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... the importance of this world justifies. He main- tains that overwork slew Pansay, who died under his hands about three years ago. He has, of course, ... ...peak authoritatively, and he laughs at my theory that there was a crack in Pansay’s head and a little bit of the Dark World came through and pressed h... ...and a little bit of the Dark World came through and pressed him to death. “Pansay went off the handle,” says Heatherlegh, “after the stimulus of long ... ... work of two and a half men.” I do not believe this. I used to sit up with Pansay some- 6 The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories times when Hea... ... down and tried calmly to reason out the matter. Here was I, Theobald Jack Pansay, a well-educated Bengal Civilian in the year of grace, 1885, presuma... ...d at the same time I myself was watching myself faltering through the dark labyrinths of doubt, misery, and utter despair. I wondered, as Heatherlegh ...

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... supported by an honorable name. How could she extricate herself from this labyrinth? To whom would she apply to help her out of this painful situatio...

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...abdacus (lab ́-da-cus)...........................................................................................................................215 Labyrinth (lab ́-i-rinth)...........................................................................................................................215 Lachesis (lak ́-e-sis).....................................................

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...f all London cries— 200 May then entangle us awhile, Conducted through those labyrinths unawares To privileged regions and inviolate, Where from their... ...hall I forget the hour, 695 The moment rather say, when, having thridded The labyrinth of suburban villages, At length I did unto myself first seem To ... ...e else. And lastly, Nature’s self, by human love Assisted, through the weary labyrinth Conducted me again to open day, 930 Revived the feelings of my ...

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...r tall crane stan- dards of iron, swing pensile our antique Cassolettes or pans of incense; dispensing sweet incense-fumes,—unless for the Heathen Myt... ...cloth, close at hand, nor the requiems chanted, and minute guns, in- cense-pans and concourse right over his head: none of these; but Peter sleeps thr... ...; our can- non-salvoes are turned to sharp shot; for swinging of in- cense-pans and Eighty-three Departmental Banners, we have waving of the one sangu... ...it: they will retire behind this Loire-stream, defend these Auvergne stone-labyrinths; save some little sacred Territory of the Free; die at least in ...

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...tery about my lord’s words or actions. His Fair Rosamond did not live in a Labyrinth, like the lady of Mr. Addison’s opera, but paraded with painted c...

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...ly, we were a considerable distance from the sea, and divided from it by a labyrinth of streets and houses. But the sea was my delight; and I would of...

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... with great speed, and apparently perfect knowledge of the town, through a labyrinth of by-streets, courts, and blind alleys, until at length W ayland... ...elf there would be time to think hereaf- ter how he was to escape from the labyrinth ultimately, since the pilot who sees a Scylla under his bows must...

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...one into them, and he has not. He can’t be expected to know much of such a labyrinth.” As his look wandered over the papers again and he passed his tw... ...e that I was not in a dream. We rattled with great rapidity through such a labyrinth of streets that I soon lost all idea where we were, except that w...

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...groom into misleading us, when floundering amongst bogs, into the interior labyrinths of these morasses. Deep, however, as the morass, was this man’s ... ...he course, geographically or ethnographically, of its traditions, the vast labyrinth of its mythology, the deductions of its con- tradictory genealogi... ... the powers of the Oracle, by a monstrous culinary arrangement of pots and pans, known (as he fancied) only to himself. Generally the course of the De... ...sor. He delighted in the refinements of intrigue, and in the most tortuous labyrinths of political manœuvring, purely for their own sakes; and sometim... ... chain of glittering points, as it curved and humored the road amongst the labyrinths of the forest, would have produced a singularly striking effect ... ...evolting feelings, as the abode of a sangui- nary despot. The dungeons and labyrinths of its tortuous passages, its gloomy halls of audience, with the...

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...at way, T o draw their boate within the vtmost bound Of his wide Labyrinth, and then to haue them dround. But th’heedfull Boateman stro...

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...ide was the fair garden of pleasure, and in the midst of that the glorious labyrinth. Between the two other towers were the courts for the tennis and ... ..., and merry blades. And of this race came St. Fatgulch and Shrove Tuesday (Pansart, Mardigras.). Others did swell at the shoulders, who in that place ... ...hizotome, some latent virtue and specific propriety hid in the kettles and pans, which, as the loadstone attracts iron, draws the monks there, and can... ...d to digest whole windmills at a gust, yet unable to consume perfectly the pans and skillets; though it had indeed pretty well digested the kettles an... ...armed with iron spits, others with andirons, racks, fire-shov- els, frying-pans, kettles, grid-irons, oven forks, tongs, drip- ping pans, brooms, iron... ...es of their brains, the inmost mar- row of their bones, and most intricate labyrinth of their ar- teries? Then, ah! then, and no sooner than then, nor... ...a ramble in the air, and so the neighbourhood make this dingle-dangle with pans, kettles, and basins, the corybantine cymbals of Cybele, grandmother o... ...What occasions the aberrations of human cogitations through the perplexing labyrinths and abysses of admiration, is not the source of the effects, whi... ...ove five hundred and fifty times more precious than that of Serapis in the labyrinth of the Egyptians, and more verdant and shining than those that we...

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...y if I attempted it, and perish miserably amid the dismal and dis- gusting labyrinths of the hold. I proceeded, therefore, without hesitation, to summ... ...n reach- ing me. Having extricated himself as quickly as possible from the labyrinth of lumber by which he was hemmed in, he at 48 Poe in Five V olum... ...ghtly screwed while in certain conditions, has been known, through the ex- pansion of its bulk, to rend a vessel asunder at sea. There can be no doubt... ...lled the whole area of the southern horizon. The northern edge of this ex- panse was ragged and broken, so firmly wedged together as to be utterly imp...

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...ho had taken a sailor’s glance at the bear- ings, they soon unthreaded the labyrinth of rocks so far as to bring the man within view. He had not left ... ...remember, eyes that register the promises of comets, and dis- entangle the labyrinths of worlds. Another feature of interest, connected with the Glasg...

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...ance, good lady, hath bereft you thus? 65 LADY. Dim darkness and this leafy labyrinth. COMUS. Could that divide you from near ushering guides? LADY. ... ...ness loud in rustic lays, And throw sweet garland wreaths into her stream Of pansies, pinks, and gaudy daffodils. And, as the old swain said, she can ... ...saken dies, The tufted crow toe, and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk rose, and the well a...

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...alace kneeling before the stars amid the eddyings from kindled per- fuming-pans. It was the moon that had made her so pale, and there was something fr... ... consecrated to the gods; and at the four corners rose four long perfuming-pans filled with nard, incense, cinnamomum, and myrrh. The slave lit the 3... ...with unguents, and exhaled an odour of spices and extin- guished perfuming-pans; while they were so covered with tattooings, necklaces, rings, vermili... ...urnaces was heard. The incense smoked more strongly in the large perfuming pans, and the 87 Flaubert shampooers, who were quite naked and were sweati... ...nto the caverns of Proserpine; he had seen the five hundred pillars of the labyrinth of Lemnos re- volve, and the candelabrum of T arentum, which bore...

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...r, Where bloom the daisied banks and violets, And in whose fenny labyrinth The bittern booms and heron wades; Spirit of lakes and ... ...nce, as verbena and geranium; or for sight, as cactus; or for thoughts, as pansy . These humbler, at least, if not those higher uses. Ah, my dear Stra...

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...wbridges, dormant- bridges, rampart-bastions, and the grim Eight Towers: a labyrinthic Mass, high-frowning there, of all ages from twenty years to fou... ...ow; there is nothing but what grows, and shoots forth into its special ex- pansion,—once give it leave to spring. Observe too that each grows with a r... ...illes, ending in royal Parks and Pleasances, gleam- ing lakelets, arbours, Labyrinths, the Menagerie, and Great and Little Trianon. High-towered dwell... ...eir tall crane standards of iron, swing pensile our antique Cassolettes or pans of incense; dispensing sweet incense- fumes,—unless for the Heathen My... ...rtcloth, close at hand, nor the requiems chanted, and minute guns, incense-pans and concourse right over his head: none of these; but Peter sleeps thr... ...wail; our cannon-salvoes are turned to sharp shot; for swinging of incense-pans and Eighty-three Departmental Banners, we have waving of the one sangu...

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...had buildings reared around With doors and entries false a thousandfold, A labyrinth they made that fortress brave, Like Daedal’s prison, or Porsenna’... ...s palace hides; Y et all the maze their map described so, That through the labyrinth they got in fine, As Theseus did by Ariadne’s line. 356 Jerusale...

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...It was laid out in curvi- linear beds, which, looked at together, formed a labyrinth of ornaments; all with green borders of a low, woolly plant, whic... ...d. Here we reached a wider field, but, prop- erly speaking, only a greater labyrinth, which was so much the more tiresome, as an able man, in whom we ...

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...hat could not have had a birth except in Christianity.) All comes from the labyrinthine intricacy in which the social action of Chris- tianity involve... ...ld not have said this, had he not been nearly related to the Whig house of Panshanger. Every Whig thought it a duty occasionally to look fiercely at k... ...story, and ask in what way any man could have extricated himself from that labyrinth which invested his path but by Casuistry . Cases the most difficu...

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...al Speculative: but falls, unhappily, by no firm line of demarcation; in that labyrinthic combination, each Part overlaps, and indents, and indeed runs... ...ant of a purpose may have still lurked in him: Life has become wholly a dark labyrinth; wherein, through long years, our Friend, flying from spectres, ... ...an Hofrath; and not rather deceptively inlock both Editor and Hofrath in the labyrinthic tortuosities and covered ways of said citadel (having enticed... ...eople—to be shot!” Gladly, therefore, do we emerge from those soul confusing labyrinths of spec ulative Radicalism, into somewhat clearer regions. He... ...s, lappets and irregular wings, of all cloths and of all colors; through the labyrinthic intricacies of which their bodies are introduced by some unkn...

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... What, still you would have their praise! But here’s a haughtier text, The labyrinth of her days That her own strangeness perplexed; And how what her ... ...ourteenth moon, The soul begins to tremble into stillness, To die into the labyrinth of itself! Aherne. Sing out the song; sing to the end, and sing T... ...seeing Plunge, lured by a softening eye, Or by a touch or a sigh, Into the labyrinth of another’s being; 198 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS Does t... ...man won or woman lost? If on the lost, admit you turned aside From a great labyrinth out of pride, Cowardice, some silly over subtle thought Or anythi... ... of approaching night. A man in his own secret meditation Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made In art or politics; Some Platonist affirms that i...

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...ould not equal; the daunt- less street urchins, as they gayly threaded the Labyrinth of Life, enjoyed the perplexities and quarrels of the scene, and ... ... Bright One, there be other things in Life, in Nature, in this Inscrutable Labyrinth, this Heart on which thou leanest, which are equally unintelligib... ... a very Paradise of Mahound: but, enter the city, and it is but a beggarly labyrinth of rickety huts and dirty alleys, where the ways are steep and th... ...and but a boy, a fair-haired boy, a blue-eyed boy! he had been gather- ing pansies in the fields but yesterday—it was but a few years, and he was a ba...

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...hese a slow and silent stream, LETHE the River of Oblivion roules Her watrie Labyrinth, whereof who drinks, Forthwith his former state and being forge... ...where soonest he might finde The Serpent: him fast sleeping soon he found In Labyrinth of many a round self rowl’d, His head the midst, well stor’d wi... ... with verdant roof imbowr’d He led her nothing loath; Flours were the Couch, Pansies, and Violets, and Asphodel, And Hyacinth, Earths freshest softest...

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...rtains of the philosopher’s bed, and disorganized the economy of his pate- pans and papers. The huge folio sign that swung without, ex- posed to the f... ...For now, while so quietly Lying, it fancies A holier odor About it, of pansies — A rosemary odor, Commingled with pansies — With rue and the bea... ...ary odor, Commingled with pansies — With rue and the beautiful Puritan pansies. And so it lies happily, Bathing in many A dream of the truth A... ...pirits on the wing— Over every drowsy thing— And buries them up quite In a labyrinth of light— And then, how deep!— O, deep! Is the passion of their s...

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...had buildings reared around With doors and entries false a thousandfold, A labyrinth they made that fortress brave, Like Daedal’s prison, or Porsenna’... ...s palace hides; Y et all the maze their map described so, That through the labyrinth they got in fine, As Theseus did by Ariadne’s line. 356 Jerusale...

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...ern’d they join, And march together in a friendly line. And, as the Cretan labyrinth of old, With wand’ring ways and many a winding fold, Involv’d the...

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...tery about my lord’s words or actions. His Fair Rosamond did not live in a Labyrinth, like the lady of Mr. Addison’s opera, but paraded with painted c...

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...ungauged reservoir of Mr. Casaubon’s mind, seeing reflected there in vague labyrinthine extension every quality she herself brought; had opened much o... ... un- derstood from him the scope of his great work, also of attrac- tively labyrinthine extent. For he had been as instructive as Milton’s “affable ar... ...f a narrow teaching, hemmed in by a social life which seemed nothing but a labyrinth of petty courses, a walled-in maze of small paths that led no whi... ...happened to lead to the dairy, and there under the high roof and among the pans he gave way to laughter which made a hollow resonance perfectly audibl...

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... ungauged reservoir of Mr. Casaubon’s mind, seeing reflected there in vague labyrinthine extension every quality she herself brought; had opened much o... ... had understood from him the scope of his great work, also of attractively labyrinthine extent. For he had been as instructive as Milton’s “affable ar... ...f a narrow teaching, hemmed in by a social life which seemed nothing but a labyrinth of petty courses, a walled in maze of small paths that led no whi... ...happened to lead to the dairy, and there under the high roof and among the pans he gave way to laughter which made a hollow resonance perfectly audibl...

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...aster. Great Architect of Nature, help me to find the true path out of the labyrinth of lies! After this, three pages were left blank in the diary, an... ...l had just been raised. At the entrance to the Arbat Square an immense ex- panse of dark starry sky presented itself to his eyes. Almost in the center...