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...e I shall see her next week.” And Mrs. Touchett’s husband slowly resumed his former posture. “Before that,” said Miss Archer. “She’s coming down to di... ... nothing about bills; but even as a child she thought her grandmother’s home romantic. There was a covered piazza behind it, furnished with a swing wh... ...enth year) she had been neither frightened nor ashamed, but had thought it a romantic episode in a liberal education. Her father had a large way of lo... ...ravelled from New York to Albany expressly to see her; having learned in the former city, where he was spending a few days and where he had hoped to fi... ... was tall, strong and somewhat stiff; he was also lean and brown. He was not romantically, he was much rather obscurely, handsome; but his physiognomy... ...n an excellent linguist. He had good winters and poor winters, and while the former lasted he was sometimes the sport of a vision of virtual recovery.... ... he had evoked and seemed greatly pleased with it. And then he went on: “The Catholics are very wise after all. The convent is a great institution; we...

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... view its bonds, For I will never feel them?— Italy! Thy late reviving Roman soul desponds Beneath the lie this State thing breathed o’er th... ...ayer,’ And Greek—the alphabet — I ‘m nearly sure; She read some French romances here and there, Although her mode of speaking was not pure; ... ...doubt this patience, when the world is damning us, Is philosophic in our former friends; ‘T is also pleasant to be deem’d magnanimous, The m... ...ontroulless core Of human hearts, than all the long array Of poets and romancers: You ‘re a bore, A charlatan, a coxcomb and have been... ...should travel through All European climes, by land or sea, To mend his former morals, and get new, Especially in France and Italy (At leas... ...undred souls Had left their bodies; and what ‘s worse, alas! When over Catholics the ocean rolls, They must wait several weeks before a mass... ... Just for the present; and in his lull’d head Not even a vision of his former woes Throbb’d in accursed dreams, which sometimes spread Unw...

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... in general, to these restless appeals was the rather grim admonition that romantic and historic sites, such as the land of Italy abounds in, offer th... ...lights, and of as many different colours, if possible, as the rockets, the Roman candles and Catherine- wheels of a “pyrotechnic display,” would be em... ...I shall see her next week.” And Mrs. Touchett’s husband slowly resumed his former posture. “Before that,” said Miss Archer. “She’s coming down to dinn... ...othing about bills; but even as a child she thought her grandmother’s home romantic. There was a covered pi- azza behind it, furnished with a swing wh... ...lled from New York to Al- bany expressly to see her; having learned in the former city, where he was spending a few days and where he had hoped to fin... ... excellent linguist. He had good win- ters and poor winters, and while the former lasted he was sometimes the sport of a vision of virtual recovery. B... ...e had evoked and seemed greatly pleased with it. And then he went on: “The Catholics are very wise after all. The con- vent is a great institution; we...

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...blouse, and how shall you recognize the god- like creature of the Greek or Roman chisel? The eyes note and compare before the heart has time to revise... ...ment he believed in chance. Had he not a volume of poems and a magnificent romance entitled The Archer of Charles IX. in manuscript? He had hope for t... ...oth partners. The booksellers nodded slightly. “I have a French historical romance after the style of Scott. It is called The Archer of Charles IX.; I... ...“But my book is very serious. It is an attempt to set the struggle between Catholics and Calvinists in its true light; the Catholics were supporters o... ...tyle of Scott. The char- acter of the struggle between the Protestants and Catholics is depicted as a struggle between two opposed systems of governme... ...mystical genius, one of the most extraordinary intellects of the age. This former leader had gone back to his province for reasons on which it serves ... ...s as much accus- tomed to his work in the office as to the fatigue duty of former days, understanding as much or as little about it as the why and whe... ...treet, as much bewildered by this picture of the newspaper world as he had formerly been by the prac- tical aspects of literature at Messrs. Vidal and...

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...Waverly Novels did for Scotland, turning its mountains, lakes and islands, formerly regarded with aversion, into a fairyland peopled with crea- tures ... ...ot only more celebrated but more opulent every year. It, is one of the few romances written in the epistolary form that do not oppress the reader with... ...elf. Every night, after supper, we read some part of a small collection of romances which had been my mother’s. My father’s design was only to improve... ... retard the future efforts of my reason, though they added an extravagant, romantic notion of human life, which experience and reflection have never b... ... a tree in another spot, and frequently recollected the catastrophe of the former, repeating with a significant emphasis, an aqueduct! an aqueduct! Ti... ...s, I confess, are not very amusing, but they serve to demonstrate that the former part of our education was well directed, since being, at such an ear... ... general, are better instructed in the prin- ciples of their religion than Catholics; the reason is obvious; 67 Rousseau the doctrine of the former r... ...e two leagues distant from Lausanne, and generally in com- pany with other Catholics, particularly a Parisian embroi- derer, whose name I have forgott...

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...of historic, no less than of topographical interest. The Vale was known in former times as the Forest of White Hart, from a curious legend of King Hen... ...d willow wand, and in her left a bunch of white flowers. The peeling of the former, and the selection of the latter, had been an operation of personal ... ... degrees their own door, the head of the family bursting suddenly into his former refrain as he drew near, as if to fortify his soul at sight of the s... ...a last jaunt in her company while they were yet mere lover and mistress; a romantic day, in circumstances that would never be repeated; with that othe... ...It is the only safeguard for us poor human beings. “Integer vitae,” says a Roman poet, who is strange company for St. Paul — The man of upright life, ... ...ir own vaults to this day, but done out of his property in the time o’ the Romans. However, Sir John, as we call’n now, kept up the wedding day as wel... ...rry because I’ve decided to go to Brazil.’ ‘Brazil! Why they are all Roman Catholics there surely!’ ‘Are they? I hadn’t thought of that.’ But even the...

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...sisted in an annuity of six hundred francs a year, the sole remains of his former opulence,—a property which obliged him to see his man of business (w... ...t any one suspecting him of even an allusion to the tender passages of his romance with the Princess Goritza. Has any one ever reflected on the ser- v... ... return of the Bourbons, one of his old friends, the Marquis de Pombreton, formerly lieutenant in the Black mousquetaires, returned to him—so he said—... ...to whom animals are sacred. The poor Chevalier de Valois retained from his former life the need of bestowing gallant protection, a quality of the seig... ...lancholy attitude, makes them suppose a man’s whole life; they’ll invent a romance to match the hero—who is often a mere brute, but the marriage is ma... ...se criticisms fall before the fact that the noble catholic, apostolic, and Roman religion is still erect in Brit- tany and in the ancient duchy of Ale... ...tter way to God.” “But if the Church is right, and all the world were good Catholics, wouldn’t the human race come to an end, uncle?” “You have too mu... ... the constitutional oath, and who was now conquering the repugnance of the Catholics by a display of the highest virtues. He was Cheverus on a small s...

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...uiled me into a tale which has become rather a family record than a novel. Formerly the Muse of the historical romance was an inde- pendent and arbitr... ...e rather a family record than a novel. Formerly the Muse of the historical romance was an inde- pendent and arbitrary personage, who could compress ti... ...g our life and its inconveniences endurable is to give them a colouring of romance.’ I did not understand her then, but I have often since thought of ... ...I appreciated; for now that I was a married woman, I was permitted to read romances, and I had just begun on the first volume of the Grand Curus. My h... ... off by one of the attendants, but the Prince would not go; he resumed his former position, saying that he was quite sure that Madame de Bellaise was ... ...son to whom she wished to speak, and she most expressingly frowned off his former companion, who would have continued the conversation with my sister ... ...f the Romans, even when Eustace had given her his word they were not Roman Catholics. She used to say she had the cramp, or that her foot was asleep, ... ...been bred a Puritan, he should have been amazed to perceive that the Roman Catholics were not all that they had been painted, and should find rest in ...

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...nal we might arrange for certain letters to recur at distinct intervals in Roman capi- tals, which might spell out, ‘This Night AT Twelve,’ or ‘At Onc... ...rt of intruding aborigines, whose presence entirely dispelled the sense of romantic dominion which a mighty eminence should give, and which Britons ex... ... monsieur’s excuse. ‘If,’ he pursued, ‘that lady is the person whom I knew formerly in England as Mademoiselle Belloni, and is now known as Mademoisel... .... Laura caressed her, whispering, ere she replied: ‘The Signorina Vittoria Romana!—Biancolla!—Benarriva!’ and numerous other names of inventive endear... ...y were hostile to the Chief whom Luciano and Carlo revered and obeyed. The former lit a cigarette, and saying to his friend, ‘Do you breakfast with yo... ...scrutinized his features. While doing so he was ac- costed, and beheld his former adversary of the Motter—one, with whom he had yesterday shaken hands... ...shed the Austrians to be beaten, remarking, how- ever, that they were good Catholics, most fervent Catholics. As the Lord decided, so it would end! “O...

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...he had heard in the servants’ hall? Again, had my title borne ‘Waverley, a Romance from the German,’ what head so obtuse as not to image forth a profl... ...te knowledge of the particular ingredients necessary to the composition of romances and novels of various descrip- tions: but it is enough, and I scor... ...readers under- stand, that they will meet in the following pages neither a romance of chivalry, nor a tale of modern manners; that my hero will neithe... ...ettered by no entail (for it had never entered into the head of any of its former possessors that one of their progeny could be guilty of the atrociti... ...lity. Edward’s power of imagi- nation and love of literature, although the former was vivid, and the latter ardent, were so far from affording a remed... ...venues, in many places half grown up with brushwood, where the beauties of former days used to take their stand to see the stag course with greyhounds... ...ion, perhaps,’ said Fergus, ‘may make obstacles, though we are not bigoted Catholics.’ ‘My grandmother was of the Church of Rome, and her religion was...

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... Mannering by Sir Walter Scott INTRODUCTION TO GUY MANNERING. THE NOVEL OR ROMANCE of Waverley made its way to the public slowly, of course, at first,... ... over the general mind sufficient even to con- stitute the mainspring of a romance. Besides, it occurred, that to do justice to such a subject would h... ... worthy Dominie, upon which is founded the part which he per- forms in the romance, and which, for certain particular rea- sons, must be expressed ver... ...ontinued to reside in the family, no uncommon circumstance in Scotland (in former days), where food and shelter were readily afforded to humble friend... ...s,—Arths, and Knarths, and Donagilds, and Hanlons. In truth, they had been formerly the stormy chiefs of a desert, but extensive domain, and the heads... ... they chose to give him and the poor for nothing; and, to the shame of the former be it spoken, the pedagogue’s gains never equalled those of a skilfu... ...omas Kittlecourt’s uncle—and how they brought hame relics, like those that Catholics have, and a flag that’s up yonder in the garret—if they had been ...

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... rancors of the nobility against royalty), came to live at Cinq-Cygne. The former courtier, rejected at the Louvre, married the widow of the Comte de ... ...unds the old pavilion is English in style. A hundred feet from the house a former lake, now a mere pond well stocked with fish, makes known its vicini... ...e purchaser of the estate was a man from Arcis named Marion, grandson of a former bailiff in the Simeuse family. This man, a lawyer before and after t... ... place, Marthe had been piously brought up by her mother. Both, being good Catholics, had suffered much from the opinions and behavior of the tanner. ... ...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... ...all of extraordinary thickness built in brick and cement like those of the Romans, and received all the waters. Michu closed the entrance to this retr...

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... my paternal roof in Wales. Our man- sion was situated in one of the most romantic parts of the Vale of Uske. Tho’ my Charms are now consider- ably ... ...s the meeting of Edward and Augustus. “My Life! my Soul!” (exclaimed the former) “My ador- able angel!” (replied the latter) as they flew into each ... ..., had converted it into a Stage and in order to be removed from any of his former Acquaintance, had driven it to Edinburgh from whence he went to Ster... ...d than in being the refined and amiable Laura. I took up my Residence in a Romantic Village in the Highlands of Scotland where I have ever since conti... ... supply the place of one to me, and I hope you will not think me girlishly romantic, when I say that to have some kind and compassionate Freind who mi... ...e were several Battles between the Yorkists and Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually conquered. At length they were entirely ove... ...ble in an Historian, I am necessitated to say that in this reign the roman Catholics of England did not behave like Gentlemen to the protestants. The...

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...that are being done! It is the latter that give one so vast a sense of the former. When I think of the progress of physical and mechanical science, of... ...actory to the examiners, and test questions ex- tracted from papers set in former years were appended to every chapter. By means of these last the tea... ...they had ever done before, to make up roads and move things about that had formerly been esteemed too heavy for locomotion, to join woodwork with iron... ...ing, and upon nations for weakening towards Ritualism, or treating Ro- man Catholics as tolerable human beings; there would be great rejoicings over t... ...ess homes in which so many find themselves, a going out towards something, romance if you will, beauty, that has suddenly be- come a need—a need that ... ...e, joys and fears on such a scale, in such an intricacy as never Greek nor Roman knew. The interminable procession of horse omnibuses went lumbering p... ...g fingers flat together, carried the point against him. He quoted Cato and Roman law and the monasteries of Thibet. “Well, anyway,” said Hatherleigh, ...

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...’s imagination, and the narrow alleys round the harbour grew rich with the romance which his young fancy lent them. One evening he asked whether he mi... ...ic. He was accustomed to say that Papists re- quired an epithet, they were Roman Catholic; but the Church of England was Catholic in the best, the ful... ...in her even voice read the opposite 39 W. Somerset Maugham page. It was a romantic narrative of some East- ern traveller of the thirties, pompous may... ...hen— Mahommedans, Buddhists, and the rest—would spare Dissenters and Roman Catholics (though at the cost of how much humiliation when they were made t... ...n theirs and they had neglected it (in which category were obviously Roman Catholics and Dissenters), the punishment was sure and merited. It was clea... ...he Church of England, on that account were nearer the truth than the Roman Catholics. Most of the men—it was largely a masculine congregation—were Sou... ...d picked in a day , but they complained you could not make money now as in former times: then they paid you a shilling for five bush- els, but now the...

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...ive. But he probably died or forgot, for he never came. It was doubtless the former, since he had said his parents were wealthy, and he only traveled ... ...de, and therefore we must hug the bank, up stream, to get the benefit of the former, and stay well out, down stream, to take advantage of the latter. ... ...ut of a warm bed to run them. I began to fear that piloting was not quite so romantic as I had imagined it was; there was something very real and work... ...like,” and so I began to take heart once more to believe that piloting was a romantic sort of occupation after all. The moment we were under way I beg... ...through this blind place at night without the friendly old landmark. No, the romance and the beauty were all gone from the river. All the value any fe... ... hundred miles long, whose channel was shifting every day! The pilot who had formerly been obliged to put up with seeing a shoal place once or possibl... ...he telegraph mutilated them. It can not be that there are more than 150,000 Catholics in the town; the other 250,000 must be classified as Protestant... ...ram, only 26,362 attended church and Sunday school, while out of the 150,000 Catholics, 116,188 went to church and Sunday school. Chapter 52 A Burning...

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...who are loud in acknowledging the amusement which they have derived from a former paper of mine, ‘On Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts;’ at th... ...a successful flight, and, there- fore, for the following revolution in the romance of his own abominable life. He had in his pockets above a hundred p... ...s of years. 5 Let the reader, who is disposed to regard as exaggerated or romantic the pure fiendishness imputed to Williams, recol- lect that, excep... ...ar more playful and genial than Swift’s; something of this is shown in his romance of ‘Idris,’ and oftentimes in his prose. But what the world knows W... ...d, upon principles of fidelity under political suffer- ing, with the Roman Catholics, to say little in his own de- fence. That defence, and any revers... ...GE GE GE EVERY THING IN OUR DAYS IS NEW. Roads, for instance, which, being formerly ‘of the earth earthy,’ and therefore perish- able, are now iron, a... ... become the overwhelming majority: the quantity has disturbed the quality. Formerly, out of every five readers, at least four were, in some degree, cl... ... at the age of twenty-four. Except that he favored the claims of the Irish Catholics, his policy was pretty uniformly that of Mr. Pitt. He supported t...

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...ginative, and those which sprang from the emotions of his heart. Among the former may be classed the “Witch of Atlas”, “Adonais”, and his latest com- ... ... and metaphysical discussions. I say ‘he fancied,’ because I be- lieve the former to have been paramount, and that it would have gained the mastery ev... ... should dedicate himself to poetry or metaphysics; and, re- solving on the former, he educated himself for it, discarding in a great measure his philo... ...arth might become such, did mankind them- selves consent. The charm of the Roman climate helped to clothe his thoughts in greater beauty than they had... ...erest; and that the feel- ings of the company never failed to incline to a romantic pity for the wrongs, and a passionate exculpation of the hor- ribl... ...h century into cold impersonations of my own mind. They are represented as Catholics, and as Catholics deeply tinged with religion. T o a Protestant a... ... by a feigned tale to confess himself before death; this being esteemed by Catholics as essential to salvation; and she only relinquishes her purpose ... ... _130 412 V olume One To see what was romantic there. 12. 12. 12. 12. 12. And all this, though quite ideal,— Read... ...r the worshipped father of our common country, With contributions from the catholics, Will make Rebellion pale in our excess. Be these the expedients ...

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...leration in matters of religion, —have always advocated the admis- sion of Roman Catholics and Jews into Parliament, and even to the Bench. In ordinar... ...on in matters of religion, —have always advocated the admis- sion of Roman Catholics and Jews into Parliament, and even to the Bench. In ordinary life... ...nderstand more than this, and may perhaps do so, if he has ever seen those former chronicles to which allusion has been made. The Duke, before he beca... ...hip single-handed, or the watchmaker make his watch without assistance? On former occasions such as this, I could say, with little or no help from wit... ...liser was the last man from whom the Duke of St Bungay would have expected romance at any time, and, least of all, at such a time as this. ‘Aid from h... ...s, let her husband’s urgency be what it might. Another old friend, of whom former chronicles were not silent, was at the Duchess’s that night, and the... ... certainly.’ ‘ And yet,’ said Phineas, ‘the bulk of the people are staunch Catholics. Of course the same attempt to maintain a tempo- ral influence, w... ...e who believe all England to be Romish at heart, because here in England a Roman Catholic can say what he will, and print what he will.’ ‘And yet,’ sa...

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...ot refuse me on that account. He is a good lad, and has lived enough among Catholics to keep his opinions in the background. But you understand that i... ...listening with all her ears, and try- ing to find a character in Fenelon’s romance to be repre- sented by Arthur Hope, now further heard it explained ... ...uired by the times. So she gave way to them— just as no doubt the women of former days saw nothing absurd in bottling them. Arthur’s position among al... ...—’barring,’ as Lanty said, ‘that they should get Chris- tian burial in the former case.’ ‘We are in the hands of a good God. That at least we know,’ s... ...s a possible martyr, sometimes as a figure in the mythological or Arcadian romance that had filtered into her nursery. CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER... ... to care for much beyond present safety; and had no sooner returned to his former quarters, and shared with Ulysse a bowl of curds, than they both fee... ...ed by stern battlemented castles, while the arches of one of the great old Roman aqueducts made a noble cord to the arc described by the lower part of...