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... on the 5 Thackeray 22nd of August, the “Lady Mary Wood” was sailing from Southampton with the “subject of the present memoir,” quite astonished to f... ...e box of wood and iron, across Channel, Biscay Bay, and the Atlantic, from Southampton Water to Gibraltar Straits. CHAPTER IV: GIBRALTAR SUPPOSE ALL T... ... well-known pages of “Tooke’s Pantheon”?What is the reason that blundering Yorkshire squires, young dandies from Corfu regiments, jolly sailors from s... ...over a tawdry Gothic painting, scarcely better fashioned than an idol in a South Sea Morai. The histories which they are called upon to reverence are ... ... an establishment as large and comfortable as most of the best inns of the South of France. As a hundred Christian people, or more, come from England ...

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...cer, one of his heroes, and of Lancashire origin, strangely!), flew to the South American station, in and about Lord Cochrane’s waters; then as swiftl... ...r from her lips. She held out a bunch to him. ‘Grapes take one back to the South,’ said he. ‘How do you bear compliments? You have been in Italy some ... ...ou bear compliments? You have been in Italy some years, and it must be the South that has worked the miracle.’ ‘In my growth?’ said Cecilia, smiling. ... ... of a series of descending turfy mounds dotted with gorseclumps, and faced South-westerly along the run of the Otley river to the gleaming broad water... ...ortation. I’m in the thick of the most spiritless crew in the kingdom. Our southern men will not compare with the men of the north. But still, even am... ...r his delay in coming, it was thought, until he sat down before a plate of Yorkshire pie, and said: ‘The fact is I’ve been canvassing hard. With Beauc...

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...s Almost as silent as the turf they trod. 335 Nor less in springtime when on southern banks The shining sun had from his knot of leaves Decoy’d the pr... ...f heaven, now seen in their old haunts— 235 White Sirius glittering o’er the southern crags, Orion with his belt, and those fair Seven, Acquaintances ... ...ndness—in another place. In summer among distant nooks I roved— Dovedale, or Yorkshire dales, or through bye tracts Of my own native region—and was bl... ...a few, How bright a face is worn when joy of one Is joy of tens of millions. Southward thence 360 We took our way, direct through hamlets, towns, Boo... ...nd every character of form and face: The Swede, the Russian; from the genial south, 240 The Frenchman and the Spaniard; from remote America, the hunte... ... season which I speak of now When first, a traveller from our pastoral hills, Southward two hundred miles I had advanced, And for the first time in my l...

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...rs of the port, who followed the East and West Indian, the African and the South American trade, it was supposed that this odd philosopher was in the ... ...and, doubtless, so have many other scientific institutions. It is found in South America; its most hideous spread of legs covers a space nearly as lar... ...Warden found in a cold round of beef, in a pigeon pie, and a cut or two of Yorkshire ham; not that he was ravenous, but that his stomach was so health...

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...arried one Finch, a mi- serly old rogue, that scraped up a huge fortune in South America, and is come home old enough for her grandfather. What should... ...ht to have congratulated you on the friend’s capture. A gold- finch of the South American breed is a rare bird.’ Theodora drew up her head, and impetu... ...‘a great heavy fellow.’ ‘Exactly so; it was the case with all of them. The Yorkshire farmer showed in all their ways, and poor Lord George was so asha... ...ate mi- mosa, the scaly Himalaya pines, the feathery gigantic ferns of the southern hemisphere. Violet stood gazing in a silent trance till Arthur’s s... ...odora went up-stairs, she saw her eldest brother 61 Yonge standing at the south window of the gallery. He called to her, saying, ‘Here’s a pretty pic... ...ting beyond me. If you wanted to know the cost of lodgings in Italy or the south of France, I could help you; but, after all, experience is better bou... ... that it was a good match for Miss Gardner, as he was heir to an estate in Yorkshire.’ ‘Worthbourne! Then I am afraid it must be too true. The author,...

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...2) were in themselves, for dramatic effect, the most impressive on record. Southey pronounced their preeminence when he said to me that they ranked am... ...ot uniform; and so far otherwise, that a period of several years in Kate’s South American life is confessedly suppressed; and on no other ground whate... ... decision at length upon the archives of the Spanish Marine. Those for the southern ports of Spain had been transferred, I believe, from Cadiz and St.... ...ngoulême]. Amongst these archives, subsequently amongst those of Cuzco, in South America; 3dly, amongst the records of some royal courts in Madrid; 4t... ..., the visit to Rome and the interview with the Pope—finally, the return to South America, and the mysterious disappearance at Vera Cruz, upon which no... ...t is mixed up with the pure Icelandic forms of the English lakes, of North Yorkshire, and of Northumberland. In Scotland, it needs but a slight interc...

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...s cap, grumbled to her as they walked behind the others in the muck of the South St. Paul stockyards, “These college chumps make me tired. They’re so ... ...e wide land of yellow wa- ters and bleached buffalo bones to the West; the South- ern levees and singing darkies and palm trees toward which it was fo... ...-two minutes she had completely covered the town, east and west, north and south; and she stood at the corner of Main Street and Washington Avenue and... ...of Forest Hills on Long Island. Devonshire cottages and Essex manors and a Yorkshire High Street and Port Sun- light. The Arab village of Djeddah—an i... ...send me up a team. Guess snow’s too thick for a machine. Going eight miles south. All right. Huh? The hell I will! Don’t you go back to sleep. Huh? We... ...s farmers’ line.” He turned to Carol. “Adolph Morgenroth, farmer ten miles southwest of town, got his arm crushed-fixing his cow- shed and a post cave...

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...carlatina, so we can’t go to Horton Bishop. The choice seems to be between South Beach and Monks Horton.’ ‘That’s no harm,’ cried Nuttie; ‘Mrs. Greenl... ...rm,’ cried Nuttie; ‘Mrs. Greenleaf is so patronising!’ ‘ And both that and South Beach are so stale,’ said the youth. ‘ As if the dear sea could ever ... ...t of Ursula’s life. She was almost wild with the novelty and beauty of the South at first, but except for what she could thus see, there was little va... ...the poor Ninon, that she meant to settle in a place with an aw- fully long Yorkshire name.’ ‘Micklethwayte; yes, we lived there, and got on very well.... ... seen the boy?’ he asked. ‘Yes; they are walking him up and down under the south wall,’ said Nuttie, thankful that she had peeped under the many wraps...

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...aron of Bradwardine’s man- sion and garden are presumed to have been.] The southern side of the house, clothed with fruit-trees, and having many everg... ...or his honour at the dark hag, and tell him there was a gentleman from the south had arrived at the Ha’. ‘Can this poor fellow deliver a letter?’ aske... ...egan to show symptoms of innovation,—’the good wine did its good office.’ [Southey’s Madoc.] The frost of etiquette, and pride of birth, began to give... ...entered her parlour. It was a small but pleasant apartment, opening to the south, and hung with tapestry; adorned besides with two pictures, one of he... ...e scene was bounded by a ridge of distant and blue hills, which formed the southern boundary of the strath or valley. T o this pleasant sta- tion Miss... ...ity of bearing arms), ‘will stand godfa- ther to a sup of brandy, for your Yorkshire ale is cold on my stomach.’ The vivacity of this good lady, as it...

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...High School— when I was mocked for my English accent—salted with snow as a Southern—rolled in the gutter for a Saxon pock-pud- ding,—who, with stout a... ...I suspect, lies your real objection to taking a ramble with me through the southern counties in this delicious weather. I know the good gentleman has ... ...s halter. Do not accuse me of romance for obeying this impulse towards the South; nor suppose that, to satisfy the imagi- nary longing of an idle curi... ...serted alley formed the most common access betwixt the High Street and the southern suburbs.] turned thy brain for eight days. Thou wert once caught i... ...ected by a few fields well watered and sheltered. The house fronted to the south-east, and from thence the pleasure- ground, or, I should rather say, ... ...ebt than all the barren acres of Canada are worth, were they as fertile as Yorkshire—the dazzling lustre of the victo- ries of Minden and Quebec have ... ...ved his own existence in as much mystery as possible, made his escape into Yorkshire. Here he was detected by per- sons sent in search of him, to whom...

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...up person, or older, and very dull. Then she and her husband went off to a Yorkshire practice, and had four more babies, none of whom photographed wel... ...into the lamp- lit obscurity and slimy streets. She turned a resolute face southward. She followed Oxford Street into Holborn, and then she inquired f... ...ack and walked round the circle about the Royal Botanical Gardens and then south- wardly toward W aterloo. They trudged and talked, and Man- ning stru... ...3 t 3 FOR A TIME they walked in silence through the back streets that lead southward from the College. Capes bore a face of infinite perplexity. “The ...

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...eath. While I was yet inconsolable for his loss, another friend of mine in Yorkshire discovered an older and more gifted raven at a village public hou... ...e, of sparkling home brewed ale. But, better far than fair home brewed, or Yorkshire cake, or ham, or beef, or anything to eat or drink that earth or ... ...ess of his recovery. The house where he had left him was in a by street in Southwark, not far from London Bridge; and thither he hied with all speed, ... ..., the lanes, the roads, in all quarters of the town—east, west, north, and south— that man was seen gliding on like a shadow. He was al ways hurrying... ...and it was close shut. This night he crossed London Bridge and passed into Southwark. As he glided down a bye street, a woman with a little basket on ... ...its first assemblage into four divisions; the London, the Westminster, the Southwark, and the Scotch. Each of these divisions being subdivided into va... ...levied on the various wards in the city, on the county, and the borough of Southwark. Both Lord Mansfield and Lord Saville, however, who had been grea...

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... that gentleman into his confidence; merely informing him that a friend in Yorkshire had written to him (Mr T oots) for his opinion on such a question... ... 342 Dombey & Son governing inclination towards the north, east, west, or south, but inclined to all four quarters of the compass, and to every point...

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... been made throughout of the very finest whalebone, rivetted with the best Yorkshire steel, she must have sunk under them. Had not Mr Pomney felt how ... ...ife. As long as promotion cometh from any hu- man source, whether north or south, east or west, will not such a claim as this hold good, in spite of a...

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...so in good faith, even after the largest half of my life had been spent in Yorkshire.’ ‘ And what brought it to a crisis? Did they go on neglecting yo... ...nd to enable Mr. Ferrars to plan with freedom. A new drawing-room, looking southwards, with bedrooms over it, was the matter of necessity; and Albinia... ...rt with his brother and sister, that he persuaded them to accompany him to Southampton for embarkation. They all felt that these last days, precious n... ...tesies of two rival companies whose lines met at the same station, and the southern train was only in time to hear the parting snort of the engine tha... ...oon bring him home to you. Or you might bring the others to join us in the south of France. Y ou will all need change.’ The decision was made, and her...

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... that gentleman into his confidence; merely informing him that a friend in Yorkshire had written to him (Mr T oots) for his opinion on such a question... ... 342 Dombey & Son governing inclination towards the north, east, west, or south, but inclined to all four quarters of the compass, and to every point... ...ow in com- ing to the plants, this morning. The weather was warm, the wind southerly; and there was a sigh of the summer-time In Princess’s Place, tha... ...e affirmative, Mr Toots read as follows, from the Shipping Intelligence: ‘“Southampton. The barque Defiance, Henry James, Com- mander, arrived in this... ... hear for himself. ‘She kept as steady, then, when she and me went down to Southampton,’ said the Grinder, ‘as a image. In the morning she was just th... ...there. It’s no use asking me. I know no more about him than the man in the south who burnt his mouth by eating cold plum por- ridge.” This the acrimon...

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...ring Cross to see Lilia off-- Philip, Harriet, Irma, Mrs. Herriton herself. Even Mrs. Theobald, squired by Mr. Kingcroft, had braved the journey from Yorkshire to bid her only daughter good-bye. Miss Abbott was likewise attended by numerous relatives, and the sight of so many people talking at once and saying such different things caused Lilia to break into ungovernable pe...

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... Even Mrs. Theobald, squired by Mr. Kingcroft, had braved the journey from Yorkshire to bid her only daughter good-bye. Miss Abbott was likewise atten... ...e refining influences of her late husband’s family. During one of her rare Yorkshire visits trouble be- gan again. Lilia confided to a friend that she... ...small point. “How dare she not tell me direct! How dare she write first to Yorkshire! Pray, am I to hear through Mrs. Theobald—a patronizing, insolent... ...All your lives you will meet under the open air, the only roof-tree of the South, under which he will spit and swear, and you will drop your h’s, and ... ...ngly: se- clusion was both decent and safe. The social ideals of North and South had had their brief contention, and this time the South had won. It w... ...onjecture the course of the wonderful inter- view—an interview between the South pole and the North. It was quite easy to conjecture: Gino crum- pling... ...s own part, he was bound by ties of almost alarming intimacy. Gino had the southern knack of friendship. In the intervals of business he would pull ou... ...ings possible? Perhaps, after long estrangement, after much trag- edy, the South had brought them together in the end. That laughter in the theatre, t...

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...ld Men, 117 -- B?atard, 136 -- All Gold Canyon, 153 -- Love of Life, 177 -- The Wit of Porportuk, 201 -- The Apostate, 230 -- To Build a Fire, 254 -- South of the Slot, 274 -- The Chinago, 295 -- A Piece of Steak, 313 -- Mauki, 336 -- Koolau the Leper, 354 -- The Strength of the Strong, 373 -- War, 391 -- The Mexican, 398 -- Told in the Drooling Ward, 428...

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... . . . . 230 To Build a Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 South of the Slot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 The C... ...s draw closer, and experienced vague yearnings for the sunnier pastures of the Southland, where life promised something more than a barren struggle wi... ...cenes of his childhood. And most pathetic was the melody of his long forgotten Southern vernacular, as he raved of swimming holes and coon hunts and w... ...he man would not die. At high noon, the sun, without raising its rim above the southern hori zon, threw a suggestion of fire athwart the heavens, then... ...an naked to the very roots of his soul, and ere Lake Athabasca was lost in the south, each member of the party had hoisted his true colors. The two sh... ...off a wreck in the schooner that brought him. Mr. Haveby next selected a young Yorkshire giant to relieve Bun ster. The Yorkshire man had a reputatio... ...ght. He was a regular little lamb — for ten days, at the end of which time the Yorkshire man was prostrated by a combined attack of dysentery and feve...

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...c Islands visited during the Voyage of the Beagle;’ and on the ‘Geology of South America.’ The sixth volume of the ‘Geological Transactions’ con- tain... ...tains two papers of mine on the Erratic Boulders and Volcanic Phenomena of South America. Messrs. Waterhouse, Walker, Newman, and White, have publishe... ... and I trust that many others will here- after follow. The plants from the southern parts of America will be given by Dr. J. Hooker, in his great work... ...ica will be given by Dr. J. Hooker, in his great work on the Botany of the Southern Hemisphere. The Flora of the Galapagos Archipelago is the subject ... ... — Causes of discoloured Sea. After having been twice driven back by heavy southwestern gales, Her Majesty’s ship Beagle, a ten- gun brig, under the c... ...etation. Georgia, an island 96 miles long and 10 broad, in the latitude of Yorkshire, “in the very height of summer, is in a manner wholly covered wit...

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... went on conquering Britain till they had won all the part of it that lies south of the river T weed; and, as the people beyond that point were more f... ...mans held Britain for four hundred years, and tamed the wild people in the south, and taught them to speak and dress, and read and write like themselv... ... so bitter against the Danes, that at last it was agreed that all over the South of England every Englishman should rise up in one night and murder th... ...ish and profane they were; “bring out my chair to the sea-side.” He was at Southampton at the time, close to the sea, and the tide was coming in. “Now... ...e died, stranger though he was. A great many Danes had made their homes in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, ever since Alfred’s time, and some of their cus... ...ith a runaway brother of his own, who had brought the Norwegians to attack Yorkshire. Harold had just won a great battle over these enemies when he he... ...ng had given three long good arrows that morning. He rode straight away to Southampton, and went off to the Holy Land; so it is likely that he knew so... ... unfair; so he came to En- gland, and as soon as he landed at Ravenspur in Yorkshire, people flocked to him so eagerly, that he began to think he coul... ...g to get the poor in the villages better taught; and there was a very good Yorkshire gentleman—William Wilberforce—who was striving to make people bet...

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...much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabit- ants of South America, and in the geological rela- tions of the present to the past... ... they formerly did so, as is attested by passages in Pliny. The savages in South Africa match their draught cattle by colour, as do some of the Esquim... ...his principle Marshall has remarked, with respect to the sheep of parts of Yorkshire, that ‘as they generally belong to poor people, and are mostly in... ...statements of the rate of increase of slow-breed- ing cattle and horses in South America, and latterly in Australia, had not been well authenticated, ... ... at considerable length, more especially in regard to the feral animals of South America. Here I will make only a few remarks, just to recall to the r... ... through the advancing winter, which will suffer most. When we travel from south to north, or from a damp region to a dry, we invariably see some spec... ...and varieties of flow- ers, take the place of older and inferior kinds. In Yorkshire, it is historically known that the ancient black cattle were disp...

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... idea of walking down into the North; while Francis was walking a mile due South against time—which was his idea of walking down into the North. I... ...out. I’ve kept my part of the bargain, and I mean to keep the money. I’m not Yorkshire, myself, young gentleman; but I’ve lived long enough in these p... ...artificial touchwood by smoke and ashes), deep in the manufacturing bosom of Yorkshire. A mys terious bosom it appeared, upon a damp, dark, Sunday ni... ...orrow; who knows? Though assuredly that would be neither turn pike like nor Yorkshire like. The very wind and dust seem to be hurrying ‘t’races,’ as ... ...g hats and smart jackets of the olden time, when stokers were not; beautiful Yorkshire horses, gallantly driven by their own breeders and mas ters. U...

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... had to raise and lower the window again and again. She passed through the South Welwyn Tunnel, saw light for a moment, and entered the North Welwyn T... ... Thomas’s Hospital, and through the immense tun- nel that passes under the South-Western main line at Vauxhall. In the tunnel he paused and listened t... ...ng Naples, of the movements of Mr. Wilcox and Evie, who were mo- toring in Yorkshire. Margaret could not bear being bored. She grew inattentive, playe... ..., “Father! I say! look who’s here.” “Evie, dearest girl, why aren’t you in Yorkshire?” “No—motor smash—changed plans—father’s coming.” “Why, Ruth!” cr... ...self! The vine—she had got her way about the vine. It still encumbered the south wall with its unproductive branches. And so with Evie, as she stood t... ...but, of course, there’s the fortnight I’ve been away with the other car in Yorkshire.” The mud came off easily. “Charles, your father’s down. Somethin... ...t have left England, you would not have gone to Italy, nor Evie and I into Yorkshire, if only we had known. Well, Miss Schlegel’s posi- tion has been ... ...bored her to look at the landscape, which she had seen but yes- terday. At Southampton she “waved” to Frieda; Frieda was on her way down to join them ... ...f of our turf, epitome of what will follow. And behind the frag- ment lies Southampton, hostess to the nations, and Portsmouth, a latent fire, and all...

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...rd as they can thrust. Or you have incidentally compared Welsh mutton with Southdown:—you have not highly esteemed their drunken Bards:—you have asked... ...ike him, uncle? He is out riding, they tell me.’ ‘The youngster is used to south-western showers in that climate of his,’ Mr. Adister replied. ‘I dare... .... Adister warming, to advise him, and checking the trot of his horse. ‘Try South America.’ The lordly gentleman plotted out a scheme of colonisation a... ... 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 young man. You are a... ...le, sir.’ ‘Jump out of that tinder-box as soon as you can.’ ‘When I was in South America, it astonished me that no Englishman had cast an eye on so in... ...est to the nation of the best of these pictures of Old John, by a very old Yorkshire collector, makes it milk for all 113 George Meredith time, a per...

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...restless wind comes forth, Now blowing keenly from the North; Now from the South, the East, the West, For ever changing, ne’er at rest. The fountains,... ...light and freshness are innate and self-sustained, the drear prospect of a Yorkshire moor will be found as barren of poetic as of agri- cultural inter...

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...er, the Honourable Robert Jackson, Custos Rotulorum of Kingston, came of a Yorkshire family, said to be originally Scotch; and on the mother’s side, c... ...was best. We can trace the family from one country place to another in the south of Scotland; where the child learned his taste for sport by riding ho... ...irty weather, and were hardly out of the river when we met a gale from the south-west and a heavy sea, both right in our teeth; and the poor Elba had ... ...enneth Robertson a Highland sea- man, set forth in her to make the passage south. The first morning they got from Loch Broom into Gruinard bay, where ...

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... be the central one of England, as regards the roads between the north and south; and Birmingham has long been the great central axis, 9 in which all ... ...some share in a theatre; in 1596 he had a considerable share. Through Lord Southampton, 48 Biographical Essays as a surviving friend of Lord Essex, w... ...agine one great letter X, or a St. Andrew’s cross, laid down from north to south, and decussating at Birmingham. Even Coventry, which makes a slight v... ...arise the small dowry of Mrs. Pope, not- withstanding the family estate in Yorkshire had centred in her person. But, by the way, we see from the fact ... ...uld hardly counterbalance the loss which Pope sustained this year from the South Sea Bubble. One thing, by the way, is still unaccountably ne- glected... ... or in relation 101 Thomas de Quincey to the absolute sum invested in the South Sea fund? The truth is, Pope practised on this, as on other occasions...

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...he had twenty, or thirty, or a hundred thousand at his banker’s, or if all Yorkshire or all California were his to manage or to sell, he would still b... ...ating that they were prepared to join in any enterprise commenced by their south- ern brethren. The leader of the persecutors was Sir James Turner, an... ...prinkled trees, and fading gradu- ally into shadow in the distance. To the south, too, they beheld a deep-shaded amphitheatre of heather and bracken; ... ...ad, brown expanse of Maw Moss; and, fading into blue indistinctness in the south, the wild heath-clad Peeblesshire hills. In sooth, that scene was fai... ... has not been a robbery, to call a robbery, this five years’ time. Further south, of course, it’s nearer London, and another story,’ he added. ‘Well, ... ...to and fro and clattering hoofs. Pres- ently after, out of the darkness to southward, the mail grew near with a growing rumble. Its lamps were very la...

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...d, He thinks a loaf will rise to fifty pound. What made directors cheat in South-sea year? To live on venison 32 when it sold so dear. Ask you why Ph... ...us views in early morn, Or when his evening beams the west adorn, When the south glows with his meridian ray, And the cold north receives a fainter da... ...perish there, And one bright blaze turns learning into air. ‘Thence to the south extend thy gladden’d eyes; There rival flames with equal glory rise, ... ...hyming nights and days, Had reach’d the work, the all that mortal can, And South beheld that master-piece of man.’ 394 ‘Oh (cried the goddess) for som... ...rporation. 32 ‘To live on venison:’ in the extravagance and luxury of the South-sea year, the price of a haunch of venison was from three to five pou... ... high- est posts in the kingdom, died in the year 1687, in a remote inn in Yorkshire, reduced to the utmost misery.—P . 42 ‘Shrewsbury:’ the Countess...

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...re of linen in Scotland, and that of coarse woollens in the West Riding of Yorkshire, are growing manufac- tures, of which the produce is generally, t... ...at scarcity, the Scotch manufactures made more than ordinary advances. The Yorkshire manufacture, indeed, de- clined, and its produce did not rise to ... ...ow one of Great Britain. The value of the greater part of the lands in the southern counties of Scotland, which are chiefly a sheep country, would hav... ...ce of the material, which consists altogether of Spanish wool. That of the Yorkshire cloth, which is made altogether of English wool, is said, indeed,... ...nearly the same quan- tity of silver as four of our present money. But the Yorkshire cloth which is now sold at four shillings the yard, is probably m... ...7 10d. In pursu- ance of the 8th George I. c.21, the bank purchased of the South- sea company, stock to the amount of £4,000,000: and in 1722, in cons... ...tal sufficient to im- prove and cultivate all their lands. The wool of the southern coun- ties of Scotland is, a great part of it, after a long land c... ...emia, Moravia, and other parts of Ger- many. It is only in the western and south-western provinces of Europe that it has gradually been abolished alto... ...of Europe; witness the Spaniards, the Italians, and the inhabitants of the southern provinces of France. People are seldom guilty of excess in what is...

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...rofessional one of Monseigneur. Elf jokeis, we have seen; but see now real Yorkshire jockeys, and what they ride on, and train: English racers for Fre... ... a notable thing. For not only are D’Espremenil and Goeslard safe whirling southward, but the Parlement itself has straightway to march out: to that a... ...nt men. ‘Hissed at by the people of Versailles,’ he drives forth to Jardi; southward to Brienne,—for recovery of health. Then to Nice, to Italy; but s... ...he might say with the old Despot: “The National Assembly? I am that.” Of a southern climate, of wild southern blood: for the Riquettis, or Arighettis,... ...t nine in the morning, our National Volunteers rolling in long wide flood, south-westward to the Hotel des Invalides; in search of the one thing needf... ...ra- tion; but it has spread over Dauphine, Alsace, the Lyonnais; the whole South-East is in a blaze. All over the North, from Rouen to Metz, disorder ...

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...e to an anchor, and here we lay , the wind con- tinuing contrary – viz. at south-west – for seven or eight days, during which time a great many ships ... ...nd blew from the N.N.E., which was contrary to my desire, for had it blown southerly I had been sure to have made the coast of Spain, and at least rea... ...been supposed to do): for who would have supposed we were sailed on to the southward, to the truly Barbarian coast, where whole nations of negroes wer... ... as it grew dusk in the evening, I changed my course, and steered directly south and by east, bending my course a little towards the east, that I migh... ... first made the land, I could not be less than one hundred and fifty miles south of Sallee; quite beyond the Emperor of Morocco’s dominions, or indeed... ...her, as shall be observed in its proper place. I went down afterwards into Yorkshire; but my father was dead, and my mother and all the family extinct...

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...g of mystery and fascination, a lady. When she spoke to him, it was with a southern pronuncia- tion and a purity of English which thrilled him to hear... .... He had been a choir-boy with a beau- tiful voice, and had taken solos in Southwell cathedral. His morning whistling alone betrayed it. His wife lay ... ... them, smoking vaguely in the midday glare, fridging the crest away to the south with spires and factory bulks and chimneys. In the last field Morel l... ...oung man’s desire to travel, and at his poor man’s wonder at the glamorous south, could take him away when he might come home. That compen- sated his ... ...st then, he was jocular and in high spirits. “I’m going to bring my little Yorkshire terrier bitch to- morrow,” he said jubilantly to Paul. “What’s a ... ... said jubilantly to Paul. “What’s a Yorkshire terrier?” “Don’t know what a Yorkshire terrier is? Don’t know a Yorkshire—” Mr. Pappleworth was aghast. ... ...e black valley space between was traced, violated by a great train rushing south to London or north to Scotland. The trains roared by like projectiles...

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...788), he had to tear himself from his Clarinda and make a journey into the south- west on business. Clarinda gave him two shirts for his little son. T... ...is way lay through his own province of Choshu; but, as the highroad to the south lay apart from the capital, he was able to avoid arrest. He supported... ...last hour of trial. In the next cell lay one Kusakabe, a reformer from the southern highlands of Satzuma. They were in prison for different plots inde... ... rogues of his acquaintance would keep him company for a mile or so on the south road, and drink a bottle with him before they turned. For banished pe... ...st, and blew to him from his mistress; so the girl in the ballade, looking south to Yarrow, thought it might carry a kiss betwixt her and her gallant;... ...he company of a Mrs. Elizabeth Bowes, wife of Rich- ard Bowes, of Aske, in Yorkshire, to whom she had borne twelve children. She was a religious hypoc...

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...se? The winds of heaven answered Yes; and bore Yes, east, west, north, and south. And consequently three cheers for the United Aggregate Tribunal! Sla... ...g the whelp to the Furies for being so uncommunicative. ‘He is shooting in Yorkshire,’ said T om. ‘Sent Loo a basket half as big as a church, yesterda... ... in a furtive way about the station by which a passenger would arrive from Yorkshire, and for preferring to peep into it round pillars and corners, an... ...ould trust, beseeching him to ship the bearer off at any cost, to North or South America, or any distant part of the world to which he could be the mo...

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... the adventure and how Simon Fettle, Captain Kirby’s old ship’s steward in South America, seeing horse- men stationed on the ascent of the high road b... ... of the value of Lord Fleetwood’s estates in Kent and in Staffordshire and South Wales, and his house property in London. ‘He will have means to suppo... ...ight of that day at a ball at Mrs. Cowper Quillett’s place, Canleys, lying south of the Surrey hills: a house famed for its gatherings of beautiful wo... ...a record. Visits to the offices of those papers, perhaps half a day at the south end of London or on Westminster bridge, examining witnesses, corner s... ...of our story, was then in the act of emerg- ing from the Eastward into the Southward of the line of Canterbury’s pilgrims when they set forth to worsh... ...He rattled a tale of the highway robbery of Sir Meeson Corby on one of his Yorkshire moors. The picture of the little baronet arose upon the narration...

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... dinner in the North, they were con sulting exploded cookery books in the South; who wasted, destroyed, tumbled over one another when required to do ... ...o fall from the lips of the wise men of the east, and north, and west, and south; and anybody may have them by the bushel, for the picking up. Now, wh... ...y to encourage and protect them. I took occasion to say at an Athenaeum in Yorkshire a few weeks since, and I think it a point most important to be bo... ...he holly tree— [Mr. Dickens concluded by quoting the last three stanzas of Southey’s poem, The Holly T ree.I n acknowledging a vote of thanks propose... ...’s. Fifteen years ago some of the valuable reports of Mr. Chadwick and Dr. Southwood Smith, strengthening and much enlarging my knowledge, made me ear...

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...f the evil eye. Next to Orientals in envy, as in activity, are some of the Southern Europeans. The Spaniards pursued all their great men with it, embi... ...n early stop to their successes. 1 With the French, who are essentially a Southern people, the double education of des potism and Catholicism has, i... ...inciple of their political clas 107 J S Mill sification. The notion that Yorkshire and Middlesex have rights apart from those of their inhabitants, ... ...bility, which has been printed and widely circulated by the Legislature of South Carolina, vindicated this preten sion on the general principle of li... ...n an assembly of which one third was British American, and an other third South African and Australian. Yet to this it must come if there were any th... ...less to England than to France; but, while they enjoy, like Canada and New South Wales, com plete control over their internal affairs and their taxat...

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...- fessional one of Monseigneur. Elf jokeis, we have seen; but see now real Yorkshire jock- eys, and what they ride on, and train: English racers for F... ... a notable thing. For not only are D’Espremenil and Goeslard safe whirling southward, but the Parlement itself has straightway to march out: to that a... ...t men. ‘Hissed at by the people of Versailles, ’ he drives forth to Jardi; southward to Brienne,— for recovery of health. Then to Nice, to Italy; but ... ...he might say with the old Despot: “The National Assembly? I am that.” Of a southern climate, of wild southern blood: for the Riquettis, or Arighettis,... ...nine in the morning, our Na- tional Volunteers rolling in long wide flood, south-west- ward to the Hotel des Invalides; in search of the one thing nee... ... gration; but it has spread over Dauphine, Alsace, the Lyonnais; the whole South-East is in a blaze. All over the North, from Rouen to Metz, disorder ...

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...oster-row, booksellers; Mr. Strahan, the printer; the Earl of Orrery, Lord Southwell, Mr. Garrick.’ 82 Boswell’s Life of Johnson Many are, no doubt, ... ...ve it me; till at last in 1781, when we were on a visit at Mr. Dilly’s, at Southill in Bedfordshire, he was pleased to dic- tate it to me from memory.... ...st eminent brewers in England, and Member of Parliament for the borough of Southwark. Foreigners are not a little amazed when they hear of brewers, di... ...ney. He acquired a large fortune, and lived to be Member of Parliament for Southwark. But what was most remarkable was the liberality with which he us... ...e family, and an apartment was appropriated to him, both in their house in Southwark, and in their villa at Streatham. Johnson had a very sincere este... ...- livened with a gay profusion of colours. Mrs. Bosville, of Gunthwait, in Yorkshire, joined us, and entered into conversation with us. Johnson said t... ...irst time, oat ale; and oat cakes not hard as in Scotland, but soft like a Yorkshire cake, were served at breakfast. It was pleasant to me to find, th...

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...r brown mushroom hat Caroline was struck with her beauty, fair, but with a southern richness of bloom and glow—the carnation cheek of a depth of tint ... ...y now, And faint for lack of food. Cold! cold! there is no sun in heaven. —Southey. VERY MERRY was the party which arrived at the roughly-built hotel ... ...og is coming up; but I’ve got my little compass here, and if I keep to the south-west, and down, I must strike the lake somewhere. Goodbye, Jock.” He ... ...n Switzerland till the heat of the weather is over, and then winter in the south.” “And when may I go to Armine?” “When shall we get away from here?” ... ...eral years of good service as curate at a district Church at a fashionable south coast watering place, sometimes known as the English Sorrento, had be... ... himself, with whom he meant to walk through the scenery of Derbyshire and Yorkshire, as far as the modest sum they allowed them- selves would permit,...

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...an of a very ancient family, the Grexes having held the parish of Grex, in Yorkshire, from some time long prior to the Conquest. In saying all this, I... ...rthern limit of the Craven district, on the borders of Westmoreland but in Yorkshire, there stands a large rambling most picturesque old house called ... ... down in Cornwall, and thought we did it pretty well. And I have ridden in South Wales, which I can assure you isn’t an easy thing to do. But you must... ... noble partner, living on the allowance made him in some obscure corner of South Wales. CHAPTER 76 On Deportment Frank Tregear had come up to town at ...

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...e we shall be landed back in the dark ages. But talking of books, there is Southey’s ‘Peninsular War.’ I am reading that of a morning. You know Southe... ...ere and there, and an avenue of limes towards 56 Book I — Miss Brooke the southwest front, with a sunk fence between park and pleasure ground, so tha... ... lake under the setting sun. This was the happy side of the house, for the south and east looked rather melancholy even under the brightest morning. T... ... woman, just as he might have thrown himself under the breath of the sweet south on a bank of violets for a while, without prejudice to his galvanism,... ...rother which were exceptionally fine, and made his character resemble those southern landscapes which seem divided between natural grandeur and social ... ...from it. “‘I am immediately otherwise engaged,’ she says. ‘I am going into Yorkshire with Sir James and Lady Chettam; and the conclusions I come to ab... ... Brooke. “I am going round to see Mrs. Casaubon. She was to come back from Yorkshire last night. She will like to see me, you know.” So they drove alo...