United States or Georgia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
And if Mr Benson had been clairvoyant, he need not have made an especial subject of gratitude out of the likelihood that he might have an opportunity of so far interesting Mr Donne in the condition of the people of Eccleston as to induce him to set his face against any attempts at bribery.
The Metaphysical School was in its direct results an abortive movement, though indirectly much came of it for Dryden came of it. But the movement was so abortive that few will thank us for connecting with it the name of Shelley. This is because to most people the Metaphysical School means Donne, whereas it ought to mean Crashaw.
'Do you want to marry Miss Donne yourself? he asked. Lushington, who was perfectly cool now that no woman was present, was struck by the words, which contained a fair question, though the tone was angry and aggressive. 'No, he answered quietly. 'Do you? Logotheti stared at him. 'What the devil did you dare to think that I meant? he asked.
Think of the trouble your papa has had this month past, and then remember the slow way in which Mr Donne moves when he is going out to canvass, and the low, drawling voice in which he questions the people who bring him intelligence. I can see your papa standing by, ready to shake them to get out their news."
[Footnote 117: Écrit donné aux Habitants réfugiés
But I can tell you one thing, little Miss Donne! A great, good-natured laugh rolled out before Madame Bonanni proceeded to state the one thing she could tell. 'When you have sung the waltz song in Romeo and Juliet, and the duo in the fifth act, to four or five of the men who make a living out of us artists, you will be surprised at what happens afterwards!
Oh! what is happiness or misery that we should talk about them now?" Mr Donne looked at her, as she uttered these words, to see if she was wandering in her mind, they seemed to him so utterly strange and incoherent. "I dare not think of happiness I must not look forward to sorrow. God did not put me here to consider either of these things." "My dear Ruth, compose yourself!
Donne, and at last she stopped altogether. "Aunt Mary, I can't help thinking about the Fosters' father. Do you suppose he will come home and frighten them some night?" "No, he would hardly dare to come where they are sure to be looking for him," said Aunt Mary. "Dear me, the thought makes me so nervous."
Buck's to take wine; and after wine to chapel, where the Major sate with great gravity in the upper place, having a fine view of the Master in his carved throne or stall under the organ-loft, where that gentleman, the learned Doctor Donne, sate magnificent, with his great prayer-book before him, an image of statuesque piety and rigid devotion.
I never was kind to you, and I dunnot think the world was kind to you, my darling, but you are gone where the angels are very tender to such as you you are, my poor wench!" She bent down and kissed the lips, from whose marble, unyielding touch Mr Donne recoiled, even in thought. Just then, Mr Benson entered the room.
Word Of The Day