...ome’s dominion own, And, prostrate, shall adore the nation of the gown. An age is ripening in revolving fate When Troy shall overturn the Grecian stat... ...sacred shrine. Then dire debate and impious war shall cease, And the stern age be soften’d into peace: Then banish’d Faith shall once again return, An... ... fane shall wait, And keep the dreadful issues of his gate, With bolts and iron bars: within remains Imprison’d Fury, bound in brazen chains; High on ... ... your harbor meet. Myself distress’d, an exile, and unknown, Debarr’d from Europe, and from Asia thrown, In Libyan desarts wander thus alone.” His ten... ...ur gen’rous heart. Conscious of worth, requite its own desert! In you this age is happy, and this earth, And parents more than mortal gave you birth. ... ...s of their soldiers hide: With inward arms the dire machine they load, And iron bowels stuff the dark abode. In sight of Troy lies T enedos, an isle (... ...he goal contend, And others try the twanging bow to bend; The strong, with iron gauntlets arm’d, shall stand Oppos’d in combat on the yellow sand. Let... ...is race, in arms and arts of peace renown’d, Not Latium shall contain, nor Europe bound: ‘T is theirs whate’er the sun surveys around.” These answers,... ...r’d; What was the waste of war, what fierce alarms Shook Asia’s crown with European arms; Ev’n such have heard, if any such there be, Whose earth is b...

...scis a couple of pulls and swallowed a half dozen of drams. When I came of age my father asked me, one day, If I would step with him into his study. “... ...ate a love of horses, and of hunting, that neither bodily infirmity, great age, nor mental incapacity, prevented his daily participation in the danger... ...antastic chateau, much dilapidated, and indeed scarcely tenantable through age and neglect. Its aspect inspired me with absolute dread, and, checking ... ...re without curtains; the shutters, being shut, were securely fastened with iron bars, applied diagonally, af- ter the fashion of our ordinary shop-shu... ...ast.” I have only to add that, although I have searched every li- brary in Europe for the works of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether, I have, up to the... ...stood opposite the hole, close to it; and through the hole there passed an iron rod from the machinery. Between the wheels and the wall where the hole... ... hands and endeavored, with all my strength, to force upward the ponderous iron bar. I might as well have tried to lift the cathedral itself. Down, do...

...Prague and total subjection of Bohemia. Book II. State of the Empire. — Of Europe. — Mansfeld. — Christian, Duke of Brunswick. — Wallenstein raises an... ... scarcely any thing great or remarkable occurred in the political world of Europe in which the Reformation had not an important share. All the events ... ...ew the northern pow- ers, Denmark and Sweden, into the political system of Europe; and while on the one hand the Protestant League was strengthened by... ...ick IV., then only nine 52 The History of the Thirty Y ears’ War years of age, who were ordered, if necessary, to drive the Lutheran heresy out of th... ...is mother a princess of Bavaria. Having lost his father at twelve years of age, he was in- trusted by the archduchess to the guardian- ship of her bro... ...ns. The Estates of Carniola, Carinthia, and Styria, who, before doing hom- age, demanded a guarantee for freedom of reli- gion, were told that religio... ... honour, and reli- gion, were laid aside, where might ruled su- preme with iron sceptre. Under the shelter of anarchy and impunity, every vice flouris... ...; till at last the death of the great Mercy, the skill of Turenne, and the iron firmness of the Hessians, decided the 427 Friedrich Schiller day in f...

...w. The interior of the room is not like anything to be seen in the east of Europe. It is half rich Bulgarian, half cheap Viennese. The counter- pane a... ...man. The washstand, against the wall on the left, consists of an enamelled iron basin with a pail beneath it in a painted metal frame, and a single to... ...or throwing away a chance. He reckons up what he can guess about Raina—her age, her social position, her character, the extent to which she is frighte... ...hing else. (In- dignantly.) I never saw anything so unprofessional. RAINA (ironically). Oh, was it unprofessional to beat you? MAN. Well, come, is it ... ... infallibly quick observation, he has acquired the half tragic, half ironic air, the mysterious moodiness, the suggestion of a strange and ... ...es the whole thing at once. BLUNTSCHLI. I think I can shew you how to man- age that. SERGIUS. Invaluable man! Come along! (T owering over Bluntschli, ... ...THERINE (stopping him). Paul! PETKOFF. I could have sworn it wasn’t there. Age is beginning to tell on me. I’m getting hallucinations. (To Nicola.) He... ...e Em- press? LOUKA. I would marry the man I loved, which no other queen in Europe has the courage to do. If I loved you, though you would be as far be...

... the lives of old men content- edly. They were timidly conservative at the age at which ev- ery healthy human being ought to be obstreperously revolu-... ...e; and the result of withdrawing chil- dren from it completely at an early age, and sending them to a public school and then to a university, does, in... ...t of trying to make the Church of England reflect the notions of the aver- age churchgoer has reduced it to a cipher except for the pur- poses of a pe... ...exceptional in Asia as a man with a carriage-and-pair or a motor car is in Europe, where, nev- ertheless we may all have as many carriages and motors ... ...resent state of things in England is too strained and mischievous to last. Europe and America have left us a century behind in this matter. A PROBABLE... ...ourts; and so, with policemen at every corner, and law triumphant all over Europe, she will still be smuggled and cattle-driven from one end of the ci... ...fire- place, with its huge spit like a baby crane, and a collection of old iron and brass instruments which pass as the original 66 Shaw furniture of... ...l Bridgenorth is a well set up man of fifty, with large brave nostrils, an iron mouth, faithful dog’s eyes, and much natural simplicity and dignity of... ...ast, living at his club, and seeing nobody but his friends’ wives! LESBIA [ironically] Poor fellow! HOTCHKISS. The friends’ wives are perhaps the solu...

... or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame meter; graced indeed since by th... ...h and Art are easily outdone By Spirits reprobate, and in an hour What in an age they with incessant toyle Paradise Lost Milton 17 And hands innum... ...ngdom loose no part By our revolt, but over Hell extend His Empire, and with Iron Scepter rule Us here, as with his Golden those in Heav’n. What sit w... ...he horrid Roof, And thrice threefold the Gates; three folds were Brass Three Iron, three of Adamantine Rock, Impenitrable, impal’d with circling fire,... ... in the key hole turns Th’ intricate wards, and every Bolt and Bar Of massie Iron or sollid Rock with ease Unfast’ns: on a sudden op’n flie With impet... ...igher Argument Remaines, sufficient of it self to raise That name, unless an age too late, or cold Climat, or Years damp my intended wing Deprest, and... ...MEMNONIAN Palace high Came to the Sea, and over HELLESPONT Bridging his way, EUROPE with ASIA joyn’d, And scourg’d with many a stroak th’ indignant wa... ...he Kingdoms of ALMANSOR, FEZ, and SUS, MAROCCO and ALGIERS, and TREMISEN; On EUROPE thence, and where ROME was to sway The VVorld: in Spirit perhaps h...

...s far as we will, a man does not choose even an instrument of tim ber and iron on the sole ground that it is in itself the best. He considers whether... ...o vindictiveness by giving evidence against him; who, like some nations of Europe down to a recent date, if a man pon iards another in the public str... ... one of the chief elements of social power, let him bethink himself of the age in which there was scarcely a throne in Europe which was not filled by ... ...let him bethink himself of the age in which there was scarcely a throne in Europe which was not filled by a liberal and reforming king, a lib eral an... ...reforming emperor, or, strangest of all, a liberal and reforming pope; the age of Frederic the Great, of Catherine the Second, of Joseph the Second, o... ...act. Though we no longer hold this opinion; though most men in the present age profess the contrary creed, believing that the tendency of things, on t... ...nd the free towns of Flanders and Germany, with the feudal mon archies of Europe; Switzerland, Holland, and England, with Austria or ante revolutiona... ... its Italian in Hungary, can long continue to rule in both places with the iron rod of foreign conquerors. If it be said that so broadly marked a dist...

...ties on their own or duties on foreign fish. With them and with most other European nations we are rivals in navigation and the carrying trade; and we... ...e southern parts of America which it formerly did in the southern parts of Europe. Nor does it appear to be a rash conjecture that its young swarms mi... ...th perfect good faith. Nay, it is far more probable that in America, as in Europe, neighboring nations, acting under the impulse of opposite interests... ... every shape? Is it not time to awake from the deceitful dream of a golden age, and to adopt as a practical maxim for the direction of our political c... ...y. Some of the Southern and of the Middle States yield a greater plenty of iron, and of better quality. Seamen must chiefly be drawn from the Northern... ... of Apollo, the Amphictyonic council, according to the superstition of the age, imposed a fine on the sacrilegious offenders. The Phocians, being abet... ...without con- cert, without system, without resource; except in their cour- age and despair. The usurpers, clothed with the forms of legal authority, c...

... difference in the comparative cost. It may be to our advantage to procure iron from Sweden in exchange for cottons, even although the mines of Englan... ...an advantage of one-half in cottons, and only an advantage of a quarter in iron, and could sell our cottons to Sweden at the price which Sweden must p... ...weden must pay for them if she produced them herself, we should obtain our iron with an advantage of one-half, as well as our cottons. We may often, b... ...tuart Mill ticles which will exchange for each other will be, on the aver- age, those which are produced by equal quantities of labour. But this canno... ...s in the mode just described, that those countries which formerly supplied Europe with manufactures, but which owed their power of doing so not to any... ...ed some descriptions of clothing and ornament 31 John Stuart Mill for all Europe: Holland, at a much later period, supplied ships, and almost all art... ...tively. To this should be added what he expends in rearing children to the age at which they become capable of productive industry. If the state of th... ...ide the sup- ply of a district with so many other banks, that on the aver- age each will receive no larger amount of interest on his notes than will m...

...nd of the nineteenth century any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? If not, I will describe it. If on... ...merely evil; woman, however, is mean. Whom hateth woman most?—Thus spake the iron to the loadstone: “I hate thee most, because thou attractest, but ar... ...oo early; he himself would have disavowed his doctrine had he attained to my age! Noble enough was he to disavow! But he was still immature. Immaturel... ...l, however, do I counsel to kings and churches, and to all that is weak with age or virtue—let yourselves be o’erthrown! That ye may again come to lif... ...edrich Nietzsche air; there was I furthest from cloudy, damp, melancholy Old-Europe! Then did I love such Oriental maidens and other blue kingdoms of ... ...ndly damsels dearly loved, At whose own feet to me, The first occasion, To a European under palm-trees, A seat is now granted. Selah. Wonderful, truly... ...ly As this is: though however I doubt about it, —With this come I out of Old-Europe, That 270 Thus Spake Zarathustra doubt’th more eagerly than doth ... ... disagreed en- tirely with Renan’s view, that Christ was “le grand maitre en ironie”; in Aphorism 31 of “The Antichrist”, he says that he (Nietzsche) ...

...on you! Well, I shall enjoy looking on at you whilst you become Emperor of Europe, and govern the country for me. (Whilst he chatters, he takes the cl... ... the middle of the edge in his mouth, to fold it up.) NAPOLEON. Emperor of Europe, eh? Why only Europe? GIUSEPPE. Why, indeed? Emperor of the world, e... ...tifies the implied epigram.) NAPOLEON. How old is she? GIUSEPPE. The right age, excellency. NAPOLEON. Do you mean seventeen or thirty? GIUSEPPE. Thirt... ...t never ask a soldier. The ser- geant asks after the recruit’s height, his age, his wind, his limb, but never after his courage. (He gets up and walks... ...it had ceased to be fear, and had become strength, penetration, vigilance, iron resolution—how would you answer then if you were asked whether you wer... ...). T ake care. T reason! LADY (insisting). Yes, emperor of France; then of Europe; 23 GB Shaw perhaps of the world. I am only the first subject to sw... ...who knows her through and through—knows that she has lied to him about her age, her income, her social position, about everything that silly women 28... ...ed! See here, General: suppose I catch that fellow for you! NAPOLEON (with ironical gravity). Y ou will not catch him, my friend. LIEUTENANT . Aha! yo...

...f them contain it exactly the same. 6 History of the Britons 6. The first age of the world is from Adam to Noah; the second from Noah to Abraham; the... ...nes of the people, and dictators. The Britons came to Britain in the third age of the world; and in the fourth, the Scots took possession of Ireland. ... ...arth: Shem extended his borders into Asia, Ham into Africa, and Japheth in Europe. The first man that dwelt in Europe was Alanus, with his three sons,... ...di: from Neugio, the Bogari, Vandali, Saxones, and T arinegi. The whole of Europe was subdivided into these tribes. Alanus is said to have been the so... ...any of his soldiers and horses were killed; for the same consul had placed iron pikes in the shallow part of the river, and this having been effected ... ... slew Gratian, the king of the Romans, and obtained the sovereignty of all Europe. Un- willing to send back his warlike companions to their wives, chi... ...lcho, to whom he was a swineherd for seven years. When he had attained the age of seventeen he gave him his liberty. By the divine impulse, he applied...

...tain as if an epidemic took them all at once. But the graded difference in age, the fact that some are born as some die, makes possible through transm... ...e condi- tions which insure growth, or adequacy of life, irrespec- tive of age. We first look with impatience upon immatu- rity, regarding it as somet... ...d- hood and youth as a scene of lost opportunities and wasted powers. This ironical situation will endure till it is recog- nized that living has its ... ... the past. Cultural recapitulation says, first, that children at a certain age are in the mental and moral condition of savagery; their instincts are ... ...came a movement for publicly conducted and administered schools. So far as Europe was concerned, the historic situation identified the movement for a ... ... lack of definite organs of execution and agencies of ad- ministration. In Europe, in the Continental states particu- larly, the new idea of the impor... ...larly; there is no even four-abreast development. We must strike while the iron is hot. Especially precious are the first dawnings of power. More than... ...ce fall un- der the ban. It would be hard to find anything in history more ironical than the educational practices which have identified the “humaniti... ...that spans the intervening centuries? The question suggests that barbarian Europe but repeated on a larger scale and with increased intensity the Roma...

...eneath the politeness and affected sympathy of which indifference and even irony could be discerned. “Can one be well while suffering morally? Can one... ...d, and does not wish, for war. She is betraying us! Russia alone must save Europe. Our gracious sovereign recognizes his high vocation and will be tru... ...m! Prussia has always declared that Buonaparte is invincible, and that all Europe is power- less before him.... And I don’t believe a word that Harden... ...aith only in God and the lofty destiny of our adored monarch. He will save Europe!” She suddenly paused, smiling at her own impetuosity. “I think,” sa... ...highest Petersburg society was assembled there: people differing widely in age and character but alike in the social circle to which they belonged. Pr... ...rincess Bolkonskaya, very pretty and rosy, though rather too plump for her age. The third group was gathered round Mortemart and Anna Pavlovna. The vi... ...now very ill-suited to her careworn face. Apparently she had forgotten her age and by force of habit employed all the old feminine arts. But as soon a... ...eas.” “Y es: ideas of robbery, murder, and regicide,” again interjected an ironical voice. “Those were extremes, no doubt, but they are not what is mo... ...” he said. “And that would be splendid,” said Pierre. Prince Andrew smiled ironically. “V ery likely it would be splendid, but it will never come abou...

... the laws of history. The first fifteen years of the nineteenth century in Europe present an extraordinary movement of millions of people. Men leave t... ...ons of people. Men leave their customary pursuits, hasten from one side of Europe to the other, plunder and slaughter one another, triumph and are plu... ...n reflec- tions concerning these actions. CHAPTER II THE FORCES OF A DOZEN EUROPEAN nations burst into Russia. The Russian army and people avoided a c... ...one. Having listened to her mother’s objections, Helene smiled blandly and ironically. “But it says plainly: ‘Whosoever shall marry her that is di- vo... ..., who threw sidelong glances at Pierre, got the fire to burn and placed an iron pot on it into which they broke some dried bread and put a little drip... ...ustody. I like you and don’t wish you any harm and—as you are only half my age-I advise you, as a father would, to cease all communication with men of...

...nvicts, all the twenty six years of his prison life, and his premature old age. The thought of it all made him so wretched that he was ready to kill h... ... gave him an order. He went and fetched shack les: two blocks of oak with iron rings attached, and a clasp and lock fixed to one of the rings. They u... ...y, with a neck like a bull’s, and looking altogether as if he were cast in iron. The gentleman puffed, threw off his fur coat, sat down on the bench, ... ...ve By” 62 Hardly had he begun to rebuke Michael, when ‘rat tat , went the iron ring that hung at the door. Some one was knocking. They looked out of ... ...and never short of work. Martin had always been a good man; but in his old age he began to think more about his soul and to draw nearer to God. While ... ...on. But he had no luck with his children. No sooner had the boy reached an age when he could help his father and be a support as well as a joy to him,... ...nnot but observe how the true Mohammedan faith continues to spread both in Europe and Asia, and even in the enlightened coun try of China. You say yo... ...y Japan, and the Philippines and Sumatra where we now are, but Africa, and Europe and America, and many lands besides. The sun does not shine for some... ...he pays so much is that it is the only such gambling establishment left in Europe. Some of the little German Sovereigns used to keep gaming houses of ...

...know it had arrived. “He writes about this war,” said the prince, with the ironic smile that had become habitual to him in speaking of the present war... ... was doing. “Always busy,” replied Michael Ivanovich with a respect- fully ironic smile which caused Princess Mary to turn pale. “He’s worrying very m... ... or anyone from the staff, he bristled up immedi- ately and grew spiteful, ironical, and contemptuous. Every- thing that reminded him of his past was ... ...just as before and saw in them and in the subservience shown to him by the European sovereigns a malicious conspiracy, the sole object of which was to... ...nd mentally vigorous peas- ants who grow big beards as soon as they are of age and go on unchanged till they are sixty or seventy, without a gray hair... ...f these—but because of something else. He despised them because of his old age and experience of life. The only instruction Kutuzov gave of his own ac... ...ne thing needed tomorrow—that which Timokhin has. They have yielded up all Europe to him, and have now come to teach us. Fine teachers!” and again his... ...oism and devotion of his troops fighting at Salamanca, at the other end of Europe, with but one thought—to be worthy of their Emperor—and but one fear... ...ting. By long years of military experience he knew, and with the wisdom of age understood, that it is im- possible for one man to direct hundreds of t...