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...ppeals; when the presid- ing genius that watched over the destinies of the French nation had played out all the best cards in his hand, and his advers... ... that the Queen of England did feel seriously alarmed at the notion that a French prince should occupy the Spanish throne; or whether she was tenderly... ...stavus Adolphus Maximilian von Galgenstein, had been in the service of the French as page to a nobleman; then of His Majesty’s gardes du corps; then a... ...he village maidens, who love soldiers as flies love treacle; presently the males began to arrive, and lo! the parson of the parish, taking his evening... ...er on certain days;—all which circumstances commonly are expunged from the male brain immediately after they have occurred, but remain fixed with the ... ...and our commission is to apprehend all able- 60 Catherine: A Story bodied male persons who can give no good account of them- selves, and enrol them i... ...ron nine times, besides extracts from the Latin syntax and the minor Greek poets. Catherine’s pas- sionate embreathings are of the most fashionable or... ...n we have all of us, no doubt, employed in our time. How often have we,—we poets, politicians, phi- losophers, family-men,—found charming excuses for ...

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...roof of my rashness. What I care to remember best is the testimony of some French readers who volunteered the opinion that in those hundred pages or s... ...trick of smoothing his long white beard whenever he was short of a word in French or En- glish imparted an air of leisurely dignity to the tone of his... ...Liberator,” he declared. “My incomparable mother, God rest her soul, was a French-woman, the daughter of an ardent republi- can. As a boy I fought for... ...oor. We must be locked in.’ “I did not recognize his voice in the shout of male- diction and despair he let out. Señores, I know many men in my countr... ...n his profession consoled him from finding himself the butt of Bonapartist malevo- lence, which pursued him with a persistence he could not account fo... ...eeling a special intensity of existence, that ela- tion common to artists, poets, and lovers—to men haunted by a great passion, a noble thought, or a ...

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... yeomanry and his hedges, are sad to note. His bursts of pot-valiancy (the male side of the maiden Panic within his bosom) are awful to his friends. P... ... Everard, and his uncle’s friend Stukely Culbrett, expounded the nature of Frenchmen to him, saying that they were un- easy when not periodically thra... ...of our exhi- bition of ourselves in Europe. It looked as if the blustering French Guard were to have it all their own way. And what 9 George Meredith... ...fi- culties to be overcome. As regards his qualifications for ad- dressing Frenchmen, a year of his prae-neptunal time had been spent in their capital... ...ation and polish, and the art of conversing. He had read the French tragic poets and Moliere; he could even relish the Gallic- classic—’Qu’il mourut!’... ...r he loved the prospect of the title. Yet, as there were no cousins of the male branch extant, the lack of an heir was a serious omission, and to beco... ...on, country, and the young woman herself. I assure you, a perfect model of male fidelity! She is married. He is on her track. He knows his time will c... ...t, to re- lease your shoulders in a trice. Mr. Timothy felt for his art as poets do for theirs, and considered what was best adapted to speaking, pure... ... Tory’s mentor and his cordial, with other great ancient comic and satiric poets, his old Port of the classical cellarage, reflecting veneration upon ...

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... the Encounter of Two Strange Young Men and Their Consorting: in Which the Male Reader Is Requested to Bear in Mind What Wild Creature He Was in His Y... ...grading alliance. John Peter was fourth of a family of seven children, all males, and hard at the bottle early in life: ‘for want of proper occupation... ... to a carriage on the off side, containing Kirby, and how she, this little French jade, sprang in to take her place. One snap of the fingers and the t... ...rothers were sons of Geoffrey Fakenham, celebrated for his devotion to the French Count- 19 George Meredith ess Jules d’Andreuze, or some such name, ... ...ted off, on the discovery of the cheat, with horrible imprecations against Frenchwomen. It became known, too; that horses of his were standing saddled... ... THE ENCOUNTER OF TWO STRANGE YOUNG MEN AND THEIR CONSORTING: IN WHICH THE MALE READER IS RE- QUESTED TO BEAR IN MIND WHAT WILD CREATURE HE WAS IN HIS... ...hawkers, tinkers, tramps and ploughmen, choughs and crows. A volume of our Poets and a History of Philosophy composed my library. I had scarce any mon... ...e acquaintance with their linea- ments inspired a regard for them, such as poets may feign the throned high moon to entertain for objects causing her ... ... weapon of the man’s weakness. For which my lord calls them heartless, and poets are angry with them, rightly or wrongly. It must, I fear, be admitted...

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... I am the Sonne of Henry the Fift, 122 Who made the Dolphin and the French to stoupe, 123 And seiz’d vpon their Townes and Prouinces. 124... ...a Crowne, 343 Within whose Circuit is Elizium, 344 And all that Poets faine of Blisse and Ioy. 345 Why doe we linger thus? I cannot re... ...geance for his death, 615 ’Gainst thee fell Clifford, and thee false French- woman. 616 Northumb. Beshrew me, but his passions moues me... ... By your leaue, I speake it, 696 You loue the Breeder better then the Male. 697 Enter one blowing. 698 But what art thou, whose heauie ... ...eare) the great Commanding Warwicke 1428 I: thither gone, to craue the French Kings Sister 1429 To wife for Edward. If this newes be true, 1... ...2032 How like you our Choyce, 2033 That you stand pensiue, as halfe malecontent? 2034 Clarence. As well as Lewis of France, 2035 O... ... King. Alas, poore Clarence: is it for a Wife 2086 That thou art malecontent? I will prouide thee. 2087 Clarence. In chusing for you...

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...indoo is a Hindoo and a brother to the man who knows his vernacular. And a French-man is French because he speaks his own language. But the American h... ...icatured themselves, their associ- ates, and their aims. There was a slick French audacity about 15 Rudyard Kipling the workmanship of these men of t... ... went straight to the heart of the beholder. And yet it was not altogether French. A dry grimness of treatment, almost Dutch, marked the difference. T... ...ture, but is discreetly of the present, and strives for the confidences of male humanity on the grounds of “sympathy” (methinks this is not altogether... ...k at her brother. They are instructed, too, in the folly and vanity of the male mind, for they have associated with “the boys” from babyhood, and can ... ...hought beyond the enjoyment of a good time. As certain, also, of their own poets have said:— “Man is fire and woman is tow, And the devil he comes and... ...k water- snake with a coral mouth who coiled herself on a stone and hissed male-dictions. The next cast—ah, the pride of it, the regal splendor of it!...

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...EY : afterwards Queen to Edward IV. (QUEEN ELIZABETH:) BONA: sister to the French Queen. Soldiers, Attendants, Messengers, Watchmen, &c. (Soldier:) ... ...Earl of March: I am the son of Henry the Fifth, Who made the Dauphin and the French to stoop And seized upon their towns and provinces. WARWICK: Talk... ... a thing it is to wear a crown; Within whose circuit is Elysium And all that poets feign of bliss and joy. Why do we finger thus? I cannot rest Until ... ... cries vengeance for his death, ‘Gainst thee, fell Clifford, and thee, false Frenchwoman. NORTHUMBERLAND: Beshrew me, but his passion moves me so Tha... ...ee daughters: by your leave I speak it, You love the breeder better than the male. [Enter a Messenger .] But what art thou, whose heavy looks foretell... ...d in a bush, With trembling wings misdoubteth every bush; And I, the hapless male to one sweet bird, Have now the fatal object in my eye Where my poor...

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...o and look around! Are they hither wending? Then to make our joy complete, Poets I invited, Who love other’s songs far more Than what they’ve indited.... ...with a friendly contest in the art of ballad-writing between the two great poets, to which many of their finest works are owing.] ONCE a stranger yout... ...r red-tinged eyes, so full of love, Soon see the inward-sorrowing one. The male, inquisitively social, leaps On the next bush, and looks Upon him kind... ...d! Ay, my voice shall now be heard, As a peal of thunder, strong! Words as poets’ arms were made,— When the god will he obey’d, Follow fast his darts ... ...ne that soon its beautiful margin Into a wall would be turn’d, to keep the French from our country, And its wide-spreading bed a ditch to hinder and c... ...ere warmly excited. Presently after began the war, and the train of arm’ d Frenchmen Nearer approach’ d; at first they appear’ d to bring with them fr... ...ce began round the newly-raised standards. In this manner the overpowering Frenchmen soon conquer’ d First the minds of the men, with their fiery live...

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...nd, and made my two boys proficient in that art; so much so, that when the French came to this country with Monsieur Rochambeau, not one of his office... ...the common people. I have seen in his very old age and decrepitude the old French King Lewis the Fourteenth, the type and model of kinghood—who never ... ...thanks in the Prayer-Book) who sold his country and who took bribes of the French king. What spectacle is more august than that of a great king in exi... ...Castlewood (the second Viscount), of King Charles the First’s time, had no male issue save his one son, Eustace Esmond, who was killed, with half of t... ...ferring the title of Marquis of Esmond on my Lord Castlewood and the heirs-male of his body; his appointment as Lord-Lieutenant of the County, and Maj... ...n this desultory way the works of most of the English, French, and Italian poets came under his eyes, and he had a smattering of the Spanish tongue li... ...fiddlers, laced clothes, fine furniture, and parasites, Jew and Christian, male and female, who clung to him. As, according to the famous maxim of Mon... ...ess that set one of his auditors a-laughing. “I admire the license of your poets,” says Esmond to Mr. Addison. (Dick, after reading of the verses, was... ...barous. The rites performed before it are shocking to think of. Y ou great poets should show it as it is—ugly and horrible, not beautiful and serene. ...

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...He had been up two or three times: he had planted letter, — English, German, French, &c. These men were slightly clad in shirt and pantaloons, like la... ...ween it and me. It reminded me of the creations of the old epic and dramatic poets, of Atlas, Vulcan, the Cyclops, and Prometheus. Such was Caucasus a... ...w? He lives three thousand years deep into time, an age not yet described by poets. Can you well go further back in history than this? Ay! ay! — for t... ...s she lay. When afterward I asked an Indian at the carry how much taller the male was, he answered, “Eighteen inches,” and made me observe the height ... ...hority among hunters that I could have, told 70 The Maine Woods me that the male was not eighteen inches taller than the female; yet he agreed that h... ... feet high to the top of the back, and weighed a thou sand pounds. Only the male has horns, and they rise two feet or more above the shoulders, — spr... ...ds, and convinced me that the Indian was not the invention of historians and poets. It was a purely wild and primitive American sound, as much as the ... ...n shore, who recognized my companion, was full of mirth and gestures, like a Frenchman. A Catholic priest crossed to the island in the same bateau wit... ...s familiar with the route. According to his calculation, we should reach the French settlements the next night after The Allegash and East Branch 143...

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...ble— to sound his praises in his own land. Let us suppose that a courteous Frenchman ventures an opinion among En- glishmen that Wellington was a grea... ...own-trodden country of slaves and pau- pers.” Under such circumstances the Frenchman would probably be shut up. And when I strove to speak of Wash- in... ...ancholy and miserable a town as the mind of man can conceive. Its ordinary male population, counting by the voters, is 1500, and of these 700 were in ... ...must probably be given mainly to Madison and Hamilton, Madison finding the French democratic element, and Hamilton the English conserva- tive element—... ...n historians are acknowledged as great au- thors, and as regards their own poets, will sometimes de- mand your admiration for strains with which you h...