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... Son. [Goethe quotes the beginning of this song in his Autobiog- raphy, as expressing the manner in which his poetical effusions used to pour out from... ...ring, Our coat and breast to dight. Say if a better fate can e’er A son of Mars pursue! ‘Midst tears at length we go from there, Beloved and honour’d ... ...t! I murmur— Go! let me murmur. Oh, worthy man, Fly from this land! Deadly marshes, Steaming mists of October Here interweave their currents, Blending... ... on, And with the sparrows Long have the wealthy Settled themselves in the marsh. Easy ’tis following the chariot That by Fortune is driven, Like the ... ...71 Goethe The anthill’s ravings bring to view; But thou shalt see all this express’d, As though ‘twere in a magic chest. Write these things down for f... ...ing to embrace with bliss. 1807. 282 Goethe EPIGRAMS. In these numbers be express’ d Meaning deep, ‘neath merry jest. TO ORIGINALS. A FELLOW says: “I... ...DERER. [Published in the Gottingen Musen Almanach, having been written “to express his feelings and caprices” after his separa- tion from Frederica.] ... ...here water to draw, when by the god she was seiz’ d. Thus were the sons of Mars begotten! The twins did a she- wolf Suckle and nurture,—and Rome call’... ...r. Thou a greybeard art—so I am; Land and men we make to stiffen. Thou art Mars! And I Saturnus,— Both are evil-working planets, When united, horror-f...

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... larger army than ever, and made prodigious efforts for the next campaign. Marshal Berwick was with the French this year; and we heard that Mareschal ... ...nd his sovereign were born. 14 Henry Esmond – Book Three However desirous Marshal Villars might be to fight, my Lord Duke did not seem disposed to in... ...n’s caresses were more opportune than his Grace’s, and no man ever uttered expressions of regard and affection more generously. He professed to Monsie... ...ue should peep out. He chose 15 Thackeray to restrict himself to such few expressions in the French lan- guage as he thought he had mastered easily; ... ...u benisse votre honor,” that would infallibly have sent him to the provost-marshal had he been on our side of the river. Whilst this parley was going ... ...mph in the opera-machine go up to the clouds at the end of the piece where Mars, Bacchus, Apollo, and all the divine company of Olympians are seated, ... ...fortune. The great Mr. Pope (of whose prodigious genius I have no words to express my admiration) was quite a puny lad at this time, appearing seldom ... ...ire the taste of this pretty thing.” I 72 Henry Esmond – Book Three think Mars and V enus were lying in the golden bower, that one gilt Cupid carried... ...country which he one day was to govern. Nothing but the strongest ill will expressed by the Queen, and the people about her, and menaces of the Royal ...

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...ntly shading his face with it. Mr. Redlaw stopped in his walk ing, and an expression of interest appeared in him. “What I always say myself, sir. She... ... appalling copy of his face looking where his face looked, and bearing the expression his face bore. This, then, was the Something that had passed and... ...ve and confidence that in my earlier youth had had no outlet, and found no expression, I bestowed on him.” “Not all,” said Redlaw, hoarsely. “No, not ... ... answered Redlaw, “whose hollow look and voice I dread more than words can express, and from whom some dim foreshadowing of greater fear is steal ing... ... astonishment will be the portion of that respected contemporary!” — which expression Mr. Tetterby selected from his screen. “Johnny, my child, take c... ...l directions. At one time, four after me at once; two of them were sons of Mars.” “We’re all sons of Ma’s, my dear,” said Mr. Tetterby, “jointly with ...

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...embraced together. Villanous thoughts, Roderigo! when these mutualities so marshal the way, hard at hand comes the master and main exercise, the inco... ...nd did forsake her: she had a song of ‘willow;’ An old thing ’twas, but it express’d her fortune, And she died singing it: that song to night Will not... ...home: Quick, quick; fear nothing; I’ll be at thy elbow: It makes us, or it mars us; think on that, And fix most firm thy resolution. RODERIGO: Be nea...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Marseilles -- The Arrival. On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding th...

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...3 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas [Père] Volume One Chapter 1 Marseilles — The Arrival. ON THE 24TH OF F EBRUARY, 1810, the look-out at N... ...of Fort Saint- Jean were covered with spectators; it is always an event at Marseilles for a ship to come into port, especially when this ship, like th... ...d us to lose a day and a half at the Island of Elba, instead of making for Marseilles direct.” “As to taking command of the vessel,” replied Morrel, “... ...ast instructions of Captain Leclere, who, when dying, gave me a packet for Marshal Bertrand.” “Then did you see him, Edmond?” “Who?” “The marshal.” “Y... ...judge from the sight of him.” “You saw the emperor, then?” “He entered the marshal’s apartment while I was there.” “And you spoke to him?” “Why, it wa... ... also watching the young sailor, — but there was a great difference in the expression of the two men who thus followed the movements of Edmond Dantes.... ...f his neighbor. “Eh,” he said, negligently. “this money is not mine. I was expressing to my father my fears that he had wanted many things in my absen... ... words, which are the tokens of a joy so extreme that they seem rather the expression of sorrow. Suddenly Edmond saw the gloomy, pale, and threatening... ...eir usual sinister smile. Neither Mercedes nor Edmond observed the strange expression of his countenance; they were so happy that they were conscious ...

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...per- petually over the future. Her cold but ingenuous beauty, her touching expression, her freshness and purity, prevented Birotteau from thinking of ... ...rruption of the language to say armoires. Potier, T alma, and Mademoiselle Mars were ten times millionaires, and did not live like other human beings;... ...ike other human beings; the great tragedian ate raw meat, and Mademoiselle Mars sometimes drank dissolved pearls, in imitation of a celebrated Egyptia... ...ace was rather pleasant at first sight; but later, on closer acquaintance, expressions were caught such as come to the surface of those who are ill at... ...revealed, by the lines of its wrinkles and by the general character of its expression, the ingenuous craftiness of a peasant. The strength of his body... ...his face showed, to the eyes of an observer, certain haggard lines, and an expression of weariness in the pursuit of pleasure. When a man plunges into... ...I’ve done.” Anselme fell into position like a soldier presenting arms to a marshal of France. “Popinot, I have invented an oil to stimulate the growth... ...e article-Paris! Finot wrote a su- perb comedy in one act for Mademoiselle Mars, most glori- ous of the glorious!—ah, there’s a woman I love!—Well, in... ...u surely don’t mean to invite the two Messieurs de Vandenesse, Monsieur de Marsay, Monsieur de Ronquerolles, Monsieur d’Aiglemont, in short, all your ...

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... simply have bowed po- 4 The Wheels of Chance litely, and with a drooping expression, and making a kind of circular sweep, invited you to “step this ... ...biton. Whoop for Freedom and Adventure! Every now and then a house with an expression of sleepy surprise would open its eye as he passed, and to the r... ...h a sudden approval on the ornamental chequering of his new stockings. The expression in his eyes faded slowly to abstract meditation. “She was a stun... ...felt she disapproved—that she despised him, was overcome with shame at her expression, turned his back upon her, and began (very clumsily) to mount. H... ...standing at the edge of the pavement and regarding him with a very curious expression of face. There came into Mr. Hoopdriver’s head the curious prob-... ...ont wheel began an apparently incur- able squeaking. He felt as a man from Mars would feel if he were suddenly transferred to this planet, about three...

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...and the two works have the same kind of relation to each other, if he may so express himself, as the Ante chapel has to the body of a Gothic church. C... ...rst Paradise whence man was driven; 110 And sky, whose beauty and bounty are expressed By the proud name she bears—the name of Heaven. I called on bot... ...I play the loiterer: ’tis enough to note That here in dwarf proportions were expressed 585 The limbs of the great world; its eager strifes Collaterall... ...ry clime; and, next, those sights that ape The absolute presence of reality, Expressing, as in mirror, sea and land, And what earth is, and what she h... ... haste, each spot of old or recent fame, The latter chiefly, from the field of Mars 45 Down to the suburbs of St. Antony, And from Mont Martre southward... ...e, Endowed by Nature with her fairest gifts Of symmetry and light and bloom, expressed, 150 As much as any that was ever seen, A ravage out of season,...

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...m the Indian Caucasus to the Aegaeus, from the Caspian to the Red Sea, was marshalling his forces against the little free states that nestled amid the... ...possible to cross from one territory to the other without going round this marshy coast road. This was, therefore, an excellent place to defend. The G... ...d since he braced himself to perish for his country’s sake in that narrow, marshy coast road, under the brow of the wooded crags, with the sea by 37 ... ...te which has be- come a proverb, that on hearing a friend, named Damocles, express a wish to be in his situation for a single day, he took him at his ... ..., and dog-headed monsters, to have a scorching sun overhead, and a noisome marsh under their feet. However, Regulus sternly put a stop to all murmurs,... ...htly more civilized from intercourse with the Greek colony at Massilia, or Marseilles. But they had become borderers upon the Roman dominions, and the... ...y surprise by the murder. However, there was no mercy for him; and, by the express command of Queen Agnes, after he had been bound upon one wheel, and... ...cuing his brother; but it was soon 144 A Book of Golden Deeds followed by express orders from the King that Henrique should give up all such projects... ... of the King and his saintly sister, Elizabeth, while the Queen gratefully expressed her thanks, and the King stood by, with tears in his eyes, but wi...

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...ark-blue eyes filled with tenderness,—in short, at the whole counte- nance expressive of placidity,—has asked the great artist, “Is that a copy of a R... ... who had no eye for the moral value of a countenance, wore rather a sullen expression during his childhood. The features, which developed later in lif... ...t him for a time, the pupils were struck with his persistency and with the expression of his face. They asked him what he wanted. Joseph answered that... ... won the cross of an officer of the Legion of honor—he happened to be near Marshal Davoust at Saint-Denis, and was not with the army of the Loire. In ... ...rm of the dragoons of the Guard, command- ing his squadron on the Champ de Mars? Agathe, notwithstanding this preference, was an excellent mother. She... ...ilitary brutality; but he never concealed the contempt he felt for Joseph,—expressing it, however, in a friendly way. When he looked at his brother, w... ...chery in these days.” “Philippe is cut from the wood the Emperor made into marshals,” said Du Bruel, in a low voice, looking cautiously about him; “an... ... ter than go to Paris and ask for his rank as major and for his cross. The marshal who was at that time minister of war remembered the brave conduct o... ...peror says that you will know how to win it at the first chance,” said the marshal. In fact, the Emperor did put the brave captain on his list for dec...

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...d. The Sabbath was observed strictly by the majority of the emigrants. I heard an old woman express her surprise that ‘the ship didna gae doon,’ as sh... ...mely cast, the eye both reassured and touched. It was large and very dark and soft, with an expression of dumb endurance, as if it had often looked on... ... and his pride belonged, you might say, to the nose; while it was the general shiftlessness expressed by the other that had thrown him from situation ... ...k-set, and grizzled with years; but the shift- ing and coarse shadows concealed from us the expression and even the design of his face. So soon as the... ...rward to his bunk. T wo of his neighbours in the steerage had now come to our assis- tance, expressing loud sorrow that such ‘a fine cheery body’ shou... ...at have gone south in autumn, returning with the spring to find thousands camped upon their marshes, and the lamps burning far and near along populous... ...uninterrupted carol of larks innumerable overhead, and, from a field where the shepherd was marshalling his flock, a sweet tumultuous tinkle of sheep-... ... no other than Father Jove, and the young dragoon with the taste for music either Apollo or Mars. MORALITY STRANGE INDEED is the attraction of the for... ... must the ear be forgotten: without birds a garden is a prison-yard. There is a garden near Marseilles on a steep hill-side, walking by which, upon a ...

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...a slender, brown-haired, New England girl, whose percep- tions of form and expression were wonderfully clear and deli- cate. “If there is any differen... ...work of art; it must be described, however inadequate may be the effort to express its magic peculiarity in words. The Faun is the marble image of a y... ...ures has often no keeping with itself; to an eye, at least, which looks at expression more than outline. How sad and sombre he has grown all of a sudd... ...a cottage door. Always it was the same figure, and always depicted with an expression of deep sadness; and in every instance, slightly as they were br... ...f which there are auto- biographical characteristics, so to speak,—traits, expressions, loftinesses, and amenities, which would have been invisible, h... ...traight way , in order to glance at the ponderous remains of the temple of Mars Ultot, within which a convent of nuns is now estab- lished,—a dove-cot...

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... neglecting his dutie and his honour at such a time (whose name I will not expresse), having chid- den him, did promise to reveale him unto me, as he ... ...Estates and the Kirk of Scotland conceived, that such 26 Sir Walter Scott expressions necessarily inferred the establishment of Presbytery; nor were ... ...mentary forces to besiege Y ork, and to fight the desperate action of Long-Marston Moor, in which Prince Rupert and the Marquis of Newcastle were de- ... ... some hastened to take the horses of the strangers, while others waited to marshal them a way into the dwelling-house. But Captain Dalgetty refused th... ... here.” The Laird now, colouring highly, took Menteith a little apart, and expressed to him his regret that he had fallen into a foolish blunder. “I h... ... days, as there is no knowing when he may come by another meal.” The Laird expressed his acquiescence in the prudence of this principle, and recommend... ...yllable of their salvage gibberish, an it were to save me from the provost-marshal.” “I will be your surety, Captain Dalgetty,” said Sir Duncan, who h... ...on which the Highlander, lately his guard, became his gentleman-usher, and marshalled him to the hall, where a table with four covers bore ample proof... ...Duke of Alva in former times had the leaguer- lasses who followed his camp marshalled into tertias (whilk me call regiments), and officered and comman...

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... and modes of thought: In some stanzas of ‘Childe Harold’ this sympathy is expressed with truth and power; especially is the weakness of the Swiss phi... ...lts and its beauties are on the surface; Rousseau’s own estimate is freely expressed at the beginning of the eleventh book of the Confessions and else... ...iments. Incessantly occupied with Rome and Athens, conversing, if I may so express myself with their illustrious heroes; born the citizen of a republi... ...n, on being obliged to hesitate, than to see Miss Lambercier’s countenance express disapprobation and uneasiness. This alone was more afflicting to me... ...et, though invol- untary wish to his disadvantage. T wo years ago, My Lord Marshal would have put my name in his will, which I took every method to pr... ...d to supply that defect by coolness and intrepidity. I had read, too, that Marshal Schomberg was remarkably shortsighted, and why might not Marshal Ro... ...ughts wandering among my dear sheep-folds, renouncing forever the labor of Mars. How much did Paris disappoint the idea I had formed of it! The exteri... ...f the regiment of Orleans, since Plenipotentiary of Geneva, and afterwards Marshal of France, to whom she presented me. On her recommendation, he appe... ... person, the captain of a merchant-ship. This was one Captain Olivet, from Marseilles; the name of the vessel I have forgotten. His men had quarreled ...

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...low of the cheek, more fitted to withstand assaults of the weather than to express sentiments and emotions, or to respond to them in others. “It is a ... ...demning her other- wise, for if Rachel were ever to think, feel, laugh, or express herself, instead of dropping milk from a height as though to see wh... ...bout the old woman and her sheets. Mrs. Chailey folded her sheets, but her expression tes- tified to flatness within. The world no longer cared about ... ... pleasant things about the course of the world. As for the confidences and expressions of love that were heard not only in cornfields but in lamplit r... ...e the washstand reflected her head and shoulders. In the glass she wore an expression of tense melancholy, for she had come to the depressing conclusi... ...tic sheep-dog. By means of a few words of caustic Latin he had the animals marshalled, and by inclining a sharp shoulder he lifted the ladies. “What H... ...y be very dull to die before they have discovered whether there is life in Mars,” Miss Allan added. “Do you really believe there’s life in Mars?” aske...

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...intellec- tual powers with the charming simplicity of childhood, he openly expressed his surprise at the new and wonderful things which he saw, and th... ...lle and asked for Albertine. The sleeping damsel was roused, and to her he expressed his wish to speak with her mistress. Mme. de Bargeton had scarcel... ... said she; “you do not love me.” Lucien looked at her with such a dolorous expression, that in spite of herself, she said: “Darling, I will stay if yo... ...meness due to a fineness of contour, and a certain dignity of carriage and expression; though, at the same time, each one differed from the rest in th... ...ox, one after another. The most striking feature of the first comer, M. de Marsay, famous for the passions which he had inspired, was his girl- ish be... ...gly. Nothing, moreover, so far had brought out the poet’s merits; while de Marsay, with his flow of spirits, his confidence in his power to please, an... ...clothes as new and unfamiliar as his surroundings, was likely to cut in de Marsay’s vicinity. De Marsay with his wit and charm of man- ner was privile... ...ble, intellectual, and modest, had none of the characteristics on which de Marsay prided himself, and owed his success to diametrically opposed qualit... ... four newcomers all looked at Lucien while the Mar- quise was speaking. De Marsay, only a couple of paces away, put up an eyeglass and looked from Luc...

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...floods, when night begins to shadow them. The side-view of his face was an expression of classic beauty rarely now to be beheld, either in classic lan... ...e the Chief for his approval, with a careful con- struction, that upon the expression of any doubt of its work- ing smoothly in the streets of Milan, ... ...m her head. The full and steady con- templative eyes had taken their fixed expression, after a van- ishing affectionate gaze of an instant cast upon A... ... fervidly upon the signorina. Her look, which was fastened upon the Chief, expressed a mind that listened to strange matter concerning her very little... ...e trick? Be silent.” “Be silent!” echoed Carlo. “Do you remember the beast Marschatska’s bet?” The allusion was to a black incident con- cerning a you... ...He was the bearer of a verbal despatch from the commandant in Milan to the Marshal in Verona. At that period great favour was shown to Englishmen in t... ...le being a General of distinction, he had a sort of semi-attachment to the Marshal’s staff, and was hurried to and fro, for the purpose of keeping him... ...ms was one that Italian lyrists applied naturally to Verona. The old Field-Marshal and chief commander of the Aus- trian forces in Lombardy, prompted ... ...for skill with his weapons. He waltzed admirably; erect as under his Field-Marshal’s eye. In the lan- guage of his brother officers, he was successful...

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...nod- ded to her brother and sister, showed that liveliness was the natural expression of that engaging face. Say what they would, it was evident that ... ...th the soft- ness of long dark eyelashes—beautiful eyes, full of light and expression—and as she moved towards the table, there was a finish and delic... ...ss might not be so much from want of compunction, as from want of power to express it. Oh! for a consultation with her brother. But he and his wife we... ...ful countenance I ever saw, full of life and joy; and there were wonderful expressions in the eyes when he was thinking or listening. He used to read ... ...nd anything she said, while she enfolded Sophy in an agitated embrace, and marshalled them to the drawing-room, where the chief of the apologies were ... ...best light. ‘A snipe,’ said Albinia. ‘A snipe that I killed in the Pontine marshes.’ ‘There is very good shooting about Anxur,’ said Albinia. ‘You hav... ... had he known that it had been cemented by inveigling poor Mr. Hope into a marsh in search of cotton-grass, which, at Gilbert’s instigation, Algernon ... ...s a great feat of swiftness, I assure you, to run so lightly through those marshy mead- ows, so as to get the start of the runaway; then he crept up u... ...hant for the man of action, and the brothers-in-law were drawing together. Mars, the great geographical master, was but opening his gloomy school on t...

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...rabineer on the mountain-ledge below, who drops on his back with a hellish expression. Browny was then clearly seen all round, instead of only front-f... ... Ormont and Murat were both springing to the saddle at the same time—one a Marshal, the other a lieutenant; one a king, to be off his throne any day, ... ...removed. Two boys at his heels piled ammunition. The sides met midway of a marshy ground, where a couple of flat and shelving banks, formed for a broa... ... soldier- nobles, comporting themselves as imitative servants of their god Mars, on the fields of love and war, stood necessarily prepared to vindicat... ... lively to shoot their meaning when the trap-mouth was active; effectively expressing 50 Lord Ormont and His Aminta promptitute for combat, pleasure ... ...n- tempt at heart for the writer who had that woman-scented reputation and expressed himself so poorly. The sentiment was outside of reason. We do, ne... ... taken that pronunciation of her name for a test of people’s breeding. The expression of 66 Lord Ormont and His Aminta his lordship’s countenance und... ...r malady. The best antidote she could hit on was the writer’s face. Yet it expressed him, his fire and his courage—gifts she respected in him, found w... ...or was it a wonder that the naturally enamoured old war- rior or invalided Mars (for she had the gift of beauty) should deem it prudent to be out of E...

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...an abject slave. When he had gone to its farthest limit, when it failed to express his ideas or feel- ings, he forced it—the result was a new term, or... ...were, educated with him. I was younger than he by eight months; and if the expression be allowed in speak- ing of young people, so unequal in position... ...hown. At a visit paid to the Jesuits, they pretended to show every- thing, expressing, however, surprise and something more, that their bare word was ... ...nt. I found everybody m clusters, and great as- 18 Saint-Simon tonishment expressed upon every face. Madame was walk- ing in the gallery with Chateau... ...ommenced these memoirs, incited by the pleasure I took in reading those of Marshal 46 Saint-Simon Bassompierre, which invited me thus to write what I... ...ed the service of the Prince of Orange, and who was, with the exception of Marshal Schomberg, the only Huguenot to whom the King offered the permissio... ... with full liberty to practise his religion in secret. This, Ruvigny, like Marshal Schomberg, refused. He was, never- theless, allowed to retain the p... ...ad taken refuge, with his wife, in Den- mark, where he had been made grand marshal and com- mander of all the troops. One day, as the Comte de Roye wa... ...ng that might vex him, and without showing any more displeasure, turned to Marshal Catinat, said he was delighted with an explanation which showed tha...