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...estern wind and open surge T ore us from our mothers; Flung us on a naked shore (T welve bleak houses by the shore! Seven summers by the shore!) ‘Mi... ...d. They waited through one suffocating week till Prout and King were their royal selves again; waited till there was a house-match—their own house, to... ...attray unguardedly. “Ah! The learned Lipsius is airing himself, is he? His Royal Highness has gone to fumigate.” McTurk climbed on the railings, where... ...f-balls.” He passed on. Next day Richards, who had been a carpenter in the Navy, and to whom odd jobs were confided, was ordered to take up a dormitor... .... “Larned a little ‘fore iver some maidens was born. Sarved in the Queen’s Navy, I have, where yeou’m taught to use your eyes. Yeou go ‘tend your own ... ... Did you ever read a book about Japanese wres- tlers? My uncle—he’s in the Navy—gave me a beauty once.” “Don’t try to change the subject, T urkey.” “I... ...ad gone through much the same mill, not to mention boys, rejected by other establishments on account of a certain overwhelmingness, whom the Head had ... ...er his pipe. “Stalky? Like a serene Brahmini bull. Poor old Mac was at his Royal Engineers’ wits’ end to know what to do. You see I was putrid with dy...

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... , and wishing to relieve it, I posted off myself to the Queen Charlotte’s Royal Married Females,’ which you had forgot, and put the question, Was the... ...t driven to despair on your account. But it did so happen, that one of the Royal Married Females, hearing the inquiry, re- minded the matron of anothe... ...nt ob- jects. Gog and Magog held their state within ten minutes’ walk; the Royal Exchange was close at hand; the Bank of England, with its vaults of g... ...have attained a pretty green old age, have not been wanting in the English Navy. The stock-in-trade of this old gentleman comprised chro- nometers, ba... ...ook written, or a story told, expressly with the object of keeping boys on shore, which did not lure and charm them to the ocean, as a matter of cours... ...r Dombey’ s teeth, cravat, and watch-chain, and borne her away to the blue shores of somewhere or other, triumphantly . But these flights of fancy sel... ... mornings—could mar those precious Saturdays. Whether it was the great sea-shore, where they sat, and strolled together; or whether it was only Mrs Pi... ...key in his pocket, and repairing to one of those conve- nient slop-selling establishments of which there is abundant choice at the eastern end of Lond...

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... of the two great parties. It is suffi- cient for entire sympathy with the royal Swede, that he fought for the freedom of conscience. Many an enlighte... ...mongst those of Cuzco, in South America; 3dly, amongst the records of some royal courts in Madrid; 4thly, by collat- eral proof from the Papal Chancer... ...ubling of Cape Horn, the shipwreck on the coast of Peru, the rescue of the royal banner from the Indians of Chili, the fatal duel in the dark, the ast... ...e, or anywhere off the line of tourists, I and a lieutenant in our English navy paid sixpence uniformly for a handsome din- ner; sixpence, I mean, api... ...and consideration, as those who bear the king’s commission in the army and navy? Can this be affirmed of the continent, either generally, or, indeed, ... ...ndency which sooner or later is destined to fill the whole capacity of the shore. To have proved, therefore, if it could have been proved, that Christ... ...ne, so memorable as the first ground of Greek intercourse with the African shore of the Mediterranean, never consulted the Delphic Oracle in reference... ...ady passed; and the battle of Lepanto, in 1571, which crippled the Turkish navy in a degree never wholly recovered, gave the first overt signal to Eur... ...cking barbarities; at the little island of Castel Rosso, on the Karamanian shore, they butchered, in cold blood, several beautiful T urkish females; a...

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... Mr. Jarndyce doubted whether he might not already be too old to enter the Navy, Richard said he had thought of that, and perhaps he was. When Mr. Jar... ...ble men!” said Mr. Badger in a tone of confidence. “Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy, who was Mrs. Badger’s first husband, was a very distinguished o... ...n!” said Mr. Badger in a tone of confidence. “Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy, who was Mrs. Badger’s first husband, was a very distinguished officer... ...s barely twenty,” said Mrs. Badger, “when I married Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy. I was in the Mediterra nean with him; I am quite a sailor. On ... ...ly twenty,” said Mrs. Badger, “when I married Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy. I was in the Mediterra nean with him; I am quite a sailor. On the tw... ...I have been called, for some years now, Gentleman T urveydrop, or that his Royal Highness the Prince Regent did me the honour to inquire, on my remov ... ...all my experiences, mingled together by the great distance, on the healthy shore. My housekeeping duties, though at first it caused me great anxiety t... ...rible meaning of the old words now moaning in my ear like a surge upon the shore, “Your mother, Esther, was your disgrace, and you are hers. The time ... ...he Vale of T aunton, is continually doing duty, like a piece of timber, to shore up some decayed foundation that has become a pitfall and a nuisance. ...

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... whose past was untraceable to any European eye, it is well known that the navy (especially, in time of war, the commercial navy) of Christendom is th... ... in a state of transition so sure and so rapid to the headship of domestic establishments belong- 15 Thomas de Quincey ing to themselves, that in eff... ...e for ever one wilderness of waters—sub- lime, but (like the wilderness on shore) monotonous. All sublime people, being monotonous, have a tendency to... ...d butler within, whom Pharaoh ought to have hanged, but whom he clothed in royal apparel, and mounted upon a horse that carried him to a curule chair ... ...tle before his brother, was thus introduced by Lord Cornwallis to Sir John Shore (Lord T eignmouth, the Gover- nor-general), ‘Dear sir, I beg leave to... ... research;’—just so; there would be danger in that—help might put off from shore;—‘not,’ says he, ‘in the spirit of Johnson, but in our own.’ Johnson ... ... guard his official seat, a coal- black night, lamps blazing back upon his royal scarlet, and his blunderbuss correctly slung. T riton would not stay,... ...king’s statue:—Till very lately the etiquette of Europe was, that none but royal persons could have equestrian stat- ues. Lord Hopetoun, the reader wi...

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...witness that he, of all the crowd, impressed one solitary footprint on the shore of boyish memory, whereof the tread of generations should not stir th... ...thout it, and if she don’t see him a-waving his pocket-handkerchief on the shore, like a pictur out of a song-book, my opinion is, she’ll break her he... ...eck and down in the cabins of the steamboat; which, before she touched the shore, was boarded and overrun by a legion of those young citizens. ‘Here’s... ...irectly opposite to the original cat’s-meat warehouse; the renown of which establishments was duly heralded on their respective fronts. It was a littl... ...nd,’ said Mr Pecksniff, ‘you may well in- quire. The heart is not always a royal mint, with patent machinery to work its metal into current coin. Some... ...n good health, I believe,’ said Martin. ‘Queen Victoria won’t shake in her royal shoes at all, when she hears to-morrow named,’ observed the stranger,... ...al, smiling with a mild consciousness of his knowledge, ‘is nat’rally your royal residence. Being located in the immediate neighbourhood of your Parks... ...wit society, and by the gallant defenders of their country in the army and navy, but particularly the former. The least of their stories had a colonel...

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... at the window of a shipping-office in Cockspur Street and at the Army and Navy Stores, but decided that perhaps there would be some special and custo... ...n’s faces; she thought the smirking men in frock-coats who dominated these establishments the most intolerable persons she had ever had to face. One c... ...s to be consistently pleas- ant; and a lax young man of five-and-twenty in navy blue, who mingled Marx and Bebel with the more orthodox gods of the bi... ...in the district toward Soho, or in one of the more stylish and magnificent establishments about Piccadilly Cir- cus, and for the most part she did not... ...Ann Veronica seemed always to be like a ship in adverse weather on the lee shore of love. “For seven years,” said Ann Veronica, “I have been trying to... ...I suppose he’s frightfully clever,” said Miss Klegg. “He’s a Fellow of the Royal Society, and he can’t be much over thirty,” said Miss Klegg. “He writ... ...o the westward, and then turned back and walked round the circle about the Royal Botanical Gardens and then south- wardly toward W aterloo. They trudg... ...“I felt impudent. I believe I am getting impudent. I had not been near the Royal Society since—since you disgraced me. What’s that?” They both stood l...

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...nous day of the first half of the French Revolu- tion, the carriage of the royal family. The only thing is that I may well be asked, I acknowledge, wh... ...English char- acter, the state of politics, the manners and customs of the royal family, the peculiarities of the aristocracy, the way of living and t... ... the river, the dear little river, as Isabel called it, where the opposite shore seemed still a part of the foreground of the landscape; or drove over... ...aling the breach, that the truth lay between the two extremes and that the establishments in question ought 110 The Portrait of a Lady to be describe... ...y “You needn’t worry about that. That’s my affair. You needn’t be a better royalist than the king.” “It’s not only that,” said Isabel; “but I’m not su... ...; it certainly isn’t the great- est. I came into the world in the Brooklyn navy-yard. My father was a high officer in the United States Navy, and had ... ...ted her journey to pay a visit to her son, who at San Remo, on the Italian shore of the Mediterranean, had been spending a dull, bright winter beneath... ... might be com- forted by endless knowledge. Whenever she strolled upon the shore with her cousin—and she was the companion of his daily walk—she looke... ...e solid and bare, light and clean; so, thought Isabel, are the great penal establishments. Madame Catherine gen- tly pushed open the door of Pansy’s r...

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...the English character, the state of politics, the manners and customs of the royal family, the peculiarities of the aristocracy, the way of living and... ...on the river, the dear little river, as Isabel called it, where the opposite shore seemed still a part of the foreground of the landscape; or drove ov... ...healing the breach, that the truth lay between the two extremes and that the establishments in question ought to be described as fair middling. This c... ...d.” “You needn’t worry about that. That’s my affair. You needn’t be a better royalist than the king.” “It’s not only that,” said Isabel; “but I’m not ... ...r; he was preoccupied, and with good reason. Miss Molyneux—as if he had been Royalty— stood like a lady in waiting. “Well, I never, Miss Molyneux!” sa... ...them; it certainly isn’t the greatest. I came into the world in the Brooklyn navy yard. My father was a high officer in the United States Navy, and ha... ...upted her journey to pay a visit to her son, who at San Remo, on the Italian shore of the Mediterranean, had been spending a dull, bright winter benea... ...ul might be comforted by endless knowledge. When ever she strolled upon the shore with her cousin—and she was the companion of his daily walk—she loo... ...ere solid and bare, light and clean; so, thought Isabel, are the great penal establishments. Madame Catherine gently pushed open the door of Pansy’s r...

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...PEECH: ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM.............................................................................................................. 58 THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE,....................................................................................................................... 58 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1855. .............................................................

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..................................................... ............ 58 THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE,............................................................ ...................................... .................. 163 iv SPEECH: THE ROYAL LITERARY FUND. ......................................................... ........................................................ .... 190 SPEECH: THE ROYAL ACADEMY DINNER. ........................................................ ...ar and wide—dreamed by day and night, for years, of setting foot upon this shore, and breathing this pure air. And, trust me, gentlemen, that, if I ha... ...reams. We are only what might have been, and we must wait upon the tedious shore of Lethe, millions of ages, before we have existence and a name.” “An... ...abric. I never heard but one tangible position taken against edu cational establishments for the people, and that was, that in this or that instance,... ... Duke of Cambridge responded to the toast of the army, Mr. Childers to the navy, Lord Elcho to the volunteers, Mr. Motley to “The Prosperity of the Un...

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...e know enough: what with the labors of our Werners and Huttons, what with the ardent genius of their disciples, it has come about that now, to many a Royal Society, the Creation of a World is little more mysterious than the cooking of a dumpling; concerning which last, indeed, there have been minds to whom the question, How the apples were got in, presented difficulties. W...

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... the ardent genius of their disciples, it has come about that now, to many a Royal Society, the Creation of a World is little more mysterious than the... ...under jewels, because raised in revolt which proved successful, is still the royal standard of that country;” what though John Knox’s Daughter, “who t... ...rabiliar moods, when I read of pompous ceremonials, Frank fort Coronations, Royal Drawing rooms, Levees, Couchees; and how the ushers ADAMITISM 41 a... ... withered leaf, works together with all; is borne forward on the bottomless, shoreless flood of Action, and lives through perpetual metamorphoses. The ... ... them salted and barrelled; could not you victual therewith, if not Army and Navy, yet richly such infirm Paupers, in workhouses and elsewhere, as enli... ...ANIC FILAMENTS 159 pointed him. Thus all things wax, and roll onwards; Arts, Establishments, Opin ions, nothing is completed, but ever completing. Ne... ... deeper than we see into the Deep that is infinite, without bottom as without shore. “Laplace’s Book on the Stars, wherein he exhibits that certain Pla... ...or leaped short; and now swim weltering in the Chaos flood, some towards this shore, some towards that. To these also a helping hand should be held out...

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...XV. Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. President Henault, remarking on royal Surnames of Honour how difficult it often is to ascertain not only wh... ...fter day, and only ebbs towards the short hours of night), may this of the royal sickness emerge from time to time as an article of news. Bets are dou... ...nd pouting; which would not end till ‘France’ (La France, as she named her royal valet) finally mustered heart to see Choiseul; and with that ‘quiveri... ...in the conflux of Eternities, ’ yet manlike towards God and man; the vague shoreless Universe had become for him a firm city, and dwelling which he kn... ...r again: “’Tis the twentieth time I hear all that; France will never get a Navy, I believe.” How touching also was this: “If I were Lieutenant of Pol... ... his own lank pocket withal. But surely, in any case, France should have a Navy. For which great object were not now the time: now when that proud Ter... ...782.) It seems as if, according to Louis XV., ‘France were never to have a Navy.’ Brave Suffren must return from Hyder Ally and the Indian Waters; wit... ...smer may pocket his hard money, and with- draw. Let him walk silent by the shore of the Bodensee, by the ancient town of Constance; meditating on much... ...ont Neuf. “We are come to join you,” said the Captain; for the crowd seems shoreless. A large-headed dwarfish individual, of smoke-bleared aspect, sha...

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...ere, so that we saw the fort with all 21 Trollope the honors. A dinner on shore was, I think, a greater treat to us even than this. We also inspected... ...e Nova Scotians seemed to be fully alive. But still, I think the dinner on shore took rank with us as the most memorable and meritorious of all that w... ...uch they first placed their feet on that hallowed rock at Plymouth, on the shore of Massachu- setts. They came here driven by no thirst of conquest, b... ... possible danger; whereupon those who accompanied the prince requested his Royal Highness to forbear. I fear that, in these careful days, crowned head... ...ortation of slaves, her breaches of treaty, and the bribery of her all but royal governor, are known to all men. But Canada is not dishonest; Canada i... ... States it is enacted that the Governor is commander-in-chief of the army, navy, and militia, showing that some army over and beyond the militia may b... ... is enacted that the Governor shall be “commander-in-chief of the army and navy of this State, and of the militia, except when they shall be called in... ...illed less respectably. It is but an industrious idleness, an attempt at a royal road to information, that habit of attending lectures. Let any man or... ...vernment at Washington had justified that proceeding. The Secretary of the Navy had distinctly done so in his official report; and that report had bee...

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...an consciousness, finding itself afloat upon the bosom of waters without a shore—then a few sunny smiles and many tears—a little love and infinite str... ...enditure by uniting their slen- 44 Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers der establishments. One of the rules applied to the manage- ment of this vast m... ... proofs and at- testations direct and collateral. From the archives of the Royal Marine at Seville, from the autobiography or the heroine, from contem... ...o avert her own face, to announce him to Don Francisco, to wish him on the shores 86 Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers of that ancient river for cro... ...his disloyal desertion of a king’s ship, which might yet perhaps be run on shore, so as to save the stores. All the crew, to a man, deserted the capta... ...d been merely bringing stores to the station of Paita; and no corps of the royal armies was readily to be reached, whilst some- thing must be done at ... ...e- thing must be done at once for a livelihood. Urquiza had two mercantile establishments, one at Trujillo, to which he repaired in person, on Kate’s ... ...yours and mine. Bless you, Sir, she would scorn to look at us. I tell you, royalties are languishing to see her, or soon will be. But how can this com... ...rned. 232 Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers heroic leader in the English navy; and that in our own times, Admiral Coffin, though an American by birt...

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...wer, emolument, and consequence of the of- fices they hold under the State establishments; and the per- verted ambition of another class of men, who w... ...people. There have been, if I may so express it, almost as many popular as royal wars. The cries of the nation and the impor- tunities of their repres... ...T No. 11 The Utility of the Union in Respect to Commercial Relations and a Navy For the Independent Journal. HAMILTON To the People of the State of Ne... ...ard us, in this respect, would arise from the estab- lishment of a federal navy. There can be no doubt that the continuance of the Union under an effi... ...nment would put it in our power, at a period not very distant, to create a navy which, if it could not vie with those of the great maritime powers, wo... ...ber of rivers with which they are intersected, and of bays that wash there shores; the facility of communication in every direction; the affinity of l... ...fifth degree, in others falling as low as the forty-second. The south- ern shore of Lake Erie lies below that latitude. Computing the distance between... ...ways have ended in their favor, and in the abridgment or subversion of the royal authority. This is not an assertion founded merely in speculation or ... ... The world has accordingly been witness to few examples of this species of royal prostitution, though there have been abundant specimens of every othe...

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...rmixed; I fancy it’s we with him and with me when we’re talking of army or navy,’ said Patrick. ‘But Captain Con’s a bit of a politician: a poor busin... ...nd a single one of them does not offer space. It would require money and a navy.’ He mused. ‘South America is the quarter I should decide for, as a yo... ...nced her approaching union; and as she couldn’t have a scion of one of the Royal House of Europe, she put her foot on Prince Nikolas. And he ‘s not to... ...hing I confess; I never have yet brought myself to venerate thoroughly our Royal Stan- dard. I dare say it is because I do not understand it.’ A stron... ... ‘By the way, now I think of it, Mr. Rumford, the interpre- tation of your Royal Standard, which perplexes you so much, strikes me as easy if you ‘ll ... ...hole, John Mattock could shake his hand heart- ily when he was leaving our shores. Patrick was released by Miss Grace Barrow’s discovery at last of a ... ... the oak-like is a reed, the bull a deer. But as there is no attack on his shores, there is no proof that they are invulner- able. Neptune is appealed... ...ur commerce, on our courts of Law, on our streets and alleys, our army and navy, our colonies, the vaster than the island England, and still he would ... ...oved. One thrill of appreciation drew her on the tide, and once drawn from shore she became submerged. Why am I not beautiful, was her thought. Those ...

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...he river, the boat-shaped island “moored” by five bridges to the different shores, and the two unequal towns on either hand. We forget all that enumer... ...of falsehood. And then, when we come to the place where Lantenac meets the royal- ists, under the idea that he is going to meet the republicans, it se... ...n Mr. Spen- cer found his Synthetic Philosophy reverberated from the other shores of the Atlantic in the “barbaric yawp” of Whitman? 64 Robert Louis ... ...sert where we can see no human smoke.” In a little temple, hard by the sea-shore, they lay down to repose; sleep overtook them as they lay; and when t... ...on a favouring breeze towards the gal- lows; the disorderly abbess of Port Royal, who went about at fair time with soldiers and thieves, and conducted... ...Alma Mater interfered before the king; and the Provost was deprived of all royal offices, and condemned to return the bodies and erect a great stone c... ...s. In the exploits of Hawke, Rodney, or Nelson, this dead Mr. Pepys of the Navy Office had some considerable share. He stood well by his business in t... ...ts youth, he tells about it, as a matter of course, to a lieutenant in the navy; but in 1669, when it was already near an end, he could have bitten hi... ... while he was writing the journal for our enjoyment in his comely house in Navy Gardens, no fewer than two of his cousins were tramping the fens, kit ...

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... as by the multitude of its islands, and the proximity of its neighbouring shores, extremely favourable to the infant navigation of the world; when, f... ...ts of Scotland, a few poor people make a trade of gathering, along the sea-shore, those little variegated stones com- monly known by the name of Scotc... ... what is most fertile and most favourably situated, the land near the sea- shore, and along the banks of navigable rivers. Such land, too, is frequent... ...egrees of preferment in both. By the rules of precedency, a captain in the navy ranks with a colonel in the army; but he does not rank with him in the... ...d, was established by act of parliament in 1695, and the other, called the Royal Bank, by royal charter in 1727. Whether the trade, either of Scotland... ...e officers both of justice and war who serve under him, the whole army and navy, are unproductive labourers. They are the servants of the public, and ... ...is the Fat, consulted, according to Father Daniel, with the bishops of the royal demesnes, concerning the most proper means of restraining the violenc... ...lion of tons of shipping, or a thousand ships of a thousand tons each. The navy of England would not be sufficient. When the quantity of gold and silv... ...cles only. AR AR AR AR ART T T T T. I. . I. . I. . I. . I. His sacred royal majesty of Portugal promises, both in his own name and that of his su...

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...ristian churches, atheistically given? We used to be told that there is no royal road to geometry. I don’t know whether there is or not; but I am sure... ...ike a hornet. To be a Cambridge man in those days was to be a hater of all Establishments in England; things and persons were hated alike. I hope the ... ...’s pri- vate cabinet of papers, all written in cipher, and captured in the royal coach on the decisive day of Naseby (June, 1645), was (I believe) dec... ...le [Greek text] (i.e., in effect of the civilized world, viz., Greece, the shores of the Euxine, the whole of Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt, Carthage, and ... ...at it was then become a solitude, but a solitude in good preservation as a royal park. The vast city had disppeared, and the murmur of myriads: but as... ...u- sades, Joppa revived again into military verdure. The fact is, that the shore of Syria is pre-eminently deficient in natural harbors, or facilities... ... machinery of nerves:—it is the function of health most attended to in our navy; and of all it is the one most painfully ravaged by a London life. Thu...