... tell me, 143 We haue your wrong rebuke. Do not beleeue 144 That from the sence of all Ciuilitie, 145 I thus would play and trifle with... ... Bra. Strike on the Tinder, hoa: 155 Giue me a Taper: call vp all my people, 156 This Accident is not vnlike my dreame, 157 Beleefe of... ...auen: how got she out? 186 Oh treason of the blood. 187 Fathers, from hence trust not your Daughters minds 188 By what you see them act... ...n Honour, 225 I shall promulgate. I fetch my life and being, 226 From Men of Royall Seige. And my demerites 227 May speake (vnbonnetted... ... Gent. The Towne is empty; on the brow o’th’ Sea 813 Stand rankes of People and they cry, a Saile. 814 Cassio. My hopes do shape him fo... ... 1333 Shall loose me. What in a Towne of warre, 1334 Yet wilde, the peoples hearts brim- full of feare, 1335 To Manage priuate, and domesti... ... the shrill Trumpe, 1995 The Spirit- stirring Drum, th’ Eare- piercing Fife, - 44 - The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice Shakespeare: Fir...

...s see anything like stirring adventure; and many things which to fire-side people ap- pear strange and romantic, to them seem as common-place as a jac... ...r with a life of adventure. In his account of the singular and interesting people among whom he was thrown, it will be observed that he chiefly treats... ...us peculiarities; and, in describing their customs, refrains in most cases from entering into ex- planations concerning their origin and purposes. As ... ... come immediately under the writer’s cognizance. The con- clusions deduced from these facts are unavoidable, and in stating them the author has been i... ...er were both descended, on the fathers’ and moth- ers’ sides respectively, from have families of British New En- gland and Dutch New York extraction. ... ...ver, the resemblance ceases, for Whitman’s forebears, while worthy country people of good descent, were not prominent in public or private life. Melvi... ...ately be denominated a nasal flute. It is somewhat longer than an ordinary fife; is made of a beautiful scarlet- coloured reed; and has four or five s... ...crown of the head in the same way that the individual had worn them during fife. The sunken cheeks were rendered yet more ghastly by the rows of glist...

...ing the garden-plot, shrank back alarmed. The Irish servant-lass rushed up from the kitchen and smiled a “God bless you.” Amelia could hardly walk alo... ... war; until the Irish maid-servant came with a plate and a bottle of wine, from which the old gentleman insisted upon helping the valet. He gave him a... ... What a gulf lay between her and that past life. She could look back to it from her present stand- ing-place, and contemplate, almost as another being... ... to take measures for the preparing of a mag- nificent ornamented tea. All people have their ways of express- ing kindness, and it seemed to Mrs. Sedl... ...ith men of fashion and ladies of note, on their way to Brussels and Ghent. People were going not so much to a war as to a fash- ionable tour. The news... ...to be said that this soft and gentle creature took her opinions from those people who surrounded her, such fidelity being much too humble-minded to th... ...m in the morning; at nightfall they went to bed to the note of the British fife and drum: all the country and Europe was in arms, and the greatest eve...

... London Bridge at noon on a gusty April day, was almost magically detached from his con- flict with the gale by some sly strip of slipperiness, abound... ...at distinctive article of his attire. At the same time, for these friendly people about him to share the fun of the annoyance, he looked hastily brigh... ...ockney crow-word of the day, or a word that had stuck in the fellow’s head from the perusal of his pothouse newspaper columns? Furthermore, the plea o... ...ewspaper columns? Furthermore, the plea of a fall, and the plea of a shock from a fall, required to account for the triviality of the mind, were humil... ... the roar of cries and stilled it, by capping the cries in turn, until the people cheered him; and the effect of the scene upon Victor Radnor disposed... ...artly explained the successful, as- tonishing career of his friend among a people making ur- gent, if unequal, demands perpetually upon stomach and he... ...te the modern style. We have now English noble- men who play the horn, the fife—the drum, some say! We may yet be Merrie England again, with our noble... ... be satisfied on the point of honour; perhaps enlivened by hearing them at fife and drum. But middle-class pedestrians, having paid five shillings for...

... 30 The multiplying Villanies of Nature 31 Doe swarme vpon him) from the Westerne Isles 32 Of Kernes and Gallowgrosses is supply’d, ... ... neu’r shooke hands, nor bad farwell to him, 41 Till he vnseam’d him from the Naue toth’ Chops, 42 And fix’d his Head vpon our Battlements... ...lection, 45 Shipwracking Stormes, and direfull Thunders: 46 So from that Spring, whence comfort seem’d to come, 47 Discomfort swells... ... 74 Where the Norweyan Banners flowt the Skie, 75 And fanne our people cold. 76 Norway himselfe, with terrible numbers, 77 Assi... ...d me of late, and I haue bought 509 Golden Opinions from all sorts of people, 510 Which would be worne now in their newest glosse, 511 ... ... 971 Rosse. Will you to Scone? 972 Macd. No Cosin, Ile to Fife. 973 Rosse. Well, I will thither. 974 Macd. Well may... ... Macbeth, Macbeth: 1609 Beware Macduffe, 1610 Beware the Thane of Fife: dismisse me. Enough. 1611 He Descends. 1612 Macb. What er... ...one: 1703 The Castle of Macduff, I will surprize. 1704 Seize vpon Fife; giue to th’ edge o’th’ Sword 1705 His Wife, his Babes, and all vn... ...w he solicites heauen 1982 Himselfe best knowes: but strangely visited people 1983 All swolne and Vlcerous, pittifull to the eye, 1984 The...

...n the United Kingdom greatly cares for my opinion of its brandy or sherry. When I go upon my jour- neys, I am not usually rated at a low figure in the... ... I travel for the great house of Human Interest Brothers, and have rather a large connection in the fancy goods way. Literally speaking, I am always w... ...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 tree, with earth eno... ...f as being then beside me, that I had purposed to myself to see, when I left home for Wales. I had heard of that clergy- man, as having buried many sc... ...the way was steep, and a horse and cart (in which it was wrapped in a sheet) were necessary, and three or four men, and, all things considered, it was... ... day; the beneficent Earth had already absorbed it. The drowned were buried in their clothes. T o supply the great sudden demand for coffins, he had g... ...he main-yard there! Look alive at the weather earring! Cheery, my boys! Let go the sheet, now! Stand by at the braces, you! With a will, aloft there! ... ...springs up fifer, fife in hand—smallest boy ever seen—big lump on temple, having lately fallen down on a paving-stone—gives ‘em a tune with all his mi... ...ut here we were with breakers ahead, my lads, driv- ing head on, slap on a lee shore! The Skipper broached this terrific announcement in such great ag...

... sense of honour and independence, and an obstinate refusal to take advice from those who really wished to befriend him; nor should it be forgotten th... ...The apostle of affliction, he who threw Enchantment over passion, and from woe Wrung overwhelming eloquence, first drew 5 Rousseau The... ...n its shadows and blemishes; let us not, then, seek to “draw his frailties from their dread abode.” His greatest fault was his renunciation of a fathe... ...ains, lakes and islands, formerly regarded with aversion, into a fairyland peopled with crea- tures whose joys and sorrows appealed irresistibly to ev... ... my eyes only examples of mildness, and was surrounded by some of the best people in the world? My father, my aunt, my nurse, my relations, our friend... ...y Latin, history, and antiquities; I could hardly recol- lect whether such people as Romans ever existed. When I visited my father, he no longer behel... ...ter of a league of the Hermitage to pass the vacation at St. Brice, in the fife of Mauleon, belonging to his mother, and where the great Bossuet had f...

...t of the old duties at Greenleaf or the summer afternoons when I went home from school with my portfolio under my arm, and my childish shadow at my si... ... a condition can quite understand what I mean or what painful unrest arose from this source. For the same reason I am almost afraid to hint at that ti... ... which I was one of the beads! And when my only prayer was to be taken off from the rest and when it was such inexplicable agony and misery to be a pa... ... do, did she think? I mildly asked her. “Draw,” returned Miss Flite. “Draw people on, my dear. Draw peace out of them. Sense out of them. Good looks o... .... Saved many lives, never com plained in hunger and thirst, wrapped naked people in his spare clothes, took the lead, showed them what to do, gov er... ..., I so ad mired and loved what he had done, that I envied the storm worn people who had fallen at his feet and blessed him as their preserver. I cou... ...rn for any musical instrument?” Mr. Bagnet suddenly interposes, “Plays the fife. Beauti ful.” “Would you believe it, governor,” says Mr. Bucket, stru... ...Mr. Bucket, struck by the coincidence, “that when I was a boy I played the fife myself? Not in a scientific way, as I expect he does, but by ear. Lord... ...tle circle than this call upon young Woolwich, who immediately fetches his fife and performs the stirring melody, during which per formance Mr. Bucke...

...es in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to A... ...e earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to A Tale of... ... some tillers of the heavy lands adja cent to Paris, there were sheltered from the weather that very day, rude carts, bespattered with rustic mire, s... ..., loaded with rounds of shot and ball; thieves snipped off diamond crosses from the necks of noble lords at Court drawing rooms; musketeers went into ... ...ng a housebreaker on Saturday who had been taken on T uesday; now, burning people in the hand at Newgate by the dozen, and now burning pamphlets at th... ...ps to be heard; but at any rate, the quiet pause was audibly expressive of people out of breath, and holding the breath, and having the pulses quicken... ...a chivalrous tone to things, was a polite example of luxurious and shining fife, and a great deal more to equal purpose; nevertheless, Monseigneur as ...

...l show him a startling exhibition of the dyer’s hand, if he is without it. People are ready to surrender themselves to witty thumps on the back, breas... ...ot bleed. The old grey boulder-stone that has finished its peregrina- tion from the rock to the valley, is as easily to be set rolling up again as the... ...mstances in our mortal career strikes a light for them. It is but one step from being agelastic to misogelastic, and the [Greek text which cannot be r... ...tiousness is more abominable than frank filth. An eminent Frenchman judges from the quality of some of the stuff dredged up for the laughter of men an... ...and at middle distance between the inveter- ate opponents and the drum-and-fife supporters of Com- edy: ‘Comme un point fixe fait remarquer l’emportem... ...om it!’ as if it could be done: but in the peculiar Paradise of the wilful people who will not see, the exclamation assumes the saving grace. Yet shou... ...section of this lecture. Eastward you have total silence of Comedy among a people intensely susceptible to laughter, as the Arabian Nights will testif...

... ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOKS TWO by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY original from the publishers Boston, Estes and Lauriat, Publishers To the Right Hono... ... after he had come to the Gatehouse prison, (where he lay in no small pain from his wound, which inflamed and ached severely,) and with those thoughts... ...ing, Esmond knew at once that his visitor was his dear mistress. He got up from his bed, where he was lying, being very weak; and advancing towards he... ...o happened to be in the place; and the governor’s wife and ser- vant, kind people both, were with the patient. Esmond saw his mistress still in the ro... ...d more than a half of the nation were on this side. Ours is the most loyal people in the world surely; we admire our kings, and are faith- ful to them... ...hough a Tory herself, she represented the triumph of the Whig opinion. The people of England, al- ways liking that their Princes should be attached to... ... bepraised—you pretty maidens, that come tumbling down the stairs when the fife and drum call you, and huzzah for the British Grenadiers—do you take a...

...reat we become so small in con- sequence. All truth came to Emily straight from honor to honor unimpaired. She never trafficked with falsehood seri- o... ...unequivocal. Evasion of fact she knew not, though her body might flit away from interruption, leaving an in- truder to “Think that a sunbeam left the ... ...it terms with life and friends, in which re- spect she was of a divergence from the usual not easily to be condoned. It was precisely the clamor of th... ...r? Admonished by her buckled lips Let every babbler be. The only secret people keep Is Immortality. CVIII IF recollecting were forg... ... still. Minor apparatus, hopper of the mill, Beetle at the candle, Or a fife’s small fame, Maintain by accident That they proclaim. CXXII... ...en April woods are red.” XI PIGMY seraphs gone astray, Velvet people from Vevay, Belles from some lost summer day, Bees’ exclusive coteri... ...hen, stooping to secure it, It wrinkled, and was gone. Several of nature’s people I know, and they know me; I feel for them a transport Of cordiality;...

...etimes do kill yourself, trying to accomplish something—and you can’t. Not from any fault of yours. Y ou simply can do nothing, neither great nor litt... ...d-by a north- country tug picked us up. We took sixteen days in all to get from London to the Tyne! When we got into dock we had lost our turn for loa... ...re we remained for a month. Mrs. Beard (the captain’s name was Beard) came from Colchester to see the old man. She lived on board. The crew of runners... ...every four is no joke—but it kept her afloat as far as Falmouth. “The good people there live on casualties of the sea, and no doubt were glad to see u... ...r harbor, and we became a fixture, a feature, an institution of the place. People pointed us out to visitors as ‘That ‘ere bark that’s going to Bankok... ...ad. The winds were light. Weeks slipped by. She crawled on, do or die, and people at home began to think of posting us as overdue. “One Saturday eveni... ... and there a piece of timber, stuck up- right, resembled a post. Half of a fife-rail had been shot through 20 Y outh the foresail, and the sky made a...

... isn’t any real harm to him. He’ s more to be pitied than anything,” a man from New York drawled, as he lay at full length along the cushions un- der ... ...h along the cushions un- der the wet skylight. “They’ve dragged him around from hotel to hotel ever since he was a kid. I was talking to his mother th... ...’ s the matter with the old man attending to him personally?” said a voice from the frieze ulster. “Old man’ s piling up the rocks. ‘Don’t want to be ... ... you’re through. Hurry! Dad’ s waitin’.” Like many other unfortunate young people, Harvey had never in all his life received a direct order-never, at ... ...ry .” Harvey had a notion that the greater part of America was filled with people discussing and envying his father’ s dollars. “Mebbe I do, an’ mebbe... ...u’ll make a man yet ef you go on this way .” “He oughtn’t begin by calling people names.” “Jest an’ right-right an’ jest,” said Troop, with the ghost ... ...at the pens piled high with cod. “What water did ye hev , Manuel?” “Twenty-fife father,” said the Portuguese, sleepily . “They strike on good an’ quee... ...cod?” “Was a man once lied for his catch,” Manuel put in. “Lied every day. Fife, ten, twenty-fife more fish than come he say there was.” “Where was th...

...ery noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before h... ...bition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kind- ness touches and amuses h... ...n this to tag to the present story of 4 V anity Fair “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their serva... ...Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign. Only when her pupils quitted the establishment, or when t... ... work which she invariably pre- sented to her scholars, on their departure from the Mall. On the cover was inserted a copy of “Lines addressed to a yo... ...the wide world who would take the trouble off her hands. What causes young people to “come out,” but the noble ambition of matrimony? What sends them ... ...m in the morning; at nightfall they went to bed to the note of the British fife and drum: all the country and Europe was in arms, and the greatest eve...

...is just as light and good as it was then, too, and this is not flattery, far from it. The Tragedy of Pudd nhead Wilson - Mark Twain 3 He was a littl... ...wo story frame dwellings, whose whitewashed exteriors were almost concealed from sight by climbing tangles of rose vines, honeysuckles, and morning g... ...pring, when the clusters of buds came forth. The main street, one block back from the river, and running parallel with it, was the sole business stree... ...or that reason, and not to be comforted. The women were good and commonplace people, and did their duty, and had their reward in clear consciences and... ...on you might prefer from bradawls to artillery. He was very popular with the people, and was the judge’s dearest friend. Then there was Colonel Cecil ... ...oo communicative about them. The fad without a name was one which dealt with people’s finger marks. He carried in his coat pocket a shallow box with g... ...- Mark Twain 64 of the bass drum, the clash of cymbals, the squeaking of a fife or two, and the faint roar of remote hurrahs. The tail end of this p...

...e three cows, eight pigs, and the old donkey which got their living there. From the top of the hill, beyond the cleft of the river Avon, he could see ... ...ce to them. They had sat there as king and queen, had paved it with stones from the brook, and had had many plans for the sports they would have there... ...ir ignorance they do it,” gently quoted the Vicar. “But we would fain save from their hands the holy Chalice and paten which came down to our Church f... ...er to tell of one of the captains preaching in the Minster, and the market people flocking in to hear him. Jeph had been outside, for there was no roo... ...d in a different county. 14 Under the Storm It was there that the Elmwood people did their marketing, often leaving their donkeys hobbled on their ow... ... only way of righteousness, and so his words had a force that went home to people’s hearts as earnestness always does, and Jephthah, with tears in his... ...hey saw a cloud of dust in the distance, and heard the sounds of drums and fifes playing a joyous tune. Kenton drew the old mare be- hind the bank of ...

...umanity of one of the Drummonds, who received him in his arms as he leaped from amongst the flames. As King James IV . ruled with more activity than m... ...he romance, she roamed a raving maniac, and for some time secreted herself from all living society. Some re- maining instinctive feeling brought her a... ...me re- maining instinctive feeling brought her at length to steal a glance from a distance at the maidens while they milked the cows, which being obse... ...west and south of Scotland, indisputably the richest part of the kingdom,— Fifeshire being in a peculiar manner their own, and possess- ing many and p... ...domination, had fired the train, by attempting to impose upon the Scottish people church ceremonies foreign to their habits and opinions. The success ... ...allowances unchallengeable; but then, sir, they are a preceese, scrupulous people, and will allow nothing for peccadilloes. So that if a boor complain... ... sir, you know the nature of our Highlanders. I will not deny them to be a people stout in body and valiant in heart, and courageous enough in their o... ...power of the Chieftains; and he mentioned the celebrated settlement of the Fife Undertakers, as they were called, in the Lewis, as part of a deliberat... ... of Lowland gentlemen, called undertakers, chiefly natives of the shire of Fife, that they might colonize and settle there. The enterprise was at firs...

... the Quarterly Review, in 1817. The particulars were derived by the Critic from the Author’s information. Afterwards they were published in the Prefac... ...principles, that while the civil war was raging, and strag- gling officers from the Highland army were executed with- out mercy, Invernahyle hesitated... ... At length Colonel Whitefoord applied to the Duke of Cumberland in person. From him, also, he received a posi- tive refusal. He then limited his reque... ...w and foolish fashion is introduced to break the natural dependence of the people upon their landlords.’ Sir Everard had done his best to correct this... ...isaffected, and, showed little hospitality to the military guests; and the people of the town, chiefly engaged in mercantile pursuits, were not such a... ...us ease at home, look out for amusement abroad. Yet the physiognomy of the people, when more closely examined, was far from exhibiting the indifferenc... ... there was ‘more sense in that than in all the Derry- Dongs of France, and Fifeshire to the boot of it.’ The Baron only answered with a long pinch of ... ...setting their watch.’ The roll of the drum and shrill accompaniment of the fifes swelled up the hill-died away—resumed its thunder—and was at length h... ... which seemed an age of unutter- able suspense, the sound of the drums and fifes, performing a lively air, and the confused murmur of the crowd which ...

...self (as though it were a task he must perform) to detect the child’s step from the man’s, the slipshod beggar from the booted exquisite, the lounging... ...rom the man’s, the slipshod beggar from the booted exquisite, the lounging from the busy, the dull heel of the sauntering outcast from the quick tread... ... wider until at last it joins the broad vast sea where some halt to rest from heavy loads and think as they look over the parapet that to smoke and ... ... the child for the purpose of gratifying my curiosity. I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, ... ...ew so much better; that it was very wrong of her not to take the advice of people who had nothing at heart but her good; that it was next door to bein... ...ie with each other in vehe mence and volubility. Mrs George remarked that people would talk, that people had often said this to her be fore, that Mr... ...e entertain ment would proceed, with all its exciting accompani ments of fife and drum and shout, to the excessive con sternation of all sober vota...