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...d more to the intellec tual enlightenment of mankind than any other three writers who could be named, and yet the history of all three has given rise... ...as the enunciator of opinions as dif ferent in their tone as those of the writers who have handed them down. When we have read Plato or Xenophon, we ... ... poem, till about Peisistratus’ time, about five hundred years after.” Two French writers—Hedelin and Perrault—avowed a similar scepticism on the subj... ...till about Peisistratus’ time, about five hundred years after.” Two French writers—Hedelin and Perrault—avowed a similar scepticism on the subject; bu... ...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 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)...

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...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 ... ...rst of ill success, a higher fortune than their abilities could vindicate; writers, actors, painters, the pets of a day, but whose laurels wither unre... ...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... ... 103 Hawthorne thousandth time, and never worth using, with which romance writers (and myself, no doubt, among the rest) have so overpeopled the worl... ...,—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...

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...s Matthews in her earlier scenes has touches of greatness which a thousand French novelists lavishing “candour” and reckless of exag- geration have no... ...ere is indeed not much good to be said. The peer of the eighteenth-century writers (even when, as in Fielding’s case, there was no reason why they sho... ...go of honour,” he is admirable, and up to his time almost unique. Ordinary writers and ordinary readers have never been quite content to admit that br... ...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... ...s have generally consulted the Latin only; which, in some of the few Greek writers I have read, is intolerably bad. And as the English translators, fo...

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... and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is always the writer who colors highly, or whether it is now and then the reader whose eye for color is a little dull?...

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...f whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is always the writer who colours highl... ...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...

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...e generally begins with a truism; and I may set out with the admission that it is not always expedient to bring to light the posthumous work of great writers. A man generally contrives to publish, during his lifetime, quite as much as the public has time or inclination to read; and his surviving friends are apt to show more zeal than discretion in dragging forth from his c...

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... it is not always expedient to bring to light the posthumous work of great writers. A man generally contrives to publish, during his lifetime, quite a... ...afford entertaining and even profitable reading to the later generation of writers whose pleasant fortune it is to charm one another and the public. I... ...st, has ventured in some manner to disregard the modern canons which debar writers from betraying towards their cre ations any warmer feeling than a ... ...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... ...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 ...

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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... ...ounted on his fingers eight residual natives. Or take the valley of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Ha... ...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...

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...idence to style it), and of abusing the female sex. I find likewise that the writers of those bundles are not agreed among themselves; for some of the... ...ages as I had the least smattering of, which were High and Low Dutch, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, and Lingua Franca, but all to no purpose. After... ...nts and children differ extremely from ours. For, since the con junction of male and female is founded upon the great law of nature, in order to prop... ... own capacities, as well as inclinations. I shall first say something of the male nurseries, and then of the female. The nurseries for males of noble ... ... the female nurseries, the young girls of quality are educated much like the males, only they are dressed by orderly servants of their own sex; but al... ...; or of the barbarous customs and idolatry of savage people, with which most writers abound. However, I thanked him for his good opinion, and promised... ...as by the licentiousness of those who are to obey. For instance: whereas all writers and reasoners have agreed, that there is a strict universal resem...

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...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... ...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... ...cide with the opportunities for ob- taining accurate information; when the writers were so few, 85 Thomas de Quincey and the audience so limited and ... ...nxiously prepared the means. And it is certain, that, although some German writers have attempted to fasten upon Charlemagne a charge of vexatious inq...

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...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... ...rong feeling for the beauties of nature, as displayed in the solitudes the writers have left at home, breathes through its pages like wholesome villag... ...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... ...en in his time, and did his utmost to correct it. I cannot hold with other writers on these subjects that the prevalence of various forms of dissent i...

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...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 ... ...tingly. The situation was exactly of a sort for one of his German phantasy-writers to image the forest jeering at him as he flew, blind, deaf, and unr...

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... the un- known painter from oblivion and blazed the trail which succeeding writers, with more or less do- cility , have followed. For a long time no c... ...purpose. And when such as had come in contact with Strickland in the past, writers who had known him in Lon- don, painters who had met him in the cafe... ...y the reader is safer of entertainment in their hands than in those of the writers who take a malicious pleasure in rep- resenting the great figures o... ...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. ... ...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...

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...does leave a disconsolate family to mourn his loss; so in academies of the male and female sex it occurs every now and then that the pupil is fully wo... ...o come in, Miss Sharp ad- vanced in a very unconcerned manner, and said in French, and with a perfect accent, “Mademoiselle, je viens vous faire mes a... ...iselle, je viens vous faire mes adieux.” Miss Pinkerton did not understand French; she only directed those who did: but biting her lips and throwing u... ...ve been made to tend the little girls in the lower schoolroom, and to talk French to the Misses, until I grew sick of my mother tongue. But that talki... ...d gentleman was born), rector of Crawley-cum-Snailby, and of various other male and female members of the Crawley family. Sir Pitt was first married t... ...ders of the poor little blubbering wretches, and Sir Pitt, seeing that the malefactors were in custody, drove on to the hall. All the servants were re... ...e first clerk to the articled gents, from the articled gents to the ragged writers and white- faced runners, in clothes too tight for them, as he sate...

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...e recorded opinions and experiences of distinguished medical profes sors, French, English, and Scotch, in more modern days, contenting myself with ob... ...ause in hand), which was squeezed dry years upon years ago. The short hand writers, the reporters of the court, and the reporters of the newspapers in... ...s a quantity, I suppose? Can dance, and play music, and sing? She can talk French, I suppose, and do geography, and globes, and needlework, and everyt... ... is there, it must be heard. You cannot shut it out. Watt, there is a tall French clock behind you (placed there, ‘a purpose) that has a loud beat whe... ... Vol. One ain, the Sisters of all the cardinal virtues separately, the Fe males of America, the Ladies of a hundred denominations. They appeared to b... ...ith another blot headed candle in his hand. “Pray is your lodger within?” “Male or female, sir?” says Mr. Krook. “Male. The person who does copying.” ... ... but still a demon of the patrician order. All the Dedlocks, in the direct male line, through a course of time during and beyond which the memory of m... ...y writ ers, and then that you should come and live here, and be one of my writers too. Which there is nothing derogatory, but far from it in the appe... ...ely asserted a kind of proprietorship in Mr. Weevle, “because I have known writers that have gone into brewers’ houses and done really very respectabl...

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...heir readers. Historical independence has shown itself much less among lay writers than among those of the Church. It is from the Benedictines, one of... ...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... ... it with admirable courage and persistency. The reproaches which Calvinist writers have cast upon her are to her glory; she incurred them by reason on... ...ermanent conspiracy.” We admire the anti-social maxims put forth by daring writers; why, then, this disapproval which, in France, attaches to all soci... ... 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 ... ...), 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... ...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...

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...h—when there’s danger of its interfering with my measure of the truth. The French of course like more of it than I give—having by their own genius suc... ... Stevenson, has preferred to leave the task unattempted. There are in fact writers as to whom we make out that their refuge from this is to assume it ... ...n short, on the consciousness of your heroine’s satellites, especially the male; make it an interest contributive only to the greater one. See, at all... ...o Paris from Versailles, on that most ominous day of the first half of the French Revolu- tion, the carriage of the royal family. The only thing is th... ...sually very bad ones) or had been sent to superficial schools, kept by the French, from which, at the end of a month, they had been removed in tears. ... ...own by return of post: she’s tremendously fond of distinguished people and writers. She writes herself, you know; but I haven’t read everything she ha... ...ained for some days a mystery. Isabel remembered perfectly the neat little male child whose hair smelt of a delicious cos- metic and who had a bonne a... ... deplorable degree the quality known and esteemed in the appearance of fe- males as style; and that if she is dressed with great fresh- ness she wears...

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...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... ...EF PREF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE CE CE 2 I am inclined to think that both the writers of books, and the readers of them, are generally not a little unrea... ...ld be sacrificed to its entertainment. Therefore I cannot but believe that writers and readers are under equal obligations for as much fame, or pleasu... ...nd our Spenser. Tasso in his ‘Aminta’ has as far excelled all the pastoral writers, as in his ‘Gierusalemme’ he has outdone the epic poets of his coun... ... 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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...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... ...arriages on the Chiaji, or walking in the Public Gardens; and quiet letter writers, perched behind their little desks and inkstands under the Portico ...

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...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 ... ...t them out and ar- range them alphabetically according to the names of the writers. “I’ll take you to the room in which the articled clerk generally s... ... came out in The Y ellow Book.” They looked upon him, as painters often do writers, with contempt because he was a layman, with tolerance because he p... ...o oc- cupy themselves with the entertainment which is provided for them by writers, painters, and poets.” Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He h... ... 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... ...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...

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...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... ...white ball. From the surrounding walls the heads of three famous Victorian writers sur- veyed this entertainment, and slips of paper pasted be- neath ... ...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... ...ht of a farthing dip. But the romance which fell upon the figures of great writers and illumined their pages was no false radiance in her case. She ca... ... 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...

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...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... ...he 8th of October, was buried in the cemetery of the Estrella. Of not many writers perhaps does a clearer notion, as far as their personality goes, ex... ...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... ...er sis- ter-in-law that might have been, are surprisingly human where most writers would have made them sticks. And the rest require no allowance. Lad... ...rs to tragedy. And perhaps, that we have no more instances of it among the writers of antiquity, is owing to the loss of this great pat- tern, which, ... ... 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... ...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...