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...written about 1603) DRAMATIS PERSONAE PRIAM: king of Troy. HECTOR, TROILUS, PARIS, DEIPHOBUS , and HELENUS: his sons. MARGARELON: a bastard son of P... ...cian. ALEXANDER: servant to Cressida. Servant to Troilus. (Boy:) Servant to Paris. Servant to Diomedes. (Servant:) HELEN: wife to Menelaus. ANDROMAC... ...p before it. 3 TROILUS AND CRESSIDA PROLOGUE In Troy, there lies the scene. From isles of Greece The princes orgulous, their high blood chafed, Have ... ...nd instruments Of cruel war: sixty and nine, that wore Their crownets regal, from the Athenian bay Put forth toward Phrygia; and their vow is made To ... ...within whose strong immures The ravish’d Helen, Menelaus’ queen, With wanton Paris sleeps; and that’s the quarrel. To Tenedos they come; And the deep ... ...LUS: Because not there: this woman’s answer sorts, For womanish it is to be from thence. What news, AEneas, from the field to day? AENEAS: That Pari... ...t: I do but partly know, sir: it is music in parts. PANDARUS: Know you the musicians? Servant: Wholly, sir. PANDARUS: Who play they to? Servant: ...

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... are ac- quainted with what is called Grecian and Roman his- tory, chiefly from perusing, in very early youth, the little sheepskin-bound volumes of t... ...ot. Suppose, for instance, your mamma had purchased her tea in the Borough from a grocer living there by the name of Greenacre: suppose you had been a... ...” and make us believe that they are warriors. Fools look very solemnly out from the dusk of the leaves, and we fancy in the gloom that they are sages.... ...ufficiently vast beneath this pedestal? And his puissant statue dominating Paris, beams with sufficient grandeur on this place: whereas the wheels of ... ...car, the whole was covered with a magnificent imperial mantle brought from Paris, the four corners of which were borne by Generals Bertrand and Gourga... ....” 16 The Second Funeral of Napoleon II. ON THE VOYAGE FROM ST. HELENA TO PARIS. On the 18th October the French frigate quitted the is- land with its... ...g the imperial arms, stood the coffin. A steam- boat, carrying two hundred musicians playing funereal marches and military symphonies, preceded this m...

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... sense of honour and independence, and an obstinate refusal to take advice from those who really wished to befriend him; nor should it be forgotten th... ...The apostle of affliction, he who threw Enchantment over passion, and from woe Wrung overwhelming eloquence, first drew 5 Rousseau The... ...n its shadows and blemishes; let us not, then, seek to “draw his frailties from their dread abode.” His greatest fault was his renunciation of a fathe... ...re he travelled to Strasbourg, where he was warmly received, and thence to Paris, arriving in that city on December I6, 1765. The Prince de Conti prov... ... a violent letter to Hume, calling him “one of the worst of men.” Literary Paris had combined with Hume and the English Government to sur- round him—a... ...ch he attached the sanc- tity of marriage. In 1770 he took up his abode in Paris, where he lived continuously for seven years, in a street which now b... ...he chasubles of the priests, the mitres of the singers, the persons of the musicians; an old lame car- penter who played the counter-bass, a little fa... ...er mass, M. Venture received the highest com- pliments from the canons and musicians, which he answered jokingly, though with great grace. M. le Maitr... ...ribe my uneasiness, or to own how much I deserved it. Next day, one of the musicians, named Lutold, came to see me and was kind enough to congratulate...

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...ent, at the head of French historical papers, and are the one great source from which all historians derive their insight into the closing years of th... ... was a new term, or a change in the ordinary meaning of words sprang forth from has pen. With this was joined a vigour and breadth of style, very pro-... ...vroy, who later became the Duc de Saint- 4 Saint-Simon Simon, was born in Paris, January 16, 1675. He claimed descent from Charlemagne, but the story... ...Saint-Simon Simon, was born in Paris, January 16, 1675. He claimed descent from Charlemagne, but the story goes that his fa- ther, as a young page of ... ...f having believed me, when I told him that the King would no doubt rest at Paris this year. My mother, af- ter a little vexation and pouting at findin... ... should be with him, and it was not without regret that I returned towards Paris. On the way a little circumstance happened. One of our halting-places... ...rom the comedies of Moliere were thought of, and were played by the King’s musicians, comedians for the nonce. Madame de Maintenon introduced, too, th... ...urned, to take the sacrament without delay. Pere Tellier was sent for; the musicians who had just prepared their books and their instruments, were dis... ...vanity; and so deeply, that at his pub- lic suppers—all the Court present, musicians also—he would 636 Saint-Simon hum these self-same praises betwee...

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...ow, the Venetian aristocracy is the first in Europe. Its Libro d’Oro dates from before the Crusades, from a time when Venice, a survivor of Imperial a... ...and a similar title was in use at Venice, justified by ancient inheritance from Facino Cane, Prince of Varese. The Grimaldi, who assumed sover- eignty... ...sion of Monaco till much later. The last Cane of the elder branch vanished from Venice thirty years before the fall of the Republic, condemned for var... ...hieri at Genoa, the Duchess Cataneo obeyed the edicts of Victorine and the Paris fashions. She had on a muslin dress and broad straw hat, pretty shot ... ...rs a black lace shawl. But the thing which no one could ever understand in Paris, where women are sheathed in their dresses as a dragon-fly is cased i... ... to tell him that Facino Cane, Prince of Varese, had died in a hospital in Paris. Proofs of his death had come to hand, and the Cane-Memmi were Prince... ...hall, filled with merry feast- ers, and the upper balconies furnished with musicians, seemed to harbor all Venice coming and going on the great stairc... ...nsation. “It is a grievous thing that the populace should have com- pelled musicians to adapt their expression to words, to facti- tious emotions; but... ...aphael’s ad- mirers spoke of his singing with colors?” “In the language of musicians,” replied the Duchess, “paint- ing is arousing certain associatio...

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...oted, and wore no other garments than a large goatskin, which covered them from the neck to the knees, and trou- sers of white and very coarse linen, ... ...e of “la carmagnole.” Others, well-to-do mechanics, no doubt, were clothed from head to foot in one color. Those who had most pretension to their dres... ...rable, the slowness of their gait alone betraying their inward communings. From time to time a few of them, noticeable for the rosaries hanging from t... ...loyal and patriotic portion of the inhabitants. In fact, the government in Paris, having nei- ther troops nor money to send to the interior, evaded th... ...ared upon the scene, the inhabitants call them “the Gars of such or such a parish.” This classic name is a reward for the fidelity with which they str... ... desert. The only meetings among them are on Sundays and feast-days in the parish church. These silent assemblies, under the eye of the rector (the on... ...ho must be satisfied—he’s here!” he added, striking his stomach. “Have the musicians come?” said the marquis, in a con- temptuous tone, turning to Mad... ... impatience of the dancers by dis- pensing flatteries to each in turn. The musicians were tuning their instruments and the dancing was about to begin,... ...tiated into the secret, began to under- stand its nature, so that when the musicians gave the signal for the dancing to begin no one moved. “Mademoise...

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...ost masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it. When Newland ... ...her, leaning against the wall at the back of the club box, turned his eyes from the stage and scanned the op- posite side of the house. Directly facin... ...utiful even by people who shared his acquaintance with the Opera houses of Paris and Vienna. The foreground, to the footlights, was covered with emera... ...han the roses, and closely resembling the floral pen-wipers made by female parishioners for fashionable clergymen, sprang from the moss beneath the ro... ...l pen-wipers made by female parishioners for fashionable clergymen, sprang from the moss beneath the rose-trees; and here and there a daisy grafted on... ...cream-coloured house (supposed to be modelled on the private hotels of the Parisian aristocracy) was there as a visible proof of her moral courage; an... ...r dreamed of before, and playing the piano in quin- tets with professional musicians. Of course no good could come of this; and when, a few 43 Edith ... ...rs. Archer’s world lay the almost unmapped quarter inhab- ited by artists, musicians and “people who wrote.” These scat- tered fragments of humanity h... ...d unsettling to think of. Archer knew most of the “fellows who wrote,” the musicians and the painters: he met them at the Century, or at the little mu...

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...ts which he painted of human nature. In “The Great Man of the Provinces in Paris” some like- nesses were imagined: Jules Janin in Etienne Lousteau, Ar... ...h applied by some to the famous Mademoiselle Georges, is easily recognized from Couture’s drawing. Beatrix, Conti, and Claude Vignon are sketches of t... ...culiar character- istics. For lack of quick and regular communication with Paris, scarcely connected by wretched roads with the sub-prefec- ture, or t... ...re ancient times in the towns of Brittany. Most of these towns have fallen from states of splendor never men- tioned by historians, who are always mor... ...crown or divided among many heirs, if the male line failed. Disinher- ited from active life, these heads became arms; and arms de- prived of nourishme... ...solutely no account in France, and which would be a subject of laughter in Paris, were it known there —is to Guerande the whole of Brittany. In Gueran... ... atres and actors; squandering her fortune among pamphle- teers, painters, musicians, a devilish society, in short. She writes books herself, and has ... ... authorship. Ostensibly these operas are by Conti, one of the most eminent musicians of our day; but this circumstance belongs to the history of her h...

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... burned in a mine, One was killed in a brawl, One died in a jail, One fell from a bridge toiling for children and wife- All, all are sleeping, sleepin... ...e, in the search for heart’s desire; One after life in far-away London and Paris Was brought to her little space by Ella and Kate and Mag— All, all ar... ...evolution?— All, all are sleeping on the hill. They brought them dead sons from the war, And daughters whom life had crushed, And their children fathe... ...ing with the Indians, and who Afterwards took the Bankrupt Law And emerged from it richer than ever Myself grown tired of toil and poverty And beholdi... ...r years thereafter. ) There was almost a scandal. I moved on, This time to Paris. I was now a woman, Insidious, subtle, versed in the world and rich. ... ...apartment near the Champs Elysees Became a center for all sorts of people, Musicians, poets, dandies, artists, nobles, Where we spoke French and Germa... ...Became a dancer, known as Russian Sonia, All up and down the boulevards of Paris, Mistress betimes of sundry dukes and counts, And later of poor artis...

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...ume II: The Second T en T ales by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...lzac Droll Stories Volume T wo by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine VOLUME II: The Second T en T ales PROLOGUE CERT... ...e their minds easy, assures them that he has, legally protected and exempt from seizure, seventy droll stories, in that reservoir of nature, his brain... ... confessional, and related his case with all humility to the rector of the parish, who was a good old priest, capable of being up above, the slipper o... ...ich is the land of which I am lord by inher- itance, having heard speak of Paris, where the people did not put themselves out of the way for anyone, a... ... properly pierced, since it was forbidden to girls to enter otherwise into Paris. Then he asked her, by way of a joke, but with a serious face, what b... ...ling wedding-feast, where people come and go, foot- men, stablemen, cooks, musicians, buffoons, where every- one pays compliments and makes a noise. I...

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...ing the garden-plot, shrank back alarmed. The Irish servant-lass rushed up from the kitchen and smiled a “God bless you.” Amelia could hardly walk alo... ... war; until the Irish maid-servant came with a plate and a bottle of wine, from which the old gentleman insisted upon helping the valet. He gave him a... ... What a gulf lay between her and that past life. She could look back to it from her present stand- ing-place, and contemplate, almost as another being... ...us Grove, Booterstown, near Dublin, wid a Marchioness to teach us the true Parisian pronunciation, and a retired Mejor-General of the French service t... ...y poor Emmy, don’t be frightened. There’s no danger. The allies will be in Paris in two months, I tell you; when I’ll take you to dine in the Palais R... ... and most affectionate old friend. Should he continue to write to her from Paris, whither the army was marching? He might be able to give her interest... ...g by a lake covered with swans, and barges containing ladies in hoops, and musicians with flags and penwigs. Indeed Raggles thought there was no such ...

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...act, to none of the numerous societies which swarm in the English capital, from the Harmonic to that of 4 Around the World in 80 Days the Entomologis... ... with whom he had an open credit. His cheques were regularly paid at sight from his account current, which was always flush. Was Phileas Fogg rich? Un... ...spirit. It was at least certain that Phileas Fogg had not absented himself from London for many years. Those who were honoured by a better acquaintanc... ... as to make better use of my talents; and then I was a sergeant fireman at Paris, and assisted at many a big fire. But I quitted France five years ago... ...tards, he never rubbed against anybody. As for Passepartout, he was a true Parisian of Paris. Since he had abandoned his own country for England, taki... ...orry to set foot on his native soil again. Perhaps they would go as far as Paris, and it would do his eyes good to see Paris once more. But surely a g... ...th diamonds, and the magnificent weapons of a Hindoo prince. Next came the musicians and a rearguard of capering fakirs, whose cries 51 Jules Verne s... ...mselves upon the narrow benches and into the boxes opposite the stage. The musicians took up a position inside, and were vigorously performing on thei...

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... use it more often, it was only indifference and ennui which prevented him from so doing. He therefore allowed Valentine to go into the garden, sent a... ... invalid still retained that vacancy of expression which prevented his son from obtaining any knowledge of the feelings which were passing in his mind... ...ave recourse to another.” She then recited all the letters of the alphabet from A down to N. When she arrived at that letter the paralytic made her un... ...g as M. Noirtier,” said Madame de Villefort; “besides, they are to come to Paris in about a month, and Valentine, after the affront she has received, ... ...— it is in the country.” “In the country?” “Yes.” “Where is it, then? Near Paris, is it not?” “Very near, only half a league from the Barriers, — it i... ...s. “The French ladies, madame. He has made up his mind to take a wife from Paris.” “A fine idea that of his,” said Danglars, shrugging his shoulders. ... ...t already; it is no uncommon thing in Italy. But to return to the charming musicians — you should give us a treat, Danglars, with- out telling them th... ...one more song; it is so delightful to hear music in the distance, when the musicians are unrestrained by observation.” Danglars was quite annoyed by t...

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...reat we become so small in con- sequence. All truth came to Emily straight from honor to honor unimpaired. She never trafficked with falsehood seri- o... ...unequivocal. Evasion of fact she knew not, though her body might flit away from interruption, leaving an in- truder to “Think that a sunbeam left the ... ...it terms with life and friends, in which re- spect she was of a divergence from the usual not easily to be condoned. It was precisely the clamor of th... ... expensive? Would not the jest Have crawled too far? 51 LXXXII MUSICIANS wrestle everywhere: All day, among the crowded air, I hear the si... ...ple from Vevay, Belles from some lost summer day, Bees’ exclusive coterie. Paris could not lay the fold Belted down with emerald; V enice could not sh... ...s any, Gracious unto none. Borne, without dissent of either, T o the parish night; Of the separated people Which are out of sight? 240 ... ...0 Morns like these we parted; 199 332 Much madness is divinest sense 13 Musicians wrestle everywhere: 51 My cocoon tightens, colors tease, 178 My...

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...R I JUST AFTER PASSING Caraher’s saloon, on the County Road that ran south from Bonneville, and that divided the Broderson ranch from that of Los Muer... ... the faint and prolonged blowing of a steam whistle that he knew must come from the railroad shops near the depot at Bonneville. In starting out from ... ...he day seemed always at noon, and the sun blazed white hot over the valley from the Coast Range in the west to the foothills of the Sierras in the eas... ...nating abuse of European cooking. Nearly his entire time had been spent in Paris; but of this sojourn he had brought back but two souvenirs, an electr... ... joists of the walls; the last lantern hung, the last nail driven into the musicians’ platform. The sun set. There was a great scurry to have supper a... ...ittling a wax candle over the floor to make it slip- pery for dancing. The musicians arrived, the City Band of Bonneville— Annixter having managed to ... ...his hands from his pockets. But abruptly there was an interruption. In the musicians’ corner a scuffle broke out. A chair was overturned. There was a ...

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... Berenger’s education and opinions are looked on as not sufficiently alien from Roman Catholicism, a reference to Froude’s ‘History of Queen Elizabeth... ...of personal combat before the walls of Calais, Edward III. of England took from his helmet and presented to Sir Eustache de Ribaumont, a knight of Pic... ...aumont, a knight of Picardy, bidding him say everywhere that it was a gift from the King of England to the bravest of knights. The precious heirlooms ... ...ly abjure the errors in which we have been nurture. I have already sent to Paris to obtain from the Queen-mother the necessary permission to take my f... ...ple of babes went for nought,’ said Berenger. ‘ And shall you, indeed, see Paris, and all the braveries there?’ asked Philip. ‘I thought my Lord would... ...ss. ‘And me a pouncet-box?’ added Annora. ‘ And me a French puppet dressed Paris fashion?’ said Dolly. ‘And what shall he bring Lucy?’ added Bess. ‘I ... ...found himself in a spacious hall, with a raised gallery at one end for the musicians, the walls decorated with the glorious paintings collected by Fra...

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...ine by line, with the Edinburgh edi- 4 The Lady of the Lake tion of 1821 (from the Harvard Library), with Lockhart’s first edition, the “ Globe “ edi... ...izabethan words and constructions, and I have quoted many “ parallelisms “ from Shakespeare and his contemporaries. I believe I have referred to my ed... ...deep-mouthed bloodhound’s heavy bay Resounded up the rocky way, And faint, from farther distance borne, Were heard the clanging hoof and horn. 7 Sir ... ... under his shroud,” etc. See also on 757 below. 260. Maronnan’s cell. “The parish of Kilmaronock, at the eastern extremity of Loch Lomond, derives its... ...onging to the former nunnery was long used as the place of worship for the parish of Buchanan, but scarce any vestiges of it now re- main. The burial-... ...d the work on the same subject, ‘si gentement ecrit,’ by the venerable Dr. Paris de Puteo. The Highlanders continued to use broadsword and target unti... ...e. Presence-chamber. Cf. Rich. II. i. 3. 289: “Suppose the singing birds musicians, The grass whereon thou tread’st the presence strew’d” (that i...

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... London Bridge at noon on a gusty April day, was almost magically detached from his con- flict with the gale by some sly strip of slipperiness, abound... ...ockney crow-word of the day, or a word that had stuck in the fellow’s head from the perusal of his pothouse newspaper columns? Furthermore, the plea o... ...ewspaper columns? Furthermore, the plea of a fall, and the plea of a shock from a fall, required to account for the triviality of the mind, were humil... ...redi’s poetess will tell you. Quiet waters reflecting. I should feel it in Paris as well, though they have nightingales in their Bois. It’s the rustic... ...-doggy-foxy circle down there. We want enliven- ing. If we had your set of musicians and talkers!’ Nataly smiled in vacuous kindness, at a loss for th... ...ake the utmost of this mat- ter and count against chagrin. ‘She was off to Paris; went to test the last inventions:—French brains are always alert:— a... ...friend. 115 George Meredith CHAPTER XIV DISCLOSES A STAGE ON THE DRIVE TO PARIS A FORTNIGHT LATER, an extremely disconcerting circumstance occurred: ... ...h still a little objects to see their born gentle- man acting as leader of musicians. A people of slow move- ment, developing tardily, their country i... ...t earnestness worn as a cloak, but issuing, we see; not simply a leader of musicians, 190 One of Our Conquerors a leader of men. The halo of the mill...

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...(KING HENRY VIII:) CARDINAL WOLSEY: CARDINAL CAMPEIUS: CAPUCIUS: Ambassador from the Emperor Charles V CRANMER: Archbishop of Canterbury. DUKE OF NO... ...nd Cardinal of York. BUCKINGHAM: The devil speed him! no man’s pie is freed From his ambitious finger. What had he To do in these fierce vanities? I ... ...ch can with his very bulk Take up the rays o’ the beneficial sun And keep it from the earth. NORFOLK: Surely, sir, There’s ... ... before your highness sped to France, The duke being at the Rose, within the parish Saint Lawrence Poultney, did of me demand What was the speech amon... ... and set me lower: I have not long to trouble thee. Good Griffith, Cause the musicians play me that sad note I named my knell, whilst I sit meditatin... ...Porter: You’ll leave your noise anon, ye rascals: do you take the court for Paris garden? ye rude slaves, leave your gaping. [Within.] Good master po...

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...llation of the early editions; and in every material instance of departure from the wording of those originals the rejected reading has been subjoined... ...es capriciously. In the very act of transcribing his mind was apt to stray from the work in hand to higher things; he would lose himself in contemplat... ...the spelling of the manuscripts would only have served to divert attention from Shelley’s poetry to my own ingenuity in disgusting the reader accordin... ... one form. Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations,... ...as marred by the same circumstance. He went direct to Italy, avoiding even Paris, and did not make any pause till he arrived at Milan. The first aspec... ...asterpiece. It is the finest thing he ever wrote, and may claim proud com- parison not only with any contemporary, but preceding, poet. The varying fe... ...m was included in Galignani’s edi- tion of “Coleridge, Shelley and Keats”, Paris, 1829, and by Mrs. Shelley in the “Poetical Works” of 1839. Mrs. Shel...