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

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...y James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publi... ...document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring, the Penns... ...ania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring Not... ...ould have come to enjoy themselves with our Ninon, where we would have got artists together, under pain of death by newspaper articles. Ninon the seco... ... mingles the exquisite delights of the soul, which makes him the prince of artists. Then the poet’s passion becomes a fine poem in which hu- man propo... ...e, and if the description of “a little palace” were duly real- ized by the artists commissioned to make the cage worthy of the bird. Every device know... ...s, or in the Missal of Charles V ., the pride of the Impe- rial library at Vienna. “It hafe cost two tousand franc’ an ell for a milord who brought it...

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...Excerpt: We had been talking about the masters who had achieved but a single masterpiece--the artists and poets who but once in their lives had known the divine afflatus and touched the high level of perfection. Our host had been showing us a charming little cabinet picture by a painter whose name we had never heard, ...

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...en talking about the masters who had achieved but a single masterpiece—the artists and poets who but once in their lives had known the divine afflatus... ...ecchio, like some huge civic fortress, with the great bell-tower springing from its embattled verge as a mountain-pine from the edge of a cliff. At it... ...I recognised him as Michael Angelo’s David. I turned with a certain relief from his sinister strength to a slender figure in bronze, stationed beneath... ... in the Greek mythology, but in the memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini. Glancing from one of these fine fellows to the other, I probably uttered some irrepr... ...e was my subject marvellously realised. I felt like one of the old monkish artists who had had a vision. I rescued the poor creatures, cherished them,... ...y admired by Americans. I have sent them all over Europe—to London, Paris, Vienna! You may have observed some little specimens in Paris, on the Boule-...

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...at the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no deputy from Arcis in the Chamber....

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...d. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no deputy from Arcis in the Chamber. Disc... ...f of filling the empty spaces on either side of the fireplace with benches from the antechamber, disregarding the baldness of their velvet covers whic... ...ld get out a word.” “And yet, my dear father,” said Simon Giguet, entering from the smaller salon, “you really must make that effort for me; for if th... ...on of Madame de Montcornet than elsewhere. She receives, as you know, many artists and men 108 The Deputy of Arcis of letters, and to give you an ide... ...“He? he will talk to you by the hour of returning to the life of the great artists of the middle ages with the universality of their studies and their... ...e claw of a cat preparing to play with its mouse, so I answered, coldly:— “Artists, I am told, are often indiscreet in their curiosity.” I put a well-... ...ssian engraver about whom I sent you to Berlin?” “The one who forged those Vienna bank bills in that won- derful way?” “Yes. I just missed arresting h...

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...Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4 TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY........................................................................................ 43 CHARLEMAGNE...

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...a State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND .................................................. ... II. OL. II. SECESSION FR SECESSION FR SECESSION FR SECESSION FR SECESSION FROM OM OM OM OM THE CHUR THE CHUR THE CHUR THE CHUR THE CHURCH OF CH OF CH... ...antime these great disturbances are not understood in England; and chiefly from the differences between the two nations as to the language of their se... ...the west, on a level with the first-rate capitalists of the Continent—with Vienna or with Naples; far superior 24 Theological Essays and Other Papers... ...olyandrium on the field of battle, would be mea- sured and observed by the artists against the public applica- 133 Thomas de Quincey tion for their s... ...rise; viz. that the leg- endary Hercules was never delineated by the Greek artists as more than an athletic man of the ordinary standard with respect ... ...t the low (but we regret to add—and in all but the very highest) of London artists. Many things, which the wretched Von Raumer said of English art, we...

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...pt: The malady of the age. On a fine evening in the month of September, 1836, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from which a spectator can look up the Seine from the Jardin des Plantes to Notre-Dame, and down, along the vast perspective of the river, to the Louvre. There is not another point of view to compare with it in the capital of...

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...6, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from which a spectator can look up the Seine from the Jardin des Plantes to... ...s on the quarter-deck, as it were, of a gigantic vessel. We dream of Paris from the days of the Romans to those of the Franks, from the Normans to the... ...ll strewn with the ruins of the Archiepiscopal Palace. When we contemplate from that quay so many commemorating scenes, when the soul has grasped the ... ...sight of a priest issuing from the beautiful cathedral of Saint-Etienne in Vienna, bearing the Extreme Unction to a dying person, determined the celeb... ...med by either malignancy or kindness of nature. Such were the truths these artists made him feel. Small, ill-made, without superiority of mind or sett...

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...mely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without a...

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...ntents MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES..............................................................................................

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........................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ........................ ...pers MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY FR FR FR FR FROM OM OM OM OM THE A THE A THE A THE A THE AUTHOR, UTHOR, UTHOR, UTHOR, U... ... difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous de- pression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in hav... ...because the amateurs had so much insisted on his merit as the su- preme of artists for grandeur of design and breadth of style; and because, apart fro... ... that, in trav- elling from Genoa and Florence to Rome, she sat to various artists, in order to meet the interest about herself already rising amongst... ...egarded their forms and the correspondences of their parts; and usually by artists her face was said to be Grecian. Perhaps the nostrils, mouth, and f... ...small part of a vast capital city, as it does in Paris, Edinburgh, Madrid, Vienna, Berlin, and Petersburg, liable to every mode of positive temptation... ...f the haughty vizier, Kara Mustafa, the T urks had undertaken the siege of Vienna; and great was the alarm of the Christian world. But, on the 12th of... ...nt which the Greeks met with in their dearest hopes from the Con- gress of Vienna, the Hetæria first assumed a political charac- ter under the secret ...

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...Excerpt: From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could accoun...

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...te, in ate, in ate, in ate, in M M M M Macbeth acbeth acbeth acbeth acbeth FROM MY BOYISH DAYS I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Ma... ...uses on each side of a street, as seen by a person looking down the street from one extremity. Now in all cases, unless the person has happened to obs... ...ases, unless the person has happened to observe in pictures how it is that artists pro- duce these effects, he will be utterly unable to make the smal... ... has not seen) that which he has seen every day of his life. But to return from this digression, my understanding could furnish no reason why the knoc... ....” But this is wrong; for it is unreasonable to expect all men to be great artists, and born with the ge- nius of Mr. Williams. Now it will be remembe... ...at Catiline, Clodius, and some of that coterie, would have made first-rate artists; and it is on all accounts to be regretted, that the priggism of Ci... ...o hoard up large sums of gold, which he kept in his own house. This was at Vienna, where he died; and let- ters are still in existence, describing the... ...d to Paris—and that other way to Aix-la- Chapelle, this to Prague, that to Vienna—nourished the warfare of the heart by daily ministrations of sense. ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. A narrow grave-yard in the heart of a bustling, indifferent city, seen from the windows of a gloomylooking inn, is at no time an object of enlivening suggestion; and the spectacle is not at its best when the mouldy tombstones and funereal umbrage have received the ineffectual refreshment of a du...

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... A narrow grave-yard in the heart of a bustling, in- different city, seen from the windows of a gloomy- looking inn, is at no time an object of enliv... ... six weeks old, it will be admitted that no depressing influence is absent from the scene. This fact was keenly felt on a certain 12th of May, upwards... ...e had stood there for half an hour—stood there, that is, at intervals; for from time to time she turned back into the room and measured its length wit... ...orn at a little place—a dear little place—in France. My sister was born at Vienna.” “So you are French,” said Gertrude. “Heaven forbid!” cried the you... ...ister; I know that. But you have n’t come to see me—the celebrated artist. Artists are very sensitive, you know; they notice those things.” And Felix ...

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...: Chapter 1. Marseilles -- The Arrival. On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d?If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island. Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort ...

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...look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, an... ...- pearance bespoke that calmness and resolution peculiar to men accustomed from their cradle to contend with danger. “Ah, is it you, Dantes?” cried th... ...d Edmond seems to understand it thoroughly, and not to require instruction from any one.” “Yes,” said Danglars, darting at Edmond a look gleaming with... ...with him by the house of Richard & Blount, of London, Arstein & Eskeles of Vienna, and Thomson & French at Rome.” As he pronounced the two last names,... ...ed his guest into the salon. The salon was filled with the works of modern artists; there were landscapes by Dupre, with their long reeds and tall tre... ...hat you have yourself received; one from the house of Arstein & Eskeles of Vienna, to Baron Rothschild, the other drawn by Bar- ing of London, upon M.... ... several fine statues by Thorwaldsen, Bartoloni, and Canova? — all foreign artists, for, as you may perceive, I think but very indifferently of our Fr...

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...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential to the preservation of the liberties which...

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... that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constituti... ...serve should be valued by the human family. Those liberties had been wrung from reluctant monarchs in many contests, in many countries, and were group... ...eople and in vin- dication of truths that will stand for their deliverance from monarchical rule, while time shall last. A French aristocrat of the pu... ...ern States are already obliged to perform a jour- ney as long as that from Vienna to Paris.** *See Legislative Documents, 20th Congress, No. 117, p. 1... ...ern States are already obliged to perform a jour- ney as long as that from Vienna to Paris.* All the States are borne onwards at the same time in the ... ...iences made less progress than in the United States; and in few have great artists, fine poets, or celebrated writers been more rare. Many Europe- ans... ...ndred habits. Amongst this people they found distinguished men of science, artists of skill, writers of eminence, and they were enabled to enjoy the t... ...t in the useful arts then takes place in the fine arts; the productions of artists are more numerous, but the merit of each produc- tion is diminished...

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...ris, bearers of the proudest titles, moved hither and thither, flut- tered from room to room in swarms, stately and gorgeous, dazzling with diamonds; ... ... those draughts which congeal one half of the body while the other suffers from the intense heat of the salons—a state of things not unusual at balls.... ...aris, busies itself exclusively with the Whys and Hows. Where does he come from? Who are they? What’s the matter with him? What has she done? They low... ...e me believe! the jealousy of engravings, of pictures, of statues, wherein artists exaggerate human beauty, as a result of the doctrine which leads th... ...eatre, male and female, mingled with charming women, all ready to begin an artists’ spree and waiting only for him. Sarrasine restrained a feeling of ... ...lves side by side without ceremony. During the first half of the feast the artists exercised some restraint, and the sculptor was able to converse wit... ...ow only the evening parties of Paris, the routs of London, or the clubs of Vienna. Jests and words of love flew from side to side like bullets in a ba...

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...e, projected three feet over the roadway, as much to protect the threshold from the rainfall as to shelter the wall of a loft and its sill-less dormer... ...the blue- checked cotton curtains which screened the mysteries of the room from profane eyes. Now and then the watcher, weary of his fruitless contemp... ...on which the splashes betrayed his impatience. He had just come, no doubt, from a wedding or a ball; for at this early hour he had in his hand a pair ... ...rest habits. One morning Girodet broke through all the barriers with which artists are familiar, and which they know how to evade, went into his room,... ...hey might be supposed to be produced by machinery. As to the portrait, few artists have forgotten that lifelike work; and the public, which as a body ... ...ture what you can see any day in your own street? Don’t talk to me of your artists! Like writers, they are a starveling crew. Why the devil need they ... ...all because he went as mayor to congratulate the Emperor on his entry into Vienna? Oh, this marriage must take place! For my part, I adore the dear yo...

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...d now, believe that the writer would not, for the wealth of England, steal from poesy a single lie with which to em- bellish this narrative. The follo... ... pretty woman who is still worth the trouble of a passion.” This remark is from the species Fop, who has just break- fasted, doesn’t weigh his words, ... ... the genus Spiteful. An Attache to an embassy: “Madame Firmiani? Isn’t she from Antwerp? I saw her ten years ago in Rome; she was very handsome then.”... ...dividuals are usually taciturn, and when they talk it is only about Spain, Vienna, Italy, or Petersburg. Names of countries act like springs in their ... ...esh, with sparkling eyes, and dressed in a taste that wrings approval from artists and her bitterest rivals. Have you ever, for your happiness, met a ...

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...ON THE EVE a Novel By IVAN TURGENEV T ranslated from the Russian By Constance Garnett With an introduction by Edward Garnet... ...ty university. 3 Turgenev ON THE EVE a Novel By IVAN TURGENEV T ranslated from the Russian By Constance Garnett With an introduction by Edward Garnet... ...rgenev. Hawthorne and others have treated it, but the colour seems to fade from their artist characters when a com- parison is made between them and S... ... people, young and old, of high and low degree, Italian models and Russian artists. He would not hear of the Academy, and recognised no one as a teach... ... after him. ‘He’s an artist,’ observed Bersenyev with a quiet smile. ‘ All artists are like that. One must forgive them their caprices. That is their ... ...r,— and all because I’m an artist. What luckless, God-forsaken wretches we artists are after that! Y ou, for instance, I am ready 46 On the Eve to ad... ...y from Russia, Insarov 143 Turgenev had lain ill for almost two months at Vienna, and only at the end of March had he been able to come with his wife... ...care of yourself after your Moscow illness, and you had to pay for that at Vienna. Now you must be more cautious.’ Insarov did not answer, but the sam... ...oast is particu- larly dangerous. Three weeks after Elena’s departure from Vienna, Anna Vassilyevna received the following letter in Moscow:— ‘My DEAR...

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... beautiful, whose intelli- gent smile gives promise that she has inherited from you the most precious gifts of womanhood, and who will cer- tainly enj... ... Titian, Correggio, Allori, which seem abstractions, so dis- tant are they from our daily lives. If this book should wing its way across the Alps, it ... ...hangings, the work of one of those upholsterers who have just missed being artists. A silver lamp studded with tur- quoise, and suspended by chains of... ...d with tur- quoise, and suspended by chains of beautiful workmanship, hung from the centre of the ceiling. The same system of deco- ration was followe... ... Comtesse de Montcornet, a charming little woman, who received illustrious artists, leading financial personages, dis- tinguished writers; but only af... ... consummate corruption, Florine added a lively wit, which intercourse with artists had developed and practice sharpened day by day. Wit is thought to ... ... skin of a young shepherd, the original of which is in the royal palace of Vienna. On either side were candelabra of Renaissance de- sign. A clock, by...

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... say that the first movable types were made on birch sticks—BUCHSTABE—hence the name. I was taught a lesson in political economy in Frankfort. I had b... ...ne as their clothes. In one of the shops I had the luck to stumble upon a book which has charmed me nearly to death. It is entitled THE LEGENDS OF THE... ...t no tourist ever TELLS them. So this little book fed me in a very hungry place; and I, in my turn, intend to feed my reader, with one or two little l... ...But I did not care, for I had come out for a pedestrian tour anyway. CHAPTER XIV Rafting Down the Neckar WHEN THE LANDLORD LEARNED that I and my agent... ...k out of Heilbronn, but called up Go”tz von Berlichingen’s horse and cab and made us ride. I made a sketch of the turnout. It is not a Work, it is onl... ...longer. I judge so from the fact that hundreds of old gravestones have been removed from the graves and placed against the inner walls of the cemetery... ...19; New York (the Dublin of America), 23. See how the figures jump up, as soon as one arrives at the transatlantic list: Paris, 27; Glasgow, 27; Londo... ...average German daily is made up solely of correspondences—a trifle of it by telegraph, the rest of it by mail. Every paragraph has the side-head, “Lon... ... pair of scissors out of the Augsburger Zeitung of the day before. These telegrams consist of fourteen and two- thirds lines from Berlin, fifteen line...

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...and, like the insect, become an integral part of it, borrowing their merit from that of what they feed on. Now, Italy hith- erto has not yet been work... ...ict every form that can serve as a garb to mind. Most human quarrels arise from the fact that both wise men and dunces exist who are so constituted as... ...And you may be sure that the ribbon of the Legion of Honor was not missing from his breast, gallantly padded a la Prussienne. Proudly seated in one co... ..., “but for you I should long since have ceased to live. But, my dear lady, artists require relax- ation—” “Ah! there we come to the point!” cried she,... ...d as too eccentric. Their busi- ness was to copy the works of the greatest artists, but they did not teach the craft. The old maid’s persistent obstin... ...would have a tidy sum by now if he had stayed with us. What is to be done? Artists have a horror of not being free.” “They have a proper sense of thei... ...aid the captain, “we were covering the flank of the main army, marching on Vienna under the Emperor’s command. We came to a bridge defended by three b...

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... humanely great—great, I mean, as affecting a whole mass of lives—has come from reflection. On the other hand, you cannot fail to see the power of mer... ...eserved for the edification of posterity. Among other sayings—I am quoting from memory—I remember this solemn admonition: “Let all thy words have the ... ...here was nothing in them to perplex a young conscience. Having broken away from my origins under a storm of blame from every quarter which had the mer... ...t existed up to 1830 in the reduced kingdom established by the Congress of Vienna—I must say that from all that more dis- tant past, known to me tradi... ...he holiday is that before the day on which the remark was made we had seen Vienna, the Upper Danube, Munich, the Falls of the Rhine, the Lake of Const... ... of Alexander I, Autocrat of all the Russias. This kingdom, created by the Vienna Congress as an ac- knowledgment to a nation of its former independen... ... It was not the outcome of a need—the famous need of self-expression which artists find in their search for motives. The necessity which impelled me w...

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... humanely great—great, I mean, as affecting a whole mass of lives—has come from reflection. On the other hand, you cannot fail to see the power of mer... ...d for the edifica- tion of posterity. Amongst other sayings—I am quot- ing from memory—I remember this solemn admo- nition: “Let all thy words have th... ...re was noth- ing in them to perplex a young conscience. Having broken away from my origins under a storm of blame from every quarter which had the mer... ...t existed up to 1830 in the reduced kingdom established by the Congress of Vienna—I must say that from all that more distant past, known to me traditi... ... holiday is that be- fore the day on which the remark was made we had seen Vienna, the Upper Danube, Munich, the Falls of the Rhine, the Lake of Const... ...of Alexander I., Autocrat of all the Russias. This kingdom, created by the Vienna Congress as an acknowledgment to a nation of its former inde- penden... ... It was not the outcome of a need—the famous need of self-expression which artists find in their search for motives. The necessity which impelled me w...

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...erizy, and the Chevalier du Rouvre agreed, in order to save their fortunes from the dissipations of the marquis, to settle them on their niece, to who... ..., moreover, they each pledged themselves to pay ten thousand francs a year from the day of her marriage. It is quite unnecessary to say that the Polis... ...rance and Europe had given us six thousand men, and what men! Do not infer from this that either side is taken here; either that of the Emperor Nichol... ...qualities to bring it out. There is, probably, more real con- versation in Vienna or St. Petersburg than in Paris. Equals do not need to employ delica... ...rs (the real explanation of the Arabian myth), superb sketches by our best artists, lids of chests made into panels alternating with fluted draperies ...