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...rs to a period towards the end of the reign of Richard I., when his return from his long captivity had become an event rather wished than hoped for by... ... of their less powerful neighbours, who attempted to separate them- selves from their authority, and to trust for their protection, during the dangers... ...r- anny of the nobility, and the sufferings of the inferior classes, arose from the consequences of the Conquest by Duke Will- iam of Normandy . Four ... ..., who now recognised his friend of the forest; “I will assure you from all deaths but a violent one, if you give such directions to wayfarers, as you ... ...en he reaches England.—How looked he, stranger, when you last saw him? Had disease laid her hand heavy upon his strength and comeliness?” “He was dark... ...e and his guest were performing, at the full extent of their very powerful lungs, an old drinking song, of which this was the burden:— “Come, trowl th... ...as at the hottest, the Jester began to shout, with the utmost power of his lungs, “Saint George and the dragon!—Bonny Saint George for merry England!—... ... years since, when residing at York, he was suddenly afflicted with a sore disease, while labouring for Isaac the rich Jew, in his vocation of a joine... ...im.—God be judge between him and me! but rather would I submit to ten such deaths as your pleasure may denounce against me, than listen to the suit wh...

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...y continued to regard the swelling bulks with expressions that had changed from indifference to disapproval. Mr. T om Smallways was a green-grocer by ... ...of the coming of the Crystal Palace. The Crystal Palace was six miles away from Bun Hill, a great facade that glittered in the morning, and was a clea... ...id Mr. Tom Smallways, growing up among these marvels. But it kept on. Even from the first the green-grocer’s shop which he had set up in one of the sm... ...ed his brother not to keep the offer open. And then ill-luck made its last lunge at their crumbling business and brought it to the ground. 2 2 2 2 2 I... ...e advice of a shilling fortune- teller at Margate, that he was weak in the lungs. He now proceeded to unbutton his fetish, to attack it with a perikni... ...al New York all America had risen like one man, resolved to die a thousand deaths rather than submit to Germany. The Germans grimly resolved upon beat... ...The economic world staggered and fell dead. It was like the stroke of some disease it was like the water vanishing out of the blood of a living creatu... ...ied out for want of food. At times came robbers and thieves, at times came diseases among the beasts and shortness of food, once the country was worri...

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...olume I: The First T en T ales by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ... 4 Balzac Droll Stories Vol. 1 by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Volume I: The First T en T ales Translators Pre... ...ouraine, unas- sisted by map or guide. Not only is this book a work of art from its historical information and topographical accuracy; its claims to t... ...res, and my health. Go, and if tomorrow your veins are not fro- zen by the disease, you can come again. Today, I hate you, good cardinal,” said she, s... ...ame out: “Ah!” said he, “it is too late, the transshipment of blood in the lungs has taken place.” But suddenly this good young blood oozed out a litt... ...sword of a husband is a pleasant death for a gallant, if there be pleasant deaths. So may be will finish the merry amours of the constable’s wife. One... ...o play thought- lessly with knives, his good wife utilised so well the two deaths he had caused and threw them so often in his face, that she made him... ... that she thought him handsomer than unusual, “I would willingly take your disease. Together we should then have the same terrors.” 123 Droll Stories... ...was the spread, and so violent the apprehensions of 124 Balzac this nasty disease. Thus Lavalliere found himself abandoned by everyone like a leper. ...

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...ea was not alive, then, with great ships and brave sailors, sailing to and from all parts of the world. It was very lonely. The Is lands lay solitary... ...hose white cliffs across the water, which you can see in fine weather, and from that country, which is called Britain, we bring this tin and lead,’ te... ...ved that part of the Is lands. It is probable that other people came over from Spain to Ireland, and settled there. Thus, by little and little, stran... ...r made in England. All this time, he was afflicted with a terrible unknown disease, which caused him violent and frequent pain that nothing could reli... ...h a dagger and a cup of poison, and left her to the choice be tween those deaths. How Fair Rosamond, after shedding many piteous tears and offering m... ...le mother’s sake. A Child’s Histroy of England 196 Now came that terrible disease, the Plague, into Europe, hurrying from the heart of China; and kil... ...thin three weeks of this murder, Henry died one of those convenient sudden deaths which were so common in the T ower; in plainer words, he was murdere... ...nt was received with shouts of rejoicing—from a good many people of strong lungs, who were paid to strain their throats in crying, ‘God save King Rich... ...aving been always rather melancholy, and hav ing been made more so by the deaths of four of her children when they were very young. So, the King fell...

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...nce; for we are all of us distinctly marked to get back what we give, even from the thing named inanimate nature. The ‘Leaves from the Diary of Henry ... ...arm- ers—returning to their beds over ferny commons under bright moonlight from a neighbour’s harvest-home, eased their bub- bling breasts with a read... ...te of the selecter missionary lieutenants of Satan. We pray to be defended from her cleverness: she flashes bits of speech that catch men in their ung... ...nd a man two removes from a baronetcy has no right to set his reckoning on deaths:—if he does, he becomes a sort of meditative as- sassin. But what we... ...saw them, go- ing down the churchyard, and bellowed after them with all my lungs. I wanted directions to The Crossways; I had missed my way at some tu... ...owed it not only to him, to my friend. Husband grew to mean to me stifler, lung-contrac- tor, iron mask, inquisitor, everything anti-natural. He suf- ... ... . Yes, yes. Some one said the verdict in that case knocked him over—heart disease, or something.’ He glanced at the dark Thames water. ‘Take my word ... ...n of health. It had been alarming; young Fern said it was confirmed heart- disease. His father frequently saw Mr. Warwick, and said he was fretting hi... ...to good society.’ Madame la Comtesse de la Roche- Aigle, the cause of many deaths, declared it unwomanly to fear anything save ‘les revenants.’ Yet th...

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...h applied by some to the famous Mademoiselle Georges, is easily recognized from Couture’s drawing. Beatrix, Conti, and Claude Vignon are sketches of t... ...re ancient times in the towns of Brittany. Most of these towns have fallen from states of splendor never men- tioned by historians, who are always mor... ...crown or divided among many heirs, if the male line failed. Disinher- ited from active life, these heads became arms; and arms de- prived of nourishme... ...ithout reason, for doctors up to the present time have found no remedy for diseases that don’t exist. “Yesterday the trouble was, I believe, in your l... ...came an orphan in 1793. Her property escaped confiscation by reason of the deaths of her father and brother. The first was killed on the 10th of Augus... ...gs as Cuvier and Dupuytren explained to friends the fatal advance of their disease and the progress that death was making in their bodies. Camille Mau... ...It is forbidden to you to love me; I know that. You will suffer a thousand deaths, you will be betrayed, humiliated, unhappy; but you have in you a de... ...of “those Parisians,” to use a term of the provinces, saw nothing fatal or diseased about the lad. The two old maids and the rector, pursuing their sc... ...here is no life in me. What I eat does not feed me; the air that enters my lungs does not refresh me; the sun feels cold; it seems to you to light tha...

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... words a more universal criticism of life than he did when he wrote “I saw from the beach,” with its moral of— “Give me back, give me back, the wild f... ...ut it; I do not think that we could de- rive the full quantity of pleasure from him without it. The exuberant romantic faculty of Joseph Andrews and i... ... will be inclined to pardon many faults for the plea- sure he will receive from a tender sensation: and for readers of a different stamp, the more fau... ...nce, joined to an appearance of honesty, the marks of poverty, hunger, and disease. He had, more- over, a wooden leg, and two or three scars on his fo... ...y, nothing is in the least agreeable to us but what serves to heighten the disease. “At the end of a fortnight, when I was driven almost to the highes... ...es which I could not prevent her from undergoing on my account; for, as my disease went off with violent sweats, during which the surgeon strictly ord... ...yet, madam, to think I shall never see you more is worse than ten thousand deaths.” “Indeed, Mr. Atkinson,” cries Amelia, blushing, and look- ing down... ...t and forwardest of the mob, and who by a superior strength of body and of lungs pre- sided in this assembly , declared he would suffer no such thing....

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...ent, at the head of French historical papers, and are the one great source from which all historians derive their insight into the closing years of th... ... was a new term, or a change in the ordinary meaning of words sprang forth from has pen. With this was joined a vigour and breadth of style, very pro-... ...Saint-Simon Simon, was born in Paris, January 16, 1675. He claimed descent from Charlemagne, but the story goes that his fa- ther, as a young page of ... ... first. Madame d’Uzes, only daughter of the Prince de Monaco, died of this disease. She was a woman of merit—very virtuous and un- happy—who merited a... ...wife, who was much pitied and regretted. Her children perished of the same disease, and she left none behind her. Soon after this the King ordered the... ...selle de Conde died at Paris on October 24th, after a long illness, from a disease in the chest, which con- sumed her less than the torments she exper... ...ever read anything except the article in the “Gazette de France,” in which deaths and mar- riages are recorded. His timidity, especially before the Ki... ...Re y la Savoyana, y la Savoyana,” and incessantly repeated, with all their lungs, “la Savoyana,” which is the deceased Queen (I say this to pre- vent ...

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...grant continuance: 135 Nor do I now make mone to be abridg’d 136 From such a noble rate, but my cheefe care 137 Is to come fairely off ... ... you Anthonio 140 I owe the most in money, and in loue, 141 And from your loue I haue a warrantie 142 To vnburthen all my plots and pu... ... faire, and fairer then that word, 172 Of wondrous vertues, sometimes from her eyes 173 I did receiue faire speechlesse messages: 174 H... ... 243 sadnesse in his youth.) I had rather to be marri-ed 244 to a deaths head with a bone in his mouth, then to ei-ther 245 of these: Go... ... the same foode, hurt with the same wea-pons, 1273 subiect to the same diseases, healed by the same 1274 meanes, warmed and cooled by the same... ...hou canst raile the seale from off my bond 2049 Thou but offend’st thy Lungs to speake so loud: 2050 Repaire thy wit good youth, or it will fa...

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... use it more often, it was only indifference and ennui which prevented him from so doing. He therefore allowed Valentine to go into the garden, sent a... ... invalid still retained that vacancy of expression which prevented his son from obtaining any knowledge of the feelings which were passing in his mind... ...ave recourse to another.” She then recited all the letters of the alphabet from A down to N. When she arrived at that letter the paralytic made her un... ...ocureur; “you begged me not to leave.” “Did you notice the symptoms of the disease to which Madame de Saint-Meran has fallen a victim?” “I did. Madame... ...ran?” “Nothing is more simple. You know poisons become remedies in certain diseases, of which paralysis is one. For instance, having tried every other... ....” Such was the conversation in almost all the carriages; these two sudden deaths, so quickly following each other, astonished every 141 Alexandre Du... ...ughout the house. “If I had anything by means of which I could inflate the lungs,” said d’Avrigny, looking around him, “perhaps I might prevent suffoc... ...is what I would say had she only killed two persons but she has seen three deaths, — has contemplated three murdered persons, — has knelt by three cor... ...master, a physician, and where there have been three unexpected and sudden deaths. Well, I have not intercepted your confidence, and yet I know all th...

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...y? MENENIUS: Sir, I shall tell you. With a kind of smile, Which ne’er came from the lungs, but even thus— For, look you, I may make the belly smile ... ...US: Sir, I shall tell you. With a kind of smile, Which ne’er came from the lungs, but even thus— For, look you, I may make the belly smile As well a... ...the cranks and offices of man, The strongest nerves and small inferior veins From me receive that natural competency Whereby they live: and though th... ...nnot See what I do deliver out to each, Yet I can make my audit up, that all From me do back receive the flour of all, And leave me but the bran.’ Wh... ...hing hereafter. VOLUMNIA: Let her alone, lady: as she is now, she will but disease our better mirth. VALERIA: In troth, I think she would. Fare yo... ... for my country I have shed my blood, Not fearing outward force, so shall my lungs Coin words till their decay against those measles, Which we disdain... ... those cold ways, That seem like prudent helps, are very poisonous Where the disease is violent. Lay hands upon him, And bear him to the rock. CORIOL... ...own book, like an unnatural dam Should now eat up her own! SICINIUS: He’s a disease that must be cut away. MENENIUS: O, he’s a limb that has but a d... ...their traitor! Thou injurious tribune! Within thine eyes sat twenty thousand deaths, In thy hand clutch’d as many millions, in Thy lying tongue both n...

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...essity for such didactic preliminar- ies,—since they have roused a protest from certain ignorant and voracious readers who want emotions without under... ...can reconstruct nations and individuals, in their habits and ways of life, from the remains of public monuments or the relics of a home. Archaeology i... ...ous parts of the globe, we are surprised to find that the prevailing tints from the tem- perate zones are gray or fawn, while the more brilliant color... ...oor mother is happy,” said Marguerite; “she would have suffered a thousand deaths before she died: as it was, her first encounter with Science killed ... ...have a Sterne? it would amuse you.” “A pearl, they say, is the result of a disease,” she answered; “we have suffered enough already.” “Do not be sad; ... ...“Hear me, father: better kill us at one blow than make us suffer a hundred deaths a day. Let it now be seen which of us must yield.” “Do you mean to k... ...ere his hopes; here the heavens contained the only atmosphere in which his lungs could breathe the breath of life. This alli- ance of places and thing...

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...GS in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is on... ...parish, by setting up as loud a cry as could reasonably have been expected from a male infant who had not been possessed of that very useful appendage... ...er. As Oliver gave this first proof of the free and proper ac tion of his lungs, the patchwork coverlet which was care lessly flung over the iron be... ...e iron bedstead, rustled; the pale face of a young woman was raised feebly from the pillow; and a faint voice imperfectly articulated the words, ‘Let ... ...when Oliver opened his eyes; he felt cheerful and happy. The crisis of the disease was safely past. He belonged to the world again. In three days’ tim... ... of laughter. ‘Oh, my wig, my wig!’ cried Master Charles Bates, from whose lungs the laughter had proceeded: ‘here he is! oh, cry, 112 OLIVER TWIST h... ...looked upon, by the faculty, as stronly conducive to health. ‘It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the tem... ... and hint that Providence must sleep. There were twenty score of vio lent deaths in one long minute of that agony of fear. 359 OLIVER TWIST There wa... ...sions, vice, and profligacy, festered, till they found a vent in a hideous disease which had made 369 OLIVER TWIST your face an index even to your mi...

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... that the personality of the narrator was extremely suggestive quite apart from the story he was telling me. I heard a few years ago that he had died ... ...story he was telling me. I heard a few years ago that he had died far away from his beloved Naples where that “abominable adventure” did really happen... ...n, or at any rate be- gun, within a month of finishing Nostromo; but apart from the locality, and that a pretty wide one (all the South American Conti... ...g destruction I heard a mighty voice shouting the word ‘Erminia!’ with the lungs of a giant. An earthquake is a great leveller of distinctions. I coll... ... background. It is atrocious and it is an allegory. The snake sym- bolizes disease, weakness—perhaps mere hunger, 114 A Set of Six which last is the ... ... weakness—perhaps mere hunger, 114 A Set of Six which last is the chronic disease of the majority of mankind. Of course everybody knows the B. 0. S. ... ...ubert’s turned-up feet looked thoroughly dead. General Feraud expanded his lungs for a stentorian shout to his seconds, but, from what he felt to be a... ...ts joys and sorrows regulated by the course of Na- ture—marriages, births, deaths—ruled by the pre- scribed usages of good society and protected by th... ... upon such lonely men, whose only business is to wait for the unavoidable. Deaths and marriages have made a solitude round them, and one really cannot...

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...y prince are those painfully evinc- ing a broken heart, which seeks refuge from its own thoughts in sordid enjoyments. Still, however, it was long ere... ...auntlet be, perhaps it was long ere he altogether became, so much degraded from his original self; as he enjoyed for a time the lustre attending the p... ...so prudent as to be aware their complaints would meet with little sympathy from the world. It may be added, that the greater part of the banished Jaco... ...rrived. The macer shouted, with all his well-remembered brazen strength of lungs, ‘Poor Peter Peebles versus Plainstanes, per Dumtoustie et T ough!—Ma... ...days came round again.’ [Braxy mutton.—The flesh of sheep that has died of disease, not by the hand of the butcher. In pastoral countries it is used a... ...pirits, and other articles of a savour more powerful than agreeable to the lungs. He was very glad, therefore, when he heard the returning steps of Mr... ... concern in the courts of law, as many callings and conditions of men have diseases appropriate to themselves. The same caddie also remembered Blind W... ..., or, a Brief Historical Account of some of the Wicked Lives and Miserable Deaths of some of the most remarkable Apostates and Bloody Persecutors, fro...

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...English fleet, its wealthy convent and peaceable inhabit- ants were secure from the general trouble and spoliation. The storms of many kinds which sho... ... spent their force before they reached those cliffs at so short a distance from the coast of Andalusia. If the rumour of the Emperor’s name so much as... ...ch nothing had changed; the purity of its rule had attracted unhappy women from the furthest parts of Europe, women deprived of all human ties, sighin... ... was only later, when this Louis XI, without the axe, lay stricken down by disease, that those about him got the upper hand. The Duchesse de Langeais,... ...with a word. Listen! if I deserted you, I should deserve to die a thousand deaths. Be wholly mine, and I will give you the right to kill me if I am fa... ...e bounds of the firmament and of earth enlarged. It seemed to him that his lungs drew an am- pler breath. In the course of his self-examination, as he... ...l power which sets the whole mind in ferment. Perhaps that power is only a disease, though the pain of it is sweet. The Duchess was dressed and waitin...

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...e too late for that crowning revolution in human potentialities. And apart from this pro- crastination of over forty years, the guess at the opening p... ...ttain- ment of external power. Man is the tool-using, fire- making animal. From the outset of his terrestrial career we find him supplementing the nat... ... of burning and the rough implement of stone. So he passed beyond the ape. From that he expands. Presently he added to himself the power of the horse ... ...ly day and night, seed- time and harvest, loving and begetting, births and deaths, walks in the summer sunlight and tales by the winter fire- side, th... ...ess and a blistering quality, so that it set up a soreness of the skin and lungs that was very difficult to heal…. Such was the last state of Paris, a... ...ed af- terwards by the issue of invitations which more than bal- anced its deaths, to as many at one time as one hundred and nineteen. Always its cons... ...ead of vitality…. I know it for the splendid thing it is—I who have been a diseased creature from the beginning. I know it well enough not to confuse ... ...e work in that direc- tion.’ ‘And then the inconveniences of age and those diseases of the system that come with years; steadily you drive them back a...

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...ng to have broken them. My plain story is of two Kentish damsels, and runs from a home of flowers into regions where flowers are few and sickly, on to... ...d Kentish extraction, albeit varieties of the breed. The farm had its name from a tradition, common to many other farmhouses within a circuit of the m... ...s. T ufts of pale grass, and gilliflowers, and travelling stone-crop, hung from the wall, and driblets of ivy ran broad- ening to the outer ground. Th... ...tion recalled him. “Is her health good?” “Ay; stomach’s good, head’s good, lungs, brain, what not, all good. She’s a bit giddy, that’s all.” “In her h... ...penetrating, thick, and hateful, like the pressure of a cloud out of which disease is shot. Such it seemed to her, till she could have shrieked; but o... ...’ work going to be done, which we may all of us regret till the day of our deaths,” Robert said, and related what had passed during the morn- ing hour... ...bags is so heavy.” “Then why do you carry them about?” “Perhaps it’s heart disease,” said Anthony, and grinned, for he knew the soundness of his healt... ...blither than usual. After his departure, Mrs. Sumfit sat and discoursed on deaths and burials, the certain end of all: at least, she cor- 343 George ... ...in end of all: at least, she cor- 343 George Meredith rected herself, the deaths were. The burials were not so cer- tain. Consequently, we might take...

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... Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester, to Lord Cromwell, on the birth of the Prince of Wales (afterward Edward VI.). From the National Manuscripts preser... ... selff Gode of Inglonde, or rather an Inglyssh Gode, yf we consydyr and pondyr welle alle Hys procedynges with us from tyme to tyme. He hath over cumm... ...ett us alle pray for hys preservatione. Ande I for my partt wylle wyssh that hys Grace allways have, and evyn now from the begynynge, Governares, Inst... ...fication also. The King said— “’Twas not according to his schooling and ability, but showeth that his mind is but diseased, not stricken fa- tally. Ho... ...easy a grace as if he owned them—with never a by-your-leave or so- please-it-you, or anything of the sort. In his diseased ravings he called himself t... ...your worship. I saw the youth meddle with them—he that came for the boy.” 69 The Prince and the Pauper “Thousand deaths! ’Twas done to deceive me—’ti... ... in name, these grave veterans and great nobles were his masters; to them his mother was only the crea- ture of a diseased mind; they would simply lis... ...t the wind! What an odd sound! Come, we will hunt it out!” Now the King’s joy was nearly insupportable. His tired lungs did their utmost—and hopefully...

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...heir passage. The Otsego is about nine miles in length, varying in breadth from half a mile to a mile and a half. The water is of great depth, limpid,... ...le to a mile and a half. The water is of great depth, limpid, and supplied from a thousand springs. At its foot the banks are rather less than thirty ... ...ple. At the commencement of the fol- lowing year the settlement began; and from that time to this the country has continued to flourish. It is a singu... ...ace was skinny and thin al most to emaciation; but yet it bore no signs of disease— on the contrary, it had every indication of the most robust and en... ... his saddle-bags thrown over his arm, while separated arteries, penetrated lungs, and injured vitals were whirling through his brain, as if he were st... ... for those qualities that render an Indian hero celebrated. But war, time, disease, and want had con- spired to thin their number; and the sole repres... ...e background. On the tomb were the names, with the dates of the births and deaths, of several individuals, all of whom bore the name of Grant. An extr... ...ect that seemed magical, until, his chopping being ended, his stento- rian lungs could be heard emitting sounds, as he called to his patient oxen, whi... ...oment, in sight. 246 The Pioneers A loud burst of merriment, to which the lungs of Kirby contributed no small part, broke out like a chorus of laugh-...