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...than to act, and add to it no long arguments or propositions; every action plays its own game, win if it can. As to the rest, I am not swayed by any p... ...[Rhescuporis and Cotys. T acitus, Annal., ii. 65]—were fallen into dispute about their title; the emperor hindered them from proceeding to blows: but ... ...he had debauched them to it: he hanged them with the purse of their reward about their necks; after having satisfied his sec- ond and special faith, h... ... his private morality. Even the Senate itself, by his means delivered from slavery, durst not positively determine of so high a fact, and divided into... ..., Pelignis caream frigoribus, taces.” [“You tell us long stories about the race of AEacus, and the battles fought under sacred Ilium; but wh... ... “Magna servitus est magna fortuna.” [“A great fortune is a great slavery.”—Seneca, De Consol. ad. Polyb., c. 26.] They cannot so much as be ... ... he will imprint in himself a true and real grief, by means of the part he plays, to transmit it to the judges, who are yet less concerned than he: as... ...aw of his city that assigned the public money for the pomp of their public plays and festivals: he would that their greatness should be seen in number... ... coun- tenance; and have been sometimes very much put to it to conceal the slavery wherein I was engaged; whereas my de- sign is to manifest, in speak...

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... or sherry. When I go upon my jour- neys, I am not usually rated at a low figure in the bill; when I come home from my journeys, I never get any commi... ...rest Brothers, and have rather a large connection in the fancy goods way. Literally speaking, I am always wandering here and there from my rooms in Co... ...n the flow, and had been for some two hours and a half; there was a slight obstruction in the sea within a few yards of my feet: as if the stump of a ... ...deration of the curious question of Refreshment. I am a Briton, and, as such, I am aware that I never will be a slave—and yet I have latent suspicion ... ...ws at once I might have them. The clerk, a brisk young man (how does he come here?), glances at me knowingly, as who should say, ‘You have done it now... ...l happen when we are required to sing. The Uncommercial Traveller 83 There is a pale heap of books in the corner of my pew, and while the organ, whic...

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...on is firm; but my hopes fluctuate, and my spirits are often depressed. I am about to proceed on a long and difficult voyage, the emergencies of which... ... the common pathways of men, even to the wild sea and unvisited regions I am about to explore. But to return to dearer considerations. Shall I meet yo... ... to, hoping that some change would take place in the atmosphere and weather. About two o’clock the mist cleared away, and we beheld, stretched out in ... ... many a tale of enchantment and knightly adventure. He tried to make us act plays and to enter into masquerades, in which the characters were drawn f... ...ives when grief is rather an indulgence than a necessity; and the smile that plays upon the lips, although it may be deemed a sacrilege, is not banish... ...thusiasm was checked by my anxiety, and I appeared rather like one doomed by slavery to toil in the mines, or any other un wholesome trade than an ar... ...ntable barriers to our union. Yet mine shall not be the submission of abject slavery. I will revenge my injuries; if I cannot inspire love, I will cau... ...ged) some accident might meanwhile occur to destroy him and put an end to my slavery forever. These feelings dictated my answer to my father. I expres...

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...nd doth as ready handmaid wait, Until perverted by her senseless male, She plays the winding snake, the shrinking snail, The flying deer, all tricks o... ...er lord, if to her rigid laws he bows; Her dust, if with his conscience he plays knave, And bids the Passions on the Pleasures browse:- Whence Evil in... ...urse of ancient ruts and grooves, It moves: O much for me to say it moves! About his AEthiop Highlands Nile is Nile, Though not the stream of the pate... ...n pride of their pinions, Clamour, shaped to their ranks, and the mead all about them resoundeth; So those numerous tribes from their ships and their ... ...-leagues devour’d, and then, Back to the Vacares again, After ten years of slavery just to breathe salt sea For of this savage race unbent, The ocean ...

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...ore the tide. Until now, the boat had barely held her own, and had hovered about one spot; but now, the banks changed swiftly , and the deepening shad... ...gh not to want no more, as well as I make him out, Gaffer! Been a knocking about with a pretty many tides, ain’t he pardner? Such is my out-of-luck wa... ...ew people in a bran- new house in a bran-new quarter of London. Everything about the Veneerings was spick and span new. All their furniture was new, a... ...e word before she got it out. ‘I haven’t nerve to play even if I could. Ma plays.’ (At exactly the same canter, and with a certain flourishing appeara... ...matically representing an attempt to bear him, crowing, into captivity and slavery. All the three children enjoyed this to a delightful extent, and th... ...m his masters, and should be kept in a state of abject moral bond- age and slavery until the time when they should see fit to permit him to purchase h... ...f to be patronized by the Boffins, and if you had come from those halls of slavery—’ ‘That’s mere nonsense, Ma,’ said Lavinia. ‘How!’ exclaimed Mrs Wi...

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...almost abeam arose our des- tination, Nuka-hiva, whelmed in cloud; and betwixt and to the southward, the first rays of the sun displayed the needles o... ...losed to the landward by a 6 In The South Seas bulk of shattered mountains. In every crevice of that bar- rier the forest harboured, roosting and nes... ...ll’s head of Stirling procured me the leg- end of Rahero; and what I knew of the Cluny Macphersons, or the Appin Stewarts, enabled me to learn, and he... ... encroached upon the sand; the beach would be all submerged; and the surf would bubble warmly as high as to my knees, and play with cocoa-nut husks as... ...eciprocated, as we pay and return our morning visits. And the practice of marking and measuring events and sentiments by presents is uni- versal in th... ...rently from within and from without. Accord- ing to the natives, these bewildering vicissitudes are ruled by the movement of the heavenly bodies. The ... ...ous of touching in the least degree the pri- vate life and habits of his slaves. So that even here, in full despotism, public opinion has weight; even...

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... Millerism. Mr. Tibbs enjoyed a small independence from the pen- sion-list—about 43£. 15S. 10D. a year. His father, mother, and five interesting scion... ... Coram-street before. Little Mrs. Tibbs was quite in her element, bustling about, talking incessantly, and distributing towels and soap, like a head n... ...iss Maplesones’—and vice versa. The gentlemen im- mediately began to slide about with much politeness, and to look as if they wished their arms had be... ...eaches you, far distant—appeal to feel- ings—love to distraction—bees’-wax—slavery, ’ &c., &c. He dashed his hand to his forehead, and paced the room ... ...k neckerchief; and it was his pride that he re- membered all the principal plays of Shakspeare from be- ginning to end—and so he did. The result of th... ...th my wife now—who is just the thing for you. Well educated; talks French; plays the piano; knows a good deal about flowers, and shells, and all that ...

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...iscopal power, wicked to have coveted it, nay, wicked even to have thought about it, in the way and at the moment he had done so. With such censures, ... ...Street of Barchester, he had not expected that others would make more fuss about it than he was inclined to do himself; and the extent of his hope was... ...ed to subside thus quietly, and people were quite as much inclined to talk about the disinterested sacrifice he had made, as they had before been to u... ...verty brings with it; you know what freedom a man claims for himself, what slavery he would exact from his wife if he could! And you know also how wiv... ...igh hand, and had really begun to think it pos- sible that the days of his slavery were counted. He had begun to hope that he was now about to enter i... ...is poor mother, his poor mother!’ said another. ‘Well, drat them dangerous plays all the world over, ’ said an old crone. ‘He has broke his neck sure ...

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... Shakespeare Gallery; original 17.25 X 23.25 inches. THE TEMPEST (written about 1610) DRAMATIS PERSONAE ALONSO: King of Naples. SEBASTIAN: his brot... ...ANDA: What is’t? a spirit? Lord, how it looks about! Believe me, sir, It carries a brave form. But ’tis a spirit. PROSPER... ...thou mightst call him A goodly person: he hath lost his fellows And strays about to find ‘em. MIRANDA: I might call him A... ... I do think, a king; I would, not so!—and would no more endure This wooden slavery than to suffer The flesh fly blow my mouth. Hear my soul speak: The... ... Thought is free. CALIBAN: That’s not the tune. [Ariel plays the tune on a tabor and pipe .] STEPHANO: What is this same? TRINCUL...

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...rom the convent where you were to take your vows. Well, dear, I don’t know about the Carmelites, but the miracle of my own deliverance was, I can assu... ...me welded to- gether, like those two Hungarian girls, whose death we heard about from M. Beauvisage—poor misnamed being! Never surely was man better c... ...e, which has turned to black the azure of her eyes, and softened the lines about them, has fur- rowed the warm ivory of her temples, and cast a sallow... ... loved, and the love offered me I shall accept. My married life will be no slavery, but rather a perpetual reign. What is there to say against such a ... ...’ s mind, I have advised him to finish, in the quiet of this retreat, some plays which were begun in his starvation days, and which are really very fi... ...ke a professional writer. Four hours a day he devotes to finishing his two plays. “He wants money!” A voice within whispered the thought. But why? He ... ... Gaston’s work and his visits to Paris shall continue. He is preparing new plays, partly because he wants a pretext for going to Paris, partly in orde...

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...almost suburbs, reminding us by their situation of the smiling vine- yards about Neuchatel in Switzerland. The town still bears much of its ancient as... ...that time could boast of a Superior Woman, long misprized indeed, but now, about 1836, enjoying a pretty extensive local reputation. This, too, was th... ...g creatures. Her death—she was a Casteran de la T our—contributed to bring about Monsieur de la Baudraye’s return to France. 8 The Muse of the Depart... ...hen like some of our newspaper hoaxes, for the subject has given plots for plays on the Spanish stage so early as 1570—” “Then do you think me capable... ...ossing the stage in the back- ground like a figure in one of Victor Hugo’s plays.” 80 The Muse of the Department “He, perhaps, is the husband,” excla... ... can devise for the Gurths who are ready thus to wear the collar of gilded slavery. In Paris once more, Lousteau had, in a few weeks, lost the impress... ...ance.—Your child will be taken from you! We have seen that story in twenty plays these ten years past. “Society, my dear boy, will drop upon you soone...

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...ner, and you will have the pic- ture presented by the terrace of the villa about the middle of May—a picture in which the predominant figure was that ... ...his family. This diplomate, a man of four-and-thirty, who had been married about six years, was the living portrait of Lord Byron. The familiarity of ... ...ark in complexion, set a spark of fire in those dreamy eyes, throw a scarf about the massive bosom, see the long dress, white, embroidered with flower... ...n a livery like that of Labranche at the Theatre Francais in the old stock plays. A visitor was so rare that the servant was putting his coat on when ... ...f my year’s salary?’ “ ‘No,’ said he, with the sweetest smile; ‘when a man plays in society, he must have a gambling purse. Draw six thou- sand francs... ...in its infancy. If the women of Paris had a little of the genius which the slavery of the harem brings out in Oriental women, they would lend a com- p...

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...park of light, it serves in the dim morning as a lamp to show him what he sees of her. ‘Another?’ says this woman, in a querulous, rattling whisper. ‘... ... the woman goes on, as she chronically complains. ‘Poor me, poor me, my head is so bad. Them two come in after ye. Ah, poor me, the business is slack,... ...o the Lascar and fairly drags him forth upon the floor. As he falls, the Lascar starts into a half-risen 6 The Mystery of Edwin Drood attitude, glare... ...ring a threat. When I play, he never moves his eyes from my hands. When I sing, he never moves his eyes from my lips. When he corrects me, and strikes... ...has become acquainted with, who have also written tragedies, which likewise nobody will on any account whatever hear of bringing out, and these choice... ...bley mopped, and, arranging cushions, stretchers, and the like, danced the tight-rope the whole length of the boat like a man to whom shoes were a sup...

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...mined the outward and actual;—their religion, as I say, was the great fact about them. In these Discourses, limited as we are, it will be good to dire... ...e it! It will be often our duty to protest against this sort of hypothesis about men’s doings and history; and I here, on the very threshold, protest ... ... life of such things, but their disease, the sure precursor of their being about to die! Let us never forget this. It seems to me a most mournful hypo... ...s not the evil: it is 66 Thomas Carlyle the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is. Let a man assert withal that he is king over his h... ... much still waiting to be said on that head. Had we, for instance, all his plays reviewed as Hamlet, in Wilhelm Meister, is! A thing which might, one ... ..., one day, be done. August Wilhelm Schlegel has a remark on his Historical Plays, Henry Fifth and the others, which is worth remembering. He calls the... ...hat he should be raised to Heaven! He that had known only misery, and mean slavery: the news was too blessed to be credible. It could not become clear...

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...low price of fifteen guineas. Whether sea-going people were short of money about that time, or were short of faith and preferred cork jackets, I don t... ...ety of mariners and oth- ers, who had the presumption to go meander- ing about the world. It was in vain to represent to her that some conveniences,... ...ry low in spirits, looking at it through her tears, and desponding heavily about herself and the fatherless little stranger, who was already wel- come... ... in, or to hear them up in the drawing-room, where the eldest Miss Larkins plays the harp. I even walk, on two or three occasions, in a sickly, spoony... ...and most fascinating little ways, that ever led a lost youth into hopeless slavery. She was rather diminutive altogether. So much the more pre- cious,...

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... his way out, and rallying together the rest who escaped, he marched round about the walls, and finding the gate open, by which the Gyrisoenians had m... ...s esteemed an honor to him; observing that others do not continually carry about with them the marks and testimonies of their valor, but must often la... ...left the city, and gaining over most part of the troops who were dispersed about and remained still in many parts of Italy, they in a short time muste... ...lished a little before, and restored all the citizens who were in exile or slavery, to their habita- tions. As a place for the pursuit of their studie... ... him some; who furnished him with Philistus’s History, a great many of the plays of Euripides, Sophocles, and Aeschylus, and some dithyrambic odes, co... ... not give me a sword, that I might stab him, and free my country from this slavery?” Sarpedon hearing this, and at the same time seeing his coun- tena... ...punish- ment for their ingratitude and treachery, might always re- main in slavery. For as soon as a proclamation was made of a pardon, the greater pa...

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...ver, ap pealing to the crowd, ‘would anybody believe as an informer’ud go about in a man’s cab, not only takin’ down his number, but ev’ry word he sa... ...ce, Mr. Pickwick had leisure to examine his costume and appearance. He was about the middle height, but the thinness of his body, and the length of hi... ...ardent spirits; more especially when we remember that the follow ing them about, and jesting with them, affords a cheap and innocent amusement for th... ...housand four hundred and twenty petitions against the continuance of negro slavery abroad, and an equal number against any interference with the facto... ...take a good long stare at the vehicle as it whirls away. And now the bugle plays a lively air as the coach rattles through the ill paved streets of a ...

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...ore the tide. Until now, the boat had barely held her own, and had hovered about one spot; but now, the banks changed swiftly , and the deepening shad... ...gh not to want no more, as well as I make him out, Gaffer! Been a knocking about with a pretty many tides, ain’t he pardner? Such is my out-of-luck wa... ...ew people in a bran- new house in a bran-new quarter of London. Everything about the Veneerings was spick and span new. All their furniture was new, a... ...e word before she got it out. ‘I haven’t nerve to play even if I could. Ma plays.’ (At exactly the same canter, and with a certain flourishing appeara... ...matically representing an attempt to bear him, crowing, into captivity and slavery. All the three children enjoyed this to a delightful extent, and th...

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...tion), which were printed in the Times Newspaper in June and July, 1843—at about the time when I was engaged in writing those parts of the book; and w... ...the following sentence: ‘With the exception of the suit of clothes I carry about with me, the whole of my wearing apparel is at present at my uncle’s.... ...se pages, have still many counter- parts and prototypes in the Great World about us. At present it contents itself with remarking, in a general way, o... ... would suppose he cares to hear it said on Sundays, that the volunteer who plays the organ in the church, and practises on summer evenings in the dark... ...uch one of the ennobling institutions of our happy country as—’ ‘As nigger slavery itself,’ suggested Mr Brick. ‘En—tirely so,’ remarked the colonel. ... ...wn as an absolute matter of fact—as if there were nothing in suffering and slavery, grim enough to cast a solemn air on any hu- man animal; though it ... ...akspeare’s verse, but there an’t any legs worth mentioning in Shakspeare’s plays, are there, Pip? Juliet, Desdemona, Lady Macbeth, and all the rest of... ...mself equal to all kinds of flights. It is customary with fathers in stage-plays, after giving their daughters to the men of their hearts, to congratu... ... as a worshipper of Freedom; was the consistent advocate of Lynch law, and slavery; and invariably recommended, both in print and speech, the ‘tarring...

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...inctions of punctua- tion. Thus in the early editions a comma occasionally plays the part of a semicolon; colons and semicolons seem to be employed in... ... always consistent, in his spelling. He was, to say the truth, indifferent about all such matters: indeed, to one absorbed in the spectacle of a world... ...ere the ordinary spelling has been adopted. (Not a little has been written about ‘uprest’ (“Revolt of Islam”, 3 21 5), which has been described as a n... ..., and I remained awaiting his return by the breakers of that sea which was about to engulf him. He spent a week at Pisa, employed in kind offices towa... ...5 Teemed with all earthquake, tempest and disease, Was man a nobler being; slavery Had crushed him to his country’s blood-stained dust. Even where the... ...elancholy wind: It were a sight of awfulness to see The works of faith and slavery, so vast, _505 So sumptuous, yet withal... ...lication of that tendency; the awak- ening of an immense nation from their slavery and degrada- tion to a true sense of moral dignity and freedom; the... .... The deepest and the sublimest tragic compositions, King Lear and the two plays in which the tale of Oedipus is told, were stories which already exis... ... that, as a composition, it is certainly not inferior to any of the modern plays that have been acted, with the exception of “Remorse”; that the inter...