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... force of Imagination XXI. The profit of one man is the dammage of another XXII. Of customs, and how a received law should not easily be changed XXIII... ...ience XX. We taste nothing purely XXI. Against Idlenesse, or doing Nothing XXII. Of Running Posts, or Couriers XXIII. Of Bad Meanes emploied to a Goo... ...ero quod omnes Eripit sensus mihi; Nam simul te Lesbia aspexi, nihil est super mî Quod loquar amens Lingua torpet, tenuis sub artus Flamma di... ...wne, but above all other things, loveth and correcteth himselfe, rejecteth superfluous occupations, idle imaginations, and unprofitable propositions.... ...squam Vix radicitus e vita se tollit, et ejicit: Se facit esse qui quiddam super inscius ipse, Nee removet satis a projecto corpora sese, et Vindicat.... ...igne's Essays Return to Renascence Editions Montaigne's Essays CHAPTER XXII: OF CUSTOME, AND HOW A RECEIVED LAW SHOULD NOT EASILY BE CHANGED Tabl... ...er to another, and from East to West, they will not leave to follow their bowle, and with one small pensill drawe both white and blacke. There is th... ... Piramidall or Square; and say they cannot swallow a God made round like a bowle. But howsoever it is, nature hath no more privileged us in that than... ... my people came in haste to tell me that my cooke found two or three great bowles in his pauncb, which in his maw amongst his meat shocked one agains...

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...mending, and the puddings, and the plate and crockery, and the servants to superintend. But why speak about her? It is probable that we shall not hear... ...he least; and who could help attaching herself to Amelia? The happinessthe superior advantages of the young women round about her, gave Rebecca inexpr... ...nd alarm; now and then he would make a desperate attempt to get rid of his super- abundant fat; but his indolence and love of good living speed- ily g... ...ght’s pleasuring; and that Mrs. Sedley had forgiven his breaking the punch-bowl at the child’s party. Don’t you remember the ca- tastrophe, Ma’am, sev... ...ember in the pink frock, such a short time ago—the night I upset the punch-bowl, just after I was gazetted? Are you the little girl that George Osborn... ...part of the refreshments on the tables. Finally, he insisted upon having a bowl of rack punch; everybody had rack punch at V auxhall. “Waiter, rack pu... ...orrow,” he said with an oath. “I love her more every day, Dobbin.” CHAPTER XXII A Marriage and Part of a Honeymoon ENEMIES THE MOST OBSTINA TE and cou... ...nd caused all these gentlemen to look very serious. 219 Thackeray CHAPTER XXIII Captain Dobbin Proceeds on His Canvass WHAT IS THE SECRET MESMERISM w... ...ble and becoming. W e have only now advanced in time so far beyond Chapter XXII as to have got our various characters up into their dressing-rooms bef...

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...mending, and the puddings, and the plate and crockery, and the servants to superintend. But why speak about her? It is probable that we shall not hear... ...he least; and who could help attaching herself to Amelia? The happinessthe superior advantages of the young women round about her, gave Rebecca inexpr... ...nd alarm; now and then he would make a desperate attempt to get rid of his super- abundant fat; but his indolence and love of good living speed- ily g... ...ght’s pleasuring; and that Mrs. Sedley had forgiven his breaking the punch-bowl at the child’s party. Don’t you remember the ca- tastrophe, Ma’am, sev... ...ember in the pink frock, such a short time ago—the night I upset the punch-bowl, just after I was gazetted? Are you the little girl that George Osborn... ...part of the refreshments on the tables. Finally, he insisted upon having a bowl of rack punch; everybody had rack punch at V auxhall. “Waiter, rack pu... ...orrow,” he said with an oath. “I love her more every day, Dobbin.” CHAPTER XXII A Marriage and Part of a Honeymoon ENEMIES THE MOST OBSTINA TE and cou... ...nd caused all these gentlemen to look very serious. 219 Thackeray CHAPTER XXIII Captain Dobbin Proceeds on His Canvass WHAT IS THE SECRET MESMERISM w... ...ble and becoming. W e have only now advanced in time so far beyond Chapter XXII as to have got our various characters up into their dressing-rooms bef...

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...nues of sinecurists, and stripping the thin, tawdry veil from attrac- tive superstitions, are working as actively in literature as in society. The cre... ..., and Mentes, who was about to leave for Leucadia, left him to the medical superintendence of a friend of his, named Mentor, the son of Alcinor. Under... ... that we must not expect consistency in a mere romance, the ancients had a superstitious belief in the great age of trees which grew near places conse... ... with wine the copious goblets crown’d, And, pleased, dispense the flowing bowls around; 29 With hymns divine the joyous banquet ends, The pÆans leng... ...ing to be pleased.” Thus Vulcan spoke: and rising with a bound, The double bowl with sparkling nectar crown’d, 32 Which held to Juno in a cheerful way... ...th bloom divine, The golden goblet crowns with purple wine: While the full bowls flow round, the powers employ Their careful eyes on long-contended T ... ...s her gate: And nations breathe, deliver’d from their fate. 395 Pope BOOK XXII BOOK XXII BOOK XXII BOOK XXII BOOK XXII AR AR AR AR ARGUMENT GUMENT GU... ...trons hear, Sigh back her sighs, and answer tear with tear. 409 Pope BOOK XXIII BOOK XXIII BOOK XXIII BOOK XXIII BOOK XXIII AR AR AR AR ARGUMENT GUME... ... shot of an arrow in his heel, as Hector had prophesied at his death, lib. xxii. The unfortunate Priam was killed by Pyrrhus, the son of Achilles. Aja...

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...in nickel. The tub was long enough for a Prussian Guard, and above the set bowl was a sensational exhibit of tooth-brush holder, shaving- brush holder... ...hen shrieked at Tinka: “For the love o’ Pete, quit pouring the whole sugar bowl on your corn flakes!” When Verona and Ted were gone and Tinka upstairs... ...abited the Reeves Building corridors—elevator-runners, starter, engineers, superintendent, and the doubtful-looking lame man who conducted the news an... ...d a more expensive one, but he could not recap- ture the feeling of social superiority it had given him. He astoundingly grunted, “I’d like to beat it... ...vertisements in which he announced the beauty, convenience, cheapness, and supererogatory healthfulness of Glen Oriole. The only flaw was that the Gle... ...ned and went into the Neronian washroom, where a line of men bent over the bowls inset along a prodigious slab of marble as in religious prostra- tion... ...il. He shot his wife, he shot Zilla, this noon. She may not live.” CHAPTER XXII I H e drove to the City Prison, not blindly, but with unusual fussy ca... ...ealize that he faced a world which, without Paul, was meaningless. CHAPTER XXIII I H e was busy, from March to June. He kept himself from the bewilder...

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...t at the chest. His features were exceedingly frank and cheerful. From his superior height, he was enabled to look down quite royally on the man whose... ...she declared, his supe- rior, and, begging everybody’s pardon present, the superior of us all, through no sin of his own, that caused him to be so unf... ...sely distressing. Together with Walter Heriot, Andrew Saddlebank, our best bowler, the drollest fellow in the world, John Salter, and little Gus T emp... ...ing that endeared him to younger boys capable of appreciating it, with the supernatural power of music. It endeared him, I suppose, to young women als... ... said he, staring at us angrily. ‘Has Saddlebank broken his arm, and can’t bowl?’ No, Saddlebank was in excellent trim, though shamefaced, as was Salt... ...ering us. ‘Here, Roy, T emple,’ we heard Heriot call; ‘here, come here and bowl to me.’ I went and bowled till I thought my head was flying after the ... ...eard him reply. There was sincerity in his tone when he said that. CHAPTER XXII CONCLUSION OF THE BATH EPISODE THE FRIENDS of Miss Penrhys were ill ad... ...ws. Out of his circle of attraction books were my resource. BOOK 4 CHAPTER XXIII MY TWENTY-FIRST BIRTHDAY BOOKS AND DREAMS, like the two rivers cited ...

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... Gilbert, piteously. ‘Happily, nothing more serious,’ thrust in Lucy; ‘Mr. Bowles told Aunt Maria that he considers Gilbert’s health much improved.’ A... ...nia with needless repetitions of ‘Mamma dear,’ and plunging into what Mrs. Bowles and Miss Goldsmith had said of Mr. Dusautoy, and how he kept so few ... ..., was told by his father, ‘I cannot have this going on. You must go to Mr. Bowles directly after breakfast to-morrow, have the tooth drawn, and then g... ...Marie Antoinette, and that it was an honour and distinction conferred by a superior—superior, indeed, in all the dignity of age, suffering, and consta... ... life had not raised his stan- dard of womankind. A perfect gentleman, his superiority was his own work, rather than that of station or education, and... ... a call! I heard Nurse say it was a call!’ What was to be done with such a superstition? Albinia did not think it would be right to argue it away. It ... ...who, like their father, could cover any amount of sheets of paper. CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXII ‘THERE!’ cried Uli... ... and that the omnibus must convey them home by the full moonlight. CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXIII SLOWLY THE OM...

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... thinking, anything but new to the spot. Yet, I had never seen it in my life, a minute before, and had traversed two hundred miles to get at it. That ... ...len upon them after yawning open, and would keep them down. A diver made known, even then, that he had come upon the body of a man, and had sought to ... ... and other obstructions from which frost and snow had lately thawed. It was a mistake (my friend was glad to tell me, on the way) to suppose that the ... ... an immense theatre, capable of holding nearly five thousand people. Charles Dickens 30 What Theatre? Her Majesty’s? Far better. Royal Italian Opera?... ...y, take him to the softest slopes at Windsor, and try what pace you can get out of him. Then, starve him, harness him any- how to a truck with a flat ... ... streets of such shame, and the public con- science of such reproach? Ah! Almost prophetic, surely, the child’s jingle: When will that be, Say the bel... ...administration. The Mormon ship is a Family under strong and accepted discipline, with every provision for comfort, decorum and internal peace.’ Char... ...are me for a churchyard. An exceedingly retiring public-house, with a bagatelle-board shadily visible in a sawdusty parlour shaped like an omnibus, an...

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...re’s Reverend Warren, the Congregational preacher, and Professor Mott, the superintendent of schools, and Guy Pollock, the law- yer—they say he writes... ..., rugged of neck but sleek and round of face—face like the back of a spoon bowl. He was chuckling at her, “Have you got us all straight yet?” “Course ... ...a gravestone; the plain pine washstand and the garlanded water-pitcher and bowl. The scent was of horsehair and plush and Florida Water. “How could pe... ...ing the former owner. They were shy. It was “Professor” George Edwin Mott, superintendent of schools, a Chinese manda- rin turned brown, who held Caro... ...working. The town lives on them. We townies are parasites, and yet we feel superior to them. Last night I heard Mr. Haydock talking about `hicks.’ App... ...concert Carol led them in a dancing procession to the dining-room, to blue bowls of chow mein, with Lichee nuts and ginger pre- served in syrup. None ... ...ld husband. He hasn’t one single bit of Ray’s spiritual nobility.” CHAPTER XXII I The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex ... ...f potatoes at Howland & Gould’s is enough beauty and strangeness?” CHAPTER XXIII I When America entered the Great European War, Vida sent Raymie off t...

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...uring mill ran blue among the broad green pastures; the air smelt of cream-bowls and wheaten loaves; the firs on the beacon-ridge, far south- ward, ov... ... on his own line of conduct; that is to say, as homage to his intellectual superiority. Mr. Algernon was installed in the Bank, and sat down for a lon... ...n a letter was delivered to him by one of the Inn porters. Edward read the superscription, and asked the porter who it was that brought it. Two young ... ...n for this man, and readily believed him to be above all other men, if not superhuman: for she was of an age and an imagination to conceive a spiritua... ...-luminous rela- tionship. Y oung Nic loved also to steep his spirit in the bowl; but, in addition to his never paying for his luxury, he drank as if i... ...ire to gain possession of her, and crush her. 173 George Meredith CHAPTER XXII THE WRITING of a letter to Dahlia had previously been at- tempted and ... ... sake of winning her, to bewilder and deceive a woman’s instincts. CHAPTER XXIII OVER A FIRE in one of the upper sitting-rooms of the Pilot Inn, Rober... ... newspaper, and looked much as if a fat lobworm had plunged himself into a bowl of ink, and in his literary delirium had twisted uneasily to the verge...

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... pensioners, wheezing by the firesides of their wards; fog in the stem and bowl of the afternoon pipe of the wrathful skipper, down in his close cabin... ...rely through his solicitors, Messrs. Kenge and Carboy, of Lon don. A very superior gentleman, Mr. Kenge. T ruly eloquent indeed. Some of his periods ... ..., sir,” said I. He was very obliging, and as he handed me into a fly after superintending the removal of my boxes, I asked him whether there was a gre... ...tives—and the happy settlement, on the banks of the African rivers, of our superabundant home population. 38 Bleak House – Vol. One Mr. Jarndyce, who... ..., sir, if you please”; and putting on his hat again (which was like a soft bowl), cracked his whip, re awakened his music, and went melodiously away. ... ...es and smooth round blocks of stone, as if the trees were going to play at bowls with the stones), and the whole house reposes on her mind. She can op... ...y a shorter route and goes to bed too. 303 Bleak House – Vol. One CHAPTER XXII Mr. Bucket ALLEGORY LOOKS PRETTY COOL in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, thou... ...gly says, many thanks she gets for it! 316 Bleak House – Vol. One CHAPTER XXIII Esther’s Narrative WE CAME HOME FROM Mr. Boythorn’s after six plea...

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... visitors, and busied himself with the restless movements of goldfish in a bowl. The windows were never opened ex- cept to air the room for a few minu... ...whether when- ever you got your way you wished afterwards that you hadn’t. XXII PHILIP’ S UNCLE had an old friend, called Miss Wilkinson, who lived in... ...ted his eyes. “By Jove, I am happy ,” he said to himself un- consciously . XXIII PHILIP thought occasionally of the King’s School at Tercanbury , and ... ...on his skill in preparing this mild intoxicant, and after supper the large bowl of hock and soda, with scented herbs floating in it and wild straw- be... ...om the others, watch- ing the noisy party with a good-humoured but faintly supercilious expression. He was tall and slim. He held himself with a delib... ...erienced than Philip might have thought he liked to hear himself talk. His supercilious atti- tude impressed Philip. He could not help admir- ing, and... ...pieces all that Hayward had said; with elaborate civility he displayed the superficiality of his attainments. He mocked him with gentle irony. Philip ... ...er’s appearance. With Ruskin, Burne-Jones, and Watts, he had put aside his bowler hat and the neat blue tie with white spots which he had worn on comi...

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...face, set out the table with a very clean, though coarse cloth, five brown bowls, three horn spoons and two wooden ones, one drink- ing horn, a couple... ...here’ll be no more catechising. Hurrah!” cried Oates, “hurrah!” “’Tis rank superstition, said the red coat, Hurrah!” and up went their caps. “Halloa, ... ...used to be, good beef and mutton, but only bread and very hard cheese, and bowls of hasty pudding, with thin, sour small beer to wash it down. Oates g... ...lad, young prelatist though he be, so he will make amends by burning their superstitious books on the fire, even as Jehu burnt the worshippers of Baal... ... asked poor Stead, still bewildered. “Done! Why, doffed thy hat, after the superstitious and idolatrous custom of our fathers.” “How can it be idolatr... ...l they heard, “Not dead, but not far from it” 148 Under the Storm CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXII EML EML EML EML EM... ... could endure to hear that the uncle had done his best to be just. CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXIII FULFILMENT FU...

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...,’ she faltered. ‘Perhaps one doesn’t really want them, in one’s soul—only superficially.’ A hard- ness came over Gudrun’s face. She did not want to b... ...But where can one jump to?’ ‘Oh, it doesn’t matter,’ said Gudrun, somewhat superbly. ‘If one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land some- where.’ ‘... ...be well-dressed; she knew her- self to be the social equal, if not far the superior, of anyone she was likely to meet in Willey Green. She knew she wa... ... pretty cups and plates, painted with mauve-lustre and green, also shapely bowls and glass plates, and old spoons, on a woven cloth of pale grey and b... ...a change. He stopped the car and got down to put up the hood. 289 CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXII W W W W WOMAN OMAN... ... faces of the two she had left behind. For they outraged her. 299 CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXIII EX EX EX EX E... ... roof sloped. Under the slope of the ceiling were the table with wash-hand bowl and jug, and across, another table with mirror. On either side the doo... ...ho cares a but- ton for our national ideas, any more than for our national bowler hat? Aha, it is all old hat, it is all old bowler hat! That’s all it...

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... pensioners, wheezing by the firesides of their wards; fog in the stem and bowl of the afternoon pipe of the wrathful skipper, down in his close cabin... ...rely through his solicitors, Messrs. Kenge and Carboy, of Lon don. A very superior gentleman, Mr. Kenge. T ruly eloquent indeed. Some of his periods ... ..., sir,” said I. He was very obliging, and as he handed me into a fly after superintending the removal of my boxes, I asked him whether there was a gre... ...tives—and the happy settlement, on the banks of the African rivers, of our superabundant home population. 38 Bleak House – Dickens Mr. Jarndyce, who ... ..., sir, if you please”; and putting on his hat again (which was like a soft bowl), cracked his whip, re awakened his music, and went melodiously away. ... ...es and smooth round blocks of stone, as if the trees were going to play at bowls with the stones), and the whole house reposes on her mind. She can op... ...by a shorter route and goes to bed too. 303 Bleak House – Dickens CHAPTER XXII Mr. Bucket ALLEGORY LOOKS PRETTY COOL in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, thou... ...ngly says, many thanks she gets for it! 316 Bleak House – Dickens CHAPTER XXIII Esther’s Narrative WE CAME HOME FROM Mr. Boythorn’s after six plea...

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...hat it was mar- riage would be able to add to a familiarity that seemed already to have scraped the platter so clean. Opposite there, behind the count... ...never taken such jumps before it was simply that she had never before been so affected. She went all the way. Mary and Cissy had been round together, ... ... well; but there was a peculiar magic in the play of taste of a lady who had only to remember, through what- ever intervening dusk, all her own little... ... what Mrs. Jordan’s redemption had materially made of that lady, giving her, though the years and the struggles had natu- rally not straightened a fea... ...last so much that she had quite lost her earlier sense of merely guessing. There were no different shades of distinctness—it all bounced out. 75 Henr... ...on. “I don’t know the date. I only know the thing went from here, and just about the time I speak of. It wasn’t delivered, you see. We’ve got to recov...

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...ight or the wrong might not have overmuch to do with whatever wayward mood superior intelligences might yield to. But instinct, though knowing, is yet... ...g; the more so, as there was in it what seemed the aspect not alone of the superior, but, as it were, the rebuker; which sort of bearing, in a benefic... ...d man. Not that he looked as if he were a kind of Wilberforce at all; that superior merit, probably, was not his; nothing in his manner bespoke him ri... ... “here is Cape Giradeau;I must leave you.” 112 The Confidence-Man CHAPTER XXII. In the Polite Spirit of the Tusculan Disputations “‘PHILOSOPHICAL INT... ...ok I brought for the inn-keeper at Cairo.” 128 The Confidence-Man CHAPTER XXIII. In Which the Powerful Effect of Natural Scenery is Evinced in the Ca... ... long bright cherry- stem, a Nuremburgh pipe in blast, its great porcelain bowl painted in miniature with linked crests and arms of interlinked nation... ...by subtle saturations of its mellowing essence the tobacco had ripened the bowl, so it looked as if something similar of the interior spirit came rosi... ...similar of the interior spirit came rosily out on the cheek. But rosy pipe-bowl, or rosy counte- nance, all was lost on that unrosy man, the bachelor,...

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...ainst Harrow and Winchester. He was sent in first in the Harrow match; the bowling was steady and straight, but Patteson’s defence was admirable. He s... ...here was but one four, and by steady play completely broke the neck of the bowling. Eton won the match easily, Patteson making a brilliant catch at po... ...idding, the Winchester captain, played an uphill game so fiercely that the bowling had to be repeatedly changed. Our eleven were disorganised, and the... ...able. Tennis became Coley’s chief recreation, enabling him to work off his superfluous energy at the ex- pense of far less time than cricket matches r... ...s less accustomed to talk about his feelings than I am, in which I see his superiority, but partly because our tastes are in several respects differen... ... shallow way of catching a thing at first rather quickly perhaps, but only superficially. I find my interest increasing greatly in philological studie... ..., the verb of which Moses is formed occurs only in Exodus ii. 10, 2 Samuel xxii. 17, Psalm xviii. 16. See how the magnificent description of the Passa...

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...touches upon his char - acter . I cannot agree with the painters who claim superciliously that the layman can understand nothing of painting, and that... ...ht, the personal narratives of such as knew him in the flesh can hardly be superfluous. What would we not give for the reminiscences of someone who ha... ... man of his age should concern himself with affairs of the heart. With the super - 29 Somerset Maugham ciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-fiv... ...o. Do you like ab- sinthe?” “I can drink it.” “Come on, then.” He put on a bowler hat much in need of brush- ing. “ We might dine together. Y ou owe m... ...taken him to be, sitting there in his old Norfolk jacket and his unbrushed bowler; his trousers were baggy , his hands were not clean; and his face, w... ... torture. He was silent. I knew that our conversa- tion was ended. Chapter XXII I SETTLED DOWN in Paris and began to write a play . I led a very regul... ...id Stroeve to me, “or I shall kill this man.” 91 Somerset Maugham Chapter XXIII I SAW STRICKLAND not infrequently, and now and then played chess with... ...at- ness of person, and he continued to wear his spruce black coat and his bowler hat, always a little too small for him, in a dapper , jaunty man- ne...

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...rt of desperation, and hydrophobia from excess of water, is threatening to super- vene. Young Prince de Ligne, son of that brave literary De Ligne the... ...ut of the Gate of Mentz with her Husband, finds French Soldiers playing at bowls with cannon-balls there. Forster trips cheerfully over one iron bomb,... ...otable phases and oc- currences it will successively throw up. One general superficial circumstance we remark with praise: the force of Politeness. To... ...Earth can prevent me from seeing into traitors, and unmasking them,”—by my superior originality of mind? (Moniteur Newspaper, Nos. 271, 280, 294, Anne... ...ats des Jacobins (in Hist. Parl. 84 The French Revolution - V olume Three xxii. 296.) Such is their recompense and amount of wages, at this date: on ... ...ither, and passes shoulder-high, in the horizon- tal posture. (Hist. Parl. xxii. 131; Moore, &c.) The Conven- tion Tribune, which has paused at such s... ...mutually-enraged, are the Limited Patriots and the Unlimited. (Hist. Parl. xxiii. 31, 48, &c.) Between which two classes, are not Aristocrats enough, ...