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...hich has charmed me nearly to death. It is entitled THE LEGENDS OF THE RHINE FROM BASLE TO ROTTERDAM, by F. J. Kiefer; translated by L. W. Garnham, B.... ...rt of way which quietly pretends that the mentioner has been familiar with them all his life, and that the reader cannot possibly be ignorant of them—... ...precise, and courtly ceremony with which the thing is conducted, invests it with a sort of antique charm. This dignity and these knightly graces sugge... ... home, no doubt I could get a translation of this poem, but I am abroad and can’t; therefore I will make a translation myself. It may not be a good on... ...tly unheroic nature of the death—that was the sting—that and the bizarre wording of the resulting obituary: “Shot with a Rock, on a Raft.” There would... ...f the Black Forest cur- rency himself, and therefore is a good catch; but he is sor- did, mean, and without sentiment, whereas Gretchen is all sentime... ...st to him. You need not inquire about trains, or fares, or car changes, or hotels, or anything else. At the proper time he will put you in a cab or an... ...s to the conductor, and he took two. Then he went and got his tariff card and showed me that he had taken only the right sum. So I made a note—Italian...

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...l, 1920, and he made nothing in particu- lar, neither butter nor shoes nor poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than pe... ...ge F. Babbitt, as to most prosperous citizens of Zenith, his motor car was poetry and tragedy, love and heroism. The office was his pirate ship but th... ... a peach of an ad for the Glen, Mr. Babbitt. Why don’t we try something in poetry? Honest, it’d have wonderful pulling-power. Listen: ‘Mid pleasures ... ...pped back into cautious reality. Chum Frink had recently been on a lecture-tour among the small towns, and he chuckled, “Awful good to get back to civ... ... raised?” from her insulted husband. “Sure—the fellow that took the Cook’s Tour to Hell. I’ve never waded through his po’try, but we learned about him... ...s ago, and mind you, this was a fair, square test, they took a Zeeco stock touring-car and they slid up the Tonawanda hill on high, and fellow told me... ...r art. At night he lights up a good cigar, and climbs into the little old ‘bus, and maybe cusses the carburetor, and shoots out home. He mows the lawn...

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...hey were biology and mystery; their speech was slang phrases and flares of poetry; their silences were content- ment, or shaky crises when his arm too... ...ndent of schools, and Guy Pollock, the law- yer—they say he writes regular poetry and—and Raymie Wutherspoon, he’s not such an awful boob when you get... ... off, in the heavy traffic of three Fords and the Mirmiemashie House Free ‘Bus. “I shall like Mr. Clark…I can’t call him `Sam’! They’re all so friendl... ...ther, glancing into the cross streets. It was a private Seeing Main Street tour. She was within ten minutes be- holding not only the heart of a place ... ...of ‘em was a great big car that must of cost two thousand dollars—and the ‘bus was starting for a train with five elegant-dressed fellows, and a man w... ...e again. Will converted me on our Colorado trip. There were so many mousey tourists who were afraid to get out of the motor ‘bus that I decided to be ... ...here were so many mousey tourists who were afraid to get out of the motor ‘bus that I decided to be Annie Oakley, the Wild Western Wampire, and I boug... ... they know. Just yesterday I was saying to Harry Haydock: if he would read poetry, like Longfellow, or if he would join the band—I get so much pleasur... ...the town a delightful surprise when he returned from an extended honeymoon tour in Colorado this week with his charming bride. nee Miss Carol Milford ...

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...emed to be universal, and Albinia saw her reading old-fashioned stan- dard poetry—such as she had never herself assailed—and books of history, travels... ...rs and masters, and was left to an unlim- ited appetite for books, chiefly poetry. Our religious instruc- tion was a nullity, and I am only surprised ... ... you.’ Albinia had a momentary view of a tabby-cat and kitten, a volume of poetry, a wiry-haired terrier, and Gilbert, all lying promiscuously on the ... ...he pale of civiliza- tion. ‘For one fortnight in the course of a galloping tour with my two brothers,’ said Albinia. ‘All the Continent in one long va... ...y, as there were three of you.’ ‘As if we were going to stand six miles of bus with the Wolfe cub! No, Dusautoy brought his horse down with him, and I... ... about dear mothers, amiable daughters, classics, lan- guages, and foreign tours. That was all the account Mr. Kendal could give his wife of the dialo... ...; he made her mag- nificent presents, and conceded to her that the wedding tour should not be beyond Clifton, whence they would return to Willow Lawn,...

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...I leave you. Perhaps my child here will give you a taste of her voice. The poetry does much upon reflection, but it has to ripen within you—a matter o... ...on, but it has to ripen within you—a matter of time. Wed this voice to the poetry, and it finds passage ‘twixt your ribs, as on the point of a driven ... ...d by the reflection that in these days people were found every- where, and poetry was thwarted; again of heat, again of thirst, of beauty, and of chil... ...oberly or with excitement, as befitted the age of the speaker. Among these tourists there was one very fair English lady, with long auburn curls of th... ...rted. The dignified altercation had been witnessed by the main body of the tourists. Captain Gambier told them that he had merely interchanged amicabl... ...- tered a brother officer of one of his former regiments, a fat major on a tour of inspection, who happened to be a week behind news of the army, and ...

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...tily adapted the sentiment to the occasion. I call “Welcome little Dombey” Poetry, myself!’ ‘Is that the device?’ inquired her brother. ‘That is the d... ...d to her!—though not so softly but that Paul heard him say this remarkable poetry, ‘Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne’er could injure Y ... ...rom commonplace! Oh dear! If they would only leave us a little more of the poetry of existence in these terrible days!’ Mrs Skewton was looking sharp ... ... you?’ which the smiling gentleman always did with pleasure. They made the tour of the pictures, the walls, crow’s nest, and so forth; and as they wer...

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...last it absorbed all other desires, and became the one passion of his life. One January day, on his usual begging tour, he tramped 10 Mark Twain desp... ..., if its billows had been the Atlantic’s and he a lost sixpence. He very soon realised this fact, and straightway bus- ied himself about his own affai... ...echoing corridors we hear a bugle-blast, and the indis- *Leigh Hunt’s ‘The Town, ’ p.408, quotation from an early tourist. 92 Mark Twain tinct cry, “... ...bien Coves bings awast, On Chates to trine by Rome Coves dine For his long lib at last. Bing’d out bien Morts and toure, and toure, Bing out of the Ro... ... thing in eulogistic rhymes. But Tom Canty was not sorry; for this loyal uproar was sweeter music to him than any poetry, no matter what its quality m...

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...nd in the event of the performance being successful. He was also sent on a tour into Devonshire; a treat which the lad was most anxious of enjoying. H... ...Harding. ‘A rose, you know—’ ‘Yes, yes,’ said the archdeacon, impatient of poetry at such a time. ‘Well, two paid servants, we’ll say; one to look aft... ...use, digesting his great thoughts, as best he might, in a clattering omni- bus, wedged in between a wet old lady and a journeyman glazier returning fr...

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...he aspect of a chivalrous battle-field, or almost of a gay though perilous tourna- ment, and bout of “A hundred knights against all com- ers,”—was mai... ... innumerable brave souls still engaged there. His express contributions to poetry, phi- losophy, or any specific province of human literature or enlig... ...ish (on the strength of the subscribed moneys) were said to be thinking of tours,—perhaps in 69 Thomas Carlyle the Sierra Morena and neighboring Quix... ...ross, with his wife and child, to Germany; purposing to make not so much a tour as some loose ramble, or desultory residence in that country, in the R... ...eman of some fig- ure. Over whom hung, moreover, a kind of mysterious nim- bus as the principal or one of the principal writers in the Times, which ga... ...isappointing, though it was the translation of dream into fact, that is of poetry into prose, and showed 96 The Life of John Sterling its unrhymed si... ...ing-horse duly in each;—no reading could be more unfavorable to Sterling’s poetry than his own. Such a mode of reading, and indeed generally in a man ...

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...n, to lift up and bear away their fallen comrade; so that I perceived this sort of war to be not wholly without laws of chivalry, and perhaps rather t... ...‘Certainly you are quite an original,’ he said. ‘Quite,’ said I; ‘and I believe I have my counterpart be- fore me.’ ‘Well, for a choice,’ says he, smi... ...est is all but leather and prunello.”’ ‘Oh, but that’s not fair—that’s Pope! It’s not original, Dudgeon. Understand me,’ said I, wringing his breast-b... ... or indirectly in this matter, I shall do my duty, let it cost what it will: that is, I shall communicate the real name of the Buonapartist spy who si... ...k you. Only, be sure that you appreciate what you risk: the prison, the dock, the gallows, and the halter—terribly vulgar circumstances, my young frie...

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...r hands. It is I who have deposed wit and knowledge from their empire over poetry, and advanced myself in their stead. And shall a few upstart Ancient... ...rs of the legend write, Two brother hermits, saints by trade, Taking their tour in masquerade, Disguised in tattered habits, went To a small village d... ...er he at last descends To like with less seraphic ends; Or to compound the bus’ness, whether They temper love and books together; Must never to mankin...

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...ated him. Inspired him, if you will, and turned the prose of his life into poetry. And Chance, coming to the aid of Dame Nature, dropped just the apt ... ...e—and among other things that were said she reproached him for not reading poetry. When they parted in Piccadilly, after the examination, they agreed ... ...y parted in Piccadilly, after the examination, they agreed to write, about poetry and themselves, during the holidays, and then she lent him, with a t... ... Cr. £ s. d Mr. L.{ 13 10 4-1/2 By bus fares to South Cash in hand { Kensington (late)... ...poken to Lewisham since their painful misunderstanding. He made a wide de- tour to his seat at the end table, and so, and by a singular rectitude of b...

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...him and Dr. Johnson, noticed in Boswell’s account of the doctor’s Scottish tour. “Ah, doctor,” said Lord M., upon some casual suggestion of that topic... ...the upright in one common fate.” Exceedingly common is this usage in Latin poetry, when the object is to generalize a remark—as not connected with one... ...ld not specially have qualified himself for the service of a theo- logical tournament; and my mother’s range of acquaintance was not very extensive am... ...ge over me in the more elaborate difficulties of Greek and of choral Greek poetry. I could not altogether wonder at their hatred of myself. Yet still,... ...ady was not fifteen; her spirits were as the spirits of a fawn in May; her tour of duty for the day was either not come, or was gone; and, finding her... ...ct, that by far the larger proportion of what is received in every age for poetry, and for a season usurps that consecrated name, is not the spontaneo... ... 2 they chose to remove my brother from this gentle recluse to an active, bus- tling man of the world, the very anti-pole in character. What might be...

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...e jumped from my knee and said, “Now, Mademoiselle, I will repeat you some poetry.” Assuming an attitude, she began, “La Ligue des Rats: fable de La F... ... 105 Charlotte Brontë tary works, and several volumes of light literature, poetry, biography, travels, a few romances, &c. I suppose he had con- sider... ..., for it keeps those searching eyes of yours away from my physiognomy, and bus- ies them with the worsted flowers of the rug; so puzzle on. Young lady... ...ndress me when a child. Old times crowded fast back on me as I watched her bus- tling about—setting out the tea-tray with her best china, cut- ting br... ...as my finger, and your fore- head resembles what, in some very astonishing poetry, I once 265 Charlotte Brontë saw styled, ‘a blue-piled thunderloft.... ...n of the result of my labours. With some difficulty, I got him to make the tour of the house. He just looked in at the doors I opened; and when he had... ...runks were left corded and locked as they had been prepared for the bridal tour. What could my darling do, I asked, left destitute and penniless? And ...

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...................................................... 98 CHAPTER X – WALKING TOURS ........................................................................ ...ho is not like George the Second, and cannot state openly a dis- taste for poetry and painting. The word “facts” is, in some ways, crucial. I have spo... ... has to be demonstrated in words. Do you think it is a hard thing to write poetry? Why, that is to write poetry, and of a high, if not the high- est, ... ... surely a melancholy example for one’s daughters! And then you have Colum- bus, who may have pioneered America, but, when all is said, was a most impr... ...sda. He is like an enthusiast leading about with him a stolid, indifferent tourist. There is some one by who is out of sympathy with the scene, and is... ...noble destiny; whether we thunder in a pulpit, or pule in little atheistic poetry-books, about its vanity and brevity; whether we look justly for year... ...ely vein he spoke of life. Already an old man, he ventured on his Highland tour; and his heart, bound with triple brass, did not recoil before twenty-...

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...T en T ales by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Droll Stories... ...Volume T wo by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine VOLUME II: The Second T en T ales PROLOGUE CERTAIN PERSONS have re... ... his want of success in not pleasing everyone by re- membering that an old Tourainian, of eternal memory, had put up with such contumely, that losing ... ...ee!—worthless old currycomb! old slipper, too big for the foot! old arque- bus! ten year old codfish! old spider that spins no more! old death with op... ...lo was twenty years of age, and no fool, had a large heart, a head full of poetry; and more than that, was a man of lofty imaginings. But although he ...

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...strils and firm modelling marked something positive and defined; where the poetry enthroned upon an almost mystic brow seemed belied at times by the p... ...of Waterloo. The colonel, slightly wounded, retired to the Loire, and left Tours before the disbandment of the army. In the spring of 1816 Charles sol... ...oung girl of very exalted ideas; she works herself into enthusiasm for the poetry of one writer or the prose of another. You have only to judge by the... ...ittle lyric melodies. Melody is to music what imagery and sentiment are to poetry, a flower that blossoms spontaneously. Conse- quently , nations have... ...isbelieved in in these days of ours as the new world of Christopher Colum- bus in the sixteenth century. Happily, she kept her own coun- sel, or they ... ...one of the pillars, round all of which she dragged Madame Latournelle on a tour of inspection. After this failure, she deposed the Deity from omnipote... ...ostrum is to-day the greatest the- atre of the world; it has succeeded the tournaments of chiv- alry, it is now the meeting-place for all intellects, ...

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... as, in an inter- val of three days, the Governor Higginson and the Colum- bus had observed it at two different points of the chart, separated by a di... ...s in the polar seas. He related his fishing, and his combats, with natural poetry of expression; his recital took the form of an epic poem, and I seem... ...o; not this time at least; for I am in a hurry to con- tinue our submarine tour of the earth. So I shall content myself with drawing from the reserve ... ...readth, measured five hundred feet. On this soil one might easily make the tour of the lake. But the base of the high parti- tions was stony ground, w... ...he helm west- ward, in order to beat the Pacific seas, and so complete the tour of the world. He did nothing of the kind, but continued on his way to ... ...can give, their clear voluptuous eyes, their charming po- sitions, and the poetry of their manners, metamorphosed them, the male into a triton and the...

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...t went on; “Lais and Rhodope are Greece and Egypt. They all indeed are the poetry of the ages in which they lived. This poetry, which Napoleon 15 Bal... ...en added to this fasci- nating beauty we find the sweetness of nature, the poetry, that characterized Lucien, it is easy to conceive of the mad passio... ...y. “What a pity,” thought he, “to find one’s wife in two vol- umes. In one—poetry, delight, love, devotion, beauty, sweet- ness—” Esther was fussing a... ...on. Herrera, making a great show of starting for Spain, had gone as far as Tours. He had sent the chaise on as far as Bordeaux, with a servant inside,... ...r in silence as they drove out of Paris. Next morning, between Orleans and Tours, Derville, be- ing bored, began to converse, and Corentin condescende... ...d methods in the art of coining. The first tower, hardly detached from the Tour d’Argent, is the T our de Montgomery; the third, and smallest, but the...

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...m to have been a pure-hearted young man, de- voted to his art, and fond of poetry. Sundry compositions were in the blotting-book, one, indeed, to Vera... ...n the gentle breeze, the lapping of the waves, and the soft cadence of the poetry, till at an effective passage on the mother’s death, the poet looked... ...es, some almost equal to himself in stature, and recall the fairy lore and poetry connected with them, while Vera listened and thought she enjoyed, bu... ...ubert came for two nights on his re- turn, and was exceedingly full of his tour, talking over Italian scenes and churches with Magdalen, who had never... ...th him as chap- lains. In the meantime, while the Bishop was preparing, by tours in England, Alexis undertook the duties of Mr. Flight’s curate, rejoi... ...mitted; and as Vera was a champion player, she was sure to be asked to the tournaments, and to have to practise for them. Inopportunely there arrived ... ...light weight,” he said. “I am afraid so,” answered Angel. “Oh! there’s the bus stop- ping at Mr. Pratt’s door.” “Mine, now. We have annexed it.” “But ...