... it in the Rules; Templars, young bloods, and wits. Hence arise drinking and brawling; and as one is outside the law, so to speak, so one is tempted to neglect the law. I say nothing of the temptations of an empty purse. These I felt, with many prickings ...

... realm of Oberon, and King Pippin's Palace, the ballets, picturesque groupings, and processions, arranged by Mr. Cormack-not to speak of the double harlequinade that follows drowning the remembrance of the introductory jokes and fancies in roars of laughter ...

... calm indifference, not untinged with sarcasm, of his reply to the Secretary for War. It wilhbe remembered that Lord Lytton, speaking recently at a Volunteer gathering at St. James's Hall, eulogised General Roberts' exploits in Afghanistan, and wound up with ...

... correct meanings of many of the words she uses, in spite of the general grandiloquence of her style. It is very difficult to speak of the novel as a whole without seeming to treat it with more harshness than is appropriate to any work of which even the faults ...

... and can spare no word of cordial reference to Ireland or Scotland--Tennyson, for instance, in his Relief of Lucknowv, speaks of the pibroclh of Europe rather than name the land of Burns. But we have said too much about an Essay on Poetry , which ...

... human hate could harm him. Every one knows that this man must have been a most dreadful monster. He was the tenant, so to speak, of the prison, and paid so much a year for the privilege of extorting what money he could from the unfortunate debtors. He ...

... Hardly less prodigious is the love of Folly Morrison for any loathsome sot who said he was her father, even though he might speak truly. Her revenge on her lover is merely unpleasantly improbable, but her wholesale slaughter of Prussian soldiers, and the ...

... musicians ofnote in Italy, Spain, Germany, and elsewhere have died within the last twelve months, but we have only space to speak of ?? Eckert, a composer of rare ability, who at different periods occupied the post of conductor at the Viennese Imperial ...

... had been with him myself. It is kind of you, sir, said his lordship, thus to speak of my father. Did he-but I suppose he had forgotten-did lie condescend to speak of me? Never, replied Lord Chudleigh; at least not to me. There were certain ...

... sustains on alternate nights -Mr. Henry Forrester in like manner alternating with him the same parts-we shall have occasion to speak next week, as our train got stuck in a snowdrift on Tuesday evening, and we therefore failed to reach the theatre. The performance ...

... keep thy face covered with thy~hood, all but thine eyes. Give me your hand when I ask it, and be silent, save when I bid thee speak. Be not afraid, girl ; I do this for thine own good. I give thee a gentleman for thy husband. Thou shalt not leave this place ...

... commonest sense reaches its superlative degree. The mantle of Mrs. Afalaprop herself must surely have fallen upon an author who speaks of The vapid Cicero of emasculate gratification, with nothing in the context to suggest what be, or she, can possibly intend ...