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...h we slept. The question of arms was more obscure. We had a good many tools, indeed, which we employed in the manufacture of our toys; but they were n... ...acture of our toys; but they were none of them suited for a single combat between civilised men, and, being nondescript, it was found ex- tremely hard... ...myself. ‘You have given me the key of the fields, comrade,’ said he. ‘Sans Rancune!’ At this my horror redoubled. Here had we two expatri- ated French... ... was perhaps excus- able. But it was, in our case, more than a little. The truth is, we were all womanish fellows about a height; and I have myself be... ...ith me what you think right.’ ‘Ah, yes!’ he cried: ‘if I knew!’ ‘You see,’ said I, ‘it would be different if you had re- ceived your commission. Prope... ...u, sir, if I was to play a chune?’ he pleaded. And from that hour, the tootling of the flageolet cheered our way. He was particularly keen on the deta...

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...rely fragmentary state. T o do more than fur- nish a sketch of the leading incidents in Montaigne’s life seemed, in the presence of Bayle St. John’s c... ... quid luxus desidiesque?” [“But unless the mind is purified, what internal combats and dangers must we incur in spite of all our efforts! How many bit... ...iii., p. 354.] OUR BATTLE of Dreux is remarkable for several extraordinary incidents; but such as have no great kindness for M. de Guise, nor much fav... ...rn reformation has been wonderfully delicate and exact, in having not only combated errors and vices, and filled the world with devo- tion, humility, ... ...running adds to the first shock of arms, and hindered that clashing of the combatants against one another which is wont to give them greater impetuosi... ...shes-the bigger and deeper the wound, the more glorious do they esteem the combat but when they find themselves tormented by some arrow-head or bullet... ...ty: “These are men,” said he, “born for war and great in execution; in the combat of the tongue altogether wanting; spirits truly consular. The subtle...

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...a, as medicine calls it; the other was weariness and exhaustion from daily combats with malice. She saw that everybody hated her and thirsted for her ... ...vincialisms. 90 The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc The circumstantial incidents of the execution, unless with more space than I can now command, ... ...e shifting movements of the Dream derived itself either primarily from the incidents of the actual scene, or from secondary features associated with t...

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... the present; nothing on the stage but a solitary infant, and its solitary combat with grief—a mighty darkness, and a sorrow with- out a voice. But so... ...s imperfectly despicable man—died at an early age, and very soon after the incidents recorded in this chapter, leaving to his family, then consisting ... ...d magnificent church. * * * 20 Thomas de Quincey The earliest incidents in my life, which left stings in my memory so as to be remembered... ...tinually threatened our steps; and this bridge became the eternal arena of combat, we taking good care to be on the right side of the bridge for retre... ...otonous. It was a dramatic artifice for sustaining the interest, where the incidents might happen to be too slightly diversified. But that he did not ... ...nd day stung incurably my peace of mind. The order and proces- sion of the incidents after this were odiously monotonous. My brother occupied the main... ...ly in his saddle as spectator of the battle, and, in fact, as the sole non-combatant present. This man, however, had been observed by O., both before ... ...n’s feelings, we were much hurt at the time, and often retraced the little incidents upon the road, to discover, if possible, what it was that had lai...

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...fe that we lead now. Our place is in a deep cleft of Vaea Mountain, some six hundred feet above the sea, embowered in forest, which is our strangling ... ...be content. But there’s no doubt David seems to have changed his style, de’il ha’e him!And much I care, if the tale travel! 87 V ailima Letters FRIDA... ...ur other occupations, I did a bit of a supposed epic describing our tryst at the ford of the Gasegase; and Belle and I made a little book of caricatur...

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...f persons of all ranks hastened upon the appointed morning to the place of combat. The scene was singularly romantic. On the verge of a wood, which ap... ...ord more convenience for the spectators. The openings for the entry of the combat- ants were at the northern and southern extremities of the lists, ac... ...ists, and consequently exactly opposite to the spot where the shock of the combat was to take place, was raised higher than the others, more richly de... ...hallengers were to undertake all comers. Secondly, any knight proposing to combat, might, if he pleased, select a special antagonist from among the ch... ...riders. But if the shield was touched with the sharp end of the lance, the combat was understood to be at outrance, that is, the knights were to fight... ... here we cannot but think it necessary to offer some better proof than the incidents of an idle tale, to vindicate the melancholy representation of ma... ...ed around him, supplying his own indolence or poverty of invention, by the incidents which had actually taken place in his country at no distant perio...

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...ipal object then which I proposed to myself in these Poems was to make the incidents of common life interesting by tracing in them, truly though not o... ...is a host of arguments in these feelings; and I should be the less able to combat them successfully, as I am willing to allow, that, in order entirely...

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...table, snow white deal, 545 Cherry or maple, sate in close array, And to the combat, Lu or Whist, led on thick ribbed Army; not as in the world Neglec... ...I grieved to see among the band Of those who in the field of contest stood As combatants, passions that did to me Seem low and mean—from ignorance of m... ...n mock fight, A tournament of blows, some hardly dealt Though short of mortal combat—and whate’er Might of this pageant be supposed to hit 625 A simple... ...atives 780 Stript of their humanizing soul, the life Of manners and familiar incidents— Had never much delighted me. And less Than other minds I had b... ...of those who ruled 110 The capital city; what was struggled for, And by what combatants victory must be won; The indecision on their part whose aim Se... ...rit of the past For future restoration. Yet another Of these to me affecting incidents, 345 With which we will conclude. One Christmas time, The day b...

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... beaten them, Daddy, and tough work it was, to be sure! A regular stand-up combat: eight hours smelling powder and gore. I entered it Serjeant-Major,... ...axon wrote her sneers, Denounced the waste of blood and coin, Implored the combatants, with tears, Never to think they could rejoin. XXX Oh! was it En... ...th one loosening blush outflung, Colours of his hordes of horse Ranked for combat; still he hung Like the fever dreading air, Cursed of heat; and as a... ...rn, At a sweep of the scythe for the crop. Wisdom is won of its fight, The combat incessant; and dries T o mummywrap perching a height. It chews the c... ...y are. So, thou takest Youth’s natural place in the fray, As a T entative, combating Peace, Our lullaby word for decay.— There will come an immediate ... ... the eminences, pluck The hazards for new footing, how compel Those timely incidents by men named luck, Through forethought that defied the Fates to c...

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... he was happy, no doubt—as every one seemed to be there. How those trivial incidents and words, the landscape and sun- shine, and the group of people ... ... pipes, and leaning over the railings of the field as they watched the dim combat within, announced that some catastrophe had happened, which caused E...

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...s and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a reclamation of all lands to civilization, and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which charact...

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...TIAN SUPREMACY OVER THE MOST SAVAGE LANDS OF THE EARTH. RECITING ASTONISHING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOP... ...- The extraordinary coolness with which he submits to the executioner's axe -- Incidents in the passage of Magellan Strait -- A slaughter of penguins ... ...aters, and through the winter lived chiefly on this food. But one of the early incidents connected with the landing, as related by the Sagas, is to th... ... by Marryatt in his Story of the Phantom Ship. In this remarkable sea-tale the incidents are told by her captain, who narrates his adventures from the... ...imbedded in their wooden weapons, which made them extremely effective in close combat. Scarcely had Cortez put his troops in motion towards the valley... ... the lurid flames of consuming buildings lighted up the scene, and enabled the combatants to continue the dreadful slaughter. Thousands had been slain... ...rtled Turenne by the stern shout of exultation with which they advanced to the combat. It was the fixed purpose of Cromwell to humble the power of Spa... ... MASTERLY PIECE OF STRATEGY. With his weak force Morgan had no chances in open combat with the Spaniards, and dread necessity therefore forced him to ... ...t they still held out resolutely, refusing to yield on any terms. This unequal combat continued for more than an hour, and until the Spanish ship was ...

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... face without affectation, it is true, but without scruple; so that the bril- liancy of his black eyes became so insupportable, that more than one loo... ...ead of the family, and ought, therefore, to ask a long life of God, instead of imploring Him for a prompt death. Your majesty is an exile, a fugitive,... ...ying, “Well, well! I have still Pierrefonds left, and there I shall find the best man and the best filled coffer. And that is all I want, for I have a... ...angers to each other, these ten men alone, we say, appeared to have agreed to remain impassible amidst the cries of fury and the chinking of money. Tw... ...know that, in general, D’Artagnan was not wanting in ideas; and during this soliloquy, D’Artagnan buttoned 267 Dumas his vest up to the chin, and not... ... I shall endeavor that affection may fol- low.” Then, after an instant’s deeper reflection, — “Bah!” said he, “to what purpose? He is an Englishman.” ...

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...aten. Sitting on my ruddy hearth in the twilight of New Year’s Eve, I find incidents of travel rise around me from all the latitudes and longitudes of... ... the adventurer vanquished, but triumphant. There is no parallel in public combats between men and beasts, because nobody can answer for the particula... ...s opinions, and I believe he is known to be well informed.’ The commonest incidents and places would appear to have been made special, expressly for ...

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... on their own side, they chose to neglect the councils, and to rush into a combat with the former, which would have ended in the utter annihilation of... ...With these fond friends, Blenheim and Oudenarde seemed to be mere trifling incidents of the war; and Wynendael was its crowning victory. Esmond’s mist...

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... Mother, and bids her see to it that Hunding shall fall in the approaching combat. But he is reckoning without his consort, Fricka. What will she, the... ...rows Wotan’s command to the winds, and bids Siegmund nerve himself for the combat with Hunding, in which she pledges him the protection of her shield.... ... day on which the curtain rises begins with one of these trying do- mestic incidents. Mimmy has just done his best with a new sword of surpassing exce... ...s begotten a son to do for him what he cannot do for himself. In the above incidents, those gentle moralizers who find the serious philosophy of the m... ...nicle. The imputation of falsehood to Brynhild was strongly re- sented and combated, in spite of the unanswerable evidence of the text. It was contend... ...nd dignity, the impossibility of any credible scenic presen- tation of the incidents, and the extreme staginess of the con- ventions by which these im...

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... fiercer than the fiercest of her persecutors could have faced perhaps—the combat with the instincts of her own shrinking, trembling, fainting nature.... ...articularly remarked that she seemed agitated; and now, at recalling these incidents, Agnes reminded me that I had noticed that circumstance to hersel... ...guilty design in what before had seemed accident, and links uniting remote incidents which else seemed casual and dis- connected, greatly disturbed an... ... had taken place, roused by the clashing of swords and the angry shouts of combatants, issued out with torches to find one only of the four officers s... ... triple character: 1st, That of a conspiracy, with as close a unity in the incidents, and as much of a personal interest in the moving characters, wit... ...onaries. The Emperor states the whole motives of his conduct and the chief incidents at great length. 181 Thomas de Quincey camels ‘indorsed’* with h... ...uccessors which gave effect to Napoleon’s pre- tensions with the political combatants, and which procured them a ratification amongst the people. The ... ...trying, one order of powers against another. That was folly. But Coleridge combated this idea in a manner so obscure, that nobody understood it. And l... ...where upon earth has the reclaimed martyr to intemper- ance so difficult a combat to sustain; nowhere, therefore, is it so important to direct the att...

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...t I send thee back to the children of the world—to the cold charity of the combat, and to a land of victory. I read an other destiny in thy countenan... ...and trample on his veneration, and deliver him over to the cold charity of combat, and blot him out with his own lighted torch. But the feeling does n... ...among the uncivilized inhabitants of America. I have met with friends, and combated with foes; but none of these gratify my ambition, or decide what i... ...ectations; but he was always promptly sent back to the cold charity of the combat again; he learned to play the fiddle, and made a name for himself in... ...t I send thee back to the children of the world—to the cold charity of the combat, and to a land of victory. I read an other destiny in thy countenan... ...dent, and also at his funeral, and distinctly remembered all the prominent incidents connected with those noted events. From this period we hear no mo...

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... Boswell often speaks of his work as a painting, a portrait, and of single incidents as pictures or scenes in a drama. His eye is keen for contrasts, ... ...me to time obligingly satis- fied my inquiries, by communicating to me the incidents of his early years; as I acquired a fa- cility in recollecting, a... ...d men of warm passions from a too free indulgence of them; and the various incidents are related in so clear and animated a manner, and illumi- nated ... ...ce.’—Were this consideration to be applied to most of the little vexatious incidents of life, by which our quiet is too often disturbed, it would prev... ...e he does, I should have hugged him.’ ‘Idleness is a disease which must be combated; but I would not advise a rigid adherence to a particular plan of ... ...t Rome. In the centre stood his judgement, which, like a mighty gladiator, combated those apprehensions that, like the wild beasts of the Arena, were ... ...ore.’ He then took occasion to enlarge on the ad- vantages of reading, and combated the idle su- perficial notion, that knowledge enough may be acquir... ...erved, ‘A man so afflicted, Sir, must divert distressing thoughts, and not combat with them.’ Boswell. ‘May not he think them down, Sir?’ Johnson. ‘No... ...er, upon trial, by Johnson’s recommendation. Johnson. ‘Boswell is a bolder combatant than Sir Joshua: he argues for wine without the help of wine; but...

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... of names, sure judgment in seasoning a monotonous subject with marvellous incidents or episodes, and no mean imagination in depicting the aw- ful, as... ...ption of the sack of T roy. It is probable that this and other superfluous incidents disappeared after the Alexandrian arrangement of the poems in the... ...erburdened earth, the apple of discord, the rape of Helen. Then follow the incidents connected with the gath- ering of the Achaeans and their ultimate... ...hiloctetes from Lemnos. Philoctetes is healed by Machaon, fights in single combat with Alexandrus and kills him: the dead body is outraged by Menelaus...

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...ed Adiante’s husband: the man was her hus- band. Hideous (for there was no combating her father’s paint- ing of him), he was almost interesting throug... ...on Philip. He surveyed his inanimate eights right and left, and folded his combative ardour around him, as the soldier’s martial cloak when he takes h... ...passion’s slave, Jane the most romantic of Eve’s daughters. She pointed to incidents of their youth; her vision was acutely retrospective. The wealth ... ... polem- ics. It is not imaginable among comparative pygmies. But Rockney’s combat with his fellow-politicians of the Press partook of the Swiftian aga... ...mper Ireland’s eruptiveness; for that man can be admired, and the Celt, in combating him, will like an able and gallant enemy better than a grudgingly...

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...he chamber of deputies, but in the sleeping chamber. Prostitution is to be combated, not in the houses of ill-fame, but in the family. They free woman... ...f struggle. One would have said that we used them as weapons with which to combat each other. Each of us had his favorite. I made use of little Basile... ...e now once a week, now every month, now every day. And invariably the same incidents. Once I was absolutely resolved to fly, but through some incon- c...

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...d, ‘Scotchmen are horrid fond of whisky.’ It was impossible, of course, to combat such a truism; and so I proceeded to explain the construction of tod... ...d al- ready, among your other work, a taste of what I mean), and pitch the incidents, I do not say in any stronger, but in a slightly more emphatic ke...

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...le remains with us, a continued reading of his works will at least help to combat it. 6 Miscellaneous Prose A PAUSE IN THE STRIFE—1886 OUR ‘ERINIAD,’... ...at it was pursued as far as Villafranca, and had two squadrons put hors de combat, whilst the Novara regiment only lost twenty- four mounted men. I th... ...alf an hour, were put to flight, leaving on the ground fifteen men hors de combat, besides twelve prisoners. Whilst skirmishing of this kind is going ... ...so successful. The heaviest guns had not yet arrived owing to one of those incidents always sure to happen when least ex- pected, so that the 40-pound...

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...y private soldiers that the disfavour of a ser- geant is an evil not to be combated; offend the sergeant, they say, and in a brief while you will eith... ...als fell to fisticuffs in Adam Square, it was seriously hinted that single combat would be the re- sult. Last and most wonderful of all, Gall and Spur... ...goes out of him; and though he speaks sounding words of defiance, the last combat is little better than a suicide. The whole performance is, as I said... ...cy to escape from the purpose of their creators; and as the characters and incidents become more and more interesting in themselves, the moral, which ... ...on tenderness of the pathos, the startling vigour and strange- ness of the incidents, the natural strain of the conversations, and the humanity and ch... ...ll the small hours with eyes wide open: Jonathan applauding the unexpected incidents with many a slap of his big hand; Nance, perhaps, more pleased wi... ...ve was unsleeping. The even bluster of the mistral, with which he had been combating some hours, had not suspended, though it had embittered, that pre...

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...lusively with cases of sexual attraction, and yet forbidden to exhibit the incidents of that attraction or 5 Man & Superman even to discuss its natur... ... do in Shakespear’s tragedies: that is, dissect out the absurd sensational incidents and physical violences of the borrowed story from the genuine Sha... ...aded of his honey by beings inferior to himself in simple acquisitiveness, combat- iveness, and fecundity, but superior to him in imagination and cunn... ...tween Hector and a strange elder, both apparently on the verge of personal combat. He looks from one to the other for an explanation. They sulkily avo...

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...sistent fidelity to the peripeties of the contest, and the feelings of the combatants. The fiercest excitements of a romance de cape et d’epee, the ro... ...otor-car, its sen- sations, its fatigue, its vast topographical range, its incidents down to the bursting of a tyre, are brought home to you with all ... ...or obtaining a crushing advantage, but through the mortal weariness of the combatants. We have seen these things, though we have seen them only in the... ...ch dreaded the contamination of the new principles and had enough power to combat it were Prussia, Austria, and Russia, and they had an- other centre ... ...its ancient claim for services rendered to Europe. Not a single one of the combat- ants of all the fronts of the world has died consciously for Poland... ... commerce is hard enough, but to go under that sea we have been trained to combat, with a sense of failure in the supreme duty of one’s calling is ind...

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... duced towns and villages to ashes; which opened a grave for many thousand combatants, and for half a century smothered the glimmer- ing sparks of civ... ...r- mulae agreed upon, the point of union would be lost. Unfortunately both incidents occurred, and the evil results of both were quickly felt. One par... ...orant. To these general grievances was gradually added a chain of singular incidents, which at length converted the anxiety of the Protestants into ut... ...he king himself had the sole of his boot carried off by a cannon ball. The combat was maintained with undiminished obstinacy, till the approach of nig... ...ined with undiminished obstinacy, till the approach of night separated the combat- 289 Friedrich Schiller ants. But the Swedes had advanced too far t... ... decisive consequences, and the picked body, rather than the number of the combatants, was to render so terrible and remarkable. The strained expec- t... ...Night and darkness at last put an end to the fight, before the fury of the combatants was exhausted; and the contest only ceased, when no one could an...

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... sense of irremediable wretchedness, I gradu ally found that the ordinary incidents of life could again give me some pleasure; that I could again fin... ...as white and the other black. I marvelled at the blind rage with which the combatants rushed against one another. I applied to them, and to Coleridge ... ...ing the one prevalent in my own coun try, it was generally my business to combat. As it is, I have steered carefully between the two errors, and whet... ...ndispensable one; for since, after all, prejudice can only be successfully combated by phi losophy, no way can really be made against it permanently ... ...f my speeches in Parliament. 10 For more than two years we carried on the combat, trying every avenue legally open to us, to the Courts of Criminal J...

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... he was happy, no doubt—as every one seemed to be there. How those trivial incidents and words, the landscape and sun- shine, and the group of people ... ... pipes, and leaning over the railings of the field as they watched the dim combat within, announced that some catastrophe had happened, which caused E... ... on their own side, they chose to neglect the councils, and to rush into a combat with the former, which would have ended in the utter annihilation of... ...With these fond friends, Blenheim and Oudenarde seemed to be mere trifling incidents of the war; and Wynendael was its crowning victory. Esmond’s mist... ...rned of the victories of the great Duke of Marlborough. In that tremendous combat near upon two hundred and fifty thou- sand men were engaged, more th...

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...n- strate, even if we did not know the nature of the 7 Selected Writings incidents which prompted them, that he also suf- fered from an excess of ne... ...ealizable! “Nay, it seemed to me that there was also going on within her a combat, in which her heart struggled against an unknown force that she wish...

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...eroes and kings of Scotland have been tragically fated; the most mark- ing incidents in Scottish history – Flodden, Darien, or the Forty-five were sti... ... graves. There, in the hot fits of youth, I came to be un- happy. Pleasant incidents are woven with my memory of the place. I here made friends with a... ...the process, they are always worthily shared. There is a certain attitude, combative at once and deferen- tial, eager to fight yet most averse to quar... ... there stood displayed a theatre in working order, with a “forest set,” a “combat,” and a few “robbers carousing” in the slides; and below and about, ... ...- ing of that inn more fully. So it is with names and faces; so it is with incidents that are idle and inconclusive in themselves, and yet seem like t... ...’s wife, Mr. Melnotte dal- lying in the deserted banquet-room, are typical incidents, epically conceived, fitly embodying a crisis. Or again look at T... ... of perfect story- telling; the man never breathed who shared these moving incidents without a tremor; and yet Faria is a thing of pack- thread and Da... ...e and formidable. So as they appear insidi- ous in deceit and fatal in the combat, they have served their end. Danger is the matter with which this cl...