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Excerpt: A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...t Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Start in Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publicati... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Start in Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylva... ... State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac A Start in Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated By Katharine Prescott Wormeley Dedicat... ...the Cours-la-Reine,—coucous which had flourished for a cen- tury, and were still numerous in 1830, scarcely exist in 1842, unless on the occasion of s... ... To- day the coucous—if by chance any of those birds of ponder- ous flight still linger in the second-hand carriage-shops— might be made, as to its st... ...n- deavored to monopolize, and the one most stoutly disputed (as indeed it still is), is that of Paris to Beaumont-sur-Oise,— a line extremely profita... ...igris and his master, who then came for- ward. “You are, no doubt, the two painters whom Monsieur Grindot, the architect, told me to expect.” He whist... ...he architect, had received notice from him of the early arrival of the two painters sent down to finish the decorations of the chateau, the principal ... ...looking at Bridau co- quettishly. “Beauty, madame, is a sovereign whom all painters wor- ship; it has unlimited claims upon them.” “They are both char...

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...f his work which the world had already got hold of, and which he could not burn. This too, since it was not to be abolished and annihilated, but must still for some time live and act, he wished to be wisely settled, as the rest had been. And so it was left in charge to us, the survivors, to do for it what we judged fittest, if indeed doing nothing did not seem the fittest ...

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...by Thomas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Thomas Carlyle The Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle PART I CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY N ear... ...burn. This too, since it was not to be abolished and annihilated, but must still for some time live and act, he wished to be wisely settled, as the re... ...those years, were prompt to seize the cue; and have prosecuted and perhaps still prosecute it, in their sad way, to all lengths and breadths. John Ste... ...d self-seekings, that this man appeared in life; nor as such, if the world still wishes to look at him should you suffer the world’s memory of him now... ...nce, which thus compels them to be their own architects, machinists, scene-painters, and actors! In fact, the artifice succeeds,—becomes grounded in t...

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Excerpt: Scenes from a Courtesan?s Life by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

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...Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electroni... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Penns... ... file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ... not disapprove of a step to which I was advised by your wife when she was still only Madame de Bargeton.” This neat retort, which made the Marquise s... ...self to be duped, while Blondet, though he knew that he was being fleeced, still did all he could for Finot. This brilliant condottiere of the pen was... ...or their cour- age, Lucien had just done what many men do in Paris: he had still further compromised his character by shaking Finot’s hand, and not re... ...ke one of those angels, mystical rather than real, which some of the early painters grouped in the background 109 Balzac of the Holy Family. The glan... ...eeling in front of a crucifix, in the attitude which the most religious of painters has given to Moses before the burning bush on Horeb, to depict his...

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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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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few years would have made it nece...

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...APTER I - ACROSS THE PLAIN........................3 CHAPTER II - THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COMMUNITIES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO ?AN INLAND VOYAGE?................................................................. 68 CHAPTER V - RANDOM MEMORIES.................79 CHAPTER VI - RANDOM MEMO...

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...CIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COM- MUNITIES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO “AN IN... ...ndly discharged their barrowful. With my own hand, for instance, I saved the life of a child as it sat upon its mother’s knee, she sitting on a box; a... ...for to ward off heavy boxes seemed at the moment a natural incident of human life. Cold, wet, clamour, dead opposition to progress, such as one encoun... ...ccidents of form and surface, I began to exult with myself upon this rise in life like a man who had come into a rich estate. And when I had asked the... ... one of those rare conjunctures.... Without being very clear see- ing, I can still perceive the sun at noonday; and the coloured gentleman deftly pock... ...week, and enjoyed some capital sport there with a dummy gun, my person being still unbreeched. My preference was founded on a work which appeared in C... ...re of fever heat and crystal pureness from horizon to horizon, the mists had still been there, and we knew that this paradise was haunted by killing d... ...0.] 52 Across the Plains CHAPTER III FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COMMUNI- TIES OF PAINTERS I THE CHARM OF FONTAINEBLEAU is a thing apart. It is a place tha... ...is – comes the great fact that it is already colonised. The institution of a painters’ colony is a work of time and tact. The population must be conqu...

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...Excerpt: Lucien had gone to Paris; and David Sechard, with the courage and intelligence of the ox which painters give the Evangelist for accompanying symbol, set himself to make the large fortune for which he had wished that evening down by the Charente, when he sat with Eve by the weir, and she gave him her hand and her heart....

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...Lucien. Part two, A Distinguished Provincial at Paris, centers on Lucien’s life in Paris. In many references parts one and three are combined under th... ...is; and David Sechard, with the cour- age and intelligence of the ox which painters give the Evan- gelist for accompanying symbol, set himself to make... ...rces; he confronted the ex- treme of poverty at the very outset of married life. He had kept one thousand francs for the working expenses of the busin... ...Marriage brings profound mental and physical perturba- tions into a girl’s life; and if she marries under the ordinary conditions of lower middle-clas... ... the 11 Balzac army, and none of his creditors would run after him. David still possessed some ascendency over the young fellow, due not to his posit... ... and our name as well,” she said; “and, as I have already shown you, I can still do a little business. And then we pay rent to M. Sechard senior, who ... ...answer. Your brother is on a road that leads him to ruin. At this moment I still feel sorry for him; before long I shall have forgotten him, of set pu...

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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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... into his death-swoon. Around the walls stand the Antinous, the Amazon, the Lycian Apollo, the Juno; all famous productions of antique sculpture, and still shining in the undiminished majesty and beauty of their ideal life, although the marble that embodies them is yellow with time, and perhaps corroded by the damp earth in which they lay buried for centuries. Here, likewi...

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... Lycian Apollo, the Juno; all famous productions of antique sculpture, and still shining in the undiminished majesty and beauty of their ideal life, a... ...e, and still shining in the undiminished majesty and beauty of their ideal life, although the marble that embodies them is yellow with time, and perha... ...derous remembrances; a perception of such weight and den- sity in a bygone life, of which this spot was the centre, that the present moment is pressed... ...s it, as if its sub- stance were warm to the touch, and imbued with actual life. It comes very close to some of our pleasantest sympathies. Perhaps it... ...awn phisticated man. The essence of all these was compressed long ago, and still exists, within that discolored marble sur- face of the Faun of Praxit... ...un; and, while putting him where he cannot exactly assert his brotherhood, still disposes us kindly towards the kindred creature. He is not supernatur... ...al atmosphere of these pro- ductions was thereby so influenced, that rival painters pro- nounced it a case of hopeless mannerism, which would de- stro... ...merely as the delineation of a lovely face; although Miriam, like all self-painters, may have endowed herself with certain graces which Other eyes mig... ... fore many a famous picture by Guido, Domenichino, Raphael, and the devout painters of earlier schools than these. Other artists and visitors from for...

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... into his death-swoon. Around the walls stand the Antinous, the Amazon, the Lycian Apollo, the Juno; all famous productions of antique sculpture, and still shining in the undiminished majesty and beauty of their ideal life, although the marble that embodies them is yellow with time, and perhaps corroded by the damp earth in which they lay buried for centuries. Here, likewi...

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... Lycian Apollo, the Juno; all famous productions of antique sculpture, and still shining in the undiminished majesty and beauty of their ideal life, a... ...e, and still shining in the undiminished majesty and beauty of their ideal life, although the marble that embodies them is yellow with time, and perha... ...derous remembrances; a perception of such weight and den- sity in a bygone life, of which this spot was the centre, that the present moment is pressed... ...s it, as if its sub- stance were warm to the touch, and imbued with actual life. It comes very close to some of our pleasantest sympathies. Perhaps it... ...awn phisticated man. The essence of all these was compressed long ago, and still exists, within that discolored marble sur- face of the Faun of Praxit... ...un; and, while putting him where he cannot exactly assert his brotherhood, still disposes us kindly towards the kindred creature. He is not supernatur... ...al atmosphere of these pro- ductions was thereby so influenced, that rival painters pro- nounced it a case of hopeless mannerism, which would de- stro... ...merely as the delineation of a lovely face; although Miriam, like all self-painters, may have endowed herself with certain graces which Other eyes mig... ... fore many a famous picture by Guido, Domenichino, Raphael, and the devout painters of earlier schools than these. Other artists and visitors from for...

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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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...them really,? he went on, ?for, even were it possible to meet in that stand-anddeliver way so silly a demand on so big a subject, my ?thoughts? would still be almost altogether about something that concerns only myself.? He was talking to Miss Staverton, with whom for a couple of months now he had availed himself of every possible occasion to talk; this disposition and thi...

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...possible to meet in that stand-and- deliver way so silly a demand on so big a subject, my ‘thoughts’ would still be almost altogether about some- thin... ...xperience, to partici- pate with a certain intelligence, almost with a certain authority. He had lived his life with his back so turned to such concer... ...: nothing was now likely, he knew, ever to make her better-off than she found herself, in the afternoon of life, as the delicately frugal possessor an... ...f the wholesale, break- ing through the mere gross generalisation of wealth and force and success, a small still scene where items and shades, all del... ...e experience of a man and the freedom of a wanderer, over- laid by pleasure, by infidelity, by passages of life that were strange and dim to her, just... ...asure, by infidelity, by passages of life that were strange and dim to her, just by “Europe” in short, but still unobscured, still exposed and cherish... ...ad been a ladder applied to the front of the house, even one of the vertiginous perpendiculars employed by painters and roofers and sometimes left sta...

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...e Forties,? of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter in the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy. Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the ?new people? whom New York was begin...

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...endour with those of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter in the shabby red and gold boxes o... ...med as natural to Newland Archer as all the other conventions on which his life was moulded: such as the duty of using two sil- ver-backed brushes wit... ...e, any hint of the frailty which had so nearly marred that unhappy being’s life, and had disarranged his own plans for a whole winter. How this miracl... ...at was somehow justified by the extreme decency and dignity of her private life. Mr. Manson Mingott had died when she was only twenty-eight, and had “... ...ttled?” He made no answer but that which his eyes returned, and she added, still more confidently smiling: “Tell my cousin yourself: I give you leave.... ...avation. A flight of smooth double chins led down to the dizzy depths of a still-snowy bosom veiled in snowy muslins that were held in place by a mini... ...of his universe. He knew that there were societies 73 Edith Wharton where painters and poets and novelists and men of science, and even great actors,... ...ink of. Archer knew most of the “fellows who wrote,” the musicians and the painters: he met them at the Century, or at the little musical and theatric... ...gle artist since I’ve been here.” “What kind of artists? I know one or two painters, very good fellows, that I could bring to see you if you’d allow m...

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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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...ope will equal your almost maternal kindness to me, would last beyond the limits prescribed for human affection. This sublime privilege of prolonging life in our hearts for a time by the life of the work we leave behind us would be (if we could only be sure of gaining it at last) a reward indeed for all the labor undertaken by those who aspire to such an immortality....

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...imits prescribed for human affection. This sublime privilege of prolonging life in our hearts for a time by the life of the work we leave behind us wo... ...- ers can reconstruct nations and individuals, in their habits and ways of life, from the remains of public monuments or the relics of a home. Archaeo... ...ossible not to feel a certain tender sensibility over a picture of Flemish life, if the accessories are clearly given. Why so? Perhaps, among other fo... ...anufac- ture of linen, and that of lace, a work of patient agriculture and still more patient industry, are hereditary like their fam- ily fortunes. I... ...tyr, painted by Titian in his robes as president of the Court of Parchons, still seemed the head of the family, who venerated him as their greatest ma... ...which she seemed to show in preference to the rest of her person, it would still have been impossible to escape riveting the attention exclu- sively u... ...rd of honor, they are mere screen-paint- ing,—no depth, no atmosphere; the painters were actually afraid to put colors on their canvas. And it is they...

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...Excerpt: Note. It is somewhat remarkable that Balzac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

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...e did with traits of character and the minute and daily circum- stances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or t... ... of Balzac’s remark- able and most famous pictures in the “Comedy of Human Life.” K.P.W. 4 Balzac BEATRIX I A BRETON TOWN AND MANSION F RANCE, especi... ...alzac BEATRIX I A BRETON TOWN AND MANSION F RANCE, especially in Brittany, still possesses certain towns completely outside of the movement which give... ...age of Provence, of the time of Louis XIV . in the depths of Pitou, and of still more ancient times in the towns of Brittany. Most of these towns have... ...h the truer history of manners and customs. The tradition of this splendor still lives in the memory of the people,—as in Brittany, where the native c... ...ided among many heirs, if the male line failed. Disinher- ited from active life, these heads became arms; and arms de- prived of nourishment, wither a... ... is Guerande. The name alone awak- ens a thousand memories in the minds of painters, artists, thinkers who have visited the slopes on which this splen... ...to inanimate nature. These relics, resisting change, present to the eye of painters those dusky tones and half-blurred features in which the artistic ... ...s. Her skin, so milk-white once, had taken the warm and pearly tones which painters adore. Her broad and finely modelled brow caught lovingly the ligh...

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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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............................................................................................................................. 75 THE TURNING-POINT OF MY LIFE ................................................................................................................... 86 HOW TO MAKE HISTORY DATES STICK ........................................................................

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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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...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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...oe kisse, Then are they purest; Change’is the nursery 35 Of musicke, joy, life, and eternity. - 4 - CHANGE John Donne: Elegies THE PERFUME ONCE,... ...as our soules, we’have beene. Though thy immortall mother which doth lye Still buried in her bed, yet will not dye, Takes this advantage to slee... ...o write my name in thy loving bookes As those Idolatrous flatterers, which still 5 Their Princes stiles, with many Realmes fulfill Whence they no... ...e. Thy graces and good words my creatures bee; 25 I planted knowledge and lifes tree in thee, Which Oh, shall strangers taste? Must I alas Fram... ...Y IDEOT John Donne: Elegies THE COMPARISON AS the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still, As that which from chaf’d muskats pores doth trill, As the Alm... ...ugh; Though you stay here you passe too fast away: For even at first lifes Taper is a snuffe. Fill’d with her love, may I be rather grown ... ... And in that pleasure lengthen the short dayes Of my lifes lease; like Painters that do take Delight, not in made worke, but whiles they m...