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... only add them all in an appendix, Which saves, in fact, the trouble of an index; Byron’s Don Juan “Canto One” 13 For there we have them all ‘... ...t was the family Missal) Was ornamented in a sort of way Which ancient mass books often are, and this all Kinds of grotesques illumined; and... ...ls To the good sense and senses of mankind, The very thing which every body feels, As all have found on trial, or may find, That no one li... ...Seville? Is it for this I scarce went anywhere, Except to bull fights, mass, play, rout, and revel? Is it for this, whate’er my suitors were, ... ...en over Catholics the ocean rolls, They must wait several weeks before a mass Takes off one peck of purgatorial coals, Because, till people ... ...hey caught two boobies and a noddy, And then they left off eating the dead body. And if Pedrillo’s fate should shocking be, Remember Ugolino c... ...blimity’s firman, The most imperative of sovereign spells, Which every body does without who can, More to secure them in their naval cells, ... ...ut I shall add them in a brief appendix, To come between mine epic and its index. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Fourteen” 297 But ere he went, he ad...

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......................................................................... 602 Index of First Lines...................................603 Posthumous portr... ...however, Shelley’s punctuation, so far as it goes, is of great value as an index to his metrical, or at times, it may be, to his rhetorical inten- tio... ...e second only in value to the “Posthumous Po- ems” of 1824. To the growing mass of Shelley’s verse yet more material was added in 1870 by Mr. William ... ...strenuous labours of Mr. Harry Buxton Forman, C.B. He too has enlarged the body of Shelley’s poetry (Mr. Forman’s most notable addition is the second ... ...rning _430 This loveliest earth with taintless body and mind; Blest from his birth with all bland impulses, Which gently i... ...epid front of youth! How sweet the smiles of taintless infancy. Within the massy prison’s mouldering courts, Fearless and free the ruddy children play... ...hadows with swift wings Speeded like thought upon the light of Heaven. The Body and the Soul united then, _615 A gen... ...pausing on the edge of the riven wave; Now leaving far behind the bursting mass That fell, convulsing ocean: safely fled— As if that frail and wasted ... ...h his light, _5 The earth and all … 603 Shelley Index of First Lines A And ever as he went he swept a lyre 517 And Peter B...

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...rd Aberdeen’s Act is well qualified to tranquillize the agitations of that body; and at an earlier stage, if not intercepted by Lord Melbourne, might ... ...fies the fact of his having conferred the ben- efice upon A B, to a public body which officially takes cog- nizance of this act; and that body is, not... ...verage of £299 to each beneficiary; Scotland gave an average of £303. That body, therefore, which wields patron- age in Scotland, wields a greater rel... ...nism—of divinity becoming the handmaid to insurrection—and of clergymen in masses offering themselves as promoters of anarchy, we go back in thought t... ...ini describes the practice among the Mussulman women at present, the whole mass thus com- pounded was dried and again reduced to an impalpable pow- de... ...roach of a stranger. This beautiful piece of drapery, which flowed back in massy folds over the shoulders, is particularly noticed by Isaiah, as holdi... ...f books wholesale and retail, for introducing Milton’s name into a certain index thus—‘Milton, Mr. John.’ That Mister, undoubtedly, was hard to digest...

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...hat strikes the capricious mind of the poet is not always what affects the mass of readers. Now, while admiring, as others doubtless will admire, the ... ...not behind the king in this respect. When he saw the formidable and chosen body with 21 Alexandre Dumas which Louis XIII had surrounded himself, this... ...he reputation of not being easily intimidated. When he had once passed the massive door covered with long square-headed nails, he fell into the midst ... ...will teach you how to behave yourself.” “ And I will send you back to your Mass book, Master Abbe. Draw, if you please, and instantly—” “Not so, if yo... ... glided like a serpent beneath his blade, and passed his sword through his body. Jussac fell like a dead mass. D’Artagnan then cast an anxious and rap... ...orry to see any doubt thrown upon, Porthos.” “At all events, man or devil, body or shadow, illusion or reality, this man is born for my damnation; for... ...ore added nothing to his speech, but con- tented himself with pointing his index finger in the direc- tion of the hedge, announcing by this gesture th...

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... firelight. With the omnibuses and cabs still running in his head, and his body still tingling with his quick walk along the streets and in and out of... ...ry quickly without altering the position of his large and rather corpulent body, so that he seemed to be providing himself incessantly with food for a... ...uched different spots, lights sprang here and there, and revealed a square mass of red-and-gold books, and then a long skirt in blue-and-white paint l... ...ad a singular face—a face built for swiftness and decision rather than for massive contemplation; the forehead broad, the nose long and formidable, th... ...pells of inspiration never burnt steadily, but flickered over the gigantic mass of the sub- ject as capriciously as a will-o’-the-wisp, lighting now o... ...o set her fingers to work; while her mind, reflecting the lassitude of her body, went on perversely, conjuring up visions of solitude and quiet, and s... ...is room for a private confer- ence, upon a systematic revision of the card-index, upon the issue of certain new lemon-colored leaflets, in which the f... ... much pride, and marveled to think that once the copying-presses, the card-index, the files of documents, had all been shrouded, wrapped in some mist ... ...asting time wasted also high private hopes of his own. His face was no bad index to what went on within him. He was in a condition of mind rather too ...

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...ted city, Dardan, and Tymbria, Helias, Chetas, Troien, And Antenorides, with massy staples And corresponsive and fulfilling bolts, Sperr up the sons o... ...; time must friend or end: well, Troilus, well: I would my heart were in her body. No, Hector is not a better man than Troilus. CRESSIDA: Excuse me.... ...road and powerful fan, Puffing at all, winnows the light away; And what hath mass or matter, by itself Lies rich in virtue and unmingled. Troilus and ... ...ticular, shall give a scantling Of good or bad unto the general; And in such indexes, although small pricks To their subsequent volumes, there is seen... ...icks To their subsequent volumes, there is seen The baby figure of the giant mass Of things to come at large. It is supposed He that meets Hector issu... ... of falsehood, If ever she leave Troilus! Time, force, and death, Do to this body what extremes you can; But the strong base and building of my love I... ...er foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body. O, these encounterers, so glib of tongue, That give accosting welco...

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...joy; 40 For I, methought, while the sweet breath of heaven Was blowing on my body, felt within A corresponding mild creative breeze, A vital breeze wh... ...gave a moral life—I saw them feel, Or linked them to some feeling. The great mass Lay bedded in a quickening soul, and all That I beheld respired with... ...vault and universe of stars. 385 Thus did I steal along that silent road, My body from the stillness drinking in A restoration like the calm of sleep,... ...s have laid Upon the children of the land—a pest That might have dried me up body and soul. This verse is dedicate to Nature’s self 230 And things tha... ... and in learning and in books 320 He is a prodigy. His discourse moves slow, Massy and ponderous as a prison door, Tremendously embossed with terms of... ...th charitable pleasure. Through the night, Between the show, and many headed mass Of the spectators, and each little nook 470 That had its fray or bra... ...s love and reverence Of human nature; hence the human form To me was like an index of delight, Of grace and honour, power and worthiness. 420 Meanwhil...

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.......................................................................... 48 Index of First Lines.....................................49 5 George Mered... ...rge Meredith And while commanding blissful sight believe It holds her as a body strained to breast, Down on the underworld’s perpetual eve She plunges... ... upon his footway cast; Then match in him who holds his tempters fast, The body’s love and mind’s, whereof the soul’s. Then Earth her man for woman fi... ...ape. Midway the vast round-raying beard A desiccated midge appeared; Whose body pricked the name of meal, Whose hair had growth in earth’s unreal; Pro... ...th you, and did not faint In beating wing, the future I would paint. Those massed indifferents will learn to quake: Now meanwhile is another mass awak... ...ters to their depths the abysses of the sea. Cant. iv. 49 George Meredith Index of First Lines A A hundred mares, all white! their manes 48 Awakes f...

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... month, or ere those shoes were old With which she follow’d my poor father’s body, Like Niobe, all tears:—why she, even she— O, God! a beast, that wan... ...erefore must his choice be circumscribed Unto the voice and yielding of that body Whereof he is the head. Then if he says he loves you, It fits your w... ... My fate cries out, And makes each petty artery in this body As hardy as the Nemean lion’s nerve. Still am I call’d. Unhand me, g... ...NIUS : And then, sir, does he this—he does—what was I about to say? By the mass, I was about to say something: where did I leave? REYNALDO: At ‘cl... ...u see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel? LORD POLONIUS: By the mass, and ’tis like a camel, indeed. HAMLET: Methinks it is like a wease... ...Dies not alone; but, like a gulf, doth draw What’s near it with it: it is a massy wheel, Fix’d on the summit of the highest mount, To whose huge spok... ... Ay me, what act, That roars so loud, and thunders in the index? HAMLET: Look here, upon this picture, and on this, The counterfei...

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...HE MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS which I propose to lay before the public in this body of selections are in part to be re- garded as a republication of paper... ... much, at least, of originality as ought not to have been left open to any body in the nineteenth century. 3. CICERO.—This is not, as might be imagine... ...same circumstances—namely, when standing between an open window and a dead body on a summer day. Instantly, when my ear caught this vast Aeolian inton... ...g of horses’ heads from the deep gloom of the shady lane; the next was the mass of white pillows against which the dying patient was reclining. The he... ...ard his pres- ence in the field. This carelessness threw them into a dense mass, upon which my brother’s rapid eye saw instantly the opportunity offer... ... discharge, while his mouth was cov- 95 Autobiographic Sketches ered with masses of white foam. He looked most earnestly at myself and the group beyo... ...al insult of na- 264 Thomas de Quincey ture, the having given him a false index of character in his feminine beauty, and to take a pleasure in contra...

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... Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you.” “Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor,” murmured Holmes without opening his eyes. For many year... ... pounds a week for purely nominal services. All redheaded men who are sound in body and mind and above the age of twenty one years, are eligible. App... ...d become of the Red headed League. He said that he had never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan Ross was. He answered that the na... ...ich he opened for us. Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of windin... ...hich was piled all round 36 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes with crates and massive boxes. “You are not very vulnerable from above,” Holmes remarke... ...noply she peeped up in a nervous, hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her g... ...the way, is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you consult my index, in Andover in ’77, and there was something of the sort at The Ha... ... in the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the fireplace cross indexing his records of crime, while I at the other was deep in one of ... ...tep up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned paper, while the brass box sto...

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... certain regiments com- ing home from India; hedges we had, and a spirited body of yeomanry; and we had pluck and patriotism, the father and mother of... ...eally himself, and all that heart could de- sire, supposing he addressed a body of midshipmen just a little loftily. But the English, when translated,... ...d in increasing degrees, under a belief that we would fight neither in the mass nor individually. Possibly, if it became known that the colonels refus... ...g with fragments. It’s a devilish unlucky thing to attempt with a concrete mass. You might as well ask your 25 George Meredith head to absorb a wall ... ... disposed to receive a stone in his fore- skull, pummelled the obmutescent mass, to the confusion of a conceivable epic. His indifferent England refus... ...k hotel!’ sighed Everard; ‘and no more to the scoundrels over there than a body to be shov- elled into slack lime.’ Rosamund Culling was the only witn... ... months of the date of the demand for it: otherwise blank; but the shadowy index pointed to the destitution of Nevil Beauchamp. No stroke of retributi...

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...s been the longest, the least profitable, and the farthest inland. If this body of fresh water is so nigh, Ar- rowhead, and so large, one might think ... ...the transplanted bushes; made a few hasty steps backward; and, bending his body and carefully separating the branches, he appeared among them. “The ac... ...induced Mabel to place herself in such an attitude as concealed her entire body, though it would have probably exceeded his means to induce the girl s... ... be in the centre of the stream, the two shores were discernible merely by masses of obscurity denser than common, the outlines against the clouds bei... ...ort. CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XII Lo! dusky masses steal in dubious sight, Along the leaguer’d wall, and bristling ban... ...r up against it, the water falling on the deck of the little craft in such masses as to cause it to shake to the centre, and, though a vessel of singu... ...expert in tracing the working of the human mind might have seen a faithful index to the feelings of Mabel in her manner to Pathfinder and her husband....

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...cited more accurately and dozens Bostoned more smoothly. Every cell of her body was alive—thin wrists, quince-blossom skin, inge- nue eyes, black hair... ...hair. The other girls in her dormitory marveled at the slight- ness of her body when they saw her in sheer negligee, or darting out wet from a shower-... ...her, the smiling and shabby, the learned and teasingly kind, had come from Massachu- setts, and through all her childhood he had been a judge in Manka... ... in the cyclone of final examinations. The house of the president had been massed with palms suggestive of polite undertaking parlors, and in the li- ... ... day in library class she had to read a theme on the use of the Cumulative Index, and she was taken so seriously in the discussion that she put off he... ...m made her more than pause in thought. For months no male emerged from the mass. Then, at the Marburys’, she met Dr. Will Kennicott. CHAPTER II It was... ...thness of the satin back of his waist- coat, seem almost to creep into his body, find in him strength, find in the courage and kindness of her man a ... ...sleepy! I didn’t say he was honest. I said he had savvy enough to find the index in `Gray’s Anatomy,’ which is more than McGanum can do! But I didn’t ...

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...st awfully. A crowd of maids gathered along the upper corridor of the main body of the building: two or three foot- men hung lower down, bold in attit... ..., hush!’ and fastened on his small garments between tender huggings of his body and kissings of his cheeks. He was told that he had nothing to be afra... ...ul mixture of fun and tears. Great Will was extremely youthful, but every- body in the park called him, ‘Father William’; and when he wanted to know w... ...ar at morning prayers. ‘Ah,’ said T emple, ‘it’d make her sick to hear old Massacre praying.’ It had nearly made him sick, he added, and I im- mediate... ..., and four shillingsworth of toffy. T emple and I joined our apples to the mass: a sight at which some of the boys exulted aloud. The tramp-women insi... ...head to drop off at any instant: that I was deep down, wedged in the solid mass of the earth. But I need not repeat them: they were accurately transla... ...e of his wig and hat, too, constrained his skin, so that his looks were no index of his feelings. I longed gloom- ily for the moment to come when he w... ...d my hand to her. She stopped. A gipsy’s girl’s figure is often as good an index to her mind as her face, and I perceived that she had not taken my gr... ...looked in the direction of the princes, but his face was for the moment no index. They bowed to Janet, and began talking hurriedly in the triangle of ...

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... became aware that the moment for serious talk had ar- rived, and bent his body, groaning loudly, and uttering im- precations against him whom he accu... ...e executioner and pecu- niary penalties. Thick scars of wounds covered the body and disfigured the face of Giulio Bandinelli. Agostino had crawled but... ...Moors. To judge by your face, a Moor undoubt- edly: glib, slippery! with a body that slides and a soul that jumps. T aken altogether, more serpent tha... ... tors, nurses, friends,—a tight blanket if you fall from a house- top! and masses for your soul when your hour strikes. The treacherous cur lies rotti... ...ternation. The light lay like a 66 Vittoria blade’s sharp edge around the massive circle. Of Italians of a superior rank, Verona sent none to this re... ...hese shows of decay. It was a most noble face; a fortress face; strong and massive, and honourable in ruin, though stripped of every flower. This lady... ...from Carlo. “Hold fast to it that he means it: conduct is never a straight index where the heart’s involved,” said the chuckling old man; “or it is no...

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... presump- tive delinquent. It does not pretend to know the whole, or naked body of the facts; it knows enough for its furry dubi- ousness; and excepti... ...atements, excluding the adjectives, give his Mem- oirs the appearance of a body of facts, attractive to the his- toric Muse, which has learnt to estee... ...e grave, and trans- forms the quiet worms, busy on a single poor peaceable body, into winged serpents that disorder sky and earth with a deadly flight... ...e most dangerous of delusions, causing first the individual to despise the mass, and then to join the mass in crushing the individual. Where- with let... ...ere in the air-full of darts! Oh, that general whisper!—it makes a coup de massue—a gale to sink the bravest vessel: and a woman must preserve her smo... ...ve it,’ said the hog-worshipper; ‘that may be the house, I reckon.’ A dark mass of building, with the moon behind it, shining in spires through a moun... ...rest of him was all cloud. As usual with these conjurations of a face, the index of the nature conceived by him displayed itself, and no more; but he ... ...at of brow for her friend, the print of her features had been on him as an index of depth of character, imposing respect and admi- ration—a sentiment ...

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...ly up the steps leading to the ante-chamber. M. de Bragelonne had not had time to fasten his horse to the iron bars of the perron, when M. de Saint-Re... ...ck cone, seemingly with- out power to quit it, like the sweet memories which hover round a spirit at peace. 27 Dumas As he approached, he heard the n... ...religion of my fathers; they had hung Lord Montrose, the most devoted of my servants, because he was not a Covenanter; and as the poor martyr, to whom... ...ties in Scotland, in order that evidence of his 66 Ten Years Later – V ol. 1 fidelity might be met with everywhere, I could not leave one city, or go... ...ar Mousqueton, refresh your memory.” “With what day shall I begin?” “Eh, pardieux! begin with Sunday; that is the Lord’s day.” “Sunday, monsieur?” “Ye... ...s building. The doors had been burnt, some on the spot, and the charcoal of them was still jagged with the action of the fire, which had gone out of i... ...sty Charles II. to the throne of his ancestors.” This shade did not escape his cunning eminence. Mazarin was too much accustomed to mankind, not to se...

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...opped short in his op erations on being thus appealed to, and bawled ‘No body isn’t such a fool as to say he doosn’t, ’ after which he incapacitated... ...ly induced the idea that he had gone to bed in it. It consisted of a brown body coat with a great many brass buttons up the front and only one behind,... ...as to be quite a dwarf, though his head and face were large enough for the body of a giant. His black eyes were restless, sly, and cunning; his mouth ... ... was dark and lowering, save where the glory of the departing sun piled up masses of gold and burning fire, decaying embers of which gleamed here and ... ...ng at the throat, where it was fastened behind by a pecu liarly large and massive button. Feeling, no doubt, that simplicity and plainness are the so... ...rom which all domestic virtues spring, when they live in dense and squalid masses where so cial decency is lost, or rather never found—if they would ... ...ll expres sion from his face, and rendering it, as far as it afforded any index to his mood or meaning, a perfect blank. ‘Mr Quilp,’ said the single ...

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...ned down to a region of mills and warehouses; thence we passed through two massive gates into a great paved yard, and we were in Bigben Close, and the... ...eral bearing, had impressed me with the notion of some- thing powerful and massive; not at all:—my own features were cast in a harsher and squarer mou... ...ions, too; for I suspected his soul had more of will and ambition than his body had of fibre and muscle. Perhaps, in these incompatibilities of the “p... ...my mind from liberty and delight, I seized my hat, and forced my reluctant body out of the Hotel de —— into the foreign street. It was a fine day, but... ...sperate swine; and though not brave singly, they were relentless acting en masse. I understood that before my arrival in M. Pelet’s establish- ment, t... ... to Brussels to finish her education; she is of middle size, stiffly made, body long, legs short, bust much developed but not com- 81 Charlotte Bront... ...at least when I am present, is something extraor- dinary, considered as an index of girlish innocence. The mo- ment I enter the room, she nudges her n...