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...pprehended, or even lost out of sight. It is dark to eyes touched with the films of human frailty: but it is ‘dark with excessive bright.’* Hence it h... ... the best they could to praise their god, lying under the curse of gods so thoroughly depraved. But in D, the case is differ- ent. Strictly speaking, ... ...he weightier part of the interest depends upon that very point. If the au- thor really is a bishop, or supposing the public rumor so far correct as th... ...ils it for the poor drown- ing creature that a rope being thrown to him is thoroughly secured at one end to the ship, if the other end floats wide of ... ... truth—which it never had, or can have— any abuse of such a power would be thoroughly neutralized. The case resembles the diffusion of vegetable seeds... ...ch! Look into Algernon Sidney, or into Locke’s controversy with Sir Eobert Filmer’s ‘Patriarcha,’* or into any books of those days on political princi... ...ar range of time was that in which the Greek systems of philosophy, having thoroughly com- pleted their evolution, had suffered something of a collaps...

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... the Inward Sense, are all Phenomena of the spiritual kind: Dignities, Au- thorities, Holies, Unholies! Which inward sense, moreover is not permanent ... ...alk your light life-minuet, over bottomless abysses, divided from you by a film! For the rest, the proper authorities felt that no Funeral could be to... ...e Parlement, ’ may perhaps do the rest. At worst and lowest, the Royal Au- thority has resources,—which ought it not to put forth? If it cannot realis... ...guage; ‘it is a sheer snowing of pamphlets; like to snow up the Government thoroughfares!’ Now is the time for Friends of Freedom; sane, and even insa... ...it had itself evoked, starts forward, with more or less audacity, to fix a thorn in its nose; and, alas, is instantaneously struck down, and hurled qu... ...l Assembly; grows more and more tumultuous there. Mounier returns not; Au- thority nowhere shews itself: the Authority of France lies, for the present... ...p; which will stand no tear and wear! Beautiful cheap gossamer gauze, thou film-shadow of a raw-material of Virtue, which art not woven, nor likely to... ...lack powder or seedgrains in the hollow of his hand, this Oge; sprinkled a film of white ones on the top, and said to his Judges, “Behold they are whi... ...hrough thin ice;—say, as the region of Nether Dark- ness through your thin film of Gironde Regulation and Respect- ability; trample it not, lest the f...

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...od people of the borough had scarcely a chance, however, to get their eyes thoroughly open, when, just as it wanted half a minute of noon, the rascal ... ...f the company I really pitied. I never saw any set of reasonable people so thoroughly frightened in my life. They all grew as pale as so many corpses,... ... of the most singular problems in the study of mind. When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straitjacket.” “Bu... ...n the dining-room hearth. Upon coming to my senses, (for the fall had very thoroughly stunned me,) I found it about four o’clock in the morning. I lay... ... to write upon such a theme it is necessary to have been hanged. Every au- thor should confine himself to matters of experience. Thus Mark 127 V olum... ...e mysteries anon. I rejoice to see you looking life-like and rational. The film of the shadow has already passed from off your eyes. Be of heart and f...

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...y sense of favours to come, it becomes very easy to be grateful to the au- thor of The Ambassadors—to name the latest of his works. The favours are su... ...not know how—he did not pretend to see any depths in a life that is only a film of unsteady appearances stretched over regions deep indeed, but which ... ...et of a rainy autumn evening along the whole extent of a long and deserted thoroughfare, is a perfect piece of imaginative precision. From un- der the... ... a new note in the tune of an old song for which we may thank the Teutonic thoroughness. Was it not that excellent bourgeoise, Princess Bismarck (to k... ...may get from its once humble friend and client will not be stamped by that thoroughness which is supposed to be the mark of German supe- riority. Russ... ...MSS. was preserved there. He confessed that he had not looked them through thoroughly yet, but he told me that there was a lot of very important lette...

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...he case with Fischart, but it would be none the less curious were some one thoroughly familiar with German to translate Fischart for us, or at least, ... ...ning of a French refugee, Jacob Le Duchat, who died in 1748. He had a most thorough knowledge of the French prose-writers of the sixteenth century, an... ...s now shroud. IX. T o praise it further I would now begin Were ‘t now a thoroughfare and inn, It harbours vice, though ‘t be to catch it in a gin. ... ... the countries at once of Beauce and Bibarois. I doubt me, that you do not thoroughly believe the truth of this strange nativity. Though you believe i... ...d-muzzled beadles, and dragging after him five or six artless masters, all thor- oughly bedaggled with the mire of the streets. At their entry Ponocra... ... forehead bone, by which terrible blow likewise he cut the two meninges or films which enwrap the brain, and made a deep wound in the brain’s two post... ...irable industry, with husks, cases, scurfs and swads, hulls, cods, stones, films, cartels, shells, ears, rinds, barks, skins, ridges, and prickles, wh...

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...alk your light life-minuet, over bottomless abysses, divided from you by a film! For the rest, the proper authorities felt that no Funeral could be to... ...age; ‘it is a sheer snow- ing of pamphlets; like to snow up the Government thor- oughfares!’ Now is the time for Friends of Freedom; sane, and even in... ...it had itself evoked, starts forward, with more or less audacity, to fix a thorn in its nose; and, alas, is instantaneously struck down, and hurled qu... ...t was by accident. Nor are the authorities idle: though unluckily, all Au- thorities, Municipalities and such like, are in the uncertain transitionary...

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...litical purposes, to a very dangerous extent. The personage robbed is more thor- oughly convinced, every day, of the necessity of reclaiming her lette... ... said G.; “and upon this conviction I proceeded. My first care was to make thorough search of the minister’s hotel; and here my chief embarrassment la... ... the Prefect. “And now, Dupin, what would you advise me to do?” “To make a thorough re-search of the premises.” “That is absolutely needless,” replied... ...ceedingly able in their way. They are persevering, ingenious, cunning, and thoroughly versed in the knowledge which their duties seem chiefly to deman... ...said Dupin; “and, upon inquiring, of the boy by what means he effected the thoroughidentification in which his suc- cess consisted, I received answer ... ...hese cavern walls.” He turned towards me, and looked into my eyes with two filmy orbs that distilled the rheum of intoxication . “Nitre ?” he asked, a... ...eye! yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture—a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by de- gr...

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...aving her enchanted web of fairy tissue, as beautiful and transient as the film of the gossamer when it is pearled with the morning dew and glimmering... ...hen it is least likely.” “Pshaw!” answered Hayston, who perfectly knew and thor- oughly despised the character of this man, “none of your cog- ging gi... ...h impudence, and the power of sing- ing a good song, understanding besides thoroughly the dis- position of his regained associate, he headily succeede... ...m such an intimacy, however its bad consequences might be qualified by the thorough knowl- edge which Bucklaw possessed of his dependant’s character, ... ...t last, of treason, if not to actual rebellion against her matrimonial au- thority; and in her inward sould she did vow to take ven- geance on the Lor... ...the Marquis, whispering him, “I 248 Bride of Lammermoor can comprehend it thoroughly; for God’s sake, ask him no more questions at present.” “There i...

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...ho read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation o... ... hands, became Timon of Athens; the beadle, Coriolanus. He enjoyed himself thor- oughly, and we all enjoyed ourselves, and were delightfully comfortab... ...ver wing, and to the best slice of tongue (none of those out-of-the-way No Thor- oughfares of Pork now), and took, comparatively speaking, no care of ... ... stairs, and to whom I was introduced by my new allies. This practical au- thority confused me very much, by saying I had the arm of a blacksmith. If ... ...d, half way to his nose. I had looked into my affairs so often, that I had thoroughly destroyed any slight notion I might ever have had of their beari... ..., and love me though he did, the light left his face ever and again, and a film came over the placid look at the white ceiling. “ Are you in much pain... ...officer away . The change, though it was made without noise, drew back the film from the placid look at the white ceiling, and he looked most affectio...

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...tive, not inac- curate, in French, German and Spanish journals of high au- thority. It is seldom the case that French writers err by pro- lixity. They... ... said the malicious old fellow, ‘my pussy will never find her way out to a thorny and dangerous world.’ Won’t she? I suspect, son of somebody, that th... ...ver you can, or, perhaps the next time we hear of you, anasarca and hydro- thorax will be running after you to punish your shocking excesses in water.... ...sure by all the chieftains, that even Oubacha himself was the first to au- thorize the act by his own example. He seized a torch previ- ously prepared... ...e that is counted only in heaven, light dawned for a time through a sleepy film: by unutter- able pace the light swept to them, they by unutterable pa... ...ng, once rolling over the fields and flocks of Palestine.* The Glastonbury Thorn *‘Which recommended it to a distinction.’—It might be objected that t...