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...ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ES... ...1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the First T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 A ... .................................................................. 77 CHAPTER VI THAT THE HOUR OF PARLEY DANGEROUS ......................................... ...ys: Book the First what is left of the Temple of Concord, along the ‘Forum Romanum’, of which the fall seems quite recent, like that of some huge moun... ... out of the ruins of the theatre of Marcellus. He believed that an ancient Roman would not recognise the place again. It often happened that in diggin... ...eligion. He solicited the honour of being admitted to kiss the feet of the Holy Father, Gregory XIII.; and the Pontiff exhorted him always to continue... ...ect in its infor- mation, that it thought Venice to be a dependency of the Holy See.” Of all the particulars with which he has furnished us dur- ing h... ...ch as have not read of the prodigious force and valour of that prince. The Emperor Conrad III. having besieged Guelph, Duke of Bavaria,—[In 1140, in W... ...a rock— “Diriguisse malis,” [“Petrified with her misfortunes.”—Ovid, Met., vi. 304.] thereby to express that melancholic, dumb, and deaf stupe- factio...

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...I......................................................................................................................................... 94 CHAPTER VI: CAIRO AND CAMP WOOD......................................................................................................... 114 CHAPTER VII: THE ARMY OF THE NORTH.............................................................

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.................................................................. 94 CHAPTER VI: CAIRO AND CAMP WOOD ...................................................... ...en Shoreditch and Russell Square, but as one does so in the deserts of the Holy Land, between Emmaus and Arimathea. In the first place no one knows wh... ...itution. The five first are Grecian, and the last in Washington is called— Romanesque. Had I been left to classify it by my own unaided lights, I shou... ...unless indeed they be needed to give to the whole struc- ture that name of Romanesque which it has assumed. The building is used for museums and lectu... ...ter all that had so lately occurred. Then came Mr. Sumner’s field day. Mr. Charles Sumner is a Senator from Massachusetts, known as a very hot aboli- ... ...tsburg, and Cincinnati, and compare them with his ideas as to New Orleans, Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, Richmond, and Memphis. I do not name such tow... ..., had Garibaldi held a marshal’s baton 56 North America V ol. 2 under the Emperor of Austria or the King of Naples, those men would have been traitor... ...did pay, except government con- tracts. 114 North America V ol. 2 CHAPTER VI CAIRO AND CAMP WOOD To whatever period of life my days may be prolonged,... ...or to bestow my charity on them for the love of the Virgin, using the most holy names in their 344 North America V ol. 2 adjurations for half-pence, ...

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..... 38 CHAPTER V THE HUCKSTERING WOMAN .................................................................................................... 49 CHAPTER VI THE BEWITCHED WHISTLE ...................................................................................................... 57 CHAPTER VII THE BLAST OF THE WHISTLE.............................................................

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.................................................................. 49 CHAPTER VI THE BEWITCHED WHISTLE ..................................................... ...s tone of one unused to children, “thou hast yet to learn the words of the holy David, ‘I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.’” “Bring not... ...d with a nobleman’s son as his pupil, and on his return, instead of taking Holy Orders, as was expected, had obtained employment in a merchant’s count... ...forth Antony Babington, declaiming— “Great Queen Zenobia am I, The Roman Power I defy. At my Palmyra, in the East, I rule o’er every man... ...t, I rule o’er every man and beast” Here was an allusion couched in the Roman power, which Master Antony had missed, or he would hardly have uttere... ...57 Charlotte M. Yonge CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER VI VI VI VI VI THE BE THE BE THE BE THE BE THE BEWIT WIT WIT WIT WITCHED CH... ...BELL Y ARBELL Y ARBELL Y ARBELL AFTER SEVERAL WEARY MONTHS of languishing, Charles Stewart was saved from the miseries which seemed the natural inher-... ...service without giving thee a stepfather, even though he be grandson to an emperor.” There was something perplexing and distressing to Cis in this sud...

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...nes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication THE LI... ...nes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. T... ... in a great measure on the pattern,’ re- plied Miss La Creevy . ‘Snubs and Romans are plentiful enough, and there are flats of all sorts and sizes whe... ...zz of in- sects filled the air. Everything looked gay and smiling; but the holy man walked gloomily on, with his eyes bent upon the ground. The beauty... ...the earth is but a breath, and man is but a shadow. What sympathy should a holy preacher have with either? ‘With eyes bent upon the ground, then, or o... ... streets; but, as Ralph proceeded, these disappeared, and were replaced by vi- sions of large houses at the West end, neat private carriages, and a ba... ...rency, with a touch now and then about the exportation of bullion, and the Emperor of Russia, and bank notes, and all that kind of thing, which it’s o... ...ring of the most unobservant person alive. In short, charity must have its romance, as the novelist or playwright must have his. A thief in fustian is... ... an inclina- tion of the head, something between the courtesy of a Ro- man emperor and the nod of a pot companion; and bade the landlord shut the door...

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...pare with it in the capital of ideas. We feel ourselves on the quarter-deck, as it were, of a gigantic vessel. We dream of Paris from the days of the Romans to those of the Franks, from the Normans to the Burgundians, the Middle-Ages, the Valois, Henri IV., Louis XIV., Napoleon, and Louis-Philippe. Vestiges are before us of all those sovereignties, in monuments that recall...

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..., as it were, of a gigantic vessel. We dream of Paris from the days of the Romans to those of the Franks, from the Normans to the Burgundians, the Mid... ...sed his final rejection by the family, who held dissipation of property in holy horror, and who now discovered that in six years Godefroid had spent o... ...ity of life, he dreamed awake, he saw with his eyes the fantastic world of romances he had read in his idle hours. Any Parisian leaving, as he did, th... ...sciously he read the following heading:— Chapter XII. The Royal Way of the Holy Cross He took up the book; a sentence of that noble chapter caught his... ...ue Catholics, true Chris- tians of the early Church, in the Paris of 1836. VI THE BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE OF CHANTERIE AND COMPANY WITHIN A WEEK after h... ...ntial paper written for 72 The Brotherhood of Consolation the eyes of the Emperor. Moreover, this man had long courted the good-will of the royalist ... ...ready to act at an op- portune moment. There came a terrible crisis in the Emperor’s career when, shut up in the island of Lobau, he seemed about to g... ...tion, execution, and results. The conception of the plot was formed by one Charles- Amedee-Louis-Joseph Rifoel, calling himself Chevalier du Vissard, ... ...led Grand-Fils, refractory of the department of the Mayenne. 79 Balzac 3. Charles Grenier, called Fleur-de-Genet, deserter from the 69th brigade. 4. ...

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...nes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens VOLUME ONE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicat... ...nes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Thi... ... in a great measure on the pattern,’ re- plied Miss La Creevy . ‘Snubs and Romans are plentiful enough, and there are flats of all sorts and sizes whe... ...zz of in- sects filled the air. Everything looked gay and smiling; but the holy man walked gloomily on, with his eyes bent upon the ground. The beauty... ...the earth is but a breath, and man is but a shadow. What sympathy should a holy preacher have with either? ‘With eyes bent upon the ground, then, or o... ... streets; but, as Ralph proceeded, these disappeared, and were replaced by vi- sions of large houses at the West end, neat private carriages, and a ba... ...rency, with a touch now and then about the exportation of bullion, and the Emperor of Russia, and bank notes, and all that kind of thing, which it’s o... ...ring of the most unobservant person alive. In short, charity must have its romance, as the novelist or playwright must have his. A thief in fustian is... ... an inclina- tion of the head, something between the courtesy of a Ro- man emperor and the nod of a pot companion; and bade the landlord shut the door...

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...ckens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicaation Hard Times by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Th... ... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Hard Times by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics S... ...with his metallic laugh. ‘Pretty well this, for a self made man!’ CHAPTER VI—SLEARY’S HORSEMANSHIP The name of the public house was the Pegasus’s Arm... ... the winged horse upon the sign board, the Pegasus’s Arms was inscribed in Roman letters. Beneath that inscription again, in a flowing scroll, the pai... ... perfect confidence in your good sense. You are not impulsive, you are not roman tic, you are accustomed to view everything from the strong HARD T I... ...quire of Stone Lodge, M.P . for that borough. And when they were united in holy matrimony, they went home to breakfast at Stone Lodge aforesaid. There... ...urney, found Tom waiting for her—flushed, either with his feelings, or the vi nous part of the breakfast. ‘What a game girl you are, to be such a fir... ...our sinews, upon the God created glorious rights of Humanity, and upon the holy and eternal privileges of Brotherhood!’ ‘Good!’ ‘Hear, hear, hear!’ ‘H... ...nything but money; so Sissy passed him unrecognised, and they went in. The Emperor of Japan, on a steady old white horse sten cilled with black spots...

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...ristian army. But the same can hardly be said of the dar- ing shown by the Emperor Maximilian when he displayed himself to the citizens of Ulm upon th... ...t from mouth and nose, have remained even till our own times to show how a Roman soldier did his duty. In like manner the last of the old Spanish infa... ...f those very native corps who were advancing to massacre him. This was the Roman sentry’s firmness, more voluntary and more glorious. Nor 10 A Book o... ... lady with the lamp’, whose health and strength were freely devoted to the holy work of softening the after sufferings that render war so hideous; who... ...e wars that ranged from 1652 to 1660, between Frederick III of Denmark and Charles Gustavus of Sweden, that, after a battle, in which the victory had ... ... to rest, And for the wife who nurses His baby at her breast? And for the holy maidens Who feed the eternal flame, To save them from false Sextus, ... ...gh qualities he had manifested in the service of the late King, Don Alonso VI, by whom he had always stood when the present King, Don Sancho, was in r... ...to France. Thus it was that when, in 1346, Edward III. had beaten Philippe VI. at the battle of Crecy, the first use he made of his victory was to mar... ...terranean travelers, and thankfully ac- cepted, as a gift from the Emperor Charles V ., the little islet of Malta as their new station. It was a great...

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... better; as his de- scription of the murdered Duke of Gloucester, in Henry VI., of Duncan’s, Banquo’s, &c., sufficiently proves. The foundation of the... ...philosophy,” and might safely have defied them to do their worst. A German emperor had the same notion, when, being cautioned to keep out of the way o... ...n, which led him 41 into constant disparagements of all modern murders as vi- cious abortions, belonging to no authentic school of art. The finest pe... ...- let, which is the same thing. Gentlemen, I give you another great hammer—Charles the Hammer, the Marteau, or, in old French, the Martel—he hammered ... ...he Saracens till they were all as dead as door-nails—he did, believe me.” “Charles Martel, with all the honors.” But the explosion of Toad-in-the-hole... ... the Persian acinacæ, but more curved, and for all the world most like the Roman sickles or sicæ.’ It is per- fectly magnificent, gentlemen, to hear t... ...l- derness, that Festus himself was obliged to march against them with the Roman legionary force.” Upon which Toad-in-the-hole, that cursed interrupte... ...-interest, even as she was pure in senses more obvious—never once did this holy child, as regarded herself, relax from her belief in the darkness that... ...showed itself to your eyes in pure morning dews; but neither dews, nor the holy dawn, could cleanse away the bright spots of innocent blood upon its s...

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...UINCEY Edited with Introduction and Notes by Milton Haight T urk, Ph.D. To Charles Deacon Cree This Little Volume Is Affectionately Inscribed Glencair... ...nto political economy, into the Greek and Latin accents, into antiquities, Roman roads, old castles, the ori- gin and analogy of languages; upon all t... ...val of interest in earlier modern English prose, which is a feature of the Romantic Movement. Still none of his contemporaries wrote as he did; eviden... ...ting by my personal patronage—viz., the Worcester, the Gloucester, and the Holyhead mail. Naturally, therefore, it became a point of some interest wit... ...e (as an old tradition of all public car- riages derived from the reign of Charles II) that they, the illustrious quaternion, constituted a porcelain ... ...n that occasion a benevolent old gentleman endeavoured to soothe his three holy associates, by suggesting that, if the outsides were in- dicted for th... ...sary to call a cabinet council on the grand state question, “Where was the Emperor to sit?” The hammer-cloth happened to be unusually gorgeous; and, p... ...hting with the darkness of monsoons. The madness of the poor king (Charles VI), falling in at such a crisis, like the case of women labouring in child... ...irre- trievable blunder, owing partly to discord among the uncles of Henry VI, partly to a want of funds, but partly to the very 80 The English Mail-...

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...g side,—the side that comes out in the “Contes Drolatiques,” which are the romantic and epicu- rean chronicle of the old manors and abbeys of this re-... ...rhaps, is the charming little tomb of the two children (who died young) of Charles VIII. and Anne of Brittany, in white marble, embossed with symbolic... ... in the great abbey-church of Saint Martin, which was for so many ages the holy place of Tours, it happily survived the dev- astation to which that ed... ...o centuries after her death) over the tomb of Luitgarde, wife of the great Emperor, who died at Tours in 800. I do not pretend to understand in what r... ...present, indeed, when once you have caught a glimpse of the stout, serious Romanesque tower,—which is not high, but strong,— you feel that the buildin... ... haunted dusk. Cheverny remains to me a very charming, a partly mysterious vi- sion. I drove back to Blois in the dark, some nine miles, through the f... ...d as I moved through the evening air I thought of Francis I. and Henry IV. VI. YOU MAY GO to Amboise either from Blois or from Tours; it is about half... ...has, over the portal, a wonderful sculpture of the miraculous hunt of that holy man. In the way of plastic art this elaborate scene is the gem of Ambo... ...he low door, in a wall, against 37 Henry James the top of which, in 1498, Charles VIII., according to an accepted tradition, knocked his head to such...

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...gn, she was always interfering with public affairs to the advantage of our holy religion. The which time has seized many people by the throat, from ou... ...our Duchy of Anjou, the country people are very faith- ful servants to our Holy of Catholic religion, and none of them will lose his portion of paradi... ...ken like a silly bird and led into the town of Madrid, in Spain. There the Emperor Charles V. kept him carefully locked up, like an article of great v... ... a silly bird and led into the town of Madrid, in Spain. There the Emperor Charles V. kept him carefully locked up, like an article of great value, in... ...ght commit with a view to cure the king’s melancholy. At this time, Adrian VI., the Dutchman, still wore the ti- ara, who, a good fellow, for the rest... ...rown, would all have offered to go to Madrid, but for the dark mistrust of Charles the Fifth, who would not grant the king’s permission to any of his ... ...d himself to be deceived by certain chroniclers, since the archives of the Roman Empire make no mention of an acquisition of this kind. I am angry wit... ...h con- cerning the decease of the Duke of Orleans, brother of King Charles VI., a death which proceeded from a great number of causes, one of which wi... ...range with you a merry feast after the ancient method, when the Greeks and Romans said their Pater noster to Master Pria- pus, and the learned god cal...

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...I was afterwards assured; and it was no won der, for the physicians, by the emperor’s order, had mingled a sleepy potion in the hogsheads of wine. It... ...great perfection in mechanics, by the coun tenance and encouragement of the emperor, who is a renowned patron of learning. This prince has several ma... ...he carelessness of a maid of honour, who fell asleep while she was reading a romance. I got up in an instant; and orders being given to clear the way ... ... presence of her chief confidents could not forbear vowing revenge.” CHAPTER VI Of the inhabitants of Lilliput; their learning, laws, and cus toms; t... ...ut the court: so that all the mirth for some days was at my expense. CHAPTER VI Several contrivances of the author to please the king and queen. He sh... ... posterity were never once known to degenerate. To these were joined several holy per Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 111 sons, as part of that assembl... ..., or some other sinister view, could have no place among them? Whether those holy lords I spoke of were always promoted to that rank upon account of t... ... conversing with many others of the ancient learned. I saw most of the first Roman em perors. I prevailed on the governor to call up Heliogabalus’s c... ...any I know in Europe; but is much more graceful and significant. The emperor Charles V. made almost the same observation, when he said “that if he wer...

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...LLIAMS & COURT : soldiers in the same. PISTOL: NYM: BARDOLPH: Boy A Herald. CHARLES the Sixth : King of France. LEWIS: the Dauphin. DUKE OF BURGUND... ...s to the King of England . ISABEL: Queen of France. KATHARINE: daughter to Charles and Isabel. ALICE: a lady attending on her. ... ...Y: The king is full of grace and fair regard. ELY: And a true lover of the holy church. CANTERBURY: The courses of his youth promised it not. The b... ...ir to the Lady Lingare, Daughter to Charlemain, who was the son To Lewis the emperor, and Lewis the son Of Charles the Great. Also King Lewis the Tent... ...ution, And you shall find his vanities forespent Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus, Covering discretion with a coat of folly; As gardeners do w... ...s no more direc tions in the true disciplines of the wars, look you, of the Roman disciplines, than is a puppy dog. [Enter MACMORRIS and Captain JAMY... ...es all, And quickly bring us word of England’s fall. [Exeunt.] ACT III SCENE VI: The English camp in Picardy. [Enter GOWER and FLUELLEN, meeting.] GO... ...t goddess blind, That stands upon the rolling restless stone— Act III, scene vi 37 FLUELLEN: By your patience, Aunchient Pistol. Fortune is painted ... ...UELLEN: Yes, my conscience, he did us great good. KING HENRY V : Do we all holy rites; Let there be sung ‘Non nobis’ and ‘Te Deum;’ The dead with ch...

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...hey are described as merely deaf to the lessons of experience, and as too “romantic” in their expectations. The very opposite is, to my thinking, thei... ... The very opposite is, to my thinking, their criminal reproach. He that is romantic errs usually by too much elevation. He violates the standard of re... ...than his understanding. An arrière pensée should lie hidden in all minds—a holy reserve as to cases which may arise similar to such as HAVE arisen, wh... ...here is a tradition that Velasquez, who had in 1623 executed a portrait of Charles I. (then Prince of Wales), was amongst those who in the three or fo... ...perfectly verified, I believe) that he married an illegitimate daughter of Charles I. But this sketch was begun more than thirty years ago; and I reti... ...and the orders for that day’s exercise, and considered her- self, like the Emperor Titus, to have lost a day. But what came of the London lady’s or of... ...faculty of shap- ing and conceiving things under their true relations. The holy herald of Christ, and Christ himself the finisher of prophecy, made pr... ...y, and like the sword of Michael, the warrior-an- gel (“Paradise Lost,” B. vi.), had “from the armory of God been given him tempered so,” that no insu... ...would continue to command respect. CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER VI VI VI VI VI THE MORNING OF THE TENTH at length arrived—that day on which...

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...he picture I have tried to give of the state of things in the reign of the Emperor Friedrich III., when, for want of any other law, Faust recht, or fi... ...ed to a defined power like his descendants. We forget that the head of the Holy Roman Empire had been, ever since the extinction of the Swabian line, ... ... a defined power like his descendants. We forget that the head of the Holy Roman Empire had been, ever since the extinction of the Swabian line, a mer... ...hty ruled the world, or how could things go on with a rogue like Alexander VI. at the head of the Church, and a mere huntsman like himself at the head... ...ems as if only self-control and resolution were wanting to have made him a Charles, or an Alfred, the Great. The romance of his marriage with the heir... ...tion were wanting to have made him a Charles, or an Alfred, the Great. The romance of his marriage with the heiress of Burgundy is one of the best kno... ...s curious book, Konig Romreich, by whom every contemporary understood poor Charles of Burgundy—thus posthumously made King of Rome by Maximilian, as t... ...oup carved in oak, representing the carpenter’s shop at Nazareth, with the Holy Child instructed by Joseph in the use of tools, and the Mother sitting... ...stle, more perilous now than ever. CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER VI VI VI VI VI THE BLESSED FRIEDMUND’S THE BLESSED FRIEDMUND’S THE BLESSED ...

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... THE REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.LVI. VI. VI. VI. VI. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Po... ......................................................................... 121 VI. EARL OF DORSET ........................................................... ................................................................... 154 I. ON CHARLES EARL OF DORSET, IN THE CHURCH OF WITHYAM, IN SUSSEX. ................. ...is descendants. Pope’s father had made about £10,000 by trade; but being a Roman Catholic, and fond of a coun- try life, he retired from business shor... ...the critics could not have been very acute who did not detect Pope’s “fine Roman hand” in every sen- tence of this brilliant but most unsatisfactory a... ...d at what they blush’d before. 21 In this passage he alludes to Cromwell, Charles II., and the Revolution of 1688, and to their various effects on ma... ...d the shame!) Stemm’d the wild torrent of a barbarous age, And drove those holy Vandals off the stage. But see! each Muse, in Leo’s golden days, Start... ... Olympus, &c. VER. 265-268. It stood thus in the MS.— Methinks around your holy scenes I rove, And hear your music echoing through the grove: With tra... ...y, who encouraged only the writers for the theatre; and lastly against the emperor himself, who had con- ceived them of little use to the government. ...

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...de Balzac T ranlated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Monsieur Charles Nodier, member of the French Acad- emy, etc. Here, my dear Nodier, ... ... ignorance of life paved the way for great misfortunes. The epitaph on the Roman matron, “She did needlework and kept the house,” gives a faithful pic... ...ed her share of the property of her father and mother. Bridau idolized the Emperor, and served him with the de- votion of a Mohammedan for his prophet... ...atter what pains were taken with it; while Philippe’s, notwithstanding his vi- vacity, was invariably neat. Then, by some mysterious fatal- ity, Josep... ...Jo- seph should no longer be allowed to enter the atelier, he burst into a holy wrath. 26 The Two Brothers “I was under obligations to your deceased ... ...Descoings or Agathe left about. Already the poor mother had had a dreadful vi- sion in her first sleep: Philippe entered the room and took from the po... ... the sign-manual of an anterior civiliza- tion; for its stones came from a Roman temple which stood on the same site. Issoudun, therefore, according t... ...bitants, remains of a population double that number in the time of Rigord. Charles VII. possessed a mansion which still exists, and was known, as late... ...mong the pictures obtained by the Descoings and inherited by Rouget, was a Holy Family by Albano, a Saint-Jerome of Demenichino, a Head of Christ by G...

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...tunate. I have examined many fine and apparently self sacrificing deeds in romances and biographies, but— O.M. Under searching analysis the ostensible... ...alists? And why were the Congregationalists not Baptists, and the Baptists Roman Catholics, and the Roman Catholics Buddhists, and the Buddhists Quake... ... when an imploring argument or a damaging fact approaches. Mark T wain 53 VI Instinc Instinc Instinc Instinc Instinct and t and t and t and t and... ...e since, when it was tenantless and silent and forlorn, but to me it was a holy place and beautiful. It seemed to me that the spirits of the dead were... ...come me if they could: Livy, and Susy, and George, and Henry Robinson, and Charles Dudley Warner. How good and kind they were, and how lovable their l... ...t while it was not noticing the Queen had passed Henry VIII., passed Henry VI. and Elizabeth, and gaining in length every day. Her reign had entered t... ..., the Duke of Reichstadt. Hereabouts was a Roman camp, once, and in it the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Mark T wain 115 died a thousand years before the f... ...n gallery, in which princes are displayed. It is sacred to them; it is the holy of holies. As soon as the filling of the house is about complete the s... ...nsidered a good writer. What Is Man and Other Essays 166 Sir Walter Scott Charles Bronte Alfred the Great and Johnson were the first great novelists....

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...y,” which is worse than nonsense, the correct reading being “ my heat.” In vi. 396, the Scottish “ boune” (though it occurs twice in other parts of th... ...in the first edition which Scott himself overlooked (see on ii. 115, 217,, Vi. 527, etc.), and it is sometimes difficult to de- cide whether a later r... ...lave Her forehead in the silver wave, How solemn on the ear would come The holy matins’ distant hum, While the deep peal’s commanding tone Should wake... ..., believe me, fair, Have ever drawn your mountain air, Till on this lake’s romantic strand I found a fey in fairy land!’— XXIII. ‘I well believe,’ the... ...rough all this western wild, Named Black Sir Roderick e’er, and smiled? In Holy-Rood a knight he slew; I saw, when back the dirk he drew, Courtiers gi... ... success. I had also read a great deal, seen much, and heard more, of that romantic country where I was in the habit of spending some time every autum... ...g and secluded situation. One of these last gave refuge to the unfortunate Charles Edward, in his perilous wanderings after the battle of Culloden. ‘I... ...cel the memory of his cruelty to the non-conformists, during the reigns of Charles II. and James II.” 112. Bower. The word meant a chamber (see on i. ... ...herd, i. 2: “Aud a hart of ten, Madam, I trow to be;” and Massinger, Emperor of the East, iv. 2: 192 The Lady of the Lake “He’ll make you roy...