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...nd myself that I am here, that escape is never, that courage is all that counts, humor with its leg lifted on the monument, peeing on vanity. T... ...cence, shall free us of every plague, down to smallest poverty, and, like Merlin, give us castles for cots, hope for despair, money for thought. Sle... ...l’s. VOICES FROM THE PAST 482 Stratford I have been thinking of Merlin and his magic ways, the thrall of his immense dabbling: this island... ...of his immense dabbling: this island should have been named Clas Myrddin: Merlin’s Enclosure. Perhaps Gawain and Lancelot would have enclosed us and...

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... peste futura. -- CLAUD. in Ruff. 1. ii. i. 137. 2 He heares his journey, counts his daies, so measures he His life by his waies length, vext with t... ...ldren? In Mahomets religion, by the easie beleefe of that people are many Merlins found, that is to say, fatherless children: spirituall children, c... .... -- Catul. Eleg. iv. 147. If it afforded be to thee alone, Where by she counts that day of all dayes one. What if she eate your bread with the sauc... ...end that which is neere, and which step in number begins the distance she counts farre, I am of opinion that she stay him betweene both. ...

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... approved, Carroll Lewis Maxcy '87, Graduate Treasurer. April Liu Contents Merlin and Vivien—frontispiece. A Dreamer of Dreams—verse,Ber- nard Wosterm... ...,000. Still, the case is not so hopeless ns it looks, for the thi-ng which counts is not the relative number but the positive. The criticism that we s... ...records cf each activity are preserved in good form, and that accurate ac- counts are kept by the managers in a business-like manner, a pro- cess whic... ...d the glory of our American citizenship is that in this struggle every man counts. ^^^^ '92—Rev. Edwin W. Bishop, who has been pastor of the Sonth Con...

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......................................................................................................................... 27 When the Fox Dies, His Skin Counts* ......................................................................................................................... 28 The Heathrose. ................................................................................

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.............................................. 27 When the Fox Dies, His Skin Counts* ...................................................................... ...ere now her land? Where, alas, the way? 1775.* When the Fox Dies, His Skin Counts* (* The name of a game, known in English as “Jack’s alight.”) We you... ... fool with the fool, willy-nilly,— Children of wisdom,—remember the word!” Merlin the old, from his glittering grave, When I, a stripling, once spoke ...

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...tories that they have made all seem fable.” 4 He omits the prophecies of Merlin 3 Roman de Rou , vs. 6415 ff. 4 Roman de Brut , vs. 10038 ff. 7... ...atever medium it may have passed before it reached his hands. In the Vita Merlini , 21 a Latin poem attributed by some schol ars to Geoffrey of Mon... ...mongst those who disported themselves at this gate were two varlets, named Merlin and Dinabus. Presently the two youths began to chide and jangle, and... ... ill of his fellow, reproaching him because of his birth. “Hold thy peace, Merlin”, said Dinabus, “it becomes you not to strive with me, whose race is... ...he warden of the city, adjuring him, by the king’s will, to lay hands upon Merlin—that sireless man—and carry him straightway to the king, together wi... ... in number as the sand, the more honour is yours. A multitude such as this counts noth ing. A host like theirs, led by a weak and foolish captain, wh... ...uly that nothing of blows or hurt, neither weariness nor prison nor death, counts aught with us in comparison with what is due to the king’s honour. F...

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...tion mill a working. Would God I had died or I saw this day!” “Who is it?” “Merlin, the mighty liar and magician, perdition singe him for the wearine... ...e jaded spirit. This was the old man’s tale. He said: “Right so the king and Merlin departed, and went until an hermit that was a good man and a great... ... departed. And as they rode, Arthur said, I have no sword. No force *, said Merlin, hereby is a sword that shall be yours and I may. So they rode... ...n arm clothed in white samite, that held a fair sword in that hand. Lo, said Merlin, yonder is that sword that I spake of. With that they saw a damsel... ...e lake. What damsel is that? said Arthur. That is the Lady of the lake, said Merlin; and within that lake is a rock, and therein is as fair a place a... ...more details, the more swag: bear ers, mutes, candles, prayers — everything counts; and if the bereaved don’t buy prayers enough you mark up your can...

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...l the little base pas- sions of the sultans of literature. There is Hector Merlin, who came from Limoges a short time ago; he is writing po- litical a... ...t work on our little paper as well. I have seen an editor drop his hat and Merlin pick it up. The fellow was careful never to give offence, and slippe... ...ten to spoil some of Dauriat’s speculations, or to ruin a book on which he counts, you will see him come climbing up your stairs like a clema- tis, an... ...enger round to say that they are short of copy at the office. Young Hector Merlin has left them in the lurch because they did not pay for white lines.... ...oo, was absent; but these gaps were filled by two famous actors and Hector Merlin and his mistress. This charming woman, who chose to be known as Mme.... ...I am sure I am quite as sharp and shrewd as they can be.” Finot and Hector Merlin evidently had not fallen out over that affair of the white lines and... ...at the way they will win us the fame of a second Petrarch?” “Laura already counts for something in his fame,” said Dauriat, a pun [Laure (l’or)] recei...

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...s of the work.” “Senor Samson, I am not in a humour now for going into ac- counts or explanations,” said Sancho; “for there’s a sinking of the stomach... ... enchanted here, as I myself and many others are, by that French enchanter Merlin, who, they say, was the devil’s son; but my belief is, not that he w... ... and two nieces, and many more of your friends and acquaintances, the sage Merlin has been keeping enchanted here these many years; and 143 Cervantes... ...s and nieces alone are missing, and these, because of the tears they shed, Merlin, out of the compas- sion he seems to have felt for them, changed int... ...e you (open your eyes and you will see) that great knight of whom the sage Merlin has prophesied such great things; that Don Quixote of La Mancha I me... ... thou believe?” asked Don Quixote. “I believe,” replied Sancho, “that this Merlin, or those enchant- 146 Don Quixote – Part II ers who enchanted the ...

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...eper in, over the Northern marches: ‘a hundred and fifty thousand’ as fear counts, ‘eighty thousand’ as the returns shew, do hem us in; Cimmerian Euro... ...ng round to bombard it with shot and shell. Mentz may resist, Commissioner Merlin, the Thionviller, ‘making sallies, at the head of the besieged;’—res... ... single troop became notable: that of the Com- missioners or Representans. Merlin of Thionville, in hussar uniform, distinguishing himself by wild bea... ... name of a Jacobin Townsman and Clubbist; and shook it- self to seize him. Merlin drew bridle; referred to his dignity as French Representative, to th... ...see him here. (Belagerung von Maintz (Goethe’s Werke, xxx. 315.) Thus rode Merlin; threatening in defeat. But what now shall stem that tide of Prussia... ...lutionary Committees being quickened by that Law of the Forty Sous, Deputy Merlin, not the Thionviller, whom we saw ride out of Mentz, but Merlin of D...

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...ets at the beginning, at least sonnets whose authors are dukes, marquises, counts, bishops, ladies, or famous poets. Though if I were to ask two or th... ...erved under him in the campaigns he made, was present at the deaths of the Counts Egmont and Horn, and was promoted to be ensign under a famous captai... ...igious encoun- ters, splendid costumes, love-sick princesses, squires made counts, droll dwarfs, love letters, billings and cooings, swashbuckler wome... ...Señor Samson, I am not in a humour now for going into ac- 420 Don Quixote counts or explanations,” said Sancho; “for there’s a sinking of the stomach... ... enchanted here, as I myself and many others are, by that French enchanter Merlin, who, they say, was the devil’s son; but my belief is, not that he w... ... and two nieces, and many more of your friends and acquaintances, the sage Merlin has been keeping enchanted here these many years; and although more ... ...s and nieces alone are missing, and these, because of the tears they shed, Merlin, out of the compas- sion he seems to have felt for them, changed int... ...e you (open your eyes and you will see) that great knight of whom the sage Merlin has prophesied such great things; that Don Quixote of La Mancha I me... ... thou believe?” asked Don Quixote. “I believe,” replied Sancho, “that this Merlin, or those enchant- ers who enchanted the whole crew your worship say...

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... myth of the divine huntress. It is no use for a man to take to the woods; we know him; St. Anthony tried the same thing long ago, and had a pitiful t... ..., healthy and beautiful, giving colour to the light, giv- ing perfume to the air: what is this but the most imposing piece in nature’s repertory? Hein...

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...arter, 150 For matrimonial solace dies a martyr. Did ever Proteus, Merlin, any witch, T ransform themselves so strangely as the rich? Well, bu... ... 130 He who, to seem more deep than you or I, Extols old bards, or Merlin’s prophecy, Mistake him not; he envies, not admires, And to debase t... ...ain, or who taste their spring? How shall we fill a library with wit, When Merlin’s cave is half unfurnish’d yet? My liege! why writers little claim y... ...e, Dear Cibber! never match’d one ode of thine. Lord! how we strut through Merlin’s cave, to see No poets there, but, Stephen, 162 you, and me. ... ...l. Ye tinsel insects! whom a court maintains, 220 That counts your beauties only by your stains, Spin all your cobwebs o’er the ey...

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...e unfortunately shot,’ reports Bailly, count- ing by units; but Patriotism counts by tens and even by 171 Thomas Carlyle hundreds. Not to be forgotte... ... defy the Earth and the Heavens. Foremost here are the Cordelier Trio: hot Merlin from Thionville, hot Bazire, Attorneys both; Chabot, disfrocked Capu... ...le man. Nay honourable members will tear their papers, being effervescent: Merlin of Thionville tears his papers, crying: “So, the People cannot be sa... ...his mittimus against three heads of the Mountain, Deputies Bazire, Chabot, Merlin, the Cordelier Trio; summoning them to appear before him, and shew w...

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...harged? ’Tis hist! and hist! And now she screws a gouty fist, And now she counts to clutch her pence. V With shudders chill as aconite, The couchant ... ...umes of History tell Of the stop in progression, the slip in relapse, That counts us a sand-slack inch hard won Beneath an oppressive incumbent perhap... ...rty’s decease, If he bends not an instant knee. Expunge it: extinguishing counts poor gain. And accept a mild word of police:- Be mannerly, measured;... ...II Asleep upon her ancient deeds, She hugs the vision plethora breeds, And counts her manifold increase Of treasure in the fruits of peace. What curse... ... world, a marching world to warn, But sunward from the vivid Many springs, Counts conquest but a step, and through disaster sings. 406 THE WARNING We... ...in a spasm of will, From sleep or debate, a mannikin squire With head of a merlin hawk and quill Acrow on an ear. At him rained fire From a blast of ...

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...s of the other two like a doorway. Grisell heard some thing murmured about Merlin and Arthur and Guinevere, but she did not heed, and she was quite wo... ...ng,” said Grisell. “Ay, in the days of the Round Table; but when Dukes and Counts, and great Marquesses and Barons swarm like may- flies by a trout st...

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...aid, “makes dukes. He has created Impe- rial fiefs, he will therefore make counts. Malin is determined to be Comte de Gondreville. That is a fancy,” h... ...als in which the lawyers for the defence pleaded, and the attorney-general Merlin himself spoke for the prosecution, the appeal was rejected. The Impe... ...ct this woman, inwardly so strong, and that sentiment of secret protection counts for much in the wondrous charm of her friendship. Her life, so painf...

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... When he be came a young man, the King of France, uniting with the French Counts of Anjou and Flanders, supported his cause against the King of En g... ...n old King of their own. They had tales among them about a prophet called Merlin (of the same old time), who had foretold that their own King should ... ...of knights and soldiers, he began to believe this too, and to consider old Merlin a very superior prophet. He did not know—how could he, being so in ... ...Welsh pride could not bear it. Moreover, they believed in that unlucky old Merlin, some of whose unlucky old prophecies somebody always seemed doomed ... ...ad become of an unknown age and tedious, burst out with a declaration that Merlin had predicted that when English money had become round, a Prince of ... ...ntroduced a round coin; therefore, the Welsh people said this was the time Merlin meant, and rose accordingly. King Edward had bought over Prince Dav... ...as enormous. Three Dukes were killed, two more were taken prisoners, seven Counts were killed, three more were taken prisoners, and ten thousand knigh...

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... your romance.” “Why not? Men of fifty are not to be despised, if they are counts,” said Ernestine. “Heavens! what has age to do with it?” said Mademo... ...fy you to see his toilet,” whispered Vinet in her ear. “But the king makes counts,” said Madame Marion, who had now joined the group and was surveying... ...adies. “ Ah! madame,” remarked Vinet, “but some young girls pre- fer their counts already made.” “Well, Monsieur Antonin,” said Cecile, laughing at Vi... ...a- tion for goodness as for the habit of her order, but she par- ticularly counts among the number of her most zealous ser- vitors Monseigneur Trouber... ... during the month of May, which began a few days ago, the letter of chairs counts on her beautiful voice for part of her receipts. She is assiduous at... ...Emile Blondet, Finot, Lousteau, Felicien Vernon, Theodore Gaillard, Hector Merlin, and Bixiou, who was commissioned to invite me, as it seems they are...

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...hat curious double- cut in the air—‘“that you may leave me out of all your counts and reckonings.” Then I went out’—he snapped his fingers— ’like the ... ...heart wiping out the whole slateful. But boy’s Magic doesn’t trouble me—or Merlin’s either for that matter. I followed the Boy by the flashes and the ...

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... be seen almost in every street, or else the sign of Mother Shipton, or of Merlin’s head, and the like. With what blind, absurd, and ridiculous stuff ... ...dreadful of its kind, I believe, that ever London saw; for, by all the ac- counts which I have seen of the preceding visitations which have been in Lo... ...ntion again, though I have spoken several times of it already on other ac- counts, I mean that of the progression of the distemper; how it began at on...

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...ir depredations. The Scottish knight listened with indifference to the ac- counts of ravages committed by wild beasts or wicked men, secure as he felt... ...ed from emperors, his progeni- tors—above that of a mere descendant of the Counts of Anjou; and in the meantime he commanded a cask of wine 139 Sir W... ...mething creeping forward on the shadowy side of the mount. “In the name of Merlin and Maugis,” answered a hoarse, disagreeable voice, “tie up your fou... ...e wars, and would be glad he was safe at home.” “That is a drawn cast, and counts for nothing in the game,” said the jester; “it was most wise to thin...

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... before—before this wild hope had awakened in me. Here, I know my nobility counts for nothing, though, truly, sir, few names in France are prouder. Bu... ... to live in constant hazard of their lives; from Paris, confessors such as Merlin, the chap- lain who, leaving Coligny’s bedside, had been hidden for ... ... had the right-mindedness to respect and esteem such men as Theodore Beza, Merlin, &c., who treated her with great regard, but never cringed, had not ... ...ng away his long fatigue through the chief part of the day, while Pas- tor Merlin was preaching and eloquent sermon upon his good brother Isaac Gardon...

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...e small and low; their fronts are veneered with slate. Wood, now decaying, counts for much in the carved material of the window-casings and the pillar... ...I., who thought proper to ennoble the valet of Louis XI., and we have been counts since Catherine de’ Medici.” “I will receive and protect your wife,”... ...nd firmly drawn, —a type long presented in perennial youth by the Comtesse Merlin, and which is perhaps peculiar to Southern races. Unhappily, little ...

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... popular style. As a matter of fact there is only one portrait of him that counts, that has more than the merest chance of being au- thentic, the one ... ...to one of his contem- poraries, an Italian, to the Histoire Macaronique of Merlin Coccaie. Its author, Theophilus Folengo, who was also a monk, was bo... ...or saw this quite well, and said so in his title, ‘Histoire macaronique de Merlin Coccaie, proto- type of Rabelais.’ It is nothing but the truth, and ... ...not hide it from himself, on more than one occa- sion mentions the name of Merlin Coccaie. Besides, Rabelais was fed on the Italians of his time as on... ...iss to him. He must have known, and even copied the Latin Chronicle of the Counts of Anjou. It is accepted, and rightly so, as an historical document,... ...for thinking that the truth may not have been manipulated and adorned. The Counts of Anjou were not saints. They were proud, quarrelsome, violent, rap... ...like Fenelon’s Telemaque. Now in it there occurs the address of one of the counts to those who rebelled against him and who were at his mercy. Rabelai... ... localities he names, he must have met with and read the Chronicles of the Counts in manuscript, probably in some monastery li- brary, whether at Font... ..., said the monk, that is not my exposition. It is the style of the prophet Merlin. Make upon it as many grave alle- gories and glosses as you will, an...

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...o was England born! She is not any common Earth, Water or Wood or Air, But Merlin’s Isle of Gramarye, Where you and I will fare. THE CHILDREN were at ... ...old days would have given their crowns and spurs and books to find out. If Merlin himself had helped you, you couldn’t have managed better! You’ve bro... ...d come head to wind again. Butterfly-wings! It was Magic—Magic as black as Merlin could make it, and the whole sea was green fire and white foam with ... ... a Whitgift. A won’erful choice place for Pharisees, the Marsh, by all ac- counts, till Queen Bess’s father he come in with his Refor- matories.’ ‘Wou...

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... waxing out of bounds In gladness, lifted up my shameless brow, And like the merlin cheated by a gleam, Cried, “It is over. Heav’n! I fear thee not.”... ... declared nothing more was wanting to make her die contented. v. 114. The merlin.] The story of the merlin is that having been induced by a gleam... ... cxix. 5 v. 97. The successor of Peter Ottobuono, of the family of Fieschi Counts of Lavagna, died thirty nine days after he became Pope, with the ...

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...ot,’ reports Bailly, counting 293 Thomas Carlyle by units; but Patriotism counts by tens and even by hundreds. Not to be forgotten, nor forgiven! Pat... ... defy the Earth and the Heavens. Foremost here are the Cordelier Trio: hot Merlin from Thionville, hot Bazire, Attor- neys both; Chabot, disfrocked Ca... ...le man. Nay honourable members will tear their papers, being effervescent: Merlin of Thionville tears his papers, crying: “So, the People cannot be sa... ...his mittimus against three heads of the Mountain, Deputies Bazire, Chabot, Merlin, the Cordelier Trio; summoning them to appear before him, and shew w... ...eper in, over the Northern marches: ‘a hundred and fifty thousand’ as fear counts, ‘eighty thousand’ as the returns shew, do hem us in; Cimmerian Euro... ...surrectionary Commune passing into an Elected legal one; getting their ac- counts settled,—not without irritancy! Petion has declined: nevertheless ma... ... round to bombard it with shot and shell. Mentz may re- sist, Commissioner Merlin, the Thionviller, ‘making sallies, at the head of the besieged;’—res... ... single troop became notable: that of the Com- missioners or Representans. Merlin of Thionville, in hussar uni- form, distinguishing himself by wild b...

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... waxing out of bounds In gladness, lifted up my shameless brow, And like the merlin cheated by a gleam, Cried, “It is over. Heav’n! I fear thee not.”... ...er die contented. The Divine Comedy of Dante Purgatory 233 v. 114. The merlin.] The story of the merlin is that having been induced by a gleam... ... cxix. 5 v. 97. The successor of Peter Ottobuono, of the family of Fieschi Counts of Lavagna, died thirty nine days after he became Pope, with the ... ... For Beatrice, she who passeth on So suddenly from good to better, time Counts not the act, oh then how great must needs Have been her brightness...

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...g, sew- ing, serving; in your agent, good sense applied to ac- 63 Emerson counts and affairs. So do you multiply your presence, or spread yourself th... ...ry emotion of his heart in some one. He is like a quincunx of trees, which counts five,—east, west, north, or south; or an initial, medial, and termin... ...religion is not. He that finds God a sweet enveloping thought to him never counts his company. When I sit in that presence, who shall dare to 153 Eme... ... Infancy, youth, receptive, aspiring, with religious eye look- ing upward, counts itself nothing and abandons itself to the instruction flowing from a... ... iron and gold; All earth’s fleece and food For their like are sold. Boded Merlin wise, Proved Napoleon great,— Nor kind nor coinage buys Aught above ... ... in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed. The...

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...ing with blue and gold, The canal boy trots on the tow path, the book keeper counts at his desk, the shoemaker waxes his thread, The conductor beats t... ...ts that Usk from its waters reflected, Arthur vanish’d with all his knights, Merlin and Lancelot and Galahad, all gone, dissolv’d utterly like an exha... ...of Grass –Whitman 375 With full spanning eye gazes forth, dwells long, And counts the varied gathering of the products. Busy the far, the sunlit pan... ...d, Odyssey, plots, doings, wanderings of Eneas, Hesiod, Eschylus, Sophocles, Merlin, Arthur, The Cid, Roland at Roncesvalles, the Nibelungen, The trou...

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...ss in money; when Mr. Archer, fallen from the sky-level of 155 Lay Morals counts and nobles, faced his changed destiny with so im- movable a courage.... ... grey hills were once included in the boundaries of the Caledonian Forest. Merlin sat here below his apple-tree and lamented Gwendolen; here spoke wit...

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...cal Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 nius, like true catholicity of faith, counts “nothing common or unclean.” What poetry Burns has gathered up even ... ... wits and au- thors, squabbles with booksellers, or even full and true ac- counts of monsters, poisons, and murders; of any hereof was there nothing s... ...ous Durandarte, for instance, was, like him, cast into a long slum- ber by Merlin, the British bard and necromancer; and his example, for submitting t...

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...good, Rebuk’d each fault, and over all my woes Sorrow’d in silence! He who counts alone The beatings of the solitary heart, That Being knows, how ... ...hich there he made up-grow by his strong art, As in that crystal orb — wise Merlin’s feat, — - 425 - The Pang More Sharp than All. An Allegory Coler...

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...nvenience, W alden 96 as they have learned to cipher in order to keep ac counts and not be cheated in trade; but of reading as a noble intellectual ... ...falconry and what nobleness and poetry are associated with that sport. The merlin it seemed to me it might be called: but I care not for its name. It ...