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You are better skilled to judge than I can be, though." "Emmy, whom have I to ask? my father? he cares not whither I go nor what becomes of me; I hardly know him, and for twenty years of my short life of twenty-one, scarcely believed in his existence; or should I ask my mother? alas love!
Coming quite close, she said: "Prythee, friend, why do you not get this child to bed?" "I would, good woman, had I a bed for her; but, alas, all doors are shut against us." "Surely not all!" "I have tried the inns and the home of the smith; but they seem to fear us, as if we were polution."
"Elias is smitten with blindness from the stone-dust," she said absently. "For all time?" Rachel asked anxiously. "Nay, if he could but rest them and bathe them in the proper simples." "Alas " Rachel began, but she checked herself hurriedly. "He was my father's servant," she said instead "the last living one. Jehovah spare him.
Alas, all the men of your age are the same: like the dog in the fable, they let go their prey to seize the shadow. You are like the fool, who spends his life in vainly following fortune to the four quarters of the world, and who, when he returns to his hearth wearied, worn-out and aged, finds it sitting at his door. But he is too late to be able to enjoy it.
In the course of his literary medley, Sterne introduces his reader to a group of characters amongst the most odd and original in fiction. Mr. Shandy, with his syllogisms and his hypotheses, his "close reasoning upon the smallest matters"; Yorick, the witty parson, whose epitaph, Alas!
"True, dearest, I may in time hope to be counted, a worthy follower of those whose noble efforts grace the grand gallery, and the halls of the Palazzo Pitti; but alas, many years of toil might not place me in the pecuniary eye of the duke, as a fitting suitor for thy peerless portion. And then, Florinda, the pride of birth! Alas!
Upon this Aaron, who had been as guilty as Miriam, and was proportionately nervous, made a prayer to Moses: "Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly.... Let her not be as one dead. "And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee."
"Then, of course, you know where she went." "Alas, no! She drove so fast, that, quick as I am, I could not follow her, and lost sight of her." Certainly M. de Brevan was breathing more freely, and said in an easy tone, "That is provoking, and you have lost a fine opportunity. I am, however, by no means astonished that you are at last enlightened." "Oh! I am so; you may believe me. And yet"
Such, in full sight of Continental and other Universities, is Huber's opinion. Alas, the question of University Reform goes deep at present; deep as the world; and the real University of these new epochs is yet a great way from us! So that, in these bad circumstances, Sterling had perhaps rather made a hit than otherwise?
I stood here years ago, in the days of Kansas, when a small community was surrendered to the machinations of slave-masters. I now stand here again, when, alas! an immense region, with millions of people, has been surrendered to the machinations of slave-masters. Sir, it is the duty of Congress to arrest this fatal fury. Congress must dare to be brave; it must dare to be just."
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