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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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...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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... 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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... 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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...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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... 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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...all be, in despite of all. NORTHUMBERLAND: Thou art deceived: ’tis not thy southern power, Of Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, nor of Kent, Which makes thee... ...: Thou art as opposite to every good As the Antipodes are unto us, Or as the south to the septentrion. O tiger’s heart wrapt in a woman’s hide! How co... ...s day. [Exeunt.] SCENE III: A field of battle between Towton and Saxton, in Yorkshire. [Alarum. Excursions. Enter WARWICK .] WARWICK: Forspent with ... ...e us we are sure to die. [Exeunt.] SCENE V: A park near Middleham Castle In Yorkshire. [Enter GLOUCESTER, HASTINGS, and STANLEY .] GLOUCESTER: Now, ... ...ys my loving son? And, by thy guess, how nigh is Clarence now? SOMERSET: At Southam I did leave him with his forces, And do expect him here some two ... ...larence is at hand, I hear his drum. SOMERSET: It is not his, my lord; here Southam lies: The drum your honor hears marcheth from Warwick. WARWICK: ...

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... So idly to profane the precious time, When tempest of commotion, like the south Borne with black vapor, doth begin to melt And drop upon our bare una... ...y snap at him. Let time shape, and there an end. [Exit.] ACT IV SCENE I: Yorkshire. Gaultree Forest. [Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, MOWBRAY, LORD H... ...; Like youthful steers unyoked, they take their courses East, west, north, south; or, like a school broke up, Each hurries toward his home and sportin... ...Bardolph, With a great power of English and of Scots Are by the sheriff of Yorkshire overthrown: The manner and true order of the fight This packet, p...

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...tion of Transylvania there are four dis tinct nationalities: Saxons in the South, and mixed with them the Wallachs, who are the descendants of the D... ...ate was situated. The other two were Exeter, and Chapter 2 31 Whitby on the Yorkshire coast. It was the better part of an hour when the Count retur... ...n the castle. I went out on the stairs, and found a room looking towards the South. The view was magnificent, and from where I stood there was every... ... went up the stone stair to where I could look out towards the Chapter 3 42 South. There was some sense of freedom in the vast expanse, inaccessible ... ...down. From the windows I could see that the suite of rooms lay along to the south of the castle, the windows of the end room looking out both west an... ...ar the corner, so that as I lay, I could look at the lovely view to east and south,and unthinking of and uncaring for the dust, composed myself for sl... ... Crowds are scattering backward, and the sky is beginning to redden over the Yorkshire wolds. I shall send, in time for your next issue, further de ... ...they had decided that I must spend the night. They are hospitable, with true Yorkshire hospitality, give a guest everything and leave him to do as he ...

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...nch and Belgians to come over also. These people settled themselves on the south coast of England, which is now called Kent; and, although they were a... ...a northern people, began to make frequent plun dering incursions into the South of Britain. All these attacks were repeated, at intervals, dur ing t... ...e Northfolk, or Norfolk people, established them selves in one place; the Southfolk, or Suffolk people, established themselves in another; and gradua... ...called, and to give A Child’s Histroy of England 44 Ironside all that lay south of it. Most men being weary of so much bloodshed, this was done. But ... ... three, and had wished Harold to have England; but the Saxon people in the South of England, headed by a nobleman with great possessions, called the p... ...ed in time to make his peace. As to the four guilty Knights, who fled into Yorkshire, and never again dared to show themselves at Court, the Pope exco... ...the Royal forces towards Bristol. Henry, at the head of an army, came from Yorkshire (where he had landed) to Lon don and followed him. They joined t... ...did, was, to direct her to be removed from the castle of Sheriff Hutton in Yorkshire, where Richard had placed her, and restored to the care of her mo... ...r of the late Duke of Clarence, had been kept a pris oner in the same old Yorkshire Castle with her. This boy, who was now fifteen, the new King plac...

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...ction. A little while afterwards he was in some other strait. I think Mrs. Southcote, his wife, was in extremity—and we adjusted that point too. A lit... ...y, as I contemplated (being newly come to Lon don from the East Riding of Yorkshire, on a house hunting expedition for next May), an old warehouse wh... ...arly age. Now, gas and elec tricity run to the very water’s edge, and the South Eastern Railway Company screech at us in the dead of night. But, the ... ...ich (though the General Board of Health might object) my Susan dwells. The South Eastern Company have brought Pavilionstone into such vogue, with thei... ...avilionstone is its Great Hotel. A dozen years ago, going over to Paris by South Eastern Tidal Steamer, you used to be dropped upon the platform of th... ... a free and easy manner, an irresponsible agent, made over in trust to the South Eastern Company, until you get out of the railway carriage at high w...

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... The chosen English king, Harold, had marched at full speed from Sussex to Yorkshire, and met the invaders marching at their ease, without expecting a... ...would cross the Hellespont on a bridge of boats lashed together, and march southwards into Greece. The only hope of averting the dan- ger lay in defen... ...steeps and the impassable morass that formed the border of the gulf on its south side. These two very narrow places were called the gates of the pass,... ...een covering the whole country like locusts, and the hearts of some of the southern Greeks in the pass began to sink. Their homes in the Peloponnesus ... ... it. And thus, the Gauls conquering from the north and the Romans from the south, these two fierce nations at length came against one another. The old... ... and which was severely punished. The Gauls were much enraged, and hurried southwards, not waiting for plunder by the way, but declaring that they wer...

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...antagenets, should yearn for something beyond, es- pecially for that sunny southern land which report and youth- ful imagination made them believe an ... ...ht, that is if the doited old council will let me alone. Here, come to the south- ern tower to watch for them.’ The sisters had worked themselves to t... ...ot own thyself to my father, and take thy proper place ere ganging farther south. It irks me to see some of the best blood in Scotland among the groom... ...train, was to be lodged at the great palace of the Bishop of Winchester at Southwark, and as he came up to take leave of Jean, she said, with a stamp ... ...ed by Lady Drummond, who could make herself far more intelligible to these south-country ears. There was a beautiful cloister, a double walk with clus... ...nd he beheld the shaggy-faced pony on which he had ridden all the way from Yorkshire, and which had no doubt eluded the robbers. There was a bundle at...

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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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...- 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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...a slanting direction. They are so arranged that none of them run north and south, or east and west; but the streets, so called, all run in accordance ... ...treets run up to V Street, both right and left—V Street North and V Street South. Those really known to mankind are E, F, G, H, I, and K Streets North... ..., G, H, I, and K Streets North. Then those streets which run from north to south are numbered First Street, Second Street, Third Street, and so on, on... .... The Treasury chambers is as yet an unfinished building. The front to the south has been completed, but that to the north has not been built. Here at... ...ania Avenue, but the avenue here, has turned round, and runs due north and south, having taken a twist, so as to make way for the Treasury and for the... ... the theory of popular representation. It reminds one of the old days when Yorkshire returned two members, and Rutlandshire two also. And the discrepa... ...nances needed by the national government. We should not willingly trust to Yorkshire or Sussex to give us their contributions to the national income, ... ...ussex to give us their contributions to the national income, especially if Yorkshire and Sussex had small Houses of Commons of their own in which that...

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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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...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...

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... come to an Anchor, and here we lay, the Wind continuing contrary, viz. at South west, for seven or eight Days, during which time a great many Ships f... ...Wind blew from the N.NE. 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... ...a’ been supposed to do) for who would ha’ suppos’d we were saild on to the southward to the truly Barbarian Coast, where whole Nations of Negroes were... ... as it grew dusk in the Evening, I chang’d my Course, and steer’d directly South and by East, bending my Course a little toward the East, that I might... ...e Afternoon, when I first made the Land, I could not be less than 150 Miles South of Sallee; quite beyond the Emperor of Morocco’s Dominions, or indeed... ...k at my self, I could not but smile at the Notion of my travelling through Yorkshire with such an Equipage, and in such a Dress: Be pleas’d to take a ... ...o help her, as shall be observ’d in its Place. I went down afterwards into Yorkshire; but my Father was dead, and my Mother, and all the Family extinc...

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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...