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...s that were seized upon by men of taste, and hoarded as among the choicest treasures of their portfo- lios; scenes delicately imagined, lacking, perha... ...few) whom she ever chose to be the companions of her day; they saw the art treasures of Rome, under her guidance, as they had never seen them before. ... ...ther device, a festive procession mocks the ashes and white bones that are treasured up within. You might take it for a marriage pageant; but after a ... ...ded or punished her for its pretty absurdity with a kiss. “O Hilda, what a treasure of sweet faith and pure imagina- tion you hide under that little s... ... faithfully, are your only rivals.” The sculptor sighed as he put away the treasure of Hilda’s marble hand into the ivory coffer, and thought how slig... ...and that is Hilda’s, nor would I steal it from her,—it should never be the treasure Place of my secret. It is no precious pearl, as I just now told hi... ...d over the parapet, and gazed downward as earnestly as if some inestimable treasure had fallen over, and were yet recoverable. On the pavement below w... ...or in the dark chapels, in which the sacristan draws aside the veil from a treasured picture of Perugino. Thence, the happy painter goes to walk the l... ...unny, shadowy, breezy, wandering life, in which he seeks for beauty as his treasure, and gathers for his winter’s honey what is but a passing fragranc...

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...lutely fixed to begin no work that is not philosophical, pas- sionate, dignified, happily mirthful, or, at the last and least, romantic in design. CHA... ...ape of it took my fancy beyond expres- sion; it contained harbours that pleased me like sonnets; and with the unconsciousness of the predestined, I ti... ...ere visibly among imaginary woods; and their brown faces and bright weapons peeped out upon me from unex- pected quarters, as they passed to and fro, ... ... roadside inns, robbers, old sailors, and commercial travellers before the era of steam. He never finished one of these ro- mances; the lucky man did ... ...fail to see that the one is much more difficult, and the other much easier to maintain. It seems as though a full- grown experienced man of letters mi... ...n- ing to the unfinished tale; and behold! it flowed from me like small talk; and in a second tide of delighted industry, and again at a rate of a cha... ... ‘a full man,’ if there was one; but the very name of my enterprise would suggest to him only capitulations of sincerity and solecisms of style. Well!... ...t brought (or, was the means of bringing) fire and food and wine to a deserving family in which I took an interest. I need scarcely say I mean my own.... ...to service a knack he had of vari- ous writing, and elaborately forged the signature of Captain Flint, and the sailing directions of Billy Bones. But ...

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...d helplessly over the pages of Beal and Stanislas Julien. “Tis all here. A treasure locked.’ Then he composed himself reverently to listen to fragment... ...disciples. ‘Is his Search, then, truth or a cloak to other ends? It may be treasure.’ ‘He is mad–many times mad. There is nothing else.’ Here the old ...

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... mental aberration when it is set on small things. The Baron de Watteville treasured shells and geological fragments of the neighborhood of Besancon. ... ...gardeners of the Borromean Islands, whom he regarded as the warders of his treasure, he went all over the grounds, looking at the house now and again,...

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...To sea[r]ch her forth, where so she might be fond, And bearing with him treasure in close store, The rest he leaues in ground: so takes in h... ...don rich. With that out of his bouget forth he drew Great store of treasure, therewith him to tempt; But he on it lookt scornefully ask... ...d: But those two sought nought, but the present pray, To weete the treasure, which he did bewray, On which their eies and harts were wh... ... Said T rompart, You that are the most opprest With burden of great treasure, I thinke best Here for to stay in safetie behind; My ... ... : Book III. 147 Then is it best (said he) that ye doe leaue Your treasure here in some securitie, Either fast closed in some hollow g... ..., Hence farre away we will blindfolded lie, Ne priuie be vnto your treasures graue. It pleased: so he did, Then they march forward brau... ...III. 150 Ne stayd he, till he came vnto the place, Where late his treasure he entombed had, Where when he found it not (for T rompart ...

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...s that were seized upon by men of taste, and hoarded as among the choicest treasures of their portfo- lios; scenes delicately imagined, lacking, perha... ...few) whom she ever chose to be the companions of her day; they saw the art treasures of Rome, under her guidance, as they had never seen them before. ... ...ther device, a festive procession mocks the ashes and white bones that are treasured up within. You might take it for a marriage pageant; but after a ... ...ded or punished her for its pretty absurdity with a kiss. “O Hilda, what a treasure of sweet faith and pure imagina- tion you hide under that little s... ... faithfully, are your only rivals.” The sculptor sighed as he put away the treasure of Hilda’s marble hand into the ivory coffer, and thought how slig... ...and that is Hilda’s, nor would I steal it from her,—it should never be the treasure Place of my secret. It is no precious pearl, as I just now told hi... ...d over the parapet, and gazed downward as earnestly as if some inestimable treasure had fallen over, and were yet recoverable. On the pavement below w...

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...in the woods. I would not dig for these reliquiae; they are incommu- nicable treasures that will not enrich the finder; and yet there may lie, interre... ...husa’s roundels! There were many works burnt at Alex- andria, there are many treasured in the British Museum, that I could better spare than the proce... ...nows in what they pride them- selves! heaven knows where they have set their treasure! There is one fable that touches very near the quick of life: th... ...bours; when they lay asleep they claim they were still active; and among the treasures of memory that all men review for their amusement, these count ...

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... they shall content them- selves with setting out their proper and natural treasures; they conceal and cover their beauties under others that are none... ...nian riches of fertile Phrygia, for one ringlet of Licymnia’s hair? or the treasures of the Arabians, when she turns her head to you for fragrant kiss... ... name. Croesus reproached him with his bounty, and cast up to how much his treasure would amount if he had been a little closer-handed. He had a mind ... ...usband; you see with how small a venture I have ac- quired the inestimable treasure of so many friends, and how much more faithful treasurers they are... ...nder at the brightness of a looking glass or a knife, would exchange great treasures of gold and pearl; and who had neither knowledge, nor matter with... ...price of what disloyalty and injustice whatever, what the remainder of the treasures of this king might be, and to pos- sess themselves of that also. ... ...rpiece of man is to live to purpose; all other things: to reign, to lay up treasure, to build, are but little appendices and props. I take pleasure in...

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...alities of atti- tude, she had already made up her mind that London was no treasure-house of delicacies. Remembrance there was hammered thin—to be fai...

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...st no time in calling his visitor’s attention to their principal household treasures, the gas-lamps and the furnace-holes. “Whenever you feel homesick... ...kindly offered me a vacation and an opportunity to enrich my mind with the treasures of nature and art in the Old World. I feel, there- fore, as if I ... ... barely mentionable thing, a cynic, and that his manner of considering the treasures of art and the privileges of life was probably very base and immo...

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...e lanes and cities he visits. He is bringing home from Troy many beautiful treasures as his booty; instead we, who have travelled the same road, ar... ...ren, he encounters the positive mother object. Ulysses cannot lose the treasures given him by the Phaeacian king and princes, because they repre... ... Cosmo-Art and your own lives? The Odyssey is an inexhaustible mine of treasures to be discovered. I will leave to you the task of searching for... ...o you the task of searching for them and finding them. There are also the treasures given by the Phaeacians: they are all in the nymphs’ cave and U...

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...rs harvested the plenty and ran back to their burrows with the unexpected treasure. Red-leg partridges pecked at the bounty that spilled from their...

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........................................ Writing for a Public 10 .............................................................................. Boston?s Treasure by Julio Rodriguez 11 ..................................................................................... Life is a Beach by Gerard Delisio 13 ..........................................................................

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...usiness, Either led or driven, as we point the way; And having brought our treasure where we will, Then take we down his load, and turn him off, Like ...

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..., ..., ∞ short prose) 101 A day in the life of a harmless guy (aleatory short prose) 102 Hidden thoughts (very short prose) 103 The secret of the treasure in the island (the shortest prose in the world) 104 Dracula honoured by (British short prose) 105 Dracula and the computer (American SF prose) 105 The mechanization of agriculture (graphical short prose) 106 ?! ...

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...is conquered, and the Greeks leave to go home with Helen and all of Troy’s treasures, Ulysses knows that the true problem has not been solved, or it...

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...mbe Of his great G[r]andmother with steele to wound, And the hid treasures in her sacred tombe, With Sacriledge to dig. Therein he foun... ...r feare least Force or Fraud should vnaware Breake in, and spoile the treasure there in gard: Ne would he suffer Sleepe once thither ward ...

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...nches may prove plagues to men forsworn; If so, our copper buys no better treasure. [Exeunt.] ACT V SCENE I: The same. [Enter HOLOFERNES, SIR NATH...

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...s devised for the delight of the multitude, when all the gems of the royal treasure-house are dis- played above the sea. Others are like the opening o... ...ngth, strength—the jealous, sleepless strength of a man guarding a coveted treasure within his gates. 128 The Mirror of the Sea XXXVII THE CRADLE of ...

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...reaching, and all kinds of trades. The coffers of Prince Bull were full of treasure, his cellars were crammed with delicious wines from all parts of t... ... by my brave troops,’ said the Prince, ‘and do it well, and I will pour my treasure out like water, to defray the cost. Who ever heard ME complain of ... ...the form of slate pencil, and always felt that it would be a comfort and a treasure to them. Our School was remarkable for white mice. Red polls, lin ...

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... society without that happy consciousness of shining which calls forth the treasures of the man; and these it is no exaggeration to term unbounded, wh... ...when you appeal to his generosity. And every man has the right to retain a treasure in his hand if he can. Look straight at these facts.” “You expect ... ... youth, it comes to us for our sole riches when we are bankrupt of earthly treasures, and is the passport given by Abnegation unto Woe that prays to q... ... cried Clara, enthusiastic for her succouring friend, whose letter was the treasure in her bosom. “Oddly, the name did not strike me yesterday, Miss M... ...remarked. “The luck may be with you, though. I wouldn’t handle the fragile treasure for a trifle.” “I believe in my luck,” said Willoughby. Clara was ... ...irmed, the husband of this woman would be able to boast of her virtues and treasures abroad, as he could not—impossible to say why not—boast of a beau...

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...ll the military, not ex- cepting their chief, reveled like parvenus in the treasure con- quered for them by a million men with worsted epaulettes, who... ...,” he said, “you have, I am told, undertaken the charge of a very precious treasure.” “Do you take me for a dragon?” said the old lady. “But of whom a...

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...kindly asked question Under the shade of the glorious tree, the spot he so treasured, Which but this morning had witnessed the tears he had shed for t... ... now become more of strangers than ever. Ours no more is the soil, and our treasures are all of them changing: Silver and gold are melting away from t...

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...here were No earthly mean to save him, but that either You must lay down the treasures of your body To this supposed, or else to let him suffer; What ...

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... say he’s not done so badly himself. LARRY. If you mean that you will be a treasure to him, he thinks so now; and you can keep him thinking so if you ...

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...ner your slave, and the money-maker of whom you talk will be found to gather treasures, not for himself, but for you who are able to speak and to pers...

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... of your own. It is late; I need say no more to-night. Y ou will guard the treasure 335 Charles Dickens you have here, without advice or reminder fro... ... been true and generous to him, but whose least proud word and look he had treasured up, at interest, for years—for false and subtle men will always s... ...g up in many places; but the woman’s heart of Florence, with its undivided treasure, can be yielded only once, and under slight or change, can only dr...

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...ce of invitees to the wedding celebrations. ..... ... Thus, all the three of these ladies were enabled by mutual trust, to utilize this newly found treasure, for the benefit and welfare of the downtrodden. Eventually, a trust, headed by Bhoomika, was formed, by way of including Nancy, Kavita, Kalpana, Ankur and Maitri Mala as members and Bihari Lal Ji, as patron. The tea...

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...ce of invitees to the wedding celebrations. ..... ... Thus, all the three of these ladies were enabled by mutual trust, to utilize this newly found treasure, for the benefit and welfare of the downtrodden. Eventually, a trust, headed by Bhoomika, was formed, by way of including Nancy, Kavita, Kalpana, Ankur and Maitri Mala as members and Bihari Lal Ji, as patron. The tea...

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... than the blood of Abel; and it was she who, in the final agony, heard and treasured these last words, ‘If the Lord Jesus will indeed receive me into ... ... frock, and showed them fastened beneath, well out of sight. ‘I thought my treasures should guard one another,’ she said. ‘One I sent as a token to my... ... how wild this was, he struggled to speak calmly: ‘What are you called, my treasure?’ ‘I am la petite Rayonette,’ she said, with puzzled dignity and g... ... even to the enemy’s camp, what was still too new a joy not to be a secret treasure of delight. So he only wrung the old Captain’s hand, and strode aw... ...you make much of her, brother. Well might you seek them far and wide. Such treasures are not to be found in the wide world.’ Berenger without answerin... ...er; the next my child came to me!’ 419 The Chaplet of Pearls ‘My precious treasure! Ah! what you must have undergone, and I all unknowing, capable of...

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... small worth held: Then being ask’d where all thy beauty lies, Where all the treasure of thy lusty days, To say, within thine own deep sunken eyes, We... ...hand deface In thee thy summer, ere thou be distill’d: Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place With beauty’s treasure, ere it be self kill’d. T... ...d thee out for women’s pleasure, Mine be thy love and thy love’s use their treasure. 21 So is it not with me as with that Muse Stirr’d by a painted ... ... So am I as the rich, whose blessed key Can bring him to his sweet up locked treasure, The which he will not every hour survey, For blunting the fine ... ...reof now he’s king Are vanishing or vanish’d out of sight, Stealing away the treasure of his spring; For such a time do I now fortify Against confound... ...d; Now proud as an enjoyer and anon Doubting the filching age will steal his treasure, Now counting best to be with you alone, Then better’d that the ... ... her, O thou minion of her pleasure! She may detain, but not still keep, her treasure: Her audit, though delay’d, answer’d must be, And her quietu... ...there; Thus far for love my love suit, sweet, fulfil. ‘Will’ will fulfil the treasure of thy love, Ay, fill it full with wills, and my will one. In th...

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... that, in Hop-Frog (this was the fool’s name), he pos- sessed a triplicate treasure in one person. I believe the name ‘Hop-Frog’ was not that given to... ...ng upon the company to keep order “during the ceremony of disinterring the treasure.” After some vociferation, quiet was at length fully restored, and... ...saic work of rich patterns, indicated the vast wealth of the deceased. The treasure had been deposited in the Museum precisely in the same condition i... ... come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poe... ... page, enwrapped from every reader. Search narrowly the lines!—they hold a treasure Divine—a talisman—an amulet That must be worn at heart. Search w... ...w deem thee wise, Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing? H...

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...said. “Oh, William,” she added, holding out her hand to the Major, “what a treasure Heaven has given me in that boy! He is the comfort of my life—and ... ...which she had trifled, and reproached herself for having flung away such a treasure. It was gone indeed. William had spent it all out. He loved her no...

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...s’ faults If wives do fall: say that they slack their duties, And pour our treasures into foreign laps, Or else break out in peevish jealousies, Throw...

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... enraged and immense regret, like a miser compelled to give up some of his treasure to a near relation. And yet all 237 Joseph Conrad this was very p... ...thers, and help pull at the ropes, and perchance we may see what’s inside. Treasure, no doubt. Gold is heavy and hard to hold, O Brothers! Let us go a...

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...gh, And, full of zeal and faith, esteemed light All worldly honor, empire, treasure, might: IX In Baldwin next he spied another thought, Whom spirits ... ... grow, Forgot till now by Time’s evil handling: This work, derived from my treasures dear, Let all times hearken, never age outwear. XXXVII The French... ... LXXVI The King of Tripoli in every hold Shut up his men, munition and his treasure, The straggling troops sometimes assail he would, Save that he dur... ...his mercy would this wretch withstand, Nor let so vile a chest hold such a treasure, As yet conjecture hath not fully scanned; By godliness let us thi... ...id, whose fruit was ripe, not over-yeared, Her beauty was her not esteemed treasure; The field of love with plough of virtue eared, Her labor goodness... ...ods; This is our summer’s shade, our winter’s sun: This is our wealth, our treasure, and our goods: This is our engine, towers that overthrows, Our sp... ...ing all Asia subject to his might: There might he raise munition, arms and treasure To work the Egyptian king and his displeasure. 88 Jerusalem Deliv... ... wrath, your courage fierce assuage, Patience, a praise; forbearance, is a treasure; Suffrance, an angel’s is; a monster, rage; At least you actions b... ...modest thought the dame procureth, And proffereth heaps of love’s enticing treasure: But as the falcon newly gorged endureth Her keeper lure her oft, ...

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... by himself under his own bed. This Mrs. Catherine regularly made, and the treasure underneath it could be no secret to her. However, the noble Count ... ...mpt to burst the lock of the little iron chest in which the Count kept his treasure, and, failing in this, to unscrew it from the ground; which operat... ...ll me Jack, and drink canary at my chambers; I used to make one at my Lord Treasurer’s levee; I had even got Mr. Army-Secretary Walpole to take a hund... ...in Wood’s gains, that reports were abroad of his having somewhere a buried treasure; to which he might have added more, had not Fate suddenly cut shor... ...ay-book, which never left the miser!—he never read in any other. Of what a treasure were yonder keys and purse the keepers! not a shil- ling they guar...

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... Father Holt bade him keep his views se- cret, and to hide them as a great treasure which would escape him if it was revealed; and, proud of this conf... ...And Harry Esmond, because of his promise to Father Holt, hiding away these treasures of faith from T. Tusher, delivered himself of them nevertheless s... ...ly dimly perceives the existence as they look out furtively from her eyes: treasures of love doomed to perish without a hand to gather them; sweet fan... ...never of her own good-will away from her), and thankful to have saved such treasures as these out of the wreck in which the better part of her heart w... ...eir crowns away from them; how they flung away chances after chances; what treasures of loyalty they dissipated, and how fatally they were bent on con... ... brilliantly than it had begun. Hearing that the French fleet with a great treasure was in Vigo Bay, our Admirals, Rooke and Hopson, pursued the enemy... ...n has he lived—hard and thankless should he be to think so—that has such a treasure given him. What is ambition compared to that, but selfish van- ity... ... to possess ‘em. What is the fond love of dearest friends compared to this treasure? Is memory as strong as expectancy? fruition, as hunger? gratitude... ... which the Dowager gave him, and was fum- bling in his pockets for further treasure, when Jack Lockwood came up and put an end to the scoundrel’s triu...

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...he attained it; for his icon, by the hand of Caldecott, now lies among the treasures of the nation. 91 Memories and Portraits regard of other dogs fl... ...ld Mr. Smith himself, worn out with my eternal vacillation, once swept the treasures from before me, with the cry: “I do not believe, child, that you ... ...f his romances. The early part of Monte Cristo, down to the finding of the treasure, is a piece of perfect story- telling; the man never breathed who ... ...at. We are dealing here with the old cut-and-dry, legitimate in- terest of treasure trove. But even treasure trove can be made dull. There are few peo... ...h singular generosity of praise, to a little book about a quest for hidden treasure; but he lets fall, by the way, some rather startling words. In thi... ...er work, “I have been a child, but I have never been on a quest for buried treasure.” Here is, indeed, a wilful paradox; for if he has never been on a... ..., indeed, a wilful paradox; for if he has never been on a quest for buried treasure, it can be demonstrated that he has never been a child. There neve...

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... to death, through death, and for ever. . . . How rich am I to have such a treasure as you! . . . ‘The Lord God knoweth,’ and, perhaps, ‘Israel he sha... ...st Caesar to the king’s dwarf; and all sorts of por- traits, from a Titian treasured in the Louvre to a profile over the grocer’s chimney shelf. And s...