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...d superstition grounded into our principles as was beyond the manhood of a Roman recovery, it will be attributed first, as is most due, to the stro... ...s light after what sort of books were prohibited among the Greeks. The Romans also, for many ages trained up only to a military roughness res... ... nor called in. From hence we shall meet with little else but tyranny in the Roman empire; that we may not marvel, if not so often bad as good books w... ...ar of Florence. I have seen this present work, and find nothing athwart the Catholic faith and good manners: in witness whereof I have given, etc. Ni... ...ortful poem, not now extant, writ by Homer; and why not then of Morgante, an Italian romance much to the same purpose? But if it be agreed we sha... ...his revels; and the notorious ribald of Arezzo, dreaded and yet dear to the Italian courtiers. I name not him for posterity’s sake, whom Henry VIII.... ... Isaiah was to the eunuch, not to be understood without a guide. But of our priests and doctors how many have been corrupted by studying the comment... ...ing amongst them was brought; that this was it which had damped the glory of Italian wits; that nothing had been there written now these many years bu... ...hese times with eminent and ample gifts, and those perhaps neither among the Priests nor among the Pharisees, and we in the haste of a precipitant z...

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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; ... ...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... ...unt O’Reilly, Who took Algiers, declares I used him vilely? ‘Did not the Italian Musico Cazzani Sing at my heart six months at least in vain? ... ...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... ...breath, You hardly could perceive when he was dead. He died as born, a Catholic in faith, Like most in the belief in which they ‘re bred, ... ... that I know by this: That is, some words of Spanish, Turk, and Greek, Italian not at all, having no teachers; Much English I cannot pretend t... ... or present situation. He saw some fellow captives, who appear’d To be Italians, as they were in fact; From them, at least, their destiny he h... ...s well as Mother, Warn’d him against Greek worship, which looks odd In Catholic eyes; but told him, too, to smother Outward dislike, which don...

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...upon the floor, and regarding me in silence with embarrassing eyes. The eyes of all Polynesians are large, luminous, and melting; they are like the ey... ...el is, for a boy of twelve, to change heavens; to cross the Atlantic, for a man of twenty-four, is hardly to modify his diet. But I was now escaped ou... ...fresh ac- quaintances with favour, but continually modified my judg- ment. A polite Englishman comes to-day to the Marquesans and is amazed to find th... ...ins pre-eminent authority; the king be- comes his Mairedupalais; he can proscribe, he can com- mand; and the temptation is ever towards too much. Thus... ..., centralised at Hatiheu, where they are supported by a weekly tax of food; and, with the ex- ception of one month in every year, surrendered wholly t... ...seven hundred or a thousand feet above the beach, a Virgin looks insignificantly down, like a poor lost doll, forgotten there by a giant child. This l... ...e strong and benign influence of the late bishop, extended his influence in the group, was for a while joint ruler with the prelate, and died at last ... ...the foot of the ravine. Two roads divided it, and met in the midst. Save for this intersection the amphitheatre was strangely perfect, and had a certa... .... Conceive one that has been partly plucked of its rush fringe; you have the atoll of Kauehi. And for either shore of it at closer quarters, con- ceiv...

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...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... ...ized him to take the rank of retired colonel in view of his service in the Catholic armies of the West. Besides his fiction of an annuity, about which... ...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... ... as it were, in bulk without the slightest imagination of love. Rose was a Catholic Agnes, incapable of inventing even one of the wiles of Moliere’s A... ...rks of charity, his continual prayers, his pen- ances; he thought that all priests should have acted thus dur- ing the days of wrath and terror, and h... ...to bait the hook. But these criticisms fall before the fact that the noble catholic, apostolic, and Roman religion is still erect in Brit- tany and in... ...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... ...ugal life would never have occurred. She would probably have known why the Italian poet makes Angelica prefer Medoro, who was a blond Chevalier de Val...

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... moved by the new picture of a girl, as if it had been a frontispiece of a romantic story some day to be read. She looked compelled to look, but conse... ...site to the hypocrite; so hypocrites date him. I’ve heard them called high-priests of decency. Then we choose to be inde- cent and honest, if there’s ... ..., good at classics, fairish at mathemat- ics, a scholar in French, German, Italian, with a shrewd knowl- edge of the different races, and with sound E... ... as the men have it; and when their wor- shipped figure of manliness, in a romantic sombrero, is a threadbare giant, showing bruises, they sink on the... ...ike a pestilence! This young Weyburn would touch the fancy of a woman of a romantic turn. Supposing her enthusiastic in her wor- ship of the hero, aft... ... at Caen and at a Paris Lycee; French fairly mas- tered; German, the same; Italian, the same; after studies at Heidelberg, Asti, and Florence; between... ... us.” “There are others besides?” “Besides Emile, there is a German and an Italian and a Swiss.” “It is a Company?” “A Company of schoolmasters! Compa... ...plained; “I said, America. Y ou would be among Prot- estants in America.” “Catholics and Protestants are both welcome to us, accord- ing to our scheme... ...rdly simple mechanism. That done, we may, if we please, dominate her. High priests of every religion have successively denounced her as the chief enem...

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...the great astonishment of their neighbors. The first to remark it were the priests of the cathedral and the worship- pers with her at the same altar. ... ...ness. 18 The Village Rector In such a situation she naturally made many a romance such as young girls are fond of weaving. She clasped the idea—perha... ...l, clothed with so weak a flesh, showed her the multiplied commandments of Catholicism as so many stones placed for protection along the precipices of... ...inions and consid- ered him a patriot,—a word which meant revolutionist in Catholic minds. Loved by his inferiors, who dared not, how- ever, proclaim ... ...however, wanted to keep her uncle, after the manner of the managers of the Italian Opera, who entreat their popular tenor to wrap up his throat, and g... ...ion of a man who had the face and bearing of a hero, had been drawn into a romance the outcome of which was crime. This supposition was to some extent... ...rancois Tascheron and his mistress (by this time she was young, beautiful, romantic, for every one made a por- trait of her) had evidently intended to... ...son cast on the chancel. This trinity of color was a reminder of the grand Catholic doctrine. If surprise was the first emotion roused by this pitiful... ... way of the meadows, the road through which, as lovely as an English or an Italian road, was the pride of its engineer. The abundance of small stones,...

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...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... ...r Antony had missed, or he would hardly have uttered it, since he was of a Roman Catholic family, though, while in the Earl’s household, he had to con... ...ny had missed, or he would hardly have uttered it, since he was of a Roman Catholic family, though, while in the Earl’s household, he had to conform o... ...irl’s idle hands were only too happy to caress the pretty little shivering Italian greyhound rather than to be busy with a needle. “Do you ever hear o... ...turned Mistress Jean. “Such a thing would be a miracle in a loyal Scottish Catholic’s wean, let alone an English heretic’s.” 124 Un... ... little breeding he had, while committing spulzie and piracy at sea on his Catholic Majesty’s ships. Bah, mon enfant, I am glad of it. Had he been a g... ...er ought but false.” “They tell me,” said Sir Richard, “that ever since an Italian named Machiavel wrote his Book of the Prince, statecraft hath been ... ...as unbecoming English rusticity . The Princess Bride must speak French and Italian, perhaps Latin; and the girl, whose liter- ary education had stoppe...

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...Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret A Romance By Nathaniel Hawthorne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publ... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret: A Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...le as an electronic transmission, in any way. Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret: A Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylvania State University, Elec ... ...it,” said Doctor Grim; “hiding people who had fought on the wrong side, or Catholic priests, or criminals, or perhaps—who knows?—enemies that they wan... ...od there were several brothers of the old family (which had adhered to the Catholic religion), and these chose the side of the King instead of that of... ...he estate and the lovely lady from the for tunate heir; and how this grim Italian priest had instigated them to use a certain kind of torture with th... ...no sunshine to fade them; worked on them is some tapestried story, done by Catholic hands, of saints or devils, looking each equally grave and solemnl... ...se? There are pistols; they lie on the coffer! There is a curiously shaped Italian dagger, of the kind which in a groove has poison that makes its wou... ...ave good ale brewed in his house; having himself no taste for anything but Italian wines, wretched fellow that he is! He might make himself an English...

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...olution. Attached to the Simeuse family, and consequently, good 39 Balzac Catholics, the Beauvisage father and mother desired to have their son bapti... ...tness, and the manners of a petted child, all that her person presented of romantic charm. Still, a husband capable of reforming her education and eff... ...of Arcis and her future expectations as Lady Croesus, and would spin her a romance to end in true love and a marriage.” “That’s a very pretty idea!” c... ... money.” “And,” continued Ernestine, “she has selected for the hero of her romance—” “Oh!” interrupted Madame Mollot, “an old man of fifty!— fie!” “Ho... ...ntre, and is republican without wanting a republic, he proclaims himself a Catholic, and sits astride the hobby of that party, namely,—liberty of educ... ...y are intended.” “Ah ca!” exclaimed Emile Blondet, “and it is this fervent Catholic who fights a duel!” “Better or worse than that. This Catholic live... ...y long suite of apartments rather poorly furnished,— which is customary in Italian palaces, all their luxury being put into ceilings, statues, paintin... ...repre- sentative. You understand me, of course. I refer to that hand- some Italian woman whom you have in your house. Take care; some puritanical elec... ...inter- minable story, I would tell you the facts relating to my hand- some Italian, and you would see, Monsieur le comte, that her presence in my hous...

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... 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... ... 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... ...e interrupted her journey to pay a visit to her son, who at San Remo, on the Italian shore of the Mediterranean, had been spending a dull, bright wint... ...la overhung the slope of its hill and the long valley of the Arno, hazy with Italian colour. It had a narrow garden, in the man ner of a terrace, pro... ...ind; and the tall iron lattices admitted on occasion more than enough of the Italian sunshine. 188 Portrait of a Lady It was moreover a seat of ease,... ...erception had not been able to gauge its charms she had clever companions as priests to the mystery. She was in no want indeed of aesthetic illuminati... ... 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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...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... ..., should have been crowned with Birmingham tinsel, with paste diamonds and Roman pearls, and then led off to instant execution.” The Welshman doubted ... ...helet, we in England—who know him best by his worst book, the book against priests, etc.—know him disadvanta- geously. That book is a rhapsody of inco... ...oixante traductions among those even that have not escaped the search. The Italian translations are said to be thirty. As to mere editions, not counti... ...irely unparalleled in literature, could not have existed ex- cept in Roman Catholic times, nor subsequently have lin- gered in any Protestant land. It... ...on of 1830 had expelled the restored Bourbon kings. 67 20 THE BOOK AGAINST PRIESTS: Michelet’s lec- tures as professor of history in the Collège de Fr...

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...being is thus pervaded. Thus, the tragic poets of the age of Pericles; the Italian revivers of ancient learning; those mighty intellects of our own co... ...eep despondency by the radiant visions disclosed by the sudden burst of an Italian sunrise in autumn on the highest peak of those delightful mountains... ... _585 HELEN: HELEN: HELEN: HELEN: HELEN: Alas! Italian winds are mild, But my bosom is cold—wintry cold— When the warm air... ...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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... 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... ...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... ...interrupted her journey to pay a visit to her son, who at San Remo, on the Italian shore of the Mediterranean, had been spending a dull, bright winter... ... overhung the slope of its hill and the long valley of the Arno, hazy with Italian colour. It had a narrow garden, in the manner of a terrace, product... ...d; and the tall iron lattices admitted on occasion more than enough of the Italian sunshine. It was moreover a seat of ease, indeed of luxury, telling... ...ception had not been able to gauge its charms she had clever companions as priests to the mystery. She was—in no want indeed of esthetic illumination,... ...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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...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... ...he high-handed son of her ancient nobility was intolerable from a low-born Italian, of graceful but insinuating manners. Moreover, the war increased t... ...p of Corinth in partibus infidelium, a younger son of the Duke of Retz, an Italian family introduced by Catherince de Medici. There seemed to be a hop... ... English doc- trine is no heresy, and that the Church is a true Church and Catholic, though, as my home and my duties lie here, I re- main where I was... ...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... ...d be against our own. The English Church claims to be a branch of the true Catholic Church, and there are those among the Gallicans who are ready to a... ...plex- 102 Stray Pearls ion a clear pale brown, the eyes with something of Italian softness in them, rather than of French vivacity, the brows almost ... ...sers would say this was best, provided he died at last in the bosom of the Catholic Church; but I can never think so, and, as things stood, Eustace’s ...

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... He does. But in him it is not combined with an indigestion of high German romances. Here is so notable a difference, that he cannot possibly be said ... ...ught the ear of Night, and sang confident of her charm. It was a grand old Italian air, requiring severity of tone and power. Now into great mournful ... ...n a tone of vexed apology for strange ignorance: “But I know not it? It is Italian—yes, I swear it is Italian! But— who then? It is superbe! But I kno... ...thing. I have your permission to smoke?” Emilia smiled. “I wish I had some Italian cigars to give you. My father sometimes has plenty given to him.” W... ... scious of it. They leaped at one bound to the conclusion that there was a romance attached to him. Do not be startled. An attested tail-coat, clearly... ...not ridiculous. Dr. Watts would have put a girdle about her; but a song of romance sung in this atmosphere of pipes and beer and boozy heads, chagrine... ...now, my feeling is, and I cannot at all account for it, that if she were a Catholic she would not seem so gross?” “Some of the poetry of that religion... ...ions. I believe it’s partly their religion. They swindle us, and pay their priests for absolution with our money . If you’re a double- dyed sinner, yo... ...ister. She said pointedly once: “Really, if we are to be miserable, I turn Catholic and go into a convent.” The strange thing was that Arabella imagin...

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...des Logis in the royal house- hold: he arrived at that office by a perfect romance. He was one of the best made men in France, and was much in favour ... ...lept at the Pont Beauvosin that night, and on the mor- row parted with her Italian attendants without shedding a single tear. On the 4th of November s... ...ed no anger. He wrote in return to me, and said, I was not ignorant that a Roman Emperor had said, “I love treason but not traitors;” but that, as for... ...he died a few years after. The King at this time drove away the company of Italian actors, and would not permit another in its place. So long as the I... ...resentations, given con- secutively on account of the gain it brought, the Italians re- ceived orders to close their theatre and to quit the realm in ... ...pon coming down again, she said it could only be that of Orondat. Now that romances are happily no longer read, it is necessary to say that Orondat is... ...ch would be read with more plea- sure if there were less spite against the Catholic religion, and less passion against the King. With those exceptions... ... would have been difficult to have found two instructors so opposed to the Catholics and to France, or so well suited to the King as teachers of his s... ... he lost from that time all his doubts, became steadfastly attached to the Catholic religion, and strove hard to convert to it all the Protestants wit...

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...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... ...cendants. 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 shortly af... ...taught him the Latin and Greek grammars together. He was next removed to a Catholic semi- nary at Twyford, near Winchester; and while there, read Ogil... ...isited London, in order to acquire a more thorough knowledge of French and Italian. At sixteen, he wrote the “Pastorals,” and a portion of “Windsor Fo... ...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... ...was altogether idle. In 1740, he did nothing but edit an edition of select Italian Poets. This year, Crousaz, a Swiss professor of note, having attack... ...composure and serenity. He took the sacrament according to the form of the Roman Catholic Church; but merely, he said, because it “looked right.” A li... ...ure and serenity. He took the sacrament according to the form of the Roman Catholic Church; but merely, he said, because it “looked right.” A little b... ... 40 Your scene precariously subsists too long On French translation, and Italian song. Dare to have sense yourselves; assert the stage, Be justly wa...

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...ion of 1830, Guerande is still a town apart, essentially Breton, fervently Catholic, silent, self-contained,—a place where modern ideas 7 Beatrix hav... ...erior to the latter in antiquity and for- tune as the T rojans were to the Romans. The Guaisqlains (the name is also spelled in the olden time du Glai... ... with the East, where the semi-Saracenic architects, careless of the great Catholic thought, give four leaves to clover, while Chris- tian art is fait... ... dispossessed Elder branch. The future of the exiled Bourbons, that of the Catholic religion, the influence of political innovations on Brittany were ... ...ort of literary revolution when the great question of the classics and the romanticists palpitated on all sides,—in the newspapers, at the clubs, at t... ...pire, and behold the Grand Army when it came to the Champ de Mars, as to a Roman circus, to salute its Caesar before it went to its death at Waterloo.... ... olive by day and dazzling by candlelight, which distinguishes a beautiful Italian; you might, if you pleased, call it animated ivory. The light glide... ...languages while travelling. In Rome, in 1820, Felicite was deserted for an Italian. Without that misery she might never have been celebrated. Napoleon... ... will be known only to the women who love him. In his art he has that deep Italian jealousy which led the Carlone to murder Piola, and stuck a stilett...

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...- sians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wild strong feelings, and of i... ...ling character of Dante’s genius. Dante does not come before us as a large catholic mind; rather as a narrow, and even sectarian mind: it is partly th... ...f the inmost essence of his genius this sort of painting. The fiery, swift Italian nature of the man, so silent, passionate, with its quick abrupt mov... ...ars, Mahomet, as we saw, had his Arabians at Grenada and at Delhi; Dante’s Italians seem to be yet very much where they were. Shall we say, then, Dant... ...l fact in men’s life. And remark here, as rather curious, that Middle- Age Catholicism was abolished, so far as Acts of Parliament could abolish it, b... ...e. He did make his appearance neverthe- less. Nature at her own time, with Catholicism or what else 89 On Heroes might be necessary, sent him forth; ... ..., not in his. It is curious to reflect what might have been the issue, had Roman Popery happened to pass this Luther by; to go on in its great wastefu... ...in this world of confused wickedness, and save his own soul alive. But the Roman High-priesthood did come athwart him: afar off at Wittenberg he, Luth... ... out; Quacks have come in. Accordingly, what Century, since the end of the Roman world, which also was a time of scep- ticism, simulacra and universal...

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... rectly at variance with the tendency of all human aspira- tions of rising priests in the Church of England. A lawyer does not sin in seeking to be a ... ...t to have his little fling at Dr Vesey Stanhope and other absentees, whose Italian villas, or enticing London homes, are more tempting than cathe- dra... ...ere even less plainly marked than those of her lord. The far niente of her Italian life had entered into her very soul, and brought her to regard a st... ...the arms of a poor girl from Milan, whom she had taken in exchange for the Roman maid who had accompanied her thus far, and who had then, as her mistr... ...she was, she had achieved her pur- pose. And then again the more dissolute Italian youths of Milan frequented the Stanhope villa and surrounded her co... ...f the blood of the emperors, thus referring Neroni’s extraction to the old Roman family from which the worst of the Caesars sprang. 72 Barchester Tow... ...ld women. She wrote also a kind of poetry, generally in Italian, and short romances, generally in French. She read much of a desultory sort of literat... ...surmised, the great prophet of the Tractarians con- fessed himself a Roman Catholic. Mr Newman left the Church of England, and with him carried many a... ... still groaned in spirit over the defalcations of the Duke as touching the Catholic Emancipation. If asked whom she thought the Queen should take as h...