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... am, back at a truth I learned long ago and have used in more than one of my novels: Nothing enters my life that isn’t caused or allowed by God, nothi... ...n writing (or should be). I had, and still have, much to learn about writing novels, but one thing I know, I need to continually work at my craft, lea... ...allen out of God’s hands. But the promise above is a living promise. I write fantasy, psychological horror, science fiction, romance. All of these are... ...w SF writers are religious, let alone Christian. They worship humanity. Many fantasy writers kneel at the altar of Gaia. And nowadays, most of the hea... ... a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. ~ James Bryce (British Historian) “For though I be free from all men, yet have I made my... ...e. Some of us write humor while others present the truth through legends and fantasy. Once our manuscript is complete, we market our message according... ...? I’m humbled, but not subdued. “Couldn’t I just give my coworkers one of my novels and then give my two weeks’ notice?” It’s then the Savior’s words ...

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...mp squealed, receiving a backhand to the face for interrupting Snakelex’s fantasy. The demon’s eyes suddenly widened and he near burst into laughter... ...rk for the world than to work for God. It is easier to read magazines and novels than to read God’s word. It is easier to donate time or money to on... ...r and his wife in question were described as being of ‘the old order’ and British migrants. Snakelex received information updating him on the joys o... ...oping it was him. “Who knows?” “Can they really see us Snaky?” Nobby began fantasying of a pub dinner for two. “Of course they can. That thing upstai...

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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, th...

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... THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de fo... ...AL LINCOLN’S JOURNAL BOOKS BY PAUL ALEXANDER BARTLETT NOVELS VOICES FROM THE PAST: Sappho’s Journal ` Christ’s Journal ` Leon... .... -- 1st ed. p. cm. Summary: "A collection of five historical novels written in the form of journals by the Greek poet Sappho of Lesb... ...ree hundred guests, I hear: Germans, Dutch, Austrian, Swiss, two or three British, a Greek potentate; the majority will be Parisians and the château ... ...re us, bare us to the quick of lime. The arith- metic of memory multiplies fantasy. Poetry, succor me in this hour of need, help me as you have: I ha... ... wanted a lively yet serene play, with a mixture of philosophy, humor and fantasy: I wanted a play to fit the new mode, free of symbolism. I walked... ...om Italy, I be- lieve; also a red handkerchief and books. Mary gave him a British belt buckle with lion and unicorn, a set of brushes and tubes of p... ...ok of poetry. On my last visit I bought Pope’s Essay on Man. I noticed a British copy bound in morocco. At the Potomac I have acquired some Emerson...

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...ol Number: 2008932282 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48–19... ...steful and used the power of the copyright to suppress them. This is no mere fantasy, Macaulay tells us. After praising the novels of Samuel Richardso... ...uppress them. This is no mere fantasy, Macaulay tells us. After praising the novels of Samuel Richardson in terms that, to modern eyes, seem a little ... ... the work, but because the work would be altogether suppressed. Richardson’s novels—Pamela, Clarissa Har- lowe, and so on—are now the preserve of the ... ...ur intuitive understanding that “Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels. All of this was much clearer before the assim... ...ry embodi- ment of all that is wrong. (I still cherish a friend’s account of British protesters outside the American Embassy in London singing “D-M-C-... ...o uses her sexuality for profit. Put them together and you have bookends—male fantasy and male nightmare. Was that Mr. West’s point? Perhaps. The song ... ...es’s song, not just because it sounded good but to contrast the image of the fantasy woman from Charles’s 1950s soul, who is faithful, sensual, and al... ...structions, carry out the desired operations, and write the answer down. The British mathematician Alan T uring imagined something like this—a little ...

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...sh Religion Pg 1767 Flies on the Wall Pg 1768 Ritual Sacrifice and Mystery Novels Pg 1774 The Undead and Dreams Pg 1775 The Undead, Astral Tra... ...ries that contradict each other and are not testable is not Science. Science fantasy and science fiction mixed together with pure conjecture is not... ...ren: hiding them, so civilized children are raised inside a protected, unreal fantasy When and how do children learn to lie? Their first years a... ...d it least. Anything else is an infantile, irresponsible, misuse of it. The fantasy of infantile invulnerability, infantile omniscience. The need ... ...he voice of his master. Just as Queen Victoria was listened to by the entire British Empire. Class racism. Class brainwashing. The brainwashing ... ...: two Christian nations stopped the killing to observe the birth of a child. British and German soldiers came out of their bunkers and exchanged gi... ...ey get used to the European presence on their land, and then the might of the British navy and army can roll in after the vermin have established th... ... You can see the modern equivalent of exclusive love in Harlequin Romance novels. Where the heroine falls in love only with the most handsome, ... ...ivilization on Humans 809 Do you ever see any heroines in these novels falling in Romantic Affairs with a male who is not perfect, who...

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...y or the more veteran American OPIC (Overseas Private Investment Corporation), the British ECGD, and the French COFACE - shift political risk from ... ...istic countries. Why are inventors in America more productive than their French or British counterparts - at least judging by the number of patents... ... Portfolio Management Theory and Technical Analysis Lecture Notes In American novels, well into the 1950's, one finds protagonists using the f... ...ranchised and undervalued them. Hitler, who fancied himself an artist, labeled the British a "nation of shopkeepers" in one of his bouts of raging ... ...pulsive rituals, to maintain a false grandiose image, to go on living in a land of fantasy, to resolve a psychodynamic conflict and, generally, to ... ...l space, much alike that of Alice in Wonderland were laws appear and disappear from fantasy. Especially interesting (and fascinating and striking) ...

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...lling around on the lawn, wres- tling with his friends, represented both a fantasy figure akin to the heroes in the books she read, and the embodiment... ...et intimacy is beyond me!” Oh my! I suppose, if I am going to keep writing novels, I shall have to learn all this dreadful stuff. I am not ready to re... ...not. With the family and her work. It’s so far to come.” Lisa had moved to British Columbia when she’d married Charles. Their only child, Charlie, was... ... cluding histories, cook books, biographies, fiction, and all her mother’s novels, these neatly aligned by order of publication. A computer on a small... ...ther is an author? What does she write?” “You’d probably call them romance novels, although they don’t fit that mode exactly. They are love stories bu... ... in final three months of life: nationwide retrospective study in Belgium, British Medical Journal, 2009, 339: b2772 [Lieve Van den Block, Reginald De...

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...uttering the shelf, a gallimaufry of hardcover titles—the prerequisite spy novels here, the mysteries and suspenses there, the historical and contempo... ...t and uncertain. She kissed his cheek. "Immensely," she teased in a stodgy British accent. New Life Incognita by Gracie C. McKeever 191 Tyler chuckle...

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... shillings (compared to the usual guinea or more). The Railway Library of novels (1,300 volumes) costs 1 shilling apiece only eight decades later. T... ...journals are as respectable as any print journal. BMJ (formerly called the British Medical Journal) is eminently respectable. It offers 100% of its ... ...s is a "code of honour" (more reminiscent of the Sicilian Mob than of the British Parliament, let’s say). Violations are punished by excommunication... ...E to the Russian MTS - are becoming regional. Multinationals, such as the British Vodafone and the French Orange - have entered the regional fray. S... ...uch alike that of Alice in Wonderland were laws appear and disappear from fantasy. Especially interesting (and fascinating and striking) are Wiener...

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...tional, or any other of those patriotic Libraries, at present the glory of British Literature;” might work revolutions in Thought; and so forth;—in co... ...uch title and vocation, it were perhaps uninteresting to say more. Let the British reader study and enjoy, in simplicity of heart, what is here presen... ... us to that joint-stock ve- hicle of publication, “at present the glory of British Lit- erature”? If so, the Library Editors are welcome to dig in it ... ...ithin me to shape an answer. Ever, in my distresses and my loneliness, has Fantasy turned, full of longing (sehnsuchtsvoll), to that unknown Father, w... ...hrough the watery albumen; and out of vague Sensation grows Thought, grows Fantasy and Force, and we have Philosophies, Dynasties, nay Poetries and Re... ...otable enough. Fit emblem of many a Conquering Hero, to whom Fate (wedding Fantasy to Sense, as it often elsewhere does) has malignantly appended a ti... ...ret. Nor are Sacred Books wanting to the Sect; these they call Fashionable Novels: however, the Canon is not completed, and some are canonical and oth... ... appears something like a Dissertation on this very subject of Fashionable Novels! It sets out, indeed, chiefly from a Secular point of view; directin...

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... this book, begun in ’89 and finished in ’94—with that shortest of all the novels which it was to be my lot to write. Between its opening exclamation ... ...p-leather of the sublime caballero. His was a very noble, a very unselfish fantasy, fit for nothing except to raise the envy of baser mor- tals. But t... ...g many words on the mere amenities of life. This was my first contact with British mankind apart from the tourist kind seen in the hotels of Zurich an... ... Tower Hill on the steps of the St. Katherine’s Dockhouse, a master in the British Merchant Service. But the man who put his hand on my shoulder at th... ...and other romantics. I had read in Polish and in French, history, voyages, novels; I knew “Gil Blas” and “Don Quixote” in abridged editions; I had rea... ...as a novel, and it is quite possible that it was one of Anthony Trollope’s novels. It is very likely. My acquaintance with him was then very recent. H... ...ut I had thought to myself that if I was to be a seaman, then I would be a British seaman and no other. It was a matter of deliberate choice. He nodde...

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...s, the opening campaign through the Neth- erlands, and the despatch of the British Expeditionary Force were all justified before the book had been pub... ... rela- tively barbaric times. The horse-hair wigs and antic dresses of the British judges, their musty courts and overbearing manners, were indeed onl... ...ction 5 FREDERICK BARNET’S WANDER JAHRE is one of those autobio- graphical novels that were popular throughout the third and fourth decades of the twe... ...ool of London University. The older so-called ‘classical’ education of the British pedagogues, probably the most paralysing, ineffec- tive, and foolis... ...foresight that brought back to that ex-monarch’s mind his half-forgot- ten fantasy of Leblanc as a fisherman under a green umbrella. About five o’cloc... ...uneasy complaint that was presently an innumerable multitude of books. The novels more particularly of the nine- teenth century, if one excludes the m... ...ation. Religion was the privilege of the pulpit…. It was not only from the novels that religion was omitted. It was ignored by the newspapers; it was ...

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...e aggressive and interfering old ladies who play so overwhelming a part in British public affairs. She had been known to initiate ad- verse judgments,... ...he allied defensive. The events of the early spring, the bloody failure of British generalship at Neuve Chapelle, the naval disaster in the Dardanelle... ...he intention of Mrs. Garstein Fellows to succeed very conspicuously in the British world, and the British world she felt was a complicated one; it is ... ...and order you to botanize and prescribe tranquillizing reading; Trollope’s novels, the Life of Gladstone, the works of Mr. A. C. Benson, memoirs and s... .... In the drawing-room he found only Sir James Mounce, the man who knew the novels of Sir Walter Scott by heart and had the minutest and most unsparing... ...ological ideas that for the most part they would understand by that only a fantasy of some great coming of angels and fiery chariots and judgments, an...

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...n sees his line, his in- tention. Yet though we are all of us writing long novels— White’s world was the literary world, and that is how it looked to ... ...d, it professes a hero but presents a heroine. And to begin with at least, novels were written for the reading of heroines. Miss Lydia Languish sets n... ...metimes he was sim- ply abreast of the patriotic and socially constructive British Imperialism of Breeze and Westerton. And there were moods when the ... ...e glamour of world dominion rested wonderfully on the slack and straggling British Empire of Edward the Seventh—and Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Mr. Chambe... ...ch at Croydon. The Japanese had torpe- doed another Russian ironclad and a British cruiser was ashore in the East Indies. A man had been found murdere... ...im that something of their easy-going free- dom was to be found in Russian novels. A photographic en- largement of somebody with a vegetarian expressi... ... idea of universal responsibility had already grown into the extraordinary fantasy that he was, as it were, an uncrowned king in the world. T o be nob...

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... creature making a bar of his arm. T wo ideas are generally present to the British mind during these cer emonies; first, that it is necessary to make... ...al affront, which the government at home ought instantly to ‘take up.’ The British mind and body becoming heated by these fantasies, delirious answers... ...erfully populous in children; English children, with gov ernesses reading novels as they walk down the shady lanes of trees, or nursemaids interchang... ...puts a placard outside her house announcing her possession of that curious British instrument, a ‘Mingle;’ or when a tavern keeper pro vides accommod... ...Lane Jail. In connexion with which dismal spectacle, I recall this curious fantasy of the mind. That, having beheld that execution, and having left th...

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...‘Insanity’). In short, she was a walking calculation, Miss Edgeworth’s novels stepping from their covers, Or Mrs. Trimmer’s books on education... ...ish readers should grow skittish, I ‘ve bribed my grandmother’s review—the British. I sent it in a letter to the Editor, Who thank’d me duly b... ...of those. As for the ladies, I have nought to say, A wanderer from the British world of fashion, Where I, like other ‘dogs, have had my day,’ ... ...—I, Although my opinion may require apology, Deem this a commentator’s fantasy, Unless indeed it was from his own knowledge he Decided thu... ...much youth and reading, But was in them their nature or their fate: No novels e’er had set their young hearts bleeding, For Haidee’s knowledge... ...ecruits with wives.’ ‘May it please your excellency,’ thus replied Our British friend, ‘these are the wives of others, And not our own. I am t... ...ys strange; Stranger than fiction; if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men beho...

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.... Impossible to say what she might not have done had she found him reading novels or an impious news- paper. T o her, novel ideas meant the overthrow ... ...cable looks and soften them? Am I never to know beauty in its freedom, the fantasy of the soul, the clouds that course through the azure of happiness,... ...u may go,”—a brief sentence, which served as a signal for the combat. “The novels you make, my dear, are more dangerous than those you write,” said th... ...stinction due to her rank as the wife of a du Guenic and the daughter of a British peer. Mademoiselle des T ouches urged Calyste to see Paris, while s...

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...commonplace than the original bald stark words. Conning for an hour in the British Museum the pages of works devoted to extinct, half extinct, obscure... ...as he stooped; and, presently, selecting a spe cially fine product of the ‘British Queen’ variety, he stood up and held it by the stem to her mouth. ‘... ...n’t you warn me? Ladies know what to fend hands against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance o’ learni... ...s and forces of outdoor Nature retain in their souls far more of the Pagan fantasy of their re mote forefathers than of the systematized religion tau... ...ery irregularity of the soil was prehistoric, every channel an undisturbed British trackway; not a sod having been turned there since the days of the ...

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...n the world’s great storm of theyear 1914. AUTHOR’S NOTE OF THE THREE LONG NOVELS of mine which suffered an interruption, “The Rescue” was the one tha... ...med now darker than before. “Four hands and myself. We belong to a yacht—a British yacht—” “Come on board!” shouted Lingard. “Why didn’t you speak at ... ...ok the letter out of an open enve- lope, addressed to the commander of any British ship in the Java Sea. The paper was thick, had an em- bossed headin... ...t the yacht’s position in Anjer on his way through Sunda Straits—or to any British or Dutch man-of-war he might meet. The let- ter ended by anticipato... ...y, impossibly different, as if in another universe, as if presented by the fantasy of a fevered memory. He saw her in a luminous perspective of palati...

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...of the particular ingredients necessary to the composition of romances and novels of various descrip- tions: but it is enough, and I scorn to tyranniz... ...cum Beverley. I beg pardon, once and for all, of those readers who take up novels merely for amusement, for plaguing them so long with old-fashioned p... ... Baron joined in the laugh. ‘T ruly,’ he said, ‘that picture was a woman’s fantasy of my good mother’s (a daughter of the Laird of Tulliellum, Captain... ...al cause of their being written, without a glance into the interior of the British Cabinet at the period in question. The Ministers of the day happene... ...at he protested he could beat any known march or point of war known in the British army, and had accordingly commenced with ‘Dumbarton’s Drums,’ when ... ...I remember his successor in office, a member of that enlightened body, the British Convention: be his memory, therefore, treated with due respect. CHA...

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..., on the fathers’ and moth- ers’ sides respectively, from have families of British New En- gland and Dutch New York extraction. Whitman and Van Velsor... ...felt impelled to write Mr. Russell in regard to one of his newly published novels, and received in answer the following letter: July 21, 1886. My Dear... ...’ but allowed himself to plunge more deeply into the sea of philosophy and fantasy. ‘Pierre; or, the Ambiguities’ (1852) was published, and there ensu...

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...National, or any other of those patriotic Libraries, at present the glory of British Literature;” might work revolutions in Thought; and so forth;—in ... ... such title and vocation, it were perhaps uninteresting to say more. Let the British reader study and enjoy, in simplicity of heart, what is here pres... ...ded us to that joint stock vehicle of publication, “at present the glory of British Literature”? If so, the Library Editors are welcome to dig in it ... ... within me to shape an answer. Ever, in my distresses and my loneliness, has Fantasy turned, full of longing (sehnsuchtsvoll), to that unknown Father,... ... through the watery albumen; and out of vague Sensation grows Thought, grows Fantasy and Force, and we have Philosophies, Dynasties, nay Poetries and ... ... notable enough. Fit emblem of many a Conquering Hero, to whom Fate (wedding Fantasy to Sense, as it often elsewhere does) has malignantly appended a ... ...ecret. Nor are Sacred Books wanting to the Sect; these they call Fashionable Novels: however, the Canon is not completed, and some are canonical and o... ...e, appears something like a Dissertation on this very subject of Fashionable Novels! It sets out, indeed, chiefly from a Secular point of view; directi...

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...ong ago—in his giddy youth maybe—were about. And the books in question are novels, or, at any rate, were written as novels. I proceed thus cau- tiousl... ...he lifetime of one fleeting generation. 11 Joseph Conrad II OF ALL BOOKS, novels, which the Muses should love, make a serious claim on our compassion... ...y the truth of a childish theatrical ardour in the game of life, as in the novels of Dumas the father. But the fair truth of human delicacy can be fou... ...o new Russia to take the place of that ill-omened creation, which, being a fantasy of a madman’s brain, 78 Notes on Life and Letters could in reality... ...ives of economy. I did not speak to him. He trod the deck of that decadent British ship with a scornful foot while his breast (and to a large extent h... ...Bay of Biscay of an outward-bound convoy of transports, in the presence of British submarines in the Channel. Innumerable drifters flying the Naval fl... ...alarmist ar- ticles I had read about the great number of foreigners in the British Merchant Service, and I didn’t know how far these lamentations were... ...ing is naturally naive and imagi- native. It has also in it that strain of fantasy that is so often, nay almost invariably, to be found in the tem- pe... ...lt, there was a curious absence of mere crimi- nality, and a touch of that fantasy which is often a part of a seaman’s character. It wasn’t greed that...

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...olitical doctrine that shall be equally available for applica- tion in the British Empire and in the United States. T o that we must come, unless our ... ...incial in proportion to our new and wider needs. My instances are commonly British, but all the broad project of this book—the discussion of the quali... ...ading and English-speaking man. No doubt the spirit of the inquiry is more British than American, that the aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic demo... ...ating the fruits of the earth, and liv- ing to ninety in the open air is a fantasy; he never was nor will be. The real savage is a nest of parasites w... ...iography may give facts of infinite suggestion, and the great multitude of novels at present are, in fact, experi- ments in the science of this centra... ...s, and always these attacks base themselves on the fact that the number of novels taken out was so many times, so many hundred times greater than the ... ...fiction can be. A novel is fairly com- plete in itself, and in sticking to novels, the Public Library readers show, I submit, a better literary sense ...

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...to the exaggerated employment of mirrors. We line our dwellings with great British plates, and then imagine we have done a fine thing. Now the slighte... ...y that we must look (if at all, in Appallachia), for the spirituality of a British boudoir. But we have seen apartments in the tenure of Ameri- cans o... ...is invariably mistranslated and misconceived. “Cui bono?” in all the crack novels and elsewhere,—in those of Mrs. Gore, for example, (the author of “C... ...g, “as needed,” upon a systematic plan, by Mr. Beckford,— in all the crack novels, I say, from those of Bulwer and Dickens to those of Bulwer and Dick... ...ile it has strict connection with poetry in the abstract, and with the old British poems themselves, should not be looked upon as a merit ap- pertaini... ...itas lumen dedit Dircæus augur vidit hunc alto sinu, &c. By winged Fantasy,* My embassy is given, Till secrecy shall knowledge be In the e... ...n grandeur then, And donn’d a visionary crown — Y et it was not that Fantasy Had thrown her mantle over me— But that, among the rabble—men, ...

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...e flat) to myself and my work. During the next six years I wrote sev eral novels and a number of plays. Only one of these novels had any success, but... ...at I began to read The Magician . It held my interest, as two of my early novels, which for the same 7 Maugham reason I have been obliged to read, d... ... wrote of. I must have spent days and days read ing in the library of the British Museum. The style is lush and turgid, not at all the sort of style ... ... pounds a week. I made up my mind to abandon 8 TheMagician the writing of novels for the rest of my life. I did not know that this was something out ... ...lle,’ answered the old woman. ‘I heard her tell the coachman to go to the British Consulate.’ The last doubt was leaving Susie. She went to the dress... ...at Haddo, more extravagantly dressed than usual, had managed to get an odd fantasy into his evening clothes: he wore knee breeches, which in itself wa...

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...rve, which was by no means cus- tomary to her frank and genial nature. The fantasy would not quit her, that the original Puritan, of whom she had hear... ... him to solicit, or enable him to purchase, that elevated dignity from the British monarch. Lord Pyncheon!—or the Earl of Waldo!—how could such a magn... ...il- road), had plunged into the English scenery and adventures of pamphlet novels, and were keeping company with dukes and earls. Others, whose briefe...

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...and lock’d in its mountains, The spread of the Baltic, Caspian, Bothnia, the British shores, and the bay of Biscay, The clear sunn’d Mediterranean, an... ...breeze, Thy bugles sounding loud and clear. Away with old romance! Away with novels, plots and plays of foreign courts, Away with love verses sugar’d ... ... of a sudden unlook’d for by defiles through the woods, gain’d at night, The British advancing, rounding in from the east, fiercely playing their guns... ... he wrung his hands in anguish. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 310 Meanwhile the British manoeuvr’d to draw us out for a pitch’d battle, But we dared not ... ...om sleep this vision presses upon me; The engagement opens there and then in fantasy unreal, The skirmishers begin, they crawl cautiously ahead, I hea...