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...okenly, the sense of having lived. Long had I turned it over, standing off from it, yet coming back to it; convinced of what might be done with it, ye... ...s incurred, the precious experience somehow compassed. These things, I had from the first felt, would require much working-out; that indeed was the ca... ...ways to be invoked and cultivated, but that are absolutely to be jumped at from the moment they make a sign. Yes then, the case prescribed for its cen... ...nt compactness. For already, from an early stage, it had be- gun richly to people itself: the difficulty was to see whom the situation I had primarily... ...nce of English society; just as the strength and sense of the situation in Venice, for our gath- ered friends, was to have come to us in a deeper drau... ...roy who is, “for all she is worth,” turned on. She is turned on largely at Venice, where the appearances, rich and obscure and portentous (another wor... ...s him to watching her, as it were, through the successive windows of other people’s interest in her. So, if we talk of princesses, do the balconies op... ...anging unfinished, into no words nor any notes at all. Why should a set of people have been put in motion, on such a scale and with such an air of bei... ...had replied with promptitude that her departure—for the Tyrol and then for Venice— was quite fixed for the fourteenth, he took her up with alacrity. “...

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... to myself, pen in hand, I can keep hold of the thread and let it lead me back to the first impression. The little story is all there, I can touch it from point to point; for the thread, as I call it, is a row of colored beads on a string. None of the beads are missing--at least I think they?re not: that?s exactly what I shall amuse myself with finding out....

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...ndeed, I say to myself, pen in hand, I can keep hold of the thread and let it lead me back to the first impression. The little story is all there, I c... ... my palette, I sniffed up the clean salt air and cooled my eyes with the purple sea. The place was full of lodgings, and the lodgings were at that sea... ... and free gestures, made it flutter in the breeze as if it had been the flag of her country. It consisted mainly of a big red face, indescribably out ... ...l more affected when I saw the face, at the sight of my companion, open like a win- dow thrown wide. A smile fluttered out of it an brightly as a drap... ...her com- panions, gazed at her and grinned: I could see there were very few moments of the day at which young men, these or others, would not be so oc... ...er, Mrs. Hammond Synge, the sister-in-law of one of the young men I had just seen. She had lots of friends, but none of them nice: she kept picking up... ...d to pay for everything, down to her share of the wine-bills and the horses’ fodder, down to Bertie Hammond Synge’s fare in the “underground” when he ... ...s that of her incomparable aspect, which Mr. Dawling, smitten even like the railway porters and the cabmen by the doom- dealing gods, had followed fro...

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...to Vettori, and it seems to me, now that I have released myself altogether from his literary precedent, that he still has his use for me. In spite of ... ...red, happier, finer, securer. They imagined cities grown more powerful and peoples made rich and mul- titudinous by their efforts, they thought in ter... ...s unfair. The old sort of Prince, the old little principality has vanished from the world. The commonweal is one man’s absolute es- tate and responsib... ...the interest of womanhood was in a region of life almost infinitely remote from his statecraft. They were the vehicle of children, but only Imperial R... ... Natural History, a brand-new illustrated Green’s His- tory of the English People, Irving’s Companions of Columbus, a great number of unbound parts of... ...The Science and Art Department has vanished altogether from the world, and people are forgetting it now with the utmost readiness and generosity. Part... ...HIRD THIRD MAR MAR MAR MAR MARGARET IN GARET IN GARET IN GARET IN GARET IN VENICE VENICE VENICE VENICE VENICE 1 1 1 1 1 T HERE COMES INTO MY MIND a co... ... every hour,” she adds. 172 The New Machiavelli 2 2 2 2 2 That holiday in Venice is set in my memory like a little arti- ficial lake in uneven confus... ...of hearse-black gondolas, for the horrible steam launch had not yet ruined Venice, the stilled magnificences of the depopulated lagoons, the universal...

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... say that the first movable types were made on birch sticks—BUCHSTABE—hence the name. I was taught a lesson in political economy in Frankfort. I had b... ...ne as their clothes. In one of the shops I had the luck to stumble upon a book which has charmed me nearly to death. It is entitled THE LEGENDS OF THE... ...t no tourist ever TELLS them. So this little book fed me in a very hungry place; and I, in my turn, intend to feed my reader, with one or two little l... ...he carpetway clear. Nobody moved or spoke any more but only waited. In a short time the shrill piping of a coming train was heard, and immediately gro... ...e lofty Neckar hills to their beguiling and im- pressive charm in any country; but German legends and fairy tales have given these an added charm. The... .... I saw that they had the advantage of me, and so I concluded to get out of the scrape by walking out of it. They enjoyed my defeat as much as any low... ..., or I am going there”—I say nothing at all, I only act. For instance, next week you may find me the guest of a grandee of Spain, or you may find me o... ... instead of worshiping Old Time, who did? Perhaps the picture was a clanging bell, until Time muffled it and sweetened it. In conversation with an art... ... Masters this time than I did when I was in Europe in former years, but still it was a calm pleasure; there was nothing over- heated about it. When I ...

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...stocratic life.” But by “aristocratic” he meant something very differ- ent from the quality of a Russian prince, let us say, or an English peer. He me... ...ur sense of humour and congratulate ourselves on a certain amiable freedom from priggishness or presumption, but for Benham that easy de- clension to ... ...lexingly just isn’t… . 2 2 2 2 2 Benham did not go about the world telling people of this con- suming research. He was not the prophet or preacher of ... ...on; in a mighty writing and stowing away of these papers he found a relief from the unpleasant urgency to confess and ex- plain himself prematurely. S... ...ome a smash in a minute!’ Far ahead I saw the grey sheds of Eastchurch and people strolling about apparently unaware of our disaster. There was a sudd... ...nd assure him- self of his own comfort in the midst of his reading. Y oung people and unseasoned people, Benham argued, are apt to imagine that if fea... ... in North Italy with his mother, and escaped from the glowing lassitude of Venice for some days of climbing in the Eastern Alps. In January, in an out... ...ime in his life he had come face to face with civilization in defeat. From Venice hitherward he had marked with cumulative effect the clus- tering evi... ...eir pur- pose in our lives and vanish, leaving no trace, like the snows of Venice. Benham was still not a year and a half from the meretricious deligh...

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... in the cathedral of Tours. The archbishop Helie de Bourdeilles was rising from his seat to give the benediction himself to the faithful. The sermon h... ...choed sighs, the edifice itself seemed endowed with life. The existence of Peoples has no more solemn scenes, no moments more majestic. To mankind in ... ... the organ, mingling with the vibrations of the loud “A- men” as it issued from the strong chests of the intoning clergy, sent a murmuring echo throug... ...opposite to the seat vacated of the burgher. A sil- ver-gilt lamp, hanging from the vaulted ceiling of the chapel before an altar magnificently decora... ...ike a scar upon the body which we carry through life! When these two young people looked at each other, the woman seemed to say to her lover, “Let us ... ...s pleasures of his royal client. Cornelius had now lived nine years in the city of Tours. During those years extraordinary events had happened in his ... ...e subject of countless tales which enlivened the evening gatherings of the city. These singular artifices on the part of the old man made every one su... ... that he had found the Universal Panacea. According to many of the country-people to whom the townsfolk talked of him, Cornelius was a chimerical bein... ...:— “You will leave to-night to attend to my affairs with the government of Venice. You need be under no anxiety about your wife; I shall take charge o...

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...ry- ing their produce to market continue the stir of carriages re- turning from theatres and balls. Near the middle of this sus- tained pause in the g... ...sar Birotteau, a perfumer established near the Place Vendome, was startled from her sleep by a frightful dream. She had seen her double. She had appea... ...nd the counter. She was asking alms of herself, and heard herself speaking from the doorway and also from her seat at the desk. She tried to grasp her... ... dreaming, my friend.” “I am not dreaming, my beautiful white doe. Listen. People should always do what their position in life demands. Gov- ernment h... ...cording to Monsieur de la Billardiere, the functionaries who represent the city of Paris should make it their duty, each in his own sphere of influenc... ...l store-house for bottle, crystals, and porcelains. The work- shop for our people, in the attic! Passers-by shall no longer see them gumming on the la... ...tune. The poor Ragonines look to me half-starved of late.” “Bah! all those people want your money.” “But what people, my treasure? Is it your uncle Pi... ...begins he was vicar of the cathedral of Tours, and had only once left that city to visit his brother Cesar. The bustle of Paris so bewildered the good... ...ave an Italian woman yourself? No? Then come with me to Italy. We will see Venice, the abode of doges,— unfortunately fallen into those intelligent Au...

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.......................................................................... 43 FROM THE ORIGINAL DRAFT OF THE POEM TO WILLIAM SHELLEY. ...................... ........................................... 48 FRAGMENT: TO A FRIEND RELEASED FROM PRISON................................................................... .................................................................... 58 SCENE FROM ‘TASSO’. ................................................................ ......................................................... 85 FRAGMENT: TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. ........................................................... ...e? Who painteth the shadows that are beneath The wide-winding caves of the peopled tomb? Or uniteth the hopes of what shall be With the fears and the ... ...itical doctrines, and attempted so to do by appeals in prose essays to the people, exhorting them to claim their rights; but he had now begun to feel ... ...cities fair; Underneath Day’s azure eyes 60 V olume Two Ocean’s nursling, Venice lies, _95 A peopled labyri... ... _210 And the beams of morn lie dead On the towers of Venice now, Like its glory long ago. By the skirts of that gray cloud Many-... ... _105 Starts to hear thine! The Sea Which paves the desert streets of Venice laughs In light, and music; widowed Genoa wan By moonlight spells an...

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... Messageries, the name given to the T ouchard enterprise to distinguish it from that of the Grandes Messageries of the rue Montmartre. At the time of ... ...long-tried coachman, although his vehicle and his horses might be in a far from reassuring condition. One of the lines which the T ouchards, father an... ... the rule of rivalry was founded on rea- sons that are easy to understand. From the Cave, the point on the route to England where a paved road (due to... ...e in that respect which won for them the grateful affection of the country-people, and also violent remon- strances on the part of strangers accustome... ...ise. Political events prevented both the count and the neighboring country-people from becom- ing aware of this investment, which was made in the name... ...po di Bacco! the Pope is laying it on heavily,” replied Schinner. “But the people are used to it. Besides, Italians are so good-natured that if you le... ...id Pierrotin. “Xi! xi! Rougeot!” “You must have seen many fine ceilings in Venice,” re- sumed the count, addressing Schinner. “I was too much in love ... ...ngs of Dalmatia,” resumed Schinner, “so I went there, leaving Mistigris in Venice at an inn—” “‘Locanda,’” interposed Mistigris; “keep to the local co... ...e com- mits at eighteen!” “And you left me without a sou in the locanda at Venice,” said Mistigris. “And I had to get from Venice to Rome by painting ...

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...to reply: “Oh I can assure you that all that will be quite regular.” Pemberton only wondered, while he took up his hat, what “all that” was to amount ... ...hat” was to amount to—people had such dif- ferent ideas. Mrs. Moreen’s words, however, seemed to commit the family to a pledge definite enough to elic... ...his hostess laughed: “Oh I don’t imagine we shall have much of a battle.” “They’ll give you anything you like,” the boy remarked unexpectedly, returni... ... a practised but ineffectual hand. He slipped out of it, but looked with intelligent innocent eyes at Pemberton, who had already had time to notice th... ...the boy to her side. “You must know what to expect,” she went on to Pemberton. “The less you expect the better!” her companion inter- posed. “But we a... ...ole family. They all looked out, for they were very frank on the subject of its being necessary. They desired it to be understood that they were earne... ...ore perceptible from day to day. They continued to “chivey,” as Morgan called it, and in due time became aware of a variety of reasons for proceeding ... ...reen and the girls sometimes called at their hotel (to see if they had returned) as many as three times run- ning. The gondola was for the ladies, as ... ...could live at hotels, in velvety entresols, amid a smell of burnt pas- tilles, surrounded by the most expensive city in Europe. When he had left them ...

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...American wheat. When complete, they will form the story of a crop of wheat from the time of its sowing as seed in California to the time of its consum... ..., slow-moving press of men and women in evening dress filled the vestibule from one wall to an- other. A confused murmur of talk and the shuffling of ... ...ed murmur of talk and the shuffling of many feet arose on all sides, while from time to time, when the outside and inside doors of the entrance chance... ...tion and, while waiting, found a vague amusement in counting the number of people who filtered in single file through the wicket where the tickets wer... ...f. And such toi- lettes!” 7 Frank Norris With every instant the number of people increased; progress became impossible, except an inch at a time. The... ...ess was thinning out. It was understood that the overture had begun. Other people who were waiting like Laura and her sister had been joined by their ... ...e metropolitan, her keenness of appreciation a little lost by two years of city life and fashionable school- ing, tried to reassure her. “You won’t lo... ...n Chicago real estate. Some of his holdings in the business quarter of the city were enormous; Landry Court had told her about him. Jadwin, unlike Mr.... ...o. It’s so hard to find time. But I’ll make time. I’ll get that ‘Stones of Venice’ I’ve heard you speak of, and I’ll sit up nights—and keep awake with...

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...niversity. 3 George Meredith VITTORIA By George Meredith BOOK 1 CHAPTER I FROM MONTE MOTTERONE you survey the Lombard plain. It is a towering dome of... ...aten at them until they have got the aspect of the storm. They take colour from sun- light, and are joyless in colour as in shade. When the lower worl... ...tered swans; 4 Vittoria here and there a tented boat is visible, shooting from terraces of vines, or hanging on its shadow. Monte Boscero is un- veil... ...Spring of the great Italian uprising, when, though for a tragic issue, the people of Italy first felt and acted as a nation, and Charles Albert, calle... ...o. “If he marches out of his dominions, the king confers a blessing on his people perchance.” “Our king, signore!” The mountaineer waved his finger as... ...e that Carlo Ammiani, a Milanese, had reason to anticipate the approach of people by whom he, or they, might not wish to be seen. Had he studied Carlo... ...unfolded, the numbers sworn to, and Brescia, and Bergamo, and Cremona, and Venice had spoken upon all points through their emissaries, the two latter ... ...ndly likewise! I say, let it be Bergamo; or be it Brescia, if you like; or Venice: she is ready . Y ou trust to Milan, and you are fore-doomed. I woul... ...He is appar- ently kept on constant service between Milan, and Verona, and Venice. His quarters are at Verona. He informs me that he is to be married ...

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...with which his friends have 5 Yo n g e kindly supplied me, portraying him from their point of view; so that I could really trust that little more was... ...ary judgment in connecting and selecting. Nor until the work is less fresh from my hand will it be possible to judge whether I have in any way been al... ... does not look back at least as far as the lives of the father and mother, from whom the disposition is sure to be in part inherited, and by whom it m... ...arnest wish to be a clergyman, because he thought saying the Absolution to people must make them so happy, ‘a belief he must have gleaned from his Pra... ...ng out to found a church, and then to die neglected and forgotten. All the people burst out crying, he was so very much beloved by his parishioners. H... ...s of the ceremony. After all the boys had been confirmed about seven other people were confirmed, of whom two were quite as much as thirty, I should t... ...ns where all these delights were un- known and unattainable. He went on to Venice, where he met a letter which gave a new course to his thoughts, for ... ...ncing his inten- tion of retiring. In the fulness of his heart he wrote:— ‘Venice, Hotel de la Villa: May 2, 1851. ‘My dearest Father,—I have not been... ...ce, Hotel de la Villa: May 2, 1851. ‘My dearest Father,—I have not been in Venice an hour yet, but little did I expect to find such news waiting for m...

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... Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester, to Lord Cromwell, on the birth of the Prince of Wales (afterward Edward VI.). From the National Manuscripts preser... ... selff Gode of Inglonde, or rather an Inglyssh Gode, yf we consydyr and pondyr welle alle Hys procedynges with us from tyme to tyme. He hath over cumm... ...ett us alle pray for hys preservatione. Ande I for my partt wylle wyssh that hys Grace allways have, and evyn now from the begynynge, Governares, Inst... ... that takes; ’Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The thron-ed monarch better than his crown’. Merchant of Venice. I The birth of the ... ...rch better than his crown’. Merchant of Venice. I The birth of the Prince and the Pauper n the ancient city of London, on a certain au tumn... ... England had so longed for him, and hoped for him, and prayed God for him, that, now that he was really come, the people went nearly mad for joy. Mere... ...o explain and enlarge upon them. His dreamings and read- ings worked certain changes in him, by-and-by. His dream-people were so fine that he grew to ... ...monious and courtly, to the vast admiration and amusement of his intimates. But Tom’s influence among these young people began to grow now, day by day... ..., but with his thoughts busy with the shadowy splendours of his night’s dreams. He wandered here and there in the city, hardly noticing where he was g...

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...aching comedy of expectant youth. It is Carol Milford, fleeing for an hour from Blodgett College. The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, an... ...onsin, the Dakotas send their children thither, and Blodgett protects them from the wickedness of the universities. But it secretes friendly girls, yo... ...- ness of her body when they saw her in sheer negligee, or darting out wet from a shower-bath. She seemed then but half as large as they had supposed;... ...them by clenching his hands behind him, and he stammered: “I know. You get people. Most of these darn co-eds— Say, Carol, you could do a lot for peopl... ...dmit I fall down in sympathy sometimes. I get so dog-gone impa- tient with people that can’t stand the gaff. You’d be good for a fellow that was too s... ... retained a willingness to be different from brisk efficient book-ignoring people; an instinct to observe and wonder at their bustle even when she was... ...ld now criticize. Perhaps the best known of his plays was “The Merchant of Venice,” having a beautiful love story and a fine ap- preciation of a woman... ...as about a Jew named Shy- lock, and he didn’t want his daughter to marry a Venice gentleman named Antonio— Mrs. Leonard Warren, a slender, gray, nervo... ...hlight. I’m merely blocked by stupidity. Oh, I know I’m a fool. I dream of Venice, and I live in Archangel and scold because the Northern seas aren’t ...

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...ll alike; but they are so far the predominating traits of these remarkable people as to be characteristic. It is generally believed that the Aborigine... ...d, by the limited range of his practical knowledge. He draws his metaphors from the clouds, the seasons, the birds, the beasts, 4 The Last of the Moh... ... the North American Indian clothes his ideas in a dress which is different from that of the African, and is oriental in itself. His language has the r... ...that now composes the United States. They ascribe the known difficulty one people have to understand another to corruptions and dialects. The writer r... ...he American Indian gives a very different account of his own tribe or race from that which is given by other people. He is much addicted to over- esti... ...fferent account of his own tribe or race from that which is given by other people. He is much addicted to over- estimating his own perfections, and to... ...lly o’ertrip the dew; And saw the lion’s shadow ere himself.” —Merchant of Venice THE SUDDENNESS OF THE FLIGHT of his guide, and the wild cries of the... ...thal; if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.” —Merchant of Venice THE SHADES OF EVENING had come to increase the dreariness of the pla... ...30 “If you deny me, fie upon your law! There is no force in the decrees of Venice: I stand for judgment: answer, shall I have it?” —Merchant of Venice...

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...ng to have broken them. My plain story is of two Kentish damsels, and runs from a home of flowers into regions where flowers are few and sickly, on to... ...d Kentish extraction, albeit varieties of the breed. The farm had its name from a tradition, common to many other farmhouses within a circuit of the m... ...s. T ufts of pale grass, and gilliflowers, and travelling stone-crop, hung from the wall, and driblets of ivy ran broad- ening to the outer ground. Th... ...ective reading of her Bible, and to thoughts upon flowers eternal. Country people are not inclined to tolerate the dis- play of a passion for anything... ...ng to build up her children to stoutness, and but for the blindness of all people, save artists, poets, novelists, to the grandeur of their own creati... ...rees they adopted the phrases and manner of speech of highly gram- matical people, such as the rector and his lady, and of people in story-books, espe... ...nd we shall be—but I cannot look back. I shall not look back till we reach Venice. At Venice, I know I shall see you all as clear as day; but I cannot... ...at she was not unconscious of Algernon’s admiration. The first letter from Venice consisted of a series of interjec- tions in praise of the poetry of ... ...ng and all—as I thought I should when I was to 65 George Meredith come to Venice. “Persuade—do persuade father that everything will be well. Some per...

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...d blacksmith had their workshops. There was a group of children, the young people who were confided to the great Earl Richard and Countess Alice of Sa... ...ied to King Henry VI. Attendance on the patient had prevented the Countess from hearing the history of the accident, but presently the clatter of hors... ...too eager to accuse him. 6 Grisly Grisell “He took a bar of iron from the forge, so please you, my lord, and put it to the barrel of powder.... ...y ought to have the Lord Earl’s arms on them. So he took a bar of hot iron from the forge to mark the saltire on them, and thereupon there was this bu... ...ined to uphold royalty, while York was con- sidered as the champion of the people. The gentle King and the Beauforts wished for peace with France; the... ... Young chamber, when it might have been broken for all thanks to thee. The Venice glass that the merchant gave her! Thou art not so fair a sight, I tr... ... thus rated! Silence!” “See, my lady, what she has done to your ladyship’s Venice glass, which she never should have touched. She must have run to you... ...f the Lord’s Prayer and Creed in the hands of all care- ful and thoughtful people, even among the poor, if they had a good parish priest, or had come ... ...d together were drawn up to the wharf, the beautiful tall painted ships of Venice and Genoa pre-eminent among the stoutly-built Netherlanders and the ...

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...is just as light and good as it was then, too, and this is not flattery, far from it. The Tragedy of Pudd nhead Wilson - Mark Twain 3 He was a littl... ...wo story frame dwellings, whose whitewashed exteriors were almost concealed from sight by climbing tangles of rose vines, honeysuckles, and morning g... ...pring, when the clusters of buds came forth. The main street, one block back from the river, and running parallel with it, was the sole business stree... ...ich indicates nobility proud and ancient along the palace bordered canals of Venice, indicated merely the humble barbershop along the main street of D... ...or that reason, and not to be comforted. The women were good and commonplace people, and did their duty, and had their reward in clear consciences and... ...on you might prefer from bradawls to artillery. He was very popular with the people, and was the judge’s dearest friend. Then there was Colonel Cecil ... ...oo communicative about them. The fad without a name was one which dealt with people’s finger marks. He carried in his coat pocket a shallow box with g... ... suit of clothes of such exquisite style and cut in fashion—Eastern fashion, city fashion— that it filled everybody with anguish and was regarded as a... ...n of a wide and varied and curious sort. It was a pleasant life. We went to Venice—to London, Paris, Russia, India, China, Japan—” At this point Nanc...

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...tly combined tea-deal- ing with literature. It is described as “translated from the original by several hands,” but if so all Spanish flavour has enti... ...have little doubt that it 5 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. is a concoction from Shelton and the French of Filleau de Saint Martin, eked out by borrowi... ... Shelton and the French of Filleau de Saint Martin, eked out by borrowings from Phillips, whose mode of treat- ment it adopts. It is, to be sure, more... ... translations of “Don Quixote,” it will be seen that there are a good many people who, provided they get the mere narrative with its full complement o... ...him who makes so. The method by which Cervantes won the ear of the Spanish people ought, mutatis mutandis, to be equally effective with the great majo... ...bourhood of Toledo. On one of his acquisitions, about two leagues from the city, he built himself a castle which he called Cervatos, because “he was l... ...irring time; the events, however, which led to the alliance between Spain, Venice, and the Pope, against the common enemy, the Porte, and to the victo... ...brothers contrived to inform their family of their condition, and the poor people at Alcala at once strove to raise the ransom money, the father dispo... ...of the league that his Holiness Pope Pius V of happy memory, had made with Venice and Spain against the common enemy, the Turk, who had just then with...