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...nia State University is an equal opportunity University. Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS.............................................. ... equal opportunity University. Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER I... ... Charles Dickens 7 A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS IF YOU LOOK AT A M AP of the World, y... ...s History of England by Charles Dickens CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS IF YOU LOOK AT A M AP of the World, you will see, in the left ha... ...d, and learnt a great deal from the Gauls and Romans. At last, the Ro man Emperor, Claudius, sent Aulus Plautius , a skilful general, with a mighty ... ...consider that they had taken a very solemn oath, in swearing this upon the holy bracelets that they wore, and which were al ways buried with them whe... ...think not. I observe that it induced the ignorant people to consider him a holy man, and that it made him very powerful. Which was exactly what he alw... ... within three months, and left her a young widow. The new French monarch, Francis the First, seeing how important it was to his interests that she sh... ...ish were dis trustful of the French, and the French of the English, until Francis rode alone one morning to Henry’s tent; and, going in before he was...

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...tion To Don Michele Angelo Cajetani, Prince of Teano. It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representa- tive of the illustrious house of Cajet... ...Cajetani, which has given more than one Pope to the Christian Church, that I dedi- cate this short portion of a long history; it is to the learned com... ...his poem, the only work which the moderns can place by that of Homer. Till I heard you, the Divine Comedy was to me a vast enigma to which none had fo... ...uthor of some strange tales indeed, who left us the splendid collection of romances whence Shakespeare derived many of his plots and even com- plete c... ...the side he sees is the only true and right one. Thus it is written in the Holy Book, “God will deliver the world over to divisions.” I must con- fess... ...l Hulot, Colonel of the Grenadiers of the Im- perial Guard, created by the Emperor Comte de Forzheim after the campaign of 1809. The Count, the elder ... ...ieked Crevel, positively bound- ing with excitement. “Good Heavens! by the Holy Piper! By all the joys in Paradise!—The rascal!—I beg your pardon, Cou... ...e not to be manufactured like cannon; and that the State—like Louis XIV ., Francis I., and Leo X.— ought to be at the beck and call of genius. Poor Ho... ...an! Mag- 351 Balzac nificent! And what a figure, what a style, the air of Francis I.! What a volcano! and how full of ingenious ways of getting money...

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...Contents THE THREE CLERKS OF ST. NICHOLAS ................................................................................. 8 THE CONTINENCE OF KING FRANCIS THE FIRST............................................................ 19 THE MERRY TATTLE OF THE NUNS OF POISSY ................................................................ 24 HOW THE CHATEAU D?AZAY CAME TO BE BUI...

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.................................................... 8 THE CONTINENCE OF KING FRANCIS THE FIRST............................................................. ...people are neither mis- anthropes nor cannibals; whether they are ruffians I know not; but for certain they are kind, good-natured friends; friends wh... ...errors are proved to have been idle, they exclaimed triumphantly, “Ha! ha! I knew it. I always said so.” In order not to discourage fine sentiments, i... ...gn, she was always interfering with public affairs to the advantage of our holy religion. The which time has seized many people by the throat, from ou... ...e which time has seized many people by the throat, from our defunct Master Francis, first of that name, to the Assembly at Blois, where fell M. de Gui... ...our Duchy of Anjou, the country people are very faith- ful servants to our Holy of Catholic religion, and none of them will lose his portion of paradi... ...ken like a silly bird and led into the town of Madrid, in Spain. There the Emperor Charles V. kept him carefully locked up, like an article of great v... ...d himself to be deceived by certain chroniclers, since the archives of the Roman Empire make no mention of an acquisition of this kind. I am angry wit... ...range with you a merry feast after the ancient method, when the Greeks and Romans said their Pater noster to Master Pria- pus, and the learned god cal...

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...y. 3 Henry James A Little Tour In France by Henry James WE GOOD AMERICANS—I say it without presumption—are too apt to think that France is Paris, jus... ...is is not France; that was perfectly evident on the return to the capital. I must not speak, however, as if I had discovered the provinces. They were ... ...g side,—the side that comes out in the “Contes Drolatiques,” which are the romantic and epicu- rean chronicle of the old manors and abbeys of this re-... ... in the great abbey-church of Saint Martin, which was for so many ages the holy place of Tours, it happily survived the dev- astation to which that ed... ...igious houses in Christendom, with kings for its titular abbots (who, like Francis I., sometimes turned and despoiled it) and a great treasure of prec... ...o centuries after her death) over the tomb of Luitgarde, wife of the great Emperor, who died at Tours in 800. I do not pretend to understand in what r... ...present, indeed, when once you have caught a glimpse of the stout, serious Romanesque tower,—which is not high, but strong,— you feel that the buildin... ...r, are the empty frames of bril- liant pictures. They need the figure of a Francis I. to complete them, or of a Diane de Poitiers, or even of a Henry ... ...has, over the portal, a wonderful sculpture of the miraculous hunt of that holy man. In the way of plastic art this elaborate scene is the gem of Ambo...

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...poleon by William Makepeace Thackeray Writing as “Michael Angelo Titmarch” I. ON THE DISINTERMENT OF NAPOLEON AT ST. HELENA. MY DEAR ——,—It is no easy... ...hat is great in it, and what is mean; and many and many is the puzzle that I have had in reading History (or the works of fiction which go by that nam... ...obable, my love, that you are ac- quainted with what is called Grecian and Roman his- tory, chiefly from perusing, in very early youth, the little she... ...d, secondly, only tell a little of what they know. As for those Greeks and Romans whom you have read of in “sheepskin,” were you to know really what t... ...at London, waited upon Lord Palmerston with a request that the body of the Emperor Napoleon should be given up to the French nation, in order that it ... ...ting, sublime, absurd French nation, who had taken a cool view of the dead Emperor’s character; if, perhaps, such men as Louis Philippe, and Monsieur ... ...vants, were likewise in the vessel. It was commanded by his Royal Highness Francis Ferdinand Philip Louis Marie d’Orleans, Prince de Joinville, a youn... ...the mission, the officers, and the premiers maitres of the ship, sprinkled holy water on the coffin. At eleven, all the ceremonies of the church were ... ...can who led the crowning charge at Marengo, and sent the best blood of the Holy Roman Empire to the right-about, before the wretched misbe- gotten imp...

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........................................................................... 5 I. LIFE ...................................................................... ...................................................................13 SECTION I—THE GLORY OF MOTION ........................................................ ...nto political economy, into the Greek and Latin accents, into antiquities, Roman roads, old castles, the ori- gin and analogy of languages; upon all t... ...val of interest in earlier modern English prose, which is a feature of the Romantic Movement. Still none of his contemporaries wrote as he did; eviden... ...ting by my personal patronage—viz., the Worcester, the Gloucester, and the Holyhead mail. Naturally, therefore, it became a point of some interest wit... ...n that occasion a benevolent old gentleman endeavoured to soothe his three holy associates, by suggesting that, if the outsides were in- dicted for th... ...sary to call a cabinet council on the grand state question, “Where was the Emperor to sit?” The hammer-cloth happened to be unusually gorgeous; and, p... ...satisfied. “I say,” he cried out in an extempore petition addressed to the Emperor through the window—“I say, how am I to catch hold of the reins?”—“A... ... 27. 92 15 DAUGHTER OF CÆSARS: She was the daughter of the German emperor, Francis I, whose sovereignty, as the name “Holy Roman Empire” shows, was su...

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...t interesting country, and the innumerable associations entwined about it. I make but little reference to that stock of information; not at all regard... ...uence of my having had recourse to the storehouse for my own benefit, that I should reproduce its easily accessible contents before the eyes of my rea... ...upon them. I hope I am not likely to be misunderstood by Professors of the Roman Catholic faith, on account of anything con tained in these pages. I ... ...th, any essentials of their creed. When I treat of the cer emonies of the Holy Week, I merely treat of their effect, and do not challenge the good an... ..., into a vaulted chamber, now used as a store room: once the chapel of the Holy Office. The place where the tribunal sat, was plain. The platform migh... ... lorn surprise; and returning to my villa: the Villa Bagnerello (it sounds romantic, but Signor Bagnerello is a butcher hard by): have sufficient occu... ...n Low, call me not thus. Repeat that phrase and leave me! I am Napo leon, Emperor of France!’ Sir Yew ud se on, nothing daunted, proceeded to enterta... ...les; and form a chain of labyrinths, sixty miles in circumference. A gaunt Franciscan friar, with a wild bright eye, was our 127 Charles Dickens only... ...apparently in liquor. Nor to those Mon sieur T onsons of galleries, Saint Francis and Saint Sebastian; both of whom I submit should have very uncommo...

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...OF MONTAIGNE ............................................................................................................................. 24 CHAPTER I THAT MEN BY VARIOUS WAYS ARRIVE AT THE SAME END............................................... 57 CHAPTER II OF SORROW ...........................................................................................................

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.................................................................. 24 CHAPTER I THAT MEN BY V ARIOUS WAYS ARRIVE AT THE SAME END............................ ...an he was—what he felt, thought, suf- fered—and he succeeded immeasurably, I apprehend, be- yond his expectations. It was reasonable enough that Monta... ...the Parliament of Bordeaux; in 1559 he was at Bar-le-Duc with the court of Francis II, and in the year following he was present at Rouen to witness th... ...ys: Book the First what is left of the Temple of Concord, along the ‘Forum Romanum’, of which the fall seems quite recent, like that of some huge moun... ... out of the ruins of the theatre of Marcellus. He believed that an ancient Roman would not recognise the place again. It often happened that in diggin... ...eligion. He solicited the honour of being admitted to kiss the feet of the Holy Father, Gregory XIII.; and the Pontiff exhorted him always to continue... ...ect in its infor- mation, that it thought Venice to be a dependency of the Holy See.” Of all the particulars with which he has furnished us dur- ing h... ...ch as have not read of the prodigious force and valour of that prince. The Emperor Conrad III. having besieged Guelph, Duke of Bavaria,—[In 1140, in W... ...t. vii. I] And how much less sociable is false speaking than silence? King Francis I. vaunted that he had by this means non- plussed Francesco T avern...

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...Contents MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 E...

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... equal opportunity university. Contents MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ........................................................................... ...ULTS. 457 4 Memorials, and Other Papers 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 ... ...hey are described as merely deaf to the lessons of experience, and as too “romantic” in their expectations. The very opposite is, to my thinking, thei... ... The very opposite is, to my thinking, their criminal reproach. He that is romantic errs usually by too much elevation. He violates the standard of re... ...than his understanding. An arrière pensée should lie hidden in all minds—a holy reserve as to cases which may arise similar to such as HAVE arisen, wh... ...and the orders for that day’s exercise, and considered her- self, like the Emperor Titus, to have lost a day. But what came of the London lady’s or of... ...faculty of shap- ing and conceiving things under their true relations. The holy herald of Christ, and Christ himself the finisher of prophecy, made pr... ...used to carry off the colonel, stunned and bleeding, within the gates of a Franciscan convent. He was consigned to the medical care of the holy father... ...s generally taken for granted: but an economist of our times, the late Mr. Francis Horner, had (in the Edinburgh Review) expressly set himself to prov...

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...ION ODUCTION ODUCTION ODUCTION ODUCTION IN SENDING FORTH this little book, I am inclined to add a few explanatory words as to the use I have made of h... ... was probably Freytag’s first series of pictures of German Life: probably, I say, for its first commencement was a dream, dreamt some weeks after read... ...he picture I have tried to give of the state of things in the reign of the Emperor Friedrich III., when, for want of any other law, Faust recht, or fi... ...ed to a defined power like his descendants. We forget that the head of the Holy Roman Empire had been, ever since the extinction of the Swabian line, ... ... a defined power like his descendants. We forget that the head of the Holy Roman Empire had been, ever since the extinction of the Swabian line, a mer... ...tion were wanting to have made him a Charles, or an Alfred, the Great. The romance of his marriage with the heiress of Burgundy is one of the best kno... ...oup carved in oak, representing the carpenter’s shop at Nazareth, with the Holy Child instructed by Joseph in the use of tools, and the Mother sitting... ...mable benefit he, poor Friar Peter, had come from his broth- erhood of St. Francis at Offingen solely to dispense to the poor mountaineers. It was dis... ... Eberhard. “Silence, that is all! And thy friary—?” “The poor house of St. Francis at Offingen for the present, noble sir,” said the priest. “There wi...

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... to Verona, over the moun- tains. Here the great processions passed as the emperors went South, or came home again from rosy Italy to their own German... ...ed by the Pope and accompanied by the great bishops, must have planted the holy idol like a new plant among the mountains, there where it multiplied a... ... open, grassy road, holding a shadow and a mystery under its pointed hood. I was startled into consciousness one evening, going alone over a marshy pl... ...n the feet of the Christ a handful of withered poppies. It was the poppies I saw, then the Christ. It was an old shrine, the wood-sculpture of a Bavar... ...e in one of those Alpine valleys which to our thinking are all flowers and romance, like the picture in the T ate Gallery. ‘Spring in the Austrian T y... ... INNER AND INNER AND THE MONKS THE MONKS THE MONKS THE MONKS THE MONKS THE HOLY SPIRIT is a Dove, or an Eagle. In the Old Testa- ment it was an Eagle;... ... gloves while she teaches us Italian—says that the lemon was brought by St Francis of Assisi, who came to the Garda here and founded a church and a mo... ...o, La Fiaccola sotto il Moggio—The Light under the Bushel. It is a foolish romantic play of no real significance. There are several murders and a good... ...ise anybody else. 69 Twilight in Italy And beyond all these there are the Franciscan friars in their brown robes, so shy, so silent, so obliterated, ...

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...ER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) WHAT IS MAN? I a. a. a. a. a. M M M M M an the M an the M an the M an the M an the M... ...nal merit in the perfor mance of either? O.M. Yes—but do not be offended; I am meaning no offense. What makes the grand difference between the stone ... ...tunate. I have examined many fine and apparently self sacrificing deeds in romances and biographies, but— O.M. Under searching analysis the ostensible... ...alists? And why were the Congregationalists not Baptists, and the Baptists Roman Catholics, and the Roman Catholics Buddhists, and the Buddhists Quake... ...e since, when it was tenantless and silent and forlorn, but to me it was a holy place and beautiful. It seemed to me that the spirits of the dead were... ... ous matter that helped me to another link. It made me notorious, and San Francisco invited me to lecture. Which I did. And profitably. I had long ha... ...ing; its duty was to remind me when it was time to begin to talk about San Francisco weather, where there is no lightning—nor thunder, either—and it ... ..., the Duke of Reichstadt. Hereabouts was a Roman camp, once, and in it the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Mark T wain 115 died a thousand years before the f... ...n gallery, in which princes are displayed. It is sacred to them; it is the holy of holies. As soon as the filling of the house is about complete the s...

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... by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation. TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE I: ABOUT THIS TRANSLATION It was with considerable reluctance that I abando... ... Quixote,” which has now become a somewhat scarce book. There are some—and I confess myself to be one—for whom Shelton’s racy old version, with all it... ...likely to have a strong feeling on the subject of the sham chivalry of the romances. It gives a point, too, to what 10 Don Quixote he says in more th... ...Part of “Don Quixote” alone proves a vast amount of miscellaneous reading, romances of chivalry, ballads, popular poetry, chronicles, for which he had... ...undertake a venture of so novel a character; and so little faith in it had Francisco Robles of Madrid, to whom at last he sold it, that he did not car... ...say, “What! Alvaro de Luna here? Or is it Hannibal again? Or does King Francis at Madrid Once more of destiny complain?” Since Heaven it hath n... ...e men of learning, erudition, and eloquence. And then, when they quote the Holy Scriptures!—anyone would say they are St. Thomases or other doctors of... ...e friendship and the love God bids us bear to our enemy, go at once to the Holy Scriptures, which you can do with a very small amount of research, and... ...and fame. Already the poor man saw himself crowned by the might of his arm Emperor of Trebizond at least; and so, led away by the intense enjoyment he...

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...ency my plays, that had appeared in print before being shown on the stage, I said, if I remember well, that Don Quixote was putting on his spurs to go... ...e was putting on his spurs to go and render homage to Your Excellency. Now I say that “with his spurs, he is on his way.” Should he reach destination ... ...orld. And he who has shown the greatest longing for him has been the great Emperor of China, who wrote me a letter in Chinese a month ago and sent it ... ...or really and truly, of the two kinds there are, I only know that which is holy, noble, and high-minded; and if that be so, as it is, I am not likely ... ... a priest, above all if, in addition, he holds the rank of familiar of the Holy Office. And if he said what he did on account of him on whose behalf i... ... that I believe, as I always do, firmly and truly in God, and all the holy Roman Catholic Church holds and believes, and that I am a mortal enemy of t... ...at the top; and it was from this that the emperor examined the building. A Roman gentleman stood by his side and explained to him the skilful construc... ...o with us; for, after all, Sancho, I know well that Ricota my daughter and Francisca Ricota my wife are Catholic Christians, and though I am not so mu... ...rning, leave his house, and meet a friar of the order of the blessed Saint Francis, and, as if he had met a griffin, he will turn about and go home. W...

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...d, of an Infinite God, was the reason, so to speak, for the invention of a Holy Spirit, as something pro- ceeding from him, as something bridging the ... ...spect of a final personal death unendurable. This impresses me as egotism. I have no such appetite for a separate immor- tality. God is my immortality... ...r example, to trace how Christianity drifted into the consciousness of the Roman world. But when a re- ligion has been interrogated it has always had ... ... in this world; this was no matter for discussion, they declared, it was a Holy Mystery full of magical terror, and few religious people have thought ... ...s; they had to conduct their disputations amidst the struggles of would-be emperors; court eunuchs and favourites swayed their counsels, and popular r... ...ize these one chief thing appeared imperative: doc- trinal uniformity. The emperor himself, albeit unbaptised and very ignorant of Greek, came and sea... ...h of bishops join the early fathers of the church in heaven there will be, I fear, a note of reproach in their greeting of the ingenious person who sa... ...n into a crevasse? There exists a very touching and remarkable book by Sir Francis Younghusband called “Within.” [Williams and Norgate, 1912.] It is t... ... make marriage into a mystical sacrament, and, with some excep- tions, the Roman communion exacts the sacrifice of celi- bacy from its priesthood, reg...

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...Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation. Part One TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE I: ABOUT THIS TRANSLATION It was with considerable reluctance that I abando... ... Quixote,” which has now become a somewhat scarce book. There are some—and I confess myself to be one—for whom Shelton’s racy old version, with all it... ...likely to have a strong feeling on the subject of the sham chivalry of the romances. It gives a point, too, to what he says in more than one place abo... ...Part of “Don Quixote” alone proves a vast amount of miscellaneous reading, romances of chivalry, ballads, popular poetry, chronicles, for which he had... ...undertake a venture of so novel a character; and so little faith in it had Francisco Robles of Madrid, to whom at last he sold it, that he did not car... ...say, “What! Alvaro de Luna here? Or is it Hannibal again? Or does King Francis at Madrid Once more of destiny complain?” Since Heaven it hath n... ...e men of learning, erudition, and eloquence. And then, when they quote the Holy Scriptures!—anyone would say they are St. Thomases or other doctors of... ...e friendship and the love God bids us bear to our enemy, go at once to the Holy Scriptures, which you can do with a very small amount of research, and... ...and fame. Already the poor man saw himself crowned by the might of his arm Emperor of Trebizond at least; and so, led away by the intense enjoyment he...

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...se two clustered a great multitude of heated, excited, swarthy faces…. The emperor sat on his golden throne in the midst of the gathering, commanding ... ... sat still and dormant by the table was in reality a keen and bitter Irish Roman Catholic. Then the question, a question-begging question, was put qui... ...unch, had gripped his mind, and then as now had come the thought, “If only I could smoke!” And he had smoked. It seemed better to break a vow than fai... ...bbed him to the heart. “Oh, God!” he groaned. “The meanness of it! How did I bring myself—?” He turned out the light convulsively, and rolled over in ... ...try of ritual. Through all the time of his incumbency of the church of the Holy Innocents, St. John’s Wood, and of his career as the bishop suffragan ... ... was as good as done. “And now to God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost….” Outside the day had become suddenly bright, the threat- ening... ...form. For hanging half out of the casement he was suddenly reminded of St. Francis of Assisi, and how at his rebuke the wheeling swallow stilled their... ..., had a similar passion. She did not know that her own eldest son, a dark, romantic-looking youngster from Eton, had also come to the theological stag... ...and she may yet give peace to all the world. She has put aside that puppet Emperor at Peking, she turns her face to the new learning of the West as a ...

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................................................................... 6 CHAPTER I: THE AFFLICTION OF CHILDHOOD ............................................... ................................................................118 CHAPTER V I: AM INTRODUCED TO THE WARFARE OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL.......... 131 CHAPTER VI... ...sible read- ers, “as good as manuscript”? Not to insist, however, upon any romantic rigor in constructing this idea, and abiding by the ordinary stand... ...n a saintly scheme of ethics; but where is the scheme of mediation? In the Roman church, there have been some theologians who have also seen reason to... ...ry much less sumptuously than the servants. And if (after the model of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius) I should return thanks to Providence for all the ... ...thers; finally, that I and they were dutiful and loving members of a pure, holy, and magnificent church. * * * 20 Thomas de Quincey The e... ...ng loved. This it was which crowned thee with beauty and power. “Love, the holy sense, Best gift of God, in thee was most intense.” That lamp of parad... ...uates. She was the daughter of Lord Le Despencer, (known previously as Sir Francis Dashwood;) and at this time (meaning the time of her visit to Green... ...h the west; and at his house I first met Lord Westport. 2 “Sir,” said the emperor to a soldier who had missed the target in succession I know not how...

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...e rather a family record than a novel. Formerly the Muse of the historical romance was an inde- pendent and arbitrary personage, who could compress ti... ... in a state of siege for several months. However, the execution of Charles I. in England alarmed the Queen on the one hand, and the Parliament on the ... ... twenty- three at the beginning of the Fronde. It only remains to say that I have no definite authority for 8 Stray Pearls introducing such a charact... ...e than the language, for Madame de Rambouillet, using her great gifts as a holy trust for the good of her neighbour, conferred no small benefit on her... ..., that I have always found that, next of course to those sup- plied by our holy religion, the best mode of rendering our life and its inconveniences e... ...g our life and its inconveniences endurable is to give them a colouring of romance.’ I did not understand her then, but I have often since thought of ... ...r cousin was doing the same, though she explains that, having hopes of the Emperor, and thinking the Prince a mere land- less exile, she only pitied h... ...eseen this, and made arrangements with a good old knight and his lady, Sir Francis Ommaney, always to call for my sister on their way to church, and s... ... fashion, I was not to be left to keep house myself, my mother invited Sir Francis and Lady Ommaney to come and take charge of me, and a very good thi...