English Literature Literary

- “they strain so far that there is hardly one of them who has not received a fall”: - I have seen him the summerset several times together, upon a trencher fixed on a rope which is no thicker than a common packthread in England: - The ceremony is performed in his majesty's great chamber of state, where the candidates are to undergo a trial of dexterity very different from the former, and such as I have not observed the least resemblance of in any other country of the new or old world The emperor holds a stick in his hands, both ends parallel to the horizon, while the candidates advancing, one by one, sometimes leap over the stick, sometimes creep under it, backward and forward - Whoever performs his part with most agility, and holds out the longest in leaping and creeping, is rewarded with the blue-coloured silk; the red is given to the next, and the green to the third, which they all wear girt twice round about the middle; and you see few great persons about this court who are not adorned with one of these girdles - The emperor had a mind one day to entertain me with several of the country shows, wherein they exceed all nations I have known, both for dexterity and magnificence O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else? And shall I couple hell? O, fie! Hold, hold my heart, And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, - O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else? - In this distracted globe Remember thee! - And shall I couple hell? O, fie! Hold, hold my heart, And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, - “table of my memory”: - “the book and volume of my brain”: - “So, uncle, there you are Now to my word” - I immediately ran down the ladders with all possible expedition, fetched my two guns, for they were both but at the foot of the ladders …having a very short cut, and all down hill, clapp'd my self in the way, between the pursuers, and the pursu'd; hallowing aloud to him that fled, I immediately ran down the ladders with all possible expedition, fetched my two guns, for they were both but at the foot of the ladders, as I observ'd above; and getting up again, with the same haste, to the top of the hill, I cross'd toward the sea; and having a very short cut, and all down hill, clapp'd my self in the way, between the pursuers, and the pursu'd; hallowing aloud to him that fled, who looking back, was at first perhaps as much frighted at me, as at them; but I beckon'd with my hand to him, to come back; and in the mean time, I slowly advanc'd towards the two that follow'd; then rushing at once upon the foremost, I knock'd him down with the stock of my piece I was loath to fire the other who pursu'd with him stopp'd, as if he had been frighted; I cou'd then perceive that he stood stood stock still perceiv’d presently But when the savage escaping came thither, he made nothing of it, tho' the tide was then up “There was between them and my castle” Behold her, single in the field Yon solitary highland lass! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass! Alone she cuts and binds the grain, and sings a melancholy strain; O listen! for the vale profound Is overflowing with the sound O listen! for the vale profound Is overflowing with the sound No Nightingale did ever chaunt More welcome notes to weary bands Of travellers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands: A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In springtime from the Cuckoo-bird, A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In springtime from the Cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides the Maiden sang As if her song could have no ending” I listened, motionless and still Cuckoo As I sat, a train of reflection occurred to me, which led me to consider the effects of what I was now doing - - “Had I right, for my own benefit, to inflict this curse upon everlasting generations?” - "I was now about to form another being, of whose dispositions I was alike ignorant" “I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their pest, whose selfishness had not hesitated to buy its own peace at the price, perhaps, of the existence of the whole human race.” - “A ghastly grin wrinkled his lips as he gazed on me, where I sat fulfilling the task.” The wretch saw me destroy the creature on whose future existence he depended for happiness, and, with a howl of devilish despair and revenge, withdrew - - “In a few minutes after, I heard the creaking of my door as if some one endeavoured to open it softly” - “while my imagination conjured up a thousand images to torment and sting me” “but I was overcome by the sensation of helplessness, so often felt in frightful dreams, when you in vain endeavour to fly from an impending danger, and was rooted to the spot.” - “Devil, cease; and not poison the air with these sounds of malice” - “she might become ten thousand times more malignant than her mate” - “his countenance expressed the utmost extent of malice and treachery” - “before you sign my death-warrant” “and was soon lost amidst the waves” "I sat fulfilling the task which he had allotted to me” - "but I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you” - “I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom” • “The young thieves eyed their preceptor as if they were alarmed at his violence” • “ dropped upon his knees, and raised a loud, well-sustained, and continuous roar something between a mad bull and a speaking trumpet” • Will you speak? Thundered the Jew: shaking the Dodger so much that his keeping in the big coat at all seemed perfectly miraculous • The man who growled out these words was a stoutly- built fellow of about five- andthirty, in a black velveteen coat,very salled drab breeches, lace -up half boots and grey cotton stockings which inclosed a bulky pair of legs, with large swelling calves- the kind of legs which in such costume always look in an unfinished and incomplete state without a set of fetters to gamish them He had a brown hat on his head, and a dirty belcher handkerchief round his neck with the long frayed ends of which he smeared the beer from his face as he spoke • A white shaggy dog, with his face scratched and torn in twenty different places, skulked into the room • A white shaggy dog, with his face scratched and torn in twenty different places, skulked into the room • This command was accompanied with a kick, which sent the animal to the other end of the room