ...tant to it. But amongst other things, the strict government of most of our colleges has evermore displeased me; peradventure, they might have erred le... ...that we have in our kingdom of France to call every one by the name of his manor or seigneury; ’tis the thing in the world that the most prejudices an... ...founds families and descents. A younger brother of a good family, having a manor left him by his father, by the name of which he has been known and ho...

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...ely varied by the towers of Frapesle, the church, the village, and the old manor-house of Sache, whose venerable pile looked down upon the meadows. In... ...glad to answer all in detail. “What in the world do they teach you in your colleges?” he exclaimed at last in astonishment. On this first day the coun... ...s I found the same sufferings that assailed me elsewhere; but in Paris, at college, at school I evaded them by abstinence; there my privations were ne... ...’s side differed from those of a boy cast out upon the world of school and college life. My desolate neglect seemed to me a paradise compared to that ... ...o-night? She is very lucky, that woman, to suit you in morality. From what college did she graduate? Poor I, who can only give you myself, who can onl... ... some poor home,—deeds of a Christian woman, a mother, and the lady of the manor. Besides these things, there were dowries paid to enable lov- ing hea...

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...as Madam de Warrens was always for helping out one project with another, a College of Pharmacy was to be added, which really would have been a very us... ...iality. I ceased visiting Father Castel, and on that account, going to the college of the Jesuits, where I knew nobody but himself. Besides the intrig... ...e in the most insulting terms, calling me that ‘petit cuistre’: the little college pedant, or servitor in a college, without, however, being able to c... ..., furious on account of the contemptuous manner in which I had spo- ken of colleges, were in possession of my work; that it was they who had delayed t... ...from him. He invited me to his house. I went with M. Martinet, lord of the manor of Val de Travers, who was in great favor with his excellency. The ve... ...s house. He did not bid us sit down. The stupid chatelain, the lord of the manor, remained stand- ing. For my part I at first sight saw in the fine an... ... doctors would have been better placed in a madhouse than they were in the college. I was more affected by another publication, because it came from a...

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...lwind, as one was tempted to call him. In youth, he had studied at Trinity College, Dublin; vis- ited the Inns of Court here, and trained himself for ... ...l that remained of the young family; much attached to one another in their College years as afterwards. Glasgow, however, was not properly their Col- ... ...inning of his nineteenth year, “in the autumn of 1824,” he went to Trinity College, Cambridge. His brother Anthony, who had already been there a year,... ...cord- ing to his gifts for work in this world. Sterling’s Tutor at Trinity College was Julius Hare, now the distinguished Archdeacon of Lewes:—who soo... ...ords in particular how once, on a sudden alarm of fire in some neighboring College edifice while his lec- ture was proceeding, all hands rushed out to... ... day:— “To Thomas Carlyle, Esq., Chelsea, London. “Manor House, Clifton Place, Clifton, “30th June,...

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...ohn Reed?” “Oh, he is not doing so well as his mama could wish. He went to college, and he got—plucked, I think they call it: and then his uncles want... ...toreys high, of proportions not vast, though con- siderable: a gentleman’s manor-house, not a nobleman’s seat: battlements round the top gave it a pic... ...Fairfax Rochester, of Thornfield Hall, in the county of -, and of Ferndean Manor, in -shire, England, was married to my sister, Bertha Antoinetta Maso... ...me to remove the maniac elsewhere— though I possess an old house, Ferndean Manor, even more retired and hidden than this, where I could have lodged he... ...the latter a fortune of thirty thousand pounds: that sufficed. When I left college, I was sent out to Jamaica, to espouse a bride already courted for ... ... been “of a mak’ of their own.” Mr. St. John, when he grew up, would go to college and be a parson; and the girls, as soon as they left school, would ... ...nd and a cripple.” “Where is he? Where does he now live?” “ At Ferndean, a manor-house on a farm he has, about thirty miles off: quite a desolate spot... ...ay both you and him twice the hire you usually demand.” CHAPTER XXXVII THE MANOR-HOUSE of Ferndean was a building of consider- able antiquity, moderat... ...in in the navy, a gallant officer and a good man. Mary’s is a clergyman, a college friend of her brother’s, and, from his attainments and principles, ...