...t, dust to dust. She was at the source of things and dwelt beside the very springs of life, yet those deep wells from which she drew were of the waysi... ... the brake is still. The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs: A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings! Mirth is th... ...to the latch My hand, with trembling care, Lest back the awful door should spring, And leave me standing there. I moved my fingers off As cautiously a... ...ng, happy thing, Supposed that he had come to dwell, And life would be all spring. She felt herself supremer,— A raised, ethereal thing; Henceforth fo... ... butterfly, Extinguished in its sea. VIII BEFORE you thought of spring, Except as a surmise, You see, God bless his suddenness, A fellow in... ...ea, Sailing silently, Knowest thou the shore Ho! pilot, ho! Where no breakers roar, Where the storm is o’er? In the silent west Many sails at...

...and subse- quent visits, objectless triumphs, and the transient loves that spring up and die in an evening’s space. All eyes were turned on her when s... ...in this world.” “Oh!” she cried, rising to her feet with a swift, graceful spring, “you are a great simpleton.” And without another word she fled into... ...the brain has capitulated—then, perhaps, passion may enter among the steel springs of this machinery that turns out tears and affectations and languor... ...ere sound of your voice. Often in a ballroom a longing has come upon me to spring to your side and put my arms about your neck.” “Oh! if you have doub... ...out your neck.” “Oh! if you have doubts of me so long as I am not ready to spring to your arms before all the world, I shall be doubted all my life lo... ...ing order; the ropes hung just sufficiently slack, so as to present to the breakers that particular curve discovered by Cachin, the immortal creator o...

... a queer point of missionary policy just arisen, about our new Town Hall and the balls there—too long to go into, but a quaint ex- ample of the intric... ...e weed- ing sensitive in the paddock. The men have but now passed over it; I was round in that very place to see the weeding was done thoroughly, and ... ...tted for—you can conceive what a nightmare it is at times. Then God knows I have not been idle. But since THE MAS- TER nothing has come to raise any c... ..., clean it, and put it up again. As this is a most intricate job—the thing dissolves into seventeen separate members, most of these have to be fitted ... ... dry; it mounts with a sharp turn a very steep face of the mountain, and then stops abruptly at the lip of a plateau, I suppose the top of Vaea mounta... ... of vapour, 81 V ailima Letters blue like smoke; not a leaf stirred on the tallest tree; only, three miles away below me on the barrier reef, I could...

..................................................................... 66 SONG—SPRING........................................................................ ................................................................... 396 TARDY SPRING ....................................................................... ...them: nor could Nature’s care With subtler sweet beneficence Have fed the springs of penitence, Still keeping true, though harshly tried, The vital p... ...he flowers; It lives and dies upon its bed of snows; And like a thought of spring it comes and goes, Hanging its head beside our leafless bowers. The ... ...tions pure; Living and dying; letting faith ensure New life when deathless Spring shall touch the hills. Each perfect in its place; and each content W... ...wave! Here is a fitting spot to dig Love’s grave; Here where the ponderous breakers plunge and strike, And dart their hissing tongues high up the sand... ...thy voice shall bring to hand Salvation, and to thy torn land, Seen on the breakers. Now has come The day when thou canst not be dumb, Spirit of Russ... ... speech: an utterance Almost divine, and such as Hellespont, Crashing its breakers under Ida’s frown, Inspired: yet worthier he, whose instrument Wa...

...he return voyage, and to many a meeting in the sanded inn, when those who had parted in the spring of youth should again drink a cup of kindness in th... ...sion. It was in vain for me to argue that here was pleasure ready-made and running from the spring, whereas his ploughs and butter-churns were but mea... ...he people’s annual bellyful of corn and steam-engines. It may be argued that these opinions spring from the de- fect of culture; that a narrow and pin... ...28 Essays of Travel and leisure, keeps his mind ignorant of larger thoughts; and that hence springs this overwhelming concern about diet, and hence th... ... and the great boats, which required extra hands, were once drawn up on shore till the next spring, he worked as a labourer about chemical furnaces, o... ...e gardens on the Roccabruna-road; no nook upon Saint Martin’s Cape, haunted by the voice of breakers, and fragrant with the threefold sweetness of the...

...e Street, the compressed yelpings became a continuous yell: savage figures spring on the tumbril-shafts; first spray of an endless coming tide! The Ma... ...thrones and crowns, which he spake hypothetically and prophetically in the Spring of the year, have suddenly come to fulfilment in the Autumn. Our elo... ...ginning of a Controversy, which mere logic will not settle. Two small well-springs, September, Departmental Guard, or rather at bottom they are but on... ...mental Guard, or rather at bottom they are but one and the same small well-spring; which will swell and widen into waters of bitterness; all manner of... ...ing eastward, with stiff violence, this moment; and then do but touch some spring dexterously, the whole machine, clattering and jerking seven-hundred... ... so to speak, has struck on the bar;—and labours there fright- fully, with breakers roaring round it, Forty thousand of them, like to wash it, and its...

...ow rock, ever in fresh procession, and fly clustering among the flowers of spring, and some on this hand and some on that fly thick; even so from ship... ...s, freighted with trouble for Priam and the T rojans; and we round about a spring were offering on the holy altars unblemished hecatombs to the immort... ...e many tribes of thick flies that hover about a herdsman’s steading in the spring season, when milk drencheth the pails, even in like number stood the... ... that lived by the goodly river Kephisos and possessed Lilaia by Kephisos’ springs. And with them followed thirty black ships. So they marshalled the ... ...watersmeet and join their furious flood within the ravine from their great springs, and the shepherd heareth the roaring far off among the hills: even... ...nded over the broad backs of the sea they would run upon the crests of the breakers of the hoary brine. Then Erichthonios begat Tros to be load over t...

...an inn in the provincial town of N. there drew up a smart britchka—a light spring-carriage of the sort affected by bachelors, retired lieutenant-colon... ...secondary, or even of tertiary, importance. Yet, despite the fact that the springs and the thread of this romance will not de- pend upon them, but onl... ... good and trustful woman, and that she does a great deal for me. The tears spring to my eyes as I think of it. Do not detain me. As an honourable man ... ...instance, look at wheelwright Michiev. Never was there such a one to build spring carts! And his handiwork was not like your Moscow handiwork—good onl... ... shining bevy that was redolent of every species of per- fume—of roses, of spring violets, and of mignonette; so much so that instinctively Chichikov ... ...u, and you, and you, ’ he said, ‘do not even know your duties. You are law-breakers.’ Yes, he trod every man of them under foot. At length the General...

...tales that were founded on the decay and revival of nature in win- ter and spring, and with a presage running through them of sacrifice, death, and re... ...azar, heard the wish. Between their mountain fastness and the dearly loved spring lay the host of the Philistines; but their love for their leader fea... ...hrough the midst of the enemy’s army, and drew the water from the favorite spring, bearing it back, once again through the foe, to the tower upon the ... ...re width left in the intervening space; but in this there were a number of springs of warm mineral water, salt and sulphurous, which were used for the... ...enemy would never discover it. He consented, and encamping around the warm springs, caused the broken wall to be repaired, and made ready to meet the ... ... of the Senate held that the rash young men had deserved death as covenant-breakers; but their fa- ther made strong interest for them, and prevailed n...

...rders, at the very time when he first wrote to you; and then he was eating spring lamb at eighteen pence a pound, and early asparagus at I don’t know ... ...ys a part of his trade, and real misery very often is, in the intervals of spring lamb and early asparagus. It is naturally an incident of his dissipa... ...hrough the angry roar the signal guns of a ship in distress, and these men spring up into activity so dauntless, so valiant, and heroic, that the worl... ...th a pale and crumpled visage, and looking ruefully out at the grim row of breakers enjoying themselves fanatically on an instrument of torture called... ...to Pavilionstone. OUT OF THE SEASON IT FELL TO MY LOT, this last bleak Spring, to find myself in a watering place out of the Season. A vicious nor... ...e made bread was good, and his beer was perfect. De luded by some earlier spring day which had been warm and sunny, the Admiral had cleared the firin...

...om the further side of the Alps, but he was under the charm of the Italian spring, and he made a pretext for lingering. He had spent five days at Sien... ...crenellated pal- ace from whose overhanging cornice a tall, straight tower springs up with a movement as light as that of a single plume in the bonnet... ...place? Ah, don’t say you were not fascinated!” cried Bernard, laughing and springing to his feet. CHAPTER VI T hat evening, in the gardens of the Kurs... ...is Jack-in-the-box. Some invisible touch of cir- cumstance would press the spring, and the little image would pop up, staring him in the face and grin... ... salt smell of the sea, a vague aroma of fish and the distant sound of the breakers. Little by little, Bernard lost the feeling of having been startle... ...pting herself, Mrs. Gor- don gave a long, wondering cry. Bernard heard her spring to her feet, and the two other ladies rise from their seats. Captain...

...ard with the consciousness of several social duties that appealed to him from the further side of the Alps, but he was under the charm of the Italian spring, and he made a pretext for lingering....

...TER I STUDENT DAYS AT EDINBURGH, TRAVELS AND EXCURSIONS, 1868-1873 Letter: SPRING GROVE SCHOOL 12TH NOVEMBER 1863 MA CHERE MAMAN, – Jai recu votre let... ...k fairly like summer this morning; the trees are black- ening out of their spring greens; the warmer suns have melted the hoarfrost of daisies of the ... ... as from the earth he came.’ There is more latent life, more of the coiled spring in the sleeping dog, about a recumbent figure of Michael Angelo’s th... ...have done, and mercifully forgive you all the evil. And next time when the spring comes round, and everything is beginning once again, if you should h... ...he first time householders in Germany – real Teutons, with no decep- tion, spring, or false bottom. About half-past one there began such a trumpeting,... ...l not 123 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 be for long; I hear the breakers roar; I shall be steering head first for another rapid before many...

... all growth is confused), did this of Royalty, with Loyalty environing it, spring up; and grow mysteriously, subduing and assimilating (for a principl... ...er’s Heir, a person of quality, would not continue. Quite otherwise; there springs a Lawsuit from it: wherein tough Beaumarchais, losing both money an... ...t Tenebris Masses, but to sun itself and show itself, and salute the Young Spring. (Mercier, Tableau de Paris, ii. 51. Louvet, Roman de Faublas, &c.) ... ... and lie dead in the ditch. Under such omens, however, we have reached the spring of 1788. By no path can the King’s Government find passage for itsel... ... Breteuil ‘beautifying Paris, ’ in the peaceablest manner, in this hopeful spring weather of 1788; the old hovels and hutches disappearing from our Br... ...r, so to speak, has struck on the bar;—and labours there frightfully, with breakers roaring round it, Forty thousand of them, like to wash it, and its...

...solitary exception, upwards of fifty years. * * * It was early spring in the year 17—; the day was the 6th of April; and the weather, whic... ... from the unreal to the real, the wo which besieges the brain and the life-springs at the heart rushes in afresh amongst the other crowd of realities,... ...s with children around them at play, that are so far below— oh! summer and spring, flowers and blossoms, to which, as to his symbols, God has given th... ... state case, and carries its public verification along with itself. In the spring of 1799, when Napoleon was lying before Acre, he became anxious for ... ...oleridge’s adventures, (if we may use so coarse a word,) and of the secret springs at work in those early struggles of Coleridge at Cambridge, London,... ...allen in the night-time. And, by the way, I remember that a gang of house- breakers had forced their way through the premises in order to reach Kant’s...

...ers from the wings of God.” As to inanimate nature, certain lakes, rivers, springs, and fountains, are held in high reverence. In the Kalevala the oa... ... old and trusty, T urned his face, and looked about him, Lo! there comes a spring time cuckoo, Spying out the slender birch tree, Rests upon it, sweet... ...h whip, With his birch whip, pearl enamelled. Instantly the prancing racer Springs away upon his journey; On he, restless, plunges northward, All day ... ... Stood a rock of rainbow colors, Glittering in silver sunlight. T oward it springs the hapless maiden, Thither swims the lovely Aino, Up the standing ... ...d taking shelter In the swamps and in the valleys, 94 The Kalevala In the springs that loudly bubble, By the rivers winding seaward, On the broad bac... ...t the sea waves, Rose a hero from the waters, On the white capped, roaring breakers, From the water’s broad expanses; Nor belonged he to the largest, ...

...ail, now pathetic, now ironical, in its merciless revelation of the hidden springs of the human heart, whether of aristocrat, bourgeois, peasant, or p... ...ly on everything; till their thoughts were caught in 68 De Maupassant the breakers of their delusions and went to pieces there, were dispersed and sw... ... is the reason? August 13. When one is attacked by certain mala- dies, the springs of our physical being seem bro- ken, our energies destroyed, our mu... ...nto mountains of wa- ter, destroys cliffs, and casts great ships on to the breakers; it kills, it whistles, it sighs, it roars,—have you ever seen it,... ...mities, and premature destruction? Premature destruction? All human terror springs from that! After man the Horla. After him who can die every day, at... ...-tower, which sounds the hour of midnight. “Y ou sit down by the side of a spring which gushes out from the foot of an oak, amid a covering of fragile... ...ose; you drink it with a physical pleasure, as though you were kissing the spring, lip to lip. Some- times, when you encounter a deep hole, along the ...

...ly and effectively as if it had been actually visible. For example, in the spring of 1915 there was an appalling slaughter of our young soldiers at Ne... ... That men might come for their choosing, and their betters spring from their love; But one of them married a numskull; HECTOR [t... ...it? MANGAN [shortly]. If you want to know, my name’s Alfred. MRS HUSHABYE [springs up]. Alfred!! Ellie, he was chris- tened after Tennyson!!! MANGAN [... ...at was that? CAPTAIN SHOTOVER. Something happening [he blows his whistle]. Breakers ahead! The light goes out. HECTOR [furiously]. Who put that light ...

...A Scottish child hears much of shipwreck, outlying iron skerries, pitiless breakers, and great sea-lights; much of heathery mountains, wild clans, and... ...asant memories; nor yet, for all its smallness, that nameless trickle that springs in the green bosom of Allermuir, and is fed from Halkerside with a ... ..., as to the trunk and aboriginal taproot of the race. A thousand interests spring up in the process of the ages, and a thousand perish; that is now an... ... to the other, where you shall be able to mark, on a clear, surfy day, the breakers running white on many sunken rocks. I first saw it, or first remem... ...e and the iodine, the lap of the billows among the weedy reefs, the sudden spring- ing up of a great run of dashing surf along the sea-front of the is... ...nd then, at a fit junc- ture, the subject, the quarry of two heated minds, spring up like a deer out of the wood. Not that the talker has any of the h... ...ein pleasure lies. The very best talker, with me, is one whom I shall call Spring-Heel’d Jack. I say so, because I never knew any one who mingled so l... ...e book be eloquent, should run thenceforward in our ears like the noise of breakers, and the story, if it be a story, repeat itself in a thousand colo...