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...nd pleaded very ingeniously for me in my presence against another (also an Italian) who opposed my sentiments.” Such is what passed between Montaigne ... ...Montaigne’s arrival at the first French town on his homeward route, are in Italian, be- cause he wished to exercise himself in that language. 19 Mont... ... a like effect: witness the people of Thebes, who, having put two of their generals upon trial for their lives for having continued in arms beyond the... ..., and conscience. Oh foolish and base or- nament!” Florio, 1613, p. 3]—The Italians have more fitly baptized by this name—[La tristezza]—malignity; fo... ... of his oxen; the soldier of his wounds; the shep- herd of his flocks.”—An Italian translation of Propertius, ii. i, 43] For it often falls out that, ... ...NTRY Y Y Y Y I WAS OFTEN, when a boy, wonderfully concerned to see, in the Italian farces, a pedant always brought in for the fool of the play, and th... ...inters, and musicians; but to Lacedaemon for legislators, magistrates, and generals of armies; at Athens they learned to speak well: here to do well; ...

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...consolation; she lulled these unknown griefs in a cradle of tenderness and Italian caresses. Il Signor Pedrotti had indeed no reason to complain of th... ...ed by Lewis after Schedoni in the Confessional of the Black Penitents (The Italian), a superior creation, as it seems to me, to The Monk. “The Count w... ... the morning, walking to and fro by the trenches of the Bastille, like two generals who, on the eve of a battle, calculate all the chances, examine th...

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...ainst it) kissed them. Really, if young women will insist on kissing major generals, they must expect that the 64 Thomas de Quincey generals will ret... ...ral Needham, who commanded on this day, would have followed the example of Generals Fawcet and Loftus, and have ordered a retreat, had he not been det... ... half had served under Na- poleon in his first foreign campaign, viz., the Italian cam- paign of 1796, which accomplished the conquest of North- ern I... ...land something of that rank which the golden milestone of Rome held in the Italian peninsula. At Birmingham it was (which I, like myriads beside, had ... ...he soil was deep and adhesive, a worse evil beset the stately equipage. An Italian of rank, who has left a record of his perilous adventure, visited, ... ...eridge re- published in his “Biographia Literaria.” 2 From the well-known Italian epitaph—“Stava bene; ma per star meglio, sto qui”—I was well; but, ...

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...old men of sixty, boys of twenty, actors, ministers, merchants, and adjutant generals, so that many of his intimate chums were to be found at the extr... ...ime on it with her thin, dark skinned hand. The next song in the book was an Italian one. Kitty played the opening bars, and looked round at Varenka. ... ... where he had gained two steps up in rank, and an order rarely bestowed upon generals so young. As soon as he arrived in Petersburg, people began to t... ...owner; he won’t be able to tell you what crop’s profitable, and what’s not.” “Italian bookkeeping,” said the gentleman of the gray whiskers ironically.... ...fter meeting Vronsky on his own steps, cat drove, as he had intended, to the Italian opera. He sat through two acts there, and saw every one he had wa... .... They had visited Venice, Rome, and Naples, and had just arrived at a small Italian town where they meant to stay some time. A handsome head waiter, ... ...aceful and effective —and in that style he began to paint Anna’s portrait in Italian costume, and the portrait seemed to him, and to every one who saw... ...he loudest were men who had failed and were smarting under a sense of injury—generals without armies, ministers not in the ministry, journal ists not...

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...with a young, broken-hearted, and nearly expir- ing wife, his spoil in his Italian campaigns. His rude affec- tion had utterly failed to console her f... ...t of Christina’s training; her uncle likewise set great store by her sweet Italian voice, and caused her to be care- fully taught to sing and play on ... ... of the rushy space of ground in question, for this was the passage of the Italian merchants on their way from Constance, and every load that was over... ...we call them, Dukes, had indeed accepted employment from the Kaiser as his generals, and had received rewards from him; the Gerefen, or Graffen, of al... ...th all the feather-beds and pouncet-boxes in Ulm; is it not? That accursed Italian fever never left me till I came up here. A man can scarce draw brea... ...silver, and an eagle’s plume was fas- tened into his cap with a large gold Italian coin. He stared hard at the maiden, but vouchsafed her no token of ...

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...the military who surrounded the Palais Royal, that the people were pos- sessed of arms. The shade of Richelieu was Mazarin. Now Mazarin was alone and ... ...ate, hang, and make away with me in the same manner, although they have nothing to complain of except a tax or two now and then. Idiots! ignorant of t... ...; “don’t you know that I was in my youth a poet? I wrote verses in the style of Benserade—” “You, my lord?” “Yes, I; shall I repeat to you some of my ... ...e could not in- quire from D’Artagnan himself who he was and what had been his career; he remarked, however, in the course of conversation that the li... ...ing to Laporte: “Try, my dear Laporte, to make the king more courteous to Monsieur le Cardinal, to whom both he and I are under such important obligat... ... to rise; every one, therefore, believed him to be dead, especially those to whom his death would give promotion. One believes readily 51 Dumas what ... ...ach started out to fulfill his dangerous mission. 520 Twenty Years After The palace of Whitehall was guarded by three regiments of cavalry and by the... ..., for I presume that you gentlemen are Frondeurs?” “Y es, almost,” said Aramis. “We are for the king and the princes,” added Athos. “We must understan... ...this second Odys- sey was at hand and that there remained but a single effort to make. Besides, there was no tranquillity in Paris itself. Provi- sion...

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... mur- murs reach my ear. So far I have not gone beyond the garden; but the Italian opera opens in a few days, and my mother has a box there. I am craz... ... mother has a box there. I am crazy with delight at the thought of hearing Italian music and seeing French acting. Already I begin to drop convent hab... ...l the young men of family, the attaches to embassies, and the ambassadors, generals, and inferior officers, the peers of France, their sons and nephew... ...tered down upon the flat stretches of real life! Sunday. Yesterday, at the Italian Opera, I could feel some one was looking at me; my eyes were drawn,... ...at I—Armande-Louise-Marie de Chaulieu—should read it. The next day, at the Italian opera, he was at his post. But I feel sure that, ex-prime minister ... ...ave been able to pick up in a year— for we are in March now. Alas! no more Italian opera in an- other month. How will life be possible without that he...

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...and a thought deeper than most men’s: sit there, Tartuffe, till wanted! Ye Italian Dufournys, Flemish Prolys, flit hither all ye bipeds of prey! Come ... ...nt with sanction of National Assem- bly, appointed one of our Four supreme Generals. Rochambeau and Mailly, men and Marshals of note in these days, th... ...ose; in grim calmness, awaiting the issue. What the intrepidest of men and generals can do is done. Bouille, though there is a barricading picket at e... ...ing time;—wretched, disobedient, disorganised; who never saw fire; the old Generals and Officers gone across the Rhine. War-minister Narbonne, he of t... ... and approximate ascertainment each of what is in the other. Let our Three Generals on the Frontiers look to it, there- fore; and poor Chevalier de Gr... ...e Grave, the Warminister, con- sider what he will do. What is in the three Generals and Armies we may guess. As for poor Chevalier de Grave, he, in th...

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...isited London, in order to acquire a more thorough knowledge of French and Italian. At sixteen, he wrote the “Pastorals,” and a portion of “Windsor Fo... ...was altogether idle. In 1740, he did nothing but edit an edition of select Italian Poets. This year, Crousaz, a Swiss professor of note, having attack... ...10 And such were praised who but endeavour’d well: Though triumphs were to generals only due, Crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too. Now, the... ... 40 Your scene precariously subsists too long On French translation, and Italian song. Dare to have sense yourselves; assert the stage, Be justly wa... ...rst their entry made. 2 Her learning and good breeding such, Whether the Italian or the Dutch, Spaniards or French came to her: T o all obligi... ...ng, ah, let me hide my age! See, modest Cibber now has left the stage: Our generals now, retired to their estates, Hang their old trophies o’er the ga... ... 140 Here no man prates of idle things, How this or that Italian sings, A neighbour’s madness, or his spouse’s, Or what’s in either ...

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...way to Paris; we, scattered helpless, here and here: what to ad- vise? The Generals, strangers to Dumouriez, look blank enough; know not well what to ... ...his two walls, and the Brother of Rabaut. National Deputies not a few! And Generals: the memory of General Custine cannot be defended by his Son; his ... ...ng. Ci-devant Serjeant Pichegru, ci-devant Serjeant Hoche, risen now to be Generals, have done wonders here. Tall Pichegru was meant for the Church; w... ...of Liberty and hope of Promotion, low-born valour cut its desperate way to Generalship; and, from the central Carnot in Salut Public to the outmost dr... ...ur du Peuple; Barras, who has known other dances than the Carmagnole. Grim Generals of the Republic are there; in enormous horse-collar neckcloth, goo... ...the little bronzed-complexioned Artillery-Officer of Toulon, home from the Italian Wars! Grim enough; of lean, almost cruel aspect: for he has been in...

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...ghters, now married to the Comte de Montcornet, one of those of Napoleon’s generals who went over to the Bourbons. The Vidame held that a dinner-party... ...e loved him as they floated together on the breast of the amorous Queen of Italian seas. But even in that moment of bliss, such as angels know, some o... ...istocrat’s point of view; telling how he had been welcomed by the greatest Italian families of Genoa, T urin, Milan, Flo- rence, V enice, Rome, and Na...

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...on each side, such as Mansart very justly delighted in; for in France, the Italian attics and flat roofs are a folly against which our climate protest... ...ul, irresist- ible, drawn from the same mysterious source from which great generals on fields of battle who inflame an army, great orators inspiring v... ...t motionless on their horses. The carriage was now surrounded by a mass of generals, marshals, and other offic- ers, all extremely brilliant in appear...

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...ve with Colibri.... And how well everything was arranged in it! Walls with generals’ gold lace on it, everywhere epaulettes, people blowing trumpets i... ...ver me; I sipped water, opened the window and played the ‘Kamarinsky’ with Italian variations on the guitar.... No good! I felt I must get out of the ... ...to declare that he could not go without powder as he had to associate with generals and their ladies. Well, my name-day had come. Nastasey Nastasyeitc...

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...or Hamilcar, and Hanno his brother, 443 years before Christ, both Carthaginian generals, but at the time residing in a portion of Spain now called And... ...e continent. The statement was true. There were Portuguese, and Spaniards, and Italians, a few Frenchmen from Marseilles and Lyons, a few Dutchmen fro... ...y personal jealousy; second, that the sailors, most of whom were Portuguese or Italians, were warmly devoted to himself and would show the fact were a... ...unteers for desperate service. The Spaniards hung back, but the Portuguese and Italian sailors came forward with alacrity and volunteered for any duty... ...dred pairs of ears without once touching the victims' shoulders; and Matt, the Italian, who made a collection of nearly a thousand great toes, of whi...

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...aves, made up his own share of the numbers, but all the army was under his generalship. It is even said that the 300 celebrated their own funeral rite... ...to battle under the command of one of the con- suls. Many little States or Italian tribes, who had nearly the same customs as Rome, surrounded the Cam... ...ad their dominion over the cen- tral part of Italy. They were well used to Italian and Etruscan ways of mak- ing war, but after nearly 400 years of th... ...t that time, the first soldier of Rome, and had taken several of the chief Italian cities, espe- cially that of Veii, which had long been a most dange... ...ge glaciers of the Alps, be afraid to climb where a soft dweller in a tame Italian town could venture a passage? Brennus chose out the hardiest of his... ...should con- tinue. Then, as to the exchange of prisoners, the Carthaginian generals, who were in the hands of the Romans, were in full health and stre... ...ed is not known. The Senate, after the next victory, gave two Carthaginian generals to his wife and sons to hold as pledges for his good treatment; bu... ...was Antiochus Epiphanes, King of Syria. He was descended from one of those generals who, upon the death of Alexander the Great, had shared the East be... ...church door barred against a monarch. This time it is not under the bright Italian sky, but under the grey fogs of the Baltic sea. It is not the state...

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...emplified a com- mon abuse, not confined to literature. An artist from the Italian opera of London and Paris, making a professional excursion to our p... ...The first elementary idea of a Greek tragedy, is to be sought in a serious Italian opera. The Greek dialogue is represented by the recitative, and the... ...are represented by the impassioned airs, duos, trios, choruses, &c. on the Italian. And there, at the very outset, occurs a question which lies at the... ... Fine Art,— that is of any Fine Art: for had the views of Addison upon the Italian opera had the least foundation in truth, there could have been no r... ...hostility arose, probably, in his want of sensibility to good (that is, to Italian) music. But whatever might be his motive for the hostility, the si... ... them to private interpretations—or to dispense with them. As to his major-generals of counties, who figure in most histories of England as so many Al...

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... strangula- tion or naturally is of no consequence — the house had been sold, then abandoned, and lastly isolated from the other houses of the street.... ...ted by the royal mouth. This double favor, of a strangulation and a macaroni, conferred upon the triangular house, gave poor Cropoli a fancy to grace ... ... sonable dowry by showing them what there was beneath the slab of the chimney. These two points accomplished, he went in search of the painter who was... ...ici,’ “ said Pittrino, supplicatingly. “No,” replied Cropole, firmly. “I have got an idea, a sublime idea — your picture shall appear, and my legend l... ...ken good care that it should not be brilliant. “Y ou have nevertheless no intention,” replied Monsieur, “to cloister them or make them bourgeoises?” ... ...“But certain men have a family, sire, and no heir. The inheritance of Oliver was too heavy for Richard. Richard was neither a republican nor a royalis... ...admiration I entertain for your royal highness.” “Monsieur de Bragelonne,” said the prince, “is a good officer, and it is plainly seen that he has bee... ...What consequences?” “Eh! that damned sin of pride has roots without end. From the time that I threw myself in that manner between two armies, that I h... ... lines of soldiers, I have held generals a little in contempt.” “Ah!” said the father. “There is the evil; so that I have not found one endurable sinc...

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..., that the town talked about for two whole days, when the appearance of an Italian singer supplied a fresh subject for conversation,) and having busin... ...hin at the Council. There were with 133 Thackeray him two more lieutenant-generals, nine major-generals and brigadiers, seven colonels, eleven Peers ... ...egiment at Kensington on which we could rely. “Oh, Harry!” says one of the generals there present, “you were born under an unlucky star; I begin to th...

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...a vision that includes the names of four men: a U.S. Senator, a covert military intelligence agent, a priest from a small parish, and the head of the Italian mafia. These men form an alliance to eliminate the drug cartels of the world to save the children of the future against the backdrop of political power struggle. ...

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...American Cardinal, and the mood in the Vatican was to return the Papacy to an Italian. Cardinal Berini was the most obvious choice; he had lobbied, ... ...are, that the newly elected Pope was an unknown American Cardinal; the mostly Italian crowd stared at each other in disbelief. Later, when the othe... ...cally, almost all of them were fuzzy about the actual voting. The next day the Italian 8 J.Cross/Artemis newspapers ran bold headlines declaring... ...Jewish decent who had been adopted by Catholic parents: the Lira dropped, the Italian Stock Market almost collapsed; and Cardinal Berini actually ha... ... the man who belongs to this name. He is Angelo Gallucci, Capo di Capo of the Italian Mafia. He possess the name of an angel, but he does the work of... ... 127 J.Cross/Artemis Gallucci words echoed in Alex's ears like so many Generals before. Alex just sat, shaking his head between his hands, tr... ...s and twenty heads of the most powerful Cartels, plus three of Colombia’s top Generals and Cardona, assembled in a plush room deep underground in the... ...s got up and strolled around the huge table, stopping at one of the Colombian Generals. "What do you think, General Martinez? What can you contribu... ...will, Holy Father.” Enriquez hung up the phone, and frantically assembled his Generals and top aides. “I have just received word from Pope Francis th...

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...3 THE FIRST WRITING-MACHINES .................................................................................................................... 145 ITALIAN WITHOUT A MASTER......................................................................................................................... 148 ITALIAN WITH GRAMMAR .........................................................

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......................................................... ............... 145 ITALIAN WITHOUT A MASTER...................................................... ...................................................... .................. 148 ITALIAN WITH GRAMMAR ......................................................... ...le which he could not use, and there my knowledge of its history ends. *** ITALIAN WITHOUT A MASTER IT IS ALMOST A FORTNIGHT now that I am domicil... ...a dull time of it. But it is not so. The “help” are all natives; they talk Italian to me, I answer in English; I do not understand them, they do not u... ...e, and everybody is satisfied. In order to be just and fair, I throw in an Italian word when I have one, and this has a good influence. I get the word... ...staffs of our multitudinous governors, and through that fatality have been generals tem porarily, and colonels temporarily, and judge advocates tem ...

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...The financial world, proud of its riches, challenged the splen- dor of the generals and high officials of the Empire, so re- cently gorged with orders... ...ate might probably be some splendid embassy. He had won the Emperor by his Italian suppleness and a genius for intrigue, a drawing-room elo- quence, a...

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...urepas do—but gyrate? Squadrons cross the ocean: Gages, Lees, rough Yankee Generals, ‘with woollen night-caps under their hats, ’ present arms to the ... ...ce-of-be- lief,—in consecrated dough-wafers, and the godhood of a poor old Italian Man! Nevertheless in that immeasurable Confusion and Corruption, wh... ... as one can- not help expecting, then shall it be a battle-banner (say, an Italian Gonfalon, in its old Republican Carroccio); and shall tower up, car... ...and a thought deeper than most men’s: sit there, Tartuffe, till wanted! Ye Italian Dufournys, Flemish Prolys, flit hither all ye bipeds of prey! Come ... ...ment with sanction of National Assembly, appointed one of our Four supreme Generals. Rochambeau and Mailly, men and Marshals of note in these days, th... ...ose; in grim calmness, awaiting the issue. What the intrepidest of men and generals can do is done. Bouille, though there is a barricading picket at e... ...ing time;—wretched, disobedient, disorganised; who never saw fire; the old Generals and Officers gone across the Rhine. War- minister Narbonne, he of ... ...nd ap- proximate ascertainment each of what is in the other. Let our Three Generals on the Frontiers look to it, therefore; and poor Chevalier de Grav... ...e little bronzed-complexioned Artil- lery-Officer of Toulon, home from the Italian Wars! Grim enough; of lean, almost cruel aspect: for he has been in...

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...im less by 63 Thomas de Quincey much than the one he succeeded: he had an Italian appear- ance, and he wore an air of Italian subtlety and dissimula-... ...of Europe observed him. But now, up and down Europe, from the deep blue of Italian skies to the cold frosty atmospheres of St. Petersburg and Glasgow,... ...the inevitable catastrophe could be delayed no longer. The com- mander, an Italian named Morandi, was a brave man; any fate appeared better than that ... ...e of the vessel Napoleon read an augury of the fate which had befallen the Italian territory. Considered as a dependency of France, he felt certain th... ... and critical through every stage, it was the pointed contrast between his Italian campaigns and 235 Thomas de Quincey those of his successors which ... ...mbled in congress, except as regards one or two leaders; for defunct major-generals, and secondary diplomatists, when their date is past, awake no mor...

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...urepas do—but gyrate? Squadrons cross the ocean: Gages, Lees, rough Yankee Generals, ‘with woollen night- caps under their hats,’ present arms to the ... ...ence-of-belief,—in consecrated dough-wafers, and the godhood of a poor old Italian Man! Nevertheless in that immeasurable Confusion and Corruption, wh... ...k, as one cannot help expecting, then shall it be a battle-banner (say, an Italian Gonfalon, in its old Republi- can Carroccio); and shall tower up, c...

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...et of papermaking, but the arrogance of one of T‘ang Emperor Hsuan-tsung‘s generals opened the way near Samarkand for the secret‘s escape. After t... ... launched a mini-renaissance about five centuries before the start of the Italian Renaissance. The cleric was a scholarly monk named Alcuin. Th... ... no wide ranging social movements, such as the one developed in the later Italian Renaissance. Invasions by Vikings, Magyars, and Saracens from ea... ...als, however, blocked their way to China or India. Similarly, Frankish or Italian merchants were stopped as soon as they tried to travel eastward fro... ...erals such as IX or XVII. Double-entry bookkeeping spurs world trade Italians took Arabic numerals another step forward when they used them to i... ...had peaked near the middle of the fourteenth century just before the first Italian paper mills opened. In the aftermath of the plague‘s killing s...

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...ng situation. A driver may buckle the shoulder strap because there is always the possibility of an auto accident. I have heardthat 80% of Italia... ...er‘s extermination of the Jews had religious overtones in his otherwise secular war. Whether religious or not, all wars are just. Just ask the genera... ... If that doesn‘t happen they must find a new identity by identifying with the roots of their ancestors. Americans find comfort in their Irish, Italia... ...alth, the Norwegians and Americans had more money. It wasn‘t low taxes. Middle income Danes are in the 50% tax bracket. It isn‘t sunshine, the Italia...

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...ion: English—Protestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Moham... ...at talions, regiments, armies; and they have their appointed captains and generals, who lead them to battle. Mark T wain 59 Y.M. That could be insti... ... her tongue took to languages with an easy facility. She never allowed her Italian, French, and German to get rusty through neglect. The telegrams of ... ...in five minutes’ time, at no cost of brain, or labor, or genius this mangy Italian tramp has beaten them all, transcended them all, outstripped them a... ...ours later he was the one subject of conversation in the world, the gilded generals and admirals and governors were discussing him, all the kings and ... ...were the high notes. The green plumes were worn by forty or fifty Austrian generals, the group opposite them were chiefly Knights of Malta and knights... ...ing little suns distributed over it. Think of it—it was by command of that Italian loafer yon der on his imperial throne in the Geneva prison that th... ...day night the life of the President of the French Republic was taken by an Italian assassin. Last night a mob surrounded our hotel, shouting, howling,... ...hus became familiar with soldiership and soldier ways and soldier talk and generalship and general ways and general talk, and seaman ship and sailor ...

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...education at about the fifth standard level, plus a little French, German, Italian, and music—who do so much to make our England what it is at the pre... ...—the Africander, the Briton, the Belgian, the Egyptian, the Frenchman, the Italian, the Indian the Portuguese—might all be represented in proportion t... ...had victory within their grasp— and failed to grip it. The British cavalry generals wasted the great invention of the tanks as a careless child breaks... ... am writing the opin- ion of the great mass of reasonable British, French, Italian, Russian, and American men. I believe, too, that this is the desire... .... Wells als have done no better; indeed, they have not done so well as the generals of the Allies in this respect. But after the war, if the world doe... ...itain nor France in this struggle has produced better statesmen nor better generals than the German autocracy. The British and French Foreign Offices ... ...ol the rebel forces of Ulster, 79 H.G. Wells unable to promote or dismiss generals without an outcry, weakly amenable to the press, and terrifyingly ...

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...he Mincio, on which, according to appearance, the first, second, and third Italian corps d’armee seem destined to operate. The English general and the... ...refore confident that before two or three days have elapsed, these 110,000 Italian troops, or a great part of them, will have trod, for the Italians, ... ...here the river is in two or three instances only 450 metres wide. Were the Italian general to be successful—protected as he will be by the tre- mendou... ... defending the line of the Colli Euganei could be easily outflanked by the Italian troops, who would have crossed the river below Lago Scuro. Of cours... ...perations the Austrians may undertake in order to check the advance of the Italian fourth corps d’armee. The resistance to the undertaking of Cialdini... ...e failure-owing to the bravery displayed both by the sol- diers and by the generals-was far from being a disastrous or irreparable one. The Italians f... ...layed and to calm down. In the mean- time, it looks as if the king and his generals had made up their mind not to accept the gift. An attack on the Bo... ...cers were to be seen yesterday hurrying in all directions. I met the king, Generals Brignone, Gavone, Valfre, and Menabrea within a few minutes of one... ...ans, but it is to be hoped for the Italian army, and for the credit of its generals, that more will be known about them now than was known on the eve ...

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...n the marechal’s army was a regiment, 4 Juana composed almost entirely of Italians and commanded by a certain Colonel Eugene, a man of remarkable bra... ... with several. His regiment was composed of the scattered fragments of the Italian legion. This legion was to Italy what the colonial battalions are t... ... beings in the sixth of the line, hoping to metamorphose them finally into generals,—barring those whom the bullets might take off. But the emperor’s ... ...head, or scarred his cheek, would have destroyed one of the most beautiful Italian faces which a woman ever dreamed of in all its delicate proportions... ...income was mortgaged for a number of years to pay off the costs of certain Italian escapades which are incon- ceivable in Paris. He had ruined himself... ...erything. He said he was artistic, and he made prizes (like two celebrated generals) of works of art, solely, he declared, to preserve them for pos- t... ... of that Spanish girl was the most di- vinely delicious thing which he, an Italian libertine, weary of Italian beauty, and dreaming of an impossible w... ...” said Montefiore in Italian. “I will keep your secret. The devil! we have generals in our army who are capable of abducting her.” Montefiore’s infatu... ...new he might be sure of her silence. He obtained a mission from one of the generals. Three days later, on the night preceding his intended departure, ...

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...onse- quently indisposed to stand much discipline, especially from upstart generals. This circumstance, which would have embarrassed an idealist soldi... ...t be understood, by the way, that the French army does not make war on the Italians. It is there to rescue them from the tyranny of their Austrian con... ... On the whole, with his foe handicapped by Austrian statesmanship, classic generalship, and the exigencies of the aristocratic social structure of Vie... ...undred years later, but mon- strous and horrible to the contemporary north Italian in- fant, to whom nothing would seem more natural than that he shou... ...pers have plenty of cheap wine: we think nothing of spilling it. You great generals have plenty of cheap blood: 8 The Man of Destiny you think nothin... ...w you. You are the famous General Buonaparte. (She gives the name a marked Italian pronunciation Bwaw-na-parr- te.) NAPOLEON (angrily, with the French... ...ow do you know I am a brave man? LADY (amazed). Y ou! General Buonaparte. (Italian pronun- ciation.) NAPOLEON. Yes, I, General Bonaparte (emphasizing ... ...n the battle of Lodi for your country, General Bu— shall I pronounce it in Italian or French? NAPOLEON. You are presuming on my patience, madam. I was...

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...the Flemings, a similar revolt from the Spaniards. To the Pope and all the Italian republics no in- ducement could be more powerful than the hope of d... ...n territories, which they treated as a hos- tile country. But the imperial generals found the march to Prague more difficult than they had expected. E... ...hout unity and cour- age. The Bohemian magnates were indignant that German generals should be put over their heads; Count Mansfeld remained in Pilsen,... ...system of policy; which possessed well-disciplined armies and con- summate generals; which, where the sword failed, did not scruple to employ the dagg... ...quivocal policy, which from the time of Charles V. had been pursued by the Italian States. The double character which pertained to the Popes made them... ...en the two crowns; and to this alliance, Holland, Denmark, and some of the Italian states presently acceded. Its object was to expel, by force of arms... ..., with a shattered force could he hold his ground against the two imperial generals. The Danes retired from all their posts on the Weser, the Elbe, an... ...ccess of the Prot- estant arms. Alarmed by the universal hatred which this Italian campaign had drawn upon him, and wearied out by the urgent remonstr... ...rian army upon that river. No sooner had Altringer de- parted, to join the Italians under Feria, than Bernard, profiting by his absence, hastened acro...

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...d waste France, Italy, Spain, and England, made themselves monarchs. Their generals divided among themselves the sev- eral countries they had conquere... ...sh have endeavoured to lessen the character of that great comic poet. Such Italian musicians as despise Lully are themselves persons of no char- acter... ...e in our debt) to borrow from them. Both the English and we came after the Italians, who have been our instructors in all the arts, and whom we have s... ...mmon hang- man, and himself to lose his ears. His trial is now extant. The Italians are far from attempting to cast a blemish on the opera, or to exco... ...on- temptible pieces written against the stage. For when the En- glish and Italians hear that we brand with the greatest mark of infamy an art in whic...

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...he external architecture of their residences, the English are supreme. The Italians have but little sentiment beyond marbles and colours. In France, m... ...er are large, reaching down to the floor—have deep recesses—and open on an Italian veranda. Their panes are of a crimson- tinted glass, set in rose-wo... ...provinces, and sent as presents to the king, by one of his ever-victorious generals. Under these circumstances, it is not to be wondered at that a clo... ..., as if in mockery of that boast, Two words-two foreign soft dissyllables— Italian tones, made only to be murmured By angels dreaming in the moonlit “...

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...nd, of ornate Latinists and of inarticulate street hawkers, of priests and generals—in fact, the history of all humanity as it appears to his penetrat... ...versal. Any one can accept them with no more question than one accepts the Italians of Shakespeare. In the larger, non-Russian view, what should make ... ...he theory of European equilibrium, into the question of the Near East, the Italian question, the question of Schleswig-Holstein, and into the doctrine... ...ter of his head re- called vaguely a burly apostle in the Barocco style of Italian art. Standing up at a tall, shabby, slanting desk, his silver-rimme...

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...nd pronounced it to be a son, who should become the most valiant among the Italians, and the most beloved of all men. 2 In consequence of this predic... ...atian 2 Geoffrey of Monmouth gives the title of consul to several British generals who lived after this time. It is not unlikely that the town, name,...

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...rom one to twenty-four: the day Mac landed at Naples his repeater rung the Italian hours, from one to twenty-four; as soon as he crossed the Alps it o... ...room where he sat, I found him in the midst of a council of war; his chief generals and viziers seated round him, each smoking his hookah, as is the c... ...ost intrepid and powerful soldiers in all Germany,—one of the most skilful generals. Generous to extravagance to his own followers, he was ruthless to... ...stitutions of the Empire, Emperor of the French Republic, to our marshals, generals, officers, and soldiers, greeting: “‘Soldiers! “‘From the summit o... ...nd it was done. Rapidly forming into a line, they advanced headed by their Generals,—who, turning their steeds into a grass-field, wisely determined t... ...y were sent to the rear; when the Duke of Nemours, hearing they were Irish Generals, and that they had been robbed of their ready money by his troops,... ... they call it, comes the opera, which, as I am given to understand, is the Italian for singing. Why they should sing in Italian, I can’t conceive; or ... ...o support her father, the Count, when he emigrated) a French dancer at the Italian Opera. French dancing, and Italian, therefore, we had at once, and ... ... of the county, and the very pink of Croydon; several Polish noblemen; two Italian counts (besides our Count); one hundred and ten young officers, fro...

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...and must impart it to some one. She made herself a good scholar of French, Italian, and Latin, having been grounded in these by her father in her yout... ... hand. In this desultory way the works of most of the English, French, and Italian poets came under his eyes, and he had a smattering of the Spanish t... ...his own poor nature led him to choose, contending against the schemes, the generalship, the wisdom, and the heart of a hero. On one of these many cowa... ...ain Avory or Captain Kidd, than a war between crowned heads, carried on by generals of rank and honor. On the 1st day of July, 1702, a great fleet, of... ...ments of war. There was a hard touch for his Grace, and, indeed, for other generals in her Majesty’s service, in the concluding sentence of the Don: “... ...he end of May, the army reached Coblentz; and next day, his Grace, and the generals accompanying him, went to visit the Elector of Treves at his Castl... ...y Danube, where a great part of his troops, following the example of their generals, Count Darcos and the Elector himself, tried to save themselves by... ..., that the town talked about for two whole days, when the appearance of an Italian singer supplied a fresh subject for conversation,) and having busin...

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...?—the Clothes fly off the whole dramatic corps; and Dukes, Grandees, Bishops, Generals, Anointed Presence itself, every mother’s son of them, stand str... ...f possible, for happiness. Topbooted Graziers from the North; Swiss Brokers, Italian Drovers, also topbooted, from the South; these with their subalte... ... rank on a level with blowing their bodies to pieces by Gunpowder; that with Generals and Field marshals for killing, there should be world honored Di... ...Parisian life was at best but a scientific Hortus Siccus, bedizened with some Italian Gumflowers, such virtue could come out of it; what is to be looked...

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... country to the other. Capmakers became colonels, assuming the du- ties of generals; revolvers and daggers were dis- played on large rotund bodies, en... ...t brought her a letter from him, which contained the amount of his debt in Italian hundred-lire notes, accompa- nied by a very cool excuse. Wanda was ...