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...f. He was a Lascar, a Kharva from Bulsar, familiar with every port between Rockhampton and London, who had risen to the rank of sarang on the British ... ... Spruce, with sumach and little juniper bushes, and the other half is grey rock and boulder and moss, with green streaks of brake and swamp; but the h... ... tipped the coupe over in a hidden brook before she came out on a ledge of rock where all the horses had gathered, and were switching flies. The Deaco... ...9 The Day’s Work infernal music rolled and maddened round red fires, while singers sang songs of the ancient times, and danced peculiar dances. The ab... ... across the sea. As the Guiding Light she was very badly wanted in a South American port for the little matter of entering harbour at full speed, coll... ...ving-wheels into the brick ash-pit beneath him. 007 was an eight-wheeled “American” loco, slightly different from others of his type, and as he sto... ...ive-cent sidewalk-fakirs’ mechanical toys! Here’ s an eight-wheel coupled ‘American’ don’t know what a hot-box is! Never heard of an emergency-stop ei...

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...ust always be posterior to the improvement of that coun- try. In our North American colonies, the plantations have con- stantly followed either the se... ...d not rise to what it had been in 1755, till 1766, after the repeal of the American stamp act. In that and the following year, it greatly exceeded wha... ... increase too, so may likewise the capital of a great nation. In our North American and West Indian colonies, not only the wages of labour, but the in... ...them as the means of subsistence. The exorbitant rewards of players, opera-singers, opera-dancers, etc. are founded upon those two principles; the rar... ...ows in several parts of Great Britain, particularly in Scotland, upon such rocks only as lie within the high-water mark, which are twice every day cov... ... The paving of the streets of London has enabled the owners of some barren rocks on the coast of Scotland to draw a rent from what never afforded any ... ...importance. The three capital improvements are, first, the exchange of the rock and spindle for the spinning-wheel, which, with the same quantity of l... ...icians, men of letters of all kinds; players, buf- foons, musicians, opera-singers, opera-dancers, etc. The labour of the meanest of these has a certa...

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...stones, laid down by brutal igno rance, and held together, like the solid rocks, by years of this most wicked axiom. Charles Dickens 26 Would we kno... ...ften that I could wish there were a closer parallel between myself and the American aloe. It is particularly agreeable and ap propriate to know that ... ...n before you, preside over Speeches: Literary and Social 69 their births, rock their wretched cradles, nail down their little coffins, pile up the ea... ...of that good blacksmith, as it was written of another of his trade, by the American poet: “Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing, Onward through life he goes;... ...earance—any one of these causes may often in a few hours wreck them upon a rock in the barren ocean; and then, happily, this society, with the swift a... ...ne, which seems to my mind to have a certain application. My friend was an American sea captain, and, therefore, it is quite unnecessary to say his st... ...ollected within the scope of its benevolence are all actors and actresses, singers, or dancers, of five years’ standing in the profession. To relieve ...

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............................................................... 106 Wagnerian Singers ...................................................................... ...48 are taught neither by the education nor the experience of En- glish and American gentlemen-amateurs, who are almost al- ways political mugwumps, an... ... Presently there comes a poor devil of a dwarf stealing along the slippery rocks of the river bed, a creature with energy enough to make him strong of... ...more as poor as he was when he came slipping and stumbling among the slimy rocks in the bed of the Rhine. 25 Shaw This is the way of the world. In ol... ...afnir in their rejoicing over Freia. Donner, the Thunder god, springs to a rocky summit and calls the clouds as a shepherd calls his flocks. They come... ...y is a cave, in which he hides from the light like the eyeless fish of the American caverns. Before the cur- tain rises the music already tells us tha... ...he sing- ing is sometimes tolerable, and sometimes abominable. Some of the singers are mere animated beer casks, too lazy and conceited to practise th... ...nce, with the more formidable instruments be- neath the stage, so that the singers have not to sing through the brass. The effect is quite perfect. Ba...

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...nts you a refractory President ‘at Croe in Combrailles on the top of steep rocks, inaccessible except by litters,’ there to consider himself. Likewise... ...el, miraculously in our miraculous Being, and name World.— But if the very Rocks and Rivers (as Metaphysic teaches) are, in strict language, made by t... ...nd who knows what nameless innumerable multitude of ready Writers, profane Singers, Romancers, Players, Disputators, and Pamphleteers, that now form t... ...aving been opponents of the Court, can descend unchained from their ‘steep rocks at Croe in Combrailles’ and else- where, and return singing praises: ... ...ons, it is said, What a spectacle! Now too behold our Deane, our Franklin, American Plenipotentiaries, here in position soliciting; (1777; Deane somew... ...ant glances on the Bust of Lafayette, which has stood there ever since the American War of Liberty. Whereupon, by acclamation, Lafayette is nominated.... ...as Carlyle perpetual pamphlets: and no man to gag them! Neither, as in the American Congress, do the arrangements seem per- fect. A Senator has not hi...

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... history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two Americans, Whitman and Thoreau, each is the type of some- thing not so much... ...ght them forth, an author would require a large habit of life among modern Americans. As for Yoshida, I have already disclaimed respon- sibility; it w... ...m foundering in such circumstances, by any amount of breakwater and broken rock. I do not understand the way in which the waves are spoken of, and pre... ...ndignation against the zeal of a Whig clergyman, he writes: “I daresay the American Congress in 1776 will be allowed to be as able and as enlightened ... ... old infamy will pop out into daylight like a toad out of a fissure in the rock, and the shadow of the shade of what was once a man will be heartily p... ...ongruity, it may have pleased Charles to own a sort of kinship with ragged singers, and whimsically regard himself as one of the confraternity of poet...

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...he songs of one who strove to play The broken flutes of Arcady. ENVOY So, Rock, I join the common fray, To fight where Mammon may decree; And leav... ...de the women cry to see him cry. And after she was dead, and he had paid The singers and the sexton and the rest, He packed a lot of things that she h... ...lead her In love’s despite to break them… . Sinners And saints — I say — are rocked in the cradle, But never are known till the will within them Speak... ... Hamilton and Aaron Burr, which is not based upon any spe cific incident in American history, may be supposed to have occurred a few months previous ... ...rr—who has been characterized, without much exaggeration, as the inventor of American politics — began to be conspicuously formidable to the Federalis... ...ieve that he’s a genius, if you like, — but in the meantime Don’t go back to rocking horses. There, there, there, now.” ...

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...g round a Maypole!” And Endicott, the severest Puritan of all who laid the rock foundation of New England, lifted the wreath of roses from the ruin of... ...ny. They spread their individual supplies of food on the flat surface of a rock, and partook of a general repast; at the close of which, a sentiment o... ...splendor, that showed the huge shapes of the surrounding mountains and the rock-bestrewn bed of the turbulent river with an 99 Hawthorne illumination... ...ge than General George Washington; and the other principal officers of the American army, such as Gates, Lee, Putnam, Schuyler, Ward and Heath, were r... ...of a song, which resounded, in broken notes, between the cliffs, while the singers hesitated whether to continue their journey or put up here for the ...

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...F THE PHYSICIAN AND THE SARATOGA TRUNK MR. SILAS Q. SCUDDAMORE was a young American of a simple and harmless disposition, which was the more to his cr... ...n of title. Madame Zephyrine, probably in the hope of enchanting the young American, used to flaunt by him on the stairs with a civil inclination, a w... ...en he was safely alone with a few males. The room on the other side of the American’s – for there were three rooms on a floor in the hotel – was tenan... ..., a few tumbled sand-hills stood between it and the sea. An outcropping of rock had formed a bastion for the sand, so that there was here a promontory... ...t Louis Stevenson between two shallow bays; and just beyond the tides, the rock again cropped out and formed an islet of small di- mensions but striki... ...ch is saying much: there is a church in a hollow; a miserable haven in the rocks, where many boats have been lost as they returned from fishing; two o... ...at the door of a respectable hotel? Oh!” he cried, “I know you now! Common singers! People in trouble with the police! And you present yourselves at m...

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...estead, there was a steep, sharp bit of road, cut out in the red sandstone rock, and after a few paces she paused to rest with a sigh that brought Con... .... At last they quite disappeared from the view round a projecting point of rock, and when she turned it, she found a battle royal going on over an old... ...aving begun his career with such mortal offence to the native fiddlers and singers as to impel them into the arms of dissent, he could only supply the... ...ficulties, the boys continually coming back to them from excursions on the rocks, and Rose holding her aunt’s hand all the time, but to be sure Rose h... ...ossible to read, also the neat writing and thin wavy water-marked paper of American professors and phi- lanthropists in high commendation of his abili...

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...uarters of oranges; and finally , on the upper platform a green field with rocks set in lakes of jam, nutshell boats, and a small Cupid balancing hims... ...ok it up in the wrapping that enveloped it and began singing softly as she rocked herself to and fro. Leon walked up and down the room; it seemed stra... ...ame Homais, and the drug- gist, who was worrying about the danger of stray rockets, and every moment he left the company to go and give some ad- vice ... ...h hat fell at a gesture he made, and imme- diately the instruments and the singers began the sextet. Edgar, flashing with fury, dominated all the othe... ...r for calls. I saw that the very moment that I came in. I’ve the eye of an American!” He did not send the stuff; he brought it. Then he came again to ...

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...that had belonged to a widow, named Science Dear, and enlarged it. Several American trees were planted in the ground by Cobbett, of which only one sur... ...lace in Church, which was more im- portant when there was no choir and the singers sat in the gallery. He was very happy in this office, moving about ... ...ndsome pinnate leaf—lane at Brambridge, Standon, and in Hursley. Crucifera Rocket (Diplotaxis tenuifolia).—Seen at Brambridge. Charlock (Sinapis arven... ...times double in rich ground. Hairy Cardamine (C. hirsuta).—Hursley. Yellow Rocket (Barbarea vulgaris).—Road near Chandler’s Ford. Near bridge over Itc... ...gnonette (Reseda lutea).—Mignonette all but the perfume—chalk-pits. Dyer’s Rocket (R. luteola).—Slenderer and more spiked; more common. Rock Rose (Hel... ...blue, pink, or white in the water-meadows beside the Itchen, deserving the American name of May-wings. Caryophylleae Deptford Pink (Dianthus Armeria)....

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...e! Alabin was giving a dinner at Darmstadt; no, not Darmstadt, but something American. Yes, but then, Darmstadt was in America. Yes, Alabin was giving... ...ny. In the courtyard the first objects that met Vronsky’s eyes were a band of singers in white linen coats, standing near a barrel of vodka, and 294 A... ... of papers of various sorts. Sviazhsky took out the books, and sat down in a rocking chair. “What are you looking at there?” he said to Levin, who was... ...ent to it, took it from the wet nurse’s arms, and began walking up and down, rocking it. “You must ask the doctor to examine the wet nurse,” said Alex... ...as very nice indeed, papa,” said Seryozha, sitting sideways on his chair and rocking it, which was forbidden. “I saw Nadinka” (Nadinka was a niece of ... ...here I call upon the count, and in three words we settle the business.” “The American way of doing business,” said Sviazhsky, with a smile. “Yes, ther... ...re of his book, the various public questions of the dissenting sects, of the American al liance, of the Samara famine, of exhibitions, and of spiritu...