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...th whose dreadful name the Saracens, according to a historian of their own country, were wont to rebuke their startled horses. “Do you think,” said th... ...ter much experience of the wonders which it wrought, brought it to his own country, and left it to his heirs, by whom, and by Clydesdale in general, i... ...s a violent longing for pork. But pork was not likely to be plentiful in a country whose inhabitants had an abhorrence for swine’s flesh; and “Though ... ...es during the earlier part of the morning. More lately, issuing from those rocky and dangerous defiles, he had entered upon 16 The Talisman that grea... ...n my land cold often converts the water itself into a substance as hard as rock. Let us speak of this no longer, for the thoughts of the calm, clear, ... ...ourney, which he did by observing minute marks and bearings of the distant rocks, to a ridge of which they were gradually approaching. For a little ti... ...le, ungratefully treated, because men’s mouths—even those of his own minne-singers [The German minstrels were so termed.]—are filled with the praises ... ...Richard of England 136 The Talisman engrosses amongst minstrels and minne-singers. Has no one of the joyeuse science here present a song in praise of...

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...eva, your native place. You have caused your expulsion from Switzerland, a country so extolled in your writings; France has issued a warrant against y... ...ously offered Rousseau a home at Wootton, in Staffordshire, near the, Peak Country; the latter, however, would only accept the offer on condition that... ... The climate and scen- ery of Wootton being similar to those of his native country, he was at first delighted with his new abode, where he lived with ... ...thetic expressions these letters contained were sufficient to have split a rock. In a word, I had the honor of her not being able to endure the pain o... ...anything when placed at a table, pen in hand; it must be walking among the rocks, or in the woods; it is at night in my bed, during my wakeful hours, ... ...oble habits of the canons, the chasubles of the priests, the mitres of the singers, the persons of the musicians; an old lame car- penter who played t... ...is called Pas de l’Echelle. Above the main road, which is hewn through the rock, a small river runs and rushes into fearful chasms, which it appears t...

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...d which was the source of great comfort and amusement to him in his native country. He did not live with his family while in London, but had lodgings ... ...ve him an opportunity of nar- rating many interesting anecdotes about that country and him- self. He described the balls at Government House, and the ... ...ve him an opportunity of nar- rating many interesting anecdotes about that country and him- 36 V anity Fair – V olume One self. He described the ball... ...ng melodies under the gilded cockle-shell in the midst of the gardens; the singers, both of comic and sentimental ballads, who charmed the ears there;... ...or a bath. I say, Dob, I feel just as I did on the morning I went out with Rocket at Quebec.” “So do I,” William responded. “I was a deuced deal more ... ...s a pretty picture: the beach; the bathing-women’s faces; the long line of rocks and building were blushing and bright in the sunshine. Rebecca wore a...

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...act, from Mississippi, and he spoke very perceptibly with the accent of that country. It is not in my power to reproduce by any combination of charact... ...ignorance (he was fond of an elegant phrase); that he lived in a part of the country where they didn’t think much about Europe, and that he had always... ...e holding oligarchy which, within her own vivid remembrance, had plunged the country into blood and tears, and that, as associated with such abominati... ...ugh she had a consciousness of sitting down somewhere—the object creaked and rocked beneath her— and of the table at tea being covered with a cloth st... ...peratic season had begun, he was much occupied in interviewing the principal singers, one of whom he described in one of the leading journals (Olive, ... ..., on the way back to Tenth Street, had spoken only of Wagner’s music, of the singers, the orchestra, the immensity of the house, her tremendous pleasu... ...ering windows, bristled with the raw delicacy of April, and, in spite of its rockwork grottoes and tunnels, its pavilions and statues, its too numerou... ...awls, were seen waiting for him, as if he had been the doctor, on horse hair rocking chairs, in the little public parlour; others peered vaguely out o... ... house on which (with its approach to the platform), the withdrawing room of singers and speakers was situated; he had chosen his seat in that quarter...

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...t, the sketch may find readers. It has been a task of difficulty. Speed was essential, or it might come too late to be of any service to a distracted country....

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... essential, or it might come too late to be of any service to a distracted country. T ruth, in the midst of conflicting rumours and in the dearth of p... ...tors date back before the Roman Empire. They are Christians, church-goers, singers of hymns at family wor- ship, hardy cricketers; their books are pri... ... ministry, lost but a single student; the rest, in the bosom of a bleeding country, and deaf to the voices of vanity and honour, peacefully pursued th... ...s wise as Mataafa, and to conceive that etiquette and morals differ in one country and another. We shall be the less surprised to find Samoan war defa... ...to Germany, he had great delight to see the cliffs of England. He saw “the rocks shining in the sun, and three hours later was surprised to find them ... ...om Mulinuu, he would sit on his own poop and confound them with gratuitous rockets. He was at the pains to write a letter and address it to “the High ... ...e next. The two white visitors passed with- out and between the lines to a rocky point upon the beach. The person of Moors was well known; the purpose...

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...as far as I could see, within reach of any signal. A green, open, undulating country stretched away upon all sides. Locust trees and a single field of... ...; it smelt of woods, rivers, and the delved earth. These, though in so far a country, were airs from home. I stood on the platform by the hour; and as... ...s eating; and with every word, look, and gesture marched me farther into the country of surprise. He was indeed strik- ingly unlike the negroes of Mrs... ...pictured it. We were now on those great plains which stretch unbroken to the Rocky Mountains. The country was flat like Holland, but far from being du... ...ugh these sad mountains, or 24 Across the Plains over the main ridge of the Rockies, which is a fair match to them for misery of aspect. Hour after h... ...to admit the moonshine direct, and only a diffused glimmer whitened the tall rocks and relieved the blackness of the pines. A hoarse clamour filled th... ...ver seen faces more viv- idly lit up with joy than the faces of these Indian singers. It was to them not only the worship of God, nor an act by which ... ...ant fact is this, that they were never needed. Painters, sculptors, writers, singers, I have seen all of these 62 Across the Plains in Barbizon; and ...

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... a life annuity to some old woman whom he scarcely knows; both live in the country with a brook between them, both sides are free to hate cordially, w... ...n.” “I have found it, father.” “Well, then, now take out a little phial of rock crystal.” “I have it.” “I have spent twenty years in—” but even as he ... ...d in came the Prince and Don Juan’s friends, the seven courtesans, and the singers, disheveled and wild like dancers surprised by the dawn, when the t... ...his own roof, with no more scandal under it than if he had been an ancient country parson. Occasionally he would take wife and son to task for neglige... ...a flask that contains a little of the holy water that once issued from the rock in the wilderness. I have kept the secret of this squandering of a tre... ...put out the lamp. By the soft moonlight that lit strange gleams across the country without, Felipe could dimly see his father’s body, a vague white th...

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...CHAPTER IV A FIELD DAY AND BIVOUAC— MORE NEW FRIENDS—AN INVITATION TO THE COUNTRY MANY AUTHORS ENTERTAIN, not only a foolish, but a really dishones... ... poetry was rapidly bursting forth, ‘to see the gallant defenders of their country drawn up in brilliant array before its peaceful citizens; their fac... ...take that you shall see everything worth seeing. If you’ve come down for a country life, come to me, and I’ll give you plenty of it. Joe—damn that boy... ...nly very tender hearted, but they pierced his, to the very core. The widow rocked herself to and fro, and wrung her hands. ‘“Oh, the deception and vil... ...re over, there was a band of music in pasteboard caps; four something ean singers in the costume of their country, and a dozen hired waiters in the c... ...have been sung until the end of the festivities, if the four something ean singers had not ranged themselves in front of a small apple tree, to look p... ...inasmuch as the grand secret seemed to be, that three of the something ean singers should grunt, while the fourth howled. This interesting per forman... ...ck his fancy in his ramblings, seat himself on some fallen fragment of the rock, and bury ing his face in his hands, remain there for hours—some tim...

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...romising buds! Satisfied, when I know that every alley and lane of town or country reeks with vice and corruption, and that there is one cry for worke... ...estead, there was a steep, sharp bit of road, cut out in the red sandstone rock, and after a few paces she paused to rest with a sigh that brought Con... ...verything through some speculation of their brother. I believe he fled the country under some terrible suspicion of dishonesty; and though no one thou... .... At last they quite disappeared from the view round a projecting point of rock, and when she turned it, she found a battle royal going on over an old... ...aving begun his career with such mortal offence to the native fiddlers and singers as to impel them into the arms of dissent, he could only supply the... ... ascertain where Edward was, so as to be sure of the date. It was a little country village, and I 83 Yo n g e made a blunder in copying the spelling ... ...ficulties, the boys continually coming back to them from excursions on the rocks, and Rose holding her aunt’s hand all the time, but to be sure Rose h...

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.... Findlayson, C. E., turned on his trolley and looked over the face of the country that he had changed for seven miles around. Looked back on the humm... ...f. He was a Lascar, a Kharva from Bulsar, familiar with every port between Rockhampton and London, who had risen to the rank of sarang on the British ... ...oo, it leaks like the devil, and the crops will also be short all about my country. Now you shall back her out, Hitchcock. I—I do not understand steam... ... Spruce, with sumach and little juniper bushes, and the other half is grey rock and boulder and moss, with green streaks of brake and swamp; but the h... ... tipped the coupe over in a hidden brook before she came out on a ledge of rock where all the horses had gathered, and were switching flies. The Deaco... ... this yer bogspavined Kansas sunflower goes up an’ daown the length o’ the country, traded off an’ traded on, boastin’ as he’s shed women—an’ childern... ...9 The Day’s Work infernal music rolled and maddened round red fires, while singers sang songs of the ancient times, and danced peculiar dances. The ab...

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... under- stands—a rook’s parliament, or a gathering of sea-fowl on the Shag Rock.’ ‘A rook’s parliament?’ ‘The people at home call it a rook’s parliame... ...l, and wanting that living ripple, heaving and struggling.’ ‘And your fine rocks?’ said Laura. ‘I wish you could see the Shag stone,—a great island ma... ...f the mountain streams, eddying fiercely along, bearing with them tree and rock, while the valleys became lakes, and the little mounds islets; and the... ...arried his wife to see the execution! He was so execrated that he fled the country; he went to Holland, curried favour with William of Orange, brought... ...t, she has over-polked herself in Lon- don, and is sent here for quiet and country air. I want to call on her, and to ask Sir Guy to give me some idea... ...en curious to see what would happen when Eveleen was sent to Hollywell for country air. She had a very good opinion of Lady Eveleen. Since the former ... ...not yet venture to form an opinion on him, or enter into intimacy. ‘So the singers will not come to us on Christmas Eve, be- cause they say they must ... ...ll their rudeness and dissonance, and throwing up the win- dow, called the singers by name, asking why they stood out in the snow, instead of coming i...

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...She, for the future of her strength convinced. And that her honour was a rock, or mole, Exceeding sagely from that hour dispensed With any k... ...e made ‘us youth’ wait too too long already For an estate, or cash, or country seat, Still breaking, but with stamina so steady That all t... ...ts; But vaccination certainly has been A kind antithesis to Congreve’s rockets, With which the Doctor paid off an old pox, By borrowing a ne... ...he sea dashes round the promontory, And the loud breaker boils against the rock, And sober suns must set at five o’clock. Byron’s Don Juan “Cant... ...sico Cazzani Sing at my heart six months at least in vain? Did not his countryman, Count Corniani, Call me the only virtuous wife in Spain? ... ... I recollect Great Britain’s coast looks white, But almost every other country ‘s blue, When gazing on them, mystified by distance, We enter... ...ny he heard, Which was an odd one; a troop going to act In Sicily (all singers, duly rear’d In their vocation) had not been attack’d In sa...

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...pect and attention should he paid to those who came to carry back to their country the body of the famous dead warrior and sovereign. This matter bein... ...d-twenty years of age, who was already distinguished in the service of his country and king. On the 8th of October, after a voyage of six-and-sixty da... ... Napoleon the ‘Dolphin;’ the echoes being repeated a thousand times by the rocks above James Town. After two hours’ march the cortege stopped at the e... ... that on the passage of Napoleon’s coffin down the Seine, old soldiers and country people walked miles from their vil- lages just to catch a sight of ... ...eard each, the audience gave a kind of “ahahah!” such as you hear when the rockets go up at Vauxhall. At last the real Procession came. Then the drums... ...and the coffin was placed in the temple pre- pared for it. The six hundred singers and the fiddlers now com- menced the playing and singing of a piece...

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...o earth the pride of the Arabs, who, following Hannibal, passed the Alpine rocks from which thou, Po, glidest. Be- neath it, in their youth, Scipio an... ... to be secure against corruption. The Angels, brother, and the sincere 10 country in which thou art, may be called cre- ated, even as they are, in th... ...mself a partisan; 13 and such gifts will be conformed to the living of the country. Above are mirrors, ye call them Thrones, 14 wherefrom God shines ... ...y in vain, had returned to the fruit of the Italian grass, 25 on the rude rock, 26 between the Tiber and the Arno, he took from Christ the last seal... ...rstand well that which I now saw (and let him retain the image like a firm rock, while I am speaking), fifteen stars which in different regions vivify... ...ul which had spoken with me showed me how great an artist it was among the singers of heaven. I turned me round to my right side to see my duty signi-... ... supposed to be the source of the light of the stars. 2 That is, in those singers. 3 David. See 2 Samuel, vi. 4 So far as it proceeded from his own...

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............................................................... 106 Wagnerian Singers ...................................................................... ...strongly. Not that I like the average German: nobody does, even in his own country. But then the average man is not popular anywhere; and as no German... ... rain- bow, fire and forest—is enough to bribe people with any love of the country in them to endure the passages of politi- cal philosophy in the sur... ... Presently there comes a poor devil of a dwarf stealing along the slippery rocks of the river bed, a creature with energy enough to make him strong of... ...ightier than ever. You can see the process for yourself in every civilized country today, where millions of people toil in want and disease to heap up... ...more as poor as he was when he came slipping and stumbling among the slimy rocks in the bed of the Rhine. 25 Shaw This is the way of the world. In ol... ...afnir in their rejoicing over Freia. Donner, the Thunder god, springs to a rocky summit and calls the clouds as a shepherd calls his flocks. They come... ...he sing- ing is sometimes tolerable, and sometimes abominable. Some of the singers are mere animated beer casks, too lazy and conceited to practise th... ...nce, with the more formidable instruments be- neath the stage, so that the singers have not to sing through the brass. The effect is quite perfect. Ba...

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...ional class suburb in Europe, these intensely Russian plays fitted all the country houses in Europe in which the plea- sures of music, art, literature... ... these books, and the Monday morn- ing to read in the daily paper that the country had just been brought to the verge of anarchy because a new Home Se... ... of war delirium, had the slightest chance of acquittal. There were in the country, too, a certain number of people who had conscientious objections t... ...eak House had seen in my mother’s album photographs of all the great opera singers, mostly in evening dress. In the theatre I found myself before a gi... ...d balcony filled with persons in evening dress whom I took to be the opera singers. I picked out one massive dark lady as Alboni, and wondered how soo... ...sing. I was puzzled by the fact that I was made to sit with my back to the singers instead of facing them. When the curtain went up, my astonishment a... ... to marry Mr Mangan? 103 GB Shaw CAPTAIN SHOTOVER [never looking up]. One rock is as good as another to be wrecked on. ELLIE. I am not in love with h... ... one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks. MAZZINI. Very true, no doubt, at sea. But in politics, I assure you,... ...VER [savagely]. Nothing but the smash of the drunken skipper’s ship on the rocks, the splintering of her rotten timbers, the tearing of her rusty plat...

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...s implies a grasp upon the very deepest strain of thought in Scotland, – a country far more essentially different from England than many parts of Amer... ... fitly of Hugo and Villon would involve yet wider knowledge, not only of a country foreign to the author by race, history, and religion, but of the gr... ...o much realised as widely sought after among the late generations of their countrymen; and to see them clearly in a nice relation to the society that ... ...m foundering in such circumstances, by any amount of breakwater and broken rock. I do not understand the way in which the waves are spoken of, and pre... ... old infamy will pop out into daylight like a toad out of a fissure in the rock, and the shadow of the shade of what was once a man will be heartily p... ...ongruity, it may have pleased Charles to own a sort of kinship with ragged singers, and whimsically regard himself as one of the confraternity of poet...

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... germaine unto sottishnesse, and a quality of reproach? Socrates maketh his soule to moove, with a naturall and common motion. Thus saith a plaine Country-man, and thus a seely Woman: Hee never hath other people in his mouth than Coach-makers, Joyners, Coblers, and Masons....

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... was he to me in this inextricable laberinth like Ariadnes threed: in this rockie-rough Ocean, a guide- fish to the Whale; in these darke-uncouth way... ...ellished by such deriving; and doth it drive our noblest Colonies upon the rockes of ruine? And did they well? and prooved they well? and must we pro... ...en Whose spirits are all of one communitie. Whom neither Ocean, Desarts, Rockes nor Sands Can keepe from th'intertraffique of the minde, But that ... ...e same effect. Edward the black Prince of Wales (who so long governed our Country of Guienne, a man whose conditions and fortune were accompanied wi... ...s cause of his death, which was, that he would never consent to yeeld his Country into the hands of a cruell tyrant, menacing him with an imminent p... ...eived aright of the force of custome that first invented this tale; how a country woman having enured herselfe to cherish and beare a young calfe in... ...him, that it is a custome of popular or base men to call for minstrels or singers at feasts, and an argument they want witty or good discourses and p...

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...earned how to make weapons for hunting, instead of us- ing their hands or rocks. They also learned how to use vessels for gathering and storing food... ...n I could ever imagine. occasionally, I would stop to rest my knees on a rock that bulged above the needles, and I would gaze in awe at the trees, ... ...f this year (2009), China will have more English speakers than any other country in the world. And here is a really interesting concept: f ace- book... ...cial network, has 175 million active users worldwide. If f acebook were a country, it would be the sixth largest country in the world! Indeed, globa... ...by itself. To complete the shift in our thinking, we must engage actors, singers, and other public idols and celebrities 62 B ail Yourself o ut in... ... powerful promoter of new concepts. Today, more than ever, genres such as rock and hip-hop are powerful means of expressing social Chapter 11: fi... ..., and to understand how they can use it to their benefit. In nearly every country in the world, educa- tion systems are designed to prod students to ...

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...re the refinement of their minds; but it has been reserved for a Christian country to attain this extreme, this quintessence, this absolute of poi- gn... ... to a throne, he had gambled away his future and that of a brave and loyal country. “God,” he cried, “God for- give me!” And with that, the confusion ... ...e, in the corner, one of those monstrous construc- tions which your fellow-countrymen carry with them into all quarters of the globe – in a word, a Sa... ..., a few tumbled sand-hills stood between it and the sea. An outcropping of rock had formed a bastion for the sand, so that there was here a promontory... ...t Louis Stevenson between two shallow bays; and just beyond the tides, the rock again cropped out and formed an islet of small di- mensions but striki... ...ch is saying much: there is a church in a hollow; a miserable haven in the rocks, where many boats have been lost as they returned from fishing; two o... ...at the door of a respectable hotel? Oh!” he cried, “I know you now! Common singers! People in trouble with the police! And you present yourselves at m...

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...lly with your psychological input and her ideas on values we can get a better handle on what makes people tick. ―Having now looked at my own countr... ... 16 teenage sex or drugs? What is it that keeps them so contented. Certainly people in my countr... ...tomorrow we die.‘ That was the call of the Beatniks of the 50's, the hippies of the 60's, and the uncommitted of today. ―But too many of my countr... ... counted on to break into song with the repertoire of Sophie Tucker, that 1920‘s songstress whose ample body produced the powerful tunes that rocked... ...1920‘s songstress whose ample body produced the powerful tunes that rocked the speakeasies of the 20s. Sophie was one of America‘s most famous singer... ...ome imams salves their power drives with votives of violence. ―It‘s much easier for poor youths to burn cars and buses and to throw rocks ... ...b screws and iron masks pale to the rack, being lowered face down in boiling oil or lead, being tied to a wide wooden wheel and rolled down a rocky ... ... largest stage spanning one end of the area and the giant Egyptian pyramid revolving above it, the unamplified voices of the world‘s greatest singer...