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...gress in that particular. They sometimes display a bewildering magnificence, grandeur, and luxury; they lack neither grace nor noble manners; but the life of the brain, the talent for conversation, the ?Attic salt? so familiar at Paris, the prompt apprehension of what one is thinking, but does not say, the spirit of the unspoken, which is half the French language, is nowhe...

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..., grandeur, and luxury; they lack neither grace nor noble manners; but the life of the brain, the talent for conversation, the “ Attic salt” so famili... ...iding at Genoa, two Parisians, more or less famous, could fancy themselves still in Paris when they found themselves in a palazzo, taken by the French... ...otti than by reason of an unknown incident, one of those crises of private life which are so instantly buried under the daily tide of interests that, ... ...reer. This excellent man, if not indeed a saint, regarded each year of his life as a fresh gift from God. I need not tell you that the father confesso... ...across, my uncle and I, from the porter’s lodge— Inquire of the Porter was still written over the door—towards the outside steps, where a footman came... ...aw courts. T wo candelabra with four lights, screened by lamp-shades, were still burning at the opposite ends of the 15 Balzac writing-table, and sho... ...ine the pale gold, ambient glory in which Raphael and Titian, alone of all painters, have been able to enwrap the Virgin. Her brown eyes expressed bot...

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...................................................................... 6 THE LIFE OF MONTAIGNE ............................................................ ... 282 CHAPTER XXXII THAT WE ARE TO A VOID PLEASURES, EVEN AT THE EXPENSE OF LIFE .......... 285 CHAPTER XXXIII THAT FORTUNE IS OFTENTIMES OBSERVED TO A... ...ier undertaking have occasionally been inserted at the foot of the page. A Life of the Author and all his recovered Letters, sixteen in number, have a... ..., in Latin, to be placed upon one of the walls of his chateau, where it is still to be seen, and of which the translation is to this effect:— “In the ... ...escribes her very ruins as ruined.]—As to those small fragments which were still to be seen on the surface, notwithstanding the assaults of time and a... ...n came upon the crown of some lofty column, which, though thus buried, was still standing upright. The people there have no recourse to other founda- ... ...o, it is said, to the other cities of Greece, to inquire out rhetoricians, painters, and musicians; but to Lacedaemon for legislators, magistrates, an...

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... edition. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: Being an Estract from the Life of a Scholar. From the “London Magazine” for September 1821. T T T T T... ...RESENT YOU, courteous reader, with the record of a remarkable period in my life: according to my application of it, I trust that it will prove not mer... ... For my own part, without breach of truth or modesty, I may affirm that my life has been, on the whole, the life of a philosopher: from my birth I was... ...therefore, I do not acknowledge; and if I did, it is possible that I might still resolve on the present act of con- fession in consideration of the se... ...f cold and, I fear, hunger, the forsaken child had found leisure to suffer still more (it appeared) from the self-created one of ghosts. I promised he... ...have all the claims (or more than all) that I had stated; but one question still remained, which the faces of the Jews pretty significantly suggested—... ...ntroduce a painter, and give him direc- tions for the rest of the picture. Painters do not like white cottages, unless a good deal weather-stained; bu...

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... Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Elixir of Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publicati... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Elixir of Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring, the Pennsylva... ...ate University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac The Elixir of Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Clara Bell and James Waring To the ... ... they meet the gaze of eyes that they would fain close for ever, eyes that still open each morning to the light, like Belvidero’s in this Study. God a... ... dawn. Forgetful of the past, with the intoxication of yesterday’s rapture still upon me, I drink deep of life—a whole lifetime of pleasure and of lov... ... it,” his son remarked. Though Bartolommeo could no longer speak, he could still hear and see. When those words dropped from Don Juan, his head turned... ...rouped about him, as the saints who con- fessed Christ on earth are set by painters, each in his place, about the throne of God in heaven. The precent...

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... after her arrival at the Eternal City, by declaring, in her own enthusiastic manner, that she was inspired by a burning desire to drink fresh at the still living fountains of classical poetry and sentiment....

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...ic manner, that she was inspired by a burning desire to drink fresh at the still liv- ing fountains of classical poetry and sentiment. But I al- ways ... ... paint- ers, poets, novelists, or sculptors;—perhaps I should say would-be painters, poets, novelists, and sculptors,—as- pirants hoping to become som... ...which we breathe that fills our lungs and 8 Mrs. General Talboys gives us life and light. It is that which refreshes us if pure, or sinks us into sta... ... the barriers of religion, so far as those barriers may affect themselves, still maintain them on behalf of their children. “Yes,” said Mrs. Talboys; ... ...ok down upon that multitude, Mackinnon; they shall all be free.” And then, still clutching him by the arm, and still standing at the top of those stai...

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...reater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster. The remains of this extensive wood are still to be seen at the noble seats of Wentworth, of Warncliffe Park, and around Rotherham. Here haunted of yore the fabulous Dragon of Wantley; here were fought many of the most desperate battles during the Civil Wars of the...

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...and the pleasant town of Doncaster. The remains of this extensive wood are still to be seen at the noble seats of Wentworth, of Warncliffe Park, and a... ...by common language and mutual interests, two hos- tile races, one of which still felt the elation of triumph, while the other groaned under all the co... ...lo-Saxon was abandoned to the use of rustics and hinds, who knew no other. Still, how- ever, the necessary intercourse between the lords of the soil, ... ..., “thou canst tell us if thou wilt. This reverend brother has been all his life engaged in fighting among the Saracens for the recovery of the Holy Se... ... sudden and hasty temper. Pride and jealousy there was in his eye, for his life had been spent in asserting rights which were constantly liable to inv... ... draw near to the upper end of the table, seemed uncertain. Had there been painters in those days capable to execute such a subject, the Jew, as he be... ... no language which the Normans more formally separated from that of common life than the terms of the chase. The objects of their pursuit, whether bir...

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER 1; Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some people of course never do--the situation is in itself delightfu...

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...3 CHAPTER 1 1 CHAPTER 1 U nder certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afte... ...ey lengthened slowly, however, and the scene expressed that sense of leisure still to come which is perhaps the chief source of one’s enjoyment of suc... ... had extended itself upon a huge, magnificent, and terribly angular bed which still formed the principal honour of the sleeping apartments), had been a... ...e level hill top seemed but the extension of a luxurious interior. The great still oaks and beeches flung down a shade as dense as that of velvet curta... ...as all the more of a merit. It seemed to tell that he had been successful in life, yet it seemed to tell also that his success had not been exclusive ... ... don’t look as if you had been sick, any way, Lord Warburton.” “He’s sick of life; he was just telling me so; going on fearfully about it,” said Lord ... ... his society, while he pointed out its principal ornaments and mentioned the painters and subjects. Miss Stack pole looked at the pictures in perfect...

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...ennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents LIFE OF ALEXANDER POPE ....................................................... ... GILFILLAN M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.LVI. VI. VI. VI. VI. LIFE OF ALEXANDER POP LIFE OF ALEXANDER POP LIFE OF ALEXANDER POP LIFE OF A... ...NDER POP LIFE OF ALEXANDER POP LIFE OF ALEXANDER POP LIFE OF ALEXANDER POP LIFE OF ALEXANDER POPE E E E E Alexander Pope was born in Lombard Street, L... ...he subscription edition of the “Odyssey,” in five volumes quarto, which is still preserved by his descendants. Pope’s father had made about £10,000 by... ...r Pope – V olume One cate in health, and their only child. Pope’s study is still pre- served in Binfield; and on the lawn, a cypress-tree which he is ... ...translation. It is now, however, we believe, cer- tain, from the MS. which still exists, that Tickell was the real author. A coldness, from this date,... ...nothing’s just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus, unskill’d to trace The naked nature and the living grace, W...

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..., or cannot write, Or with a Rival’s or an Eunuch’s spite. All Fools have still an Itching to deride, And fain wou’d be upon the Laughing Side ; ... ...ism” – Pope 3 If Maevius Scribble in Apollo’s spight, There are, who judge still worse than he can write Some have at first for Wits, then Poets ... ...gle Parts . Like Kings we lose the Conquests gain’d before, By vain Ambition still to make them more: Each might his sev’ral Province well command, ... ...e clear, unchang’d and Universal Light, “An Essay on Criticism” – Pope 4 Life, Force, and Beauty, must to all impart, At once the Source, and En... ...thing’s just or fit; One glaring Chaos and wild Heap of Wit; Poets like Painters, thus, unskill’d to trace The naked Nature and the living Grace... ... Patriarch Wits surviv’d thousand Years; Now Length of Fame (our second Life) is lost, And bare Threescore is all ev’n That can boast: Our Sons t...

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... fifty years and fair round belly. The fact is, we are much more afraid of life than our ancestors, and cannot find it in our hearts either to marry o... ...het and treat you to sour looks thence-forward. So, in one way or another, life forces men apart and breaks up the goodly fellowships for ever. The ve... ...rilous remedy. Instead of on two or three, you stake your happiness on one life only. But still, as the bargain is more explicit and complete on your ... ...Instead of on two or three, you stake your happiness on one life only. But still, as the bargain is more explicit and complete on your part, it is mor... ...us disposition. As to her internal accomplishments, I have reason to speak still more highly of them: good sense without vanity, a penetrating judgmen... ... or a right colour, or made a dexterous stroke with his brush. And, again, painters may work out of doors; and the fresh air, the deliberate seasons, ... ...’s aspiration: “Ah, if he could only die temporarily!” Or, perhaps, better still, the inward reso- lution of the two pirates, that “so long as they re...

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...But it seemed as though distance 5 Balzac had loosened them; I wearied of life, like a turtle-dove wid- owed of her mate. Death smiled sweetly on me,... ...out all interest in one’s surround- ings, had become for us two a world of life and movement. Imagination had thrown open her fairy realms, and in the... ...mpty pitcher, thinking to find it full. My aunt knew nothing of this inner life. How could she, who has made a paradise for herself within the two acr... ...ided between me and the armorial bearings. At Beaugency night overtook me, still sunk in a stupor of the mind produced by these strange parting words.... ...as much by age as by the pangs of approaching death. The room seemed to me still warm with the heat which she kept up there. How comes it that Armande... ... Maucombe, and she who survives only in my heart, the dear old lady, whose still youthful eyes used to open from sleep at my call. How well we underst... ...wy brows. I can pose as a Madonna with melancholy, swan-like neck, and the painters’ virgins will be nowhere; my place in heaven would be far above th...

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...s. I was not, in truth, a steerage passenger. Although anxious to see the worst of emigrant life, I had some work to finish on the voyage, and was adv... ...nd dish-cloths in the second. As a matter of fact, I have seen passengers, after many sips, still doubting which had been supplied them. In the way of... ...rse of a voyage of discovery between decks, I came on a brass plate, and learned that I was still a gentleman. Nobody knew it, of course. I was lost i... ...much as a swagger to indicate that I was a gentleman after all, and had broken meat to tea. Still, I was like one with a patent of nobility in a drawe... ...im a Scotsman who had been long to sea; and yet he was from Wales, and had been most of his life a blacksmith at an inland forge; a few years in Ameri... ...d ad- venturous. A young man, you fancy, scorning restraints and helpers, issues forth into life, that great battle, to fight for his own hand. The mo... ...unged in transparent shadow. Over the trees the west begins to burn like a furnace; and the painters gather up their chattels, and go down, by avenue ... ...ke this among the woods, with all its sights and noises; and the ef- fect gets between some painters and their sober eyesight, so that, even when the ...

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...nds; friends who have the courage to tell you disagreeable things all your life along, who are rough and sharp as currycombs, under the pretence that ... ..., under the pretence that they are yours to command, in all the mishaps of life, and in the hour of extreme unction, all their worth will be known. If... ...was his wife by his side, and thanking her for the youth and freshness she still retained. On hearing her husband, the wife began to cry out, and by h... ... was an idiot, that she displeased him in every possible way, and made his life almost unbearable; that she would wake him out of his first sleep, nev... ...iew to cure the king’s melancholy. At this time, Adrian VI., the Dutchman, still wore the ti- ara, who, a good fellow, for the rest did not forget, in... ...e the raillery: To honour the saints after the fashion of Poissy. There is still the crucifix of Poissy, which kept the stomachs warm; and the matins ... ...tle of Amboise, they came with him certain workmen, master sculptors, good painters, and masons, or architects, who ornamented the galleries with sple...

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... community, tenderly alive to the pieties of household duty, and in an age still clinging rever- entially to the ceremonial ordinances of religion, wo... ...the great family of Christ. Considering the extreme frailty of an infant’s life during its two earliest years, to delay would often be to dis- inherit... ...thinking, would be celebrated as a festival in the family for generations. Still this choice may have been an accident, or governed merely by reason o... ...we have reason to feel no little perplexity in finding the materials for a life of this transcendent writer so meagre and so few; and amongst them the... ...bted, indeed, whether at this day we arc as accurately acquainted with the life of Shakspeare as with that of Chaucer, though divided from each other ... ...tle or nothing for any poetry, although he wrote about its mechanic rules. Still the royal imprimatur would be influential and serviceable no less whe... ...Cloanthem;” just sufficient to make them know- able apart. Pliny speaks of painters who painted in one or two colors; and, as respects the angelic cha... ...re, the absolute creator of female character, was but the mightiest of all painters with regard to male character. Take a single instance. The Antony ...

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...Cosmo-Art is an artistic movement that is accessible to anyone who has the strength and courage necessary to detach from their Fetal I that they still carry within, and elevate themselves to the cosmic artistic dimension of the Adult I, which embraces the whole life of a human being […] A. Mercurio This book represents the culmination of the Author’s anthropologica...

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...nd Axioms A New Poetic and Fascinating Cosmological Viewpoint of Human Life in this Universe 2 Published by the Solaris Institu... ...nyone who has enough strength and courage to detach from the Fetal I they still carry within, and move upwards towards the cosmic artistic dimensio... ...mension of the Adult I . This second dimension is present during the entire life of a human being: from the first moment of conception up to ultracos... ...fe of a human being: from the first moment of conception up to ultracosmic life, it is possible to make one's life and the life of the cosmos into a... ...nd no longer felt any pain; now it was both eternal and immortal. It could still change shape, just like a work of art can change shape if you look a... ...future. All the universes communicate with each other even though today we still do not know how. The law of general gravity tells us that all the a... ...ransformed into secondary beauty, a beauty that never dies. We are like painters and each of us receive a canvas. This canvas, in and of itself, i... ...ve a canvas. This canvas, in and of itself, is banal and mortal. There are painters who know how to transform this canvas into an immortal work of ar... ...nks any longer about the canvas that lies below the painting) and there are painters that don't know how to paint. Instead of painting, they only man...

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...based it on contradictions. Why? Because we lived in that society a double life: an official one - propagated by the political system, and another on... ... system, and another one real. In mass-media it was promulgated that 'our life is wonderful', but in reality 'our life was miserable'. The paradox f... ...olute and involute periods, in a recurrent mode; the life of <A> restarts. 17 Marx's 'spiral' of evolution is replaced by a m... ...s for more and better creation or work. (Applies to some artists, poets, painters, sculptors, spiritualists.) My Syndrome: Is characterized by nose... ...sible to remove an atom from an object in such a way that what is left is still a visible object. However, repeating and repeating this process, at s... ...n's "things' dialectic creates the ideas' dialectic, but not reciprocally" still works vice versa. 37 Same back and forth dynamics for trialectic ... ...ountries than in rich industrialized ones? But a hoarfrost of culture still subsists, for example, in the American academic media (Dana Gioia). ...

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...mpire 33-44 CHAPTER II. Visions of the past. -- Eastward and westward of human life -- The greatness of ancient Carthage -- Venice the mistress of the... ...Prevented by fears of his personal safety -- Description of the King -- Animal life on Crab island -- An accident to the ship -- A pleasant visit to t... ...4 CHAPTER XXXVIII. Voyage Of Mons. de Bougainville. -- A short history of the life of this great voyager -- His efforts to colonize the Falkland Isla... ... give immunity to those not yet affected by the taint, and reclaim such as may still be susceptible to more elevating influences. History is the only ... ... returned to Greenland where he built several churches, the ruins of which may still be seen. The Norsemen, as we have said, were excellent navigators... ...e printed in that tongue. At the time of the fishermen's visit, the people had still an intercourse with Greenland whence they imported furs, brimston... ...America up to the time of the settlement of the country by the whites. Mexican painters were also employed to make pictures of the Spaniards and of th...

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...dishabille. Their doors are swinging wide, and one gets glimpses of their furniture, revelations of their habits, and whiffs of their cooking, that a life-time of ordinary intercourse would not offer. Superficial differences vanish, and so (how much oftener) do superficial resemblances; while deep unsuspected similarities and disagreements, deep common attractions and repu...

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... furniture, revelations of their habits, and whiffs of their cooking, that a life time of ordinary intercourse would not offer. Superficial differences... ...een contradictions, and his sharp outlines will become blurred with what the painters call “repentances.” From this twilight it is hardly possible for... ...en for examination one finds only the crown in one’s hand, and the tough root still clenched in some crevice of prehistory. And as to race resemblances... ...etting anywhere near the truth is to try to keep to the traveller’s way, and still see his subject in the light of contrasts. It is absurd for an Angl... ... wine, between those whose social polity dates from the Forum, and those who still feel and legislate in terms of the primæ val forest. This use of t... ...re justifiable because one may safely say that most things in a man’s view of life depend on how many thousand years ago his land was deforested. And w... ...; and now, how am I to make the most of it?” The double sense of fugacity of life, and of the many and durable things that may be put into it, is mani... ...even if it seems fanciful to believe that the actual descendants of the cave painters survived there can be little doubt that their art, or its memory...

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...nism,—plurality of gods, mere sensuous representa- tion of this Mystery of Life, and for chief recognized element therein Physical Force? Was it Chris... ... uncertainty and inquiry whether there was an Unseen World, any Mystery of Life except a mad one;—doubt as to all this, or perhaps unbelief and flat d... ...ns, confusions, falsehoods, and ab- surdities, covering the whole field of Life! A thing that fills us with astonishment, almost, if it were possible,... ...nto ev- ery generation. At bottom some belief in a kind of Pope! At bottom still better, belief that there is a Greatest Man; that he is discoverable;... ...is Universe. Which agrees, add they, with a pri- mary law of human nature, still everywhere observably at work, though in less important things, That ... ...t; not in Bunyan’s nor in any other case. For Paganism, therefore, we have still to inquire, Whence came that scientific certainty, the parent of such... ...I suppose, they would go on singing, poetically symbolizing, as our modern Painters paint, when it was no longer from the in- nermost heart, or not fr... ...re trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow. Raphael, the Painters tell us, is the best of all Portrait-painters withal. No most gift...

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... great majority of people trust to nothing else; which may do for ordinary life, but not for philosophical purposes. Of this out of ten thousand insta... ...n to it. Y et why? For he has actually seen the 5 effect every day of his life. The reason is—that he allows his understanding to overrule his eyes. ... ...ad his consciousness has not seen) that which he has seen every day of his life. But to return from this digression, my understanding could furnish no... ...os- sessing the heart of man,—if all at once he should hear the death-like stillness broken up by the sound of wheels rat- tling away from the scene, ... ...ssed—but I am sorry to say that an- other exists in London, of a character still more atrocious. In tendency, it may be denominated a Society for the ... ...on and administration to his effects. But another thing, which seems to me still more funny about this affair is, that if these Friezland hounds had b... ... others, with the jaw-bone of an ass; which is the tooling adopted by most painters. But it is pleasing to the mind of sensibility to know that, as sc...

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...murder (as afterwards transpired) for bread, for clothes, for promotion in life, was silently preparing an effectual answer to the public journals; an... ...ficulties, and most flexibly adapting himself to all variet- ies of social life. Williams was a man of middle stature (five feet seven and a-half, to ... ...u might imagine,’ said my informant, ‘that in his veins circulated not red life-blood, such as could kindle into the blush of shame, of wrath, of pity... ...- seven; in some slight degree uneasy from his commercial pros- pects, but still cheerful, and anticipating—(how vainly!)— 14 The Note Book of an Eng... ...unavailingly to Marr, had been turned to account by Williams. There can be still less doubt, that the bloodhound had commenced his work within one min... ...once having secured that concealment from the public eye it then became of still greater importance not to lose a moment by delay, than previously it ... ...face a re- source sanctioned in similar cases by the greatest of the Greek painters. Thirdly, The voluminous draperies of the scenic dresses, and gene...

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...fied degree wherever he might be. Monsieur had fallen into this situation by habit. It was not, perhaps, this which gave him that air of list- lessnes... ... friends to be cut off without feeling a little excite- ment, and as, since the accession of Mazarin to power, no heads had been cut off, Monsieur’s o... ... – V ol. 1 with the words ‘Monsieur Raoul’?” “It is all very well — I will not write to him at all,” said the young girl. “Ah, ah! in good sooth, Mont... ...; you belong to the court; the king, if he should marry, will require Monsieur to be near his person; you will see splendid fetes; you will see the ki... ...d said, “It appears that you come from Paris, monsieur?” “This minute, monseigneur.” “How is the king?” “His majesty is in perfect health, monseigneur... ...r he does my house.” “Vive le Roi!” cried all the officers of the household with frantic enthusiasm, and M. de Saint-Remy louder than the rest. Gaston... ...es upon the water, on the surface of each event. It is doubtless time to trace, in a few words, one of the most interesting portraits of the age, and ... ...xcellent acquaintance.” “I have not the good fortune to understand you, D’Herblay.” “Monseigneur, we had our own poets, our own engi- neer, our own ar...

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...rles Grosvenor Osgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction ... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction ... ...sylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Boswell’s Life of Johnson Life of Johnson by James Boswell Boswell’s Life of Johnson ... ...hus, through his friend- ship with Boswell, Johnson will realize his wish, still to be teaching as the years increase. THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.... ...magination should have so far deceived him, is strange; but it is stranger still that some of his friends should have given credit to his groundless o... ...in the fields on Sunday. This habit continued till my fourteenth year; and still I find a great reluctance to go to church. I then became a sort of la... ...o read what you say of any thing. Suppose a face has been painted by fifty painters before; still we love to see it done by Sir Joshua.’ Johnson. ‘Tru...

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...zas from the Grande Chartreuse .......................................................................................................................... ... Are haunts meet for thee. But, where Helicon breaks down In cliff to the sea, Where the moon-silver’d inlets Send far their l... ..., The strife with the palm; The night in her silence, The stars in their calm. 6 Matthew Arnold Bacchanalia or The New Age I The evening ... ...ows The perfume which the day forgoes. And on the pure horizon far, See, pulsing with the first-born star, The liquid sky above the hill! The evening ... ...s orators have shone, The famous poets sung and gone, The famous men of war have fought, The famous speculators thought, The famous players, sculptors... ...ering the past about, Comes the new age. Bards make new poems, Thinkers new schools, Statesmen new systems, Critics new rules. All t... ...plays, And murmurs of the Adriatic come To those untrodden mountain-lawns; and there Placed safely in changed forms, the pair Wholly f...

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...nces), it follows that we must represent men either as better than in real life, or as worse, or as they are. It is the same in painting. Polygnotus d... ...as nobler than they are, Pauson as less noble, Dionysius drew them true to life. Now it is evident that each of the modes of imitation above mentioned... ...omedy aims at representing men as worse, T ragedy as better than in actual life. III There is still a third difference—the manner in which each of the... ...senting men as worse, T ragedy as better than in actual life. III There is still a third difference—the manner in which each of these objects may be i... ...ions. The appropriate metre was also here introduced; hence the measure is still called the iambic or lampooning measure, being that in which people l... ...gedy. But when T ragedy and Comedy came to light, the two classes of poets still followed their natural bent: the lampooners became writers of Com- ed... ... of persons who s are above the common level, the example of good portrait-painters should be followed. They, while reproducing the distinctive form o...

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... had spent five days at Siena, where he had intended to spend but two, and still it was impossible to continue his journey. He was a young man of a co... ... exercise. He lounged, how- ever, contentedly enough through these bright, still days of a Tuscan April, drawing much entertainment from the high pict... ...ations upon Sienese architecture and early Tuscan art, upon Italian street-life and the geological idiosyn- crasies of the Apennines. If he had only g... ...the parapet of the terrace would form the fore- ground. The thing was what painters call a subject, and he had promised himself to come back with his ... ...g petitions, sacred and profane, at the church door; but save for this the stillness was unbroken. The yellow sunshine warmed the brown surface of the... ...rritation, appeared to have no effect upon the young girl. “Is n’t it what painters call a study?” she went on. “A study is of use to the painter hims... ...he simple fact of its having survived the sentimental revolutions of early life. Its strongest link was a sort of mutual respect. Their tastes, their ... ...t, for a man who was supposed not to take especially the Epicurean view of life, Gordon Wright, in coming to Baden, had certainly made himself comfort... ...all times the foreground of his consciousness. Bernard was like some great painters; his foregrounds were very happily arranged. He heard nothing of M...

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............................................................ 58 Not Love, But Life ......................................................................... ...s sons you find three out of every five of them with their minds lamed for life by examinations which only a thoroughly wooden head could go through w... ...advanced; and that I read Das Kapital in the year 1882 or thereabouts, and still consider it 8 The Perfect Wagnerite one of the most important books ... ...consecrated as the Holy Land of the capitalist age, just as Italy, for its painters’ sakes, is the Holy Land of the early unvulgarized Renascence; Fra... ...I have hurt them; and I appeal to charitable publishers to bring out a new life of Wagner, which shall describe him as a court musician of un- questio... ...ce of his prettiest fool’s paradise. As many English Wagnerites seem to be still under the impression that Wagner composed Rienzi in his youth, T annh... ...her powers are called into existence by the same self-organization of life still more wonderfully into rare per- sons who may by comparison be called ...

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... my belief that it has been my singular good fortune to have very early in life fallen in with certain tracks which have conducted me to consideration... ...hest point which the mediocrity of my talents and the brief duration of my life will permit me to reach. For I have already reaped from it such fruit... ...the paths I DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD 4 have followed, and to delineate my life as in a picture, in order that each one may also be able to judge of t... ...e that was of such a nature as I had pre viously been given to believe. I still continued, however, to hold in esteem the studies of DISCOURSE ON THE... ... give expression to them with the greatest embellishment and harmony, are still the best po ets, though unacquainted with the art of poetry. I was e... ..., and that yet there is not a single matter within its sphere which is not still in dispute, and nothing, therefore, which is above doubt, I did not p... ...write it, I thought I knew of the nature of material objects. But like the painters who, finding themselves unable to represent equally well on a plai...

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...he middle of the XIXth century that it stands unaltered to this day and is still quite presentable. EMMY [entering and immediately beginning to dust t... ...on-breasted and stale after thirty, as hand- some young Jews often do, but still decidedly good-looking. THE GENTLEMAN. Do you remember me? Schutzmach... ...uth, and an occasional turn of speech, are Irish; but he has lived all his life in England and is thoroughly acclimatized. His manner to Ridgeon, whom... ...discovery. SIR PATRICK. No, no: I dont go quite so far as that, Colly. But still, you remember Jane Marsh? RIDGEON. Jane Marsh? No. SIR PATRICK. You d... ...ks machine-made and beeswaxed; but his scrutiniz- ing, daring eyes give it life and force. He seems never at a loss, never in doubt: one feels that if... ...as all right again, and absolutely immune from typhoid for the rest of his life. The family were very nice about it: their gratitude was quite touchin... ...eing you as they never could get from any daubing with paints and brushes. Painters must paint you as they never painted any mortal woman before. Ther...

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...Series. Cover design: Jim Manis; Caricature of Mark T wain appearing in Life: 31 January 1907 Copyright © 1999 The Pennsylvania State University Th... .................. ............................... 75 THE TURNING POINT OF MY LIFE ......................................................................... ... grinds the rock to powder and sets the ore free. The iron in the ore is still captive. An outside influence smelts it free of the clogging ore. Th... ...nd it automatically turned out that pictured and gor geous fabric which still compels the astonishment of the world. If Shakespeare had been born a... ...lses, good or bad, come—from outside. If that timid man had lived all his life in a community of human rab bits, had never read of brave deeds, had ... ... relieve the old woman he would not get any sleep. He must buy some sleep—still thinking of him self, you see. Thus, to sum up, he bought himself f... ...s, philologists, college presidents and professors, architects, engineers, painters, sculptors, politicians, agitators, rebels, revolution ists, patr...

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...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glorious as the unti...

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...ANDS GEORGE DE BARNWELL BY SIR E. L. B. L., BART. VOL I. IN THE MORNING OF LIFE THE T RUTHFUL wooed the Beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like ... ...slets of the amethyst Aegean! These are gone, but thou remainest. There is still a garland for thy temple, a heifer for thy stone. A heifer? Ah, many ... ...t harms, the Furies that tear, the Love that bleeds, are not these with us Still? are not these still the weapons of the Artist? the colors of his pal... ...l; the daunt- less street urchins, as they gayly threaded the Labyrinth of Life, enjoyed the perplexities and quarrels of the scene, and exacer- bated... ... as, in sooth, his back was turned), had just reached that happy period of life when the Boy is expanding into the Man. O Y outh, Y outh! Happy and Be... ...at Nathan’s in Covent Garden (the children of the gardeners of Sharon have still no rival for flowers), might be seen, three nights in the week at lea... ...r hair had that deep glowing tinge in it which has been the delight of all painters, and which, therefore, the vulgar sneer at. It was of burning aubu...

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...ed a great reputation for valor in the field and for wickedness in private life. At the siege of T arragona it lost its celebrated hero, Bianchi, the ... ...ossible woman be- cause he was tired of all women, had ever seen. He could still quiver, he, who had wasted his fortune on a thousand follies, the tho... ...ighting was centred in the market-place, where a few obstinate beings were still defend- ing the town. A better idea then occurred to him. Diard came ... ...shop and this living-room, so fine in color and in its tone of patriarchal life, was a dark staircase leading to a ware-room where the light, carefull... ...the Christ,—the glowing imagination of the boldest and also the warmest of painters. In this young girl three things were united, a single one of whic... ...as gifted with a certain patriarchal eloquence, in keeping with his simple life and customs, his tale will be im- proved by abridgment. At the period ... ...ther; for, in her 14 Juana total, her eternal shipwreck, motherhood might still redeem her. T o accomplish sacredly through life the task of sending ...

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...OF POP Y OF POP Y OF POP Y OF POP Y OF POPE E E E E Few poets during their lifetime have been at once so much admired and so much abused as Pope. Some... ...isle has exaggerated the “De- cline and Fall” of the empire of Pope. He is still, with the exception, perhaps, of Cowper, the most popular poet of the... ...he mariner on the lonely wave. He was the poet of personality and polished life. That which was nearest to him was the greatest. His mind was the anti... ... artificial objects be better suited for the treatment of the poet. In our life of Bowles we promised, and shall now proceed to attempt, a short revie... ...”knotty entrails” are exchanged for a “bodkin’s eye”— the fine dew of the “still vexed Bermoothes” is degraded into an “essence;” pomatum takes the pl... ...“Essay on Man” ought to have been called an “Epi- gram on Man,” or, better still, should have been propounded as a riddle, to which the word “Man” was... ...y all With truth and goodness, as with crown and ball. Poets heap virtues, painters gems at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. ’...

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...down later into the types of beauty imagined by the previous generation of painters. They took the only part of our society in which there was leisure... ...have left them helpless end ineffective in public affairs. Even in private life they were often helpless wasters of their inher- itance, like the peop... ...as been as recklessly neglected by Govern- ments and electorates during my lifetime as sanitary science was in the days of Charles the Second. In inte... ... not been prevented. They were not undone by winning the war. The earth is still bursting with the dead bodies of the victors. The Wicked Half Century... ...destinately saved or damned, nothing that we can do can alter our destiny. Still, as Calvinism gave the indi- vidual no clue as to whether he had draw... ...by discoveries of extraor- dinary interest in physics, chemistry, and that lifeless method of evolution which its investigators called Natural Selecti... ... to rediscover En- gland, and find solid ground for the faith of those who still believed in her. But a necessary condition of this efficiency was tha...

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...race that has conquered so wide an empire has not yet managed to assimilate the islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish mountains still cling, in part, to their old Gaelic speech. It was but the other day that English triumphed in Cornwall, and they still show in Mousehole, on St. Michael?s Bay, the house of the last Cornish-speaking woman. English itse...

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...eep the secret: not because I love him better, but because, with him, I am still in a business partnership, and cannot divide interests. Of the papers... ...he islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish moun- tains still cling, in part, to their old Gaelic speech. It was but the other day ... ...ech. It was but the other day that English triumphed in Cornwall, and they still show in Mousehole, on St. Michael’s Bay, the house of the last Cornis... ...dy in fight, imperious to command, but neither curious nor quick about the life of others. In *1881. 6 Robert Louis Stevenson French colonies, and st... ...ympathy is begotten, or at the least a transfusion of prejudices, mak- ing life easier for both. But the Englishman sits apart, burst- ing with pride ... ...drop in the bucket. And we find in his book a vast virgin ignorance of the life and prospects of America; every view partial, pa- rochial, not raised ... ...ng to write about the inn at Burford, or to describe scenery with the word-painters; it is quite another to seize on the heart of the suggestion and m...