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...hat a of [emendation: of a] young person conscious of a great capacity for life, but early stricken and doomed, condemned to die under short respite, ... ...ed with the act of dying. Let him deal with the sickest of the sick, it is still by the act of living that they appeal to him, and appeal the more as ... ... the conditions plot against them and prescribe the battle. The process of life gives way fighting, and often may so shine out on the lost ground as i... ...e them part of the action. If her impulse to wrest from her shrinking hour still as much of the fruit of life as possible, if this longing can take ef... ...her impulse to wrest from her shrinking hour still as much of the fruit of life as possible, if this longing can take effect only by the aid of others... ... orbits, inheriting from their connexion with her strange difficulties and still stranger opportunities, confronted with rare questions and called upo... ...d of Palazzo Leporelli to see all the elements of the business compose, as painters called it, differently. It began to strike him then that departure...

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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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...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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... Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Island... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Island... ...nsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Yo n g e Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Island... ... early life: when the persons with whom his life is chiefly interwoven are still in full activity; and when he has only lived to sow his seed in many ... ... not be irrelevant to dwell on the career of the father whose name, though still of great weight in his own profession, may not be equally known to th... ... future clergyman. Reverence was strongly implanted in him. His old nurse (still his sister’s valued servant) remembers the little seven years old boy... ...ells of old Rome. He spent much time in the galleries, and studied ‘modern painters’ with an earnestness that makes Ruskinism pervade his letters. At ... ... among them. The colour of the people is just what Titian and the Venetian painters delighted in, the colour of their own weather-beaten Venetian boat...

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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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...his Figure, dreamed of by you, as it has been by me since childhood, would still be something to you? Here, then, it is,—that something. Would that th... ... might have made it, in the hands of a poet, the glorious epic that France still awaits. But from me they must accept it as one of those sculptured ba... ...asure in recording by ineffaceable hiero- glyphics the symbol of Norwegian life, bestowing on these coasts the conformation of a fish’s spine, fishery... ...d them from profaning foot of traveller, these sublime beauties are virgin still; they will be seen to harmonize with human phenomena, also vir- gin—a... ...e unrecognizable beneath the snow. Thus it was that no human creature gave life to the white desert where Boreas reigned, his voice alone resounding a... ...es with it an appearance of negation and the symptoms of death; for is not life the struggle of two forces? Here in this Northern nature nothing lived... ...loating hair inclining gently forward, in that aerial attitude which great painters give to messengers from heaven; the folds of her raiment fell with...

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...here exhibited. Among the two hundred selected paintings, the public could still choose: a crown was awarded to the masterpiece by hands unseen. Eager... ... the catalogue has grown into a book, many names have appeared in it which still remain in their native obscu- rity, in spite of the ten or a dozen pi... ...nd who suggested the rather bitter reflections by which this sketch of his life is introduced,—reflections that are ap- plicable to many other individ... ...nter, does not need the immense machinery and outfit which ruin historical painters; he has never recognized within himself sufficient faculty to atte... ...hat tells so much, heard and recognized the step of a man who had upon his life the influence such men have on the lives of nearly all artists,—the st... ...ill give an idea of the mildness and wit with which Fougeres employed what painters call studio fun. “Well, I don’t deny that you are to paint me two ... ...I, who have a habit of sleeping alone; and get up at cock-crow, and all my life ar- ranged—” “One hundred thousand francs,” said Magus, “and a quiet g... ... in a handkerchief, and brought it home, vowing in his heart that he would still make him- self a great painter. He placed his picture on the easel, a... ... counsel of Schinner, this time add- ing Bridau to the invitation. The two painters saw in three of these pictures a servile imitation of Dutch landsc...

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...d, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak—the sea entering into the life of most men, and the men knowing something or everything about the sea... ...ea before a fair monsoon with stun’-sails set alow and aloft. We all began life in the merchant service. Between the five of us there was the strong b... ...t- ing, cruising, and so on can give, since one is only the amuse- ment of life and the other is life itself. Marlow (at least I think that is how he ... ...ious things—but I thought only of the pumps. When I came on deck they were still at it, and my watch relieved at the pumps. By the light of the lanter... ...ed combustion by want of air.’ “We tried. We battened down everything, and still she smoked. The smoke kept coming out through imperceptible crevices;... ...as torn to rags. Of all this I was not aware. I was amazed to see the ship still afloat, the poop- deck whole—and, most of all, to see anybody alive. ... ...he fire. There were also whistling sounds. The boats jumped, tugged at the painters, ran at each other playfully, knocked their sides together, or, do...

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... wild braveries of dress, reckless charges of colour and stubborn resistances of cut, wondrous encoun- ters in which the art of the toilet seemed to l... ...he day after my arrival I found myself grabbing her arm with sudden and undue familiarity. I had been struck by the beauty of a face that approached u... ...g of such a face close to mine. However, by the time the young lady moved on with her escort she herself bequeathed me a sense that some such RAPPROCH... ...er the stars— that was a week at Folkestone of balmy nights and muffled tides and crowded chairs—I became aware both that pro- tection was wholly abse... ...nd queer continental relegations, with stray- ing squabbling Monte-Carlo-haunting parents; the more invidious picture, above all, of her pecuniary arr... ...ay she was wanting in mystery, but that after all was her secret. This happened to be my first chance of introduc- ing her to my mother, who had not m... ...he portrait I tried to cultivate a new faith. The girl’s own faith was wonderful. It couldn’t however be contagious: too great was the limit of her se...

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...ulders. Its naked peak stands nearly four thousand five hundred feet above the sea; its sides are fringed with forest; and the soil, where it is bare,... ...gh yet we knew it not, for Silverado) the steamer jumped, and the black buoys were dancing in the jabble; the ocean breeze blew killing chill; and, al... ... Marin county, in one great, shapeless, silver cloud. South Vallejo is typical of many Californian towns. It was a blunder; the site has proved untena... ...d a house embowered in white roses. More of the bay became ap- parent, and soon the blue peak of Tamalpais rose above the green level of the island op... ...larger, Washington and Broad- way, and then First and Second, and so forth, being boldly plotted out as soon as the community indulges in a plan. But,... ...ia boasts her famous stage-drivers, and among the famous Foss is not forgot- ten. Along the unfenced, abominable mountain roads, he launches his team ... ...d a fine sense of woods, and spring- time, and the open air. Our driver gave me a lecture by the way on Califor- nian trees – a thing I was much in ne...

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...Bartolomeo, with a darkling look at Bonaparte. “Do you know that there are still four Piombos in Corsica?” Lucien took an arm of his compatriot and sh... ...you have both recognized me in misfortune, and I am yours, henceforth, for life or death. You may dispose as you will of the Piombos.” With these word... ...ho held out his hand to the First Consul, saying:— “The Corsican is in you still.” Bonaparte smiled. He looked in silence at the man who brought, as i... ...ant, half-ironical tone, and that free- dom of judgment which characterize painters. He had carried his scrupulous precaution into the arrange- ments ... ... virgin, thoughtless, and without hidden thoughts, living her natural real life; a third was dreamy, melancholy, pale, bending her head like a droopin... ...nd Restoration caused to her family. The only tears she had so far shed in life were drawn from her by the twofold news of Napoleon’s captivity on the... ...eturned to her place, changed the position of her picture, pretended to be still dissatisfied with the light, pushed a table close to the partition, o...

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...w way of living, and I have found myself with the teeming interests of the life I have aban- doned still buzzing like a swarm of homeless bees in my h... ...ave found myself with the teeming interests of the life I have aban- doned still buzzing like a swarm of homeless bees in my head. My mind has been fu... ...hat I have released myself altogether from his literary precedent, that he still has his use for me. In spite of his vast prestige I claim kindred wit... ...ublic, perhaps with a twinge of the torture that pun- ished his conspiracy still lurking in his limbs. Such twinges could not stop his dreaming. Then ... ...off his peasant clothes cov- ered with the dust and dirt of that immediate life, washed himself, put on his “noble court dress,” closed the door on th... ... 2 2 In Machiavelli’s outlook the interest of womanhood was in a region of life almost infinitely remote from his statecraft. They were the vehicle of... ... not positively harmful paddle, and towed the other by means of the joined painters. Still it was the fault of the inadequate information supplied in ...

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...or silver cup a drink prepared with spices. After we have gone some way in life we know the secret influence exerted by places on the condition of the... ...man, that face, notwithstanding the tranquillity of sleep, seemed sad- der still. The light from the lamp, flickering in the draught, scarcely reached... ...g even while he slept. Many furrows, produced by the emotions of a warrior life, gave it a vague resemblance to the vermicu- lated stone which we see ... ...ven months. An inward heat over- flowed her from head to foot, sending the life’s blood to her heart with such violence that the surface of her body f... ...k, of the inflections of voice with which the count accompanied his words, still froze her blood, and silenced her sufferings, as she leaned over that... ... young conscience 11 Balzac thought them crimes, and sued them to enforce still further the savage threat of the count. There lay the secret of the h... ... the midst of an arid nature of hard and angular shapes, such as all great painters have given as backgrounds to their Virgins, Gabrielle lived in a r...

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...d me as a fond formula, I may mention, when I was twenty-five; how much it still serves I won’t take upon myself to say—especially as the discerning r... ...n Italy. He had been there much in former years—he was saturated with what painters call the “feeling” of that classic land. He expressed the charm of... ...k of certain lonely grass-grown places which, in the past, had echoed with life; he understood the great artists, he understood the spirit of the Rena... ...n Englishman’s last and dearest treasure—the thing he pays his way through life by sacri- ficing small pieces of even as the gallant but moneyless adv... ...e page, that seemed to me a copy; these things were the originals, and the life of happy and distinguished people was fashioned in their image. Mark A... ...rden-walls of incalculable height, the whole air of the place delightfully still, private, proper to itself. “My wife must be somewhere about,” Mark A... ...lcino, come and see your daddy!” There was some- thing in the way he stood still and waited that made me think he did it for a purpose. Mrs. Ambient h...

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...daries of the spiritual world, yet carries with him the laws of our actual life and extends them over his preter natural conquests. Twelve or fifteen... ...y warmth, and talk over 7 Hawthorne our exploded scheme for beginning the life of Paradise anew. Paradise, indeed! Nobody else in the world, I am bol... ...ood fire burning in the grate, and a closet right at hand, where there was still a bottle or two in the champagne basket and a residuum of claret in a... ...and plunged into the heart of the pitiless snowstorm, in quest of a better life. The better life! Possibly, it would hardly look so now; it is enough ... ...we had in hand for the reformation of the world. We rode on, however, with still unflagging spirits, and made such good companionship with the tempest... .... The action seemed proper to her character, although, methought, it would still more have befitted the bounteous nature of this beautiful woman to sc... ...nce She should have made it a point of duty, moreover, to sit endlessly to painters and sculptors, and preferably to the lat ter; because the cold de...

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...hee cling, Muffling with verdant ringlet every string,— O Minstrel Harp, still must shine accents sleep? Mid rustling leaves and fountains murmuring... ...l must shine accents sleep? Mid rustling leaves and fountains murmuring, Still must thy sweeter sounds their silence keep, Nor bid a warrior smile, ... ...ony sublime and high! Fair dames and crested chiefs attention bowed; For still the burden of thy minstrelsy W as Knighthood’s dauntless deed, and Be... ...my matchless steed! Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, That costs thy life, my gallant gray!’ 10 The Lady of the Lake X. Then through the dell h... ...e linnet’s blithest lay, All Nature’s children feel the matin spring Of life reviving, with reviving day; And while yon little bark glides down the... ...e Remember then thy hap erewhile, A stranger in the lonely isle. ‘Or if on life’s uncertain main Mishap shall mar thy sail; If faithful, wise, and ... ...ished studies of a resident artist.” See also on 278 below. Ruskin (Modern Painters, iii. 278) refers to “the love of color” as a leading element in S... ...perate.” 19. The Summer dawn’s reflected hue, etc. Mr. Ruskin says (Modern Painters, iii. 278): “And thus Nature becomes dear to Scott in a threefold ...

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...anslated by Clara Bell To Sofka “Have you observed, mademoiselle, that the painters and sculptors of the Middle Ages, when they placed two fig- ures i... ...one of the questions put by the painter during the few minutes when he was still under the influence of the vagueness that the shock had produced in h... ... acquaintance; but he did not lightly entrust to others the secrets of his life. He was the idol of a necessi- tous mother, who had brought him up at ... ...a young girl, in all the radiance of her beauty and all the triumph of her life, she suffered, at the cost of her heart and her sweet illusions, the d... ...e Legion of Honor. The newspapers, unanimous in hailing an unknown genius, still rang with sincere praises. Artists them- selves acknowledged Schinner... ...d men. Fastidious in the selec- tion of his intimates, he desired to raise still further a posi- tion which his talent had placed high. The work to wh... ... thoughts—had left him the beautiful beliefs which grace the early days of life. His adolescent soul was not closed to any of the thousand bashful emo...

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... came to pass that they looked to marriage as soon as they saw anything of life and were able to compare a few ideas. Of their own tender graces and t... ...hey were ignorant, too, of their own innocence; how, then, could they know life? With- out weapons to meet misfortune, without experience to ap- preci... ...about them with their hollow eyes and scowling faces. On the gloom of this life one sole figure of a man, that of a music-master, stood vigorously for... ...ty years of age, even at eighty. And yet, his brown, sunken, wrinkled face still kept some- thing infantile and artless in its dark creases. The blue ... ... to her sister’s house after a brief appearance at the Opera. Flowers were still in her hair, but others were scattered upon the carpet, together with... ...eful; they expect what comes, and there- for they suffer less. Felix might still rank among the hand- somest and most agreeable men in Paris. He was o... ...course like this. Felix, however, found in his work the same pleasure that painters, writers, architects take in their creations. He dou- bly enjoyed ... ...fought with angels or devils; it bears some resemblance to that the German painters give to the dead Christ; count- less signs of a constant struggle ... ...h the beauties 46 A Daughter of Eve of a French woman are in their glory. Painters particularly admired the lustre of her white shoulders, tinted wit...

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... old lady of ninety, who has passed the last twenty- five years of her old life in a great metropolitan establishment, the workhouse, namely, of the p... ... Some Roundabout Papers mankind to care for her, not quite trampled out of life, but past and forgotten in the rush, made a little happy, and soothed ... ...ated it. But I never complained. I swallowed it. I made the best of a hard life. We have all our burdens to bear. But hark! I hear the cock-crow, and ... ...r every day; and old — old — very old relicts of the times when George was still fighting the Dragon. Not long since, a company of horseriders paid a ... ... women is lamentable; and the conceit of the young fellows more lamentable still, that they won’t see this fact, but persist in thinking their time as... ...inor draw pictures out of you, as I have said? Efforts, feeble indeed, but still giving pleasure to us and our friends. “I say, old boy, draw us Vival... ..., as the gravedigger, was chaste and comic, as he always is, and the scene-painters surpassed themselves. “Harlequin Conqueror and the Field of Hastin...

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... and to my personal friends—an autobiographical impulse should twice in my life have taken possession of me, in addressing the public. The first time ... ...ader or the intrusive author could imagine—with a description of my way of life in the deep quietude of an Old Manse. And now—because, beyond my deser... ...but the few who will understand him better than most of his schoolmates or lifemates. Some authors, indeed, do far more than this, and indulge them s... ... prate of the circum stances that lie around us, and even of ourself, but still keep the inmost Me behind its veil. To this extent, and within these ... ..., was present to my boyish imagina tion as far back as I can remember. It still haunts me, and induces a sort of home feeling with the past, which I ... ...indeed, that his dry old bones, in the Charter street burial ground, must still retain it, if they have not crumbled utterly to dust I know not wheth... ...to remind him of the image of Divine Maternity , which so many illustrious painters have vied with one another to represent; something which should re...

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...e came originally from their blue and red uniforms, the memory of which is still so fresh as to render a description superfluous. A detachment of the ... ...ngland, the very word being common to the two languages. A few cattle gave life to the scene, already so dramatic. The birds sang, filling the valley ... ... charm will have an imperfect image of the magic scene which delighted the still impressionable souls of the young officers. Thinking that the poor re... ...nce of all the usual characteristics of the social man made that bare head still more remarkable. The face, bronzed by the sun (its angular outlines p... ...ortion of the province where, even to our own times, the 15 Balzac savage life and superstitious ideas of our rude ancestors still continue—if we may... ...in this glorious part of France, so rich in neglected treasures, to social life and to prosperity have all, even when sustained by government, come to... ...ore brilliant than on any of her past days, for a serenity like that which painters give to the mar- tyrs added to her face an imposing dignity. She h...