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...such an explosion appeared as irrational and excessive as that of a powder-magazine in reply to nothing more than the light of a spark. It was known t... ...ied his letter in French, and lost sight of himself completely. ‘Messieurs de la Garde Francaise,’ was a good beginning; the remainder gave him a fals... ...ng. He tried En- glish, which was really himself, and all that heart could de- sire, supposing he addressed a body of midshipmen just a little loftily... ...possibly pass with the gentlemen of the English Guard. But read: Messieurs de la Garde Francaise, ‘J’accepte votre gant. Je suis Anglais. La raison es... ...lion than crush the one-horned intrusive upstart. His calling on the crack corps of Peers to enrol themselves forthwith in the front ranks, and to ant... ...n acrid saliva, withering where it drops; in the way of fellowship it is a corpse-emanation. As 208 Beauchamp’s Career to wit, the sneer is the cloak... ...g sidelights and a risky word or two, until Renee cried out, ‘Spare us the esprit Gaulois, M. Livret!’ There was much to make him angry with this Engl... ...s, M. Livret!’ There was much to make him angry with this Englishman. ‘The esprit Gaulois is the sparkle of crystal common sense, madame, and may we n... ...ed her to let him have Roland’s exact address. She named the regiment, the corps d’armee, the postal town, and the department. ‘Roland will come at a ...

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...t,’ said Arthur. ‘I forget what I said. I dare say it was no more than she de- served. I got one of these remonstrances of hers at Wrangerton, on the ... ...nd gracious creature. There he rested, musing, while from her pen flowed a de- scription of her walk and of Mr. Martindale’s brother. ‘If they are all... ...re this?’ ‘Yes; he sent some curious histories of the eastern Jews to some magazine. They are to be published separately, as they have been very succe... ...r the sound of her own voice, and, with Arthur opposite, her situation was de- lightful compared to the moment when, without either of her protectors,... ...ble being. It really is time to put forth a little common sense, since the magazines will have it that earls write better than other people.’ ‘Some of... .... ‘I should not like baby to say so by and by,’ she whispered. ‘There’s an esprit de corps in parents,’ cried Theodora, half angrily; ‘but Helen will ... ...d not like baby to say so by and by,’ she whispered. ‘There’s an esprit de corps in parents,’ cried Theodora, half angrily; ‘but Helen will never be l...

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...hich has entertained so many minds from Plotinus to the Hegelians with the de- lusion that such negative terms as the Absolute or the Un- conditioned,... ...d in The Hibbert Jour- nal, but it is unblushingly advocated in the parish magazine. It is an idea taken over by Christianity with the rest of the qua... ...ladies and gentlemen who belong to the little school of thought which this magazine represents; it is, I should judge, a sub-sect entirely within the ... ...r instance, which has found such delicate and attractive expression in the de- votional poetry of Rabindranath Tagore—has long since abandoned this an... ...ed and mixed again with other individualities in an uncertain multitude of de- scendants. But the species is not like this; it goes on steadily from n... ...efore you know where you are you will have exchanged the spirit of God for esprit de corps. You will have reinvented the symbol; you will have begun t... ...know where you are you will have exchanged the spirit of God for esprit de corps. You will have reinvented the symbol; you will have begun to keep ann...

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... general stir in the box. Suddenly Newland Archer felt himself impelled to de- cisive action. The desire to be the first man to enter Mrs. Mingott’s b... ...e. When one was related to the Mansons and the Rushworths one had a “droit de cite” (as Mr. Sillerton Jackson, who had frequented the Tuileries, calle... ... (who had 21 Edith Wharton secretly situated the love-scenes of “Monsieur de Camors” in Mrs. Mingott’s bedroom) to picture her blameless life led in ... ...ayed at home that evening. “It’s not that I don’t approve of the Mingotts’ esprit de corps; but why Newland’s engagement should be mixed up with that ... ...me that evening. “It’s not that I don’t approve of the Mingotts’ esprit de corps; but why Newland’s engagement should be mixed up with that Olenska wo... ...am Winter, and the new Shakespearian actor George Rignold, and some of the magazine editors and musical and literary critics. Mrs. Archer and her grou...

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............................................ 69 STANZAS FROM CALDERON’S CISMA DE INGLATERRA ................................................................ ...scending heaven; Athens doth inherit _5 His corpse below. 4.—CIR 4.—CIR 4.—CIR 4.—CIR 4.—CIRCUMST CUMST CUMST CUMST CUM... ... FR AS FR AS FROM CALDER OM CALDER OM CALDER OM CALDER OM CALDERON’S CISMA DE ON’S CISMA DE ON’S CISMA DE ON’S CISMA DE ON’S CISMA DE INGL INGL INGL I... ... _80 The full fresh cheeks of youth are food for me, And if a corpse knocks, I am not at home. For I am like a cat—I like to play A littl... ...T UST UST UST: : : : : Oh, too true! Her eyes are like the eyes of a fresh corpse _390 Which no beloved hand has closed, alas!... ... include 106 Volume 3 earlier material. Ecrasez L ’Infame!—Correspondance de Voltaire. Avia Pieridum peragro loca, nullius ante T rita solo; juvat in... ...era en etat de saisir et d’apprecier toutes las actions at reac- tions des esprits at des corps de ceux qui contribuent a cette revolution.’—”Systeme ... ...pli- fier les choses en soumettant la nature entiere a un seul agent, a un esprit, a una ame universelle, qui mettait cette nature et 175 Shelley ses... ...visible pour eux; des qu’ils perdent le fil de ces causes, on des que leur esprit ne peut plus en suivre la chaine, ils tranchent leur difficulte, at ...

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...It was a dark night when I bade her good-bye, and taking with me, as aides-de-camp, the three creditors who had given me so much trouble, we carried t... ...nt for the due renovation of blood in a ventricle of the heart. Unless for de- fault of this renovation, I could see no reason, therefore, why life co... ...ow in regener- ating the atmosphere withn the chamber. This latter point I de- termined to attend to at regular intervals of forty minutes, more on ac... ...ns Pfaall” thinks it necessary to say, in self-defence, that his own jeu d’esprit was pub- lished in the “Southern Literary Messenger” about three wee... ... forthwith, to the satellite. The “Flight of Thomas O’Rourke,” is a jeu d’ esprit not altogether contemptible, and has been translated into German. Th... ...re-place, a search was made in the chimney, and (horrible to relate!) the; corpse of the daughter, head downward, was dragged there- from; it having b... ...Poe in Five V olumes paved yard in the rear of the building, where lay the corpse of the old lady, with her throat so entirely cut that, upon an at- t... ...d there. The deceased and her daughter had occupied the house in which the corpses were found, for more than six years. It was formerly occupied by a ... ...om Land to Land! Full Particulars of the V oyage! The subjoined jeu d’esprit with the preceding heading in magnificent capitals, well intersperse...

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... “That part doesn’t matter.” “But he does try to like you. He tries not to de- spise you. It is altogether a most public-spirited af- fair.” “Tilliard... ... yet in a large one, but amongst innumerable residences, detached and semi-de- tached, which had gathered round the school. For the intentions of the ... ...he day-boys. They had been left too much to them- selves, and were weak in esprit de corps; they were apt to regard home, not school, as the most impo... ...boys. They had been left too much to them- selves, and were weak in esprit de corps; they were apt to regard home, not school, as the most impor- tant... ...s. They had been left too much to them- selves, and were weak in esprit de corps; they were apt to regard home, not school, as the most impor- tant th... ... First you sit her as if you’re Sandow exercising, and then you sit like a corpse. Can’t you tell her you’re alive? That’s all she wants.” In trying t... ...d so fair and so simple, so in accordance with her ideas; and then, like a corpse, this horror rose up to the surface. She saw the two figures descend... ...emember that I have been a day- boy house-master, and tried to infuse some esprit de corps into them. It is practically impossible. They come as units... ...hey, like himself, must enter a beneficent machine, and learn the value of esprit de corps. Good luck attend them—good luck and a happy release. For h...

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...ixteenth century, in the furious attacks of a monk of Fontevrault, Gabriel de Puy-Herbault, who seems to have drawn his con- clusions concerning the a... ... portraits besides from chalk drawings, in the style of his master, Thomas de Leu. It must have been such drawings that were the originals of those po... ...ver mentions but with admiration and deep affection. Tiraqueau’s treatise, De legibus connubialibus, published for the first time in 1513, has an impo... ..., and which lowers its value. La Bruyere, in the chapter Des ouvrages de l’esprit, not in the first edition of the Caracteres, but in the fifth, that ... ... drinking scenes, junkettings, gormandizing, battles, scuffles, wounds and corpses, magic, witches, speeches, repeated enumerations, lengthiness, and ... ...lling men as Diomedes did the Thracians, or as Ulysses did in throwing the corpses of his enemies at his horse’s feet, as Homer saith, but by putting ... ...elly that the chamber was all dyed with blood. Afterwards he appointed the corpse of Rashcalf to be honourably buried, and that of Touchfaucet to be c... ...use and shop, where all the thunderbolts are forged, where, seizing on the magazine of heaven and storehouse of our warlike fire-munition, they may di... ...ed, she who attracted the eyes of all Rome, and was said to be the pit and magazine of the conquering robbers of the universe. The fountain had three ...

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...for per- ceiving its real value. BUT THE MOST important of his friendships de- veloped between him and such men of genius as Boswell, David Garrick, O... ...me time there appeared no means by which he could maintain himself. In the De- cember of this year his father died. Johnson was so far fortunate, that... ...ter of the Prerogative Court of Lichfield, whose character, long after his de- cease, Dr. Johnson has, in his Life of Edmund Smith, thus drawn in the ... ...oswell. ‘And his plays are good.’ Johnson. ‘Yes; but that was his trade; l’esprit du corps: he had been all his life among players and play-writ- ers.... ...nd his plays are good.’ Johnson. ‘Yes; but that was his trade; l’esprit du corps: he had been all his life among players and play-writ- ers. I wondere... ...ly said, that ‘there was nothing to equal it in the whole his- tory of the Corps Diplomatique.’ I attended Dr. Johnson home, and had the satisfaction ... ... William Forbes writes to me thus:— ‘I enclose the Round Robin. This jeu d’esprit took its rise one day at dinner at our friend Sir Joshua Reynolds’s.... ...n give an entertain- ing narrative, with many incidents, anecdotes, jeux d’esprit, and remarks, so as to make very 458 Boswell’s Life of Johnson plea... ...igingly asked me to accompany him to Leeds, then the head- quarters of his corps; from thence to London for a short time, and afterwards to other plac...

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...shed gold. They lie flat on the walls, and do not hang off with cords. The de- signs themselves are often seen to better advantage in this lat- ter po... ...ERUSALEM Intensos rigidarn in frontern ascendere canos Passus erat— —Lucan—De Catone —a bristly bore. Translation LET US HURRY to the walls,” said Abe... ...he king grew purple with rage. The courtiers smirked. Trippetta, pale as a corpse, advanced to 24 EA Poe the monarch’s seat, and, falling on her knee... ...very cor- ner of the room. “What—what—what are you making that noise for?” de- manded the king, turning furiously to the dwarf. The latter seemed to h... ...d of his brief speech before the work of vengeance was complete. The eight corpses swung in their chains, a fetid, blackened, 29 V olume Five hideous... ...atter of “lying quiet,” but insisted upon making immediate search for the “corpse of the murdered man.—This was the expression he employed; and Mr. Go... ...to his essays sur la Nature—his thoughts sur l’Ame— his observations sur l’Esprit? If his omelettes—if his fricandeaux were inestimable, what littérat... ...e added another line to this poem, and sent it to the editor of the “Union Magazine.” It was not published. So, in the following February, the poet fo... ...ersion, was sent, and in the following October was published in the “Union Magazine.” 3. This poem was first published in Colton’s “American Re- view”...

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...as as well aware as anyone that Christians do not, in general, undergo the de moralizing consequences which seem inherent in such a creed, in the man... ...excursion to the Pyrenees, in cluding a stay of some duration at Bagnères de Bigorre, a journey to Pau, Bayonne, and Bagnères de Luchon, and an ascen... ... to Pau, Bayonne, and Bagnères de Luchon, and an ascent of the Pic du Midi de Bigorre. 34 Autobiography This first introduction to the highest order ... ...discussed throughout. I per formed the same process with Helvetius de L ’Esprit , which I read of my own choice. This preparation of abstracts, sub ... ...who first showed his eminent qualities as a writer by articles and jeux d’esprit in the Chronicle. The defects of 52 Autobiography the law, and of ... ..., then a literary man by profession. The two editors agreed to unite their corps, and divide the editorship, Bowring taking the political, Southern th... ...talent and verve of at least my father’s articles, and the appearance of a corps behind him sufficient to carry on a Review; and finally, the fact tha... ...m: and the contest alto gether lasted about three months. It was a lutte corps à corps 72 Autobiography between Owenites and political economists, ... ...tle of it; though when it came out about two years afterwards in Fraser’s Magazine I read it with enthusiastic admiration and the keen est delight. ...

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...der and shot not marked with cross and key, and fetched up from the square magazine in the central depot of the infernal factory, third turning to the... ...n the Old Buccaneer was down striding in the battle, she took a pistol and de- scended likewise; and she used it, too, and loaded again. She had not t... ... a flight of stairs to her bed. A week after her burial, Kirby was found a corpse in the mountain forest. His having called the death of his darling h... ...ise you excitement enough, if justice is done to them. But I must and will de- scribe the wedding. This young Earl of Fleetwood, you should know, was ... ... wedding. This young Earl of Fleetwood, you should know, was a very powder-magazine of ambition, and never would he break his word: which is right, if... ...supply the lumi- nous clue or anecdote. She had an intuitive liveliness to de- tect interchanges of eyes, the shuttle of intrigue; the mild hypocrisy,... ...the same amount. Drink is their death’s river, rolling them on helpless as corpses, on to—may they find mercy! I and a few stand—it’s in the tide we s... ...lution, have lost their proper sense of the distinctions of Class. Homme d’esprit, applied to a roving adventurer, a scarce other than vagabond, was e... ...r such a collection, from the daughter of the Old Buccaneer to the ghastly corpse of Ambrose Mallard. Why, clearly, wealth was the sole origin and age...

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... girl’s eye, she suddenly broke into a little irrepressible cry of joy and de- light. “Oh! oh! how lovely! Am I to sleep here? Oh! it is just like the... ...t, an achievement which made even his father so giddy that he peremptorily de- sired it never to be attempted again, to the great relief of both the l... ...that I cannot even get one to act as a medium.” “That would be contrary to esprit de corps.” “Exactly; and the worst of it is, I am not one of those g... ...cannot even get one to act as a medium.” “That would be contrary to esprit de corps.” “Exactly; and the worst of it is, I am not one of those ge- nial... ...not even get one to act as a medium.” “That would be contrary to esprit de corps.” “Exactly; and the worst of it is, I am not one of those ge- nial fe... ...uct his month’s Kur. It was to go into the “Traveller’s Joy,” a manuscript magazine, the “first number of which was being concocted and illustrated am... ...siderable hopes that the serial element should be thus supplied in the MS. magazine. Meantime, the two mothers were walking about and rest- ing togeth... ...end in his bill. You have given me as jolly an allowance as any man in the corps, and I’ve always paid my way. I’ve got no end of things about my room... ...ng yourself away. Why can’t you exchange?” “It is too late to get into any corps where I should not be an expense to my mother,” said Jock, regretting...

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...small feeling of shame. Taking Harry by the hand as soon as they were both de- scended from their horses, Mr. Holt led him across the court, and under... ...tlewood was at home. The French wit saith that a hero is none to his valet-de- chambre, and it required less quick eyes than my lady’s little page was... ... or twice little Harry acted as their messenger and dis- creet little aide-de-camp. He remembers he was bidden to go into the village with his fishing... ... profusely from a wound on the forehead, and looking, and being, indeed, a corpse. “Great God! he’s dead!” says my lord. “Ride, some one: fetch a doct... ...which time Doctor Tusher and little Frank arrived, and found my lord not a corpse in- deed, but as pale as one. After a time, when he was able to bear... ...took possession of the enemy’s ammunition in the arsenals, his stores, and magazines. Five days afterwards a great “Te Deum” was sung in Prince Lewis’... ...were laid, or an enemy’s bat- tery, vomiting flame and death, and strewing corpses round about him;—he was always cold, calm, resolute, like fate. He ... ...severities. I think Steele shone rather than sparkled. Those famous beaux- esprits of the coffee-houses (Mr. William Congreve, for in- stance, when hi...

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...f civilized soci ety, may be unable to practice the forbearances which it de mands; their passions may be too violent, or their personal pride too e... ...) the distinction be tween Order, or Permanence and Progress, employed to de fine the qualities necessary in a government, is unscientific and incor... ...he value which the highest authorities attach to them, tends in an eminent de gree to educate the moral sentiments of the community, both in respect ... ...dantocracy. When the bureaucracy is the real government, the spirit of the corps (as with the Jesuits) bears down the individuality of its more distin... ...ons of a modern official career give no time for the formation of such an esprit de corps, which, if it exists at all, exists only in the obscure ran... ...odern official career give no time for the formation of such an esprit de corps, which, if it exists at all, exists only in the obscure ranks of the ... ...as to the most competent. Even the inferior in qualifications among such a corps of functionaries consisted, it must be remem bered, of men who had b... ...ds that they would believe and act upon the lesson.”—(Article in Fraser’s Magazine for April, 1859, headed “Recent Writers on Reform.”) 8 Not always...

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...emed possible. But, alas, what vehicle of that sort have we, except Fraser’s Magazine? A vehicle all strewed (fig uratively speaking) with the maddest... ...s of the Weissnichtwo’sche Anzeiger, we admitted that the Book had in a high de gree excited us to self activity, which is the best effect of any boo... ...observes our Professor, “so could I write a Spirit of Clothes; thus, with an Esprit des Lois, properly an Esprit de Coutumes, we should have an Esprit... ...write a Spirit of Clothes; thus, with an Esprit des Lois, properly an Esprit de Coutumes, we should have an Esprit de Costumes. For neither in tailori... ...ost Kings and Queens by being born under such and such a bed tester; Boileau De spr´ eaux (according to Helvetius) by the peck of a turkey; and this ... ...nchanter’s wand, the—shall I speak it?—the Clothes fly off the whole dramatic corps; and Dukes, Grandees, Bishops, Generals, Anointed Presence itself, ... ...d wailings from some, and saturnalian revelries from the most, the venerable Corpse is to be burnt. Or, in plain words, that these men, Liberals, Util... ...lf in pieces, and be content to struggle out, bit by bit, in some courageous Magazine that offered. Whereby now, to certain idly curious readers, and ... ...but whether or not it would take with the public seems doubtful. For a jeu d’esprit of that kind it is too long; it would have suited better as an ess...