HENRY VIII This play contains little action or violence of passion, yet it has considerable interest of a more mild and thoughtful cast, and some of the most striking passages in the author's works.
The mild sentiments of humanity are strengthened with thought and leisure; the echo of the cares and noise of the world strikes upon the ear of those 'who have felt them knowingly', softened by time and distance.
Pull an ounce of mild white isinglass into small pieces--rinse them, and put to them a quart of milk if the weather is hot, and three pints if it is cold weather.
The skin should be taken from mild codfish, that has not been soaked, as the skin loses its clearing properties by soaking.
The anchorage is situated about twelve miles from the foot of the Peak, where the weather is somild that sailors are working on board vessels with no clothing except shirts and trowsers, while the Peak is covered with snow.
He looked in mild surprise at Trent, who now sat silent, supporting his bent head in his hands.
I was called, and went up-stairs to saunter through another act of the mild little play.
But there, just as I start to speak of my third season, I seem to look into a pair of big, mild eyes that say: "Can it be that you mean to pass me by?
Encouraged at the same moment by that mild expression which veiled the majesty of her looks, he would then perhaps have spoken, but was prevented by the entrance of Prince Castel-Forte.
A young man performed the functions of chaplain; he preached with a mild but firm voice, and his figure bespoke the rigid principles of a pure soul amidst the ardour of youth.
Corinne felt herself happy in being thus beloved; but it was that sort of happiness which we feel in living in a mild climate, hearing nothing but harmonious sounds, and receiving, in short, nothing but agreeable impressions.
Oswald paced his chamber under the most cruel agitation, sometimes stopping to look at the moon, which in Italy is so mild and so beautiful.
These confused but mild voices proceeding from various distances kept alive interest and emotion.
But if we take a glance at the history of the New World, we will find, in a mild and harmless form, something that bears a slight resemblance to it.
The weather that day was mildfor the season, but a thin grey vapour filled the whole air, and saddened every feature of the landscape.
The anxiety which Mrs. Eadie, in consequence, felt as a mother, partly occasioned that mild sadness of complexion to which we have alluded; but there was still a deeper and more affecting cause.
Claud in a mild tone of remonstrance, entirely different from anything he had ever before addressed to him.
Moreover, he found a kind of mild excitement in playing at the handling of such great sums of money.
Beneath them appeared a pair of very large, round, and rather mild blue eyes, covered with thick white lids absolutely devoid of lashes, which eyes had a most unholy trick of occasionally taking fire when their owner was irritated.
Serene and mild the untried light May have its dawning; And, as in summer's northern night The evening and the dawn unite, The sunset hues of Time blend with the soul's new morning.
He ceased; for at his very feet In mild rebuke a floweret smiled; How thrilled his sinking heart to greet The Star-flower of the Virgin's child!
There drooped thy more than mortal face, O Mother, beautiful and mild Enfolding in one dear embrace Thy Saviour and thy Child!
Fresh troubles occurred in 1877, when the Ama-Xosa confederacy was finally broken up, and to-day gradually these tribes are passing from independence to a state of mild vassalage to the British.
The death-rate ranges between forty and fifty per cent, the mild cases being excluded.
David Westren ultimately becomes a mild Unitarian, a sort of pastoral Stopford Brooke with leanings towards Positivism, and we leave him preaching platitudes to a village congregation.
Once in a while, it should be wiped with slightly warm suds made with mild soap.
Wash them with a cloth wrung out of mild luke-warm suds.
Mr. Malthus's style is correct and elegant; his tone of controversy mild and gentlemanly; and the care with which he has brought his facts and documents together, deserves the highest praise.
A light, familiar grace, and mild unpretending pathos are the characteristics of his more sportive or serious writings, whether in poetry or prose.
Wally, amidst mild mirth on the part of the other members of the expedition.
During this conversation there had come unperceived up the road a gentleman of mild appearance, dressed in black, and carrying under his arm a large parcel wrapped about with whitey-brown paper.
An old horse grazing on an isolated patch of turf looked up inmild surprise; Mr. Fogo blushed behind his spectacles and hurried on.
Evarts, at first, was inclined to regard the news with mild disbelief, but he soon realized that something must have happened very nearly as the young chief engineer had described.
Reade's face bore such a mild look that the leader of the visiting gamblers was wholly deceived as he glanced up.
In Germany it has been observed that regions enjoying a mild and healthy climate, by reason of protecting mountains, have produced the greatest poets and in greatest number.
The relation that we have found between genius and climate has been caught sight of long since by the people and the learned, who agree in admitting a frequency of genius in regions which, being hilly, offer mild temperature.
The regions of the Main and the Neckar are renowned for their mild climate, luxuriant vegetation, and fertility, and the greatest German poets come from these regions.
In a similar strain Francesco Guicciardini[175] says: ‘His death saddened the whole town on account of his reasonable and mild disposition.
Certainly such mild homage as the American insect would have been only too happy to bring, had he known how, was hardly worth the acceptance of any one.
In fact, Thackeray, like his mild reflector, Du Maurier, sprang into the public light fully equipped and fully armed.
This principle of human nature can alone account for the enthusiastic devotion which the mild sufferings of the Saviour awoke in the fiercest exterminators of the North.
To all beneath the rank of abbot and thegn, the king's woods were made, even by the mild Confessor, as sacred as the groves of the Druids: and no less penalty than that of life was incurred by the lowborn huntsman who violated their recesses.
The winter sun smiled, the wind had abated, sparrows chirped on the leafless trees, a warm humidity vaporized the mild air.
This thought, though he ironically perceived its mild naivete, comforted him, a very long and decisive breathing reestablished the haematosis, and he was able to sleep peacefully.
