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...d out into near extinction countless times… traumatized and terrified: by the horror of an exploding world gone mad with the erupting fires of huge v... ... wonder became an invisible feeling of unseen fear, unseen terror, and unseen horror during the night. Traumatic happenings at night could not be p... ...oclastic gases and choking deadly dust clouds and the shockwave, and rumbling horror of a world suddenly gone mad. Only then would they have tried t... ...s have a saying of how things which they create, take on a life of their own. Writers speak of how a character they create takes on a life of its ow... ...hey just know it happens. Throughout the Ages: religious fanatics, leaders, writers, people in all walks of life have noticed this worsening of af... ...whether a plan to steal it back was being hatched. Do you think the sport writers might love this? For once; all their sports connections would ... ..., wars, battles, treacheries, betrayals… Everyone hated them. The Scots, the Welsh, the Irish, the French, the Spanish, the Dutch, the Germans hate...

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...to provide protection for the retreating Spaniards -- A crash at the breach -- Horrors of the situation multiply -- A night of terrible agony -- A gha... ...wful sacrifice of Spanish prisoners -- A spectacle that freezes the blood with horror -- Starvation compels a resort to cannibalism -- A prophecy of c... ...streets of the capital -- The city is set on fire -- Capture of the emperor -- Horrors which followed the siege -- 75,000 dead bodies in the streets -... ...er with pitch. References are made to these people by Job and other very early writers. For some reason, which is not recorded in history, they finall... ... where the riches brought back by them were obtained, while equally creditable writers believe that the voyage was to the kingdom of Sofala on the Eas... ...as not only popularly opposed by the people but rejected by many distinguished writers of the Augustan Age. Formaleoni claims that the Venetians disco... ...erable proof which historians cannot wholly ignore that both the Irish and the Welsh made expeditions to America in about the seventh century. Indeed,...

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...nders had many times beene cloyed with them. Secondly (as said an ancient Writers that I doe not so much remember injuries received. I had need have... ...other meanes keeps us bound one to another, but our word; knew we but the horror and weight of it, we would with fire and sword pursue and hate the ... ...ng of histories (which is the subject of most men) to consider who are the writers: If they be such as professe nothing but bare learning, the chiefe... ...le, he was cut in peeces by the assailants. At which siege likewise, that horror and feare is very memorable, which so did cboake, seize upon, and f... ...h beset round with Physitians and Preachers; and to conclude, nothing but horror and astonishment on every side of us: are wee not already dead and ... ...fford, I commonly make use of that which is most rare and memorable. Some writers there are whose end is but to relate the events. Mine, if I could ... ...d, may easilie produce and utter the same, although it be in Bergamask or Welsh, and if he be dumbe, by signes and tokens. iv.). Verbaque prævisam r...

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... and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is always the writer who colors highly, or whether it is now and then the reader whose eye for color is a little dull?...

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...f whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is always the writer who colours highl... ... reflection on the causes of many vices and crimes that awaken the general horror. What is substantially true of families in this respect, is true of ... ...mid trustfulness; but she was so far from being a fright, or a dowdy, or a horror, or anything else, predicted by the two Miss Pecksniffs, that those ... ...his spirits rose proportionately. There were English people, Irish people, Welsh people, and Scotch people there; all with their little store of coars... ...ll of fire. As Martin faltered on the pavement, three more gentlemen, with horror and agitation depicted in their faces, came plunging wildly round th...

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...with regard to Shakespeare’s sonnets, Spenser’s minor poems, and the great writers and characters of Elizabeth’s age and those of Cromwell’s time.” Fr... ...y by the poet. In reality his style owed much to the seven- teenth-century writers, such as Milton and Sir Thomas Browne. He took part with Coleridge,... ...ative skill of De Quincey that has secured for him, in preference to other writers of his class, the favor of youthful readers. It would be too much t... ...ble grasp of opium, who realizes, amid the gorgeous delights and the awful horrors of the tale, that the writer is after all the victim of the worst o... ...iament to restore its purity of blood. What words, then, could express the horror, and the sense of treason, in that case, which had happened, where a... ...dsman and his axe, the block and the sawdust, to close up the vista of his horrors. What! shall it be within benefit of clergy to delay the king’s mes... ...on. I mention this little incident for its connexion with what followed. A Welsh rustic, sitting behind me, asked if I had not felt my heart burn with... ...y mortifying that such a Birmingham thing should dare to challenge us. The Welshman replied that he didn’t see that; for that a cat might look at a ki... ... I am glad that the ‘Tallyho’ was disap- pointed.” So dissatisfied did the Welshman seem with this opinion that at last I was obliged to tell him a ve...

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...more. Indeed, the fascinating powers of opium are admitted even by medical writers, who are its greatest enemies. Thus, for instance, Awsiter, apothec... ...ove-letters would do as little to recommend me with two grave sexagenarian Welsh Methodists as my Greek sapphics or alcaics; and what had been hospita... ...ho have written expressly on the materia medica, make it evident, from the horror they express of it, that their experi- mental knowledge of its actio... ... recalling, or constructing into a regular narrative, the whole burthen of horrors which lies upon my brain. This feeling partly I plead in excuse, an... .... It will occur to you often to ask, why did I not release myself from the horrors of opium by leaving it off or dimin- ishing it? T o this I must ans... ...ury of thought had failed even to advance by one hair’s breadth? All other writers had been crushed and overlaid by the enormous weight of facts and d...

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...drawn there! and thou become his snare to others, Margarita! What was that Welsh wandering juggler but the foul fiend himself, mayhap, thou maiden of ... ... be; but the first tremble of it was over. He had plunged into the bath of horrors, and there he was. I ‘ve heard that you must pronounce the names of... ... ‘Who was it?’ Margarita’s eyes were shut. She opened them fascinated with horror. There was an unearthly awful and comic mix- ture of sounds in Werne... ...ombustible with shuffling of feet in the passage and on the stairs, dinned horrors into Aunt Lisbeth’s head. ‘It was just that sound in the left wing ... ...de music in his ears whenever annoyance sounded. ‘And herein,’ say the old writers, ‘are lovers, who love truly, truly recompensed for their toils and... ...mber- ing of what stuff they were, and who made them. ‘Never,’ say the old writers, with a fervour honourable to their knowledge of the elements that ...

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...aste that becomes unwhole- some when it absolutely delights in dwelling on horrors and cruelties for their own sake; or upon shifty, cunning, dis- hon... ...ight me from a glorious death’. And she crept forth by night, amid all the horrors of the deserted field of battles, and herself covered with loose ea... ... of course accursed, and even the better sort of heathens viewed them with horror; but the voluntary confronting of death, even at the call of a disto... ...l deceit Punic faith, that is, Phoenician faith, and though no doubt Roman writers show them up in their worst colours, yet, after the time of Hiram, ... ...Rome; their appearance and character would be more like that of the modern Welsh, or of their own French descendants, small, alert, and dark-eyed, ful... ... his men. The Frenchman could not speak English, and Captain Jones—a fiery Welshman, whom it was the fashion in the regiment to term ‘Jack Jones’—knew... ...e started back, crying, ‘Sacre bleu!’ and ran out in the utmost alarm. The Welsh captain, however, went on, and perceived that the church had been use...

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...ever so insignificant in- trinsically, have for most part plenty of Memoir-writers; and the curious, in after-times, can learn minutely their goings o... ...oo: pale Terror, if we have got it, we will also give it, and the depth of horrors that lie in it; the same leaky bottom, in these wild waters, bears ... ...ould restrain, and greatly restrain; lest on slight hest or hint, Madness, Horror and Murder rose, and this Sabbath- day of September became a Day bla... ...vered. That fair body is cut in fragments; with indigni- ties, and obscene horrors of moustachio grands-levres, which human nature would fain find inc... ...doubt it not; though no Moniteur has reported them. They scolded in Celtic Welsh, those 68 The French Revolution - V olume Three Brennuses; neither w...

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...iarisms in the “Paradise Lost” from Latin passages fathered upon imaginary writers, when these passages had previously been forged by Lauder himself f... ...at could be called anger. The feeling which fell upon me was a shuddering horror, as upon a first glimpse of the truth that I was in a world of evil ... ...rocken.”—This very striking phenom- enon has been continually described by writers, both Ger- man and English, for the last fifty years. Many readers,... ...st impulse was to say, that I did not tax them at all, for I had a perfect horror of doing so; but prudence would not allow of my saying that; because... ...rs after this, I read “Agamemnon” of Aeschylus; and then, in the prophetic horror with which Cassandra sur- veys the regal abode in Mycenae, destined ... ...ers; which, however, so far from reconciling her to the letters, or to the writers of the letters, had the unhappy effect of riveting her dislike (pre... ...made sensible by Wordsworth of one grievous defect in the structure of the Welsh valleys; too generally they take the basin shape—the level area at th...

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...were not attacking travellers and animals, that the tribute payable by the Welsh people was forgiven them, on condition of their producing, every year... ...ition of their producing, every year, three hundred wolves’ heads. And the Welshmen were so sharp upon the wolves, to save their money, that in four y... ...ith, and was as great a King as En gland had known for some time. The old writers of history relate how that Canute was one day disgusted with his co... ...of years afterwards, wrote his great tragedy; and he killed the rest less Welsh King Griffith, and brought his head to England. What Harold was doin... ...ere he then was, and where he received him as an honoured guest. Now, some writers tell us that Edward the Confessor, who was by this time old and had... ...n all these places, and in many others, fire and sword worked their utmost horrors, and made the land dreadful to behold. The streams and rivers were ... ...committed upon earth than in wretched England in those nineteen years. The writers who were living then describe them fearfully. They say that the cas... ...riest in Worcestershire committed a most dreadful murder, that aroused the horror of the whole nation. The King demanded to have this wretch delivered... ... carried him to Sleaford Castle, where he passed another night of pain and horror. Next day, they carried him, with greater difficulty than on the day...

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...ladies there are, likewise, whose attachment to the forms of religion, and horror of the atrical entertainments, are most exemplary. Ladies who have ... ...rong feeling for the beauties of nature, as displayed in the solitudes the writers have left at home, breathes through its pages like wholesome villag... ...of the nails: there they were all, without disguise, in naked ugliness and horror. In the dining room, a bare, dull, dreary place, with noth ing for ... ...assages, and iron doors between him and the nearest sharer in its solitary horrors. Every cell has double doors: the outer one of sturdy oak, the othe... ...emselves to be easily entrapped into pits; and even (as in the case of the Welsh Giant) with an excess of the hospitable politeness of a landlord, rip... ... there is a buxom hostess at the head of the table, and opposite, a simple Welsh schoolmaster with his wife and child; who came here, on a speculation... ...en in his time, and did his utmost to correct it. I cannot hold with other writers on these subjects that the prevalence of various forms of dissent i...

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... pride; Till with fired brain and nerves o’erstrung, And heart with mystic horrors wrung, Desperate he sought Benharrow’s den, And hid him from the ha... ... mountain-side,— Fair as that beam, although the fairest far, Giving to horror grace, to danger pride, Shine martial Faith, and Courtesy’s brigh... ... of their name dead upon the field. But popular tradition has added other horrors to the tale. It is said that Sir Humphry Colquhoun, who was on hors... ...h to say, to say sooth, in sooth, in good sooth, etc., are com- mon in old writers. Cf. the Lay, introd. 57: “the sooth to speak.” 65. T o claim its a... ...e their prey.’” 177. Good faith. In good faith, bona fide; as often in old writers. 192. Bower. See on i. 217 above. 195. This rebel Chieftain, etc. T... ...tion, see Wb. 90. Poule. Paul; an old spelling, found in Chaucer and other writers. The measure of the song is anapestic (that is, with the accent on ... ... words have been adapted to it by Burns. A similar story is recounted of a Welsh bard, who composed and played on his death-bed the air called Dafyddy...

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...d upon a bird terri- bly mangled by some cat, and killed it in a frenzy of horror and pity. I had a gust of that same emotion now, as this shameful mu... ... the old sys- tem rested, just in the same measure will you understand the horror these people had for marriages with the Insecure. In the case of the... ...n at the seaside before, and then I had gone by excursion to places on the Welsh coast whose great cliffs of rock and mountain backgrounds made the ef... ...rown weeds in the dark shadow of the timberings. You must not overrate the horrors of the former days; in those days it was scarcely more common to se... ...ence to be found in the “Twentieth Century Gar- ner” from the pens of such writers, for example, as Sidney Low. But a picture of them as a whole is wa... ...nces in the beautiful wide country between the Four Towns district and the Welsh mountains. About these great houses there had usually been good outbu...

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...the time for Literature.” “It’s the only time we’ve got. And besides—” The horrors of religious controversy would begin…. Mr. Polly stuck loyally to t... ... situation, and going with him to Stratford-on-Avon and Shrewsbury and the Welsh moun- tains and the Wye and a lot of places like that, for a really g... ...for the most part at nights after Mrs. Johnson had indulged everybody in a Welsh rarebit—when it assumed so sinister and porten- tous an appearance as... ...ul and support and respect (I suppose) a perfect horde of pro- fessors and writers and artists and ill-groomed difficult people, instead of using our ... ...rom the doorstep, piercing the little group of men and boys with the sharp horror of an unexpected woman’s voice. “If a witness is wanted I suppose I’... ...a sense of the public house. He put his head inside the Private Bar to the horror of everyone there. But there was no breach of the law, thank Heaven!...

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...able marks of a Celtic origin. Layamon, in fact, living as he did near the Welsh border, naturally shows familiarity with current Welsh tradition. His... ...in and growth of Arthurian romance; for it proves the existence of genuine Welsh tradition about Arthur, and makes untenable the position of those cri... ...SIONS POSSESSIONS ARTHUR’S MAGIC POSSESSIONS form a prominent element in Welsh tradition, and their appearance in the early chronicles is an importa... ... WORKS ON LAYAMON— Introduction, Madden’s ed. of Brut. H. Morley, English Writers, London, 1888 1890, III, 206 231. L. Stephen and S. Lee, Dictionar... ...chen Philologie, Strassburg, 1888 1902, II, i, 635 ff. H. Morley, English Writers , III, 55. G. Paris, Romania, IX, 592 ff. L. Stephens and S. Lee, ... ...mighty birds will strive together; and the interpretation thereof portends horror and grim destruction amongst men. On this fair lake the Scots sought...

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... ready to spring, like a sallow pan- ther; we kept hoping he would, in our horror of the murder- ous slashes of the cane; and not a syllable did Herio... ... head flew to my legs when, imitating her, I rose to go forth. In a fit of horror I thought, ‘I ‘ve forgotten how to walk!’ Summoning my manful resolu... ...s Bench where my father languished! There was no comparing them for tragic horror. And the Kremlin had snow-fields around it; this Bench was caught ou... ...uld hardly bear meeting Temple on my passage to the cabin. ‘Captain Jasper Welsh,’ he was reiterating, as if sounding it to dis- cover whether it had ... ...uest Temple not to joke, but the next moment I had launched Captain Jasper Welsh on a piratical exploit; Temple lifted the veil from his history, reve... ...of an excited multi- tude. As he boasted that there was the end of Captain Welsh, I broke the rope. But T emple spoiled my triumph by depriv- ing him ... ...tingly. The situation was exactly of a sort for one of his German phantasy-writers to image the forest jeering at him as he flew, blind, deaf, and unr...

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...st the direct purposes and efforts of this bagatelle to graze the brink of horror, and of all that would in actual realization be most repulsive. The ... ...re speculation, furnishes the surest means of disen- chanting him from the horror which might else gather upon 5 Thomas de Quincey his feelings. Let ... ...next fortnight, mastered the popular heart; the mere delirium of indignant horror in some, the mere delirium of panic in others. For twelve succeeding... ...rd his voyages in this world of storms. So did many a hundred of religious writers. And what won- der should there be in this, when the main qualifica... ... Book of an English Opium-Eater much wonder in that, when we see professed writers on the subject—bulky writers—writers of Answers and Refutations, di... ... an unclassical tipple; but perhaps not. Xenophon, the most Attic of prose writers, mentions pointedly in his Anabasis, that the T en Thousand, when r... ...now withdrawn) in which he made his acknowledgments to some book read at a Welsh Inn for the outline of the story; and as to the moral, he declared it...

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...rary development, but also as a phase in the development of the individual writers concerned. It is now quite unusual to see any adequate criticism of... ... in another minute she had released him and was dragging him away from the horror. He was white and bleeding from a dozen circular patches. The odd-jo... ...he must go home, and presently, as they went uphill towards Hampstead, the horror seemed to drop from him. He said it was good to see the stars again,... ... bit at them. Then it was I began to try to attract Widgery’s attention. A horror came upon me. Ugh! I should have driven right into those half-eaten—... ...word. I do not wish to dis- credit that, but I must point out—what so many writers upon obscure psychic phenomena fail to do—that we are passing here ... ...t this strange new planet would probably collide with Neptune. The leader- writers enlarged upon the topic. So that in most of the capi- tals of the w... ...selection, “I am always particularly fond of a tankard of stout and a nice Welsh rarebit, and I’ll order that. I ain’t much given to Burgundy,” and fo... ... I’ll order that. I ain’t much given to Burgundy,” and forthwith stout and Welsh rarebit promptly appeared at his command. They sat long at their supp... ...ass of miraculous old Burgundy. Mr. Fotheringay helped himself to a second Welsh rarebit out of vacancy, and took a mouthful. “I was thinking,” he sai...

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...lined and uncoordinated minority of inventors, experi- menters, educators, writers and organisers has achieved this development of human possibilities... ... succeeded and overlaid and obliterated mood, the phases by which an utter horror of death was replaced by the growing realisation of its necessity an... ...rnt from the columns of some obscure labour paper I bought one day, of the horrors of the lead poisoning that was in those days one of the normal risk... ... we hate them like poison—jealousy—and little irritations—Altiora can be a horror at times—but we have to come.” “Things are being done?” “Oh!—no doub... ...ailable. No men waited, but very expert parlourmaids. Our meat was usually Welsh mutton—I don’t know why, unless that mountains have ever been the las... ...of young Jews ascendant from Whitechapel, here a circle of journalists and writers, here a group of Irish politicians, here two East Indians, here a p... ...ut I went on talking. It’s the grim irony in the lives of all politicians, writers, public teach- ers, that once the audience is at their feet, a new ...