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...ea was not alive, then, with great ships and brave sailors, sailing to and from all parts of the world. It was very lonely. The Is lands lay solitary... ... nothing of them. It is supposed that the Phoenicians, who were an ancient people, famous for carrying on trade, came A Child’s Histroy of England 8... ...iling over to the opposite coasts of France and Belgium, and saying to the people there, ‘We have been to those white cliffs across the water, which y... ...hose white cliffs across the water, which you can see in fine weather, and from that country, which is called Britain, we bring this tin and lead,’ te... ...nd lead,’ tempted some of the French and Belgians to come over also. These people settled themselves on the south coast of England, which is now calle... ...ved that part of the Is lands. It is probable that other people came over from Spain to Ireland, and settled there. Thus, by little and little, stran... ...to the kicked Duke, who straightway took him prisoner at a little inn near Vienna. The Duke’s master the Emperor of Germany, and the King of France, w...

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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... ... to take measures for the preparing of a mag- nificent ornamented tea. All people have their ways of express- ing kindness, and it seemed to Mrs. Sedl... ...ith men of fashion and ladies of note, on their way to Brussels and Ghent. People were going not so much to a war as to a fash- ionable tour. The news... ...to be said that this soft and gentle creature took her opinions from those people who surrounded her, such fidelity being much too humble-minded to th... ... moment’s notice upon the Elban Emperor. The au- gust jobbers assembled at Vienna, and carving out the king- doms of Europe according to their wisdom,... ...dy Gaunt had no children— the Lord George Gaunt was desired to return from Vienna, where he was engaged in waltzing and diplomacy, and to con- tract a... ...y); sometimes she found the brilliant dandy diplomatist of the Congress of Vienna dragging about a child’s toy, or nursing the keeper’s baby’s doll. S...

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...o give the form of a white house-front. “Oh, come when we’d five to choose from. At least if you count the Chicago flat.” “So we had—you wonder!” He l... ...ng loveliness of the night, she was aware only of the warm current running from palm to palm, as the moonlight below them drew its line of magic from ... ...Apples of silver in a net-work of gold ….” They leaned together, one flesh from shoulder to finger-tips, their eyes held by the snared glitter of the ... ...of bills and borrowing against which its frail structure had been reared. “People with a balance can’t be as happy as all this,” Susy mused, letting t... ...l this,” Susy mused, letting the moonlight filter through her lazy lashes. People with a balance had always been Susy Branch’s bug- bear; they were st... ...d them, detested them doubly, as the natural enemies of mankind and as the people one always had to put one’s self out for. The greater part of her li... ...Rome or Nice, unless indeed they were summoned by family duties to Berlin, Vienna or Madrid; for an extended connection with the principal royal house...

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...niversity. 3 George Meredith VITTORIA By George Meredith BOOK 1 CHAPTER I FROM MONTE MOTTERONE you survey the Lombard plain. It is a towering dome of... ...aten at them until they have got the aspect of the storm. They take colour from sun- light, and are joyless in colour as in shade. When the lower worl... ...tered swans; 4 Vittoria here and there a tented boat is visible, shooting from terraces of vines, or hanging on its shadow. Monte Boscero is un- veil... ...Spring of the great Italian uprising, when, though for a tragic issue, the people of Italy first felt and acted as a nation, and Charles Albert, calle... ...o. “If he marches out of his dominions, the king confers a blessing on his people perchance.” “Our king, signore!” The mountaineer waved his finger as... ...e that Carlo Ammiani, a Milanese, had reason to anticipate the approach of people by whom he, or they, might not wish to be seen. Had he studied Carlo... ...of the slumbering sword to hear their native waltzes sounding of exquisite Vienna, while their legs stretched in melancholy inactivity on the Piazza p... ... fall upon the patrol marching like one man, and hope to overcome them! In Vienna there was often despair: but it never existed in the Austrian camp. ... ...nothing more than the Italian disease showing symptoms here and there, and Vienna counselled measures mildly repressive,—’conciliating,’ it was her pl...

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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... ...ains, lakes and islands, formerly regarded with aversion, into a fairyland peopled with crea- tures whose joys and sorrows appealed irresistibly to ev... ... my eyes only examples of mildness, and was surrounded by some of the best people in the world? My father, my aunt, my nurse, my relations, our friend... ...y Latin, history, and antiquities; I could hardly recol- lect whether such people as Romans ever existed. When I visited my father, he no longer behel... .... The Marquis de Breil, son of the Count de Gauvon, was then ambassador at Vienna; some circumstances had occurred at that court which for some weeks ... ...e had just received from M. Vincent, charge des affaires from the king, at Vienna. The Prince Lobkowitz was then marching to Naples, and Count Gages h... ...nformed us that a man, whose person M. Vincent described, had set out from Vienna, and was to pass by V enice, in his way into Abruzzo, where he was s...

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...ON THE EVE a Novel By IVAN TURGENEV T ranslated from the Russian By Constance Garnett With an introduction by Edward Garnet... ...ty university. 3 Turgenev ON THE EVE a Novel By IVAN TURGENEV T ranslated from the Russian By Constance Garnett With an introduction by Edward Garnet... ...rgenev. Hawthorne and others have treated it, but the colour seems to fade from their artist characters when a com- parison is made between them and S... ...d won. But each of T urgenev’s novels in some subtle way suggests that the people he introduces are playing their little part in a great national dram... ... foreigners, thus straight to the heart of the national secrets of a great people, secrets which our own critics and diplomatists must necessarily mis... ...es, and smiled and leaned his head as boys do who know 10 On the Eve that people look at them admiringly. He wore a loose white coat, made like a blo... ...y from Russia, Insarov 143 Turgenev had lain ill for almost two months at Vienna, and only at the end of March had he been able to come with his wife... ...care of yourself after your Moscow illness, and you had to pay for that at Vienna. Now you must be more cautious.’ Insarov did not answer, but the sam... ...oast is particu- larly dangerous. Three weeks after Elena’s departure from Vienna, Anna Vassilyevna received the following letter in Moscow:— ‘My DEAR...

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...he collection has been made. It is rather intended as a treasury for young people, where they may find minuter particulars than their abridged histori... ...ew’s Germany. The Escape of Attalus is narrated 4 A Book of Golden Deeds (from Gregory of T ours) in Thierry’s ‘Lettres sur l’Histoire de France;’ th... ...dventures, and those of Prascovia Lopouloff true Elisabeth of Siberia, are from M. le Maistre; the shipwrecks chiefly from Gilly’s ‘Shipwrecks of the ... ... from Gilly’s ‘Shipwrecks of the British Navy;’ the Jersey Powder Magazine from the Annual Registrer, and that at Ciudad Rodrigo, from the tra- dition... ...er and thicker from the volcano, and the liquid mud streamed down, and the people fled and struggled on, and still the sentry stood at his post, unfli... ...s in that army with which David was to fulfill the ancient promises to his people. There were his three nephews, Joab, the fero- cious and imperious, ... ...away with her, on the plea of asking the Queen to make her a bedeswoman at Vienna, and this was granted to her. When all was ready, the gentleman desi...

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...lf. I have often heard persons of good judgment say that all the stir that people make in the world about ghosts and appa- ritions is owing to the str... ...hat there is no such thing as a spirit appearing, or a ghost walking; that people’s poring affectionately upon the past conversation of their de- ceas... ...her there are any such things as real apparitions, spectres, or walking of people after they are dead; or whether there is anything in the stories the... ...ou willing I should go?” – “No,” says she, very affectionately , “I am far from willing; but if you are resolved to go,” says she, “rather than I woul... ...g to increase it; that as to what my wife had said of its being an impulse from Heaven, and that it should be my duty to go, I had no notion of that; ... ... things, and to engage in some busi- ness that might effectually tie me up from any more excur- sions of this kind; for I found that thing return upon... ...took his leave of us, and went up the Elbe, in order to go to the court of Vienna, where he resolved to seek protection and could correspond with thos...

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...ery noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before h... ...bition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kind- ness touches and amuses h... ...n this to tag to the present story of 4 V anity Fair “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their serva... ...Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign. Only when her pupils quitted the establishment, or when t... ... work which she invariably pre- sented to her scholars, on their departure from the Mall. On the cover was inserted a copy of “Lines addressed to a yo... ...the wide world who would take the trouble off her hands. What causes young people to “come out,” but the noble ambition of matrimony? What sends them ... ... there? “Napoleon has landed at Cannes.” Such news might create a panic at Vienna, and cause Russia to drop his cards, and take Prussia into a corner,... ... moment’s notice upon the Elban Emperor. The au- gust jobbers assembled at Vienna, and carving out the king- doms of Europe according to their wisdom,... ...dy Gaunt had no children— the Lord George Gaunt was desired to return from Vienna, where he was engaged in waltzing and diplomacy, and to con- tract a...

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... beautiful, whose intelli- gent smile gives promise that she has inherited from you the most precious gifts of womanhood, and who will cer- tainly enj... ... Titian, Correggio, Allori, which seem abstractions, so dis- tant are they from our daily lives. If this book should wing its way across the Alps, it ... ...d with tur- quoise, and suspended by chains of beautiful workmanship, hung from the centre of the ceiling. The same system of deco- ration was followe... ...ains of righteousness. The history of all good homes is that of prosperous peoples; it can be written in two lines, and has in it nothing for literatu... ...ything. Kind- ness has its mishaps; often it is attributed to temperament; people are seldom willing to recognize it as the secret effort of a noble s... ... skin of a young shepherd, the original of which is in the royal palace of Vienna. On either side were candelabra of Renaissance de- sign. A clock, by... ...I understand now why Saint-Just wanted to guillo- tine this whole class of people.” “You’ll be back here to-morrow.” Blondet was right. Passions are a...

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...? I have 4 V anity Fair – V olume Three dined in it—moi qui vous parle, I peopled the chamber with ghosts of the mighty dead. As we sat soberly drink... ..., and would not be behindhand when the noiseless bottle went round; Scott, from under bushy eyebrows, winked at the apparition of a beeswing; Wilberfo... ...Levant House, then occupied by His Highness dur- ing the temporary absence from England of its noble propri- etor. She sang after dinner to a very lit... ... Europe has produced—the Duc de la 5 Thackeray Jabotiere, then Ambassador from the Most Christian King, and subsequently Minister to that monarch. I ... ...is in our noble and admirable society slang), but some of the best English people too. I don’t mean the most virtuous, or indeed the least virtuous, o... ...he stupidest, or the richest, or the best born, but “the best,”—in a word, people about whom there is no question— such as the great Lady Fitz-Willis,... ...tory says he engaged and ran a Janissary through the body at the relief of Vienna by Sobieski— but, quite undisturbed by the agonies of that prostrate... ...ssibility of truth in the report that she was a Russian spy at Toplitz and Vienna after- wards. I have even been informed that at Paris she discovered...

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...ecchio, like some huge civic fortress, with the great bell-tower springing from its embattled verge as a mountain-pine from the edge of a cliff. At it... ...I recognised him as Michael Angelo’s David. I turned with a certain relief from his sinister strength to a slender figure in bronze, stationed beneath... ... in the Greek mythology, but in the memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini. Glancing from one of these fine fellows to the other, I probably uttered some irrepr... ...s happy in a certain good faith of which we have lost the trick? There are people, I know, who deny that his spot- less Madonnas are anything more tha... ...haelesque touch, which they declare is a profane touch. Be that as it may, people’s religious and aesthetic needs went arm in arm, and there was, as I... ... A great work needs silence, privacy, mystery even. And then, do you know, people are so cruel, so frivolous, so unable to imagine a man’s wishing to ... ...y admired by Americans. I have sent them all over Europe—to London, Paris, Vienna! You may have observed some little specimens in Paris, on the Boule-...

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...N ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF Book One by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY original from the publishers Boston, Estes and Lauriat, Publishers To the Right Hono... ...ll the produce that, for long after the Restora- tion, our family received from their Virginian estates. My dear and honored father, Colonel Henry Esm... ...d here in our Republic, or at home in the always beloved mother coun- try, from which our late quarrel hath separated us, may surely be proud to be de... ... last an extraordi- nary brightness and freshness of complexion; nor would people believe that she did not wear rouge. At sixty years of age she still... ...eard my father use a rough word, ’twas extraordinary with how much awe his people regarded him; and the servants on our plantation, both those assigne... ...h as the most severe taskmasters round about us could never get from their people. He was never familiar, though perfectly simple and natural; he was ... ...paigns with the Prince of Baden on the Danube, and witnessed the rescue of Vienna from the Turk. And he spoke of his mili- tary exploits pleasantly, a... ...ho was never tired of hearing his stories of his campaigns and his life at Vienna, V enice, Paris, and the famous cities of Europe which he had visite...

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...d now, believe that the writer would not, for the wealth of England, steal from poesy a single lie with which to em- bellish this narrative. The follo... ...ower lip and wrap it over the upper, nodding his head as if to add: “Solid people, those; nothing to be said against them.” Ask no further; Practical ... ... pretty woman who is still worth the trouble of a passion.” This remark is from the species Fop, who has just break- fasted, doesn’t weigh his words, ... ... the genus Spiteful. An Attache to an embassy: “Madame Firmiani? Isn’t she from Antwerp? I saw her ten years ago in Rome; she was very handsome then.”... ...dividuals are usually taciturn, and when they talk it is only about Spain, Vienna, Italy, or Petersburg. Names of countries act like springs in their ... ...ds there without fear; if there are any scoundrels in her salons, they are people of quality and come in their carriages; such persons never quarrel.”... ...Firmiani a hundred thousand francs a year? non- sense, you are crazy! Some people will persist in giving mil- lions with the liberality of authors, to...

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... humanely great—great, I mean, as affecting a whole mass of lives—has come from reflection. On the other hand, you cannot fail to see the power of mer... ...eserved for the edification of posterity. Among other sayings—I am quoting from memory—I remember this solemn admonition: “Let all thy words have the ... ...ly reality in an invented world, among imagi- nary things, happenings, and people. Writing about them, he is only writing about himself. But the discl... ...here was nothing in them to perplex a young conscience. Having broken away from my origins under a storm of blame from every quarter which had the mer... ...his worship for Napoleon the Great, he loved really, I believe, only three people in the world: his mother—your great-grand- mother, whom you have see... ...t existed up to 1830 in the reduced kingdom established by the Congress of Vienna—I must say that from all that more dis- tant past, known to me tradi... ...so far as the old King Louis- Philippe, who used to say in his exile, “The people are never in fault”—one may admit that there must be some righteousn... ...he holiday is that before the day on which the remark was made we had seen Vienna, the Upper Danube, Munich, the Falls of the Rhine, the Lake of Const... ... of Alexander I, Autocrat of all the Russias. This kingdom, created by the Vienna Congress as an ac- knowledgment to a nation of its former independen...

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... humanely great—great, I mean, as affecting a whole mass of lives—has come from reflection. On the other hand, you cannot fail to see the power of mer... ...d for the edifica- tion of posterity. Amongst other sayings—I am quot- ing from memory—I remember this solemn admo- nition: “Let all thy words have th... ... reality in an invented world, amongst imaginary things, hap- penings, and people. Writing about them, he is only writing about himself. But the discl... ...re was noth- ing in them to perplex a young conscience. Having broken away from my origins under a storm of blame from every quarter which had the mer... ...his worship for Napoleon the Great, he loved really, I believe, only three people in the world: his mother—your great- grandmother, whom you have seen... ...t existed up to 1830 in the reduced kingdom established by the Congress of Vienna—I must say that from all that more distant past, known to me traditi... ... so far as the old King Louis-Philippe, who used to say in his exile, “The people are never in fault”—one may admit that there must be some righteousn... ... holiday is that be- fore the day on which the remark was made we had seen Vienna, the Upper Danube, Munich, the Falls of the Rhine, the Lake of Const... ...of Alexander I., Autocrat of all the Russias. This kingdom, created by the Vienna Congress as an acknowledgment to a nation of its former inde- penden...

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...erizy, and the Chevalier du Rouvre agreed, in order to save their fortunes from the dissipations of the marquis, to settle them on their niece, to who... ..., moreover, they each pledged themselves to pay ten thousand francs a year from the day of her marriage. It is quite unnecessary to say that the Polis... ...rance and Europe had given us six thousand men, and what men! Do not infer from this that either side is taken here; either that of the Emperor Nichol... ...tand himself. But how could the Parisians avoid disliking an unfortu- nate people who were the cause of that shameful falsehood enacted during the fam... ...why it was that in 1835 the word “Pole” con- veyed a derisive meaning to a people who consider them- selves the wittiest and most courteous nation on ... ...qualities to bring it out. There is, probably, more real con- versation in Vienna or St. Petersburg than in Paris. Equals do not need to employ delica... ...the Chevalier du Rouvre in yielding to the foolish passion of their niece. People jumped, as usual, from one extreme of judgment to the other. During ...

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... that the personality of the narrator was extremely suggestive quite apart from the story he was telling me. I heard a few years ago that he had died ... ...story he was telling me. I heard a few years ago that he had died far away from his beloved Naples where that “abominable adventure” did really happen... ...n, or at any rate be- gun, within a month of finishing Nostromo; but apart from the locality, and that a pretty wide one (all the South American Conti... ...n the growth of political hatred. And, as is usual in war, the mass of the people, who had the least to gain by the issue, suffered most in their ob- ... ...ice at his back. It was indeed strange that Gaspar Ruiz should desert. His people were in too humble a station to feel much the disad- vantages of any... ...ried off the remaining horses and cattle, and having thus deprived the old people of all their worldly possessions, left them sitting under a bush in ... ...nts of the troops cantoned between the Rhine and the Save. In the cafés in Vienna it was gen- erally estimated, from details to hand, that the ad- ver... ...e train de luxe of the International Sleeping Car Company, via Trieste and Vienna. As the four long, sombre coaches pulled out of the station I raised...

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...AS, Boissy d’, President, First of Prairial. ANGOULEME, Duchesse d’, parts from her father. ANGREMONT, Collenot d’, guillotined. ANTOINETTE, Marie, sp... ...er of Guards, courage of, Fifth October, at Versailles, shows her- self to people, and Louis at Tuileries, and the Lorrainer, and Mirabeau, previous t... ... at Tuileries, and the Lorrainer, and Mirabeau, previous to flight, flight from Tuileries, captured, and Barnave, Coblentz intrigues, and Lamotte’s Me... ...r of Assembly, one of a trio, Jacobin, duel with Cazales, escorts the King from Varennes, conciliates Queen, becomes Constitutional, retires to Grenob... ... to Convention, and Dumouriez, oaths by, in Convention, on suf- ferings of People, and Girondins, arrested, returns in triumph, fall of Girondins. MAR... ...T, Controller of France, on Corn-law, dismissed, death of. TYRANTS, French people rise against. UNITED STATES, declaration of Liberty, embassy to Loui... ...ayette. WATIGNY, Battle of. WEBER, in Insurrection of Women, Queen leaving Vienna. WESTERMANN, August Tenth, purged out of the Jacobins, tried and gui...

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...be considered a mere fancy name, neither more nor less connected with real people than the conventional Belval, Floricour, or Derville of the stage, o... ... years; they were lords para- mount in the estates of a province where the people looked up to them with superstitious awe, as to the image of the Hol... ...ly, and for a while he lived in hiding. Then, in the name of the Sovereign People, the d’Esgrignon lands were dishonored by the District, and the wood... ...iquities meal, until he could scarce draw nine thousand francs of in- come from the pickings of his old estates? It was in the month of October 1800 t... ...iwick, and subsequently the presidial; it had belonged to the d’Esgrignons from generation to generation; and now, in consideration of five hundred lo... ...l d’Esgrignon. In 1800 little or no difficulty was made over erasing names from the fatal list, and some few emigres began to return. Among the very f... ... I have gone through museums of old furniture in Paris, London, Munich, or Vienna, with the gray-headed custodian who shows you the splendors of time ...