And he launched into an abridged narrative of the night's events, as he understood them, touching lightly on his own circumstances, the real poverty which had brought him back to Craven Street by way of Frognall.
I would like to follow this brief and unpretentious narrative of my life with a sketch of the operations of a British force, in which my old regiment was brigaded, in the Afghan war.
From them we gather, however, that he had learned or had come to regard the whole Biblical narrative as an allegory, of which he gives a most poetical interpretation.
He sketched for her the grim narrative of that brief drama in the log cabin beyond the river and of the guilt he had assumed.
But this entire narrative seems to be deeply tinged with the vitiating stain of intense national vanity, a fault which markedly characterizes the Armenian writers, and renders them, when unconfirmed by other authorities, almost worthless.
The narrative is here, no doubt, tinged with exaggeration; but the general result is correctly stated.
Such is the narrative which has come down to us on the authority of historians, the earliest of whom wrote a century and a half after Arcadius's death.
Let us rather say that a myth is a tradition in narrative form, more or less current in more or less differing garb among different races, to which religious or superhuman significations may be ascribable.
The City State is well illustrated in the following narrative of Thucydides (ii.
The following narrativeis taken from Grote's History of Greece, c.
How far mynarrative is successful in accomplishing these objects the reader is left to judge.
This quotation from the opening of Combe's Hudibrastic narrative will account for the originality of the hero's eccentric title.
I hope elsewhere to be able to justify my narrative at length.
Hemingburgh probably laid down his pen when the narrative ceases early in the reign of Edward II.
His narrative of continental transactions is in particular extremely inexact.
Like most modern writers, I have based my narrative on the Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker as expounded by Sir E.
They answered with a highly coloured narrative of the dispute which threw the whole blame upon the Normans.
With Edward's death we break off a narrative whose course is but half run.
Conspicuous among these is the famous Battle of the Thirty, well known from the detailed narrative of Froissart, and the stirring verses of a contemporary French poem.
The narrative commences with the experiences of my own regiment; then when that regiment became a part of Smith's division, its incidents and history includes the whole.
The narrative is more interesting than many of the tales with which the public is familiar of escape from Siberia.
On the whole we have never read a more vivid and faithful narrative of military adventure in India.
The Golden Galleon A Narrativeof the Adventures of Master Gilbert Oglander in the Great Sea-fight off Flores.
At length, having fairly come to the beard, he broke off in his wordy narrative and requested to know if his worship would have his beard cut short and to a peak like Sir Francis Drake's, or broad and round like a spade.
The treatment is rathernarrative than dramatic in most cases, as might be expected, but makes up by the liveliness of the dialogue for the deficiency of elaborately planned action and interest.
An immense outburst of epic and narrative verse has taken place, and lyrical poetry, not limited as in the case of the epics to the north of France, but extending from Roussillon to the Pas de Calais, completes this.
There is yet a third class of earlynarrative poems, differing from the two former in subject, but agreeing, sometimes with one sometimes with the other in form.
It is a narrative of the course and the consequences of unlawful love.
The old gentleman withdrew, and I then listened to the narrativeof her sufferings.
A most unexpected and generous service," replied West, who, softening down the first portion of the scene we have described, proceeded to recount to the fair orphan the narrative of the great crisis in his destiny.
Edward Walker), is a lucid, popular narrative of the development of French Protestantism from the Reformation to the present time.
The narrative shows the fertility of invention which characterizes all the Tales of the present series, and as an exercise of fanciful ingenuity, is not inferior to any which have preceded it.
The narrativeof a horrid plot laid before the treasurer.
Narrative of the Proceedings of the English Army in Scotland.
God's Terrible Voice in the City: a Narrative of the late Dreadful Judgments by Plague and Fire.
Tonge's prevaricating answers and mysterious statements, into consideration, the king was now convinced the "Narrative of a Horrid Plot" was an invention of a fanatic or a rogue.
On Danby recounting Tonge's statements to the king, his majesty was more convinced than before the narrative was wholly without foundation, and refused to make it known to his council or the Duke of York.
An Exact Narrativeof his Majesty's Escape from Worcester.
Narrative of the Families exposed to the Great Plague of London.
Therefore, after many consultations they resolved to draw up a "Narrative of a Horrid Plot.
Tonge, who delivered his narrative into his hands.
It is a melancholy pleasure to retrace the path of existence through a faithful narrative of its events; and compare ourselves with ourselves in different stages of our progress.
You shall have my narrative to-night, for I am resolved to go to-morrow; read it to your family, and return it to me before you retire to rest.
The narrative was read; the diamond cross examined, the miniature admired; the whole pondered; but very different were the feelings which these interesting memoranda produced in the minds of the old and the young.
There is a vast amount of information in this artless and racy narrative of a boy of sixteen.
For the purposes of this narrative it is necessary to mention but one of them.
Even Fabius Pictor, according to this author, followed one of these old legends in his narrative concerning Mars and the Wolf, and his whole history of Romulus.
It is generally too evident, that the narrative is made merely for the sake of the spectators; as there seldom appears a sufficient reason for one of the parties being so communicative to the other.
His narrative is esteemed an elaborate and complete performance; and to the faithful yet elegant detail of the Greek historian, the Roman bard has added all that was necessary to convert the description into poetry.
In the Greek tragedies, the prologue was often a long introductory and narrative monologue.
Soloviéff's great history brings the narrative down to the reign of Katherine II.
His importance has entirely arisen from subsequent circumstances--from his having written and published a narrative of his voyages, and from his name having eventually been given to the New World.
Who after reading the following narrative of an heroic female's unparalleled endurance, will ever say that woman's is a feeble nature, incapable of withstanding the rude shocks of adverse fortune?
We cannot prevail on ourselves to give the sequel of this narrative in any other than the beautiful and picturesque language of Mr. Judson which we have so often quoted.
Her narrative of their sufferings there, contained in the life of her husband, by Dr.
With regard to the first Mrs. Judson, it has been thought that a simple narrative of her life, unencumbered with details of the history of the mission, would be more attractive to youthful readers than the excellent biography by Mr. Knowles.
It consists of a series of letters supposed to be written by various persons, in which a narrative of passing events is interwoven with a love story.
In a similar way he composed the 'Knight's Tale,' probably the most perfect narrative poem in our tongue.
He is at his best in single didactic ornarrative passages, and exquisite bits of poetry are prodigally scattered up and down the pages of his tragedies.
A connected chronological account of this composer's life is needed; and a plain unvarnished narrative will best coincide with the temperament and habit of one who, throughout a long life, has been singularly abhorrent of pomp and vanity.
