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... turn away a party of which she was good enough to say that it had a grand genre; for, as she also remarked, she had her living to earn. She tried to ... ... I don’t like, as the 46 A Little Tour in France French say, to meler les genres. A gondola in a little flat French river? The image was not less irr... ...he eye of a solitary douanier, who strolled on the little quay beneath the western wall. “C’est bien plaisant, c’est bien paisible,” said this worthy ... ...d. I was unable to trace the configuration of the castle as plainly as the writers who have described it in the guide-books, and I am ashamed to say t...

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...ested steeds whose necks on high Curve back, she drives to a remoter sky A western Crescent, borne impetuously. _15 Then... ...the crescent moon; Some shed a mild and silver beam Like Hesperus o’er the western sea; Some dashed athwart with trains of flame, ... ...e is a moment, When the sun’s highest point Peeps like a star o’er Ocean’s western edge, _15 When those far clouds of feathery... ...res sur les Sciences, a Voltaire”.) We find, from the testimony of ancient writers, that Britain, Germany, and France were much colder than at present... ...n de l’existence d’un Dieu, que l’on dit neanmoins si necessaire a tout le genre humain? Mais trouvons-nous de l’harmonie entre les opinions theologiq... ...des etres intelligens; de ne chercher dans ses oeuvres que le bien-etre du genre humain: comment concilier ces vues et ces dispositions avec l’ignoran... ...d faithful, and true, _45 Such as I fear can be made but by few— Of writers this age has abundance and plenty, Three score and a thousand, two ...

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...s share of his mother’s fortune, and the last scandal, when he had gone to a western province in an official capacity, and there had got into trouble f... ...he’d show her to Vronsky—a marvel, exquisite, in the strict Oriental style, “genre of the slave Rebecca, don’t you know.” He’d had a row, too, with Be... ... time which style of painting to select—religious, historical, realistic, or genre painting—he set to work to paint. He appreciated all kinds, and cou... ...of discussing metaphysics, hav ing derived his notions from natural science writers who had never studied meta physics, and in Moscow Levin had had ...

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...ever so insignificant in- trinsically, have for most part plenty of Memoir-writers; and the curious, in after-times, can learn minutely their goings o... ...Island; and Pitt be declared and decreed, with effervescence, ‘L’ennemi du genre humain, The enemy of mankind;’ and, very singular to say, you make an... ...a National Representative become? And now the sun- light falls yellower on western windows, and the chimney- tops are flinging longer shadows; the ref... ... than General Custine did: let him look to it! Through the Eastern and the Western Pyrenees Spain has deployed it- self; spreads, rustling with Bourbo... ...France had, has given itself to these enemies of human nature, ‘ennemis du genre humain. ’ Beleaguer it, bombard it, ye Commissioners Barras, Freron,... ...nty days. (Deux Amis, xi. 80-143.) Or see, in these same weeks, far in the Western waters: breasting through the Bay of Biscay, a greasy dingy little ... ...icken Mint; of pewter, let them become bullets to shoot the ‘enemies of du genre humain.’ Dalmatics of plush make breeches for him who has none; line...

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...e first natural instinct was to take him for a desperado; but although the features, to our Western eyes, had a barbaric and unhomely cast, the eye bo... ...re. Next day by afternoon, Lough Foyle being already far be- hind, and only the rough north-western hills of Ireland within view, Alick appeared on de... ...rom an open door. Into one such window I was rude enough to peep, and saw within a charming GENRE pic- ture. In a room, all white wainscot and crimson... ... a great chorus of grateful voices have arisen to spread abroad its fame. Half the fa- mous writers of modern France have had their word to say about ... ...ills half glorified already with the day and still half confounded with the greyness of the western heaven—these will seem to repay you for the discom...

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...ook body and perorated, what might not the effect be: Humankind namely, le Genre Humain itself! In what rapt creative moment the Thought rose in Anach... ...he ‘Dean of the Human Species,’ ceased now to be a miracle. Such ‘Doyen du Genre Humain, Eldest of Men, ’ had shewn himself there, in these weeks: Jea... ...t; yet has had his heart grieved to the quick many times, in the hot South-Western region and 71 Thomas Carlyle elsewhere; and has seen riot, civil b... ...d pounds sterling, per month; what he calls ‘a staff of genius:’ Paragraph-writers, Placard-Jour- nalists; ‘two hundred and eighty Applauders, at thre... ...in black, for what a cause are ye to spend and be spent! Look out from the western windows, ye may see King Louis placidly hold on his way; the poor l...

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... Ryabovsky, a very handsome, fair young man of five-and-twenty who painted genre pieces, animal stud- ies, and landscapes, was successful at exhibitio... ...ovsky was prepar- ing for the exhibition, something striking, a mixture of genre and landscape, in the style of Polyenov, about which every one who ha... ...eteorology. They are readily carried away by the influence of the last new writers, even when they are not first-rate, but they take absolutely no int... ...articular liking for them. With the exception of two or three of the older writers, all our literature of today strikes me as not being literature, bu... ... which I am accustomed when I read the works of our medical and scientific writers. It oppresses me to read not only the articles written by serious R... ...time of parting came, as Luganovitch was appointed president in one of the western provinces. They had to sell their furniture, their horses, their su... ...and that a little later Luganovitch and the children would set off for the western province. “We were a great crowd to see Anna Alexye vna off. When s...

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...f the Homeric voice: in a word, Homer had so completely exhausted the epic genre, that after him further efforts were doomed to be merely conventional... ...st be added traditions concerning his death and burial gathered from later writers. Hesiod’s father (whose name, by a perversion of Works and Days, 29... ...ection of the “Works and Days,” but longer. Possible refer- ences in Roman writers (6) indicate that among the subjects dealt with were the cultivatio... ... any preconceived intention, a body of epic poetry was built up by various writers which covered the whole T rojan story. But the entire range of hero... ... is the walled cities of all sea-set Cyprus. There the moist breath of the western wind wafted her over the waves of the loud-moaning sea in soft foam...

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...nd Spanish journals of high au- thority. It is seldom the case that French writers err by pro- lixity. They have done so in this case. The present nar... ... on the 3d and 4th of January of Russian troops in the neighborhood of the Western Kalmucks, though really having no reference to them or their plans,... ...d into certain signs that all was discovered; and that the prudence of the Western chief- tains, who, from situation, had never been exposed to those ... ...their people from ruin. Be the cause what it might, it is certain that the Western Kalmucks were in some way prevented from form- ing the intended jun... ...ni de quoi se vêtir. Je l’avais prévu; et j’avais ordonné de faire en tout genre les provisions nécessaires pour pouvoir les secourir promptement; c’e... ...o grandeur to him who has no space in the theatre of his own brain. I know writers who report the marvels of velocity, &c., in such a way that they be... ...: for it takes the shape of a dream; and this most brilliant of all German writers wanted in that field the severe simplicity, that horror of the too ...

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...s, Philosophie, and who knows what nameless innumerable multitude of ready Writers, profane Sing- ers, Romancers, Players, Disputators, and Pamphletee... ...res);’ flooded and eddying again. Hot deluge,—from so many Pa- triot ready-writers, all at the fervid or boiling point; each ready- writer, now in the... ... zero, are they not great? Nay, best of all, some happy Continents (as the Western one, with its Savannahs, where whosoever has four willing limbs fin... ...k body and per- orated, what might not the effect be: Humankind namely, le Genre Humain itself! In what rapt creative moment the Thought rose in Anach... ...e ‘Dean of the Human Species, ’ ceased now to be a miracle. Such ‘Doyen du Genre Humain, Eldest of Men,’ had shewn himself there, in these weeks: Jean... ... pounds sterling, per month; what he calls ‘a staff of genius:’ Paragraph- writers, Placard-Journalists; ‘two hundred and eighty Applaud- ers, at thre... ...Island; and Pitt be declared and decreed, with effervescence, ‘L’ennemi du genre humain, The enemy of mankind;’ and, very singular to say, you make an... ...a National Representative be- come? And now the sunlight falls yellower on western win- dows, and the chimney-tops are flinging longer shadows; the re... ... than General Custine did: let him look to it! Through the Eastern and the Western Pyrenees Spain has deployed itself; spreads, rustling with Bourbon ...