...nsive to my aids. The gentlest leg movement produced beautiful tempis. He collected himself at the slightest resistance on the bit and performed a... ...hop for staff paper, and I to the saddlery for new reins and the cobbler to collect a pair of boots I’d had repaired. We spoke of small things, sim... ... ... surrounded me. “Perhaps,” I suggested, “You are in need of a valet?” I collected the soap from its niche. 32 In response, Erik dipped under wat... ...ath, but I wanted to be near Erik. At last, Erik stepped out of the tub and collected thick Turkish towels from the dressing room. He brought them ... ...o see her. I examined my reflection in the cheval glass one last time before collecting my wrap, and then decided to reread Erik’s brief note one las... ...ar turn. Zareh tapped at my door. “Mademoiselle Claire, it is time to go.” I collected my wrap and went downstairs, where Zareh handed me into the car... ... ended, Erik once again absented himself. When the performance was over, I collected my wrap. The same usher opened the draperies for me. “Did you... ... Erik stepped out of the carriage first, assisted me in alighting, and then collected a valise from within. “I think, good Daroga,” he said to Zareh... ... be safe in my company tonight. Perhaps you could come tomorrow morning to collect me?” Zareh smiled his assent and clucked to Josephine, who trotte...

...The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth collects the entirety of Wordsworth's verse, presenting it more or less chronologically and, as carefully as possible, the way was intended to be heard by the author, complete with the va...

... “Ye es! I usually walk here early. Before the court sits. It’s retired. I collect my thoughts here for the business of the 52 Bleak House – Vol. One... ...hort in comparison with Chan cery proceedings that, one by one, the whole collection has died over and over again. I doubt, do you know, whether one ... ...s kind, but of course I begged her to be quiet and not disturb any one and collected myself, as I followed her quickly upstairs, sufficiently to consi... ...They threw them selves into committees in the most impassioned manner and collected subscriptions with a vehemence quite extraordi nary. It appeared... ...it on a busy day in term time, with all its records, rules, and precedents collected in it and every func tionary belonging to it also, high and low,... ...at kindred mystery, the street mud, which is made of nobody knows what and collects about us nobody knows whence or how—we only knowing in general tha... ...es, faces of threescore and ten that will not submit to be old; the entire collection of faces that have come to pass a January week or two at Chesney... ... more about a subject so far removed from my Lady’s station. “Certainly, a collection of horrors,” says my Lady, gather ing up her mantles and furs, ... ...eepskin, Plunder, Precedent, Jargon, Gammon, and Spinach. That’s the whole collection,” said the old man, “all cooped up together, by my noble and lea...

... “Ye es! I usually walk here early. Before the court sits. It’s retired. I collect my thoughts here for the business of the 52 Bleak House – Dickens ... ...hort in comparison with Chan cery proceedings that, one by one, the whole collection has died over and over again. I doubt, do you know, whether one ... ...s kind, but of course I begged her to be quiet and not disturb any one and collected myself, as I followed her quickly upstairs, sufficiently to consi... ...They threw them selves into committees in the most impassioned manner and collected subscriptions with a vehemence quite extraordi nary. It appeared... ...it on a busy day in term time, with all its records, rules, and precedents collected in it and every func tionary belonging to it also, high and low,... ...at kindred mystery, the street mud, which is made of nobody knows what and collects about us nobody knows whence or how—we only knowing in general tha... ...es, faces of threescore and ten that will not submit to be old; the entire collection of faces that have come to pass a January week or two at Chesney... ... more about a subject so far removed from my Lady’s station. “Certainly, a collection of horrors,” says my Lady, gather ing up her mantles and furs, ... ...eepskin, Plunder, Precedent, Jargon, Gammon, and Spinach. That’s the whole collection,” said the old man, “all cooped up together, by my noble and lea...

...friends, saying, “Do not go yet; we will have a snug little supper.” These collect in some small room. The second, the real party, now begins; a party... ..., ‘there has been a rage for marking linen with hair; happily I had a fine collection of hair and skilled needlewomen,’—on hearing this a suspicion fl... ...olo- nel, one of the most extraordinary men I ever saw among all the mixed collection of men it has been my lot to meet. He was an Italian. Now, whene...

...you were some rare and precious prize, instead of a common boaster. You are a common fellow, and a common boaster.’ ‘Pooh, pooh,’ says Edwin Drood, eq... ...ht. But he only thought it, because Mr. Grewgious came and stood himself with his back to the other corner of the fire, and his shoulder-blades agains... ...in his company, and he is not to be found.’ ‘Not to be found!’ cried Neville, aghast. ‘Stay, stay,’ said Mr. Crisparkle. ‘Permit me, Jasper. Mr. Nevil... ...heir nightgowns at the last moment, like children shirking bed), and comes John Jasper leading their line. Last of all comes Mr. Datchery into a stall...

...s, the vigour and perseverance with which I have for some months past been collecting materials for, and hammering away at, a new book on America has ... ...epticism should be crushed and beaten flat. As a goodly tumulus is already collected, and decently battened up above the Family grave, the present cha... ...cannot get near her sister. The youngest gentleman in company is pale, but collected, and still sits apart; for his spirit loves to hold commun- ion w... ..., strangely attired, was seen to flutter on the top landing. He desired to collect their sentiments, it seemed, upon the nature of human life. ‘My fri... ... orphan will repeat the remainder of that simple piece from Doctor Watts’s collection, an eligible opportunity now offers.’ Nobody volunteered. ‘This ... ...a dreary waste of dining-table reaching from end to end, and a bewildering collection of cane- bottomed chairs. In the further region of this banqueti... ...ckets; but within the house and without, wherever half a dozen people were collected together, there, in their looks, dress, morals, manners, habits, ... ...nt, in others a wine-merchant, in others a commis- sion-agent, in others a collector, in others an accountant; as if he really didn’t know the secret ... ... was wrapping him in cloaks and shawls, and asked her whether he was quite collected in his mind. ‘Oh bless you, no!’ said Mrs Gamp. ‘He hates his nus...

...ey but now glowed green. Anna stopped at her apartment only long enough to collect her jacket and handbag. She caught the number 6 cross-town bus fr... ...s. She smiled in spite of herself as she stood up from the swing set and collected her purse. She caught a return bus and went back to her apartmen... ...ey were all routine letters of appreciation for donations to the museum's collection. Many of the items in question would be consigned to storage ro...

...Author Sharon E. Cathcart ("In The Eye of The Beholder," "Les Pensees Dangereuses") presents a sampler of essays and short fiction. The collection features "Heart of Stone," a short story never previously published. ...

... He died: and most unluckily, because, According to all hints I could collect From counsel learned in those kinds of laws (Although their... .... ‘My breast has been all weakness, is so yet; But still I think I can collect my mind; My blood still rushes where my spirit ‘s set, As r... ... appears a stiff yet grand erection; But then the Abbey ‘s worth the whole collection. The line of lights, too, up to Charing Cross, Pall Mall... ... daily proof display’d In senates, at the bar, in wordy feud, Where’er collective wisdom can parade, Which is the only cause that we can guess...

...ses that you would think de serving of the name. A town was nothing but a collection of straw covered huts, hidden in a thick wood, with a ditch all ... ...ry; and exercised such power over the neighbouring British princes, and so collected them about the King, that once, when the King held his court at C... ...son Sweyn, hastily raised as many fighting men as their utmost power could collect, and demanded to have Count Eustace and his followers sur rendered... ...e the Royal banner from the English Knights and soldiers, still faithfully collected round their blinded King. The King received a mortal wound, and d... ...Canter bury, which belonged to the family of Ranulf de Broc. They quietly collected some followers here, A Child’s Histroy of England 104 in case th... ...there was nothing that King Philip desired more than to invade England, he collected a A Child’s Histroy of England 134 great army at Rouen, and a fl... ... A Child’s Histroy of England 178 they separated; the King went to York to collect a force of soldiers; and the favourite shut him self up, in the me... ...government officers, killed some of them. At this very time one of the tax collectors, going his rounds from house to house, at Dartford in Kent came ... ...s at home, declared that she was under the age of fourteen; upon that, the collector (as other collectors had already done in different parts of Engla...

................................................................................................. 277 Chapter XXIV Of Collective Ideas of Substances ....... ...agacious heads, light at first on these observations, and reduce them into general propo- sitions: not innate, but collected from a preceding ac- quai... ...eping to the old religion of China, and the ruling party there, are all of them athe- ists. Vid. Navarette, in the Collection of Voyages, vol. i., and... ...al custom, alters the appearances into their causes. So that from that which is truly variety of shadow or colour, collecting the figure, it makes it ... ... a combination of several ideas of several kinds: and these I call mixed modes. 6. Ideas of substances, single or collective. Secondly, the ideas of ... ..., as of a man or a sheep; the other of several of those put to- gether, as an army of men, or flock of sheep—which collective ideas of several substan... ...bers. By the repeating, as has been said, the idea of an unit, and joining it to another unit, we make thereof one collective idea, marked by the name... ...ctive idea, marked by the name two. And whosoever can do this, and pro- ceed on, still adding one more to the last collective idea which he had of any... ... the last collective idea which he had of any number, and gave a name to it, may count, or have ideas, for several collections of units, distinguished...

...e devo- tion to his task of an artist. Twenty years and more he labored in collecting his material. He speaks frankly of his methods. He recorded the ... ...nty beforehand, whether what may seem trifling to some, and perhaps to the collector himself, may not be most agreeable to many; and the greater numbe... ...nson one morning put the common prayer-book into his hands, pointed to the collect for the day, and said, ‘Sam, you must get this by heart.’ She went ... ...nd Skinner, and others; and there is a Welch gentleman who has published a collection of Welch proverbs, who will help me with the Welch. Adams. But, ... ... with great taste. Here was an excellent library; particularly, a valuable collection of books in Northern litera- ture, with which Johnson was often ... ...he Queen’s house. He had frequently visited those splendid rooms and noble collection of books, which he used to say was more numerous and curious tha... ...Second.’ At Sir Joshua Reynolds’s, where a circle of Johnson’s friends was collected round him to hear his account of this memorable conversa- tion, D... ...upped at the Crown and Anchor tavern, in the Strand, with a company whom I collected to meet him. They were Dr. Percy, now Bishop of Dromore, Dr. Doug... ...y and simplicity of behaviour. I told him that David Hume had made a short collection of Scotticisms. ‘I wonder, (said Johnson,) that he should find t...

... greatly. Everyone above fif- teen years old had to pay fourpence, and the collectors were often very rude and insolent. A man named Wat Tyler, in Ken... ...ude and insolent. A man named Wat Tyler, in Kent, was so angry with a rude collector as to strike him dead. All the villagers came together with stick... ... in England, and their wives went backwards and forwards to their homes to collect their rents, and ob- tain something to live upon. The bishops and c...

... possession of land is not without obligation both to the soil and the tax-collector; the possession of fine clothing is op- pressed by obligation; go... ...hout soothing her. Supposing he had soothed her warmly? All her sentiments collected in her bo- som to dash in reprobation of him at the thought. She ... ...ld have flown all to pieces, so that it took Bardett and me ten minutes to collect every one, down to the smallest piece there was; and he said, and I... ... of the scenes they witnessed. They were but anxious observers, diligently collecting. She fancied Clara susceptible to his advice: he had fancied it,... ...ings to go and buy those bird’s eggs and the butterflies you want for your collection; and mind, promise me, to-day is your last day of truancy. Tell ... ...race? I suppose he’s taking a final shot at his Book of Anecdotes and neat collection of Irishisms.” “No,” replied the colonel, descending. “That’s a ... ...s. Mountstuart mildly gaped. “I want a new description of her. You know, I collect your mottoes and sentences.” “It seems to me she is coming three pa... ...st burglar, who must have a nuptial soul in him, for wherever there’s that collection on view, he’s never a league off. And ’tis said he knows a lady’... ...She will be in a fitter state in a few hours. Spare me this moment; I must collect myself. I thought I was free; I thought he would not press me. If I...

...A complete collection of the poems of William Blake. Blake (1757-1827) was an English poet, engraver, and painter. Early in his life, his unique and deceptively simple poems marked the beginning of Romanticism, particularly those from h...

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...sive as these libraries were, neither allowed access to the general public. The great renaissance libraries that followed were much the same; private collections for the wealthy and intellectual elite. The first truly public, lending library was founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1731. This library allowed anyone to borrow, member or not, but required that non-members ...

...s by Robert Louis Stevenson PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in... ...ter his return – a letter to my mind among the most degrading in the whole collection – a letter which seems to have been inspired by a boastful, libe... ...recommendation, like that other famous one which Hawthorne prefixed to his collected tales, is in itself a character of the work. Every one who has be... ...oks of his that will be read with much pleasure: the Week, Walden, and the collected letters. As to his poetry, Emerson’s word shall suffice for us, i... ...ria Affectuum Se Immiscentium Controversiae de Gynaecocratia. It is in his collected prefaces, Leipsic, 1683. 192 Robert Louis Stevenson ties of thos... ... yet, because the time was not ripe, I find no hint of such an idea in his collected works. Now, the regiment of women was another matter that he shou... ...that I can remember to have seen in all the five volumes of the Reformer’s collected works: it is no small honour to Mrs. Locke that his affection for... ..., “in quairs,” as he calls it; asks her to assist him with her prayers, to collect money for the good cause in Scotland, and to send him books for him...

...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best ...