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...ous doings of horse taming T rojans and mail clad Achaians. They that erst waged tearful war upon each other in the plain, eager for deadly battle, ev... ...nos, what word is this thou hast spoken? How hast thou the will to make my labour void and of none ef fect, and the sweat of my toil that I sweated, ... ...ealousy not avail, seeing that thou art stronger far than I. Still must my labour too not be made of none effect; for I also am a god, and my lineage ... ..., and the Danaans pushed the T rojans back. 67 The Iliad of Homer So they laboured in the violent mellay; but of Tydeides man could not tell with who... ... of the host, lest aught befall him and disap point them utterly of their labour. So those two were now holding forth their hands and sharp spears ea... ...d spear as he leapeth upon his ship; that so many another man may dread to wage dolorous war on the horse taming men of Troy. And let the heralds dea... ...e wood around them, cutting it at the root, and the clatter of their tusks wages loud, till one smite them and take their life away: so clattered the ... ...ny as were de fenders of the Danaans in battle. And together the Lapithae waged war and strife. There the son of Peirithoos, mighty Polypoites, smote... ...the weight and the wool together, bal ancing them, that she may win scant wages for her children; so evenly was strained their war and battle, till t...

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...thenceforth to ioyne in one With all their force, and battell strong to wage Gainst all those knights, as their professed fone, That ch... ... little bits? Then pardon, O most sacred happie spirit, That I thy labours lost may thus reuiue, And steale from thee the meede of thy ... ..., to see the fortune of that fray, And to be seene, as his most worthie wage, That could her purchase with his liues aduentur’d gage. T... ...her sought Him selfe to saue, and daunger to defend, Then life and labour both in vaine to spend. Which T riamond perceiuing, weened su... ... to Cambell it relest, And Cambell it to T riamond transferd; Each labouring t’aduance the others gest, And make his praise before his ... ... Then shrilling trompets loudly gan to bray, And bad them leaue their labours and long toyle, To ioyous feast and other gentle play; ... ... was question made, which of those Knights That lately turneyd, had the wager wonne: There was it iudged by those worthie wights, That ... ... But Blandamour thereat full greatly grudged, And litle prays’d his labours euill speed, That for to winne the saddle, lost the steed. ...

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...hereat. The man who sells his master with a kiss may not hope to spend the wages of his sin. Vortigern held Constant and his senarchy in the hollow of... ...lace, altogether drunken and content. Of his bounty Vortigern granted such wages, and spoke so sweetly in the ear of each, that there was not one amon... ... I am avenged upon them, you will have no complaint to find with bounty or wages or gifts.” In this manner the Saxons came from out their ships, and t... ... and their aid, V ortigern was delivered of this peril, he gave them their wages, and added thereto of his bounty. On Hengist he bestowed fair manors,... ...take into your service warriors not a few, and grudge not the sergeant his wages. Hold one to another, and maintain the land against these Saxons. Tha... ...hat the builders raised by day, adown it fell to the ground by night. They laboured therefore with the more diligence, but the higher they builded the... ...ll people, at the king’s bidding, where he might be hid. But for all their labour and diligence they learned nothing. Now it came to pass that two of ... ... know not if you have heard tell thereof. The day has not so many hours to labour, as the night has hours to destroy; and greatly has my substance bee... ...early how the mischief may be cured. If you are not willing to declare who labours se cretly to make the house to fall, how shall it be credited that...

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...a shilling, one of the chronically few that he possessed. ‘Here’s for your labour, lad.’ This made a difference in the young man’s estimate of the pos... ...e girls danced at first with each other, but when the hour for the close of labour drew on, the masculine in habitants of the village, together with o... ...Tess’s assistance whilst her instinctive plan for relieving herself of her labours lay in postponing them. To night, however, she was even in a blithe... ...as intended to be in shelter and at rest, he was called upon to go out and labour. They put a stock of candle ends into the lantern, hung the latter t... ...e quirement; and, having been unaccustomed to the regular toil of the day labourer, he was not particularly persistent when they did so coincide. Tes... ...comfortable room would be provided for her if she could come, and that the wages would be on a liberal scale if they liked her. ‘Oh — that’s all!’ sai... ...a man in his old age than any which could result from savings out of their wages during a whole lifetime. The chief pleasure of these philosophers lay... ...der pres sure from matrons not much older than herself — for a field man’s wages being as high at twenty one as at forty, marriage was early here — Te... ...de the door of the farmhouse till the group of workfolk had received their wages, and then Marian introduced her. The farmer himself, it appeared, was...

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...l other human beings who depend for subsistence on charity, on monopolized labour, or anything else but their own independent exertions. These old gen... ...ublic. They were allowed, on my representation, to rest from their arduous labours, and soon afterwards—as if their sole principle of life had been ze... ...he aged cobwebs that fes toon its dusky beams, appears still to await the labour of the carpenter and mason. At one end of the room, in a recess, wer... ...mmand of any gentleman, inclined and compe tent, to take the unprofitable labour off my hands. As a final disposition I contemplate depositing them w... ...ve bartered it for a pit tance of the public gold. Go then, and earn your wages” In short, the almost torpid creatures of my own fancy twitted me wit... ...an—has, in this respect, a quality of enchantment like that of the devil’s wages. Whoever touches it should look well to himself, or he may find the b... ...earest what this good man says, and seest the accountability under which I labour. If thou feelest it to be for thy soul’s peace, and that thy earthly... ...ke himself whither his master would find him tasks enough, and pay him his wages duly. But, to all these shadowy beings, so long our near acquain 20...

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...e the gains which have accrued to the lovers of Shelley from the strenuous labours of Mr. Harry Buxton Forman, C.B. He too has enlarged the body of Sh... ..., in which, to quote his own words, an attempt is made ‘to sum- marize the labours of more than half a century on Shelley’s text, and on his biography... ...rcanopy the wave, _400 Which like a toil-worn labourer leaps to shore, To meet the kisses of the flowerets there. Man chi... ...urpassing Spirit, to that world, where thou Art destined an eternal war to wage With tyranny and falsehood, and uproot _... ... willingly have sent it forth to the world with that perfection which long labour and revision is said to bestow. But I found that, if I should gain s... ...r Mingling their beams in combat—as he stood, All thoughts within his mind waged mutual war, In dreadful sympathy—when to the flood That fair Star fel... ...in each bosom of the multitude Justice and truth with Custom’s hydra brood Wage silent war; when Priests and Kings dissemble _420 In smile... ...hought, with the world’s tyrant rage A patient warfare thy young heart did wage, _860 When those soft eyes of scarcely consci... ...ght _1735 Evil and good, in woven passions mailed, Waged through that silent throng—a war that never failed! 3 3 3 3 3. And no...

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...ishly over his cheeks, and his hands were embrowned like those of a common labourer: still his bearing was free, almost haughty, and he showed none of... ...nishing a stormy scene with poor Zillah; who ever and anon interrupted her labour to pluck up the cor- ner of her apron, and heave an indignant groan.... ...eprived him of the instructions of the curate, and insisted that he should labour out of doors instead; compelling him to do so as hard as any other l... ... readily than a stranger would. Joseph remained to hector over tenants and labourers; and because it was his vocation to be where he had plenty of wic... ...is very utmost; but his constitution defies him. Mr. Kenneth says he would wager his mare that he’ll outlive any man on this side Gimmerton, and go to... ...lament- ing to her husband and brother. The former offered me mu- nificent wages; the latter ordered me to pack up: he wanted no women in the house, h... ... of a faithful servant in telling you, and I have got a faithful servant’s wages! Well, it will teach me to be careful next time. Next time you may ga... ...emy; and lives in his own house as a servant, deprived of the advantage of wages: quite unable to right himself, because of his friendlessness, and hi... ... was repairing, and making straight to the high-road. I walked as if for a wager, mile after mile, till a turn brought me in view of the Heights; but ...

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...ooth, must go back to my ships, take what I can get and be thankful, when my labour of fighting is done. Now, therefore, I shall go back to Phthia; it... ...g forward, fearing that the king might come to harm and thus bring all their labour to nothing; when, therefore Æneas and Menelaus were setting their ... ...n sends a breeze to sail ors who have long looked for one in vain, and have laboured at their oars till they are faint with toil, even so welcome was... ...delivered his message. As soon as they heard it they set about their twofold labour, some to gather the corpses, and others to bring in wood. The Argi... ...ven so man a long night have I been wakeful, and many a bloody battle have I waged by day against those who were fight ing for their women. With my s... ...thick of a fight, and it put fresh courage into the hearts of the Achæans to wage war and do battle without ceasing. Juno of the golden throne looked ... ...ctor on the other side set the Trojans in array . Thereon Neptune and Hector waged fierce war on one another—Hector on the Trojan and Neptune on the A... ...s them well: return when you have freed the ships from peril, and let others wage war upon the plain. Would, by father Jove, Minerva, and Apollo, that... ...o battle. The Iliad – Book XVII 275 Thus through the livelong day did they wage fierce war, and the sweat of their toil rained ever on their legs un...

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... it worked in chaos; and no result came of its efforts. Feverish with vain labour, I got up and took a turn in the room; undrew the curtain, noted a s... ...ion to apply.” “And you felt self-satisfied with the result of your ardent labours?” “Far from it. I was tormented by the contrast between my idea and... ...ing something I had not caught, and the charwoman remarked— “She gets good wages, I guess?” “Yes,” said Leah; “I wish I had as good; not that mine are... ...otte Brontë had no change. “I don’t want change; you know that. T ake your wages.” I declined accepting more than was my due. He scowled at first; the... ... down into being the for- bearing party; I should assign you your share of labour, and compel you to accomplish it, or else it should be left undone: ... ...nd ran on. They are making hay, too, in Thornfield meadows: or rather, the labourers are just quitting their work, and returning home with their rakes... ...the rumbling of wheels to the road before me, I saw a heavily-laden waggon labouring up the hill, and not far beyond were two cows and their drover. H... ...l fitly set before you! The line is worth a hundred pages of fustian. ‘Ich wage die Gedanken in der Schale meines Zornes und die Werke mit dem Gewicht...

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... can’t mistake it.” He nodded to one of the cronies intent on watching his labours: “Not unless they mean to be bait for whiting-pout. Who’s that for ... ...m seriously engaged,” said Tinman. With a “Now then, dear,” he resumed his labours. Messages had passed between Tinman and Phippun; and in the afterno... ...r did, poor fellow, when he was alive. The money was got honestly, by hard labour at a store. He did evil once, and repented after. But, by Heaven!”—V... ...atural history of the male sex. “Crickledon, my dear soul, your husband is labouring with a bit of fun,” Herbert said to her. “He would n’t laugh loud... ...id, “egged on by that woman Crickledon,” had been hinting at an advance of wages. “She didn’t dare speak, but I saw what was in her when she broke a p... ...ling workers that have no hearts. Before the application for an advance of wages—and he knew the signs of it coming—his method was to calculate how mu... ...-lashing friar), she imparted to him the singular effect of the advance of wages upon little Jane— ”Oh, ma’am! and me never asked you for it!” She inf...

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...de of 30 degrees 2 minutes south. Twelve of our crew were dead by immoderate labour and ill food; the rest were in a very weak condition. On the 5th o... ...three leagues, till we were able to work no longer, being already spent with labour while we were in the ship. We therefore trusted ourselves to the m... ...hment was also made of six hundred persons to be my domestics, who had board wages allowed for their maintenance, and tents built for them very conven... ... he, “as flourishing a condition as we may appear to be in to foreigners, we labour under two mighty evils: a violent faction at home, and the danger ... ...cted by coming very Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 44 near the flames, and by labouring to quench them, made the wine begin to operate by urine; which ... ...have in every town public nurseries, where all parents, except cottagers and labourers, are obliged to send their infants of both sexes to be reared a... ...han by half a dozen rascals, picked up at a venture in the streets for small wages, who might get a hundred times more by cutting their throats?” He l... ...our people were forced to live miser ably, by labouring every day for small wages, to make a few live plentifully.” I enlarged myself much on these, ...

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...t, 359 Neglecting an attempt of ease, and gaine 360 To wake, and wage a danger profitlesse. 361 Duke. Nay, in all confidence he’s n... ...yme do’s from Freeze, it pluckes 901 out Braines and all. But my Muse labours, and thus she - 20 - The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice ... ... May the windes blow, till they haue waken’d death: 965 And let the labouring Barke climbe hills of Seas 966 Olympus high: and duck againe... ...: Confessions: Handkerchiefe. To con-fesse, 2415 and be hang’d for his labour. First, to be hang’d, 2416 and then to confesse: I tremble at it... ...2699 Othe. That’s strange. 2700 Aemil. I durst (my Lord) to wager, she is honest: 2701 Lay downe my Soule at stake: If you thinke o... ...e wrong is but a wrong i’th’ world; 3054 and hauing the world for your labour, ’tis a wrong in 3055 your owne world, and you might quickly mak... ... Ile fetch the Generall’s Surgeon. For you Mistris, 3206 Saue you your labour. He that lies slaine heere (Cassio) 3207 Was my deere friend. W...

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...h music desk, on which was open a page of that dear sacred book, that much-laboured and much-loved volume of church 20 The Warden music, which had co... ...y have warm houses, good clothes, plentiful diet, and rest after a life of labour; and above all, that treasure so inesti- mable in declining years, a... ... will! When John Hiram built a hospital for worn-out old men, worn-out old labouring men, infirm old men past their work, cripples, blind, bed-ridden,... ...’ll tell you what John Hiram meant: he meant that twelve poor old worn-out labourers, men who could no longer support themselves, who had no friends t... ...imagined, to be paid; and that he, according to his lights, had diligently laboured to achieve, and with probable hope of success. Of the intense desi... ... work. Such a plea would doubtless be fair, if anyone questioned the daily wages of a bricklayer em- ployed on the building, or the fee of the charwom...

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...leness had to be protected against the shallow envi- ousness of unhygienic labour. It had to—and Mr V erloc would have rubbed his hands with satisfact... ... too lazy even for a mere demagogue, for a workman orator, for a leader of labour. It was too much trouble. He required a more perfect form of ease; o... ...e been anything from a picture-frame maker to a lock-smith; an employer of labour in a small way. But there was also about him an indescribable air wh... ...at. A howl from all these intellectual idiots is bound to help forward the labours of the Milan Conference. They will be writing to the papers. Their ... ...ithin him, being only over- come by his dislike of all kinds of recognised labour—a tem- peramental defect which he shared with a large proportion of ... ...t far beyond anything that had ever been said in this home, kept up on the wages of a secret industry eked out by the sale of more or less secret ware...

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...nce of Barnet, and seem, by their air of weari- ness, to be returning from labour—do you mean to say that they are washerwomen and charwomen? Oh, my p... ...ual area known to man past or present, had descended the original curse of labour in its heaviest form, not mastering the bodies only of men, as of sl... ... permanent distinction of Lancashire as the very metropolis and citadel of labour) to point the thoughts pathetically upon that counter-vision of rest... ...rror. If I, for instance, on the part of England, should happen to turn my labours into that channel, and (on the model of Lord Percy going to Chevy C... ...artless for the sublime interest of their story, and too impatient for the labour of sifting its perplexities—to the magnanimity and justice of enemie... ...mind. Later, in the strikes of that time, the work- men who accepted lower wages were called snobs; those who held out for higher, nobs. 7 33 FO FO… F...

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...language, and having the same religion and laws, have from time immemorial waged hereditary warfare against each other. The intervening mountains gene... ...me way into the thicket; when Toby, who had been reaping the benefit of my labours by following close at my heels, proposed to become pioneer in turn,... ...e gradual descent of the deep watercourse we had thus far pursued, all our labours now appeared to have been rendered futile by its abrupt termina- ti... ...orld. There was not the slightest necessity for the greater portion of the labour performed by the old lady: but she seemed to work from some irresist... ...and deli- cate as those of any countess; for an entire exemption from rude labour marks the girlhood and even prime of a Typee woman’s life. Her feet,... ...thless, and nearly frantic with the excitement under which he seemed to be labouring. All that I could understand from him was that some accident had ... ... are prevalent, and the same time that the most atrocious foreign wars are waged. How much less guilty, then, are our islanders, who of these three si... ...d give him five Spanish dollars if he succeeded in getting any part of his wages advanced from the vessel, aboard of which they were going; T oby, mor...

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...h at the moment might be natural. He never hesitated, blushed, or palpably laboured at concealment; but the fact remained that though a great many men... ...use they did not see the things which he saw. He had the great question of labour, and all that refers to unions, strikes, and lock-outs, quite at his... ...Secretary, some Lord, or some Commissioner, who intends by fresh Herculean labours to cleanse the Augean stables just committed to his care? Who does ... ...Conservatives one day and Liberals the next. He was a 91 Anthony Trollope labourious, honest man,—but hardly of calibre sufficient not to regret his ... ...ty; not employment.’ ‘No, no,’ exclaimed the baronet. ‘They work for their wages and do their best. Powell sees to that.’ Powell was the bailiff, who ... ...d not consent to be made a slave even for the sake of the country. But the wages had to be raised,—having raised them I expect to get proper value for... ...y breed- ing idleness when you teach people to think that they are earning wages without working for their money. Whatever you do with them, let them ... ...esque, and almost beautiful in the battle which such a one as himself must wage with the world before he could make his way up in it. He would not pic... ...ntent to live without loud grumbling as long as the farmers paid him their wages, and the land when sold would fetch thirty years’ purchase. He had no...

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...ry Memoirs from 1672 to 1713.” “Before the appearance in the world of that labour of Cervantes,” he said, “it was next to an impossibility for a man t... ...ene of his chival- ries is of a piece with the pasteboard helmet, the farm-labourer on ass-back for a squire, knighthood conferred by a rascally vente... .... But if perchance thou hast a mind To win of idiots approbation, Lost labour will be thy reward, Though they’ll pretend appreciation. They say... ...udent; oft the random jest Recoils upon the jester’s head. Thy constant labour let it be To earn thyself an honest name, For fooleries preserved... ...and knavery he says I do it out of niggardliness, to escape paying him the wages I owe him, and before God, and on my soul, he lies.” “Lies before me,... ...ut this master of mine—of what works is he the son, when he refuses me the wages of my sweat and labour?” “I do not refuse, brother Andres,” said the ... ... resolved to quit his master and return home, even though he forfeited the wages of his service and all hopes of the promised island. Don Quixote now ... ... will, in which he would find himself fully recom- pensed in the matter of wages in due proportion to the time he had served; but if God delivered him... ... on his shoulders, he had caught them on his head there would have been no wages to pay, unless indeed to his heirs. Sancho seeing that he was getting...

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...ch they lis- tened to him, or the success which might eventually crown his labours. Such little matters of detail never troubled him much. His teachin... ...ers. My uncle at once fastened upon this as the centre of interest, and he laboured at that blot, until by the help of his micro- 15 Jules Verne scop... ...f memory and fancy. There looked down upon me the faithful companion of my labours and my recreations. Every day she helped me to arrange my uncle’s p... ...tant style, of calcined stones extracted out of the volcanoes by their own labour and at their own expense; in high westerly winds it was manifest tha... ... twelve shillings), but it was an express article of the covenant that his wages should be counted out to him every Saturday at six o’clock in the eve... ...e arrived at a kind of vast grotto; and here my uncle paid Hans his weekly wages, and it was settled that the next day, Sunday, should be a day of res... ... to bite his lips with impatience. At six in the evening Hans asks for his wages, and his three rix dollars are counted out to him. SUNDAY, AUGUST 16.... ...ropped over the theatre on which the battle of the elements is about to be waged. I feel peculiar sensations, like many creatures on earth at the appr... ... at the little port of San Vicenzo, where Hans claimed his thirteen week’s wages, which was counted out to him with a hearty shaking of hands all roun...

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...ry Memoirs from 1672 to 1713.” “Before the appearance in the world of that labour of Cervantes,” he said, “it was next to an impossibility for a man t... ...ene of his chival- ries is of a piece with the pasteboard helmet, the farm-labourer on ass-back for a squire, knighthood conferred by a rascally vente... .... But if perchance thou hast a mind To win of idiots approbation, Lost labour will be thy reward, Though they’ll pretend appreciation. They say... ...udent; oft the random jest Recoils upon the jester’s head. Thy constant labour let it be To earn thyself an honest name, For fooleries preserved... ...and knavery he says I do it out of niggardliness, to escape paying him the wages I owe him, and before God, and on my soul, he lies.” “Lies before me,... ...ut this master of mine—of what works is he the son, when he refuses me the wages of my sweat and labour?” “I do not refuse, brother Andres,” said the ... ... resolved to quit his master and return home, even though he forfeited the wages of his service and all hopes of the promised island. Don Quixote now ... ... will, in which he would find himself fully recom- pensed in the matter of wages in due proportion to the time he had served; but if God delivered him... ... on his shoulders, he had caught them on his head there would have been no wages to pay, unless indeed to his heirs. Sancho seeing that he was getting...