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Don's head went down upon his hands with a sob. That night Brian wrote to Whitaker. To Kenny in poetic mood the seasons were druidic. There was May Eve with its Bel fires when summer peeped over the hilltops at the cattle driven through the sacred flames to protect them from disease. There was Midsummer's Eve with more fires, and if St.
If the applicant is satisfactory, the lady of the house pays her a bonus of one krone or two kroner called "hand money" that is, she crosses her hand with silver as an evidence of good faith and the girl agrees to report for duty within one week after New Year's or Midsummer's day, as the case may be. That is to allow her present employer to fill her place.
In Scotland it rained ransoms. The Rotuli Scotiæ, in 1314 full of Edward's preparation for war, in 1315 are rich in safe-conducts for men going into Scotland to redeem prisoners. One of these, the brave Sir Marmaduke Twenge, renowned at Stirling bridge, hid in the woods on Midsummer's Night, and surrendered to Bruce next day. The King gave him gifts and set him free unransomed.
The extent of my writing during this incarnation was ten autographs for collectors, and one attempt at a comic opera called "A Midsummer's Nightmare," which was never produced, because no one would write the music for it, and which was ultimately destroyed with three of my quatrains and all of Bacon's evidence against my authorship of "Hamlet," in the fire at the Globe Theatre in the year 1613.
Through the dim vista of futurity and in ecstatic vision no doubt even the Imperial crown might seem suspended over the Palatine's head. But this would be merely a midsummer's dream. Events did not whirl so rapidly as they might learn to do centuries later, and the time for a Protestant to grasp at the crown of Germany could then hardly be imagined as ripening.
Did he not know that his own poet had, described him as "hot midsummer's petted crone"? But possibly he was equally surprised at my appearance. He might even have taken his turn at quoting Emerson: "Pants up hither the spruce clerk From South Cove and City Wharf"? Of the two, he was unquestionably the more at home, for he was living where in forty-eight hours I should have found my death.
Aunt Rachel always dressed as if to suit a sorrow that Time had deprived of bitterness, in such a tender and fleecy grey as one sees in the mists that lie like lawn over hedgerow and copse early of a midsummer's morning. "Therefore," she resumed, "your heart may see, but your eyes cannot see that which never was." But there came a sudden note of masterfulness into the gipsy's voice.
The Comedy of Errors, founded upon Plautus's Mænechmi. Much Ado About Nothing, a Comedy; for the plot see Ariosto's Orlando Furioso. Love's Labour Lost, a Comedy. Midsummer's Night's Dream, a Comedy. The Merchant of Venice, a Tragi-Comedy. As you Like it, a Comedy. The Taming of a Shrew, a Comedy. All's Well that Ends Well. The Twelfth-Night, or What you Will, a Comedy.
As usual, there had been recriminations at headquarters. "Jourdan, ill and angry, kept his room; and the King was equally invisible." Few orders were given. The town was packed with convoys and vehicles of all kinds, and it was not till dawn of that fatal midsummer's day that the last convoy set out for France, under the escort of 3,000 troops. Nevertheless, Joseph might hope to hold his own.
The sky had that perfect serenity of a midsummer's night, starlit and azure with the honey-coloured moon sinking slowly down towards the west. Here at the edge of the wood the air had a sweet smell of wet earth and damp moss and freshly cut hay: it had all the delicious softness of a loved one's embrace. Through the roar of distant cannonade, Bobby had slept. For a time after St.
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