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...on garage. Yet Babbitt was again dreaming of the fairy child, a dream more romantic than scarlet pagodas by a silver sea. For years the fairy child ha... ...ors. Billboards with crimson god- desses nine feet tall advertising cinema films, pipe to- bacco, and talcum powder. The old “mansions” along Ninth St... ...ggone luxury!” Thus, laden with treasure, after three and a half blocks of romantic adventure, he drove up to the club. III The Zenith Athletic Club i... ...manufacturing a plow or a brick was so that it might be sold. To them, the Romantic Hero was no longer the knight, the wandering poet, the cowpuncher,... ...ow very, very much earth and rock there was in it. He liked three kinds of films: pretty bathing girls with bare legs; policemen or cowboys and an ind... ...rst-class hotel, that to the drummers loves to cater, across from some big film theayter; if I should look around and buzz, and wonder in what town I ... ...d with me, old man, and I’ll show you a good time!” They went to a musical comedy and nudged each other 212 Babbitt at the matrimonial jokes and the ... ... for the two doctors were exactly like the bearded physicians in a musical comedy, both of them rubbing their hands and looking foolishly sagacious. D...

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...of another corps, the white caps, without meaning any offense, would have observed the etiquette of their order and ignored our presence. [How strange... ...Her gown was of a soft white silky stuff that clung to her round young figure like a fish’s skin, and it was rippled over with the gracefulest little ... ...pation has busied him with death and funerals all the week, it will rest him to go to the theater Sunday night and put in two or three hours laugh- in... ...try to put your fin- ger on it, it will skip a thousand times its own length at one jump, and no eye is sharp enough to see where it lights. A great d... ... there on the summit the guests did not wait to dress much, but seized a red bed blanket and sailed out arrayed like an Indian. This was good; this wo... ...ngen from the heights of the Bru”nig Pass. They said the view was marvelous, and that one who had seen it once could never forget it. They also spoke ... ...eeping, insectlike, up its surface, with their heels projecting over the thinnest kind of nothingness, thickened up a little with a few wandering shre... ... terracelike projections— a stairway for the gods; at its head spring several lofty storm- 205 A Tramp Abroad scarred towers, one after another, with...

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...c, young; drinking the air as she longed to drink life. The eternal aching comedy of expectant youth. It is Carol Milford, fleeing for an hour from Bl... ...ture theater called “The Rose- bud Movie Palace.” Lithographs announcing a film called “Fatty in Love.” Howland & Gould’s Grocery. In the display wind... ...rints of bad and famous pictures, shelves of phonograph records and camera films, wooden toys, and in the midst an anxious small woman sitting in a pa... ...re a blurry theater-audience before which she self-consciously enacted the comedy of being the Clever Little Bride of Doc Kennicott: “These-here celeb... ...nutes Carol kept it up. She asserted that she was going to stage a musical comedy, that she pre- ferred cafe parfait to beefsteak, that she hoped Dr. ... ...ailroad the sections of snow fence, which had been stacked all sum- mer in romantic wooden tents occupied by roving small boys, were set up to prevent... ...eet But what she told herself was that Axel Egge’s was “so picturesque and romantic.” It was in the matter of clothes that she was most self- consciou... ... spread on the rack in the oven. She scampered up-stairs to bring down her filmiest tea-cloth. She arranged a silver tray. She proudly carried it into... ... hate him!” CHAPTER XV That December she was in love with her husband. She romanticized herself not as a great reformer but as the wife of a country p...

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...entary bits of theat rical performance, such as single acts of tragedy or comedy, or dramatic proverbs and charades. Zenobia, besides, was fond of gi... ...overdale,—and we will look back cheerfully to these early days, and make a romantic story for the young People (and if a little more romantic than tru... ...oks of courtesy with eyes that were impenetrable beneath the glaze and the film. We passed, therefore, as if mutually invisible. I can nowise explain ... ...although, in writing it out, my pen has perhaps allowed itself a trifle of romantic and legendary license, worthier of a small poet than of a grave bi...

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... looking through glasses has covered the pupils of his eyes with a sort of film. Between the ages of eighteen and thirty, young Thuillier had much suc... ...hen it had fallen he went away as happy as an academician at the fall of a romantic drama. Veritable supernumeraries of the social comedy, Phellion, L... ...n at the fall of a romantic drama. Veritable supernumeraries of the social comedy, Phellion, Laudigeois, and their kind, fulfilled the functions of th... ...yer; he is a schemer and we had better have him on our side. He is playing comedy—well! play com- edy with him; be his dupe apparently; if he proves t... ...e. Neither Thuillier, nor his sister, nor Theodose, were the dupes of this comedy; but the old beau of the Empire considered the manoeuvre a piece of ... ...f a tragedy entitled, “The Death of Her- cules,” the classic party and the romantic party, whom the mayor had carefully balanced in the composition of...

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...nflex- ible persistency. His merits were those of the Scapins of an- cient comedy; he had their fertility of resource, their clever- ness in skirting ... ... those fellows? Just the same in the article-Paris! Finot wrote a su- perb comedy in one act for Mademoiselle Mars, most glori- ous of the glorious!—a... ...of the opposition was kneaded and baked, and the scenes of the grand tragi-comedy played by the Left were rehearsed. On one side he heard them discuss... ..., and the approach to it through this long gal- lery is at once sombre and romantic. The great hall of the Pas Perdus, on the contrary, presents at th... ...denesse, the Baron de la Billardiere, the il- lustrious Vauquelin. A light film dimmed his eyes, and his uncle Pillerault, who held his arm, felt him ...

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...ged to his temperament. He suffered in youth, and suffered badly, from the romantic malady of his century, and that other malady of Russia, both expre... ...stess. “Mariana Vikentievna,” he began, “is still full of the ideals … the romanticism of youth … which … in time—” “Heaven, I was unjust to myself,” ... ...e was surrounded by a sort of mist, which seemed to hang before him like a filmy curtain, separating him from 73 Turgenev the rest of the world. And ... ..., separating him from 73 Turgenev the rest of the world. And through this film, strange to say, he perceived only three faces—women’s faces—and all t... ...e of a suppliant. Solomin let the husband and wife go through their little comedy, shook hands with them both, and sat down at the first invitation to... ...his face and smiled, as much as to say, “Well, now let us begin our little comedy!” Sipiagin sat on the opposite side and watched him with some anxiet... ...… He still searched around for Mariana with his eyes, but a menacing white film was spreading over them. “That’s right,” were his last words. He had b...

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...re is more than the ordinary height above her, and who, now that her first romantic admiration of his lofty bearing has worn off, and her fretful litt... ...d comedians. No: no Art arrives at the artlessness of nature in matters of comedy. Y ou can’t simu- late the ape. Your antics are dull. They haven’t t... ...deal of Richard Feverel CHAPTER XI OF ALL THE CHIEF ACTORS in the Bakewell Comedy, Master Ripton Thompson awaited the fearful morning which was to dec... ...tten with the careless composer. And so ended the last act of the Bakewell Comedy, in which the curtain closes with Sir Austin’s pointing out to his f... ...Sweet are the shy recesses of the woodland. The ray treads softly there. A film athwart the pathway quivers many-hued against purple shade fragrant wi... ... He had hoped to be a little sentimental with Lady Blan- dish, knowing her romantic. This mixture of the harshest common sense and an air of “I know y... ...51 George Meredith nite influence upon us, and yet we cannot fasten on the filmy things and make them visible and distinct to ourselves, much less to ... ...ows), and perhaps the clear-thoughted, intensely self- examining gentleman filmily conceived, Me also, in com- mon with the poet, she gazes on as one ... ...led, and only corrected his nonsense by saying, “I think we mustn’t be too romantic. You will be- come a knight-errant, I suppose. You have the charac...

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...this realization of pleasant dreams, the el- egance that satisfies all the romantic fancies of youth, ap- peals to me so strongly that I cannot but fe... ...fusion of serum in the brain; they look as though they were covered with a film of fine dust, do you notice? I shall know more about it by to-mor- row... ...t Addendum The following personages appear in other stories of the Hu- man Comedy. Ajuda-Pinto, Marquis Miguel d’ Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life T...

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...d his hands bound in a web of green silk, which she was unwinding. In this romantic position Osborne and Amelia found the in- teresting pair, when the... ...presents of knives, pencil-cases, gold seals, toffee, Little Warblers, and romantic books, with large coloured pictures of knights and robbers, in man... ... now in hand. We might have treated this subject in the genteel, or in the romantic, or in the facetious manner. Suppose we had laid the scene in Gros... ...ghing about me to Joseph? Has he frightened him? Perhaps he won’t come.”—A film 61 Thackeray passed over her eyes, and her heart beat quite quick. “Y... ...t is that the French Em- peror comes in to perform a part in this domestic comedy of V anity Fair which we are now playing, and which would never have... ... of the present day) to cajole the.public into a sermon, when it is only a comedy that the reader pays his money to witness. But, without preaching, t... ...to a scream of hysterical tears. The last scene of her dismal V anity Fair comedy was fast approaching; the tawdry lamps were going out one by one; an...

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..., Valois—the hundred great names that form the Aristoc- racy of the “Human Comedy” owe their lordly mottoes and ingenious armorial bearings. Indeed, “... ...eave the third alone with Madame de la Baudraye, that their jealousy was a comedy to the lookers-on. T o reach Saint-Thibault from Caesar’s Gate there... ... she, “has learned to live, while I have been learning to endure.” A tragi-comedy was, in fact, being enacted in Madame de la Baudraye’s house, in har... ...rcumstances at least as extraordinary as these, and often outdoing them in romantic details. Indeed, is not this proved by the reports in the Gazette ... ...id Madame de la Baudraye. “There, you see!” cried Bianchon. “Interest, the romantic demon, has you by the collar, as he had me a while ago.” “Read on,... ...lzac the cure. Madame Piedefer had no great difficulty now in removing the film from her daughter’s eyes. She sent for Monsieur de Clagny, who complet...

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...g on wooden piles concealed by flowers. Farther on, in a hollow, I saw the romantic masses of the chateau of Sache, a sad retreat though full of har- ... ...der son, the protector of the younger.” In this, Natalie, there is nothing romantic. To know the infinite of our deepest feelings, we must in youth ca... ...layed with her boy’s curly head, joyous for him, happy for herself. What a comedy of pain, what mockery in this drama; I was horrified by it. Later in... ...an- ners is that of almost absolute silence about ourselves. Play a little comedy for your own instruction; talk of your- self to acquaintances, tell ... ...young. No such love is found among the women of the world; all are playing comedy; this one will interest you by her misfortunes; she seems the gentle... ... attract you by her submissiveness; she will be your attendant, follow you romantically about, com- promise herself to keep you, and be the millstone ... ...ve her the viaticum. A few moments later her breathing became difficult; a film overspread her eyes, but soon they cleared again; she gave me a last l...

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...rt of sea, and withal a very still and brilliant and lonely one. Presently a film of dark smoke appears above one of those remote “points;” instantly ... ...ut of a warm bed to run them. I began to fear that piloting was not quite so romantic as I had imagined it was; there was something very real and work... ...like,” and so I began to take heart once more to believe that piloting was a romantic sort of occupation after all. The moment we were under way I beg... ... as safe and simple as driving stage, and is hardly more than three times as romantic. And now in these new days, these days of infinite change, the A... ... or another, to keep me from suspecting. I staid faithfully by him until his comedy was finished. Then he remarked that he had undertaken to ‘learn’ m...

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...n the doorway. Tall, large-eyed, draped in purple shawls, Mrs. Ambrose was romantic and beautiful; not perhaps sym- pathetic, for her eyes looked stra... ... out in the East, there was cholera in Russia, and he was heard of, not so romantically, in Lisbon. They had been through France; he had stopped at ma... ...s room working, applying a stout blue pencil authoritatively to bundles of filmy paper. Papers lay to left and to right of 77 Virginia Woolf him, the... ...ave her donkey a sharp cut with a switch and started forward. The full and romantic career of Evelyn Murgatroyd is best hit off by her own words, “Cal... ...ry time it does.” “The pursuit of Friendship,” said Hewet. “The title of a comedy.” “You’re horrid,” she cried. “You don’t care a bit really. You migh... .... The thought had the same sort of physical discom- fort as is caused by a film of mist always coming between the eyes and the printed page. She did h... ... between the eyes and the printed page. She did her best to brush away the film and to conceive something to be worshipped as the service went on, but...

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...d produced form alone. We may seek in vain for plastic grace, the swing of comedy, dramatic action, musical genius, or the bold flight of ode and epic... ...rlor, Balthazar’s eyes would fasten on the spot where his wife had died, a film of tears rolled like hot grains of sand across the arid pupils of his ... ...same dower, he did perceive that the two were, to use his own expression, “romantic and sentimental girls,” adjectives employed by commonplace people ... ...t Addendum The following personages appear in other stories of the Hu- man Comedy. Note: The Alkahest is also known as The Quest of the Abso- lute and...

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...this type, the chairman remarks with a sudden intrusion of exposition, are romantic with a shadow of meanness, they seek at once to conceal and shape ... ...f- ference in every possible way? The former alternative leads either to a romantic organisation of society in which men will live and fight and die f... ...ur double. But, conceivably, ev- erything may be different here. The whole romantic story may have run a different course. It was as it was in our wor... ...and passions of my youth. The dull base caste of my little personal tragi- comedy—I have ostensibly forgiven, I have for the most part forgotten—and y... ...last triumph of realisation, but the swimming moment of opacity before the film gives way. To come to individual emotional cases, is to return to the ...

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...gleam in the sun; the whole land glows in the burning heat. T races of the romantic charm of Spain and the south hover about the en- chanting spot. Th... ...vitality had brought a light into her eyes, which sparkled through a moist film with that liquid brightness which gives such irresistible charm to the... ...ures the place against intrusion, he will wonder how it happened that this romantic old place was set down in a savanna of corn-land, a desert of chal... ...in great cities. She was twenty-six years old. At that age, with plenty of romantic illusions still left, the mind loves to dwell on the thought of de... ...ious treasures of my heart upon the first base im- postor who can play the comedy of passion? That I would pollute my life for a moment of doubtful pl... ... insolent blaze, the colors were scarcely visible, and the smoke was but a film fluttering like a thin scarf in the noonday torrent of light and heat.... .... Addendum The following personages appear in other stories of the Hu- man Comedy. Aiglemont, General, Marquis Victor d’ At the Sign of the Cat and ...

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...wig, gave him a look of mystery. His eyes seemed shrouded in a transparent film; you would have compared them to dingy mother-of-pearl with a blue iri... ...olonel Chabert “Ah ha!” said he with a laugh, “here is the last act of the comedy; now we shall see if I have been taken in!” He took up the letter an... ...rprise he said: “That old man, my dear fellow, is a whole poem, or, as the romantics say, a drama.—Did you ever meet the Comtesse Ferraud?” “Yes; she ... .... Addendum The following personages appear in other stories of the Hu- man Comedy. Bonaparte, Napoleon The Vendetta The Gondreville Mystery Dome...

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...e was seated, for the rea- son that both eyes were covered with the yellow film pro- duced by cataract. Madame Mignon may be sketched in one sentence.... ...hing more than 15 Balzac subjects which our souls convert into tragedy or comedy ac- cording to the bent of our characters. Madame Latournelle and Ma... ...obtain more by tender- ness than you have discovered by trickery.” Was the comedy of the “Fille mal Gardee” being played here,—as it is everywhere and... ...old; to attend her own funeral like Charles V.; to play within herself the comedy of life and, if need be, that of death. Modeste was indeed playing, ... ...0 Modeste Mignon CHAPTER VII A POET OF THE ANGELIC SCHOOL ALL YOUNG GIRLS, romantic or otherwise, can imagine the impatience in which Modeste lived fo... ...ted, and wholly noble. I worship the beautiful, the ideal, with- out being romantic; though I have been, in my heart of hearts, in my dreams. But I re... ... woman, and which three months of close communion of souls now rendered as romantic as the most imaginative maiden could have wished. Every one, excep...

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...e convent smoke which rose straight and high from the chimneys in a golden film, al- ways standing on one jutting point looking down after them. Long ... ...f her fortunes carriage people now no doubt and horses without number most romantic, a coat of arms of course and wild beasts on their hind legs showi... ...w,’ returned the engaging young Barnacle. ‘True,’ said Bar, with his light-comedy laugh for special jury- men, which was a very different thing from h... ...laugh for special jury- men, which was a very different thing from his low-comedy laugh for comic tradesmen on common juries: ‘he has been in Parliame... ... what says the Captain, if I quote him correctly—and if not,’ with a light-comedy touch of his double eye-glass on his companion’s shoulder, ‘my learn... ...ness upon it. The beauties of the sunset had not faded from the long light films of cloud that lay at peace in the horizon. From a radiant centre, ove...

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...g with subtle tenderness to him. “Naturally! Y oung people always do these romantic things,” replied Cyril Scott. He was twenty-two years old, so he c... ... their voices from the distance. “Yes, Josephine, wouldn’t that be awfully romantic!”—she suddenly called shrilly. The pair in the distance started. “... ...t—!” they heard Josephine’s sharp exclamation. “What’s that?—What would be romantic?” said Jim as he lurched up and caught hold of Cyril Scott’s arm. ... ...t it was Jim himself, for he was an unsettled house mate. There was a thin film of snow, a lovely Christmas morn- ing. CHAPTER IV CHAPTER IV CHAPTER I... ...ather like the imposing hall into which the heroine suddenly enters on the film. Aaron dropped his heavy bag, with relief, and stood there, hat in han... ...as now no magnate richer than we, no hero nobler than we have been, on the film. Connu! Connu! Everything life has to offer is known to us, couldn’t b... ...ipped various glasses of the liqueur, and told all his tale as if it was a comedy. A comedy it seemed, too, at that hour. And a comedy no doubt it was...

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...did nothing but read the classics and indite poetry. He wrote a tragedy, a comedy, and four books of an Epic called “Alexander,” all of which afterwar... ...bards foretold: Hear him, ye deaf, and all ye blind, behold! He from thick films shall purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eyeball pour the day... ..., wife of James II., whose fortunes he followed into France, author of the comedy of ‘Sir Solomon Single,’ and of several translations in Dryden’s Mis... ...oose to the wind their airy garments flew, Thin glittering textures of the filmy dew, Dipp’d in the richest tincture of the skies, Where light disport... ...e, and others multiplies: Nor void of emblem was the mystic wall, For thus romantic Fame increases all. The temple shakes, the sounding gates unfold W... ... 20 Let the strict life of graver mortals be A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And if it can, at once both...

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...d his hands bound in a web of green silk, which she was unwinding. In this romantic position Osborne and Amelia found the in- teresting pair, when the... ...presents of knives, pencil-cases, gold seals, toffee, Little Warblers, and romantic books, with large coloured pictures of knights and robbers, in man... ... now in hand. We might have treated this subject in the genteel, or in the romantic, or in the facetious manner. Suppose we had laid the scene in Gros... ...ghing about me to Joseph? Has he frightened him? Perhaps he won’t come.”—A film 61 Thackeray passed over her eyes, and her heart beat quite quick. “Y... ...t is that the French Em- peror comes in to perform a part in this domestic comedy of V anity Fair which we are now playing, and which would never have... ... of the present day) to cajole the.public into a sermon, when it is only a comedy that the reader pays his money to witness. But, without preaching, t... ...to a scream of hysterical tears. The last scene of her dismal V anity Fair comedy was fast approaching; the tawdry lamps were going out one by one; an...

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...rtrey Fenellan; owing to Fredi’s reproduction or imitation of her mother’s romantic sentiment for Dartrey, doubtless: a bit of jealousy, indicating th... ...panese erudites. Delphica, with each of the rivals in turn, is very pretty Comedy. She is aware that M. Falarique is her most redoubtable adversary, b... ...im over the heads of all the young men of his time. Cranmer Lotsdale. Most romantic history!’ ‘She’s in love with that, I suppose.’ ‘Now you direct my... ...’ ‘Now you direct my attention to him,’ said Fenellan, ‘the writing of the romantic history has made the texture look a trifle thready. You have a ter... ...e to work in the direction of the casuistries and the sensational webs and films. Facing Victor, it was a block. But the thought came: how could she m... ...and contemptuously, to be- come in the active, while it is exacted of hero Comedy of Clowns!—that in the passive she be a rockfortress impreg- nable, ... ...the battle for Nataly; chiefly through Mrs. Burman’s tenacious hold of the filmy thread she took for life and was enabled to use as a means for the pe...

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...Wharton His eye became a degree less opaque: it was as though an incipient film had been removed from it, and she felt the pride of a skilful operator... ... the Apennines and an hereditary office in the V atican. Lost causes had a romantic charm for her, and she liked to picture herself as standing aloof ... .... That was years ago, when she first came out, and had been smitten with a romantic passion for a young gentleman named Herbert Melson, who had blue e... ...wing it merely as one among the countless “good situations” of the mundane comedy. Now the other side presented itself to Lily, the volca- nic nether ... ...m a renewal of old hopes and ambitions. The cruise itself charmed her as a romantic adventure. She was vaguely touched by the names and scenes 181 Ed...

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...ves not up its dead _1820 T o evil thoughts.’—A film then overcast My sense with dimness, for the wound, which bled Freshly... ...erest; and that the feel- ings of the company never failed to incline to a romantic pity for the wrongs, and a passionate exculpation of the hor- ribl... ... _75 That I might rid me both of him and them. I thought to act a solemn comedy Upon the painted scene of this new world, And to attain my own pecul... ... _130 412 V olume One To see what was romantic there. 12. 12. 12. 12. 12. And all this, though quite ideal,— Read... ...ardly practi- cable in this. His life was singular; less on account of the romantic vicissitudes which diversified it, than the ideal tinge which it r... ... in the Elysian calm Of its own beauty, floating on the line Which, like a film in purest space, divided _230 The heaven bene... ...the pool, _235 And on it little quaint and filmy shapes. With dizzy motion, wheel and rise and fall, Like clouds of gn...

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...ces are usually received. In Bleak House I have purposely dwelt upon the romantic side of familiar things. 1853 CHAPTER I In Chancery LONDON. M ICHA... ..., which has never changed since he courted her, is the one little touch of romantic fancy in him. Indeed, he married her for love. A whisper still goe... ...s paint their own portraits) which I could not separate from the idea of a romantic youth who had undergone some unique process of depreciation. It st... ...ty details might grieve me very much, Miss Summerson. But can I permit the film of a silly proceeding on the part of Caddy (from whom I expect nothing... ...sly tapping on the win dow sill, resumes his whisperirig in quite a light comedy tone. “By the by, Tony, don’t forget old Smallweed,” meaning the you... ...ghter who is my Beauty daughter, I have a Sentiment daughter, and I have a Comedy daughter. You must see them all. They’ll be en chanted.” He was goi... ... is my Sentiment daughter, Laura—plays a little but don’t sing. This is my Comedy daughter, Kitty—sings a little but don’t play. We all draw a little ...

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...ces are usually received. In Bleak House I have purposely dwelt upon the romantic side of familiar things. 1853 CHAPTER I In Chancery LONDON. M ICHA... ..., which has never changed since he courted her, is the one little touch of romantic fancy in him. Indeed, he married her for love. A whisper still goe... ...s paint their own portraits) which I could not separate from the idea of a romantic youth who had undergone some unique process of depreciation. It st... ...ty details might grieve me very much, Miss Summerson. But can I permit the film of a silly proceeding on the part of Caddy (from whom I expect nothing... ...sly tapping on the win dow sill, resumes his whisperirig in quite a light comedy tone. “By the by, Tony, don’t forget old Smallweed,” meaning the you...

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...which the moderns can place by that of Homer. Till I heard you, the Divine Comedy was to me a vast enigma to which none had found the clue—the comment... ... Pareto, of di Negro, and of Belgiojoso, who will represent in this “Human Comedy” the close and constant alliance between Italy and France, to which ... ...he Baroness’ birthday, by which she proposed to prove the existence of her romantic lover. This present was a silver seal formed of three little figur... ...ed in much detail, after picking up some information in the of- fices. The comedy of modern sentiment might have the charm of novelty to the Baron; Va... ...ghest expectations. Thanks to her manoeuvres, sentimental, high-flown, and romantic, Valerie, without committing herself to any prom- ises, obtained f... ...oing to design a service in the German style of the sixteenth century; the romantic style: foliage twined with insects, sleep- ing children, newly inv... ...s heels, so quaint and delicious was the nudity revealed through the light film of lawn. “I have just seen virtue in despair.” “Can despair possess vi...

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...e wish’d for shower at length was come, And the boy’s eyes, which the dull film half glazed, Brighten’d, and for a moment seem’d to roam, He s... ... pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o’er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, ‘T is th... ... Which perish in the rest, but in them were Inherent— what we mortals call romantic, And always envy, though we deem it frantic. This is in othe... ...strange adventures Had gone before him, and his wars and loves; And as romantic heads are pretty painters, And, above all, an Englishwoman’s... ...cimen of every class Is better than a humdrum tete a tete. The days of Comedy are gone, alas! When Congreve’s fool could vie with Moliere’s ...

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...Skin niture; were expressed by the surrounding disorder, and brought light films over the vision of those assembled, so that the air seemed full of in... ...or Angel, how thou hast suffered!’ “I had undertaken two great works—one a comedy that in a very short time must bring me wealth and fame, and an entr... ...ogical, or am I a madman after all? Haven’t you there all the moral of the comedy that goes on every day in this world? … Your work is completed’ he w... ...nt, if found upon me, could awaken no suspicion, but I knew not whither my romantic resolution might lead, and I wished to be prepared. “As soon as th... ...ut looking round to see whether I was observed. “A dramatist was to read a comedy at the countess’ house in two days’ time; I went thither, intending ... ...ry did this young ghoul unearth that corpse of hers?” asked a dandy of the Romantic faction. Euphrasia began to smile. The speaker was a slender, fair... ...ameristus, a man of creeds and enthusiasms, the head of the “Vitalists,” a romantic champion of the esoteric doctrines 198 The Magic Skin of Van Helm...

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... Refrain was notoriously the invention of a tambour-worker, a spinster and romantic, still lodging in the Y ard. But, forasmuch as all favourite legen... ...ed her present appetite for eating and drinking with her past appetite for romantic love, in a way that made Clennam afraid to lift his eyes from his ... ...lora put her feet upon the fender, and settled herself for a thorough good romantic disclosure. She started off at score, tossing her head, sighing in... ...e convent smoke which rose straight and high from the chimneys in a golden film, al- ways standing on one jutting point looking down after them. Long ... ...w,’ returned the engaging young Barnacle. ‘True,’ said Bar, with his light-comedy laugh for special jury- men, which was a very different thing from h... ...laugh for special jury- men, which was a very different thing from his low-comedy laugh for comic tradesmen on common juries: ‘he has been in Parliame... ... what says the Captain, if I quote him correctly—and if not,’ with a light-comedy touch of his double eye-glass on his companion’s shoulder, ‘my learn... ...ness upon it. The beauties of the sunset had not faded from the long light films of cloud that lay at peace in the hori- zon. From a radiant centre, o...

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...big words of his predecessor. To-day is the truculent captain of old world comedy, To-morrow the clown of modern pan- tomime. When the two friends had... ...lve long years, he could not detect the insincerity and grimaces of social comedy, no doubt because he had seen too much of it. Any one who goes into ... ...ssion in a Frenchified German seemed to Cecile to be in the highest degree romantic; the descendant of the Virlaz was a second Werther in her eyes—whe... ...t, Ryswick, and Vienna was surpassed by the chineur. His is the more frank comedy; his methods of 98 Cousin Pons action fathom depths of personal int... ...egitimate spouse, and his thoughts turned from a misdemeanor to a crime. A romantic purely speculative dream, persistently followed through a tobacco-... ...ctures of the collection; each one of them was replaced by another. A dark film sud- denly overspread his eyes; his strength failed him; he fell faint...

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...a battle. It is un- manageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty. Margaret hoped that for the fu- ture she would be less cau... ...en the trees, and towards morning it got cloudy.” Tibby, who preferred his comedy undiluted, slipped from the room. He knew that this fellow would nev... ...eless: the many-coloured efforts thereto spreading over the vast area like films and resulting in an universal grey. To do good to one, or, as in this... ...ings happen.’” He was itching to talk about books and make the most of his romantic hour. Minute after minute slipped away, while the ladies, with imp... ...ascinated by Oniton. She had said that she loved it, but it was rather its romantic ten- sion that held her. The rounded Druids of whom she had caught...

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...man, was ordered by a government official not to publish her criticism of the romanticization of the Old South, at least not in the words she wanted to... ...ial was not one of the many in Congress and the Administration who share the romantic view of the Confederacy. It was a fed- eral judge in Atlanta who... ...w—not recombining the resources of the commons. 47 That is an account of the romantic theory of authorship in the context of contemporary Anglo-Americ... ...x the law in this area. When the case of Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. Dimension Films came up, they thought they had what they wanted. The band NWA had u... ...d. To appropriate a phrase from Carol Rose, open source teaches us about the comedy of the commons, a way of arranging markets and production that we,... ... at http:// www.law.duke.edu/cspd/pdf/cspdproposal.pdf, and Access to Orphan Films: Submission to the Copyright Office—March 2005, available at http://... ...e Action (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), and Carol Rose, “The Comedy of the Commons: Custom, Com- merce, and Inherently Public Property... ...k: New York University Press, 2001). 22. Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. Dimension Films, 410 F .3d 792, 804n16 (6th Cir. 2005). 23. Walter Benjamin, “The W... ...ia Law Library Music Plagiarism Project. See Copyright Infringement Project. comedy of the commons. See commons, comedy of the. U.S. Commerce Departme...

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...c system in the brain often takes priority over the logical section of the brain. This has an effect on our buying habits, our preferences for films ... ... sarcasm make everybody, but the object of the sarcasm, laugh—because they are all better than the goat of the joke. Power, power, power—from comedy... ... And in spite of the strength with which they are held, both are rooted in non-provable assumptions!‖ -- ―And violence sure sells in films,... ...ke other harassing behavior, is one of the common behaviors of people with inferiority feelings.‖ —―You have to admit that violence in films,... ...e can be more powerful than totalitarian politics.‖ —―But Lee, those athletes divorced. So sometimes reality eclipses the lunar induced romant... ...nson have utilized the method of science to learn more about the most effective techniques of love-making, or should we say ‗sexing?‘ We find romant... ...lp my wife develop her fullest potential.‘‖ —―Most people have some fuzzy idea of what human love is. This idea usually relates to some romant... ...r society. And we keep out of our media the Hollywood emphasis on violence for entertainment. Our media writers must be clever enough to write comedy...

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... was there: in the form of a Christmas tree that was drenched with silver film in a most wonderful way; and on a table was prodigal profusion of brig... ... heart of an enchanted land, a land wastefully rich in tropical wonders, a romantic land where all the birds and flowers and animals were of the museu... ...They gavel me, these stale and overworked stage direc tions, these carbon films that got burnt out long ago and cannot now carry any faintest thread ... ...just before Caesar Augustus was born, and was most poetic and touching and romantic in its feelings and aspects. It was a dream. It was dreamed by Cae... ...st authority, Mr. Grant White) several of the plays had been written. ‘The Comedy of Errors’ in 1589, ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’ in 1589, ‘T wo Gentlemen ...

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... a novelist. To try voluntarily to dis- cover the fettering dogmas of some romantic, realis- tic, or naturalistic creed in the free work of its own in... ...mes. He has mastered the country, his domain, not wild indeed, but full of romantic glimpses, of deep shadows and sunny places. There are no secrets l... ...not know how—he did not pretend to see any depths in a life that is only a film of unsteady appearances stretched over regions deep indeed, but which ... ...bing the adventures of a choice soul amongst masterpieces. For such is the romantic view M. Anatole France takes of the life of a literary critic. His... ...a dream for a mad brain, my masters!)—seems designed in a spirit of bitter comedy to bring out the greatness of a Philistine’s conceit and his moral c... ...ble paragraphs of the newspapers booming these ships! Yes, a grim touch of comedy. One asks oneself what these men are after, with this very provincia...

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...litical tactics and dead to political results. The principal scene of this comedy lies, of course, in the House of Commons; it is there, besides, that... ...ue elixir for all vital spir- its, these are what they seek alike in their romantic enter- prises and their unromantic dissipations. When they are tak... ...d we may be left helpless in the middle of one of Pope’s couplets, a white film gathering before our eyes, and our kind friends charitably trying to c... ...ity, she felt, excelled her dreams, and this cold night walk was the first romantic incident in her experience. It was the rule in these days to see g... ...these congregations assembled under con- ditions at once so formidable and romantic as made a zealot of the most cold. They were the last of the faith...

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... taste and feelings, Lucy Ashton was peculiarly acces- sible to those of a romantic cast. her secret delight was in the old legendary tales of ardent ... ...efend the forest ground which arose behind it in shaggy majesty. Into this romantic region the father and daughter proceeded, arm in arm, by a noble a... ...oidable. She had never happened to see a young man of mien and features so romantic and so striking as young Ravenswood; but had she seen an hundred h... ...aving her enchanted web of fairy tissue, as beautiful and transient as the film of the gossamer when it is pearled with the morning dew and glimmering... ... Alone, it was the subject of my theme; In company I often glanced at it. —Comedy of Errors. THE NEXT MORNING saw Bucklaw and his faithful Achates, Cr... ... heel, a huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures, and foes to life? —Comedy of Errors. AS SOME VINDICATION of the ease with which Bucklaw (who o...

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...eauty. They read his character, not in the disordered world of man, but in romantic and har- monious nature. Of human sin they know perhaps little in ... ...hout being as yet spiritual, they have a certain complacency and per- haps romantic sense of excitement in their simple worship.” In the Romish Church... ...ttle the ice is melting, and the inevitable day drawing near when the last film of it will disap- pear, and to be drowned ignominiously will be the hu... ...and it voluntarily takes the initiation. Life is neither farce nor genteel comedy, it says, but something we must sit at in mourning garments, hoping ... ... special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely di...