On the other hand, Archimago symbolizes the deceptions of the Jesuits and Duessa the false Church of Rome masquerading as true religion.
Note change of pronouns in vii from third person to first.
It will be observed that the two quatrains are bound together by the first two b rhymes, and the Alexandrine, which rhymes with the eighth line, draws out the harmony with a peculiar lingering effect.
There is sometimes an incongruous confusion of classicism and mediævalism, as when a magician is seen in the house of Morpheus, and a sorcerer goes to the realm of Pluto.
How only could the lovers be restored to their human shape?
XXXV Whom when the damned feend so fresh did spy, No wonder if he wondred at the sight, And doubted, whether his late enemy It were, or other new supplied knight.
He was twenty-nine yearsold when he married, and his wife was twenty-two.
After three years the situation in which the young man found himself began to prey upon his mind.
He married a young woman who had distinguished herself as a bright scholar at college, and he took her away from the drudgery of the schoolroom, where she had been teaching for twoyears after she graduated.
After a few years had passed, the wife developed intellectual tastes and took up a course of study.
They had been married five years when this supposedly good and moral husband displayed his badness.
For two long years the man tried to live on and make the best of his position, but the wife had undertaken an impossible task.
They had sung, no doubt, in just this fashion hundreds of years ago, when the Bourbons broke into the town and half destroyed her people.
They are surprisingly real, this family, and they sit there now, just exactly as they were sitting two thousand years or more ago.
After killing the papal legate, Cinzio Filonardi, in 1534, he was dislodged fouryears afterwards, when Paul III.
The first important date we find follows nearly six hundred years after her capture by Augustus.
After three years of passive submission Perugia found cause to revolt against her new ruler as she had done against her old.
Some years ago a gentleman of Perugia bought from a grocer in the town for the sum of twenty-five centimes the original drawing of Baroccio's "Deposition.
He was a scholar of Perugino, and in his earlier years he followed in the steps of his master, but in later life he went to Florence and there acquired a love for the style of Andrea del Sarto.
Not only does Turler say so himself, but Theodor Zwinger, who three years later wrote Methodus Apodemica, declares that Turler and Pyrckmair were his only predecessors in this sort of composition.
For years abroad he drank in tales of subtlety and craft from old Italian courtiers, till he was well able to hold his own in intrigue.
After ten years he reappeared at Court, as amusing as ever, the protégé of the Duke of Buckingham.
But the Duke of Norfolk told me he had not been at this exercise these twelve years before.
Another educational investment of the King's was Thomas Smith, afterwards as excellent an ambassador as Mason, whom he supported at Cambridge, and according to Camden, at riper years made choice of to be sent into Italy.
Some of these have never been brought to light since their publication more than three hundred years ago, or been mentioned by the few writers who have interested themselves in the literature of this subject.
She had not let lodgings for thirty years for nothing.
Such, both then, and through the lonely yearsto come, were those five words, "You must trust me.
They had so grown together during so many years not the less so during these years of absence, that it seemed as if such a change would hardly make any difference.
It was a simple action, done quite without intention, and accepted without acknowledgment, except one quick glance of that keen, yet soft grey eye; but years and years after Elizabeth reminded Hilary of it.
Smiling as they were, there was pathos in them; the sadness left by those long years of hidden suffering, now forever ended.
Years afterward Hilary remembered with what a curious reticence Elizabeth used to go about in those days: how she remained as old-fashioned as ever; acquired no London ways, no fripperies of dress or flippancies of manner.
To be in his power, as you would be for some years if your scheme of gradual payment were carried out, is the last thing I should desire for you.
Selina sighed; could it be at the thought of that twentyyears ago?
The "gob" in question had been born on or very near the Bowery, but seven years in the Navy had obliterated all traces but the accent.
This was inevitable owing to the feeling fostered by some sections of the British press during the preceding years of the war in which America had been neutral.
Not only was the "book" and class-room work at Annapolis a good deal stiffer than in the corresponding years at Osborne and Dartmouth, but the year was a longer one in point of work.
The British, with four years of war experience behind them, were doing things with their ships, quite in the ordinary course of the day's work, that the Americans had never reckoned on attempting save in emergency.
I found out later that he had been for a number of years an interpreter in the Law Courts of Sydney, Australia.
They tell us that it takes ten years to make a good baseball player, and we can well believe it.
Green as we came to the job," he said, "in comparison to their three years of hard experience of the British, our taking over here was almost like a lot of boy scouts replacing a regiment of seasoned veterans in the trenches.
Not very far from a hundred and twenty thousand miles of steaming was her record for the first two years of the war, and in that time she ploughed most of the Seven Seas and coasted in the waters of all but one of the Six Continents.
My word, what a stroke of luck for her if she does happen to stumble, in her first twenty-four hours with the Grand Fleet, into what the rest of us have been waiting four years for!
I've stood all the watches I care to in flooded stokeholds in the years I was a stoker myself.
Now he saw that while it was inches away from hers in one sense, it was light years away in another.
The animal did somehow bring to mind a little old man, although he could not have been more than two or three years old.
My copy will go into the hands of a trusted attorney, sealed in an envelope which I have already instructed him not to open till five years from this date.
After years with a Negro company, officers find it difficult to get along with white soldiers.
The cavalry troop to which I belonged soldiered alongside a couple of troops of the 9th Cavalry, a black regiment, up in the Sioux country eight or nine years ago.
Its clerks have been in service many years and have proved worthy of confidence.
I served my first ten years in the Tenth Cavalry, where I experienced many hard fights with the Indians.
Nine officers of this command who had served the state militia for a period ranging from five to twenty years were ordered examined.
Before going to the company streets Major Caziarc spoke to the men as follows: "Forty years ago no Negro could bear arms or wear the blue.
A Planet reporter was informed that Father Yates had resided in that climate for several years and wished his views.
When you have been in this department twenty-five or thirtyyears you learn never to say what you want to say and never to speak unless you think twice.
Among the trophies of war brought to Old Point were a machete, the captured property of a colored trooper, a fine Spanish sword, taken from an officer and a little Cuban lad about nine years old, whose parents had bled for Cuba.
When twenty-five years old he was elected Mayor of Cavite.
I've now been eight yearsin the Mediterranean, and know something about the weather.
For many years he had retired within himself, he had improved by reading and study, had felt all the philanthropy of a Christian, and extended it towards others.
What scenes of adventure I have passed through since that," thought Jack; "not much more than four years ago, then not three weeks in the service.
That's what I shall try to do," replied Gascoigne, who had been fouryears at sea, and knew very well what he was about.
Surely, my dear, you must be aware that at nine years it is high time that he learned to read.
I trust, my dear son, that your principles have strengthened with your years and fortified with your growth, and that, if necessary, you will sacrifice all to obtain what in my opinion will prove to be the real millennium.
And the owner of this castle was a gentlewoman on whom years ago had befallen a great malady of which there was but one remedy.
As the King was speaking, a poor man entered the Court, bringing with him a youth about eighteen years old, riding on a lean mare, though it was not the custom for gentlemen to ride on mares.
There he chased away the Knights who had seized the castle seven years agone, and restored all to the Duke's daughter, who owned it of right.
And ever she wept and moaned over the years that were past, and for King Arthur.
Truly," answered the old man, "it is ten years since I have gone without crutches.
It grieves me you should say that," said the King, "for you will not have seen so noble a company gathered together this seven years past, save at the Whitsuntide when Galahad departed from the Court.
And there, in the midst of their praying, came Sir Ector de Maris, who for seven years had sought Sir Lancelot through all the land.
The Knights were mounting their horses, when suddenly out of a wood on the other side rode Sir Meliagraunce, who for many years had loved the Queen, and had sought an occasion to carry her off, but found none so fair as this.
Uther Pendragon died two years after this, and on his deathbed Merlin asked if Arthur should not be proclaimed his successor.
In this wise six years passed, and one night a vision came to Sir Lancelot in his sleep charging him to hasten unto Amesbury.
After that the days and years slipped by, and these two were ever nearest the King, and in every time of danger the King cried for Lancelot, and trusted his honour and the Queen's to him.
Several cases were called before the case for which Drusilla waited, and then a young girl not more than eighteen years old rose and stood before the Judge with a baby in her arms.
It's been years since I dug around in the earth, and I want to plant somethin' and see it grow.
When she went downstairs she found a rather florid man, about fifty years of age, dressed as a farmer would dress when out on a holiday.
How she had passed her life; the details of the life in the Doane home; how many years she had been there?
I don't blame her; if I was fifty years younger, I'd be myself.
Those years of bitterness were past, and now she remembered only the happy days when she and John were together and life seemed just one flowery path on which they walked together.
And yet those years had left no scar upon her soul, no rancor against the world that had taken all and given nothing except the right to live.
One is an American girl about twenty years of age whose husband deserted her when he couldn't get work, and she was practically starving, and the other is a little Jewish girl, who works in a flower factory.
I been here seven years, I was here not quite twoyears when Drusilla come.
You ain't but two years older'n me and I'm jest beginnin' to live.
She lived over again those girlhood years when the world with John in it seemed the most beautiful place on earth.
Nothing daunted, the young man asked for it; but she had to tell him that she had lost it years ago; and then he asked if he might take her photograph as she sat there in her high-backed chair.
On three occasions, during her five-and-twenty yearsof existence, she had spent a golden week in London.
The elderly senator looked wistfully through the years over an infinite welter of salmon-tins, seeing nothing else.
At the works at Bermondsey the same activity apparently prevailed as when the Cure had reached the hey-day of its fortune some five years before.
I have had twenty years of the fiercest battle that ever man fought.
She also collected pewter, the history of which Sypher, during his years of self-education, had once studied, in the confused notion that it was culture.
If you had taken my advice five years ago, and turned it into a company, you'd have been a rich man now, without a care in the world.
I seem to have grown twenty years older," she said.
The only recollection that I now have of a dinner at a friend's some years ago is the easy and skilful way a young son of my hostess presided at the head of the table, while the father occupied the place of guest at the mother's right hand.
Frances Durkin knew that foryears now he had made them his tools and his accomplices, never his dictators and masters.
The years would come and go, the years that would so age and wear and torture her, but he would reign on in that quiet office unchanged, contented, still at peace with himself and all his world.
And day after day, one turn of the roulette wheel took and gave more money than all her years of frugal trade might amass!
Or it was, he imagined, as she would look ten years later, when her age had begun to tell on her, and her still buoyant freshness was gone.
Querini received me very politely for a devotee, as also did Morosini, while Memmo seemed moved; but no doubt he remembered that it was chiefly due to his mother that I had been imprisoned eight years ago.
Four years ago she had done me a great service at Stuttgart, but I did not know she was in London.
Yes, although it is six years ago since we met, I recognized you directly.
He was a man of forty, and styled himself son of the late Theodore, the pretender to the throne of Corsica, who had died miserably in London fourteen years before, after having been imprisoned for debt for seven years.
I have been teaching your son for the last six years to be always asking something, for that is the way to acquire knowledge.
I have never forgiven you for letting your Portuguese Virgil die miserably two hundredyears ago.
I have under my care at the present time a young girl, thirteen years of age, who has come to me from one of the seminaries for girls in New England.
It is not many years since feeble-minded children were treated as most others now are, and were left to get any little education they might be able to, with all others.
The nervous system grows into the strength requisite to conduct it in all its diversities much more readily and thoroughly while in its years of growth, than is ever possible in later years.
After twelve or fourteen years of age, the relative rapidity of development as to size becomes changed, and other portions of the system increase more rapidly.
The disposal of such a vast patronage has become one to be sought for by interested persons; while the introduction of new school-books every few years proves to be sufficiently remunerative to secure large fortunes to those interested.
He thinks that it is rarely the case that boys begin smoking before they are eight years of age.
In this respect, I believe the educational process of fifty years ago was better than that of to-day.
These contain dusty notes for his great work on the Feudal System, the notes many years old, the work, strictly speaking, not yet begun.
Coady, as she is familiarly called and as her husband also is called, each having for many years been able to answer for the other, is a rounded old lady with a beaming smile that has accompanied her from childhood.
She has ceased to pucker her face over this, taking it as a kind little thoughtless attention, and indeed with theyears has developed a friendly limp.
They do say in the village that they remember him seventy years ago, looking just as he does to-day.
Two yearslater he wrote to Professor Semper:-- There are two different classes of cases, it appears to me, viz.
I’ve known these longyears that the Afghans knew up to the Fellow Craft Degree, but this is a miracle.
The nervous tension was stronger than it had been two years before, and I felt the heat more acutely.
We exempted you from the watch, since you could have no companion, so that while we have lived about seven years in the twenty, you have not aged at all.
You have been alone for twentyyears in this city we thought was empty, but you were on hand to fight with Ra-Jamba for this delightful creature.
You will be again the age you were on that fateful day in 2163, and the rest of us but seven years older.
A stranger visiting this country ten years back would have almost imagined that this was a happy land in which politics were unknown, so little did he hear of them.
I had myself, nine years previously, landed at three different points of the island, and had passed several days on shore, so I quite realised what was before me.
He further stated that he was the only survivor of the pirates, as all the others had been captured by the Spaniards and executed in Cuba some years before, and consequently it was probable that no one but himself knew of this secret.
While making this same journey nine years before, I had found no signs of fresh water between this and South Point.
As I have explained, the ravine I had travelled down nine years before extended from the plateau of tree-ferns to the shore.
Some hundreds of years ago, the Portuguese had a penal settlement on this side of Trinidad, and this, no doubt, was what remained of one of their roads.
There was a quantity of wreckage in this bay, and in one place we found a topmast and some ribs of a vessel which might have been the remains of the hull I had seen here nine years before.
The substance of both was that some yearsbefore he was sent to the hospital in Santa Cruz, with yellow fever, with a Spanish sailor, who had served for three or four voyages in the Danish merchant ship in which Cruise was employed.
The Fort la Mar, under which we were anchored, is a picturesque fortress constructed by the Dutch 400 years ago on a rocky islet in the harbour.
For some years past, however, this ancient source of purity has been shamefully outraged by contact with all that is foul.
Not only are there in it still many ancient houses, but several of the ancient families that were burgage tenants hundreds of years ago are still represented there.
Judual ascended the throne, and rewarded Samson as liberally as he could have desired, but the bishop died five years later.
For fifty years there was no contested election, but in 1772 the Buller candidate was defeated.
A curious instance of the persistency of tradition may be mentioned in connection with the cairn near the Hurlers and the Cheesewring, in which a gold cup was found a few years ago.
Aubyn family, and some brasses only recently restored to the church, after having lain for many years lost or forgotten in a cupboard at Clowance.
At the end of the seven years the shining bowl reappeared.
Senan and Kieran probably came to Cornwall some years later than Hia and Breaca, Fingar and Piala.
About two hours before he died Sir James said, "In a couple of years I shall be back again, and unless Woolley has done what I have required, I will resume all again.
Two years later, this decision against the freeholders was reversed.
Since we were thirteen years old we've been inseparable.
We were arrayed in battle against men who had been trained through all the years of their manhood, the whole course of whose lives had been shaped for this Day.
And he ought to know well what the words mean after two years in a line regiment at the front.
I had some difficulty about a slightly weak heart caused by a severe illness a few years before.
But it is there, a deep love for you, a great admiration for your bravery, and an earnest prayer that you may be preserved to live a happy and useful life for many years to come.
Exhausted and disunited as they were the task was not difficult, though it took fifteen years to complete.
In all these efforts the Chinese ideographs have been employed; but so numerous and disjointed are they that the labour of years is required to get a command of them even for reading in a vernacular [Page 291] dialect.
In view of your learning and your long residence of forty years at our capital, besides fifteen years in other parts of China, you are regarded by us with profound respect.
After the death of her own son, Tung-chi, who occupied the throne for elevenyears under a joint regency of two empresses, his mother cast about for some one to adopt in his stead.
One died after a brief reign of two years and three months, too short to show character.
With her the age of reform dates from the return of the Court in 1902--as compared with Japan four years to thirty!
Fifty years ago two intrepid French missionaries, Huc and Gabet, made their way to Lhasa, but they were not allowed to remain there.
In the next thirty years a sufficient naval force was raised to justify the appointment of an admiral; but in 1895 the whole fleet was destroyed by the Japanese, and Admiral Ting committed suicide.
I spent ten years at Ningpo, and one year at Shanghai, both on the southern seacoast.
Undertaken about twelve years ago it has only recently been completed as far as Hankow, about six hundred miles.
Footnote *: The only missionary killed in the last fifty years was stabbed while grappling with a burglar.
The shaded hemisphere of Chinese life will thus be brought into the sunshine, and in years to come the education of Chinese youth will begin at the mother's knee.
Sir John Marsham's contracted scale of the Egyptian dynasties would fix them about 2000 years before Christ, (Canon.
Footnote 13: The dates of years in the contents may throughout his this chapter be understood as tacit references to the Annals of Muratori, my ordinary and excellent guide.
By this wise regulation, all doubt and scandal were removed, and the root of schism was so effectually destroyed, that in a period of six hundredyears a double choice has only once divided the unity of the sacred college.
One hundred and forty years after the death of Zingis, his degenerate race, the dynasty of the Yuen, was expelled by a revolt of the native Chinese; and the Mogul emperors were lost in the oblivion of the desert.
On the first vacancy of the throne, Matthias Corvinus, a youth of eighteen years of age, was elected and crowned by the grateful Hungarians.
About fifty years afterwards, the same title was granted to the emperor Lewis of Bavaria; and the liberty of Rome was acknowledged by her two sovereigns, who accepted a municipal office in the government of their own metropolis.
Twenty-two years after this I met the worthy man, once more in Dresden.
She was about fifty years of age, and died my servant in Hungary, some weeks before my unfortunate journey to Dantzic, where I fell into my enemies' hands, and remained ten years a prisoner at Magdeburg.
Some years after the event of which I am now speaking, the King was obliged to break and banish him the country.
And now was I in Bohemia, a fugitive stranger without money, protector, or friend, and only twenty years of age.
My sister justified her conduct; Schell had conjectured the truth; for ten years after I was thus expelled her house, she showed, during my imprisonment, she was really a sister.
Had I yielded to the slightest degree of guilt, that of the present enjoyment, a few days of pleasure must have been followed by years of bitter repentance.
My son would go and seek his fortune, and for these eight years have I had no tidings of him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "years" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: aeon; age; century; elder; eternity; long; period
