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...her -the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that ?fire-breathing dragon?, hold the Punjab, for the great green-bronze piece is always first of the conqueror?s loot....

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...Zammah, that ‘fire breathing dragon’, hold the Punjab, for the great green bronze piece is always first of the conqueror’s loot. There was some justif... ...e been taken over by the Provincial Lodge, and sent to the Masonic Orphan age in the Hills; but what she had heard of magic she dis trusted. Kim, to... ...f gourd, fingered his rosary awhile, and so dropped into the easy sleep of age, as the shadow of Zam Zammah grew long. Kim loafed over to the nearest... ...rs, where the camel and horse caravans put up on their return from Central Asia. Here were all manner of Northern folk, tending tethered ponies and kn... ... Mahbub woke, the Flower talked to him severely on the sin of drunkenness. Asiatics do not wink when they have outmanoeuvred an enemy, but as Mahbub A... ...ce of the Umballa ticket as his commission the immemorial com mission of Asia. The lama jibbed at the open door of a crowded third class carriage. ‘... ... and I thank Bhumia, the God of the Home stead.’ He shrugged one knotted, bronzed shoulder. ‘Think you our Lord came so far North?’ said the lama, tu... ...n, old man,’ the soldier smiled, half saluting. ‘We be all babblers at our age.’ The lama squatted under the shade of a mango, whose shadow played che...

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...andrian Library. Suidas also informs us elsewhere that Aristophanes at the age of sixty two succeeded Apollonius in this office. Many modern scholars ... ...e curious ground that it was impossible for abuse to go further. It was an age when literary men were more inclined to comment on writings of the past... ...uliar to epic poetry. Callimachus was in accordance with the spirit of the age when he proclaimed “a great book” to be “a great evil,” and sought to c... ...the ground; and Ancaeus struck the broad neck of the other with his axe of bronze, and shore through the mighty sinews; and it fell prone on both its ... ... the hateful decree of a god, to die somewhere afar off on the mainland of Asia. Thus, though I learnt my fate from evil omens even before now, I have... ... Oenoe bore to Thoas. Now for all the women to tend kine, to don armour of bronze, and to cleave with the plough share the wheat bearing fields, was e... ... of her tunic was loosed beneath her breast; and opposite in the shield of bronze her image appeared clear to view as she stood. The Argonautica 28 (... ...lls of Dascylus my father, when he came hither on foot through the land of Asia bringing the girdle of warlike Hippolyte; and me he found with the dow... ...t is said, a king * made his way all round through the whole of Europe and Asia, trusting in the might and strength and courage of his people; and cou...

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... the man who bore it, a tall, fair woman, evidently young- looking for her age, rose as if she had received an electric shock. “Hortense, my darling, ... ...e year 1809, the Baroness, pointing to an armchair with the arms ending in bronze sphinxes’ heads, while the paint was peeling from the wood, which sh... ...h, “you are fifty—ten years younger than Monsieur Hulot, I know; but at my age a woman’s follies ought to be justified by beauty, youth, fame, superio... ... which can dazzle us to the point of making us forget all else—even at our age. Though you may have fifty thousand francs a year, your age counter- ba... ...m listening; I am a wooden image,” said Hortense. “My lover has finished a bronze group ten inches high,” Lisbeth went on. “It represents Samson slayi... ...shabby cotton velvet, the plaster statu- ettes pretending to be Florentine bronze, the clumsy cast chandelier merely lacquered, with cheap glass sauce... ...nube, in short, the Slav nations, are a connecting link between Europe and Asia, between civilization and bar- barism. Thus the Pole, the wealthiest m...

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...trength, in population, wealth, and military and commer- cial power, as no age had ever witnessed. De Tocqueville had a special inquiry to prosecute, ... ...selected, under our laws, because he has certain physical qualifications – age and sex. His disqualifications, when any are imposed, relate to his edu... ... Old Regime and the Revolution.” He died at Cannes, April 15, 1859, at the age of fifty-four. Hon. John J. Ingalls Introductory Chapter Amongst the no... ... the T ongous, Mantchous, Mongols, T artars, and other wandering tribes of Asia. The land occupied by these tribes is not very distant from Behring’s ... ... Tocqueville neither white like the Europeans, nor yellow like most of the Asiatics, nor black like the negroes. Their skin was reddish brown, their h... ...:* they were neither white like the Europeans, nor yellow like most of the Asiatics, nor black like the negroes. Their skin was reddish brown, their h... ... vast num- ber of insignificant ones. In the former, statues are raised of bronze; in the latter, they are modelled in plaster. When I arrived for the...

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... what the morrow will bring forth, lives like a child, whatever may be his age. He grumbles at everything, consoles himself for everything, jests at e... ...ts all with indifference—his kings, his conquests, his glory, his idols of bronze or glass—as he throws away his stockings, his hats, and his fortune.... ...sies of children, spies out the caprices and the 9 Balzac vices of mature age, sucks money out of disease. Even so, if they drink no brandy, like the... ...elves, and purchase two years of unhealthy repose with thirty years of old age. Only, the working-man dies in hospi- tal when the last term of his stu... ...ch fatality sometimes allows. The City of Paris has her great mast, all of bronze, carved with victories, and for watchman—Napoleon. The barque may ro... ...ld outwit a man of forty. Who would have expected to have found a heart of bronze, a brain of steel, beneath external traits as seductive as ever the ... ...of an Oriental despot. But this power, so stu- pidly put into execution in Asia by brutish men, was in- creased tenfold by its conjunction with Europe... ...ce darkened the brow of that beautiful creature, who held to the houris of Asia by her mother, to Europe by her education, to the tropics by her birth... ...ar as I am a pleasure for you. If you would choose a retreat worthy of us, Asia is the only country where love can unfold his wings … .” “You are righ...

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...some paintings of Scotch scenery, three big armchairs, a buhl clock, and a bronze Dancing Faun, by their want of any col- lective idea enhanced rather... ... was intended to make a great splash in the world, his Psychology of a New Age. He had his metaphors ready. “We said: ‘This system will always go on. ... ...he former time fails to give safe responses, and the psychology of the New Age has still to develop.” S S S S Section 4 ection 4 ection 4 ection 4 ect... ...t humbugs us into what she wants with us. All very well in the early Stone Age—when the poor dear things never realized that their mutual endearments ... ...s manner. “I was explaining to the young lady that it dates from the early bronze age. Before chronol- ogy existed…. But she insists on dates.” “Nothi... ... age. Before chronol- ogy existed…. But she insists on dates.” “Nothing of bronze has ever been found here,” said Sir Richmond. “Well, when was this e... ...Miss Grammont—Miss Seyffert had probably fallen out— traversing Europe and Asia in headlong flight. To a sunlit beach in the South Seas…. His thoughts...

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...as little understood, and few great models had been exhibited; but in this age, when masterpieces of excellence have been executed by professional men... ...nworthy of notice, until long after the Christian era. Greece, even in the age of Pericles, produced no murder of the slightest merit; and Rome had to... ...h of the art has flourished by fits. It never rains, but it pours. Our own age can boast of some fine specimens; and, about two centuries ago, there w... ..., made the attempt impossible. Y ou still think otherwise. See, then, that bronze equestrian statue. The cruel rider has kept the bit in his horse’s m... ...llas? No, certainly: but then I needed not the shout that should alarm all Asia militant; a shout would suffice, such as should carry terror into the ... ...ed round the great pond of the Mediterranean. In Athens, Egypt, Palestine, Asia Minor, everywhere, the ancients went to bed, like good boys, from seve... ...m is luncheon: but how meagre a shadow is the European meal to its glowing Asiatic cousin! Still, gloriously as tiffin shines, does anybody imagine th...

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...is doing more…. A quarter of a million years ago the utmost man was a sav- age, a being scarcely articulate, sheltering in holes in the rocks, armed w... ... changed. That keen chisel of necessity which sharp- ened the tiger’s claw age by age and fined down the clumsy Orchippus to the swift grace of the ho... ..., the quicker eye, the bigger brain, the better bal- anced body prevailed; age by age, the implements were a little better made, the man a little more... ...tty inci- dent; and a huge migration of peoples between Europe and Western Asia and America was in Progress, and—nobody seems to have realised that so... ... a twentieth- century rendering of mediaevalism, mediaevalism in steel and bronze and sham stone and opaque glass. Against the sky it splashed a confu... ...the drifting millions of homeless people. In Canada, in South America, and Asiatic Russia there were vast accumulations of provision that was immovabl...

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...of science! Many a time, instead of enjoying the company of lads of my own age, I had preferred dusting these graphites, anthracites, coals, lig- nite... ...ifice of the Exchange, nor its spire composed of the twisted tails of four bronze dragons, nor the great windmill on the ramparts, whose huge arms dil... ...s own intense disgust, and his greater shame, was ill all through the voy- age. 46 A Journey to the Interior of the Earth He therefore was unable to ... ...the male takes his turn to pluck himself. But as the coarse and hard plum- age of the male has no commercial value, the hunter does not take the troub... ...ereabouts, for L was too much excited not to talk a great deal. “We are in Asia,” I cried, “on the coasts of India, in the Malay Islands, or in Oceani...

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... to use opium as an article of daily diet. In the twenty-eighth year of my age a most painful affection of the stomach, which I had first experi- ence... ...med to me suffi- cient for an indefinite length of time; and at that happy age, if no definite boundary can be assigned to one’s power, the spirit of ... ...ese old people. Cer- tainly, Mr. Shelley is right in his notions about old age: un- less powerfully counteracted by all sorts of opposite agen- cies, ... ... my slumbers no longer, the porter who rang it, upon whose beautiful nose (bronze, in- laid with copper) I wrote, in retaliation so many Greek epi- gr... ...s a young girl, born and bred amongst the mountains, who had never seen an Asiatic dress of any sort; his turban therefore confounded her not a little... ...y for months. I have been every night, through his means, transported into Asiatic scenes. I know not whether others share in my feelings on this poin... ...of my horror lie deep, and some of them must be common to others. Southern Asia in general is the seat of awful images and associations. As the cradle...

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...n way under them. Built en colombage, that is to say, with a wooden front- age, the whole facade was covered with slates, so put on as to form geometr... ...after ceasing to roam the country as a peddler. Sauviat was fifty years of age when he married old Champagnac’s daughter, who was herself not less tha... ...worthy sister thought it enough; it was in fact too much. At nine years of age Veronique surprised the whole neigh- borhood with her beauty. Every one... ... Behind him could be seen, on one side, for a foil, the dark masses of the bronze-green forest; on the other, the church and the ruins of the castle p... ...tanding by the wall, their faces seamed with deep-cut, rigid wrinkles, and bronzed like a 83 Balzac Florentine medal. These persons, stoically erect ... ...d on his head with that symmetry which gives a charm to these brown faces, bronzed by toil in the open air. It was easy to see that the rector’s appea... ...nean and the Black Sea ought to be made to play in the future, the road to Asia through Egypt or by the Euphrates, made feasible by recent discoveries...

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...sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one; Of such as these I should not car... ... have been forgotten:— I condemn none, But can’t find any in the present age Fit for my poem (that is, for my new one); So, as I said, I ‘ll t... ... That sons should not be educated so. Young Juan now was sixteen years of age, Tall, handsome, slender, but well knit: he seem’d Active, thou... ... a moral model. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Five” 121 The European with the Asian shore Sprinkled with palaces; the ocean stream Here and there... ...e rolling seas Between the Bosphorus, as they lash and lave Europe and Asia, you being quite at ease; There ‘s not a sea the passenger e’er pu... ...the gate, ‘t was open’d wide, And a magnificent large hall display’d The Asian pomp of Ottoman parade. I won’t describe; description is my forte... ... and divine. The giant door was broad, and bright, and high, Of gilded bronze, and carved in curious guise; Warriors thereon were battling fur... ...t made his darkness equal light, Or gloomy Caravaggio’s gloomier stain Bronzed o’er some lean and stoic anchorite:— But, lo! a Teniers woos, a...

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...he vague reminiscence of a sad, deli- cious melody, the air of Fleuve du T age. The woman he loved had played the prelude to the ballad in a boudoir i... ...nce is as meaningless for po- litical parties as it is for youth. In every age the great nobles, and the rich who always ape the great nobles, build t... ...xistence; the leisure; the higher education at- tainable at a much earlier age; and lastly, the aristocratic tra- dition that makes of him a social fo... ...aid, gracefully tossing aside a cushion that covered her feet. “Madame, in Asia your feet would be worth some ten thou- sand sequins. “A traveller’s c... ...g them threw the blame on Armand. “That savage of a Montriveau is a man of bronze,” said they; “he insisted on making this scandal, no doubt.” “Very w...

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...ure to yourself as a whitish plump man, a little under the middle size and age, with such blue eyes as many Irishmen have, and agile in his movements ... ...l nature, as ripe and sunny, as the world before the Fall. But that golden age, that perfect world, comes out into the possibilities of space and time... ...to make such innovations. This is particularly in evidence in this present age. The almost cataclysmal development of new machinery, the dis- covery o... ...r round size, and the inscription declares it one Lion, equal to “twaindy” bronze Crosses. Unless the ratio of metals is very different here, this lat... ... her equivalent male. The education, the mental disposition, of a white or Asiatic woman, reeks of sex; her modesty, her decorum is not to ignore sex ... ...the quadrangle, and in the middle is a grass-plot. In the centre of this a bronze figure, a sleeping child, reposes above a little basin and fountain,... ...e State. There are thousands of square miles of sandy desert in Africa and Asia set apart; much of the Arctic and Antarctic circles; vast areas of mou... ...e and suppose an angel, such as was given to each of the seven churches of Asia, given for a space to the service of the Greater Rule. I see him as a ...

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.............................................................179 THE STATE OF AGE........................................................................... ................................................................ 500 YOUTH IN AGE .......................................................................... ... latest life beyond recall. THE POETRY OF CHAUCER Grey with all honours of age! but fresh-featured and ruddy As dawn when the drowsy farm-yard has thr... ... twin revered, He whispers often to the passing winds That blow toward the Asiatic coasts; For Crete has sent her bravest to the war, And multitudes p... ...r Step the purple Queen whose hate Wraps red-armed her royal mate With his Asian tempest-star: Now Cassandra views her Fate. XII King of men! the blin... ... grey; and sheaves of lustre fell to air. The illimitable eagerness of hue Bronzed, and the beamy winged bloom that flew ‘Mid those bunched fruits and... ...Soft Enna that prostrate grief Sang through, and revealed round the vines, Bronze-orange, the crisp young leaf, The wheat-blades tripping in lines, A ... ...O shining in sunlight, chief After water and water’s caress, Was the young bronze-orange leaf, That clung to the tree as a tress, Shooting lucid tendr... ...Saw the rage of the havoc wide-mouthed, the bright car superimpending Over Asia, Africa, low down; ruin flaming over the vales; Light disastrous risin...

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..................................................................... 290 OLD AGE. ......................................................................... ...se at the beginning, addressed to his friend Behrisch, were written at the age of eighteen, and most of the remainder were composed while he was still... ...own, now! quicker still, down! See where the sun sets Ere he sets, ere old age Seizeth me in the morass, Ere my toothless jaws mumble, And my useless ... ...r.] ON bridges small and bridges great Stands Nepomucks in ev’ry state, Of bronze, wood, painted, or of stone, Some small as dolls, some giants grown;... ... A very hero thou dost shine. As of the prophet, they will tell, Wamik and Asia’s tale as well.— They’ll tell not of them,—they’ll but give Their name... ...s! But that they loved This know we. Here’s the story true Of Wamik and of Asia too. 1827.* LOVE’S torments sought a place of rest, Where all might dr...

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...History of England, John Thresher said, and the thought of their venerable age enclosed me comfortably. He could not tell me whether he meant as old a... ...roving murmurs. My father no longer laid stress on my studies of the Peer- age. ‘Now I have you in the very atmosphere, that will come of itself,’ he ... ...ffeminate than Achilles when he wore girl’s clothes. She was seventeen, an age bewitching for boys to look up to and men to look down on. The puzzle o... ...m again on Valentine’s Day.’ T emple and I stared hard at a big man with a bronzed skin and a rubicund laugh who expected to receive valentines. My au... ...mple to appease our curiosity. It 141 George Meredith was the statue of a bronze horse rearing spiritedly. The work- men were engaged fixing its pede... ...ome of.’ ‘Up at the tower, then? Oh, we were there last night, and saw the bronze horse, mademoiselle.’ ‘Y es, I know. I called on my poor sick woman ... ...and darken. Meeting her you swore she was the personification of wandering Asia. There was no question of beauty and grace, for these have laws. The c... ...red of us what our des- tination was. Down the Danube to the Black Sea and Asia Minor, Greece, Egypt, the Nile, the Desert, India, possibly, and the H... ...yourself. He is a deep scholar, broad over tongues and dialects, European, Asiatic- a lion to me, poor little mouse! I am speaking of Herr Pro- fessor...

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...f valor; and af- terwards giving frequent proofs both of conduct and cour- age in all the following war, he was advanced to places of honor and trust ... ...e gate, and seizing upon all quarters of the city, he slew all who were of age to bear arms, and then ordering his soldiers to lay aside their weapons... ... contrasting with the feebleness and slothfulness of other officers of his age, that he got the repute of a man whose life would be one of action. Nor... ...p to try another fall, was again endeavoring to reestab- lish his power in Asia, at this time the great fame of Sertorius was celebrated in all places... ...rds the charge of the war, if Sertorius would confirm his pretensions upon Asia, and au- thorize him to possess all that he had surrendered to the Rom... ...ms in the east, and threatens us with war, if we attempt the re- covery of Asia?” However, they solemnly, upon oath, con- cluded a league between them... ... that place in token of his victory, the statue of this man and his ass in bronze were placed amongst them. After examining the rest of his fleet, he ...

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...ral wish to increase the amount of the savings that were to render his old age comfortable. Till the eve of his promotion to the rank of lieutenant-co... ...e. The four children belonging to the woman all appeared to be of the same age—an odd circumstance which struck the commandant. A fifth clung about he... ...erative craving to be doing something, that possesses mind and body at his age. The officer followed him for the entire length of the principal street... ...ragment of the wreck of great armies which Napoleon had filled with men of bronze sought out from among three generations. Gondrin was certainly a spl... ...es, a reli- gious impulse moved France and Europe to fling themselves upon Asia a dozen times in the course of a century.” “Maybe it is easier for two... ... he is uncommonly likely to lay a hand on France. We must let him loose on Asia or America, and that, perhaps, will keep him quiet. “The same thing wa... ...ltan fires a shot,’ and they feared him like the devil. So the Grand Turk, Asia, and Af- rica have recourse to magic, and they send a demon against us...

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...bold enough to marry this lady after she had attained the anti-matrimonial age of thirty-three, and what is more, he had a son by her. As he could hav... ...,” Madame Latournelle is still so surprised at becoming his mother, at the age of thirty-five years and seven months, that she would still provide him... ...k-marked, had lived under pitying eyes from the time he was seven years of age. Is not that enough to explain his whole being? Silent, self-contained,... ...is town. “Monsieur Charles Mignon sailed this morning on the ‘Modeste’ for Asia Minor, leaving full powers with the un- dersigned to sell his whole pr... ...ve no idea, in Europe, what these rich East India merchants are. I went to Asia Minor and purchased opium at low prices, and from thence to Canton whe... ...is buttonhole. He wore a well-fitting pair of kid gloves of the Florentine bronze color, and carried his cane and hat in the left hand with a gesture ... ...les Mignon’s head. His handsome soldierly face, so pure in outline and now bronzed by the suns of China and the southern seas, had acquired an air of ...