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...he pope of being the Antichrist. Luther's book was further published in German by his opponent Franciscan Thomas Murner, in hopes that he would make people aware of the foolishness of supporting Luther....

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...—the sacramental system by which she accompanied and controlled her members from the cradle to the grave. Only then could he set forth, in language o... ...ther calls “The Babylonian Captivity of the Church.” The reference is clear from the contents of the document: just as the Jews were carried away fr... ...f the Babylonian Empire, so in Europe the Christians have been carried away from the Scriptures and made subject to the tyranny of the papacy. This ... ...o German, confident that it would expose Luther to the rank and file of the people as a radical heretic and dangerous foe of the church. Of special s... ... On the other hand, the Captivity cleared the atmosphere for many thoughtful people and brought Luther not a few new friends. The most outstanding ex... ...o have wanted to write my “recantation” so much as the praise of the French people and the Roman pontiff. Let him attest his allegiance in this litt... ...he sacrament when the sign was being used; thus Bonaventura, and especially Duns Scotus. should not do a single work. This is the origin of the say...

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...hover Pied Beauty Hurrahing in Harvest The Caged Skylark In the Valley of the Elwy The Loss of the Eurydice The May Magnificat Binsey Poplars Duns Scotus’s Oxford Henry Purcell Peace The Bugler’s First Communion Morning Midday and Evening Sacrifice Andromeda The Candle Indoors The Handsome Heart At the Wedding March Felix Randal Brothers Spring and Fall ...

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...ck Hotel.? Mr. Crump, the landlord, had, in the outset of life, performed the duties of Boots in some inn even more frequented than his own, and, far from being ashamed of his origin, as many persons are in the days of their prosperity, had thus solemnly recorded it over the hospitable gate of his hotel....

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...he duties of Boots in some inn even more frequented than his own, and, far from being ashamed of his origin, as many per- sons are in the days of thei... ...ttle bar, profusely orna- mented with pictures of the dancers of all ages, from Hillisberg, Rose, Parisot, who plied the light fantastic toe in 1805, ... ...urs, much accustomed, one for the gentlemen of the shoulder-knot, who came from the houses of their employers hard by; an- other for some “gents who u... ...gh the influence of great men; he was an agent for half-a-dozen theatrical people, male 13 Thackeray and female, and had the interests of the latter ... ... person were of that showy sort which is most popular in this world, where people are wont to admire most that which gives them the least trouble to s... ...irm is, I flatter my- self, a little more up in the market than some other people’s names.” “Do you mean to insult the name of Archibald Eglantine, si... ...on in the world could see that he was unhappy. His life was undisturbed by duns; his day was his own from morning till night; his diet was good, his a...

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...e too late for that crowning revolution in human potentialities. And apart from this pro- crastination of over forty years, the guess at the opening p... ...excluding the 5 H G Wells United States, Russia, and most of the ‘subject peoples’ of the world), meeting obscurely amidst a world-wide disre- gard t... ...ttain- ment of external power. Man is the tool-using, fire- making animal. From the outset of his terrestrial career we find him supplementing the nat... ... of burning and the rough implement of stone. So he passed beyond the ape. From that he expands. Presently he added to himself the power of the horse ... ... it boil away, seeing the lids of vessels dance with its fury; millions of people at different times must have watched steam pitching rocks out of vol... ...e corn ships of imperial Rome, a petty inci- dent; and a huge migration of peoples between Europe and Western Asia and America was in Progress, and—no... ...he insolvent proprietor of a paper called The Cry for Justice, in which he duns the world for a hundred million pounds. That was the ingenu- ous Dass’...

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...ea-kest goes to the wall. Samp. True, and therefore women being the weaker Vessels, are ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push Mountagues men from the wall, and thrust his Maides to the wall. Greg. The Quarrell is betweene our Masters, and us |(their men. Samp. ?Tis all one, I will shew my selfe a tyrant: when I have fought with the men, I will bee civill with the ...

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...are euer thrust to the wall: therefore I will push 21 Mountagues men from the wall, and thrust his Maides to 22 the wall. 23 Gre... ... the fire of your pernitious Rage, 87 With purple Fountaines issuing from your Veines: 88 On paine of Torture, from those bloody hands 89... ... Where vnderneath the groue of Sycamour, 124 That West- ward rooteth from this City side: 125 So earely walking did I see your Sonne: 126 ... ... The game was nere so faire, and I am done. [ee5 493 Mer. Tut, duns the Mouse, the Constables owne word, 494 If thou art dun, weele d... ...ap. What should it be that they so shrike abroad? 3063 Wife. O the people in the streete crie Romeo. 3064 Some Iuliet, and some Paris, ...

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...ty’s Electronic Classics Series. Cover design: Jim Manis; portrait of Byron from a painting by Thomas Philips, 1814 Copyright © 1999 The Pennsylvania... ...sion (I think the quarto holds five hundred pages), Has given a sample from the vasty version Of his new system to perplex the sages; ‘T i... ... Don Juan “Dedication” 3 You — Gentlemen! by dint of long seclusion From better company, have kept your own At Keswick, and, through still ... ...au, Petion, Clootz, Danton, Marat, La Fayette, Were French, and famous people, as we know: And there were others, scarce forgotten yet, Jo... ...ly inurn’d; Because the army ‘s grown more popular, At which the naval people are concern’d; Besides, the prince is all for the land service, ... ... named, With virtues equall’d by her wit alone, She made the cleverest people quite ashamed, And even the good with inward envy groan, Fin... ...ner As thunder’d knockers broke the long seal’d spell Of doors ‘gainst duns, and to an early dinner Admitted a small party as night fell,— ... ... Of white cliffs, white necks, blue eyes, bluer stockings, Tithes, taxes, duns, and doors with double knockings. But coming young from lands and ... ... ‘t The luck of finding every body solvent. O Death! thou dunnest of all duns! thou daily Knockest at doors, at first with modest tap, Like ...

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...een years, the Patent Office has received more than a hundred applications from persons claiming to have discovered cheap substances to be employed in... ...exercising his natural faculties, and his work is its own reward,” and the people believe them. Marriage brings profound mental and physical perturba-... ... the household cares and to take the burden upon herself. So she came down from the pretty blue-and-white room, where she sewed and talked contentedly... ... depart- ment; the alluring prospect of high wages even brought them a few from Bordeaux, more especially apprentices, who thought themselves sufficie... ...; Kolb would not peer among the things that you throw out into the yard if people offered him a thousand crowns to do it; but Cerizet picks them up an... ...t is poor stuff, you behold a rag at the last. So long as Lucien is young, people will like him; but where will he be as a man of thirty? That is the ... ...ve and David ments together—too late. An actress sees so much of bailiffs, duns, and writs, upon the stage, that she looks on all stamped paper as a f...

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...rade; but being a Roman Catholic, and fond of a coun- try life, he retired from business shortly after the Revolu- tion, at the early age of forty-six... ...eat tenderness and care. Once, when three years old, he nar- rowly escaped from an angry cow, but was wounded in the throat. He was remarkable as a ch... ...ed in the throat. He was remarkable as a child for his amiable temper; and from the sweetness of his voice, received the name of the Little Nightingal... ...of a man generally depends upon the first steps he makes in the world; and people will establish their opinion of us from what we do at that season wh... ...man so much good as ill-will does him harm. Then there is a third class of people, who make the largest part of mankind, those of ordinary or indiffer... ...e best company; and the freedom of saying as many careless things as other people, without being so severely remarked upon. I believe, if any one, ear... ... 17 ‘Scotists and Thomists:’ two parties amongst the schoolmen, headed by Duns Scotus and Thomas Aquinas. 18 ‘Duck-lane:’ a place near Smithfield, w... ...e the air! And here, while town, and court, and city roars, With mobs, and duns, and soldiers, at their doors: Shall I, in London, act this idle part?...

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...ing the garden-plot, shrank back alarmed. The Irish servant-lass rushed up from the kitchen and smiled a “God bless you.” Amelia could hardly walk alo... ... war; until the Irish maid-servant came with a plate and a bottle of wine, from which the old gentleman insisted upon helping the valet. He gave him a... ... What a gulf lay between her and that past life. She could look back to it from her present stand- ing-place, and contemplate, almost as another being... ... to take measures for the preparing of a mag- nificent ornamented tea. All people have their ways of express- ing kindness, and it seemed to Mrs. Sedl... ...ith men of fashion and ladies of note, on their way to Brussels and Ghent. People were going not so much to a war as to a fash- ionable tour. The news... ...to be said that this soft and gentle creature took her opinions from those people who surrounded her, such fidelity being much too humble-minded to th... ... little box at the Opera. Rawdon was in the highest spirits. There were no duns in Paris as yet: there were parties every day at V ery’s or Beauvillie... ... behind her—as 178 V anity Fair – V olume Two if there were not cares and duns, schemes, shifts, and poverty waiting outside the park gates, to pounc... ...to be a fine lady and forgot that there was no money in the chest at home— duns round the gate, tradesmen to coax and wheedle—no ground to walk upon, ...

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...llation of the early editions; and in every material instance of departure from the wording of those originals the rejected reading has been subjoined... ...es capriciously. In the very act of transcribing his mind was apt to stray from the work in hand to higher things; he would lose himself in contemplat... ...the spelling of the manuscripts would only have served to divert attention from Shelley’s poetry to my own ingenuity in disgusting the reader accordin... ... my heart, and bore my steps along. 44 44 44 44 44. ‘How, to that vast and peopled city led, Which was a field of holy warfare then, ... ...ts utmost spring! 30 30 30 30 30. For, before Cythna loved it, had my song Peopled with thoughts the boundless universe, A mighty congregation, which ... ...ible thought, As from the tranquil strength which cradled lay In her smile-peopled rest, my spirit sought _970 Why the deceiv... ...is he with his eternal puns, Which beat the dullest brain for smiles, like duns _220 Thundering for money at a poet’s door; Alas! it is no use ...

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... beautiful, whose intelli- gent smile gives promise that she has inherited from you the most precious gifts of womanhood, and who will cer- tainly enj... ... Titian, Correggio, Allori, which seem abstractions, so dis- tant are they from our daily lives. If this book should wing its way across the Alps, it ... ...d with tur- quoise, and suspended by chains of beautiful workmanship, hung from the centre of the ceiling. The same system of deco- ration was followe... ...ains of righteousness. The history of all good homes is that of prosperous peoples; it can be written in two lines, and has in it nothing for literatu... ...ything. Kind- ness has its mishaps; often it is attributed to temperament; people are seldom willing to recognize it as the secret effort of a noble s... ...bly for the general public, for literary neophytes, and for his creditors, duns, and other annoying persons whom he kept on the threshold of private l... ...I understand now why Saint-Just wanted to guillo- tine this whole class of people.” “You’ll be back here to-morrow.” Blondet was right. Passions are a...

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...ery noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before h... ...bition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kind- ness touches and amuses h... ...n this to tag to the present story of 4 V anity Fair “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their serva... ...Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign. Only when her pupils quitted the establishment, or when t... ... work which she invariably pre- sented to her scholars, on their departure from the Mall. On the cover was inserted a copy of “Lines addressed to a yo... ...the wide world who would take the trouble off her hands. What causes young people to “come out,” but the noble ambition of matrimony? What sends them ... ...as; how good-natured and amusing; how he was always hunted by bailiffs and duns; how, to the landlady’s hor- ror, though she never could abide the wom... ...” Rawdon, with roars of laughter, related a dozen amusing anecdotes of his duns, and Rebecca’s adroit treatment of them. He vowed with a great oath th... ... little box at the Opera. Rawdon was in the highest spirits. There were no duns in Paris as yet: there were parties every day at V ery’s or Beauvillie...

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...ery noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before h... ...bition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kind- ness touches and amuses h... ...to the present story of 4 V anity Fair – V olume One “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their serva... ...Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign. Only when her pupils quitted the establishment, or when t... ... work which she invariably pre- sented to her scholars, on their departure from the Mall. On the cover was inserted a copy of “Lines addressed to a yo... ...the wide world who would take the trouble off her hands. What causes young people to “come out,” but the noble ambition of matrimony? What sends them ... ...as; how good-natured and amusing; how he was always hunted by bailiffs and duns; how, to the landlady’s hor- ror, though she never could abide the wom... ...” Rawdon, with roars of laughter, related a dozen amusing anecdotes of his duns, and Rebecca’s adroit treatment of them. He vowed with a great oath th...

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...s see anything like stirring adventure; and many things which to fire-side people ap- pear strange and romantic, to them seem as common-place as a jac... ...r with a life of adventure. In his account of the singular and interesting people among whom he was thrown, it will be observed that he chiefly treats... ...us peculiarities; and, in describing their customs, refrains in most cases from entering into ex- planations concerning their origin and purposes. As ... ... come immediately under the writer’s cognizance. The con- clusions deduced from these facts are unavoidable, and in stating them the author has been i... ...er were both descended, on the fathers’ and moth- ers’ sides respectively, from have families of British New En- gland and Dutch New York extraction. ... ...ver, the resemblance ceases, for Whitman’s forebears, while worthy country people of good descent, were not prominent in public or private life. Melvi... ...no un- reasonable tailors and shoemakers perversely bent on being paid; no duns of any description and battery attorneys, to fo- ment discord, backing...

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...ve thought of, had my means been limited to the competence which I derived from inher- itance, with the moderate income of a professional situa- tion.... ... getting up a new incognito, after his original visor had been thus dashed from his brow. Hence the personal narrative prefixed to the first work of f... ...as his party-coloured jacket implies, a buffoon or clown, whose mouth, far from being eternally closed, as amongst us, is filled, like that of Touchst... ..., and replied that the secret had now of necessity become known to so many people that I was indifferent on the subject. Lord Meadowbank was thus in- ... ...y their petty squabbles and mutual irritability, the laughing-stock of the people of the world. I resolved, therefore, in this respect to guard my bre... ...oatswain. If there must be a great actor to act Hamlet, there must also be people to act Laertes, the King, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern, otherwise a... .... In the first place, I don’t like to be hur- ried, and have had enough of duns in an early part of my life to make me reluctant to hear of or see one...

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...t of the old duties at Greenleaf or the summer afternoons when I went home from school with my portfolio under my arm, and my childish shadow at my si... ... a condition can quite understand what I mean or what painful unrest arose from this source. For the same reason I am almost afraid to hint at that ti... ... which I was one of the beads! And when my only prayer was to be taken off from the rest and when it was such inexplicable agony and misery to be a pa... ... do, did she think? I mildly asked her. “Draw,” returned Miss Flite. “Draw people on, my dear. Draw peace out of them. Sense out of them. Good looks o... .... Saved many lives, never com plained in hunger and thirst, wrapped naked people in his spare clothes, took the lead, showed them what to do, gov er... ..., I so ad mired and loved what he had done, that I envied the storm worn people who had fallen at his feet and blessed him as their preserver. I cou... ...Bleak House – Volume Two 135 me. And they are right. Apart from debts and duns and all such drawbacks, I am not fit even for this employment. I have ...

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...ng to have broken them. My plain story is of two Kentish damsels, and runs from a home of flowers into regions where flowers are few and sickly, on to... ...d Kentish extraction, albeit varieties of the breed. The farm had its name from a tradition, common to many other farmhouses within a circuit of the m... ...s. T ufts of pale grass, and gilliflowers, and travelling stone-crop, hung from the wall, and driblets of ivy ran broad- ening to the outer ground. Th... ...ective reading of her Bible, and to thoughts upon flowers eternal. Country people are not inclined to tolerate the dis- play of a passion for anything... ...ng to build up her children to stoutness, and but for the blindness of all people, save artists, poets, novelists, to the grandeur of their own creati... ...rees they adopted the phrases and manner of speech of highly gram- matical people, such as the rector and his lady, and of people in story-books, espe... ...his stool at the bank, dreaming of his wilds, where bailiff never ran, nor duns obscured the firmament. And then there were theatres here—huge extrava...

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...rs to a period towards the end of the reign of Richard I., when his return from his long captivity had become an event rather wished than hoped for by... ... of their less powerful neighbours, who attempted to separate them- selves from their authority, and to trust for their protection, during the dangers... ...r- anny of the nobility, and the sufferings of the inferior classes, arose from the consequences of the Conquest by Duke Will- iam of Normandy . Four ... ... war or insurrection, mark the existence of the Anglo-Saxons as a separate people subsequent to the reign of William the Second; yet the great nationa... ...ce, and takes a Norman name when he becomes matter of enjoy- ment.” “By St Dunstan,” answered Gurth, “thou speakest but sad truths; little is left to ... ...d, impressed them no less with an opinion of his sanctity. Even the common people, the severest critics of the conduct of their betters, had commisera... ...ippers of Mahound and T ermagaunt have so greatly the ad- vantage over the people once chosen of Heaven.” “He shall sit with thee, Wamba,” said Cedric... ...elieving dog,” answered Anwold, kennels in the cell next your holiness.—St Dunstan, how it must be scraped and cleansed ere it be again fit for a Chri... ...hoe for the horse and arms with which his credit supplied me.” “Nay, by St Dunstan,” replied Gurth, “that I will not do.” “How, knave,” replied his ma...

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... the Quarterly Review, in 1817. The particulars were derived by the Critic from the Author’s information. Afterwards they were published in the Prefac... ...principles, that while the civil war was raging, and strag- gling officers from the Highland army were executed with- out mercy, Invernahyle hesitated... ... At length Colonel Whitefoord applied to the Duke of Cumberland in person. From him, also, he received a posi- tive refusal. He then limited his reque... ...w and foolish fashion is introduced to break the natural dependence of the people upon their landlords.’ Sir Everard had done his best to correct this... ...isaffected, and, showed little hospitality to the military guests; and the people of the town, chiefly engaged in mercantile pursuits, were not such a... ...us ease at home, look out for amusement abroad. Yet the physiognomy of the people, when more closely examined, was far from exhibiting the indifferenc... ... place of broad-pieces we’ll pay with broadswords, Lero, lero, &c. With duns and with debts we will soon clear our score, Lillibulero, &c. For t...

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...and, like the insect, become an integral part of it, borrowing their merit from that of what they feed on. Now, Italy hith- erto has not yet been work... ...ict every form that can serve as a garb to mind. Most human quarrels arise from the fact that both wise men and dunces exist who are so constituted as... ...And you may be sure that the ribbon of the Legion of Honor was not missing from his breast, gallantly padded a la Prussienne. Proudly seated in one co... ... of the ill-concealed evi- dence of the most cruel misery there is—that of people in decent society? I have kept shop, and I know. There is no eye so ... ...oted, too, that she was gifted with great good sense—the good sense of the people, which made her education sound. In 26 Cousin Betty society she spo... ...ybody’s mercy; and needing to please everybody, she would laugh with young people, who liked her for a sort of wheedling flattery which always wins th... ...ce you to a Royal Highness who wishes to see you. There I learned that the duns had had you conveyed to a certain little domain—chief town, Clichy Cas...

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...e originated. In such mouths I might have coupled it with an apt quotation from one of Shakespeare’s sonnets: “My nature is subdued To what it works i... ...true, and within the truth. The case of Gridley is in no essential altered from one of actual occurrence, made public by a dis interested person who ... ...on who was professionally acquainted with the whole of the monstrous wrong from beginning to end. At the present moment (August, 1853) there is a suit... ...the toes and fingers of his shivering little ‘prentice boy on deck. Chance people on the bridges peep ing over the parapets into a nether sky of fog,... ...ses. Innumerable children have been born into the cause; innumerable young people have married into it; innumerable old people have died out of it. Sc... ...pleasantry that particularly tickled the maces, bags, and purses. How many people out of the suit Jarndyce and Jarndyce has stretched forth its unwhol... ...ather be without me than with me. And they are right. Apart from debts and duns and all such drawbacks, I am not fit even for this employment. I have ...

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...a bet for her brother Lord Levellier, the colonel of cavalry, who left an arm in Egypt, and changed his way of life to become a wizard, as the common people about his neighborhood supposed, because he foretold the weather and had cures for aches and pains without a doctor?s diploma. But we know now that he was only a mathematician and astronomer, all for inventing military...

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...rm in Egypt, and changed his way of life to become a wizard, as the common people about his neighbourhood supposed, be- cause he foretold the weather ... ...whole town was very soon agog about the couple, until at the end of a year people began to talk of them separately, she going her way, and he his. She... ...rince Chancellor and a pair of Field Marshals, and some ladies of the day, from the metropolis to Richmond Hill in fifty or sixty odd minutes, having ... ...ervice of the first insurgent State of Span- ish America, to save his ship from being taken over to the enemy,—he blew her up, fifteen miles from land... ...l under Buccaneer Kirby. He fought on shore as well; and once he came down from the tops of the Andes with a black beard turned white, and went into a... ...ughed at in the songs for going twice upon his mission. None of the mighty people repented of having the Old Buccaneer—for that night, at all events. ... ...get the contrasts of life- palaces running profusion, lodgings hammered by duns; the pinch of poverty distracting every simple look inside or out. The...

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...nignity that could not have had a birth except in Christianity.) All comes from the labyrinthine intricacy in which the social action of Chris- tianit... ...d Other Papers – V olume One tous, Christianity is advancing for ever; but from our imper- fect vision, or from our imperfect opportunities for applyi... ...s scattered over the surface of books. I begin with this question:—What do people mean in a Christian land by the word ‘religion?’ My purpose is not t... ...o prevent that, we will suppose the question to be proposed by an emissary from some re- mote planet,—who, knowing as yet absolutely nothing of us and... ...radations would have arisen from irreligion. The noblest of all idolatrous peoples, viz. the Romans, have left deeply scored in their very use of thei... ... morality is oftentimes *This is not generally perceived. On the contrary, people are ready to say, ‘Why, so far from it, the very earliest language i... ...y, that I, John Calvin, should shave from the Whig; and yet it might shock Duns or Lombardus, the magister sententiarum, when he came to understand th...

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...dy on the Death of Chatterton, 16 -- An Invocation, 19 -- Anna and Harland, 20 -- To the Evening Star, 21 -- Pain, 22 -- On a Lady Weeping: Imitation from the Latin of Nicolaus Archius, 23 -- Monody on a Tea-kettle, 24 -- Genevieve, 26 -- On Receiving an Account that his Only Sister?s Death was Inevitable, 27 -- On Seeing a Youth Affectionately Welcomed by a Sister, 28 -- ...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Pain . . . . . . 23 On a Lady Weeping: Imitation from the Latin of Nicolaus Archius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Mo... ...tten After a Walk Before Supper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Imitated from Ossian . . . . . . . . . . . 53 The Complaint of Ninathóma: From th... ...he House of the ‘‘Man of Ross’’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Imitated from the Welsh . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Lines: To a Beautiful Spring i... ...Poet in the Clouds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404 The Tears of a Grateful People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406 Hymn . . . . . . . . .... ...fright) Gloomy and sullen thro’ the night of steam: — So Satan’s Nose when Dunstan urg’d to flight, Glowing from gripe of red-hot pincers dread At... ... and women curse; His fortune ruin’d and his wealth decay’d, Clamorous his duns, his gaming debts unpaid, The youth indignant seiz’d his tailor’s b... ...y or the tranquil sky! One of the People. - 103 - Sonnets on Eminent Characters: Contributed to the ‘‘Morn... ...ainst you from the Holy One! But o’er some plain that steameth to the sun, Peopled with Death; or where more hideous Trade Loud-laughing packs his ... ...f Horns a- sprouting, And his pretty little Tail all curly-twirly — St. Dunstan! and this comes of spouting — Of Devils what a Hurly-Burly! ‘‘B...

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...an sufficiently interesting as his; for which reasons, as well as for the further one that it is comparatively little known, a considerable selection from it is offered to the reader in the last two volumes of this edition....

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...urther one that it is comparatively little known, a considerable selection from it is offered to the reader in the last two volumes of this edition. U... ...ltogether sufficed to fill up the gaps. His family, said to have descended from a member of the great house of Hapsburg who came to England in the rei... ... The descriptions both of Sophia and of Amelia are said to have been taken from this lady; her good looks and her amiability are as well established a... ...alled moral delinquen- cies, this attitude was so decided as to shock some people even in those days, and many in these. Just when the first sheets of... ...ock my ears with your beastly language.” “Marry-come-up,” cries Slipslop, “people’s ears are sometimes the nicest part about them.” The lady, who bega... ...le more: by which charitable methods, together with lending money to other people, and even to his own master and mistress, the honest man had, from n... ...of life hitherto unknown; poverty and distress, with their horrid train of duns, attorneys, bai- liffs, haunted me day and night. My clothes grew shab...

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...and immediate forerunner, Charles Lever, whilst they confidently derive me from a Norwegian author of whose language I do not know three words, and of... ...xote and Simon Tappertit and many another romantic hero mocked by reality. From the plays of Aristophanes to the tales of Stevenson that mockery has b... ...ween madness and sanity was deemed comic: Hogarth shows us how fashionable people went in parties to Bedlam to laugh at the lunatics. I myself have ha... ...ress or knowledge to carry things off better than he did; to impose on the people who saw through him; to fascinate Katinka (who cut Potts so ruth- le... ...t Potts is a piece of really scien- tific natural history as distinguished from comic story tell- ing. His author is not throwing a stone at a creatur... ... Socialists were naturally shocked, being for the most part morbidly moral people; but at all events they were saved later on from the delusion that n... ...r’s prison, who tells the newcomer of its ineffable peace and security: no duns; no tyrannical collectors of rates, taxes, and rent; no importunate ho...

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... that his mind was yet untainted; and the little old man, who had wallowed from his youth up in the furious pleasures of a gambler’s life, cast a dull... ... full mea- 5 Balzac sure, but the great number of the actors prevents you from seeing the gambling-demon face to face. The evening is a harmony or ch... ...rchestra contributes his share. Y ou would see there plenty of respectable people who have come in search of diversion, for which they pay as they pay... ...s a great man- sion for his son to inherit prematurely, only to be ejected from it by law proceedings at his own brother’s instance. After all, is the... ...here since 1793. There is something great and terrible about suicide. Most people’s downfalls are not dangerous; they are like children who have not f... ..., lictors, togas with purple fringes; the fighting in the Forum, the angry people, passed in review before him like the cloudy faces of a dream. Then ... ...ou were off into the country. For all that, we certainly did not look like duns, creditors, sheriff’s officers, or the like. But no matter! Rastignac ...

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...tinguishing between Varieties and Species — Origin of Domestic Variet- ies from one or more Species — Domestic Pigeons, their Differences and Origin —... ... Competition universal 5 Charles Darwin — Effects of climate — Protection from the number of individuals — Complex relations of all animals and plant... ...ection, through Divergence of Character and Extinction, on the descendants from a common par- ent — Explains the Grouping of all organic beings. Chapt... ...eons have been watched, and tended with the utmost care, and loved by many people. They have been domesticated for thousands of years in several quart... ...to the sheep of parts of Yorkshire, that ‘as they generally belong to poor people, and are mostly in small lots, they never can be improved.’ On the o... ...fficulty in pair- ing them; in donkeys, from only a few being kept by poor people, and little attention paid to their breed- ing; in peacocks, from no... ...ct breeds, and of all colours; transverse bars on the legs are not rare in duns, mouse-duns, and in one instance in a chestnut: a faint shoulder-strip... ...e instance in a chestnut: a faint shoulder-stripe may sometimes be seen in duns, and I have seen a trace in a bay horse. My son made a careful examina... ...n the south. In all parts of the world these stripes occur far oftenest in duns and mouse- duns; by the term dun a large range of colour is in- cluded...

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... OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES EDGAR ALLAN POE AN APPRECIATION Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster Followed fast and followe... ... Hope that melancholy burden bore Of “never—never more!” THIS STANZA from “The Raven” was recommended by James Russell Lowell as an inscription ... ... which inthralls every reader, Mr. Lowell suggested this additional verse, from the “Haunted Palace”: And all with pearl and ruby glowing Was the fai... ... “He was at all times a dreamer-dwelling in ideal realms-in heaven or hell-peopled with the creatures and the accidents of his brain. He walked-the st... ...n season’ from you made ‘The Raven,’ and made ‘Ulalume’ (which by-the-way, people have done me the honor of attributing to you), there- fore, I would ... ... on the — — day of — — (I am not positive about the date), a vast crowd of people, for purposes not specifically mentioned, were assembled in the grea... ...n reflecting upon the most convenient method of putting an end to my life. Duns, in the meantime, left me little leisure for contemplation. My house w... ... moisture; the powder also was liable to damage. I therefore kept my three duns working with great diligence, pounding down ice around the central cas... ...ler casks. This manoeuvre was totally unperceived on the part of the three duns; and, jumping into the car, I immediately cut the single cord which he...

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................................................................ 121 VERBATIM FROM BOILEAU. ................................................................ ................................................................. 143 EPIGRAM FROM THE FRENCH. ............................................................. ...atue beside those of the acknowledged masters of English poetry. But apart from this, we do think that Lord Carlisle has exaggerated the “De- cline an... ...ilfer cloth or bread: As meanly plunder as they bravely fought, Now save a people, and now save a groat. VER. 129, in the former editions— Ask why fro... ...ENT GUMENT GUMENT . . . . . OF THE USE OF RICHES. The vanity of expense in people of wealth and quality. The abuse of the word ‘taste,’ ver. 13. That ... ...rth, and o’er the watery main; Resign to Jove his empire of the skies, And people heaven with Roman deities. The time will come when a diviner flame S... ... He sleeps among the dull of ancient days; Safe, where no critics damn, no duns molest, Where wretched Withers, Ward, and Gildon 283 rest, 208 The P... ...e, Is gather’d to the dull of ancient days, Safe where no critics damn, no duns molest, Where Gildon, Banks, and high-born Howard rest. I see a king! ...

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...hope you will find your house at Mentone nice. I have been obliged to stop from writing by the want of a pen, but now I have one, so I will con- tinue... ...se of justice forbids the receipt of less – than half-a- crown. – Greeting from, Sir, your most affectionate and needy son, R. STEVENSON. Letter: TO M... ...enness of a tree. The southerly heights, when I came here, were black with people, fishers waiting on wind and night. Now all the S.Y .S. (Stornoway b... ... tribe of gipsies. The men are always drunk, simply and truthfully always. From morning to evening the great villainous-looking fellows are either sle... ...ny drunk men, and a double supply of po- lice. I saw them sent for by some people and enter an inn, in a pretty good hurry: what it was for I do not k... ...s a word could I understand of his answer. What is still worse, I find the people here-about – that is to say, 6 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol... ...nue my uphill fight with the twin spirits of bank- ruptcy and indigestion. Duns rage about my portal, at least to fancy’s ear. I suppose you heard of ...