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...al. Chevenix was his name. He was stiff as a drum-major and selfish as an Englishman, but a fairly conscientious pupil and a fairly upright man. Littl... ...your daughter, and who was giv- ing alms to me and some others of us mendicants. If the Emperor’—saluting—‘if my Emperor could hear you, he would pluc... ... voice summoned the guard. We were all afoot upon the instant; more lanterns and soldiers crowded in front of the shed; an officer elbowed his way in.... ...he others with whom I had any opportunity of speech, those that would not have held a book upsidedown would have torn the pages out for pipe-lights. F... ..., more than once, hors de combat by a less affair than the rock of Edinburgh Castle. We discussed it in the dark and between the passage of the rounds... ...ubside and roll away. The east grew 52 St. Ives luminous and was barred with chilly colours, and the Castle on its rock, and the spires and chimneys ... ...he house into the stable-yard, where I observed the driver washing the cart in a shed. He must have heard the explosion of the pistol. He could not ch... ... as a trained artist might rejoice to make them for a favourite subject. ‘’Tis extraordinary,’ cried I: ‘these things fit me perfectly.’ ‘Indeed, Mr. ... ...s, we easily lit the lantern; and thenceforward, through a labyrinth of woodland paths, were conducted by its uneasy glimmer. Both booted and great- c...

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...an axe—if I dared swing one—would have been more to the purpose than my cut- lass. Of a sudden things began to go strangely easier; I found stumps, bu... ...who straightway took to the bush; and came back. A little after, they had found another gap, and the crowd were all abroad again. What has happened to... ... wood, bound hand and foot in lianas, shovelled unceremoniously off the one shore and driven to try my luck upon the other—I saw I should have hard en... ... them—a phenomenon to which both Fanny and I are quite accustomed—endless vivid deeps of grass and weed, each plant particular and distinct, so that I... ...t of a long story is nothing; it is just a ‘full close,’ which you may approach and accompany as you please— it is a coda, not an essential member in ... ...nse; then the kava came to the King; he poured one drop in libation, drank another, and flung the remain- der outside the house behind him. Next came ... ... CHAPTER XXX 29TH MAY. My Dear Colvin,—Still grinding at Chap. XI. I began many days ago on p. 93, and am still on p. 93, which is exhila- rating, ... ...f triumph: ‘This is a present from the poor prisoners to the rich man. ’Thirteen pieces of tapa, some of them surprisingly fine, one I think unique; t...

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..., for it seems to me childish to practise with the scalpel on an imaginary body. Begin by dissecting a corpse.” Every one prepared to listen, with all... ...e demanded of her but obedience and beauty. By exalting the soul above the body, the modern family in Europe—a daugh- ter of Christ—invented indissolu... ...miniature in which I can see and kiss her brow, the smile on her lips, the shape of her face, can breathe the whiteness of her skin; which enables me ... ... up to it. The gar- dens of the pavilion and my plot of ground were in the shape of a hatchet, of which this avenue was the handle. My wall would cut ... ...of ebony inlaid with ivory, contained the little steel moulds in which she shaped the leaves and some forms of petals. A fine Japanese bowl held the p... ...ttle drawer of the table before her. “Under her eyes, in a Venetian glass, shaped like a flower- cup on its stem, was the living model she strove to i... ...lt with the lucidity of instinct. “I could not tire of admiring her as she shaped a flower from the materials sorted before her, padding the wire stem...

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...dest part of a kind of shelf or natural terrace, of a sort of amphitheatre shape, with wood on either hand, but leaving an interval clear in the midst... ... the lie of the ground was concerned, but the house stood across. The main body was of the big symmetrical Louis XIV . style—or, as it is now the fash... ...t of the hall. There was a very handsome double staircase of polished oak, shaped like a Y, the stem of which began just opposite the original front d... ...elightful gardens that ever existed, what with green turf, bright flowers, shapely shrubs, and the grand beech-trees enclosing it with their stately w... ...lared the race to be exterminated, picturesque ruffian that he was, in his shapeless hat, rusty velveteen, long leggings, a live ferret in his pocket,... ...said, ‘Eh! speak it out!’ ‘And with difficulty, feeling as if I were some- body else,’ said Clarence, ‘I did get out some short words of prayer. It se... ... you told papa?’ ‘It amounts to no more. Griff likes amusement, and every- body likes him—that’s all. Yes, I know my father read law ten hours a day, ... ...he attack was paralysis, and he never recovered the full powers of mind or body, though they managed to bring him back to Hillside—as indeed his rest-... ...k. His mind might be vastly relieved if I were out of it, but scarcely his body; and I shall not leave him till I hear from home. Thomson says I am ri...

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...e invisible speck, he slipped it with obvious pleasure over the well groomed body of his master. Chapter 3 W HEN he was dressed, Stepan Arkadyevitch s... ...nions and views had come to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn. A... ...dly acquaintances. Consequently the distributors of earthly blessings in the shape of places, rents, shares, and such, were all his friends, and could... ...legant Grinevitch, which had such long white fingers, such long yellow filbert shaped nails, and such huge shining studs on the shirt cuff, that apparen... ...n a long one, Natalia in a half long one, and Kitty in one so short that her shapely legs in tightly drawn red stockings were visible to all beholders... ...on to the professor. “According to that, if my senses are annihilated, if my body is dead, I can have no existence of any sort?” he queried. The profe... ...is wife was there. . . It was awful to see her!. . . She flung herself on the body. They say he was the only support of an immense family. How awful!” ... ...ng room he was convinced that something had happened. His thoughts, like his body, went round a complete circle, without coming upon anything new. He ... ...more. He felt what a murderer must 142 Anna Karenina feel, when he sees the body he has robbed of life. That body, robbed by him of life, was their l...

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...shields displayed on his dining room walls. Of hide and metal, in various shapes, they united the room and its glazing lamps and candles. I felt mys... ...ho had touched port. “For me?” I became suspicious! I fingered the beetle-shaped oval, unlike any I had seen. An amethyst was set in the center with... ...o was born at sea?” said Anaktoria. “You can tell the best swimmer by the shape of her buttocks,” said Atthis. “Look at mine, how flat they are.” Sh... ...l I use eleven syllables? A poem does not grow like a leaf, but has to be shaped. I often think of a lyric as an amphora; little by little I must mo... ...ber his face, the candid eyes and lips. I remember the ivory gleam of his body. Ah, if he were here... How am I to forbid Kleis? Where is my frivol... ...r in me to swim deeper. A fish watched me, from one side of Poseidon, its body curving behind the statue. Poseidon’s eyes were made of jewels...” P... ...aterial in his hands. I did not need to light a lamp. I had memorized his body. We were moving toward the submerged city; I saw myself swimming besi... ...iefly, the water sucking and his mouth sucking mine and the hunger of his body—the hunger I knew no sea could satisfy. Cradled, we talked softly: “W... ...nd phospho- rescence added to the brilliance. Flying fish sprang free. His body was so dark, mine so white...la, the rough of him! Were any other lo...

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...xed and predetermined order. They return to this world each time in a new body. The physical characteristics of each generation are similar to the o... ...ge within you, to feel the results of the experiment on yourself, in your body, your desire. A physicist can perform his experiments, regardless of ... ...er sciences, including medicine, that is, the knowledge of our biological body. But all that is possible only provided one attains spirituality and... ...nows which way the spiritual forces descend to our world, and sustain the body, why this or that thing happens with the body, what is the problem wit... ...does not interest them any longer. The past and the future of the physical body are irrelevant for them. They begin to think and analyze something hi... ...animate, only then does the new form of life begin to develop. The former shape is by now completely gone, and all that’s left is the spirit – the fo... ...grow, whether it be a single bud, or a batch, though of the same kind and shape, obeying well defined and predetermined (the first element) laws of ... ...te of creation at each stage of the spiritual development. Those elements shape the essence of creation in all degrees of nature, in our world, as w... ...m of Kabbalah”, a science, not a religion. It enables man to see the true shape of the world he lives in, including the whole of creation, meaning a...

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...o administer both kinds to the laity, even to children, indeed, to give the body of the Lord into their hands. And of this he gives many examples. Am... ...s man is angered at the priests because he does not immediately receive the body of the Lord with unclean hands, or drink the blood of the Lord with... ... is speaking here, you see, of irreverent laymen who desired to receive the body and the blood from the priests. Do you find anything to snarl at her... ...d the fragments of the chalice, and having prayed, restored it to its former shape.” The Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine, trans. Granger Byan an... ...bstance” of the bread and wine was changed into the “substance” of Christ’s body and blood, while only the “accidents” or “form” of the bread and win... ...d blood, while only the “accidents” or “form” of the bread and wine (such as shape, color, and taste) remained. 62 The name refers to Thomas Aquina... ...her begotten nor begets; that the soul is the substantial form of the human body. These and like assertions are made without any reason or cause, as... ...oved beyond the shadow of a doubt that heat, color, cold, light, weight, or shape are mere accidents? Finally, they have been driven to pretend that...

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... 557 If Salisbury wants mercy at thy hands. 558 Beare hence his Body, I will helpe to bury it. 559 Sir Thomas Gargraue, hast thou an... ...t, and cease our hot pursuit. Retreat. 775 Talb. Bring forth the Body of old Salisbury, 776 And here aduance it in the Market- Place, ... ...esse then Fame hath bruited, 912 And more then may be gathered by thy shape. 913 Let my presumption not prouoke thy wrath, 914 For I am... ...nde of Talbot, as you did mistake 918 The outward composition of his body. 919 What you haue done, hath not offended me: 920 Nor other... ...at (young Richard thus remou’d, 1143 Leauing no Heire begotten of his Body) 1144 I was the next by Birth and Parentage: 1145 For by my Mo... ...14 Wee and our Wiues and Children all will fight, 1315 And haue our bodyes slaughtred by thy foes. 1316 1.Seru. I, and the very parings... ...itch doth bend her browes, 2467 As if with Circe, she would change my shape. 2468 Puc. Chang’d to a worser shape thou canst not be: 2469... ...e: 2469 Yor. Oh, Charles the Dolphin is a proper man, 2470 No shape but his can please your dainty eye. 2471 Puc. A plaguing misc...

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...ble unless literally. Were the Wine spiritual, for instance, how wash the Body with it when dead? Why make cups of the dead clay to be filled with— “... ...ately, by the T avern Door agape, Came stealing through the Dusk an Angel Shape, Bearing a vessel on his Shoulder; and He bid me taste of it; and... ...nce from the common Earth was ta’en, That He who subtly wrought me into Shape Should stamp me back to common Earth again.” LXII. Another said—”Wh... ... * * * * * LXVII. Ah, with the Grape my fading Life provide, And wash my Body whence the life has died, And in a Windingsheet of Vineleaf wrapt, ... ...ation’ s veins Running Quicksilver-like eludes your pains; T aking all shapes from Mah to Mahi and They change and perish all—but He remains; 36... ...lately, by the T avern Door agape, Came shining through the Dusk an Angel Shape Bearing a V essel on his Shoulder; and He bid me taste of it; and... ...o soon expire. LXVIII. We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held In Mi... ...* * * * * * XCI. Ah, with the Grape my fading life provide, And wash the Body whence the Life has died, And lay me, shrouded in the living Leaf, ... ...f a pair of compasses; though we have two heads (sc. our feet) we have one body; when we have fixed the centre for our circle, we bring our heads (sc....

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...joy; 40 For I, methought, while the sweet breath of heaven Was blowing on my body, felt within A corresponding mild creative breeze, A vital breeze wh... ... soul Of independence and stern liberty. 220 Sometimes it suits me better to shape out Some tale from my own heart, more near akin To my own passions ... ...ghts There was a darkness, call it solitude, Or blank desertion, no familiar shapes 425 Of hourly objects, images of trees, Of sea or sky, no colours ... ...now it was that through such change entire, And this first absence from those shapes sublime Book Third Residence at Cambridge 37 Wherewith I had been... ...75 To indoor study than was wise or well, Or suited to my years. Yet I could shape The image of a place which—soothed and lulled As I had been, traine... ...vault and universe of stars. 385 Thus did I steal along that silent road, My body from the stillness drinking in A restoration like the calm of sleep,... ...s have laid Upon the children of the land—a pest That might have dried me up body and soul. This verse is dedicate to Nature’s self 230 And things tha... ... not wholly free From disappointment to behold the same Appearance, the same body, not to find 108 The Prelude of 1805 Some change, some beams of glor... ...levating thoughts Of human nature. Neither guilt nor vice, Debasement of the body or the mind, Nor all the misery forced upon my sight, 810 Which was ...

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...glance, and pressed Into the comfort of her breast The deep-throed quaking shape that drooped In misery’s wilful aggravation, Before the farmer as he ... ...elded like a creature lost: Yielded, drooping toward the ground, As doth a shape one half-hour drowned, And heaved from sea with mast and spar, All da... ...yed grape, Or where the hand of labour drills The stubbornness of earth to shape; Rich harvestings and wealthy germs, And handicrafts and shapely ware... ...ess in the eastern tale Paced thro’ a marble city pale, And saw in ghastly shapes of stone The sculptured life she breathed alone; Saw, where’er her e... ...hrysalis on the wall Cracks, and out the creature springs, Raptures in his body small, Wonders on his dusty wings: Bells and cups, all shining clear, ... ... time!’ he said, smiling, and fell. 123 XXII ‘“Then I strove wild for his body: the beggars saw glittering rings, Which I vowed to send to his mothe... ...Eh, Miss? are you weak in the spine?’ 124 XXVI For Mary had sunk, and her body was shaking, as if in a fit. T om’s letter she held, and her thumb-nai... ... its den, And sends a spark up:- is it true we are wed? Yea! filthiness of body is most vile, But faithlessness of heart I do hold worse. 130 The for... ... not with you?’ And uttering that soft starry ‘you,’ she leaned Her gentle body near him, looking up; And from her eyes, as from a poison-cup, He dran...

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..., etc. , etc. , etc. , etc. , etc. Before I see another day, Oh let my body die away! In sleep I heard the northern gleams; 25 Wordsworth The... ...pon my eyes, And yet I am alive. Before I see another day, Oh let my body die away! My fire is dead: it knew no pain; Yet is it dead, and I ... ... my babe they took, On me how strangely did he look! Through his whole body something ran, A most strange something did I see; —As if he strov... ...eart I then should die, And my last thoughts would happy be. I feel my body die away, I shall not see another day. THE LAST OF THE FLO THE LAST ... ... A cruel, cruel fire, they say, Into her bones was sent: It dried her body like a cinder, And almost turn’d her brain to tinder. XII. They ... ...ike a sea the storming army came, And Fire from hell reared his gigantic shape, And Murder, by the ghastly gleam, and Rape Seized their joint pr... ... a ‘brook in mossy forest dell By sun or moonlight, to the influxes Of shapes and sounds and shifting elements Surrendering his whole spirit, of... ... And thro’ the drifts the snowy clifts Did send a dismal sheen; Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken— The Ice was all between. The Ice was... ...hen it seem’d a mist: It mov’d and mov’d, and took at last A certain shape, I wist. A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist! And still it near’d ...

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...re yet building is so wonderful, so portentous, so full of mysterious half-shapen promises for the mighty fu- ture of man! They do not seem to realise... ...again, came down again perhaps thirty yards away, and rolled over with its body wriggling and its sting stabbing out and back in its last agony. He em... ... its sting was three inches long. The abdomen was blown clean off from its body, but he estimated the length of the creature from head to sting as eig... ...nt, and it stung him through the boot as he struck at it again and cut its body in half. He was first dead of the two…. The most dramatic of the fifty... ...e at that time about the height of emus, but of course much thicker in the body—a larger thing altogether. They were all hens and five all told, now t... ...e comforting,” he said, “‘ot gin and water’th about my figure,” and every- body began to tell him things about the pullets. “Grathuth me!” said Skinne... ...men. Fulcher was the first to give their con- densing thought the concrete shape of words. “A cat to match them ‘ens—” said Fulcher. “Ay!” said Wither... ...s a busy coming and going from the wasps’ nest, they saw. A swarm of black shapes interlaced in the air, above the rusty hill-front beyond the pine cl... ...the corner…. Whack behind the shoul- der….” When things were a little ship-shape again Redwood went and stared at the huge misshapen corpse. The brute...

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...now do, foul old Rome screamed execratively her loudest; so that, the true shape of many things is lost for us. Attila’s Huns had arms of such length ... ...rms of such length that they could lift a stone without stooping. Into the body of the poor Tatars execrative Roman History intercalated an alphabetic... ... fuliginous, as Lapland witch-mid- night;—from which, indeed, very strange shapes will evolve themselves. Understand this, however: that incorruptible... ...! That fair hindhead is cleft with the axe; the neck is severed. That fair body is cut in fragments; with indigni- ties, and obscene horrors of mousta... ...remarked that when the Gods appear among men, it is seldom in recognisable shape; thus Admetus’ neatherds give Apollo a draught of their goatskin whey... ...islative comes sol- emnly over, to merge its old ashes Phoenix-like in the body of the new;—and so forthwith, returning all solemnly back to the Salle... ... her readers to imagine, undescribed. An instantaneous change of the whole body-politic, the soul-politic being all changed; such a change as few bodi... ...er, can experience in this world. Say perhaps, such as poor Nymph Semele’s body did experience, when she would needs, with woman’s humour, see her Oly... ...ted to the Preternatural pitch, shall stalk;—as those other preternatural ‘shapes of Gods in their wrathfulness’ were discerned stalking, ‘in glare an...

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...ing of ponder- ousness, shall fail to recognise him in that light and airy shape. When she has frolicked through her five Acts to surprise you with th... ... anced observers. Moliere is their poet. Of this class in England, a large body, neither Puritan nor Bacchanalian, have a sentimental objection to fac... ...the aid of a powerful auxiliar. You see Folly perpetually sliding into new shapes in a society possessed of wealth and leisure, with many whims, many ... ... lips drawn in an idle wariness of half tension. That slim feasting smile, shaped like the long-bow, was once a big round satyr’s laugh, that flung up... ... eagerness. Men’s future upon earth does not attract it; their honesty and shapeliness in the present does; and when- ever they wax out of proportion,... ...nd veils the lamp: as, for example, the spectacle of Bossuet over the dead body of Moliere: at which the dark angels may, but men do not laugh. We hav... ...heir women, and to listen to them, their growth will be accelerated and be shapelier. Comedy, or in any form the Comic spirit, will then come to them ...

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...ce exerted on his mind by his singularly crooked frame and sickly habit of body, by his position as belonging to a proscribed faith, and by his want o... ...nd ever produced, so frequently reminding you of a bright sting set in the body, and steeped in the venom, of a wasp. And yet, withal, he possessed ma... ...se writ- ings; not so much as wishing so irrational a thing, as that every body should be deceived merely for my credit. How- ever, I desire it may th... ...h nods, Waste sandy valleys, once perplex’d with thorn, The spiry fir, and shapely box adorn: To leafless shrubs the flowering palms succeed, And odor... ...pply provides, Works without show, and without pomp presides; In some fair body thus the informing soul With spirits feeds, with vigour fills the whol... ...some objects please our eyes, Which out of nature’s common order rise, The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice. 160 But though t... ...oubles private hate. Pride, malice, folly, against Dryden rose, In various shapes of parsons, critics, beaux; But sense survived, when merry jests wer... ...ubstance true; For envied wit, like Sol eclipsed, makes known The opposing body’s grossness, not its own. When first that sun too powerful beams displ... ... For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. 70 What guards the purity of melting maids...

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...re. As it was, with a few bis- cuits and some whisky and water before turning in, I kept my body going and my spirits up to the mark. The last particu... ...e slatternly Irish lasses sat woven in a comely group. In the other was posted Orpheus, his body, which was convulsively in motion, forming an odd con... ...aintances in that part of the ship, Mr. Jones and I paid it a late visit. Steerage No. 1 is shaped like an isosceles triangle, the sides opposite the ... ... steerage had now come to our assis- tance, expressing loud sorrow that such ‘a fine cheery body’ should be sick; and these, claiming a sort of posses... ...t seems to me, there is but one question in modern home politics, though it appears in many shapes, and that is the question of money; and but one pol... ... us a man whose evidence it would not do to put aside. He had come near these perils in the body; he had visited a robber inn. The public has an old a... ...tled and rooted, and makes it worth while to train flowers about the windows, and otherwise shape the dwelling to the humour of the inhabitant. The ch... ... wainscoted parlour in which I spent the remainder of the evening. It was a short oblong in shape, save that the fireplace was built across one of the... ...a- thenishly at a cow he was driving. And a little after I scraped acquaintance with a poor body tramping out to gather cock- les. His face was wrinkl...

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...y provides, Works without Show , and without Pomp presides: In some fair Body thus th’ informing Soul With Spirits feeds, with Vigour fills the wh... ...ome Objects please our Eyes, Which out of Nature’s common Order rise, The shapeless Rock, or hanging Precipice. But tho’ the Ancients thus their... ...ubles private Hate. Pride, Malice, Folly, against Dryden rose, In various Shapes of Parsons, Criticks, Beaus; But Sense surviv’d, when merry Jest... ...ubstance true; For envy’d Wit, like Sol Eclips’d, makes known Th’ opposing Body’s Grossness, not its own. When first that Sun too powerful Beams di... ...ning fall, and Rome. With Tyranny, then Superstition join’d, As that the Body, this enslav’d the Mind; Much was Believ’d, but little understood...

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...ular con- trast between the immobility of the eyes and the activity of the body increased the chilling impression conveyed by a first sight of Michu. ... ...n, the outcome of instinct. Since 1793 he had trimmed his red beard to the shape of a fan. Even if he had not been (as he was during the Terror) presi... ...tre of this round open space, which extends before it and behind it in the shape of two horseshoes. Michu had turned the rooms on the lower floor into... ...is master’s mean- ing in his eyes, or felt it exhaling in the air from his body. 15 Balzac “What do you say to that?” said Michu, in a low voice, cal... ...pricot color with metal buttons, were too large; they were baggy about the body, and the lines of their creases seemed to indicate a sedentary man. A ... ... “it is time to go to bed.” He lifted the boy roughly by the middle of his body and carried him off. 30 An Historical Mystery “Run down to the cellar... ...ut her belonged to the type of delicacy. Within that fragile though active body, and in defiance as it were of its pearly whiteness, lived a soul like... ...ly all day, looked much like a skull-cap on his head, and defined its pear-shaped outline. His forehead, much wrinkled by life in the open air and by ... ...k, for he always wore black cloth breeches and a coat made somewhat in the shape of those which are now termed a la Francaise. He cast his shrewd eyes...