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...concentrate the enthusiasm of the armies of either side. There could be no Alexanders or Na- poleons. And we soon heard the scientific corps muttering... ...e part of some one particular state. The memory of the empires of Rome and Alexander squatted, an unlaid carnivo- rous ghost, in the human imagination... ... observant spectators, women and chil- dren in peculiar white caps and old-fashioned sabots, and elderly, clean-shaven men quietly thoughtful over the... ...d in a series of terraces down to the town. Pestovitch and his guard-valet Peter, both wrapped about in a similar disguise, came out among the laurels... ...omething that will make them watch up above there. Meanwhile you and I and Peter will go out by the back way and up by the hedges to the farm….’ It wa... ...t passed at once or lingered for just a second? ‘They didn’t see us,’ said Peter. ‘I don’t think they saw us,’ said the king, and stared as the light ... ...ak when Karenin went on again. ‘I hope he kills me, Gardener. Don’t be—old-fashioned. The thing I am most afraid of is that last rag of life. I may ju... ...were working in the place and a patient named Kahn, a poet, and Edwards, a designer of plays and shows, spent some time with him. The talk wandered fr... ...omen, wear white clothing like the men, twist up your hair in the simplest fashion, go about your work as though there was only one sex in the world. ...

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... all things, upon his probity and justice, but the mask soon fell. Between Peter and Paul he maintained the strictest fairness, but as soon as he perc... ...e’s suite, was present, but had been ill. There was drinking in the Polish fashion, and he tried to be let off. The Prince pleaded for him; but these ... ...vow the book, and ar- range the reconciliation which took place. The Czar, Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia, had at this time already commenced his ... ...uilding. Although incognito, he wished to be recognised, but after his own fashion; and was annoyed that, being so near to England, no embassy was sen... ...gave, charmed everybody, and made him universally popu- lar. It became the fashion to give fetes in his honour; and the 102 Saint-Simon astonishing f... ... good taste to the very last. He was illustrious, as having been the first designer of those beautiful gardens which adorn France, and which, indeed, ... ...r best general officers on horseback, and a larger number of engineers and designers on foot, profited by these ridiculous colloquies to put upon pape... ...ined is perhaps an example, great, unique, and assuredly very respectable. Peter I., Czar of Muscovy, has made for himself, and justly, such a great n... ... that is to say, on the 16th of July, the Pope made him cardinal with Dion Alexander Alboni, nephew of the deceased Pope, and brother of the Cardinal ...

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...t way to be left this vault to brag of, but the flickering and expiring snuffs. And what was very curious, was, that these dim old women had one compa... ...ually beginning to flag, Mr. Grazinglands (who is the tenderest of husbands) remarked with sympathy, ‘Arabella’, my dear, ‘fear you are faint.’ Mrs. G... ...- plexion, and tries to ooze out at the eyes. As he decided against entering, and turned away, Mrs. Grazinglands be- coming perceptibly weaker, repeat... ... Saint Saviour’s, Southwark; and the church of Milton’s tomb to be the church of Cripplegate; and the church on Cornhill with the great golden keys to... ... to be- gin. Christening would seem to have faded out of this church long ago, for the font has the dust of desuetude thick upon it, and its wooden co... ...we are required to sing. The Uncommercial Traveller 83 There is a pale heap of books in the corner of my pew, and while the organ, which is hoarse an... ...interesting. As I looked in at this window for twenty minutes by the clock, I am in a po- sition to offer a friendly remonstrance—not bearing on this ... ...e of trees, shading the quaintest of Dutch landing-places, where the leaf-speckled shadow of a shipwright just passing away at the further end might b...

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..., could remember Bun Hill as an idyllic Kentish village. He had driven Sir Peter Bone until he was fifty and then he took to drink a little, and drivi... ...r any careless stranger. He could tell you of the van- ished estate of Sir Peter Bone, long since cut up for building, and how that magnate ruled the ... ...ould sit over the fire mumbling of the greatness of other days, of old Sir Peter, who drove his coach to Brighton and back in eight-and-twenty hours, ... ...machine. For it was a secret and he kept it secret in the most elabo- rate fashion. He built his apparatus himself in the safe pri- vacy of the great ... ...rable turn for reticence, that wanted things personal indeed in the modern fashion. Yet not too personal. It was embarrassing, I say, to be inexo- rab... ... motor-bicycles, and a majority of gyroscopic motor-cars run- ning bicycle-fashion on two wheels, mingled with old-fash- ioned four-wheeled traffic. B... ...presently Bert found himself sitting to eat in the presence of the “German Alexander”—that great and puis- sant Prince, Prince Karl Albert, the War Lo... ... a livid crimson. He was the Prince Karl Albert, the War Lord, the “German Alexander,” and the man behind him was the bird-faced man 190 The War in t... ... I stowed it. But what’s ‘e got in ‘is head? Rot about Napoleon, rot about Alexander, rot about ‘is blessed family and ‘im and Gord and David and all ...

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...l fishing hamlet within the bay, but these had become merged in one, since fashion had chosen them as a winter resort. Speculators blasted away such o... ...server, the chief distinction between them was that Rockstone was the more fashionable, Rockquay the more commercial, although the one had its shops, ... ...d Fergus’s hands, which had succeeded in getting dirty in their inevitable fashion, and undertook all the unpacking and ar- ranging. To Val’s inquiry ... ...phs with English fair- ies. So Gerald Underwood had to combine the part of Peter Quince (including Thisbe) with that of Oberon, and the queen was offe... ...ould not keep us on if he could help it. He has been writ- ing for another designer—an artist—instead of me.’ ‘Still, you would be glad to have the co... ...busi- ness to report it and send the order, it seems, and in his ab- sence Alexander White, or whatever they call him, took his work. Well, the old ma... ... now will you tell me where I shall find your brother who took the letter, Peter or Petros?’ ‘Petros is his name, but the boys call him Peter. He is a... ...as much less shy, and spoke out boldly, saying how he had gone with little Peter, and the porter had rowed them downright shameful, but it was nothing...

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...ome reason to doubt if John the Baptist were gen- teel; and in the case of Peter, on whose career you doubtless dwell approvingly in the pulpit, no do... ...he was a ‘coarse, headstrong’ fisherman! Yet even in our Protestant Bibles Peter is called Saint. Damien was dirty. He was. Think of the poor lepers a... ...o is fathers.* When Sharpe first heard of the rebellion, he applied to Sir Alexander Ramsay, the Provost, for soldiers to guard his house. Disliking t... ... country.’ Bear this remonstrance of Defoe’s in mind, and though it is the fashion of the day to jeer and to mock, to execrate and to contemn, the nob... ...ractised Um- brella-Philosopher. O you who lisp, and amble, and change the fashion of your countenances– you who conceal all these, how little do you ... ...ver absent. There is much that is cheer- ful and, after a sedate, fireside fashion, hopeful. No one will be discouraged by reading the book; but the g... ...an. Their spirit, in defect and quality, is still the same as his own. The designer also has lain down and dreamed a dream, as literal, as quaint, and... ... ing over for inspection his ‘right Jerusalem blade.’ It is true that this designer has no great care after consistency: Apollyon’s spear is laid by, ... ...aid by, his quiver of darts will disappear, whenever they might hinder the designer’s freedom; and the fiend’s tail is blobbed or forked at his good p...