... his first wife’s grave. Yes, you may smile, Maurice, as if I were talking romance; but only look at him, poor man! Did you ever see any one so utterl... ...is one of his charms in her eyes.’ ‘So it may be, as a sort of interesting romance. I am sure I pity the poor man heartily, but to see her at three-an... ... of The Three Musqueteers, one of the worst and most fascinating of Dumas’ romances. ‘You wont tell papa!’ cried Gilbert, raising himself, in far more... ... has seen him looking at it.’ ‘Ah! depend upon it, Miss Sophy, it is all a romance of these young gentlemen,’ said Genevieve, turning to her with a dr... ...tting well one into the other. His senti- ment accorded with her strain of romance, and they read poetry and had discussions as they sat over the fire... ...n original production.’ ‘Did Mr. Cavendish Dusautoy do that?’ cried Lucy. ‘Genre is his style,’ was the reply. ‘His mother was resolved he should be a... ...ing to her with magnificent suavity. ‘I used to be very fond of drawing.’ ‘Genre is my style,’ he pursued, almost overthrowing her gravity by the orig... ...made Albinia rejoice when the Polysyllable, the horses, the key-bugle, and genre painting disappeared from the Bayford horizon. CHAPTER XX CHAPTER XX ...

...uthor of some strange tales indeed, who left us the splendid collection of romances whence Shakespeare derived many of his plots and even com- plete c... ...at of a perfect lover dy- ing for his mistress. In the same way, these two romances form a pair, like twins of opposite sexes. This is a literary vaga... ...o knew of the five offers that she had refused, had constructed her little romance; she supposed that Lisbeth had had a passion- ate attachment, and a... .... For the past ten months she had made a reality of her cousin’s imaginary romance, believing, like her mother, that Lisbeth would never marry; and no... ...?” said she, leading Hortense into the garden. Hortense artlessly told the romance of her love. Her father and mother, she said, being convinced that ... ...have little time to waste—and discovered one of the bewitching tableaux de genre which Gavarni has so often shown at the Salon. “In here, madame,” sai...

... of making a striking portrait, copy- ing an ancient master, or painting a genre picture. The artist thus sufficed for the educational needs of the ar... ...oked at him in astonishment. “Don’t be anxious. I’m the only one that your romance will harm. But the fact is, Madame Servin is a little strait- laced... ...esembled those old women whom Schnetz puts into the Italian scenes of his “genre” pictures. She was so habitually silent that she might have been take... ... then perceived the mistake she had made in not exercising her talent for “genre” painting, which might, by this time, have brought her repu- tation. ...

...pe painter, a portrait painter, a painter of history, of sea pieces, or of genre, by a public consisting of artists, connoisseurs, and simpletons, who... ...ess.” “But these are the facts?” “My boy, do you not know all the judicial romances with which clients impose on their attorneys? If the attorneys con... ...citizens of Old Paris, hues which lend such good effects to the painter of genre. The panels were hung with plain paper in harmony with the paint. The...

...e Interior made a revolution in painting. It gave birth to the pictures of genre which pour into all our exhibitions in such prodigious quantity that ... ... I adore the dear young man. His behavior to Augustine is only met with in romances. Be easy, little one, you shall be happy, and every girl will wish...

...ry funny “The Heroine; or, Adventures of Cherubina” (1813) fall within the genre. “Heart”, a slim (in- deed, truncated) account of faithful love, sink... ... the thoughts pierce the vast abyss. Ah! Julia, these are moments of awful romance; how the soul longs for the consolations of friendship. Albany is o... ...n sister, notwithstanding that sister was married, and beyond the years of romance. Y et Julia loved her cousin, and was hardly ever melancholy or out...

...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... ...France had, has given itself to these enemies of human nature, ‘ennemis du genre humain. ’ Beleaguer it, bombard it, ye Commissioners Barras, Freron,... ...s, while men search for him: has hairbreadth escapes that would fill three romances: finally he gets to Paris to his fair Helpmate; gets to Switzer- l... ...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... ... plots, corruptibilities, neck-gins and baited falltraps of Pitt Ennemi du Genre Humain. Camille’s First Number begins with ‘O Pitt!’—his last is date...

... ment shall have its Pasted Journal; Louvet, busy yet with a new ‘charming romance, ’ shall write Sentinelles, and post them with effect; nay Bertrand... ...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... ...: he is, say the Newspaper Report- ers, ‘M. Louvet, Author of the charming Romance of Faublas. ’ Steady, ye Patriots! Pull not yet two ways; with a Fr... ...crat saloons call the new Ministry Ministere-Sansculotte. A Louvet, of the Romance Faublas, is busy in the Jacobins. A Cazotte, of the Romance Diable ...

...k bidding among attorneys for the possession of two such admirable bits of genre. There is yet another difference between the Parisian and the country... ... the distinction of a prose writer, for to him we also owe the magnificent romance of The Archer of Charles IX. Some day our nephews will be proud to ... ...ellow, a genius. I have read your Archer of Charles IX.; it is more than a romance, it is litera- ture. Only two living men could have written the pre... ...hat did I tell you?” said Petit-Claud. “That fellow is not a poet; he is a romance in heaven knows how many chapters.” “Traveling post!” repeated Eve....

...g but “Mademoiselle” even during the Revolution. Whoever has read the fine romance of “Rob Roy” will re- member that rare woman for whose making Walte... ... returned to the salon, which presented a picture worthy of the brush of a genre painter. The abbe, still seated at the card-table and mechanically pl...

...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... ...ickest and most obedient of spirits, we may still embellish a place with some attraction of romance. We may learn to go far afield for associations, a...

...he despair of language and seem to belong exclu- sively to the painters of genre. What words can picture the alarming zig-zags produced by falling sha... ...Art of Preserving Beauty.” He picked up the so-called Arab book, a sort of romance written by a physician of the preceding cen- tury, and happened on ... ...the cashier and his master had thrown them all into the wildest regions of romance. The mutual satisfaction of Cesar and Anselme, betrayed by looks di...

...he upper floors of the houses above the stream! Unfortunately , the art of genre paint- ing did not exist in those days, and that of engraving was in ... ..., with all due deference to historians, are found only in the pages of the romance-writers, without whom they would be lost to the world. At this peri... ...us thought superior to all vulgar ambitions. This man, whom dramatists and romance-writers depict as a juggler, owned the rich abbey of Saint-Mahe in ... ...ion for that crime which weighed for the two following centuries on Italy. Romance- writers have so greatly abused it that wherever they have in- trod...

...The Graustark novels are stories of court intrigue, royal disguise, and romance similar to Anthony Hope's 1894 novel, The Prisoner of Zenda, and its sequels. They were popular best-sellers at the time they were published and the original editions are still readily available in used book shops. Th...

Romance, Mystery

...al attention that Harper has enjoyed for a slightly longer period and that Chesnutt and Dunbar have always had. Hopkins had work published in several genres, but her reputation today rests primarily upon Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South, the novel she published in 1900. (Introduction by Margaret)...

Romance, Literature

...Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749) was the first widely-read English novel in the genre “Erotica.” It was written by John Cleland as he was serving hard time at a debtor’s prison in London. Over the centuries, the novel has been repeatedly banned by authorities, assuring its preeminent role in the history ...

Romance, Erotica

...Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan, which she wrote in 1795 but never published. Although the primary focus of this short novel is the selfish behavior of Lady Susan as she engages in affairs and searches for suitable husbands for herself a...

Epistolary fiction, Romance, Satire, Teen/Young adult, Humor

...hort works previously unrecorded for - fiction, essays, poetry, letters, magazine articles and speeches - and each volume will be a pot pourri of all genres and periods of his writing. This first volume is released on Dickens' 200th birthday, February 7th 2012. Further volumes will follow during the anniversary year. Volume 1 includes short stories including, amongst other...

... spoofs of 'types' of fiction by the premier Canadian humorist Leacock, taken from his book Nonsense Novels. The title of each parody gives away it's genre: Soaked in Seaweed or, Upset in the Ocean; Maddened by Mystery: or, The Defective Detective; Q. A Psychic Pstory of the Psupernatural; Guido the Gimlet of Ghent: A Romance of Chivalry; The Man in Asbestos: an Allegory o...

...an writer and critic John Dos Passos. It is one of the key American war novels of the First World War, and remains a classic of the realist war novel genre. H.L. Mencken, then practicing primarily as an American literary critic, praised the book in the pages of the Smart Set. Until Three Soldiers is forgotten and fancy achieves its inevitable victory over fact, no war stor...

...mple aid of a horse and a lance. The reader is to remember that this is no romance, or at least no fiction, that he is reading; and it is proper to re... ...fiction, that he is reading; and it is proper to remind the reader of real romances in 80 Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers Ariosto or our own Spens... ...t-hearted young cavalier whistled, as he went, an old Portuguese ballad of romance; and in a quarter of an hour came up to an house, the front door of... ...to south, was frantic with desire to behold her fiery child, whose girlish romance, whose patriotic heroism electrified the national imagination. The ... ...er relation, viz., as to its dramatic capabilities. Few cases, perhaps, in romance or history, can sustain a close collation with this as to the compl... ...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...

...g woman threw her- self into the Seine from the Pont des Arts.” Dramas and romances pale before this concise Parisian phrase; so must even that old fr... ...fe, I dramatize and expand them; I divert myself with them as if they were romances which I could read by the power of vision within me. As I have nev... ...ntrast to the usual state of such places. This one was as neat as a bit of genre; there was a charming trimness about the blue coverlet, the cooking p... ... all the vague sentiment of a German ballad; it was a retreat fit for some romance of 1827, perfumed by the exotic flowers set in their stands. Anothe... ...f down above a somewhat thick under-lip. She was not merely a woman, but a romance. The whole blended harmony of lines, the feminine luxuriance of her... ... her, and my eyes glittered with anger. Some- times a crime may be a whole romance; I understood that just then. She was so accustomed, no doubt, to t...

...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... ...literature, but had not fostered these tastes at their genuine sources—the romances and chivalry of the middle ages—but in the pe- rusal of such Germa... ...er the influence of these he, at the age of fifteen, wrote two short prose romances of slender merit. The sentiments and language were exaggerated, th... ... J. Munday : 1810. 3. 3. 3. 3. 3. St. Irvyne; : or, : The Rosicrucian. : A Romance. : By : A Gentleman : of the University of Oxford. : London: : Prin...

...s what nameless innumerable multitude of ready Writers, profane Sing- ers, Romancers, Players, Disputators, and Pamphleteers, that now form the Spirit... ...r him! For as to this of Sentimentalism, so use- ful for weeping with over romances and on pathetic occasions, it otherwise verily will avail nothing;... ...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... ...: he is, say the Newspaper Re- porters, ‘M. Louvet, Author of the charming Romance of Faublas. ’ Steady, ye Patriots! Pull not yet two ways; with a Fr... ...crat saloons call the new Ministry Ministere-Sansculotte. A Louvet, of the Romance Faublas, is busy in the Jacobins. A Cazotte, of the Romance Diable ... ...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... ...France had, has given itself to these enemies of human nature, ‘ennemis du genre humain.’ Beleaguer it, bombard it, ye Commissioners Barras, Freron, ... ...s, while men search for him: has hairbreadth escapes that would fill three romances: finally he gets to Paris to his fair Helpmate; gets to Switzerlan...

...es and Lavallee-Poussins and the rest of the great obscure creators of the Genre Louis Quinze and the Genre Louis Seize. Our modern craftsmen now draw... ...3 Balzac Mephistopheles is blended with a homely cheerfulness found in the romances of August Lafontaine of pacific memory; but the predominating elem... ...o connections. In ten years he had not met with the faintest pretext for a romance in his professional career; his practice lay among clerks and small...

...trolled students who might have stepped from the page of Murger’s immortal romance. But the students now are uneasy with the fear of ridicule, and mor... ...n, and knew that the connexion between him and Margaret was not lacking in romance. For years Susie had led the monoto nous life of a mistress in a s... ...ts her.’ Marie appeared again, with no signs now that so short a while ago romance had played a game with her, and brought the dishes that had been or... ...he names. It seemed to her that she was entering upon an unknown region of romance. She felt like an adventurous princess who rode on her palfrey into... ...which that scene gave him. It might have been a picture by some master of genre. It seemed hardly by chance that the colours arranged them selves in... ...cquired so great an influence over the undergraduates of Oxford. There was romance and laughter in his conversation; and though, as Frank Hurrell had ...

...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... ...ad already in her imagination begun constructing a de lightful and touching romance about them. But the princess, having ascertained from the visitor... ...aces and was in despair at not finding you. She says you’re a real heroine of romance, and that if she were a man she would do all sorts of mad things ... ... 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... ...beautiful than either of her sisters. And the most passionate and impossible romances rose before Darya Alexandrovna’s imagination. “Anna did quite ri...

...her husband’s family, beyond the prom- ises of fairy land or the dreams of romance; for it is certain that to her chiefly this family was also indebte... ...ois frivole, et quelquefois divine, L ’art des vers est dans Pope utile au genre humain.” This is not a wise account of Pope, for it does not abstract... ...ments adapted to a mode of warfare anterior even to that of feudal- ism or romance. The customs, usages, and local privileges of Frankfort, and the ru...

...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... ...nd, but especially in Boeotia, a new form of epic sprang up, which for the romance and pathos of the Ionian School substituted the practical and matte... ... posed, down to the time of his death. The whole tract is, of course, mere romance; its only val- ues are 1) the insight it give into ancient speculat...

...ly. “We should have faith in our own selves. We can’t live a little rag of romance without dragging in literature. We are drugged with litera- ture so... ...hisper to the other: “Qu’il a l’air interessant.” “Farouche, n’est-ce pas? Genre revolutionnaire,” answered the other cousin, tittering. Then he notic...