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... freshness of his countenance. Hair grows on him like grass; his eyes, his brain, his sinews, thirst for action; he joys to see and touch and hear, to... ...e, to reply: ‘I have done so much work, and no less, with my own hands and brain, and taken so much profit, and no more, for my own personal delight.’... ...an is 43 Lay Morals one of mankind’s dear possessions; to his or her just brain, and kind heart, and active hands, mankind intrusts some of its hopes... ... most faculties are void) how it tastes to his poorer neighbours, who must drain it to the dregs. In every contact with au- thority, with their employ... ...o her heart, lent the one element of true emotion to a fanciful and merely brain-sick love. Thus it fell out one day that she had gone to the ‘Green D... ... waste of vacancy, and a horror came upon his mind, and a faintness on his brain, such as seizes men upon the brink of cliffs. On the table, by the si... ...d upon the west a moorish valley, full of ink-black pools. These presently drained into a burn that made off, with little noise and no celerity of pac...

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... for har-vesting grain. He had built modern barns and most of his land was drained with carefully laid tile drain, but in order to understand the man ... ...old man went silently on with the work and said nothing. When the land was drained he planted it to cab- bages and onions, and again the neighbors lau... ..., had looked upon the bare shoulders and white throat of a woman. With his brain in a whirl he went down into the pulpit and preached a long sermon wi... ...draw well enough and he had many odd deli-cate thoughts hidden away in his brain that might have expressed themselves through the brush of a painter, ... ...e talked last and best. He was like a writer busy among the figures of his brain, a kind of tiny blue-eyed king he was, in a six-dollar room facing Wa... ...of the smell of manure in the clear sweet air awoke something heady in his brain. The poor little houses lighted by kerosene lamps, the smoke from the...

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... gave him a violent blow on the forehead, which produced concussion of the brain. He was long in 54 John Kemble’s Parishes recovering, and a ... ...y “Friar’s Lantern led,” “he” must have had a strong imagination. Probably drainage, sawmills, and brick-making have exor- cised Jack-o’-Lantern, for ... ...he ditches. Is it compensation for the Pinguicula vulgaris, which has been drained away, or the mountain pink at Highbridge, which I suspect some gard... ...ers. Marsh Cinquefoil (Comarum palustre).—A prize in Baddesley bog, unless drains have banished its pure flower. Wood Strawberry (Fragaria vesca).—Pro...

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...this respect, Scott might not have sunk beneath the mighty pressure on his brain, but might have lived to add new creatures of his fancy to the Charl... ...ody, in the very act of running away with hundreds of pounds down the town drains. Suppose another should perceive in his books, in his studious eveni...

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...CH TOIL and grow rich, What’s that but to lie With a foul witch And after, drained dry, To be brought To the chamber where Lies one long sought With d... ...ng again And so to the other tree at a bound. Nor the tame will, nor timid brain, Nor heavy knitting of the brow Bred that fierce tooth and cleanly lim... ...glish shot? Did words of mine put too great strain On that woman’s reeling brain? Could my spoken words have checked That whereby a house lay wrecked?... ...it. First Sailor. What good is there in this hard way of living, Unless we drain more flagons in a year And kiss more lips than lasting peaceable men I... ... on us dreams that waste our life, Shadows and shows that can but turn the brain.’ But finding him still silent I stooped down 452 THE COLLECTED POEMS...

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...ue, all ruled straight like a botanical account book. Gas and ventilation, drainage and water service, all of the primest quality. Iron clamps and gir... ... bad stuff to leave about, though ever so little of it.’ As she spoke, she drained the basin into the ashes of the fire, and broke the bottle on the h... ...n, when the train stopped at its destination. Gutters and pipes had burst, drains had overflowed, and streets were under water. In the first instant o... ... deal.’ ‘The poor man being about to leave the town, it came into his evil brain to cast suspicion on him?’ ‘I think it must have flashed upon him whi...

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... and opportunity were blowing upon it hard, had made of the chamber of his brain a strange workshop of fortune. This establishment, mysterious and alm... ... voice, that it had a meaning—a meaning that their associated sense was to drain even as thirsty lips, after the plough through the sands and the sigh... ...again her eyes: “I feel the day like a great gold cup that we must somehow drain together.” “I feel it, as you always make me feel everything, just as...