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...st, Statesman, Apology, and Crito). In the dialogue, Socrates discusses the nature of the afterlife on his last day before being executed by drinking hemlock. Socrates has been imprisoned and sentenced to death by an Athenian jury for not believing in the gods of the state and for corrupting the youth of the city. The dialogue is told from the perspective of one of Socrate...

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... wound its way toward the south through the real valley, by its borders of hemlock and pine, and by the vapor which arose from its warmer surface into... ...he village, and were accompanied, occasionally, by the ruin of a pine or a hemlock that had been stripped of its bark, and which waved in melancholy g... ... stood a little on one side, by the way of an altar. Branches of pines and hemlocks were stuck in each of the fissures that offered in the unseasoned ... ...ated on the margin of the lake, under a rock that was crowned by pines and hemlocks. At the next instant, the wild looking form entered the shadow cas... ...ost attracted the gaze of Miss T emple. The huge branches of the pines and hemlocks bent with the weight of the ice they supported, while their summit... ...rilliancy, from the first touch of the luminary to the dark foliage of the hemlock, glistening through its coat of crystal. In short, the whole view w... ..., until they reached an open wood on the summit of the mountain, where the hemlocks and pines totally disap- peared, and a grove of the very trees tha... ...der his enormous kettles, his little brush shelter, covered with pieces of hemlock bark, his gigantic size, as he wielded his ladle with a steady and ... ... the forest blended their shades with the permanent colors of the pine and hemlock; and even the buds of the tardy oak were swelling with the promise ...

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...nd fifty, sitting with pillows behind her, and look- ing out on a clump of hemlocks. She was very modest, very timid, and very ill; she made Eugenia f...

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... brooch: beneath an emerald plane Sits Diotima, teaching him that died Of hemlock; our device; wrought to the life; She rapt upon her subject, he on ...

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...nd thistles, and nettles, and darnels rank, And the dock, and henbane, and hemlock dank, _55 Stretched out its long and hollow shank, And st...

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...ut the tomb of Socrates, do you think the majority would not have voted to hemlock him?Y es:for the very same superstition which leads men by the nose...

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... one), it will be found flourishing as a Banyan-grove (perhaps, alas, as a Hemlock-forest!) af- ter a thousand years. “He who first shortened the labo...

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... from the Manitou. Look at the sun. He is now in the upper branches of the hemlock. Y our path is short and open. When he is seen above the trees, the...

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...rom the little jungle of rank plants before her, evil-smelling figwort and hemlock. But he explored into it. ‘I shall mow this down,’ he said, ‘and th...

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...was out to her; before she touched it she could feel its warmth— “Gosh all hemlock! What the dickens is all this stuff about, Carrie?” She was no Syri...

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...h of wolf, Witches mummy, maw and gulf Of the ravin‘d salt-sea shark, Root of hemlock digg‘d i‘ the dark, Liver of blaspheming Jew, Gall of goat,...

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...edom, as it frees it from the body. This is why Socrates could drink the hemlock so easily, because his belief was that he was going towards the l...

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...eeling of ineptitude slowly trickling through him like the numbing poison of hemlock. Then there would come those excoriations of his father telling ...

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...Ode to a Nightingale I My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains     My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains     One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: ’Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,     But being too happy in thine happiness,—         That thou, light-...

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...ed their trinkets, curious, He grasped, he bore away. What will the solemn hemlock, What will the fir-tree say? 92 XVIII TWO butterfli... ...e us, is sometimes caught Without her diadem. LXXXI I THINK the hemlock likes to stand Upon a marge of snow; It suits his own austerity, An... ...desert cloy,— An instinct for the hoar, the bald, Lapland’s necessity. The hemlock’s nature thrives on cold; The gnash of northern winds Is sweetest n... ...X HOW the old mountains drip with sunset, And the brake of dun! How the hemlocks are tipped in tinsel By the wizard sun! How the old steeples ha... ...ill rise 218 I think that the root of the Wind is Water, 277 I think the hemlock likes to stand 127 I took my power in my hand 39 I watched her fa...

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...foam. Bring the top of the dead oak in a line with the stem of the blasted hemlock.” Eau-douce made no answer; for the canoe was in the centre of the ... ...—look for a bird that I’ve shot that fell just beyond the thicket of young hemlocks on the shore; and, as Jasper is showing signs of an intention of g...

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... wolf, Witches’ mummy, maw and gulf Of the ravin’d salt sea shark, Root of hemlock digg’d i’ the dark, Liver of blaspheming Jew, Gall of goat, and sli...

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...away, but with a flute Her loneliness she cheers; This flute made of a hemlock stalk At evening in his homeward walk The Quantock Woodman hear...

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...g in his own. They stopped at a large white house, flanked with melancholy hemlocks, and passed through a little front garden, paved with moss-coated ...

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...been to spend my life wandering in the woods, smell ing the pines and the hemlock all day, and fresh things of all kinds, and no kitchen work to do,—...