...ey the result of an ingenious arrangement of fragments 11 Pope by earlier poets? Well has Landor remarked: “Some tell us there were twenty Homers; so... ... poem, till about Peisistratus’ time, about five hundred years after.” Two French writers—Hedelin and Perrault—avowed a similar scepticism on the subj... ... and harmonious form by the directions of the Athenian ruler. If the great poets, who flour ished at the bright period of Grecian song, of which, ala... ...ater period not inaptly been compared to our self admiring neighbours, the French, should submit with lofty self denial to the almost total exclusion ... ...e find no contradictions warranting this belief, and the so called sixteen poets concur in getting rid of the following leading men in the first battl... ...e of storms, your royal brother pass’d, Till, coasting nigh the cape where Malen shrouds Her spiry cliffs amid surrounding clouds, A whirling gust tum... ...aps, the unnumber’d flock. Big udder’d ewes, and goats of female kind (The males were penn’d in outward courts behind); Then, heaved on high, a rock’s... ...all his fleecy flock Before him march, and pour into the rock: Not one, or male or female, stayed behind (So fortune chanced, or so some god designed)...

... 22 Waverley particularly well acquainted with Spenser, Drayton, and other poets who have exercised themselves on romantic fiction, of all themes the ... ... Waverley had made the usual progress, and read the usual authors; and the French had af- forded him an almost exhaustless collection of memoirs, scar... ...her it was by the ‘merest accident in the world,’ a phrase which, from fe- male lips, does not always exclude Malice Prepense, or whether it was from ... ...uty; but, alas! hoop, patches, frizzled locks, and a new mantua of genuine French silk, were lost upon a young officer of dragoons, who wore, for the ... ... next halt, and wait for the con- veyance of Prince Hussein’s tapestry, or Malek the Weaver’s flying sentry-box. Those who are contented to remain wit... ...cer, as a pledge of her regard, a valuable diamond ring (often worn by the male sex at that time), and a purse of broad gold pieces, which also were m... ...t the horses’ heels; a nuisance at that time so common in Scotland, that a French tourist, who, like other travellers, longed to find a good and ratio... ...e wa’, And stately stepped he west. As for literature, he read the classic poets, to be sure, and the Epithalamium of Georgius Buchanan, and Arthur Jo... ...rds whom the chieftains of more distinguished name and power retain as the poets and historians of their tribes. These, of course, possess various deg...

...s of individuals to each other, that, with certain obvious exceptions, any male and female may be moderately happy in the married state. The true rule... ...by throwing into the slough some editions of books of morality, volumes of French philosophy and Ger man rationalism; tracts, sermons, and essays of ... ...ise, the witty, and the famous in every walk of life; princes, presidents, poets, generals, artists, actors, and philanthropists,—all making their own... ... village, the city, life’s high places and low ones, may all produce their poets, whom a common 88 Mosses from an Old Manse temperament pervades like... ...ance of the velvet. Next came a pair of scarlet breeches, once worn by the French governor of Louisbourg, and the knees of which had touched the lower... ...s of which had touched the lower step of the throne of Louis le Grand. The Frenchman had given these small clothes to an Indian powwow, who parted wit... ...,—yet none could tell precisely of what nature, although the city gossips, male and female, whispered the most atrocious sur mises. Until a recent pe... ...mpulse to give external reality to his ideas as irresistibly as any of the poets or painters who have arrayed the world in a dimmer and fainter beauty...

...s Matthews in her earlier scenes has touches of greatness which a thousand French novelists lavishing “candour” and reckless of exag- geration have no... ...he was genteel and well drest, and did not in the least resemble those fe- males whom Mr. Booth had hitherto seen. The constable had no sooner deliver... ...the qualifications of a gentleman; was genteel and extremely polite; spoke French well, and danced to a miracle; but what chiefly rec- ommended him to... ...et her out of the room the whole night. Luckily for us, we both understood French, by means of which we consulted together, even in her presence, upon... ...laughed at my own afflictions, laugh at yours, without the censure of much malevolence? I wish you could learn this temper from me; for, take my word ... ...Though she was the tenderest of mothers, she never suffered any symptom of malevolence to shew itself in their most trifling actions without discourag... ...or, he little expected to hear of a proposal to translate any of the Latin poets. He proceeded, therefore, to catechise him a little farther; and by h... ...ith the coldest despair. There is a time, I think, according to one of our poets, when lust and envy sleep. This, I suppose, is when they are well gor... ...st of men hath compared to the short dimension of a span. One of the Roman poets compares it to the duration of a race; and an- other, to the much sho...

............................................. 115 IMITATIONS OF ENGLISH POETS ........................................................................ ...fteen, he visited London, in order to acquire a more thorough knowledge of French and Italian. At sixteen, he wrote the “Pastorals,” and a portion of ... ...ly we are inclined to suspect, that when common decency quits the words of male and female parties in their mutual communications, it is a very ample ... ...l, and accomplished—full of enterprise and spirit, too, although decidedly French in her tastes, manners, and character. Pope fell violently in love w... ...gether idle. In 1740, he did nothing but edit an edition of select Italian Poets. This year, Crousaz, a Swiss professor of note, having attacked (we t... ..., or erred in any particular point: and can it then be wondered at, if the poets in general seem resolved not to own them- 2 ‘Preface:’ to the miscel... ... I must bring you acquainted with. The best account I know of them is in a French book called ‘Le Comte de Gabalis,’ which both in its title and size ... ...rtemisia talks, by fits, Of councils, classics, fathers, wits; Reads Malebranche, Boyle, and Locke: Yet in some things methinks she fails— ‘... ...ander Pope – V olume One Is emulation in the learn’d or brave; Nor virtue, male or female, can we name, But what will grow on pride, or grow on shame....

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... natives, are to be found in almost every isle and hamlet; and even where these are unserviceable, the natives themselves have often scraped up a litt... ...it, yet did not speak one word of German. I heard from a gendarme who had taught school in Rapa-iti that while the children had the utmost difficulty ... ...e had just been heard—a trial for infanticide against an ape- like native woman; and the audience were smoking ciga- rettes as they awaited the verdic... ...id, is uppermost in the mind of the Marquesan. It would be strange if it were oth- erwise. The race is perhaps the handsomest extant. Six feet is abou... ...tted. They must not sit on the paepae; they must not go up to it by the stair; they must not eat pork; they must not approach a boat; they must not co... ...e bell agoing in the small belfry; and the faithful, who were not very numerous, gathered to prayers. I was once present: it was the Lord’s day, and s... ...ound of intercourse or business. In that hour before the shadows, the quarter of the palace and canal seemed like a landing- place in the Arabian Nigh...

...old and lifeless state of public religion prevailed up to the American and French Revolutions. These great events gave a shock everywhere to the medit... ...om Methodism. This last effect became more conspicuously evident after the French Revo- lution. The church of Scotland, which, as a whole, had ex- hib... ...ous organization of irreligion, which gave its most fearful aspects to the French Revolution. Other evils are in the rear as likely to arise out of th... ... Hartmann, as it yields a strong presumption that he has exhausted it. The male costume of ancient Pales- tine is yet to be illustrated; but, for the ... ...w, as then, the female habiliment was distinguished from the corresponding male one by its greater length; and through all antiquity we find long clot... ...ans, Arabs, &c., and is dwelt on with peculiar delight by the elder Arabic poets. That it had spread to the westernmost parts of Africa, early in the ... ...ion. Neck- laces were, from the earliest times, a favorite ornament of the male sex in the East; and expressed the dignity of the wearer, as we see in... ...t row of the Oriental necklace. Philo of Alexandria, and the other Arabian poets, give us some idea of the importance attached by the women of Asia to... ... perhaps thus:—Milton is not an author amongst authors, not a poet amongst poets, but a power amongst powers; and the Paradise Lost is not a book amon...

...ewhat less odious and offensive to foreigners. The servile rapacity of the French officials is sufficiently contemptible; but there is a surly boorish... ...rom its roof. In the gallery opposite to the pulpit were a little choir of male and female singers, a violoncello, and a violin. The preacher already ... ... side of the Atlantic) very bare of furni ture, having no curtains to the French bedstead or to the window. It had one unusual luxury, however, in th... ...hat all the great sights are somewhere else. If a lady take a fancy to any male passenger’s seat, the gentleman who accompanies her gives him notice o... ...ly into her own bed chamber. In another part of the building, there was a male pa tient in bed; very much flushed and heated. ‘Well,’ said he, start... ...t one can at all comprehend the vast designs of its projector, an aspiring Frenchman. Spacious avenues, that begin in nothing, and lead nowhere; stree... ...are for poetry:’ though we DO, by the way, profess to be very proud of our poets: while healthful amusements, cheerful means of recreation, and wholes...

...e room. Pony-riding, and lessons in boxing and wrestling, and les- sons in French from a French governess, at whose appear- ance my father always seem... ...hod of rebuking her anxious nature was to summon his cook, the funniest of Frenchmen, Mon- sieur Alphonse, and issue orders for a succession of six di... ... heard between Boddy and Julia. Boddy asked her to take private lessons in French from him. Heriot listened to the monstrous tale as he was on the poi... .... While the words were coming out of his mouth, he saw the tramps, and the male tramp’s eyes and his met. The man had one eyebrow and his lips at one ... ...ained the day in love-affairs, I suspect you’d run a good race against the male half of our county, William. And a damned good test of a man’s metal, ... ...d. ‘Pretty nigh, William.’ ‘That’s our curse, Greg. Money settled on their male issue, and money in hand; by the Lord! we’ve always had the look of a ... ...in the direction of Pagan Gods and Goddesses, and heathen histo- rians and poets; adding, it was not new to him, and perhaps that was why the world wa... ...on earth. Kunst, Wissenschaft, Ehre, Liebe. Die Liebe. Quick at the German poets. Frau: Fraulein. I am actually dazzled at the prospect of our future.... ...y moonlight with matter for a year of laughter, sing- ing like two Arabian poets praises of dark and fair, challengeing one to rival the other. Kiomi!...

...ere to be for ever dis- appointed by the intervention, as it were, of some malevo- lent being, and who was at last to come off victorious from 10 Guy... ... fun grew fast and furious, and, mounting his horse accordingly, he took a French leave of his entertainers, but without experiencing the least breach... ...n, and Argol? Do not Christians and Hea- thens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?” “Communis... ...because its existence was secret (that is, presumed to be so) from all the males of the family, but especially from the hus- band and master. He was, ... ...lieves Divinities, being himself divine. The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the ... ... for the Laird to pass.” “He shall have his share of the road,” answered a male gipsy from under his slouched and large-brimmed hat, and without raisi... ...owan—get out the gallon punchbowl and plenty of lemons. I’ll stand for the French article by the time I come back, and we’ll drink the young Laird’s h... ... is a d-d cake-house, the resort of walking gentlemen of all descriptions, poets, players, painters, musicians, who come to rave, and recite, and madd... ...d lulled by tales which you can only enjoy through the gauzy frippery of a French translation. O Matilda, I wish you could have seen the dusky visages...

...kenness, for freedom of language, and for unparalleled political dissension. There are adherents of each of the four French parties – Legitimists, Orl... ... and beat down their young romance with a renewed and feverish bastinado. If the other donkey had had the heart of a male under his hide, he would hav... ...st pretentious I have ever visited; but I saw many more of the like upon my journey. Indeed, it was typical of these French high- lands. Imagine a cot... ...alled to dinner, I felt chilly in and out. When I had eaten well and heartily, Brother Ambrose, a hearty conversible Frenchman (for all those who wait... ...the schemes of youth, are aban- doned after an interview of ten minutes, and the arts and sciences, and professional male jollity, deserted at once fo... ...ind. The greater part of poetry is about the stars; and very justly, for they are themselves the most classi- cal of poets. These same far-away worlds...

...e Pantechnicon near Belgrave Square, London, was observed (by a very small French sol dier; for I saw him look at it) to issue from the gate of the H... ...of good 6 Pictures from Italy humour who sat beside me in the person of a French Cou rier—best of servants and most beaming of men! Truth to say, he... ... this church, to see some painting which was being executed in fresco by a French artist and his pupil, I was led to observe more closely than I might... ...tared at again, without let or hindrance. The body of the room was full of male strangers; the crowd immense; the heat very great; and the pressure so... ...s to remind them that he took the money. The majority were country people, male and female. There were four or five Jesuit priests, however, and some ... ...is very high) then rose up, and stretched out its tiny arms, while all the male spectators in the square uncovered, and some, but not by any means the... ...cupids, quarrelling, sporting, working at trades; the atrical rehearsals; poets reading their productions to their friends; inscriptions chalked upon... ...tal, side by side with Michael Angelo, Canova, Titian, Rembrandt, Raphael, Poets, Historians, Philoso phers—those illustrious men of history, beside ...

...ddressing her with the single word which consti- tuted the strength of his French vocabulary, and holding up one finger in a manner which appeared to ... ...n English. “Combien?” “Monsieur wishes to buy it?” asked the young lady in French. “Very pretty, splendide. Combien?” repeated the Ameri- can. “It ple... ... fixed him with her conscious, perceptive eye and asked him if he spoke no French. Then, “Donnez!” she said briefly, and took the open guide-book. 7 ... ... me.” 36 The American “You remind me of the heroes of the French romantic poets, Rolla and Fortunio and all those other insatiable gentlemen for whom... ...uis; “he has great Irish estates. Lady Bridget, in the complete absence of male heirs, either direct or col- lateral—a most extraordinary circumstance... ... be incidental to this unexpected encounter with the infe- rior grace of a male and a Briton. He blushed a good deal, and greeted the object of his la...

... Tale of Two Cities A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens A story of the French Revolution A PSU Electronic Classics Series Publication A Tale of T... ...unity University. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens [A story of the French Revolution] Book the First—Recalled to Life I The Period IT WA S T... ...of travelling, sir, in T ellson and Company’s House.” “Yes. We are quite a French House, as well as an English one.” “Yes, sir. Not much in the habit ... ... he probably would not have one. That, Virtue, as had been observed by the poets (in many passages which he well knew the jury would have, word for wo... ...an was the Farmer General. Thirty horses stood in his stables, twenty four male domestics sat in his halls, six body women waited on his wife. As one ... ...e resemblance in it to the noise conventionally assigned to the owl by men poets. But it is the obstinate custom of such creatures hardly ever to say ... ...ted friend; Miss Pross knew full well that Madame Defarge was the family’s malevolent enemy. “On my way yonder,” said Madame Defarge, with a slight mo...

...exander Pope, and he wrote moral stories in rhymed couplets. Then came the French Revolution and the Napo- leonic Wars, and the poets sang new songs. ... ...uplets. Then came the French Revolution and the Napo- leonic Wars, and the poets sang new songs. Mr. Crabbe continued to write moral stories in rhymed... ...was a very small room, over- crowded with furniture of the style which the French know as Louis Philippe. There was a large wooden bedstead on which w... ...y . “Oh yes. In point of fact I’ve not spoken to a soul for three days. My French isn’t exactly bril- liant.” I wondered as I preceded him downstairs ... ...lows who might have stepped out of the pages of Honore de Balzac; members, male and female, of the pro- fessions which make their profit of the frailt... ...am and Eve — que sais-je? — it was a hymn to the beauty of the human form, male and female, and the praise of Nature, sublime, indifferent, lovely , a...

...ok (much too long) on the era of imperial Rome. If it had not been for the French Revolution, criticism applied to history might then have prepared th... ... vigorously defended. Moreover, un- der Henry VI. he defeated ten thousand French troops with fifteen hundred weary and famished men. So much for war.... ...ridiculous stories are told about the author of one of the finest books in French literature,—”Pantagruel.” Aretino, the friend of Titian, and the Vol... ... sons, a king without heirs. Unhappily the Duc d’Alencon, Catherine’s last male child, had already died, a natural death. The last words of the great ... ...; Rome had its moral govern- ment; Italy still reigned supreme through the poets, the gen- erals, the statesmen born to her. At no period of the world... ...d to have been made of verre (glass). Lately one of our most distinguished poets was obliged to establish the true orthography of the word for the ins... ...), had no great authority in Geneva. In fact for a long time his power was malevolently checked by the Genevese. The town was the residence in those d... ...es, surmounted by the broad forehead which char- acterized the writers and poets of that day. De Beze had, what served him admirably, an agreeable air... ...ably the mag- netic and terrible working in the occult world of a constant malevolent desire surrounding the person doomed to death; the effects of wh...

...s, He was taught Latin and mathematics by his uncle who knew neither , and French and the piano by his aunt. Of French she was ignorant, but she knew ... ...e study than the classics. Neither Ger - man nor chemistry was taught, and French only by the form-masters; they could keep order bet- ter than a fore... ...bet- ter than a foreigner, and, since they knew the grammar as well as any Frenchman, it seemed unimportant that none of them could have got a cup of ... ...ith the entertainment which is provided for them by writers, painters, and poets.” Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty ... ... it’s a man, isn’t it?” “Why?” asked Philip. “They generally always like a male better,” said the attendant. “A female’s liable to have a lot of fat a... ... immersed himself in the modern French versifiers, and, such a plethora of poets is there in France, he had several new geniuses to tell Philip about.... ... discourse on the subject that beauty is put into things by paint- ers and poets. They create beauty . In themselves there is nothing to choose betwee... ...aging, and friendly . Like everyone connected with hospitals he found that male patients were more easy to get on with than female. The women were oft...

...ad one which I told you at the fountain the other day. He had known mighty poets, he said, in his earlier life; and the most illustrious of them would... ... sky is wont to be set aflame with breadths and depths of color with which poets seek in vain to dye their verses, and which painters never dare to co... ...eatures, in petticoats, but otherwise man- like, toiling side by side with male laborers, in the rudest work of the fields. These sturdy women (if as ... ...cutlery, books, chiefly little volumes of a religious Character, and a few French novels; toys, tinware, old iron, cloth, rosaries of beads, crucifixe... ...ss and courtesy made their homage far less obtrusive than that of Germans, French, or Anglo-Saxons might have been. It is not improbable that Miriam h... ... away. For the rest, let them be piled in gar- rets, just as the tolerable poets are shelved, when their little day is over. Is a painter more sacred ... ...rd the clamor that he made, they had responded only with sullen and drowsy maledictions, and turned to sleep again. It must be a very dear and intimat... ...d white cloaks, were sta- tioned at all the street corners. Detachments of French in- fantry stood by their stacked muskets in the Piazza del Popolo, ...

...r grandfather’s poems—”we don’t even print as well as they did, and as for poets or painters or novelists—there are none; so, at any rate, I’m not sin... ...flower that any family can boast, a great writer, a poet eminent among the poets of England, a Richard Alardyce; and having pro- duced him, they prove... ...nd fasting in the Church. In times gone by, Mrs. Hilbery had known all the poets, all the novelists, all the beautiful women and distinguished men of ... ...with assertions that such-and-such passages, taken liberally from English, French, and Italian, are the supreme pearls of literature. Further, he was ... ...eath Mr. Clacton’s arm, for he invariably read some 67 Virginia Woolf new French author at lunch-time, or squeezed in a visit to a picture gallery, b... ...r drop. “Doesn’t it seem strange to you, Miss Hilbery,” he said, “that the French, with all their wealth of illustrious names, have no poet who can co... ...inner, the sense of being women together coming out most strongly when the male sex was, as if by some religious rite, se- cluded from the female. Kat... ... his, and to be certain that he spared her female judgment no ounce of his male muscularity. He seemed to argue as fiercely with her as if she were hi... ...nham’s unfashionable appearance. He seemed to wish to find some outlet for malevolence, but, failing one, he remained silent. The glance, the slight q...

...s to say the rumour origi- nated in the same base quarters, that a certain male Chuzzlewit, whose birth must be admitted to be involved in some obscur... ...is: merely adding, by way of a final spadeful, that many Chuzzlewits, both male and female, are proved to demonstration, on the faith of letters writt... ...n chambers, which upon the darkest nights have a watchful consciousness of French polish; the old Spanish mahogany winked at it now and then, as a doz... ...ts bonds, and hung upon her neck; for which instance of its waywardness no male observer would have had the heart to blame it. Her attire was that of ... ...enew, which would have done honour to Napoleon Bonaparte in addressing the French army.’ 49 Charles Dickens ‘And pray,’ asked Mr Pecksniff, obviously... ... and finding it to be an odd volume of the ‘Bachelor of Salamanca,’ in the French tongue, cursed Tom Pinch’s folly twenty times. He was on the point o... ...tions as naturally occurred to him, being a stranger, about the na- tional poets, the theatre, literature, and the arts. But the informa- tion which t... ... piece of justice, though it is upheld by the authority of divers profound poets and honourable men, bears a nearer resemblance to the justice of that... ...ooking upward for the current of some half-remembered legend; words of old poets, wedded to such mea- sures that the strain of music might have been t...

...d another was naughty, that Lizzie said she should soon begin to teach her French; Lizzie taught her all her lessons, Mamma only heard her music; Lizz... ...ys in one of his letters, that he wishes there could be a whole village of poets and antiquaries isolated from the rest of the world. That must be lik... ... by John of Gaunt.’ ‘And I choose to believe that all the cruelties of the French were by the express order of Louis Quatorze,’ said Eliza- beth; ‘you... ...t the question is, when it acquired a meaning equivalent in dignity to the French Chevalier.’ ‘Though it properly means anything but a horseman,’ said... ...ve slaves and two masters, that will be all the difference.’ ‘Well are the male kind called barons in heraldry,’ said Eliza- beth; ‘there is no denyin...

...put up yesterday. And the descendants of the man who built it, through the French line (for a Norman baron wedded the daughter and heiress of the Saxo... ...arning that refines other minds,— the critical acquaintance with the great poets and historians of antiquity, and apparently an appreciation of their ... ...ing destructive rather than generative, would not suffice for. There was a French man in the town—a M. Le Grand, secretly calling himself a Count—who... ...s praise and criticism, Ned soon grew to be the 33 Hawthorne pride of the Frenchman’s school, in both the active depart ments; and the Doctor himsel... ...inly were not so cautiously whispered but they occasionally did do so. The male remarks, indeed, generally died away in the throats that uttered them;... ..., that, had they been younger and prettier, they would have fared worse. A male emissary, who was ad mitted on the supposition of his being a patient... ...s which we are apt to associate with a noiseless tread and movement in the male sex. The sunshine came through the ivy and glim mered upon his great ...

...er a Newmarket list, and by his elbow on the table was lying open an uncut French novel on which he was engaged. He opened the cover in which the mess... ...a year, who should have the spiritual guidance of that appertaining to the male sex. The bishop, dean, and warden, were, as formerly, to ap- point in ... ... your sickness (provided it were not contagious), would bring you oranges, French novels, and the last new bit of scandal, and then hear of your death... ...o a kind of poetry, generally in Italian, and short romances, generally in French. She read much of a desultory sort of literature, and as a modern li... ...at he was destined to add another name to the imperishable list of English poets. From Winchester he went to Oxford, and was entered as a commoner at ... ...as hung round with family female insipidities by Lely, and unprepossessing male Thornes in red coats by Kneller; each Thorne having been let into a pa... ...he reader much in her favour. It is ordained that all novels should have a male and female angel, and a male and female devil. If it be considered tha...

...s, marching along like a soldier. We want such fel- lows as he to lick the French.” “A ye, sir, that’s Adam Bede, that is, I’ll be bound—Thias 14 Ada... ...dists near the maple, and perhaps yet more, curiosity to see the young fe- male preacher, proved too much for his anxiety to get to the end of his jou... ...eeting nature of our illusions, which any one moderately ac- quainted with French literature can command at a moment’s notice. Human converse, I think... ...rom that of the Loamshire people about him. But a gardener is Scotch, as a French teacher is Parisian. “Well, Mr. Poyser,” he said, before the good sl... ...himself for an art which he had laid aside for a space. How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our ...

...sion, from which he never afterwards departed, that all the fancies of the poets, and lessons of the sages, were a mere collection of words and gramma... ...about this event- ful period of time, on her customary viands; to wit, one French roll rasped, one egg new laid (or warranted to be), and one little p... ... The milliner’s intentions on the subject of this dress—the milliner was a Frenchwoman, and greatly resembled Mrs Skewton—were so chaste and elegant, ... ...shold if the visitor had come in female guise; but the figure being of the male sex, and Rob’ s orders only applying to women, Rob held the door open ... ...kens compassion on me! You! whose name I spit upon!’ The old woman, with a malevolence that made her uglIness quite awful, shook her withered hand at ... ...ays that’ s his opin- ion too, and give him War besides, and down with the French—for this young man has a general impression that every foreigner is ... ...ful!’ ‘What!’ croaked the old woman, putting her face close to his, with a malevolent grin upon it that puckered up the loose skin down in her very th...

...ntly and constantly in the four great books here given, he was not, as the French idiom expresses it, dans son assiette, in his own natural and impreg... ...strate of that time occupied a most singular position, and was more like a French Prefect of Police or even a Minister of Public Safety than a mere ju... ...ng’s micro- cosm a “toylike world,” and imagine that Russian Nihilists and French Naturalists have gone beyond it. It will deceive no one who has live... ... pattern of the amiable in either sex. The former of these, which deals in male virtue, was written by the great person himself, who lived the life he... ...e midst of such great temptations. I shall only add that this character of male chastity, though doubtless as desirable and becoming in one part of th... ... suffering them to get the better of my vir- tue.” You have heard, reader, poets talk of the statue of Surprize; you have heard likewise, or else you ... ... deformed monster! whom priests have railed at, philosophers despised, and poets ridiculed; is 77 Fielding there a wretch so abandoned as to own thee... ...injury; a blessing, perhaps, owed by her to the clergy, who were her chief male compan- ions, and with two or three of whom she had been barba- rously... ...passed away two or three hours behind the scenes, where I met with several poets, with whom I made engagements at the taverns. Some of the players wer...

...Wordsworth has his place in the Excise. You’re shabby fellows — true — but poets still, And duly seated on the immortal hill. Your bays may hide... ..., Condorcet, Mirabeau, Petion, Clootz, Danton, Marat, La Fayette, Were French, and famous people, as we know: And there were others, scarce ... ...for my new one); So, as I said, I ‘ll take my friend Don Juan. Most epic poets plunge ‘in medias res’ (Horace makes this the heroic turnpike ... ...rd’s prayer,’ And Greek—the alphabet — I ‘m nearly sure; She read some French romances here and there, Although her mode of speaking was not... ...ppose it — inter nos . (This should be entre nous, for Julia thought In French, but then the rhyme would go for naught.) I only say suppose thi... ...n the leafy nooks Where the wild branch of the cork forest grew; There poets find materials for their books, And every now and then we read ... ... It seems when this allotment was made out, There chanced to be an odd male, and odd female, Who (after some discussion and some doubt, If... ...ter some discussion and some doubt, If the soprano might be deem’d to be male, They placed him o’er the women as a scout) Were link’d togeth... ...him o’er the women as a scout) Were link’d together, and it happen’d the male Was Juan, — who, an awkward thing at his age, Pair’d off with a ...

...EY : afterwards Queen to Edward IV. (QUEEN ELIZABETH:) BONA: sister to the French Queen. Soldiers, Attendants, Messengers, Watchmen, &c. (Soldier:) ... ...Earl of March: I am the son of Henry the Fifth, Who made the Dauphin and the French to stoop And seized upon their towns and provinces. WARWICK: Talk... ... a thing it is to wear a crown; Within whose circuit is Elysium And all that poets feign of bliss and joy. Why do we finger thus? I cannot rest Until ... ... cries vengeance for his death, ‘Gainst thee, fell Clifford, and thee, false Frenchwoman. NORTHUMBERLAND: Beshrew me, but his passion moves me so Tha... ...ee daughters: by your leave I speak it, You love the breeder better than the male. [Enter a Messenger .] But what art thou, whose heavy looks foretell... ...d in a bush, With trembling wings misdoubteth every bush; And I, the hapless male to one sweet bird, Have now the fatal object in my eye Where my poor...

... hardly be told what this implies; it might be defined in the words of the French critic just named as “a tendency to pity.” One might indeed go furth... ...yarevsky (N. A.), 1903; Shenrok (V. I.), Materials for a Biography, 1892; (French) Leger (L.), Nicholas Gogol, 1914. AUTHOR’S PREFACE TO THE FIRST POR... ...the manner of their dancing attendance upon their womenfolk, so glib their French conversation as they quizzed their female companions. As for the oth... ... split within a fortnight, and brought down upon your head dire showers of male- dictions; with the result that gradually your shop grew empty of cust... ...erved— the phenomenon of the Chichikovs of this world becoming temporarily poets. At all events, for a moment or two our Chichikov felt that he was a ... ...ir business with the Governor’s wife, the ladies’ party descended upon the male section, with a view to influencing it to their own side by asserting ... ...women,” “pet- ticoats,” and others of a nature peculiarly offensive to the male sex. Also, however much they might arm themselves and take the field, ... ... else a reading aloud of a brilliant page of one of those inspired Russian poets with whom God has dowered us, while the breast of each member of the ...

... to be as great as he; but every form of greatness is famil- iar to you. A French savant could make a reputation, earn a professor’s chair, and a doze... ...ris is a town whither every man of energy—and they sprout like saplings on French soil—comes to meet his kind; talent swarms here without hearth or ho... ...nse mass of glittering ornaments that sparkled on the rich uniforms of the French army and civil officials. The 31 Balzac Emperor, a true Italian in ... ...few exceptions, who ought to be rewarded with the Montyon prize, the cook, male or female, is a domestic rob- ber, a thief taking wages, and perfectly... ...n why the same prize, the same triumph, the same bays are awarded to great poets and to great generals. Wenceslas, by nature a dreamer, had expended s... ...riumphs in the annals of sculpture may be counted, as we may count the few poets among men. Michael Angelo, Michel Columb, Jean Goujon, Phidias, Praxi... ...aw of life, for art is idealized creation. Hence great artists and perfect poets wait neither for commission nor for purchasers. They are constantly c... ...are equally applicable to any lady-killing rake; he is, in fact, a sort of male courtesan. Valerie’s last fancy was a madness; above all, she was bent...

... which she did by giving her some questions to answer in writing, and some French and German to trans- late and parse also in writing. The music was i... ...e was a change in occu- pations all round, resulting in her having to read French aloud, which she knew she did well; but it was provoking to find tha... ...’t read. But Maude used to play with a little girl who could read and talk French at five years old, and she died of water upon her brain.’ ‘Dear me! ... ...umpery,’ said Gillian, making a youthfully sweeping assertion. ‘Many great poets have begun with a periodical press,’ said Dolores, picking up a sente... ...he French original existed in the house, and Fly started the idea that the male performers should speak En- glish and the female French; but this was ...

...s the last appearance of a living Haploteuthis. No others were seen on the French coast. On the 15th of June a 133 H.G . Wells dead carcass, almost c... ...bble sat, luckily for himself, at a safe distance, regarding him. The four malefactors, feigning a profound absorption in their work, watched him furt... ...tres, and “all that.” And in addition were aunts of his wife, and cousins (male and female) to eat up capital, insult him per- sonally, upset business... ... that he knew that he knew neither Latin 184 The Country of the Blind nor French, were all unknown to him. At first his interest had been divided pre... ...my to read in Landport, and he was too poor to buy books, but the stock of poets in the library was extensive, and Hill’s attack was magnificently sus... ... signs in the Heavens. Sturdy Boers, dusky Hottentots, Gold Coast negroes, Frenchmen, Spaniards, Portuguese, stood in the warmth of the sunrise watchi...

...n was peculiarly happy in mentioning how many of the sons of Pembroke were poets; adding, with a smile of sportive triumph, ‘Sir, we are a nest of sin... ...ceived my notions with contempt. He was a whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. ... ...o get him- self employed in some translation, either from the Latin or the French. Johnson is a very good scholar and poet, and I have great hopes wil... ...what time, or by what means, he had acquired a competent knowledge both of French and Italian, I do not know; but he was so well skilled in them, as t... ... afterwards enriched the life of his unhappy companion, and those of other Poets. He told Sir Joshua Reynolds, that one night in particular, when Sava... ...nson. Sir, I have no doubt that I can do it in three years. Adams. But the French Academy, which consists of forty members, took forty years to compil... ...bean; Mr. Shiels, who we shall hereafter see partly wrote the Lives of the Poets to which the name of Cibber is affixed; Mr. Stewart, son of Mr. Georg... ...hter from the motley assem- bly of philosophers, printers, and dependents, male and female. I know not how so whimsical a thought came into my mind, b... ...ll who was my grand- father.’ He maintained the dignity and propri- ety of male succession, in opposition to the opin- ion of one of our friends, who ...

...n the bloom off the higher branches of mathemat ics and physical science, French, German, Latin, and Greek. 9 CHARLES D ICKENS He knew all about all... ... same to me what he is or what he is not, whether in English or whether in French,’ retorted Mr. E. W. B. Childers, facing about. ‘I am telling your f... ...ng assumption of being stiff in the knees. This walk was common to all the male members of Sleary’s company, and was understood to express, that they ... ...ady to take her away. Mr. Sleary stood in the middle of the room, with the male mem bers of the company about him, exactly as he would have stood in ... ...you are quite deter mined, come!’ But she had to take her farewell of the male part of the company yet, and every one of them had to unfold his arms ... ...The Hours did not go through any of those rosy performances, which foolish poets have ascribed to them at such times; neither did the clocks go any fa...

...is he burst forth into a tremendous passion, took leave of the mother with maledic- tions, and as he left the apartment, turned back to say to his wea... ...n all Stair’s offspriung we no difference know, They do the females as the males bestow; So he of one of his daughters’ marriages gave the ward, Like ... ...e wants the thing, Is but a shadow scarce worth notic- ing. He learned the French, be’t spoken to his praise, In very little more than fourty days.” T... ...ene and silent art, as painting has been called by one of our first living poets, necessarily appealed to the eye, because it had not the organs for a... ... light, admit- ted from the upper part of a high casement, fell upon a fe- male figure of exquisite beauty, who, in an attitude of speech- less terror... ...ot for him; France will gain him; and we will all set sail together in the French brig ‘L’Espoir,’ which is hovering for us off Eyemouth.” “Content am... ...lver that your lordship bestowed on Hew Hildebrand, your outrider; and the French velvet that went with my lord your father—be gracious to him!—my lor...

...lic Emancipations, and Rot ten Boroughs, and Revolts of Paris, deafen every French and every English ear, the German can stand peaceful on his scient... ...ed, and fish and flesh, soup and solid, oyster sauce, lettuces, Rhine wine and French mustard, were hurled into one huge tureen or trough, and the hungr... ... himself, as we said, laughed only once. Still less do we make of that other French Definition of the Cooking Animal; which, indeed, for rigorous scien... .... Observe too how fond they are of peaks, and Gothic arch intersections. The male world wears peaked caps, an ell long, which hang bobbing over the si... ...ewest can find the kernel.” In such rose colored light does our Professor, as Poets are wont, look back on his childhood; the historical details of whi... ...iritual sort on Europe: I mean the epidemic, now endemical, of View hunting. Poets of old date, being privileged with Senses, had also enjoyed externa... ... here been often irrefragably evinced, of the Tailor alone?—What too are all Poets and moral Teachers, but a species of Metaphorical Tailors? Touching...

...ressiveness of a fine quota- tion from the Bible,—or from one of our elder poets,—in a paragraph of to-day’s newspaper. She was usually spoken of as b... ...h to a plunge which his stream would afford him; and he concluded that the poets had much exaggerated the force of masculine passion. Nevertheless, he... ...an appetite for submission afterwards. And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise so... ...an, I see. The poor folks here might have a fowl in their pot, as the good French king used to wish for all his people. The French eat a good many fow... ..., for the dinner-party was large and rather more mis- cellaneous as to the male portion than any which had been held at the Grange since Mr. Brooke’s ... ...here the teach- ing included all that was demanded in the accomplished fe- male—even to extras, such as the getting in and out of a car- riage. Mrs. L... ...o write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.” “Y ou will say anything, Fred, to gain your point.” “W ell, tell me... ...ke another Alexander, left a realm large enough for many heirs. That great Frenchman first carried out the con- ception that living bodies, fundamenta... ...t has become of Trawley? I have quite lost sight of him. He was hot on the French social systems, and talked of going to the Backwoods to found a sort...

...ppeals; when the presid- ing genius that watched over the destinies of the French nation had played out all the best cards in his hand, and his advers... ... that the Queen of England did feel seriously alarmed at the notion that a French prince should occupy the Spanish throne; or whether she was tenderly... ...stavus Adolphus Maximilian von Galgenstein, had been in the service of the French as page to a nobleman; then of His Majesty’s gardes du corps; then a... ...he village maidens, who love soldiers as flies love treacle; presently the males began to arrive, and lo! the parson of the parish, taking his evening... ...er on certain days;—all which circumstances commonly are expunged from the male brain immediately after they have occurred, but remain fixed with the ... ...and our commission is to apprehend all able- 60 Catherine: A Story bodied male persons who can give no good account of them- selves, and enrol them i... ...ron nine times, besides extracts from the Latin syntax and the minor Greek poets. Catherine’s pas- sionate embreathings are of the most fashionable or... ...n we have all of us, no doubt, employed in our time. How often have we,—we poets, politicians, phi- losophers, family-men,—found charming excuses for ...