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The leading woman is coarse, with no soul, and the star is a great hulking ass.

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Chilvers told him he was making an ass of himself.

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"I am _an ass_."

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I am--'" '"I am an ass,' is the amended and proper ending of that sentence," I humbly said.

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The principal animals, birds, etc., reared were the pig, ass, horse, mule, cow, sheep, goat, buffalo, yak, fowl, duck, goose, pigeon, silkworm, and bee.

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"It iss all the sem, and I will get it ready for you as soon ass I hear from Mrs. Lee.

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Subsequently he was taken thence and driven through the city riding backwards on an ass, while a crier was sent before him through the Christian quarters, proclaiming: "Such shall be the punishment of those, that speak evil of the Prophet of God."

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For instance, speaking of his accusers, Etherius, Bishop of Osma, and Beatus,[5] a priest of Libana, he says of the former that he wallows in the mire of all lasciviousness;[6] that he is totally unfit to officiate at God's altar;[7] that he is a false prophet[8] and a heretic; and, forgetting the courtesies of controversy, he doesn't hesitate, in another place, to call him an ass.

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For as he looked earnestly into the fact, that he was only regarded by his owner in the light of an ox, or an ass, his manhood rebelled straightway, and the true light of freedom told him, that he must be willing to labor, and endure suffering for the great prize, liberty.

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She was decorated with a dozen orders, portraits of saints, and relics, which occasioned such a clatter that when she walked one would suppose that an ass with bells was approaching.

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"Hang him!" replied Grim, first looking cautiously into the shop; "there's not a man of us but would like to see him and his countrymen packed off to-morrow upon ass-panniers.

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The king's mummers were arrived, together with many other marvels in the shape of puppet-shows and "motions" enacting the "old vice;" Jonas and the whale, Nineveh, the Creation, and a thousand unintelligible but equally gratifying and instructive devices; one of which, we are told, was "four giants, a unicorn, a camel, an ass, a dragon, a hobby-horse, and sixteen naked boys!"

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"Marry, an ass ridden by fools."

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"Look thee now, thou art a precious ass:--thou wouldst be a wit without brains, and a rogue, ay, a very wicked and unconditional rogue, without courage.

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"There--an ass, a very ass!--keep thy face from the wall, I tell thee, and lift up thy great leathern hoofs."

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An ass of most vicious propensities; he will bite forwards and kick backwards.

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He sets out upon his quest attended by a dwarf and guided by Una, mounted on an ass and leading a lamb.

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The allegory has reference to the idolatrous practices of the ignorant primitive Christians, such as the worship of images of the Saints, the pageant of the wooden ass during Lent (see _Matthew_, xxi, and Brand's _Popular Antiquities_, i, 124), and the Feast of the Ass (see _Matthew_, ii, 14).

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Palfrey, i, 4; iii, 40, a lady's saddle horse, here Una's ass.

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Having met her, he realized that if he should dare to connect her in his thoughts with anything that his grandfather might be scheming he was making of himself a very presumptuous and silly ass.

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But the golden ass could not then leap the walls of Christian Rome.

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The Old World, on the other hand, furnished an abundant supply of indigenous animals susceptible of domestication, and especially those fitted for nomadic life, such as the camel, horse, ass, sheep and goat.

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I cried, "of course, what an ass I am!

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"Well," I said to myself, "you're a nice kind of ass!

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You ass...." He put his white-gloved hands on the man's shoulders and shook him until the fellow's teeth must have rattled in his head.

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I will endeavour to show that Lord Inverforth is not quite so consummate an ass as his critics would have the public to believe, but rather one of the very greatest men, in his own particular line, who ever came to the rescue of a chaotic Government.

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'The impudent young ass!

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THE END MODERN LIBRARY OF THE WORLD'S BEST BOOKS COMPLETE LIST OF TITLES IN THE MODERN LIBRARY _For convenience in ordering please use number at right of title_ AUTHOR TITLE AND NUMBER AIKEN, CONRAD A Comprehensive Anthology of American Verse 101 AIKEN, CONRAD Modern American Poetry 127 ANDERSON, SHERWOOD Poor White 115 ANDERSON, SHERWOOD Winesburg, Ohio 104 ANDREYEV, LEONID The Seven That Were Hanged, and the Red Laugh 45 APULEIUS, LUCIUS The Golden Ass 88 BALZAC Short Stories 40 BAUDELAIRE Prose and Poetry 70 BEARDSLEY, AUBREY 64 Reproductions 42 BEEBE, WILLIAM Jungle Peace 30 BEERBOHM, MAX Zuleika Dobson 116 BIERCE, AMBROSE In the Midst of Life 133 BLAKE, WILLIAM Poems 91 BRONTE, EMILY Wuthering Heights 106 BROWN, GEO.

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"What a bally ass!

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"So you were ass enough to buy a humbug mine."

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The law is a ass, a idiot.--_Dickens_.

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All this while Amrou ben-el-Ass lay before Cæsarea.

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One of his greatest errors in this respect was the removal of Amrou ben-el-Ass from the government of Egypt, and the appointment of his own foster-brother, Abdallah Ibn Saad, in his place.

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"I have always," muttered Nigel, "believed myself to be a man of ordinary courage, but _now_--I shall write myself a coward, if not an ass!"

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By that time Nigel had quite recovered his equanimity, and mentally blotted out the writing of "coward" and "ass" which he had written against himself.

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"Come now," he said mentally, "don't be an ass!

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I'm an ass--a dolt--that's all!

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Asper, in which character he personates himself, (and he neither was nor thought himself a fool) exclaiming against the ignorant judges of the age, speaks thus: How monstrous and detested is't, to see A fellow, that has neither art nor brain, Sit like an _Aristarchus_, or _stark-ass_, Taking men's lines, with a _tobacco face_, In _snuff_, &c. And presently after: "I marvel whose wit 'twas to put a prologue in yond Sackbut's mouth.

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When he would make his court to me, let me die but he is just Æsop's ass, that would imitate the courtly French in his addresses; but, instead of those, comes pawing upon me, and doing all things so _mal a droitly_.

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'"[121] "My dear Lord" said the queen to Hervey, "I will give it to you under my own hand, if you are in any fear of my relapsing, that my dear first-born is the greatest ass and the greatest liar and the greatest _canaille_, and the greatest beast in the whole world, and that I most heartily wish he was out of it.

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In reading the following passage, it is impossible not to be reminded of the treatment of Sir Robert Walpole by his former flatterers and sycophants when his power seemed at an end: Some curious _Houyhnhnms_ observe that in most herds there was a sort of ruling _Yahoo_, * * * who was always more deformed in body and mischievous in disposition than any of the rest; that this leader had usually a favorite as like himself as he could get, whose employment was to lick his master's feet * * * and drive the female Yahoos to his kennel; for which he was now and then rewarded with a piece of ass's flesh.

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He even introduced a contemporary critic of Utopian conditions in the shape of the talkative person, "a conscious Ishmaelite in the world of wit, and in some subtly inexplicable way a most consummate ass."

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=asno=, _m._, ass, donkey.

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=burro=, _m._, ass, donkey.

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The golden ass well managed, and Midas restored to reason.

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"Certainly; don't be an ass, Darby," cried Garvington petulantly.

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"Silly ass you are to mix."

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Ladies' Freedmen's Ass'n, _for Woman's Work_, 20. and Bbl.

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Ass'n of Christian Chinese, Bethany Branch, 21.60.--Central Mission, Monthly Offerings, 16.05.--Barnes Mission, Monthly Offerings, 6.75.--West Mission, Monthly Offerings, 10.50;--Saticoy Cong.

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I offered to procure him weeds-- Wines fit for one in his position-- But, though an ass in all his deeds, He'd learnt the meaning of "commission."

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The g'ass is rather thick down that way."

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One is a species of wild ass, which resembles the common ass in nothing but the length of its ears.

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I'm a very different Frank to the silly ass you knew in the old Haslemere days.

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--and Vivie retorts "Oh, _don't_ be an ass!")

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Don't be a romantic ass, a tiresome fool, and give me any trouble about it.

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_Prosecuting Counsel_ (who has meantime received three or four energetic notes from his leader, begging him to remember his instructions and not to be an ass): "Very good M'Lud."

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Had he not made an ass of himself during these last six months?

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Before the first fifteen minutes of their inspection were over, Rodney had come to the conclusion that though Bertie Willis might be an ass, was indeed an indisputable ass, he was no fool.

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How could you be such an egreggorus (egregious) ass!

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The market speedily was glutted: a house was given for an ass, a vineyard for a suit of clothes.

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"What an ass you must be!" broke in Whittlesly.

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Chantrey's First Sculpture.--Chantrey, when a boy, used to take milk to Sheffield on an ass.

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Lord Coningsby, who usually spoke in a passion, rose, and remarked, that "one of the right reverends had set himself forth as a prophet; but for his part, he did not know what prophet to liken him to, unless to that famous prophet Balaam, who was reproved by his own ass."

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I couldn't discover what it was about, myself ... only that one man was a fool ... another, a silly ass ... another, a bloody liar!

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"You romantic jack-ass," yelled Bud, his nerves on edge.

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And made the old man use a strong horse-medicine on him ... which he himself brought up from the stables.... "The boy is such an ass ..." Spalton told me laughingly, "that it's a veterinarian he needs, not a doctor."

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"Don't be an ass, Jack!"

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"Don't tell him he's an ass.

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But I'm not going to start by making an ass of myself to please a few old women."

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But, you see, if we say that, we argue in a circle, for the junior partner, ass though he is, represents oil and fuel, which are just as important as the clever workman's brains--in fact, his brains can't work without them.

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two leagues; at eight little or no wind, steered E. by S. at twelve at night doubled the point, the wind at W. right in the middle of the bay, where we filled the water; in land lie two peaks, exactly like ass's ears.

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Sometimes the words will come trippingly from the pen as if they were flung out in a brilliant flash of talk, like the following sketch of human character:-- Men, my dear, are very queer animals, a mixture of horse-nervousness, ass-stubbornness, and camel-malice--with an angel bobbing about unexpectedly like the apple in the posset--and when they can do exactly as they please they are very hard to drive.

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And when she gets into a railroad wreck and disappears from the world for weeks, and her supposed fiancé, the heir to a dukedom, makes an infernal ass of himself over it all and practically gives himself away to the papers, she's big news."

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Therefore, I shall only say, that I hope a little of your good nursing, with ass's milk, will set me up for another campaign; should the Admiralty wish me to return, in the spring, for another year: but, I own, I think we shall have peace.

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I conducted the religious who accompanied me to Sevilla in the greatest poverty, for many of them went on foot, and he who was best equipped rode an ass.

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Hedge says that "the story of Cupid and Psyche,[15] in the 'Golden Ass' of Apuleius, is as much a romance as any composition of the seventeenth or eighteenth century."

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In order to appreciate Homer, it was thought necessary to civilize the barbarian, make him a scrupulous writer, and convince him that the word "ass" is a "very noble" expression in Greek--_Pellisier: "The Literary Movement in France" (Brinton's translation, _1897), pp.

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Sackville, Earl of, 283 Douglas, 170, 276, 308 Dream, A, 85 Dream of Gerontius, The, 41 Drummer, The, 408 Dryden, Jno., 27, 41, 44, 49, 50-53, 62, 63, 66-68, 70, 71, 74, 79, 80, 104, 137, 148, 149, 177, 192, 209, 210, 212, 213, 216, 265, 283 Dugdale, Wm., 198 Dunciad, The, 34, 56 Dürer, Albrecht, 162 D'Urfey, Thos., 74 Dyer, Jno., 75, 102, 103, 106, 119, 124, 142-45, 168, 215, 422 Early English Metrical Romances, 301 Eastlake, Sir Chas., 54, 55, 199, 231-33 Ecclesiastical Sonnets, 145 Edda, The, 64, 190, 196, 220, 313, 390 Edinburgh Review, The, 350, 397 Education, 85, 89, 90, 126 Education of Achilles, The, 85, 97 Edward, 274, 300 Edwards, Thos., 53, 89, 161 Effusions of Sensibility, 250 Eighteenth Century Literature (Gosse), 84, 104, 106, 163, l69, 362 Elegant Extracts, 211 Elegies (Shenstone's), 137, 138 Elegy on the Death of Prince Frederick, 85 Elegy to Thyrza, 135 Elegy Written in a Churchyard in South Wales, 176 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, 103, 137, 157, 163, 167, 173-77, 204 Elinoure and Juga, 346, 352, 354 Ellis, Geo., 188, 301, 402, 423 Elstob, Elizabeth, 192 Emerson, R, W., 66, 388 Emilia Galotti, 380 Endymion, 370 English and Scottish Popular Ballads, The, 267 English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 405 English Garden, The, 123-27, 151 English Literature in the Eighteenth Century (Perry), 7, 163, 307, 211, 337 English Metamorphosis, 364, 365 English Romantic Movement, The (Phelps), 84, 85, l97, 283, 297, 329 English Women of Letters, 249, 262 Enid, 281 Enquiry into the Authenticity of the Rowley Poems, 359 Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning, 208 Enthusiast, The, 151-53, 160 Epigoniad, the, 89 Epistle of Eloisa to Abelard, 56, 157, 163, 218, 220 Epistle to Augustus, 66, 69, 72, 115 Epistle to Mathew, 370 Epistle to Sacheverel, 80 Epistle to the Earl of Burlington, 120, 129 Epitaphium Damonis, 146 Epithalamium, 84 Erl-King, The, 386, 416 Erskine, Wm., 203, 404 Essay of Dramatic Poesy, 68, 70 Essay on Ancient and Modern Learning, 69 Essay on Criticism, 47, 50, 388 Essay on Gothic Architecture, 180 Essay on Gray (Lowell), 209 Essay on Homer, 387, 389 Essay on Man, 34, 41, 113, 175 Essay on Poetry, 47 Essay on Pope (Lowell), 60, 169, 173 Essay on Pope (Warton), 97, 118, 149, 160, 163, 185, 193, 206, 212-20, 224 Essay on Satire, 47, 80 Essay on Scott, 400 Essay on Shakspere, 69, 72 Essay on the Ancient Minstrels, 245, 293, 302 Essay on the Rowley Poems, 359 Essay on Truth, 303 Essays on German Literature, 23 Essays on Men and Manners, 127 Essays on Poetry and Poets, 363 Ethelgar, 328 Etherege, Geo., 38 Evans, Evan, 195 Eve of St. Agnes, The, 98, 257, 363 Eve of St. John, The, 417 Eve of St. Mark, The, 177, 371 Evelina, 243, 252 Evelyn, Jno., 7 Evergreen, The, 284, 286 Excellente Ballade of Charitie, An, 366 Excursion, The (Mallet), 134 Excursion, The (Wordsworth), 304 Fables, (Aesop), 84 Fables (Dryden), 63 Faërie Queene, The, 16, 37, 66, 77-101, 154, 215, 225, 365 Fair Annie, 281, 295 Fair Circassian, The, 84 Fair Eleanor, 367 Fair Janet, 268 Fair Margaret and Sweet William, 268, 279, 283, 286, 300 Farewell Hymn to the Country, A, 85 Fatal Revenge, The, 249, 420 Fatal Sisters, The, 191 Faust, 27, 141, 384, 385, 401 Fergusson, Jas., 233 Feudal Tyrants, 409 Fichte, J. G., 387 Fielding, Henry, 26, 40, 76, 383 Filicaja, Vincenzio, 49 Fingal, 309, 311, 313, 317, 322, 324, 335, 336, 338 Fire King, The, 417 First Impressions of England, 109, 133 Fischer, Der, 386 Fisher, The, 416 Five English Poets, 372 Five Pieces of Runic Poetry, 190 Flaming Heart, The, 41 Fleece, The, 124, 144, 145, 422 Fleshly School of Poets, The, 272 Fletcher, Giles, 78 Fletcher, Jno., 25, 51, 79, 117, 162, 210 Fletcher, Phineas, 78 Ford, Jno., 241 Foreign Review, The, 398 Forsaken Bride, The, 280 Fouqué, F. de la M., 4, 26, 384 Fragments of Ancient Poetry, 306, 307, 309, 311, 323, 326, 328, 336 Frankenstein, 401, 403, 406 Frederick and Alice, 416 Frederick, Prince of Wales, 84, 137 Fredolfo, 420 Freneau, Philip, 177 Friar of Orders Grey, The, 298, 301, 424 Froissart, Jean, 27, 64, 236 From Shakspere to Pope, 39, 60 Frühling, Der, 106 Fuller, Thos., 28 Furnivall, F. J.,292 Fust von Stromberg, 399 Gammer Gurton's Needle, 293 Gandalin, 381 Gang nach dem Eisenhammer, Der, 386 "Garlands," The, 284 Garrick, David, 162, 209, 287 Gaston de Blondville, 250, 259-62 Gates, L. E., 41, 44 Gautier, Théophile, 372, 423 Gay Goshawk, The, 279 Gay, Jno., 35, 57, 273 Gebir, 18, 245 Gedicht eines Skalden, 190, 377 Génie du Christianisme, Le, 332 Gentle Shepherd, The, 79 Georgics, The, 111 German's Tale, The, 421 Geron der Adeliche, 381 Gerstenberg, H. W. von, 190, 377, 387 Geschichte der Deutschen Literatur (Hettner) 300, 378, 387 Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums, 384 Ghost-Seer, The, 419 Gierusalemme Liberata, 214, 225 Gilderoy, 283 Gildon, Chas., 49, 62, 69, 72 Giles Jollop, 418 Gil Maurice, 276 Gilpin, Wm., 185 Glanvil, Joseph, 390, 408 Gleim, J. W. L., 375 Glenfinlas, 417 Goddwyn, 344, 363-65 Godred Crovan, 329 Godwin, Wm., 403 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, 3, 4, 11, 31, 141, 252, 255, 275, 330, 334, 377-81, 384-87, 389, 397-99, 404, 409, 416, 417 "Göttinger Hain," The, 378 Gotz von Berlichingen, 334, 375, 380, 381, 385, 398-404, 418 Golden Ass, The, 16 Golden Treasury, The, 57, 277 Golo und Genoveva, 399 Goldsmith, Oliver, 76, 91, 112, 113, 162, 177, 186, 207-11, 287, 354 Gondibert, 137 Gorthmund, 329 Gosse, Edmund, 39, 53, 60, 84, 103, 106, 163, 169, 192, 272, 362 Gottfried of Strassburg, 3, 64 Gottsched, J. C., 374, 383 Gower, Jno., 266, 272 Grainger, James, 124, 287 Granville, Geo., 47 Grave, The, 104, 163, 164, 175 Grave of King Arthur, The, 199-201, 424 Graves, Richard, 130-33, 137 Gray, Thos., 25, 32, 52, 53, 75, 89, 103, 117-19, 123, 136, 137, 139, 145, 151, 155, 157-60, 163, 164, 166-69, 172-85, 190-206, 199, 201, 204, 206, 209, 211, 215, 2l6, 2l8, 220, 221, 229, 235, 238, 251, 276, 286, 302, 306-08, 336, 352, 356, 362, 377, 384, 387, 422, 423 Green, Matthew, 136 Grene Knight, The, 293 Grim White Woman, The, 407 Grongar Hill, 104, 119, 142, 143, 145 Grose, Francis, 187 Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy, The, 71 Grundtvig, Svend, 266 Guardian, The, 120, 126, 413 Guest, Lady Charlotte, 189 Gulliver's Travels, 26 Gummere, F. B., 276 Gwin, King of Norway, 367 Hagley, 108, 109, 122, 127, 131, 133, 136, 183, 303, 422 Hales, J. W., 289, 290 Hallam, Henry, 189 Hamburgische Dramaturgie, 379, 387 Hamilton, Wm., 61, 279 Hamlet, 387, 401 Hammond, Jas., 137 Hardyknut, 286 Harper's Daughters, The, 409 Hartmann von Aue, 64, 381 Harvey, Geo., 336 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 403 Haystack in the Flood, The, 299, 363 Hayward, A., 234 Hazlitt, Wm., 161, 254 Hazlitt, W. C., 205 Hearne, Thos., 201 Hedge, F. H., 11, 14, 16 Heilas, The, 329 Heilige Vehm, Der, 418 Heine, Heinrich, 2, 24, 330, 409, 423 Heir of Lynne, The, 290 Helen of Kirkconnell, 274 Heliodorus, 244 Hellenics, 3 Henriade, The, 50, 214, 216, 217 Henry and Emma, 295, 296 Herbert, Geo., 28, 66, 228 Herd, David, 299 Herder, J. G. von, 274, 300, 301, 337, 376, 378, 380, 384, 387, 389, 416 Hermann und Dorothea, 4, 385 Hermit of Warkworth, The, 186, 289, 294, 298 Hermit, The (Beattie), 186, 305 Hermit, The (Goldsmith), 113, 186 Hermit, The (Parnell), 186 Herrick, Robert, 66 Hervarer Saga, The, 192 Hervey, Jas., 421 Hettner, H. J. T., 378, 379, 38l, 383, 387 Hicks, Geo., 192, 193 Hill, Aaron, 217 Hind and the Panther, The, 41 Histoire de Dannemarc, 190, 221, 377 Histoire des Troubadours, 221, 222 Histoire du Romantisme, 372 Historical Anecdotes of Heraldry, and Chivalry, 221 Historic Doubts, 230 Historic Survey of German Poetry, 397, 398, 418 Historic of Peyncteynge in England, 351 History of Architecture, 233 History of Bristol, 348, 364 History of Charoba, Queen of Egypt, 245 History of England (Hume), 100 History of English Literature (Taine), 316 History of English Poetry (Warton), 36, 205, 206, 211, 245, 260, 359, 422, 423 History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, 32, 41 History of Gardening, 119, 123 History of German Literature (Scherer), 374, 380, 382, 385, 394 History of Opinion on the Writings of Shakspere, 74 History of Santon Barsisa, 413 History of the Gothic Revival, 54, 55, 231 Hobbes, Thos., 226 Hölty, L. H. C., 375 Hole, R., 336 Home, Jno., 132, 170, 276, 308, 309 Homer, 3, 25, 35, 37, 50, 55, 100, 110, 215, 222-24, 271, 284, 285, 310, 313, 318, 330, 335, 376, 387-89 Homes of the Poets, 133, 364 Horace, 38, 47, 55, 72, 156, 223, 285, 411 Houghton, J. Monckton Milnes, Lord, 370 Hours in a Library, 235 Hours of Idleness, 329 House of Aspen, The, 418 House of Superstition, The, 85 "How Sleep the Brave," 168 Howitt, Wm., 133, 134, 364 Hugo, Victor Marie, 3, 19, 35, 36, 77, 115, 209 Hume, Robert, 100, 303, 308 Hunting of the Cheviot, The, 274, 278.295 Huon of Bordeaux, 382 Hurd, Richard, 221-26, 245, 246, 375, 387 Hussar of Magdeburg, The, 393 Hymn (Thomson), 106 Hymn to Adversity, 167, 173 Hymn to Divine Love, 85 Hymn to May, 85 Hymn to the Supreme Being, 85 Hypenon, 35 Idler, The, 207 Idyls of the King, The, 146 Il Bellicoso, 153 Il Pacifico, 153, 154 Il Penseroso, 104, 115, 142, 147, 149, 150, 154, 162, 170, 175, 334 Iliad, The, 16, 36, 56, 58, 214, 269, 313, 338, 388, 389 Imaginary Conversations, 18, 43 Immortality, 85 Indian Burying Ground, The, 177 Indian Emperor, The, 44 Ingelow, Jean, 270 Inscription for a Grotto, 136 Institution of the Order of the Garter, 159, 193, 194 Introduction to the Lusiad, 85 Iphigenie auf Tauris, 3, 385, 397 Ireland, Wm.

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swath pau'per gra va'men a men' halve ha'rem to ma'to gua'no jean pa sha' sa'li ent na'ive catch fac'et pa'ri ah har'ass balm fal'chion far ra'go sat'ire groat laugh'ter tap'es try jal'ap trance tar'iff de ca'dence e clat' yea ba salt' a're a prai'rie are hur ra' va ga'ry ra'tion shaft ba ton' cu'po la Sal'ic scared quag'mire cu ra'tor ta'pis Lesson 178.

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His Comedies were, _The Alchimist_, _Bartholomew Fair_, _Cynthia's Revels_, _Caseis alter'd_, _The Devil is an Ass_, _Every Man in his humour, every Man out of his humour_, _The Fox_, _Magnetick Lady_, _New Inn_, _Poetaster_, _Staple of News_, _Sad Shepherd, Silent Woman_, and _A Tale of a Tub_.

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As for his other Comedies, _Staple of News, Devil's an Ass_, and the rest, if they be not so sprightful and vigorous as his first pieces, all that are old will, and all that desire to be old, should excuse him therein; and therefore let the Name of _Ben Johnson_ sheild them against whoever shall think fit to be severe in censure against them.

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Contemporary with him was _Thomas Jorden_, and of much like equal Fame; indulging his Muse more to vulgar Fancies, then to the high flying wits of those times, yet did he write three Plays, _viz._ _Mony's an Ass_; and _The Walks of_ Islington _and_ Hogsden, Comedies; and _Fancys Festivals_, a Mask.

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"Don't be a bally little ass!" he said.

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"As soon as Duryodhana was born, he began to cry and bray like an ass.

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As soon as he was born, he screamed and brayed like an ass.

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In respect of an ass, mildness is in place; but in respect of animals of the bovine species, severity should be resorted to.

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If, O Sanjaya, thou art about to be stained with infamy and I do not (from affection) tell thee anything, then that affection, worthless and unreasonable, would be like that of the she-ass's for her young.

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Water-fowls called Bhasas, ducks, Suparnas, Chakravakas, diving ducks, cranes, crows, shags, vultures, hawks, owls, as also all four-footed animals that are carnivorous and that have sharp and long teeth, and birds, and animals having two teeth and those having four teeth, as also the milk of the sheep, the she-ass, the she-camel, the newly-calved cow, woman and deer, should not be taken by a Brahmana.

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The man of sense who seeks to counteract such a back-biter ever engaged in an occupation congenial to himself, finds himself in the painful condition of a stupid ass sunk in a heap of ashes.

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He succeeded in meeting with Vali, who, as the Creator had said, was living in an empty apartment clothed in the form of an ass.'

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"Sakra said, 'Thou art now, O Danava, born as an ass subsisting on chaff as thy food.

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Hast thou come here to condemn me, having ascertained that I am now bearing the form of an ass that subsists upon chaff and that is now passing his days in a lonely spot remote from the habitations of men?

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If a person desirous of butter churns the milk of the she-ass, without finding what he seeks he simply meets with a substance that is as foul of smell as ordure.

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The seven domestic animals are cow, goat, man, horse, sheep, mule, and ass.

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One churning ass's milk for butter is only a fool.

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In this connection is cited an old history, O Yudhishthira, of a conversation between Matanga and a she-ass.

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Having received the command of his father, he set out for the purpose, riding on a car of great speed, drawn by an ass.

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