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...nted what, and why they wanted it, the most elementary idea of a system in modern life— none of this had been imparted to her by any of her professors... ...s ago, and it’s haunted me ever since. Don’t you think it’s quite the most modern thing you ever saw?” she asked Ridley. “It seemed to me I’d known tw... ...might think he was a successful stock- broker, and not one of the greatest painters of the age. That’s what I like.” “There are a great many successfu... ...s?” “Certainly,” said Richard. “I understand you to mean that the whole of modern society is based upon coopera- tive effort. If only more people woul... ...u think of it. This reticence—this isolation—that’s what’s the matter with modern life! Now, tell me about yourself. What are your interests and occup... ...t to bring her up as her mother would have wished. I don’t hold with these modern views—any more than you do, eh? She’s a nice quiet girl, devoted to ...

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... a young fellow about sixteen years of age, whose clothing proclaimed what modern phraseology so insolently calls a proletary , was stand- ing in a sm... ... a slate roof; on the peak of the central one was a new weather-vane. This modern inno- vation represented a hunter in the attitude of shooting a hare... .... This rumpled condition gave a menacing expres- sion to the head, such as painters bestow on witches. The temples, ears, and nape of the neck, were d... ...hadow of a light upon the skin, which gave her the virginal grace that all painters seek and Leopold Robert found for the Raffaelesque face of the wom... ...Pierrette and Brigaut, answer the question put by that strange moral fact. Modern history offers only the illustrious instance of the Marchesa di Pesc... ...ive a text of it here. If Moliere’s medical terms were barbarous, those of modern science have the advantage of being so clear that the explanation of... ...in. Thus the operation was performed by the greatest surgeon of ancient or modern times; but that terrible diviner said to Martener as he de- parted w...

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...l of cleverness, and sometimes with perfect reason, the fools, his brother painters. As it was with the utmost difficulty that he could keep himself, ... ... of Newman Street, Gerrard Street, and the Artists’ quarter: and the young painters, when they came to take their gin-and-water with their lazy, disso... ...the patronage of his grandfather, Lord Binkie, by studying the ancient and modern orators with great assidu- ity, and by speaking unceasingly at the d... ...ter of an opera- girl. She had danced herself. She had been a model to the painters. She was brought up as became her mother’s daugh- ter. She drank g...

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...to show themselves in a row of houses, impressive to Ransom in their extreme modernness, which overlooked the same lagoon from a long embankment on th... ... certain appearance of feeling cold. With all this, there was something very modern and highly developed in her aspect; she had the advantages as well... ...s of the basement, and a peculiar look of being both new and faded—a kind of modern fatigue—like certain articles of commerce which are sold at a redu... ... was only twenty eight years old, and, with his hoary head, was a thoroughly modern young man; he had no idea of not taking advantage of all the moder... ...r the world. I want to work for their emancipation. I regard it as the great modern question.’ Miss Chancellor got up now; this was rather too strong.... ...o a good deal towards representing the picturesque, the ‘bit’ appreciated by painters, announced themselves in signs of large lettering to the sky. Gr...

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...and shore, were all of that dull, heavy, uniform lead-colour, which house- painters daub in the first instance over a street-door which is gradually a... ...ind, that this was another characteristic which he had in common with this modern Lucretia. He, however, accepted the invita- tion to dine with the Pa...

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...arked that they were all by one hand. He was laughed at, and the different painters were named, as recognized by their style. “Not at all,” said the M... ...nor talk about religion or politics; but much and elegant wit, ancient and modern stories, news of gal- lantries, yet without scandal. All was delicat... ...which so cleverly unravelled the remote part, gave but a meagre account of modern days, except in so far as their military operations were concerned; ... ...by the usurpations of the bastards, the designs of the Parliament, and the modern fan- cies of a sham nobility. As soon as I perceived his suspicions ...

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...APTER I - ACROSS THE PLAIN........................3 CHAPTER II - THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COMMUNITIES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO ?AN INLAND VOYAGE?................................................................. 68 CHAPTER V - RANDOM MEMORIES.................79 CHAPTER VI - RANDOM MEMO...

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...CIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COM- MUNITIES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO “AN IN... ...0.] 52 Across the Plains CHAPTER III FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COMMUNI- TIES OF PAINTERS I THE CHARM OF FONTAINEBLEAU is a thing apart. It is a place tha... ...on of great art – Millet who loved dignity like Michelangelo, Rousseau whose modern brush was dipped in the glamour of the ancients. It was chosen bef... ...l these, by the grace of railway travel, are brought to the very door of the modern painter; yet he does not seek them; he remains faithful to Fontain... ...is – comes the great fact that it is already colonised. The institution of a painters’ colony is a work of time and tact. The population must be conqu... ...entleman, will soon begin to find himself at home. And when that essentially modern creature, the English or American girl-student, began to walk calm... ...ovinces of life, recoiled aghast before the in- novation. But the girls were painters; there was nothing to be done; and Barbizon, when I last saw it ... ...from Culloden, passed a night of superstitious terrors; Leven, a bald, quite modern place, sacred to sum- mer visitors, whence there has gone but yest... ...suspect) he had partaken of the bottle; indeed, to put the thing in our cold modern way, the reverend gentleman was on the brink of delirium tremens. ...

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...he three great open doorways, a scene of which the theatrical illusions of modern opera can give but a faint idea. The vast church was lighted up by t... ...rouped about him, as the saints who con- fessed Christ on earth are set by painters, each in his place, about the throne of God in heaven. The precent...

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...ERMOGENES: Yes. SOCRATES: That is a graver matter, and there, my friend, the modern interpreters of Homer may, I think, assist in explaining the view ... ...ieve that the primeval givers of names were undoubtedly like too many of our modern philosophers, who, in their search after the nature of things, are... ... me of what I was going to say to you, that the fine fashionable language of modern times has twisted and disguised and entirely Cratylus – Plato 54 ... ... And the old word kinesis will be correctly given as iesis in corresponding modern letters. Assuming this foreign root kiein, and allowing for the c... ...s this art grow up among men like other arts? Let me explain what I mean: of painters, some are better and some worse? CRATYLUS: Yes. SOCRATES: The be... ...ainters, some are better and some worse? CRATYLUS: Yes. SOCRATES: The better painters execute their works, I mean their figures, better, and the worse...

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...e started his team again with great cracks of his long whip, turned to the painters still at work upon the sign and declared with some defiance: “Sieb... ... taken a notion that a practical knowledge of law was indispens- able to a modern farmer. In eight months he did the work 21 Frank Norris of three ye... ...o men were busy hanging the great sliding door at the south end, while the painters—come down from Bonneville early that morning—were engaged in adjus... ...rgy of the Public and the aggression of the T rust, the two great evils of modern America. Pres, my boy, there is your epic poem ready to hand.” But C...

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...telligence of the material. Amongst books that are simply pleasant, of the moderns, Boccaccio’s Decameron, Rabelais, and the Basia of Johannes Secundu... ...minds, all is due to the charming Graces.” The verses are probably by some modern poet.] 158 Book the Second They abandon me throughout; all I write ... ... apples that have a sweet tartness. Nature discovers this confusion to us; painters hold that the same motions and grimaces of the face that serve for...

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...n one—the worst of all. Oh! she was perfect past all parallel — Of any modern female saint’s comparison; So far above the cunning powers of he... ...ender cases, is enough; Silence is best, besides there is a tact (That modern phrase appears to me sad stuff, But it will serve to keep my v... ...eyes were eloquent, her words would pose, Although she told him, in good modern Greek, With an Ionian accent, low and sweet, That he was faint... ...can’t help thinking That the old fable of the Minotaur From which our modern morals rightly shrinking Condemn the royal lady’s taste who wo... ...of Greece” 96 Thus sung, or would, or could, or should have sung, The modern Greek, in tolerable verse; If not like Orpheus quite, when Greec... ...ut extremely winning, With the most regulated charms of feature, Which painters cannot catch like faces sinning Against proportion—the wild st... ... gone before him, and his wars and loves; And as romantic heads are pretty painters, And, above all, an Englishwoman’s roves Into the excursiv...

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...is this the case with Goethe, the most masterly of all the master minds of modern times, whose name is already inscribed on the tablets of immortality... ...7.] WHEN I was still a youthful wight, So full of enjoyment and merry, The painters used to assert, in spite, That my features were small—yes, very; Y...

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...n, ending in— ‘Have you read anything?’ ‘I am afraid I am very ignorant of modern books.’ ‘Have you read the ancient ones?’ asked Laura. ‘I’ve had not... ...andard books, instead of his time being frittered away on the host of idle modern ones.’ ‘He was free to concentrate his attention on Sir Charles Gran... ...eat interest all the localities of their nu- merous settlements. Then came modern Italy, and its fallen palaces; then the contrast between the republi... ...g-book,’ said Charles; ‘certain lines in the predicament of the cherubs of painters—heads “et proeterea nihil”.’ ‘0 Guy, do you write verses? cried Ch...

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... most part unhesitatingly, accepted the tale of the Island of Atlantis. In modern times we hardly seek for traces of the sub- merged continent; but ev... ...f, from the dominion of whose genius the critic and natural philosopher of modern times are not wholly emancipated. Although worthless in respect of a... ...be imita- tion and representation. For if we consider the likenesses which painters make of bodies divine and heavenly, and the different degrees of g...

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...thize with my dislike of the common herd. And if I cannot love the typical modern German, I can at least pity and understand him. His worst fault is t... ... and rather liked him as a witty and amiable old 1848 veteran who despised modern Socialism; that I regard Bebel and Singer as men of like passions wi... ...consecrated as the Holy Land of the capitalist age, just as Italy, for its painters’ sakes, is the Holy Land of the early unvulgarized Renascence; Fra... ...derstanding what they see as they look at the plutocratic societies of our modern capitals. First Scene Here, then, is the subject of the first scene ... ...hem. But they are thoughtless, elemental, only half real things, much like modern young ladies. That the poor dwarf is repulsive to their sense of phy... ... part of the story is fright- fully real, frightfully present, frightfully modern; and its ef- fects on our social life are so ghastly and ruinous tha...

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...down later into the types of beauty imagined by the previous generation of painters. They took the only part of our society in which there was leisure... ...iterary implements 6 Heartbreak House for forming the mind of the perfect modern Socialist and Creative Evolutionist. It was a curious experience to ... ...the House of commons, with nobody to correct their incredible ignorance of modern thought and political science but upstarts from the counting-house, ... ...s of Votes for Everybody get into parlia- ment if handicapped by a serious modern cultural equip- ment; but if they had, their habit of living in a va... ... do with it? ELLIE. Oh, you are very very old-fashioned, Captain. Does any modern girl believe that the legal and illegal ways of getting money are th...

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...presence could impart a savour of quaint antiquity to the baldest and most modern flower-plots. There was a dig- nity about his tall stooping form, an... ...ng to write about the inn at Burford, or to describe scenery with the word-painters; it is quite another to seize on the heart of the suggestion and m... ...entertainment and is found enough. Dumas approaches perhaps nearest of any modern to these Arabian authors in the purely material charm of some of his... ...’” On this quotation two remarks fall to be made. First, as an instance of modern feeling for romance, this famous touch 116 Robert Louis Stevenson o... ...an the art of narrative. But Mr. Besant is anxious to speak solely of “the modern English novel,” the stay and bread-winner of Mr. Mudie; and in the a... ...art of fictitious narrative in prose. Now the fact of the existence of the modern English novel is not to be denied; materially, with its three volume...

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...hearts, If bounties hand with all her beauteous parts, Poets, or Painters would to pourtray prove, Should they seeke earth below, or heav'n... ...est, disclaimeth all memorie, authorities, or borrowing of the ancient or moderne; whereas in course of his discourse he seemes acquainted not onely ... ...ntinue in our p osterity. Whereof there are so many examples (leaving our moderne a part that I need not wade farre into it. Edward the first King ... ...ties of accord: And therefore is it a common rule in the mouth of all our modern men of warre, that the Governour or Commaunder of a besieged place,... ...ond their purpose? The like wee see to bee in painting, for sometimes the Painters hand shall draw certaine lines or draughts, so farre exceeding his... ..., that in other Cities of Greece they went to seeke for Rhetoricians, for Painters, and for Musicians; whereas in Lacedemon, they sought for Law-giv... .../10/2005 3:39:08 AM Montaigne's Essays upon Aristotle (the Monarch of our moderne doctrine) or obstinately continued in search of any one science: I... ...uses only. CHAPTER XXVII: OF FRIENDSHIP ONSIDERING the proceeding of a Painters worke I have, a desire hath possessed mee to imitate him: He make... ...s, that truly a man shall not commonly heare of the like; and amongst our moderne men no signe of any such is seene. So many parts are re quired to ...

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...eld to have a sort of half-womanish, half-ghostly beauty; for the portrait-painters, who are thick as weeds at Geneva, had often asked me to sit to th... ...attire she was, as always, an elegant woman, fit to figure in a picture of modern aristocratic life: but I asked myself how that 41 George Eliot face...

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...n as long as the part amuses us. There was one more convenience lacking to modern comfort; a decent, easy way to quit that stage; the back stairs to l... ... and be- tween a plantation and the sea, a small Pavilion or Belvidere, of modern design, which was exactly suited to our wants; and in this hermitage... ...th a chuckle, “ten to one we get as good a welcome as we want.” “I thought painters were principally poor,” said Stubbs. “Ah!” cried Leon, “you do not...

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...ers, his hands be hind him. He beheld the scene with the eyes of the many painters who have sought by means of the most charming garden in Paris to e... ...ock, and whether a high heeled pointed shoe commends itself or not to the painters in the quarter, it’s the only thing in which a woman’s foot looks ... ...is desire; it refreshed her vastly after the extreme weakness of the young painters with whom of late she had mostly consorted. But those quick dark e... ...a horse shoe, which was reserved for a small party of English or American painters and a few Frenchmen with their wives. At least, they were so nearl... ...nswered Dr Porhoët, with a smile. ‘Criti cism has shown that Zohar is of modern origin. With singu lar effrontery, it cites an author who is known ... ...fore, and had learnt eso teric secrets which overthrew the foundations of modern sci ence. It seemed to me that he had coarsened in mind as well as ... ...nufacture of gold was a more respectable object than the outside jobber of modern civilization.’ ‘But if he sought for gold it was for the power it ga... ...ny others. I have no doubt that they were actually generated. But with our modern appliances, with our greater skill, what might it not be possible to... ...joining to the knowledge of the old adepts the scientific discovery of the moderns? I don’t know what would be the result. It might be very strange an...

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...ject to remind him of the image of Divine Maternity, which so many illustrious painters have vied with one another to represent; something which shoul... ...’s bo som so deeply, that perhaps there was more truth in the rumour than our modern incredulity may be inclined to admit. 6 PEARL W E HAVE as yet h... ...ed a suit of mail, not, like the pictures, an ancestral relic, but of the most modern date; for it had been manufactured by a skilful armourer in Lond... ...ouse, old Roger Chillingworth arranged his study and laboratory: not such as a modern man of science would reckon even tolerably complete, but provide... ... Letter the Spanish commerce, such as would have perilled all their necks in a modern court of justice. But the sea in those old times heaved, swelled... ...plumage nodding over their bright morions, had a brilliancy of effect which no modern display can aspire to equal. THE PROCESSION 163 And yet the men...