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.................. 67 DOWN THE OISE (To Compiegne).................................................................................................. 72 D... ...suffer itself to be overlaid, and rarely or never deserts him in the hour of need. But we are all for tootling on the sentimental flute in literature;... ...ung their mild heads over the embankment. Here and there was a pleasant village among trees, with a noisy shipping-yard; here and there a villa in a l... ...te, save where two wires had been pushed apart to hold its lump of sugar, carried with it a sort of graveyard cheer. The engineer apprentices would ha... ...ted us to the end of the lock under an umbrella. We had now brought ourselves to a pitch of humility in the matter of weather, not often at- tained ex... ...72 Robert Louis Stevenson ! HE MOST PATIENT PEOPLE grow weary at last with being continually wetted with rain; except of co... ...they turn their heads and look knowingly one to the other; and then, kling go the three hammers on three little bells below. The hour follows, deep an...

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...ls is an honest friend. He is a fortunate voyager who finds many. We travel, indeed, to find them. They are the end and the reward of life. They keep us worthy of ourselves; and when we are alone, we are only nearer to the absent....

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...ortunate voyager who finds many. We travel, indeed, to find them. They are the end and the reward of life. They keep us worthy of ourselves; and when ... ...and, like things enchanted in a nightmare, ap- proaching no nearer to the goal. In the meantime there came up behind us a tall peasant, perhaps forty ... ...ty years of age, of an ironical snuffy counte- nance, and arrayed in the green tail-coat of the country. He overtook us hand over hand, and stopped to... ... there were people kneeling without upon the steps, and the sound of the priest’s chanting came forth out of the dim interior. It gave me a home feeli... ...thin dust like so much smoke. It was a fine, busy, breathing, rus- tic landscape; and as I continued to descend, the highlands of Gevaudan kept mounti... ... in my waterproof, arranged my knapsack for a pillow under the flap of my sleeping-bag, insinuated my limbs into the interior, and buckled myself in l...

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... law. There was scarce a word interchanged, and no common sentiment but that of cold united us, until at length, having touched at Greenock, a pointin... ... soon to be as popu- lous as many an incorporated town in the land to which she was to bear us. I was not, in truth, a steerage passenger. Although an... ...om, generally known by the name of ‘Johnny,’ in spite of his own protests, greatly diverted us by his clever, cross-country efforts to speak English, ... ...y-windows, and three peaked gables, and many swallows’ nests plastered about the eaves. The interior of the inn was answerable to the outside: in- dee... ...a particular and dippable order, such as Pepys, the Paston Letters, Burt’s Letters from the Highlands, or the Newgate Calendar… . 138 Essays of Trave... ...arely been able to visit, in the proper spirit, the wild and inhospitable places of our own Highlands. I am happier where it is tame and fertile, and ... ...tle sunshine: this is in the spirit of which I now speak. And, lastly, we can go in- doors; interiors are sometimes as beautiful, often more pic- ture... ...arm; the gale was only in the lower strata of the air, and he had forgotten it in the quiet interior of the church and during his long ascent; and so ...

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...nd Duch- Mark Twain 8 ess of Baden in a closed carriage; these passed through the low-bowing groups of servants and disappeared in the hotel, exhibit... ...f or eight months in every year. This custom had continued in Germany two hun- dred and fifty years. To return to my narrative. A student in a white c... ...urgeon, and mingled with the assemblage in the du- eling-room. The white-cap student who won the second fight witnessed the remaining three, and talke... ...eemed to us that man would need good nerves who proposed to travel up it or down it either. During the latter part of the afternoon we cooled our roas... ...ey, and apparently quite neighborly and close at hand, the giant form of the Jungfrau rose cold and white into the clear sky, beyond a gateway in the ... ...clings to his old habit, and keeps one leg of his passenger always dan- gling over the great deeps of the lower world while that passenger’s heart is ... ...1721: “It seems that in the neighborhood of the mountain Kotlugja, large bodies of water formed underneath, or within the glaciers (either on account ... ... Swiss mountains we had at hand the blessing—not to be found in Europe except in the mountains—of water capable of quenching thirst. Everywhere in the... ...does not seem to stain easily. The dainty and elaborate or- namentation upon its two chief fronts is as delicately carved as if it had been intended f...

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... give sign of a particular surliness when our wealthy superiors would have us think their con- descending grins are cordials. The gentleman’s eyes wer... ...be stretched by malevolence to a semblance of haughty dis- gust; reminding us, through our readings in journals, of the wicked overblown Prince Regent... ...ere ever such a word for drum- ming on a cranium? Puzzles are presented to us now and then in the course of our days; and the smaller they are the bet... ...is forethought of her conve- nience and her tastes: the pine-panels of the interior, the shelves for her books, pegs to hang her favourite drawings, a... ... they maintain the regal eleva- tion over the awe-struck subjects of their interiors; who might otherwise revolt, pull down, scatter, dishonour, expos... ...itying his girl. ‘I promised Fredi she should never count a year with- out Highlands or Alps. You remember, mama?—down in the West Highlands. Fancy th... ...d correct it in the minutes. Dudley crossed the road. No sign of the awful interior was on any of the windows of the house either to deepen awe or rel...

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...ession of countenance whatever, at some friends who had come on board with us, and who were crushing their faces into all manner of shapes by endeavou... ...ich, but that we were the most sanguine people living, might have prepared us for the worst. The imaginative artist to whom I have already made allusi... ... saloon; had taken in and lived upon the pictorial idea; had usually given us to understand, at home, that to form a just conception of it, it would b... ...eds unoccupied. It had one fault, however, which is common to all American interiors: the presence of the eternal, accursed, suffocating, red— hot dem... ...It rained all day as I once thought it never did rain anywhere, but in the Highlands of Scotland. The river was full of floating blocks of ice, which ... ...ERIE, TO THE FALLS OF NIAGARA AS I HAD A DESIRE TO TRAVEL through the interior of the state of Ohio, and to ‘strike the lakes, ’ as the phrase is... ... night too. In this beautiful place: the fairest among the fair and lovely Highlands of the North River: shut in by deep green heights and ruined fort...

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...d, we passed a house embowered in white roses. More of the bay became ap- parent, and soon the blue peak of Tamalpais rose above the green level of th... ...f the island opposite. It told us we were still but a little way from the city of the Golden Gates, already, at that hour, beginning to awake among th... ...ginning to awake among the sand-hills. It called to us over the waters as with the voice of a bird. Its stately head, blue as a sapphire on the paler ... ...began silently to clothe herself with white sails, homeward bound for England. For some way beyond Vallejo the railway led us through bald green pastu... ...rse, was choked with the green and sweetly smell- ing foliage of a bay; and through a chink in the floor, a spray of poison oak had shot up and was ha... ... lunched out of the basket, sitting in a kind of portico, and wondering, while we ate, at this great bulk of use- less building. Through a chink we co... ...dreds in the boarding of our house. He entered by a round hole, more neatly pierced than a man could do it with a gimlet, and he seems to have spent h...

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...buffoon or clown, whose mouth, far from being eternally closed, as amongst us, is filled, like that of Touchstone, with quips, and cranks, and witty d... ...of gratitude to the friend of my childhood, who first introduced me to the Highlands, their traditions, and their manners—had been engaged actively in... ...r’s freedom upon parole; and soon afterwards, having been sent back to the Highlands to raise men, he visited Colonel 12 Chronicles of the Canongate ... ...Mrs. Henry Siddons and myself the honour to ascribe the estab- lishment to us. But no, gentlemen, it owes its origin to a higher source—the publicatio... ...ed upon the Stewards, in the very flattering compliment you have just paid us, calls forth our warmest acknowledgments. In tendering you our thanks fo... ...e cages of some feudal Bastille. The eating room and drawing-room, with an interior boudoir, were magnificent apartments, the ceiling was fretted and ... ...ny means so large as its external appearance led people to conjecture. The interior accommodation was much cut up by cross walls and long passages, an... ...ck narrowly on the right or wrong of the mat- ter half a century ago. “The Highlands,” I suggested, “should furnish you with ample subjects of recolle... ...e. The successful caterans would bring with them herds and flocks. But the interior of her hut was arranged for their reception, the usquebaugh was br...

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...ahyle hesitated not to pay his late captive a visit, as he returned to the Highlands to raise fresh recruits, on which occasion he spent a day or two ... ...745; was an active partaker in all the stirring scenes which passed in the Highlands betwixt these memorable eras; and, I have heard, was remarkable, ... ... intelligence was of some advantage to Richard Waverley in the case before us; for, had the sum total of his enormities reached the ears of Sir Everar... ...ur father, whom, under God, it is your duty to obey, that you should leave us to take up the profes- sion of arms, in which so many of your ancestors ... ... shame to let poor Caleb starve, and so many fat rectors and squires among us. I gave him a dinner once a week; but, Lord love you, what’s once a week... ...aversing an open and unen- closed country, Edward gradually approached the Highlands of Perthshire, which at first had appeared a blue outline in the ... ...y the second officer of state in the barony (nay, as chief minister of the interior, superior even to Bailie Macwheeble, in his own department of the ... ...cts of merit as he had himself manifested. Miss Rose now appeared from the interior room of her apartment, to welcome her father and his friends. The ... ...h deploring, on all suitable occasions, to Saunderson, the minister of the interior, the Laird’s self-willedness, and with laying plans for uniting Ro...

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...so, but the father of Anna having determined to remove to an estate in the interior of the coun- try, his daughter was taken from school; and while th... ...omen.” “Between girls, I will readily admit,” returned the youth. “But let us examine this question after the manner of the courts—” “Nay, if you talk... ..., I feel, is every thing that is good and sincere, and our sympathies drew us together. Katherine I loved naturally.” “How naturally?” “Is it not natu... ...e city, and next door to my Julia. Oh! how charming that would be. Each of us to have one of those delightful new houses, with the new-fashioned basem... ...ry of the west. The moon had risen and the sun had set on the lakes of the interior, and Anna had said not one word of either. But the third and fourt... ...the soul is left in silent harmony to enjoy the change. The passage of the Highlands is most delightful. Figure to yourself, my Julia, the rushing wa-... ...y herself, until Charles pointed out to her the ma- jestic entrance to the Highlands. Our heroine, who was truly alive to all the charms of nature, ga...

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...unt of whose proceedings in different quarters of the globe—transmitted to us through their own hands— very generally, and often very deservedly, rece... ...us of the vast amount of descriptive detail which is being poured out upon us. It is the varying fortune of the hero which engrosses our attention. We... ...they, too, are gone! Yes, they are all departed, and there is nothing left us but salt-horse and sea-biscuit. Oh! ye state-room sailors, who make so m... ...ted grass, and sweeping down towards the sea from an elevated and furrowed interior, form the principal fea- tures of these islands. T owards noon we ... ... man, could be seen. The whole landscape seemed one unbroken solitude, the interior of the island having ap- parently been untenanted since the mornin... ...f Nukuheva, and extending a considerable distance from the sea towards the interior, must necessarily terminate some- where about this point. The ques... .... They came upon the valleys of Nukuheva on one side of the bay, where the highlands slope off into the sea. The men-of-war were still lying in the ha...

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...elt that disaster was impending and knew no way of averting it, but few of us realised in the earlier half of 1914 how near the crash was to us. The r... ... affairs demands. The inertia of dead ideas and old insti- tutions carries us on towards the rapids. Only in one direc- tion is there any plain recogn... ...hrough the long generations, this heavy precursor, this ancestor of all of us, fought and bred and perished, changing almost imperceptibly. Yet he cha... .... One youngster in particular, a chuckle-headed, scrub-haired lad from the Highlands, sat hugging his knee with great sand-red hands and drinking in e... ...otted lights under a still and star- less sky, but also the whole spacious interior of the great hall with its slender pillars and gracious arching an...

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...; to shift the elec- tion of clergymen from the lay hands in which law and us- age had lodged it; and, under a plausible mask of making the election p... ...tation has been notified (supposing that it comes forward at all), compels us to regard it in that light. Apparently it bears the same relation to the... ...rly sustained in its first stage by law, in its second stage by usage, let us finish that part of the subject by report- ing the existing practice as ... ...iament had passed acts ‘for build- ing additional places of worship in the highlands and islands of Scotland.’ These acts may be looked upon as one se... ... settled by Parliament that forty-two new churches should be raised in the highlands, with an endowment from the government of £120 annually for each ... ...mountain ridges which intersect the whole of Greece is, that whilst in its interior texture ‘of iron-hard consistency,’ yet at the surface it is ‘brok...

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...on. There is a strange, clear beauty of form about the men of the Bavarian highlands, about both men and women. They are large and clear and handsome ... ...hadowed, twilit earth was the rosy snow of ecstasy. But spreading far over us, down below, was the neutrality of the twilight, of the monks. The flesh... .... The other rooms are dark and ugly. There is no mistake about their being interior. They are like furnished vaults. The red-tiled, polished floor in ... ...t-me, the Self- less world, though we would fain bring in the Self to help us. We are shouting the Shakespearean advice to warriors: ‘Then simulate th... ...thout consideration. And His image is the machine which dominates and cows us, we cower before it, we run to serve it. For it works for all humanity a...

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...rea- sons of a public nature. The unfortunate sufferer had not come to the Highlands solely upon his private affairs, as was the general belief; but i... ... ten years of proscription and danger, skulking from place to place in the Highlands, and maintaining an uninterrupted correspondence between Charles ... ...and opened with precaution, may be returned to me again, and serve to make us free of his Majesty’s post office, during the whole time of my proposed ... ... be carried on as long as the enve- lopes could hold together.] Mercy upon us, Alan! what let- ters I shall have to send to you, with an account of al... ... to which he has trained me. As we have no near relations, the tie betwixt us is of even 24 Redgauntlet unusual closeness, though in itself one of th... ... introduction to the noble art of deer-stalking, as it is practised in the Highlands; but I should not have scrupled to accept honest Glengallacher’s ... ...irted the whole coast of the Solway, besides making various trips into the interior, not shunning, on such occasions, to expose himself to the laugh o...

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...could bar them- selves into their houses as into a fortress. Examining the interior, which, during the first twenty years of this century, was encumbe... ...overned his life. He felt, with the good sense of a business man, that the interior of the house ought to correspond with the character of the outside... ...ning of this year an event occurred which was destined to change the whole interior life of this woman and to transform the splendid expression of her... ...cene songs at the highest pitch of his voice as soon as he sees any one of us, so as to drown out every word we try to say to him,” said a young pries... ...o remain in his presence. Might I give Monseigneur a word of advice?” “Let us listen to the words of wisdom which God Almighty sometimes puts into the... ... an extension of his life to our intercession, he may pretend to listen to us, and if he listens—” “He will persist in his present conduct, finding th... ...onsequently, the inhabitants of Montegnac lived to a recent period, as the Highlands of Scotland lived in former times, by murder and rapine. From the... ...f the plains. This district is a miniature Scotland, with its lowlands and highlands. Behind the hill, at the foot of which lies the village, rises, a...

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...t of the battle of Hastings, and it had been used, as our histories assure us, with no moderate hand. The whole race of Saxon princes and nobles had b... ...Dunstan,” answered Gurth, “thou speakest but sad truths; little is left to us but the air we breathe, and that ap- pears to have been reserved with mu... ...ave been reserved with much hesitation, solely for the purpose of enabling us to endure the tasks they lay upon our shoulders. The finest and the fatt... ...tockade, which communicated by a drawbridge, with a similar opening in the interior defences. Some precautions had been taken to place those entrances... ... too bloody and dangerous to afford their sex much pleasure. The lower and interior space was soon filled by substantial yeomen and burghers, and such... ...dig- nified spectators, rendered the view as gay as it was rich, while the interior and lower space, filled with the substantial bur- gesses and yeome... ...im a set of wild manners, and a state of primitive society existing in the Highlands of Scotland, he is much disposed to acquiesce in the truth of wha...

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... may beset him, my art cannot discover.” “Your knowledge, then, can afford us no defence,” said the anxious father, “against the threatened evil?” “Pa... ...ay operated like magic. “Jock, ye villain,” ex- claimed the voice from the interior, “are ye lying routing there, and a. young gentleman seeking the w... ...[Midwife] and he just staid the drinking o’ twa pints o’ tippenny, to tell us how my leddy was ta’en wi’ her pains.” “Perhaps,” said Mannering, “at su... ...not very sleepry, and would do me and the Dominie the honour to sit up wi’ us, I am sure we shall not detain you very late. Luckie Howatson is very ex... ...ochar-moss.] While Mannering was gazing round the ruins, he heard from the interior of an apartment on the left hand the voice of the gipsy he had see... ...erises those of Scotland. The outside of the house promised little for the interior, notwithstanding the vaunt of a sign, where a tankard of ale volun... ...chapter, in con- ducting which he was skilful beyond most men in the South Highlands, was the distinguishing point in his character. When the tale on ...

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...d in a single station, But — Oh! ye lords of ladies intellectual, Inform us truly, have they not hen peck’d you all? Don Jose and his lady quarr... ...m’d, ‘What magnanimity!’ No doubt this patience, when the world is damning us, Is philosophic in our former friends; ‘T is also pleasant to be... ...em, I don’t think Sappho’s Ode a good example, Although Longinus tells us there is no hymn Where the sublime soars forth on wings more ample... ...le had been the winds that blew; Some thought it was Mount AEtna, some the highlands, Of Candia, Cyprus, Rhodes, or other islands. Meantime the ... ...ury revels, That Johnson and some few who had not scamper’d, Reach’d the interior talus of the rampart. First one or two, then five, six, and a ... ... who sigh o’er sonnets, And with the pages of the last Review Line the interior of their heads or bonnets, Advanced in all their azure’s hig... ... In Babylon’s bravuras—as the home Heart ballads of Green Erin or Gray Highlands, That bring Lochaber back to eyes that roam O’er far Atla...

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...e; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. As I had felt pleased at first by her confidence I determined to deserv... ...about her neck, and her face flushed with the haste she had made to rejoin us. She busied herself immediately in preparing supper, and while she was t... ...t like that I should seem to doubt it by my question? Well, well then let us say I love thee dearly.’ ‘Indeed, indeed you do,’ replied the child with... ...r favouring us with several melodious assurances that his heart was in the Highlands, and that he wanted but his Arab steed as a preliminary to the ac... ...as matter of as great moment as if he had been about to penetrate into the interior of Africa, or to take a cruise round the world. It would be diffic... ... cell, dim with the light that came through leaves of ivy, com pleted the interior of this portion of the ruin. It was not quite destitute of furnitu...

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...ected with civilized men, is soon told. Otsego, in common with most of the interior of the prov- ince of New Y ork, was included in the county of Alba... ...t say you, young man; will three dollars pay you for the buck?” “First let us determine the question of right to the satisfac- tion of us both,” said ... ... this wilderness whom his own hand has injured. I entreat you will go with us, and receive medical aid.” Whether his wound became more painful, or the... ... Natty is full three miles from this— come, come, my young friend, go with us, and let the new doctor look to this shoulder of thine. Here is Natty wi... ...ver their horses before they proceeded to indulge their desire to view the interior of the house. Most of these men Richard approached, and inquired a... ... Here the labor ceased for the season, and the difficult ques- tion of the interior remained for further deliberation. Rich- ard well knew that, when ... ...ight long miles to its banks. I saw the hills in the Hampshire grants, the highlands of the river, and all that God had done, or man could do, far as ...

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...h. It is impossible you should be on the brink of marriage without letting us know—as much so, I should trust, as your seriously con- templating an en... ...once to catch its un- usual sound, she repeated, ‘Violet Helen; we most of us have strange names.’ ‘Violet Helen,’ he repeated, with an intonation as ... ...arly 13 Yonge out of patience. ‘Of course—I knew he would, he can’t leave us with noth- ing to live on. There’s nothing to be done but to go through ... ...e was busy in giving directions as to the width of mar- gin, when from the interior of the shop there came forward no other than the Earl of St. Erme.... ...He had just been deliberating whether he could accept an invitation to the Highlands. If the wife was less charmed than her sister, she knew that, und...

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...enter- tain the aspirations of a man. Our archdeacon was worldly—who among us is not so? He was ambitious—who among us is ashamed to own that ‘last in... ...born, and if the worship of one creature can be inno- cent in another, let us hope that the adoration offered over the cradle of the fatherless infant... ...ll that was delightful, and I cannot foresee that it will be necessary for us to inquire into the facts of his after life. Our present business at Bar... ...o the coast of Cornwall. This visit he now repeated every year. Such is an interior view of Mr Arabin at the time when he accepted the living of St Ew... ...for the huge black oak stairs, which led to the upper region. Such was the interior of Ullathorne Court. But having thus described it, perhaps somewha... ...ribed it, perhaps somewhat too tediously, we beg to say that it is not the interior to which we wish to call the English tourist’s attention, though w... ...f this. Sir Nicholas was stalking a deer, or attend- ing the Queen, in the Highlands; and even the indefati- gable Mr Towers had stolen an autumn holi...

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...s grew into a wild, bold people; almost sav age, still, especially in the interior of the coun try away from the sea where the foreign settlers seld... ...d the Groans of the Britons; and in which they said, ‘The barbarians chase us into the sea, the sea throws us back upon the bar barians, and we have ... ...hrows us back upon the bar barians, and we have only the hard choice left us of perishing by the sword, or perishing by the waves.’ But, the Romans c... ...ow creatures left in ignorance, that we will do our best, while life is in us, to have them taught; and to tell those rulers whose duty it is to teach... ...ry, the Scottish people concealing their King among their mountains in the Highlands and showing a determination to resist; Edward marched to Berwick ...

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...acquainted in that vicinity. Sometimes one of the brothers would accompany us, sometimes one of the younger sisters. If the 4th infantry had remained ... ... we would join our fortunes, and not let the removal of a regiment trouble us. This was in May, 1844. It was the 22d of August, 1848, before the fulfi... ...up, about midway between the Red River and the Sabine. Our orders required us to go into camp in the same neighborhood, and await further instructions... ...t Matamoras until sufficiently reinforced to war- rant a movement into the interior. General Taylor was not an officer to trouble the administration m... ... from receiving further supplies, if not from all com- munication with the interior. General Worth, with his divi- sion somewhat reinforced, was given... ...to march on the capital of the country, two hundred and sixty miles in the interior. He was promised all he asked and seemed to have not only the conf... ...s to the very foot of the bluffs. After leaving Memphis, there are no such highlands coming to the water’s edge on the east shore until Vicksburg is r...

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...Walt Whitman LEAVES OF GRASS Come, said my soul, Such verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,) That should I after return, Or, long, long he... ...fting and flickering around me, Living beings, identities now doubtless near us in the air that we know not of, Contact daily and hourly that will not... ...is now inflating itself and joyfully singing. Ma femme! for the brood beyond us and of us, For those who belong here and those to come, I exultant to ... ...ustard, the fat tail’d sheep, the antelope, and the burrowing wolf I see the highlands of Abyssinia, I see flocks of goats feeding, and see the fig tr... ...nnoticed, Through Mannahatta’s streets I walking, these things gathering, On interior rivers by night in the glare of pine knots, steamboats wooding u... ...icisms, To these proud laws of the air, the water and the ground, proving my interior soul impregnable, And nothing exterior shall ever take command o... ...ays swarming with blatherers and always sure and impregnable, The unsurvey’d interior, log houses, clearings, wild animals, hunters, trappers, Surroun...

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...n. For every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us, to go forth and reconquer this Holy Land from the hands of the Infide... ...ur intellectual and moral growth, if the sun had shone and the wind blown on us a little less; and no doubt it is a nice matter to proportion rightly ... ... When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall? Even some sects of philosoph... ...ld, which is perfectly symbolical of the path which we love to travel in the interior and ideal world; and sometimes, no doubt, we find it difficult t... ... the Old World…. The man of the Old World sets out upon his way. Leaving the highlands of Asia, he descends from station to station towards Europe. Ea...

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...tory of the Apple- tree is connected with that of man. The geologist tells us that the order of the Rosaceae, which includes the Apple, also the true ... ...arded for excelling in song by the token of the apple- spray;” and “in the Highlands of Scotland the apple-tree is the badge of the clan Lamont.” The ... ... fragrant! By the middle of July, green apples are so large as to re- mind us of coddling, and of the autumn. The sward is com- monly strewed with lit... ...ttle ones which fall still-born, as it were,—Nature thus thinning them for us. The Roman writer Palladius said: “If apples are inclined to fall before... ...ntil at last they are so broad that they become their own fence, when some interior shoot, which their foes cannot reach, darts upward with joy: for i...

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...Point, some sixty miles off, by two more Bangoreans, who had decided to join us in a trip to the mountain. We had each a knapsack or bag filled with su... ...n then turn them over and straighten them by a weight at each end. They told us that one wore out in two years, or often in a single trip, on the rock... ...rel between the canoe and the boat, a fur trader’s boat. The ferry here took us past the Indian island. As we left the shore, I observed a short, shab... ...y new this country still is. You have only to travel for a few days into the interior and back parts even of many of the old States, to come to that v... ...been established on the shores of Maine, the Indian still looks out from her interior mountains over all these to the sea. There stands the city of Ba... ...aid was followed, respecting the eastern boundary of Maine, as determined by highlands and streams, at the time of the difficulties on that side. He wa... ...began to despair of finding it. I re membered hearing a good deal about the “highlands” dividing the waters of the Penobscot from those of the St. Joh... ...These, then, according to her interpretation of the treaty of ’83, were the “highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the St. La...

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...n the great day shall he so bright. The eternal edicts are not violated by us, for this one is alive, and Minos does not bind me; but I am of the circ... ..., that for thine own thou hold her. For her love, then, incline thyself to us; let us go on through thy seven realms. 6 Thanks unto thee will I carry ... ...my Leader, and turned my eyes to him. He began, “Son, follow my steps; let us turn back, for this plain slopes that way to its low limits.” The dawn w... ...William Spadalunga was Marquis of Montferrat and Canavese, the Piedmontese highlands and plain north of the Po. He was Imperial vicar, and the bead of... ...ees the truth most surely; and her smile is her persua- sions in which the interior light of Wisdom is displayed with- out any veil; and in these two ...

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...rther than Sudbury, only to see how much coun try there is in the rear of us; great hills, and a hundred brooks, and farm houses, and barns, and hays... ...s years, the meadow is not reclaimed so fast as the woods are cleared. Let us here read what old Johnson says of these meadows in his “Wonder working ... ...urmurs of many a famous river on the other side of the globe reach even to us here, as to more distant dwellers on its banks; many a poet’s stream flo... ... currents to the lowlands of the globe, or explore at their invitation the interior of continents. They are the natural highways of all nations, not o... ... itself, which depos its their spawn on the tops of mountains, and on the interior plains; the fish principle in nature, from which it results that t... ...ow reeds, or the water birds to trans port them to the mountain tarns and interior lakes. There are fishes wherever there is a fluid medium, and even... ...anded, and across the spacious outer bay of New York to Sandy Hook and the Highlands of Neversink, and thence over leagues of the Atlantic, perchance ... ...e same hill top when a thunder shower, rolling down from the Catskills and Highlands, passed over the island, deluging the land; and, when it had sudd...

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...ondition. If my friend and I eat your cakes – for which we have neither of us any natural inclination – we shall expect you to join us at supper by wa... ... as I suppose, your story is a silly one, you need have no deli- cacy with us, who are two of the silliest men in England. My name is Godall, Theophil... ...y wealth with Godall. But I must know to what end: you must certainly tell us what you mean.” The young man seemed to awaken; he looked uneasily from ... ...of the different windows; and curtains of some rich material concealed the interior from the eyes of curious passengers. The place had an air of repos... ...dinner with members of his family, and a yearly tour of a fortnight in the Highlands or even on the continent of Europe, were his principal distractio... ...when the voice of a young girl was heard suddenly crying the hour from the interior of the house. “In a moment,” replied John V andeleur. And, with th... ...planation. The blinds rose, one after another, by means of a spring in the interior, and disclosed steel shutters such as we see on the front of shops...

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...rrid creatures who write with a wink at you, which sets the wicked part of us on fire: I have known it myself, and I own it to my shame; and if I happ... ...hat it is composed of. A man bra- zen enough to declare that he could hold us in suspense about the adventures of a broomstick, with the aid of a yash... ... drink, and of never a man are we jealous, And never a man against us will he speak For who can be hard on a set of poor fellows ... ...The half-dozen lines were cordial, breathing of their walk in the Austrian highlands, and naming a renowned city hotel for dinner that day, the hour s... ...IA IN WALES AN AUGUST OF GALES and rains drove Atlantic air over the Welsh highlands. Carinthia’s old father had impressed on her the rap- ture of ‘sm... ...d never been courted: she deserved a siege. She was a daughter of the racy highlands. And she, who could say to her husband, ‘I guard my rooms,’ witho... ...redith had now an air of homeliness, well suited to an English house- hold interior. She could chat. Any pauses occurring, he was the one guilty of th... ... meditation affected by a question that merely jumped out of his perturbed interior. Business at Calesford kept Fleetwood hanging about Lon- don sever...

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...the virtuous Lady Mrs. Janet Dalrymple, Lady Baldoon, younger,” and afford us the precise dates of the catastrophe, which could not otherwise have bee... ...rk in which it occurs is so scarce as almost to be unique, and as it gives us the most full account of one of the actors in this tragic tale which we ... ... yet not common, for he knew T o condescend, and keep his distance too. He us’ d, and that most commonly, to go On foot; I wish that he had still done... ... his cross-bow over his arm, and a hound led in leash by his boy, into the interior of the wood. “Going to shoot us a piece of venison, Norman?” said ... ... as old times; that they lived on the south of the Forth, and far from the Highlands; that his clients thought they were able to protect themselves; b... ...r partition, from which position he could, himself unseen, reconnoitre the interior of the “but,” or kitchen apartment, of the mansion. Reverse of the... ...from the adjoining hills. A rude cavern in an adjacent rock, which, in the interior, was cut into the shape of a cross, formed the hermitage, where so...

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...ight of one small bulb, carefully screened. “You’ll have the O. D. down on us.” Fuselli wrapped the blanket round his head and prepared to sleep. Snug... ...Andy. Took sick an’ died last summer. How long d’ye reckon it’ll be before us-guys git overseas?” “God, I don’t know.” “Ah want to see that country ov... ... lot of men out the other day, an’ the corporal says they’re going to give us rookies instead.” “Goddam it, though, but Ah want to git overseas.” “It’... ...ed it for him. As he opened the door, the men nearest had a glimpse of the interior of the car. On the far side was a long object huddled in blankets,... ...” “But this is a place to come back to. Imagine coming back here after the highlands of Thibet, where you’d nearly got drowned and scalped and had mad... ...sons.” Andrews pushed on the door, which opened easily. Some- where in the interior a bell jangled, startlingly loud after the silence of the street. ...

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...of the sailor, the mill of the fuller, or even the loom of the weaver, let us consider only what a variety of labour is requisite in order to form tha... ...y small villages which are scat- tered about in so desert a country as the highlands of Scotland, every farmer must be butcher, baker, and brewer, for... ...uch a trade as even that of a nailer in the remote and inland parts of the highlands of Scotland. Such a workman at the rate of a thousand nails a-day... ...sia, India, Bengal, and Siam, in Asia, to carry maritime commerce into the interior parts of that great continent; and the great rivers of Africa are ... ...uire by the toil of our own body. That money, or those goods, indeed, save us this toil. They contain the value of a certain quantity of labour, which... ... and are greater or smaller in proportion to the extent of this stock. Let us suppose, for ex- ample, that in some particular place, where the common ... ...he same price, very nearly still continues to be paid in some parts of the Highlands and Western islands. Through the greater part of the Low country,... ...ch as a civil war, which could either discourage tillage, or interrupt the interior com- merce of the country. And though the bounty which has taken p... ...ost entirely from the country; almost all the ordinary transactions of its interior commerce being thus car- ried on by paper. The suppression of ten ...

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.... “Oh, Miss Win- ter, if you would be so kind as to walk to Cocksmoor with us!” “T o Cocksmoor, my dear!” exclaimed the governess in dismay. “Yes, yes... ...root, and a bit of bacon, and mamma says she does not think it too far for us to walk, if you will be so kind as to go with us.” Miss Winter looked pe... ...h,” said Flora; “but I can’t think why there should be any harm. Papa took us all out walking with him yesterday—little Aubrey and all, and Mr. Ernesc... ...d some idea that the real post had somehow transported itself thither. The interior was decidedly oracular, consisting of this one line, “I counsel yo... ...r her brother, whom he wished to take home with him, and thence to see the Highlands, so as to divert his anxiety for Harry, as well as to call him of... ...ds and he had accompanied them, as well as going on an expedition into the interior of Australia. He had been employed in various sanitary arrangement...