...the people, i.e. Plebs, nor yet the Upper Ten. People. Neither Piccoli nor Grandi in our republic. People. People, ah God! Not mannequins. Not lords n... ...man, as the nose wears Cyrano. It may be Sir Auckland Geddes and Mr. J. H. Thomas are only clippings from the illustrated press. It may be that a mine...

...incial town wearied her so excessively, her imagination was so filled with grandi- ose ideas that although she returned to the salons to eclipse other... ...t, fixed on a pattern of the carpet. The pain of great minds has something grandiose and imposing about it; it reveals a vast extent of soul which the... ...selle des T ouches, hastily. “I know Beatrix, and there is some- thing too grandiose in her nature to allow her to change. Be- sides, Conti will be he... ...int-Germain, was celebrated at seven in the morning at the church of Saint Thomas d’Aquin, Calyste and Sabine got into their pretty travelling-carriag... ... warned me? So, eight hours after receiving the rector’s blessing at Saint-Thomas d’Aquin, your Sabine was in the rather false position of a young wif... ... the eye of a frivolous Parisian girl, something inex- plicable, something grandiose even in its trifles, which can only be defined by the word sacred...

...t it might be the better fixed in his memory, she sent him to repeat it to Thomas Jackson, their man-servant; he not being in the way, this was not do... ...from their established meaning, and those frequently very fantastical. Sir Thomas Brown, whose life Johnson wrote, was remarkably fond of Anglo-Latin ... ..., the University of Oxford would pay him the com- pliment. To THE REVEREND THOMAS WARTON. ‘DEAR SIR,—I am extremely sensible of the favour done me, bo... ...0 Boswell’s Life of Johnson though no pension had been granted to him. Mr. Thomas Sheridan and Mr. Murphy, who then lived a good deal both with him an... ...indness for Der- rick, and am sorry he is dead.’ In the summer of 1761 Mr. Thomas Sheridan 124 Boswell’s Life of Johnson was at Edinburgh, and delive... ...tens at lenis domina- tor: Ingenio sublimis, vividus, versatilis, Oratione grandis, nitidus, venustus: Hoc monumento memoriam coluit Sodalium amor, Am...