... all the rooms on one floor, and all the indecent propinquities that their novels described. It amused Newland Archer (who had 21 Edith Wharton secre... ...an revolutionary glazed ware, subscribed to “Good Words,” and read Ouida’s novels for the sake of the Italian atmosphere. (They preferred those about ... ...s of scenery and the pleasanter sen- timents, though in general they liked novels about people in society, whose motives and habits were more comprehe... ...t to starts and aberrations of fancy welling up from springs of suppressed romance. Mother and daughter adored each other and revered their son and br... ...May Welland, which the young girl had given him in the first days of their romance, and which had 31 Edith Wharton now displaced all the other portra... ...ated by pre-revolutionary mar- riages to several members of the French and British aristocracy. The Lannings survived only in the person of two very o... ...th sympathy. “Ah—it’s really and truly a ro- mance?” “The most romantic of romances!” “How delightful! And you found it all out for yourselves—it was ...

... upon a person whose dignity will not be diminished by holding land of the British crown.—Sir Reginald Front-de-Boeuf,” he said, turning to- wards tha... ...id De Bracy, “when we heard the Prior Aymer tell us a tale in reply to the romance which was sung by the Minstrel?—He told how, long since in Palestin... ...her own hands to examine and to bind up his wounds. The youngest reader of romances and romantic ballads, must recollect how often the females, during... ...he lion-hearted King, the brilliant, but useless character, of a knight of romance, was in a great measure real- ized and revived; and the personal gl... ... 467 Sir Walter Scott INTRODUCTION TO IVANHOE. The Author of the Waverley Novels had hitherto proceeded in an unabated course of popularity, and migh... ...aps, necessary to enumerate so many reasons why the author of the Scottish Novels, as they were then exclusively termed, should be desirous to make an... ...r. The book, therefore, appeared as an avowed continuation of the Waverley Novels; and it would be ungrateful not to acknowledge, that it met with the... ...Sir Egerton Brydges. and Mr Hazlewood, in the periodical work entitled the British Bibliographer. From thence it has been transferred by the Reverend ...

...ol Number: 2008932282 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48–19... ...uppress them. This is no mere fantasy, Macaulay tells us. After praising the novels of Samuel Richardson in terms that, to modern eyes, seem a little ... ... the work, but because the work would be altogether suppressed. Richardson’s novels—Pamela, Clarissa Har- lowe, and so on—are now the preserve of the ... ...ur intuitive understanding that “Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels. All of this was much clearer before the assim... ...ry embodi- ment of all that is wrong. (I still cherish a friend’s account of British protesters outside the American Embassy in London singing “D-M-C-... ...structions, carry out the desired operations, and write the answer down. The British mathematician Alan T uring imagined something like this—a little ... ... work for hire, 11, 131. WorldCat catalogue, 9, 253n6. “xkcd,” a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language, 245; “Content Protection,” 245, 296...

...ride, his view of that furniture that mainly constituted our: young man’s “romance”—and to an extent that; made of his inward state a con trast that ... ...s and glorious charges of cavalry. It was natu ral, it was delightful—the romance, and for her as well, of camp life and of the perpetual booming of ... ...except their having to recognise that nothing could. That was their little romance—it was even their little tragedy.” “But what the deuce did they do?... ...moment of its course?” “Oh it’s all right,” said Bob Assingham. “Go to the British Museum,” his companion continued with spirit. “And what am I to do ... ...ore money than he has ever seen. I’ve been, my dear,” she went on, “to the British Museum—which you know I always adore. And I’ve been to the National... ...its feet, and a trumpet in its ears, and a bottomless bag of solid shining British sovereigns—which was much to the point—in its hand. Courage and goo... ... the coincidence is extraordinary—the sort of thing that happens mainly in novels and plays. But I don’t see, you must let me say, the importance or t...