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............... 192 CHAPTER IX: FIRST REBELLION.......................................................................................... 206 CHAPTER X: FRENCH INVASION OF IRELAND, AND SECOND REBELLION............ 227 CHAPTER XI: TRAVELLING.................................................................................................... 243 CHAPTER XII: MY BROTHER ............

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.............................................................. 206 CHAPTER X: FRENCH INVASION OF IRELAND, AND SECOND REBELLION............ 227 CHAPTER XI... ...hat then desolated France; for, on the contrary, they detested every thing French, and answered with brotherly signals to the cry of “Church and king,... ...f a real uncounterfeit sympathy. I have mentioned already that we had four male guard- ians, (a fifth being my mother.) These four were B., E., G., an... ...better sung; but at that time I needed nothing better. It was sung by four male voices, and rose into a region of thrilling pas- sion, such as my hear... ...n a favored 113 Autobiographic Sketches correspondent of the most eminent Frenchmen at that time who cultivated literature jointly with philosophy. V... ...ell away from her, and for- sook her house. T o them succeeded a clique of male visitors, some of whom were doubtfully respectable, and others (like M... ...ed, I knew, and I know that, had I chosen to enlist amongst the soi disant poets of the day ,—amongst those, I mean, who, by mere force of talent and ... ...I also could have taken and sustained a place taliter qualiter amongst the poets of the time. Why not then? Simply because I knew that me, as them, wo... ...and legitimate diction of genuine emotion. Rarely, indeed, are the reputed poets of any age men who groan, like prophets, under the burden of a messag...

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..., except of the grim and gigantic kind, was not remarkable; his wit, for a Frenchman, curiously thin and small. The minor felicities of the literature... ...on with Jean Guez de Balzac, the founder, as some will have him, of modern French prose, and the contemporary and fellow-reformer of Malherbe. (In- de... ... evi- dently endowed with the business faculties so common among 7 Balzac Frenchwomen. When Honore was born, the family had not long been established... ...course, dismiss the child- ish scandals (arising, as usual, from clumsy or malevolent misinterpretation of such books as the Physiologie de Mariage, t... ...a far stronger hold. He was represented—and in the absence of any intimate male friends to contradict the repre- sentation, it was certain to obtain s... ...endix parison, that it suggests the remembrance of the fact—that the great poets have usually been themselves extremely exact observers of detail. It ... ...themselves extremely exact observers of detail. It has not made them great poets; but they would not be great poets without it. And when Eugenie Grand... ...at we see in Dante and Shakespeare, in Chaucer and Tennyson. But the great poets do not as a rule accumulate detail. Balzac does, and from this very a... ... with a few phrases; but in society a wife is not always the female of the male. There may be two perfectly dissimilar beings in one house- hold. The ...

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...tic yesses and short coughings. ‘That would furnish a good concert for the poets,’ he re- marked. ‘A parting, a separation of lovers; “even as a body ... ...n a bland air of abnegation of honour, ‘that I am disposed to consider any male philosopher our su- perior; when you’ve found one, ha, ha—when you’ve ... ...ge Meredith wicked world, and is no doubt very useful, is not to my taste. French girls, as a rule, cannot compete with our English in the purer grace... ...hat we unhappy 17 George Meredith women have to endure. It’s dreadful! No male creature can possibly know what tortures I have to undergo.’ Mama neat... ...And from the glance, my resolution to enter Parliament was born? It is the French vaudevilliste’s doctrine of great events from little causes. The sli... ...ly coloured with chalks, of a foreign lady—I could have sworn to her being French— young, quite girlish, I doubt if her age was more than mine. She is...

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...ab, as they term it, of exploits that are beyond human power. [Gaber. This French word signified a sort of sport much used among the French chivalry, ... ...l myself undertake thy revenge with five thousand horse. I will slay every male of them, and send their women into such distant captivity that the nam... ...f love, containing all the glowing praises of beauty in which the Oriental poets are so fond of luxuriating, and which, therefore, were peculiarly unf... ...e Saracen also sung lays in praise of wine, the liquid ruby of the Persian poets; and his gaiety at length became so un- suitable to the Christian kni... ...of human blood, two devouring serpents, which had become, according to the poets, a part of himself, and to sustain whom he levied a tax of daily hu- ... ... to you which yonder infi- del must not hear.” These words he spoke in the French language, and not in the lingua franca, or compound of Eastern and E... ...cattered flowers. After these followed, in due and majestic order, the fe- males who composed the choir—six, who from their black scapularies, and bla... ...ts cage, as if to assure him, by its sympathetic suggestions, that the fe- male who held the right file on the second rank of the nov- ices was dearer... ...their joint safety. The same disunion had begun to show itself betwixt the French and English, the Italians and the Germans, and even be- tween the Da...

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...H. HW AL, SWEDISH. WHALE, ICELANDIC. 4 Moby Dick WHALE, ENGLISH. BALEINE, FRENCH. BALLENA, SPANISH. PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE, FEGEE. PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE, ERROMANG... ...gy. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extracts are solely valuable or entertaining, a... ...and boldness in the fishermen.” —Thomas Jefferson’ s Whale Memorial to the French Minister in 1778. “And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it?”... ...and Trucks. “On one occasion I saw two of these monsters (whales) probably male and female, slowly swimming, one after the other, within less than a s... ...d incessant expostulations upon the unbecomingness of his hugging a fellow male in that matrimonial sort of style, I succeeded in extracting a grunt; ... ...nd calms of all four oceans, her old hull’s complexion was darkened like a French grenadier’s, who has alike fought in Egypt and Siberia. Her venerabl... ...y complete. Reference to nearly all the leviathanic allusions in the great poets of past days, will satisfy you that the Greenland whale, without one ... ...o a volatile salts for fainting ladies, the same way that the horns of the male deer are manufactured into hartshorn. Originally it was in itself acco... ...kes a man who regards them both with equal eye. CHAPTER 86 The Tail O THER POETS HA VE WARBLED the praises of the soft eye of the antelope, and the lo...

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... one,” he repeated. “And you’ll find yourself some employment, eh? Scales, French, a little German, eh? There’s Mr. Pepper who knows more about separa... ...aid Richard. “I may be treading on dangerous ground; but what I feel about poets and artists in general is this: on your own lines, you can’t be beate... ...assure you I know heaps like that—well, they seem to me really nobler than poets whom every one worships, just because they’re geniuses and die young.... ...ou have not read her,” said Richard. “She is incomparably the greatest fe- male writer we possess.” “She is the greatest,” he continued, “and for this... ...? Well, then I shall make a point of sending you a copy. The Speech on the French Revolution—The Ameri- can Rebellion? Which shall it be, I wonder?” H... ... books on the table. They lay heaped one upon another. “We shall want some poets too,” he remarked. “Not Gib- bon; no; d’you happen to have Modern Lov... ...r. Hughling Elliot, who had joined the group. “You might read your news in French, which is equivalent to reading no news at all.” Mr. Elliot had a pr... ...it, Monk? The thought of the immortal passions, or the thought of new-born males to keep the Roman Catholics out? I assure you,” he said to Helen, “he... ...alise, the nature of the gulf which separates the needs and desires of the male from the needs and desires of the female… . At first they had been ver...

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...ey the result of an ingenious arrangement of fragments 11 Pope by earlier poets? Well has Landor remarked: “Some tell us there were twenty Homers; so... ... poem, till about Peisistratus’ time, about five hundred years after.” Two French writers—Hedelin and Perrault—avowed a similar scepticism on the subj... ... and harmonious form by the directions of the Athenian ruler. If the great poets, who flour ished at the bright period of Grecian song, of which, ala... ...ater period not inaptly been compared to our self admiring neighbours, the French, should submit with lofty self denial to the almost total exclusion ... ...e find no contradictions warranting this belief, and the so called sixteen poets concur in getting rid of the following leading men in the first battl... ...e of storms, your royal brother pass’d, Till, coasting nigh the cape where Malen shrouds Her spiry cliffs amid surrounding clouds, A whirling gust tum... ...aps, the unnumber’d flock. Big udder’d ewes, and goats of female kind (The males were penn’d in outward courts behind); Then, heaved on high, a rock’s... ...all his fleecy flock Before him march, and pour into the rock: Not one, or male or female, stayed behind (So fortune chanced, or so some god designed)...

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...e of the time when he used to sit up till two o’clock in the morning reading French, and how his mother used to say, ‘Felix, you will make yourself il... ...pens stanzas, which sometimes find their way into a Lady’s Magazine, or the ‘Poets’ Corner’ of some country newspaper; or which, in default of either ... ...a!’ With this, the poetical young gentleman laughs a laugh belonging only to poets and Mr. O. Smith of the Adelphi Theatre, and sits down, pen in hand... ...confidence, and to banish, in our case, all that reserve and distrust of the male sex which, as a point of general behaviour, they cannot do better th...

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...in our literature—a library edition of the Essays of Montaigne. This great French writer deserves to be re- garded as a classic, not only in the land ... ...e did not disdain to help themselves; and, indeed, as Hallam observes, the Frenchman’s literary importance largely results from the share which his mi... ...collating the English text, line for line and word for word, with the best French edition. By the favour of Mr F . W . Cosens, I have had by me, while... ...s, as, for example, in my use of the word fortune, in quot- ing historical poets, in my apology for Julian, in my animad- version on the theory that h... ...as high as it could go, both in politics and in morals. On the other hand, Malebranche and the writers of Port Royal were against him; some reprehende... ...hen into the vile slough of vice. Credit me, the greatest safeguard to fe- male chastity is sobriety of demeanour. I beseech and direct that thou ofte... ... of expressing such a degree of sorrow. Which is also the rea- son why the poets feign the miserable mother, Niobe, hav- ing first lost seven sons, an... ... to keep it? “‘Cur amplius addere quaeris, Rursum quod pereat male, et ingratum occidat omne?’ [“Why seek to add longer life, merely to r... ...overeign virtue, namely, that the public opin- ion condemns them; that the poets, and all other sorts of writers, relate horrible stories of them; a r...

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...tom and precedent of our family have always transmitted the estates to the male heir. But when Charles II. granted the patent of nobility to the first... ...f nobility to the first Baron Delavie, the barony was limited to the heirs male of his body, and out grandfather 16 Love and Life was only his brothe... ...rt of his estates by will, yet that some of the land was en- tailed in the male line, so that there need not be many years of campaigning or poverty f... ...family who has been reared. Then we had been carefully bred, could chatter French, recite poetry, make our bow and curtsey, bridle, and said Sir and M... ... the least of it, bracing. The Delavie family was cultivated for the time. French had been brought home as a familiar tongue, though T elemaque, Racin... ...ecame Mesdemoiselles Elisabeth, Henriette, and Aurelie, and con- versed in French over their spinning, seams, lace, or embroi- dery; nor was Aurelia y... ... beauty, for it fell less familiarly on his ear than her passages from the poets. At the end he said: “Yes, that is true poetry. Praise fits well with... ...lf, and given herself the trouble of learning the choicest passages of the poets to repeat to me.” “You are very good, sir,” returned Aurelia; “it is ...

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... 22 Waverley particularly well acquainted with Spenser, Drayton, and other poets who have exercised themselves on romantic fiction, of all themes the ... ... Waverley had made the usual progress, and read the usual authors; and the French had af- forded him an almost exhaustless collection of memoirs, scar... ...her it was by the ‘merest accident in the world,’ a phrase which, from fe- male lips, does not always exclude Malice Prepense, or whether it was from ... ...uty; but, alas! hoop, patches, frizzled locks, and a new mantua of genuine French silk, were lost upon a young officer of dragoons, who wore, for the ... ... next halt, and wait for the con- veyance of Prince Hussein’s tapestry, or Malek the Weaver’s flying sentry-box. Those who are contented to remain wit... ...cer, as a pledge of her regard, a valuable diamond ring (often worn by the male sex at that time), and a purse of broad gold pieces, which also were m... ...t the horses’ heels; a nuisance at that time so common in Scotland, that a French tourist, who, like other travellers, longed to find a good and ratio... ...e wa’, And stately stepped he west. As for literature, he read the classic poets, to be sure, and the Epithalamium of Georgius Buchanan, and Arthur Jo... ...rds whom the chieftains of more distinguished name and power retain as the poets and historians of their tribes. These, of course, possess various deg...

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...udes, devised by Ferdinand de Gramont, gentleman,” is a complete manual of French Heraldry, in which noth- ing is forgotten, not even the arms of the ... ...od one of the most ter- 5 Balzac rible sieges of our religious wars, when French Calvinists far outdid the ferocious Cameronians of Walter Scott’s ta... ...nymous fame. Though a mixture of verse and prose is a monstrous anomaly in French literature, there must be exceptions to the rule. This tale will be ... ... her evil thoughts in verse—a pro- ceeding which perhaps accounts for some poets. “You will find such relief as those who write epitaphs or elegies ov... ... of view. “That book, my dear, is of both sexes.—We agreed that books were male or female, dark or fair. In Adolphe women see nothing but Ellenore; yo...

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...y material; just as there are soldiers, artists, artisans, mathematicians, poets, merchants, men who un- derstand money, or agriculture, or government... ...10 Bureaucracy like so many other portentous events, was the result of fe- male influence. Thus, goaded by Celestine’s ambition, Rabourdin had long co... ...- ing that “Genius is patience.” Placed in a position where he could study French adminis- tration and observe its mechanism, Rabourdin worked in the ... ...overnment offices but idlers, incapables, or fools. Thus the mediocrity of French administration has slowly come about. Bureaucracy, made up entirely ... ...ash his hands with good cleansing soap; not to swear, to speak her kind of French, to wear boots instead of shoes, cotton shirts instead of sacking, a...

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...iginal will have little doubt that it is a concoction from Shelton and the French of Filleau de Saint Martin, eked out by borrowings from Phillips, wh... ...d it is plain that he was equally obnoxious to the other clique, the culto poets who had Gongora for their chief. Navarrete, who knew nothing of the l... ...he chivalry- romance readers, the sentimentalists, the dramatists, and the poets of the period all against him, it was because “Don Quixote” was what ... ...e of the most intensely na- tional. “Manon Lescaut” is not more thoroughly French, “Tom Jones” not more English, “Rob Roy” not more Scotch, than “Don ... ...obably due to the influ- ence of those masters of hyperbole, the Provencal poets. When a troubadour professed his readiness to obey his lady in all th... ... like that of Motteux’s version for example, or the sprightly, jaunty air, French translators sometimes adopt. It is the grave matter-of-factness of t... ...o; and letting off thirty “ohs,” and sixty sighs, and a hundred and twenty maledictions and execrations on whomsoever it was that had brought him ther... ...ot even dismount; and so from the back of his horse he began to utter such maledictions and objurgations against those who were blanketing Sancho as i... ...ear of being heard or seen, then I broke silence and lifted up my voice in maledictions upon Luscinda and Don Fernando, as if I could thus avenge the ...

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...s, The Eagle and Iron The Goshawk and Tarcel, The Sparhawk and Musket, The French Pye of two sorts: These are reckoned Hawks of note and worth; but we... ...erish, and that the flesh of him is not firm, but short and tasteless. The French esteem him so mean, as to call him Un Villain; nevertheless he may b... ...that the female Trout hath usually a less head, and a deeper body than the male Trout, and is usually the better meat. And note, that a hog back and a... ...rought upon, or over it, thus, with a needle; the back of it with very sad French green silk, and paler green silk towards the belly, shad The Comple... ...metimes all the beg gars, whose number was neither more nor less than the poets’ nine muses, talked all together about this ripping and unripping; an... ... it is the rather to be believed, because you shall scarce or never take a male Carp without a melt, or a female without a roe or spawn, and for the m... ... and water, and so apted them also for generation, that then three or four male Carps will follow a female; and that then, she putting on a seeming co...

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...imself from difficulties by saying he was not suf- ficiently versed in the French language. The next day, lest my indiscreet objections should injure ... ...eral books over fair, and trans- late commercial letters from Italian into French. All at once he thought fit to accept the before rejected proposal, ... ...I could have no conception that a native of Piedmont could speak such good French, and with so pure an accent. She was a middle-aged woman, of a noble... ...aly, with those who have entered the career of prelacy. He had studied the poets, and wrote tolerable Latin and Italian verses; in a word, his taste w... ...en scarcely ever forgive. Take the most sensible; the most philosophic fe- male, one the least attached to pleasure, and slighting her fa- vors, if wi... ...the walls of my chamber have ears. Surrounded by spies and by vigilant and malevolent inspectors, disturbed, and my attention diverted, I hastily comm... ...stances forced me to beg my bread:—in learning by memory passages from the poets which I had learned and forgotten a hundred times. Every morning at t... ...ion to ward off misery was to exercise my happy memory by learning all the poets by rote. I had another expedient, not less solid, in the game of ches... ... upon me, the detail has escaped my mind, since I communicated it to M. de Malesherbes in one of my four letters to him. This is one of the singularit...

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...s of individuals to each other, that, with certain obvious exceptions, any male and female may be moderately happy in the married state. The true rule... ...by throwing into the slough some editions of books of morality, volumes of French philosophy and Ger man rationalism; tracts, sermons, and essays of ... ...ise, the witty, and the famous in every walk of life; princes, presidents, poets, generals, artists, actors, and philanthropists,—all making their own... ... village, the city, life’s high places and low ones, may all produce their poets, whom a common 88 Mosses from an Old Manse temperament pervades like... ...ance of the velvet. Next came a pair of scarlet breeches, once worn by the French governor of Louisbourg, and the knees of which had touched the lower... ...s of which had touched the lower step of the throne of Louis le Grand. The Frenchman had given these small clothes to an Indian powwow, who parted wit... ...,—yet none could tell precisely of what nature, although the city gossips, male and female, whispered the most atrocious sur mises. Until a recent pe... ...mpulse to give external reality to his ideas as irresistibly as any of the poets or painters who have arrayed the world in a dimmer and fainter beauty...

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...n carried on in a mood in which all imaginative people, whether artists or poets, love to indulge. In this frame of mind, they sometimes find their pr... ...inen-draper’s shop; a pipe and cigar shop; a lottery office; a station for French soldiers, with a sentinel pacing in front; and a fruit-stand, at whi... ...wthorne which anon, as his active motion heated him, he flung aside. Three French soldiers capered freely into the throng, in wide scarlet trousers, t... ...able an affair as it can well be. In this pleasant spot, the red-trousered French soldiers are always to be seen; bearded and grizzled veterans, perha... ...s the shrewd observer that the jealousies and petty animosities, which the poets of our day have flung aside, still irritate and gnaw into the hearts ... ..., as they stepped over the brink. All the heroes, the states- men, and the poets! All piled upon poor Curtius, who thought to have saved them all! I a... ...eatures, in petticoats, but otherwise man- like, toiling side by side with male laborers, in the rudest work of the fields. These sturdy women (if as ... ...rd the clamor that he made, they had responded only with sullen and drowsy maledictions, and turned to sleep again. It must be a very dear and intimat...

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...ter quill may sing some day; and this was no doubt a kind of prophecy, for poets are also called vates, that is to say diviners; and its truth was mad... ...well believe,” replied Don Quixote, “that if Sacripante or Roland had been poets they would have given the damsel a trim- ming; for it is naturally th... ...would have given the damsel a trim- ming; for it is naturally the way with poets who have been scorned and rejected by their ladies, whether fictitiou... ...ers, but never any like these. 101 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. They are male and female; the male is in that first cage and the female in the one b... ... his position, and that it was impossible for him to avoid letting out the male without incurring the enmity of the fiery and daring knight, flung ope... ... had a cold in his head, and who was the first to try saliva- tion for the French disease, but I give it accurately set forth, and quote more than fiv... ... time. He is held enchanted here, as I myself and many others are, by that French enchanter Merlin, who, they say, was the devil’s son; but my belief ... ...which is here represented to your worships is taken word for word from the French chronicles and from the Spanish ballads that are in everybody’s mout... ...rs lost in astonishment, while the Trifaldi went on to say: “Thus did that malevolent villain Malambruno punish us, covering the tenderness and softne...

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...e. both of composing and reciting verses for as Blair observes, “The first poets sang their own verses.” Sextus Empir. adv. Mus. p. 360 ed. Fab- ric. ... ...re taken.” Lit of Greece, pp. 38 in Encycl. Metrop. Cf. Coleridge, Classic Poets, p. 317.] But poverty still drove him on, and he went by way of Laris... ...d Odyssey the result of an ingenious arrangement of fragments by ear- lier poets? Well has Landor remarked: “Some tell us there were twenty Homers; so... ... about five hundred years after.” [Note: Letters to Phileleuth; Lips.] Two French writers—Hedelin and Perrault—avowed a similar scepticism on the subj... ...ater period not inaptly been compared to our self admiring neighbours, the French, should submit with lofty self denial to the almost total exclusion ... ... and a theme eminently popular with his hearers. We find these warlike fe- males constantly reappearing in the ancient poems, and uni- versally accept... ... related either to have crossed over from Thessaly, or to have embarked at Malea after hav- ing led his followers by land into Laconia.”—Thirlwall, p....