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...d their impulses: Stendhal, so alert, so mo- bile, after a youth passed in war and a ripe age spent in vagabond journeys, rich in experiences, immedia... ...le, blue eyes, and the scar from a sword-cut, which he had received in the war with Austria; he was said to be an honorable man, as well as a brave of... ... in turn punished his inferiors. The general had said: “One does not go to war in order to amuse oneself, and to caress prostitutes.” And Graf von Far... ...course, and was more excited by that compliment than if it had come from a queen. I was seduced, conquered, vanquished. I could have embraced her—upon... ... being the Epiphany! I have had a bean put into the goose, but there is no queen; it is really very annoying!’ And I re- peated like an echo: ‘It is a... ...ugh. ‘By Jove, Monsieur le Cure, it is very vexing not to have an Epiphany queen, for we have the bean. Come, think. Is there not a 170 De Maupassant...

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...ted up and furnished in what we 23 Sir Walter Scott now call the taste of Queen Elizabeth’s age. The light, admit- ted from the upper part of a high ... ...nd is termed, and the Lothians, was of importance both in times of foreign war and domestic discord. It was frequently beseiged with ardour, and defen... ..., was far from bending his mind to his new condition of life. In the civil war of 1689 he had espoused the sinking side, and al- though he had escaped... ...he large estate annexed to it, continued for some time to wage ineffectual war with his successor concerning various points to which their former tran... ... hard times? And as to Old Alice, she is the very empress of old women and queen of gossips, so far as legendary lore is concerned. She is blind, poor... ...I judged that this being St. Magdalen’s [Margaret’s] Eve, who was a worthy queen of Scotland in her day, your honours might judge it decorous, if not ...

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...ec’s had risen to be an Admiral and a knight for valiant action in the old war, when men could rise. Him they besought to take charge of the youth, an... ...ON BOARD THE JOCASTA FROM THE TAGUS to the Thames the Government sloop-of- war, Jocasta, had made a prosperous voyage, bearing that pre- cious freight... ...nnot have the last word with a Frenchman—not even a woman. Fortunately the Queen just then made her entry into the saloon, and his mot on the charity ... ... of her gloved fingers: ‘They say there is a likeness between us. The dear Queen of Portugal often remarked it, and in her it was a com- pliment to me... ...to detest. Jenny glided by William Harvey’s side, far off. Rose, the young Queen of Friendship, was left deserted on her mu- sic-stool for a throne, a... ...g manifestations of stiff-backedness, could not forbear add- ing: ‘I am at war with my sympathies, which should be with the poor brute flying from his...

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...ack in the dark ages. But talking of books, there is Southey’s `Peninsular War.’ I am reading that of a morning. Y ou know Southey?” “No” said Mr. Cas... ...be laying herself open to a demonstration that she was somehow or other at war with all goodness. But on safe opportunities, she had an indirect mode ... ...great part in men’s lives, but in most cases the worshipper longs for some queenly recognition, some approv- ing sign by which his soul’s sovereign ma... ...n the mouth and a venom in the glance which would almost justify declaring war in spite of past benefits. He was much obliged to Casaubon in the past,... ...him, he might have boasted after the ex- ample of old Drayton, that,— “Queens hereafter might be glad to live Upon the alms of her superfluou... ...have as many notions of her own as she likes.” “It is a pity she was not a queen,” said the devout Sir James. “But what should we have been then? We m...

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...gainst the house of Stuart. Here, also, were the veterans of King Philip’s war, who had burned villages and slaughtered young and old, with pious fier... ...ld country. He had remained in England during the first years of the civil war, in which he had borne some share as a cornet of dragoons, under Cromwe... ...impoverished the owner. And with the furniture of peace, the implements of war had likewise disappeared; the sword was broken, the helm and cuirass we... ... change of garments. Steeled knights of the Conquest, bearded statesmen of Queen Elizabeth, and high-ruffled la- dies of her court, were mingled with ... ...per- sonage in a curled wig, such as are represented in the por- traits of Queen Anne’s time and earlier; and the breast of his coat was decorated wit... ...did a more comfort- able little party assemble in the Province House, from Queen Anne’s days to the Revolution. The occasion was rendered more interes...

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... employed perpetually in running away from one an- other; when there was a queen in England, with such rogues for Ministers as have never been seen, n... ...ear One thousand seven hundred and five, that is, in the glorious reign of Queen Anne, there existed certain char- acters, and befell a series of adve... ...jesty’s Prison of Newgate. In the year 1705, then, whether it was that the Queen of England did feel seriously alarmed at the notion that a French pri... ...h they should gain by it;—whatever the reason was, it was evident that the war was to continue, and there was almost as much soldiering and recruiting... ...amation to his soldiers after running away, a hijo de la guerra—a child of war. Not seven cities, but one or two regiments, might contend for the hono... ... at the “Bugle Inn,” they might have taken down a conversation on love and war—the two themes discussed by the two parties occupying the kitchen—which...

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...arose in part from his lax views about religion; for at this time that old war of the creeds and confessors, which is always grumbling from end to end... ...rry in the pocket, and fastened with a pin,” which he scribbled during the war by the bedsides of the wounded or in the excitement of great events. Th... ...se States (as, with reverential capitals, he loves to call them), made the war a period of great trial to his soul. The new virtue, Unionism, of which... ...est known, he rings the changes on names that once stood for beautiful and queenly women, and are now no more than letters and a legend. “Where are th... ... de Valois, Duke of Orleans, brother to the mad king Charles VI., lover of Queen Isabel, and the leading patron of art and one of the leading politici... ...is way of thinking, and would not be consoled for the loss of her title as queen, or the contemptible age of her new husband. Pleupoit Fort Ladite Isa...

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... And that same night he was tossing in a brain fever. People are afraid of war and wounds and dentists, all with excellent reason; but these are not t... ... wonder- ful creatures, mem,” he said once. “They just mind me o’ what the Queen of Sheba said to Solomon – and I think she said it wi’ a sigh, – ‘The... ...to civilities; his hail at sight of me began to have less of the ring of a war- slogan; soon, we never met but he produced his snuff-box, which was wi... ...it in my isle (I call it mine, after the use of lovers) and think upon the war, and the loudness of these far-away battles, and the pain of the men’s ... ...kettle. In these moods he has an elegant homeliness that rings of the true Queen Anne. I know another person who attains, 73 Memories and Portraits i... ...ety in an altered shape, is a piece of tactics among the true drawing-room queens. The drawing-room is, indeed, an artificial place; it is so by our c...