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...her -the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that ?fire-breathing dragon?, hold the Punjab, for the great green-bronze piece is always first of the conqueror?s loot....

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...Zammah, that ‘fire breathing dragon’, hold the Punjab, for the great green bronze piece is always first of the conqueror’s loot. There was some justif... ...e been taken over by the Provincial Lodge, and sent to the Masonic Orphan age in the Hills; but what she had heard of magic she dis trusted. Kim, to... .... The woman who looked after him in sisted with tears that he should wear European clothes–trou sers, a shirt and a battered hat. Kim found it easie... ... hastily rendered into Urdu. For the first time he heard of the labours of European scholars, who by the help of these and a hundred other documents h... ...f gourd, fingered his rosary awhile, and so dropped into the easy sleep of age, as the shadow of Zam Zammah grew long. Kim loafed over to the nearest... ... and I thank Bhumia, the God of the Home stead.’ He shrugged one knotted, bronzed shoulder. ‘Think you our Lord came so far North?’ said the lama, tu... ...n, old man,’ the soldier smiled, half saluting. ‘We be all babblers at our age.’ The lama squatted under the shade of a mango, whose shadow played che... ...nd hid away in a bullock cart. Such men are staid and discreet, and when a European or a high caste native is near will net their charge with most ela...

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...level of a crowd, on some judicial bench or political platform, or even on a bronze medal. His forehead was high and broad, and his thick black hair, ... ... you, if you don’t look out. That’s the way I found her when I returned from Europe.’ ‘Have you been in Europe?’ Ransom asked. ‘Mercy, yes! Haven’t yo... ...he would like to abolish 6 The Bostonians it. Didn’t you know I had been to Europe?’ Mrs. Luna went on, in the slightly aggrieved tone of a woman who... ...); that he lived in a part of the country where they didn’t think much about Europe, and that he had always supposed she was domiciled in New York. Th... ...o. That was the worst of coming back; it was like being born again, at one’s age—one had to begin life afresh. One didn’t even know what one had come ... ...s of his patrimony to his mother and sisters, and, at nearly thirty years of age, alighted for the first time in New York, in the costume of his provin... ...rdseye never indulged, but as accepted and recognised wonders, natural in an age of new reve lations. She had heard of these things in detail only te... ...s; and as they sat looking at the great florid, sombre organ, overhanging the bronze statue of Beethoven, they felt that this was the only temple in wh... ...pinnacles, and some genius of music or oratory erected himself in monumental bronze at the base. The hall was so capacious and serious, and the audien...

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...e crowd; but they were adopted. This fashion tyrannized over the ladies of Europe for half a century. At the peace of 1815, for a year, the long waist... ...s but fourteen. Hence, in 1834, Mademoiselle de Watteville had reached the age when young persons are easily struck by the peculiarities which attract... ... days she was dressed in a muslin frock, her hair plainly dressed, and had bronze kid shoes. This education, and her own modest demeanor, hid in Rosal... ... on every youthful imagination, and which curiosity, so eager at Rosalie’s age, goes forth to meet half-way. What an ideal being was this Albert—gloom... ...youths were friends in the truest sense of the word. They were of the same age; they had learned at the same school; and after studying the law, they ... ...rom the high place of the French Tribune, come before my country, be- fore Europe. My name will be flung to you by the hundred voices of the French pr...

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...of this could not be foreseen a few hundred years ago, and yet, now in the age of the jumbo jet, it is happening. Thousands and thousands of peo... ...of marble could become a masterpiece that thousands of visitors from every age and every part of the world have lined up to see. I myself saw it ma... ...ve created a work of art. If you do this with any type of matter: wood, bronze, weaving, stone etc. ... you will have created other works of art.... ...tist is someone who works on something, for example marble, stone, wood or bronze and creates works of art. Or an artist can be someone who has a mus... ...ve created a work of art. If you do this with any type of matter: wood, bronze, weaving, stone etc. ... you will have created other works of art.... ...s in orbit and the earth stands still. This is true as of 1988, and not in Europe but also in America, of all places. Therefore, since we are convin... ...and prayer while being in contact with the world and not separate from it. Europe was born from these Abbeys. Gandhi longed for union with God and ... ...ctatorship is overthrown. This is what happened in the countries in Eastern Europe. This is what is happening in Christianity. Why did Luther rebel ... ...ontrast the cynicism and violence that so affect our lives in this day and age? Only if we manage to free ourselves from this terror can we go bac...

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... in terms of looks and greatness: she is mortal, and you are immortal and age does not touch you. But even so I wish to return home, and I invoke ... ... as being the greatest in the world, is an ephemeral beauty, a beauty that age can damage and death can destroy. The Greeks were not willing to se... ...the completion of the cosmic goal. Now Ulysses can live out a peaceful old age while he waits for a gentle death that will come to him while he is a... ... enrich Life. America was the hope of the nineteen hundreds. And today? Europe has become the hope of the poor from the third world, but what ho... ...as become the hope of the poor from the third world, but what hope do the Europeans have? From what I can see, there is no hope at all concerning i... .... We would be blind not to see it. But as far as I am concerned, being a European who has not emigrated, I would like that yet another evolutionar... ...may Chronide not allow it! 208 They want to kill Telemachus with a sharp bronze sword, as soon as he returns home: he has gone looking for news of... ...he leafy olive tree, and I trimmed down the trunk, I well encased it with bronze artfully, I made sure it was level, I built a base for it and use... ... with the suitors in your home, either through deceit or with your sharp bronze sword, after you will leave, taking hold of your well-made oars,...

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...r-Fanciers. Every fresh atrocity of that class, which the police annals of Europe bring up, they meet and criticise as they would a picture, statue, o... ...as little understood, and few great models had been exhibited; but in this age, when masterpieces of excellence have been executed by professional men... ...nworthy of notice, until long after the Christian era. Greece, even in the age of Pericles, produced no murder of the slightest merit; and Rome had to... ...h of the art has flourished by fits. It never rains, but it pours. Our own age can boast of some fine specimens; and, about two centuries ago, there w... ...hing has sufficed to smash a philosoper; and the next great philosopher of Europe undoubtedly was murdered. This was Spinosa. 20 I know very well the... ...this purpose he resorted to Germany, conceiving the police in that part of Europe to be more heavy and drowsy than else- where. His debut as a practit... ..., made the attempt impossible. Y ou still think otherwise. See, then, that bronze equestrian statue. The cruel rider has kept the bit in his horse’s m...

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...iation XXXVII. The Nursery of the Craft XL. The Tremolino XLVI. The Heroic Age CHAPTER I “And shippes by the brinke comen and gon, And in swich forme ... ...oung days, every time he was approaching a coast. Well over fifty years of age when I knew him, short, stout, dignified, per- haps a little pompous, h... ...nd it was in that trade that he obtained his first command at a very early age. It was then that he mentioned to me how, as a young commander, he was ... ...ar across from the shores of the New World upon the hoary headlands of Old Europe, which harbours more kings and rul- ers upon its seamed and furrowed... ...he best of his way up, a military seaman with a short sword on thigh and a bronze helmet on his head, the pioneer post-captain of an imperial fleet. W... ...see and safe to trust, attaches only to ships moored in the docks of great European ports. You feel that they are dishonestly locked up, to be hunted ... ...enced soul; and the slightest distension of his nostrils would give to his bronzed face a look of extraordinary boldness. This was the only play of fe...

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...ver, saying to the footman, “Not at home.” He had been disappointed in the age, grossly deceived in the appearance of the man claiming to be his relat... ...parley. It was performed by a gentleman supremely advanced at a very early age in the art of cutting. Young Sir Willoughby spoke a word of the rejecte... ...hterless, long sub- sequent to the memorable day of Willoughby’s coming of age. Lady Busshe was for Constantia Durham. She laughed at Mrs Mountstuart ... ... picture of him in America, Japan, China, Australia, nay, the continent of Europe, holding an English review of his Maker’s grotesques. V ernon seemed... ...een devoted to Clara Middleton’s friend. The morning’s letters were on the bronze plate in the hall. Clara passed on her way to her room without inspe...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 YOUTH AND AGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 THE NEW FAC... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 QUARREL IN OLD AGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 THE RESULTS OF THOU... ...O SONGS REWRITTEN FOR THE TUNE’S SAKE . . . . . . . . 296 A PRAYER FOR OLD AGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298 CHURCH AND STATE . . ... ... LONG LEGGED FLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347 A BRONZE HEAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348 A S... ...contented heart to draw content From beauty that is cast out of a mould In bronze, or that in dazzling marble appears, Appears, but when we have gone ... ...ied mice can play. And maybe the great grandson of that house, For all its bronze and marble, ’s but a mouse. O what if gardens where the peacock stra... ... And not the banks of oars that swam upon The many headed foam at Salamis. Europe put off that foam when Phidias Gave women dreams and dreams their lo...

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...w. The interior of the room is not like anything to be seen in the east of Europe. It is half rich Bulgarian, half cheap Viennese. The counter- pane a... ...d shoulders, a round- ish, obstinate looking head covered with short crisp bronze curls, clear quick blue eyes and good brows and mouth, a hopelessly ... ...or throwing away a chance. He reckons up what he can guess about Raina—her age, her social position, her character, the extent to which she is frighte... ...es the whole thing at once. BLUNTSCHLI. I think I can shew you how to man- age that. SERGIUS. Invaluable man! Come along! (T owering over Bluntschli, ... ...THERINE (stopping him). Paul! PETKOFF. I could have sworn it wasn’t there. Age is beginning to tell on me. I’m getting hallucinations. (To Nicola.) He... ...e Em- press? LOUKA. I would marry the man I loved, which no other queen in Europe has the courage to do. If I loved you, though you would be as far be...

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...nt House Becky met one of the finest gentlemen and greatest ministers that Europe has produced—the Duc de la 5 Thackeray Jabotiere, then Ambassador f... ...nybody else, being, on the contrary, a faded person, fifty- seven years of age, and neither handsome, nor wealthy, nor entertaining; but it is agreed ... ...rds the little woman. She deplored the fatal levelling tenden- cies of the age, which admitted persons of all classes into the society of their superi... ...en extraordinary indeed, and his character greatly changed in his advanced age. Other parties hinted that it was Becky’s habit to levy contributions o... ...talk and dance like Mrs. Rawdon was fit to be ambassadress at any court in Europe. He was only consoled when he heard that she was half a Frenchwoman ... ...ey meanwhile hurried on from Great Gaunt Street, and knocking at the great bronze Medusa’s head which stands on the portal of Gaunt House, brought out... ...m his good-natured commandant to proceed to Madras, and thence probably to Europe, on urgent private affairs, never ceased trav- elling night and day ... ...ed half the looking-glass, on which, too, lay the prettiest little pair of bronze boots; a French novel was on the table by the bedside, with a candle...

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...III WHITHER IN THE TIME OF THOMAS, THIRD VISCOUNT, I HAD PRECEDED HIM AS P AGE TO ISABELLA .............................................................. ...n; nor would people believe that she did not wear rouge. At sixty years of age she still looked young, and was quite agile. It was not until after tha... ...ere and there in the volume in which my father describes his adventures in Europe, I can well under- stand the extreme devotion with which she regarde... ... but what company was there in which he would not be first? When I went to Europe for my education, and we passed a winter at London with my half-brot... ...pass over as odious and unworthy of credit those reports (which I heard in Europe and was then too young to understand), how this person, having left ... ...wears the mask and the cothurnus, and speaks to mea- sure. She too, in our age, busies herself with the affairs only of kings; waiting on them obsequi... ...h health and roses: with eyes like stars shining out of azure, with waving bronze hair clustered about the fairest young forehead ever seen: and a mie...