30 THE CONVENT .Relentless Cage ! where beauty pines , In dull , sequester ' d , fetid , chambers ; And Nature prompts to secret crimes , Beneath the threats of deadly dangers : * Dost thou pretend to cleanse the soul Restrain ' d , alone , by human Rigor ? As well might man spring - tide control , Or stem its billows with a feather .Vain is then , this frail endeavour , — For tho ' thy foul air , the rosebud blights , The reluctant , soul will never Regenerate through monastic rites .

On a square table of oak was a basket with threads and tapes and the like in it ; beside it was some cloth of a frolic green , of which she appeared to be making a new frock for the boy , with such pretty fantasy of hers in the fashioning of it , as she thought would become become him most .The casement , which looked out into the garden , being unclosed , there was upon the ledge a large ewer filled with sprigs of lavender , that made the chamber smell very daintily .Nurse Cicely was assisting 128 THE YOUTH OF SHAKSPEARE .

— in our notes of instruction instruction , as the conclusion of our first stage : so here we stopped to give Maggie and ourselves a feed .We ourselves were shown into a bed - room , where they wanted us to dine ; but , as there was somewhat of a smell of bed - room therein , the more perceivable by faculties just sharpened by the mountain breezes , we boldly 273 explored the house , till we encountered a good wholesome wholesome parlour , where we insisted upon having our meal .The landlady remonstrated , and represented that it was the apartment of one of the shooting gentry , who , being fond of solitude , I suppose , had this lonely inn all to himself .

generous a wooer , too ! only look at these carpets from Persia ! ' Tis a marvel how folk can have the heart to put foot on such bright floxvers ; they seem as if they were growing ! And these velvets from Genoa ; were ever such colours seen 1 And the silken i .om Padua , that stand on end with their own richness ; xvhat kirtles and mantles they v ill make ! and the gloves of Cales , that cause chamber to smell like a garden full of spice , cloves , and jessamine ! And these veils from the Low Countries , as fine as a spider ' s web ! Aud the cloth of gold , and the cloth of silver , — xvhere did Master Eustace say they came from , Dime Margaret % And this golden vessel vessel lor perfumes , which looks like a basket all over - run with grapes and ivy was wrought by a cunning goldsmith responded old Margaret , xvhose skill is so surpassing , that , albeit he employs chiefly the precious metals , the workmanship is of more value than the materials .This silver tray , xvith the delicate trellis - xvork , wreathed xvith lilies and roses round the edge , and the story of Diana and Ac — Ac — fie on toy old brains ! I shall forget my own name soon ! — Diana and — he that xvas turned into a heard , and the voice of the minstrel arose from beneath the casement : — Waken lo pleasure , Lady sweet ! Lo ! an empire ' s treasure Is spread at lliy feel : Here be shawls of Cashmere fine ; Rubies from Bucharia ' s mine ; The pear - shaped pearls of Ormuz ' bay ; And gold , ' mid Yemen ' s sands lhat lay .

I was too hungry and too sleepy , however , to profit much by this first opportunity opportunity of observing Norwegian customs .A beautiful beautiful cut of salmon , and a fowl smothered in onions , graced the supper - table : and , after having done ample justice to these , and partaken of a small bowl of excellent excellent punch , I retired to my fragrant chamber .Here , as elsewhere throughout Norway , it is the custom to sleep between two eider - down beds during the cold season ; and although the weather was now extremely hot , these had not yet been superseded by the summer arrangements .

Zrd .— To - night I made my debut in the circle of Madame de Bretonvilliers Bretonvilliers ; and am still shivering at the recollection ! The great gloomy court - yard in the Rue de Grenade , the dark damp stair - case , the stifling garlic - scented ante - chamber , Ihe ill - lighted rooms , the formal assemblage , were not compensated by the vastness of Ihe antiquated antiquated saloons , and lhat magniloquent nomenclature of the guests .No young people , the ladies scarcely even in demi - toilette , muffled in bonnets and shawls — and coldness and formality enough to have frozen a salamander .

Here too were buried the deprived Roman Catholic Bishops Tunstall and 239 THE FLEET PRISON .me for my bed but a little pad of straw , and a rotten covering , with a tick and a few feathers therein , the chamber being vile and stinking , until by God ' s means good people sent me bedding to lie in .Of the one side of which prison is the sink and filth of the house , and on the other side the town ditch , so that the stench of the house hath infected me with sundry diseases .

MAZARIN .253 excitement of the day , by watching in the close and fetid chamber of the dying king , and by the responsibilities that now came upon her .She retired to her chamber and stationed the Duke of Beaufort to protect her from the crowd of courtiers who pursued and almost mobbed her .

Not only did we see with delight those with which we had already become familiar , but new and beautiful spe - SIDON IN HISTORY .497 when the Trojan hero , Hector , bids his mother offer to the goddess Pallas Minerva the fairest robe in all the house to secure her favor for the Trojan arms — She , meanwhile , Her fragrant chamber sought , wherein were stored Rich garments by Sidonian women worked .Of these , the richest in embroidery , The amplest and the brightest , as a star Refulgent , placed with care beneath the rest , The queen her offering bore to Pallas ' So , too , in the games attendant on the funeral of Patroclus , Patroclus , celebrated without the walls of Troy by the investing Greeks , f The prizes of the runners , swift of foot , Achilles next set forth , a silver bowl , Six metres its content , for workmanship Unmatched on earth , of Sidon ' s costliest art The product In shipbuilding also Sidon excelled , and it was on one of her ships , the historian tells us , that Xerxes sat when he reviewed the fleet with which he invaded Greece .

INVALIDED .To lie upon a bed of sickness , even though the bed one lies on be of the most luxurious kind and in a stately , airy and fragrant chamber , with the attendance of the most gentle and dainty of n u rses , is hard enough at times , and even when the nauseous potions of the doctor are administered by loving snow - white hands and in cups of silver or china ; but it was harder still , in the case of Duncan Daljarroch and others , who were lying in the wards and white - washed stone chambers of the ruinous and dilapidated dilapidated Khoorum Fort .No one there had a loving hand to soothe the feverish hours , or caress his head as it turned fretfully on the pillow , though 30 The Duke of Albany ' s Own Highlanders .

My little wife is out beyond the burn , I see her parasol behind tbe fir , And here am I inditing verse to her Ere she return .That pretty bird is happy there conceal ' d , This fragrant chamber smiles a peaceful smile , — What joy to sing tbe joys of home — the while My Joy ' s afield ! My spouse is mild — she ' s meek as any nun , And yet her spiritual calm is such ..

her behef that by - and - by the flood of public favour would turn .Contented in her poor attic , she was never tempted to draw sharp contrasts between her present bare and unsightly unsightly dwelling and the pretty rose - scented chamber in the Danish vicarage .It may argue badly for Adelaida Pfeffer ' s æsthetic sensibility that bare walls and a carpetless floor exercised no depressing influence upon her .

I have lived between the studio and the open air .' There was something dreamy and familiar in the warm , wood - scented air , the mellow light , the bright hearth , the shadowy , fragrant chamber .It seemed to Ioris that he had been there all his life watching the glow from the fire fall on the white folds of her dress and finding out the red geraniums at her throat ; whilst little by little , in the easy communicativeness of fireside talk , the various changes of her life , with its ambitions and its fruitions , passed before him , and her words built up to his fancy the little village on the green Meuse waters and the old house by the gardens of the Luxembourg .

We turned a corner , I holding by the thick old post ; ascended a few more steps , and then I heard her unlock a door .We came into a little , dark , The Trials and Adventures of 10 mouldy - smelling chamber , where however a fire had been kindled , in a chimney enormously wide for the size of the room ; whereof it seemed to fill one whole side .The small fire flickered and wavered in the great black cavern of this chimney , like to my own courage in this terrible den of trouble and horror .

Can you wonder at my preference ? Commencing my journey towards Stockholm , Stockholm , through the province of Scania , esteemed one of the most fertile portions of Sweden ; I drove twenty miles in the afternoon ; and was then obliged by the approach of night , added to the want of horses , to stop at a miserable little cabin , where I could literally procure nothing besides besides milk .Though the smell of the chamber chamber was almost pestilential , as the windows had not been opened for many months ; and tho ' the bed was only a sort of crib placed in the wall , little calculated for repose ; yet I lay down during five hours in my clothes , and got again into the carriage by break G 2 of OF EUROPE .' 311 in the road , there being very little water on - thebar ; though after passing it , the river * itself continues deep , quite up to the towm - It empties itself into the great Peipus Lake , about forty miles south of Narva .

Nor mindful of her darling child was found , Who still lay groveling on th ' obdurate ground .370 Mean while , the sisters heard his dismal cry , And , leaping from their beds , to aid him fly : One raised him up ; and , in her lovely breast , Attempts to sooth the froward boy to rest ; Another damps th ' immortalizing heat ; Another runs to call , with nimble feet , Their absent mother ; who , by fear inspired , Back to her fragrant chamber had retired .375 375 .

The warbling Shama list ' ning from the spray Learns the wild sweetness of her morning lay .His flowing robes a fragrance round dispense , That fills the air and quickens ev ' ry sense , Far richer than the musk - deer ' s costly spod , Or rich Chambeli s aromatic oil .A thousand virgins fairer than the morn .

273 came down thus to dinner and supper , the warden and lus wife picked quarrels with me , and complained untruly of me to their great friend , the Bishop of Winchester .After one quarter of a year , and somewhat more , Babington , the warden , and his wife , fell out with me for the wicked mass ; and thereupon the warden resorted to the Bishop of Winchester , Winchester , and obtained an order to put me into the ward , where I have continued a long time , having nothing appointed to me for my bed but a little pad of straw , and a rotten covering with a tick and a few feathers therein , the chamber behio * vile and stinking , until by God ' s means good people sent me bedding bedding to lie in .Of the one side of which prison is the sink and filth of the house , and on the other side the town ditch , so that the stench of the house hath infected me with sundry diseases .

Yes , that I would .I searched high and low for them sheets , and had to make them good out of my own pocket after In - deed ! A heavy loss that , Mary ! Have you lit a fire in that room since Christmas ? If I remember remember rightly a fire was greatly needed ; the chamber chamber smelt like a mouldy It ' s no right to smell mowldy ; fires are kindled often enough in all the rooms , I ' m sure an ' sartain ! But I want to know what you did with them sheets ? â   they were good dowlas , and cost more than a poor servant lass can afford to retorted the damsel of beds and bolsters , in a very aggrieved accent .dryly repeated Mr .