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...hou hast spoken treason against the Norman, 11 Sir Walter Scott —and thou art but a cast-away swineherd,—thou wouldst waver on one of these trees as ... ...the dog where the deer lies, if I have no mind he should chase him.” “Thou art right,” said Gurth; “it were ill that Aymer saw the Lady Rowena; and it... ...ner done than the figure arose, exclaiming in good French, “Whosoever thou art, it is dis- courteous in you to disturb my thoughts.” “We did but wish ... ...r Scott CHAPTER III Then (sad relief!) from the bleak coast that hears The German Ocean roar, deep-blooming, strong, And yellow hair’ d, the blue-eyed... ...ality towards those whom the age accounted at once the secretaries and the historians of honour. The bounty of the spectators was acknowledged by the ... ...uperstitions which his ances- tors had brought with them from the wilds of Germany. He remembered, moreover, that he was in the house of a Jew, a peop... ...ry one of those numerous passages which he has collected from contemporary historians, to prove that fiction itself can hardly reach the dark reality ... ...th Queen of England, niece to Edgar Atheling, and mother to the Empress of Germany, the daughter, the wife, and the mother of monarchs, was obliged, d... ...ivate life of our ancestors lie scattered through the pages of our various historians, bearing, indeed, a slender proportion to the other matters of w...

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... Henry. “Very like a whale.” Hamlet. “Which to recure, no skill of leach’s art Mote him availle, but to returne againe To his wound’s worker, that wit... ...back a grove of pikes appears.” Waller’s Battle of the Summer Islands. “By art is created that great Leviathan, called a Commonwealth or State — (in L... ...! how bitterly will burst those straps in the first howling gale, when thou art driven, straps, buttons, and all, down the throat of the tempest. But t... ...ing the cetacea into groups and families. Utter confusion exists among the historians of this animal” (sperm whale), says Surgeon Beale, A. D. 1839. “... ...aded whale, is the present Cachalot of the French, and the Pottfisch of the Germans, and the Macrocephalus of the Long Words. He is, without doubt, the... ...t circumspection. For, like the Coronation banquet at Frankfort, where the German Emperor profoundly dines with the seven Imperial Electors, so these ... ...an or animal, the mystical brow is as that great golden seal affixed by the German emperors to their decrees. It signifies — “God: done this day by my h... ...ohn Leo) is said to have layn there a hundred Years before I saw it. Their Historians affirm, that a Prophet who prophesy’d of Mahomet, came from this ...

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...ss of Charles Strickland was authentic. It may be that you do not like his art, but at all events you can hardly refuse it the trib- ute of your inter... ...ary complement to his merits. It is still possible to discuss his place in art, and the adulation of his admirers is perhaps no less capricious than t... ..., and that is that he had genius. To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am willing... ...ngs of all lovers of art. Dr. Weitbrecht-Rotholz belongs to that school of historians which believes that human nature is not only about as bad as it ... ...lthy manufacturer at Lille, who fled from that city on the approach of the Germans, is now in the National Gallery at Stockholm. The Swede is adept at...

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...e-roi need not fail; and so by substance and show, shall Royalty, if man’s art can popularise it, be popularised. (Deux Amis, iii. c. 10.) Or, alas, i... ...goose Gobel, for example,—or Go(with an umlaut)bel, for he is of Strasburg German breed, be a Con- stitutional Archbishop? Alone of all men there, Mir... ...arsis, it is a headlong, swift-going faith. Mounted thereon, meseems, thou art bound hastily for the City of Nowhere; and wilt arrive! At best, we may... ...cases, is fellowship; soul mystically strength- ening soul! The meditative Germans, some think, have been of opinion that Enthusiasm in the general me... ...ng landscapes; and into the night of very Death is shed holiest dawn! Thou art to all an indefeasible possession in this God’s- world: to the wise a s... ...his world, were the time for her to speak. One Prophetess, though careless Historians have omitted her name, condition, and whereabout, be- comes audi... ...spread among them. Bouille is firm as the adamant; but what shall he do? A German Regiment, named of Salm, is thought to be of better temper: neverthe... ...ative is to do. Greatly to the scandal of philosophi- cal men, and of most Historians;—who do in that judge naturally, and yet not wisely. A Governing... ...t: on the morrow is public entry into Paris. On which public entry the Day-Historians, Diurnalists, or Journalists as they call themselves, have prese...

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... good entertainment from real Genoese dishes, such as Tagliarini; Ravioli; German sausages, strong of garlic, sliced and eaten with fresh green figs; ... ...hat anything short of a real man could be so tedious. It is the triumph of art. 46 Pictures from Italy In the ballet, an Enchanter runs away with the... ...mourn ful and depressing influence. It is miserable to see great works of art—something of the Souls of Painters—perishing and fading away, like huma... ...ed Pig. What a gallery it was! I would take their opinion on a question of art, in preference to the discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Now that we we... ... with the eyes of Heaven knows how many English, French, Americans, Swiss, Germans, Russians, Swedes, Norwegians, and other foreigners, nailed to thei... ... which is perched on the steep and lofty hill above the little town of San Germano, and is lost on a misty morning in the clouds. So much the better, ... ...de by side with Michael Angelo, Canova, Titian, Rembrandt, Raphael, Poets, Historians, Philoso phers—those illustrious men of history, beside whom it...

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...enry. “V ery like a whale.” —Hamlet. “Which to secure, no skill of leach’s art Mote him availle, but to returne againe To his wound’s worker, that wit... ...ck a grove of pikes appears.” —Waller’ s Battle of the Summer Islands. “By art is created that great Leviathan, called a Common- wealth or State—(in L... ... how bitterly will burst those straps in the first howling gale, when thou art driven, straps, buttons, and all, down the throat of the tempest. But t... ... the cetacea into groups and families.... Utter confusion exists among the historians of this animal” (sperm whale), says Surgeon Beale, A.D. 1839. “U... ...circumspection. For, like the Coronation banquet at Frank- fort, where the German Emperor profoundly dines with the seven Imperial Electors, so these ... ...n or animal, the mystical brow is as that great golden seal affixed by the German Emperors to their decrees. It signifies—”God: done this day by my ha... ...ed skulls, all bearing rudimental resemblance to the skull proper. It is a German conceit, that the vertebrae are absolutely undevel- oped skulls. But... ...hn Leo) is said to have layn there a hundred Y ears before I saw it. Their Historians affirm, that a Prophet who prophesy’d of Mahomet, came from this...

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...er,— Loose not the wine-skin foot, thou chief of men, Until to Athens thou art come again. Pittheus, therefore, taking advantage from the obscurity 7... ... up to perform the like. Besides, they were related, being born of cousins-german. For Aethra was daughter of Pittheus, and Alcmena of Lysidice; and L... ...fore. And this he did without having either prac- ticed or ever learnt the art of bending these trees, to show that natural strength is above all art.... ...Medea, having fled from Corinth, and prom- ised Aegeus to make him, by her art, capable of having chil- dren, was living with him. She first was aware... ...d not deliver up Daedalus, who was nearly related to him, being his cousin-german, his mother being Merope, the daughter of Erechtheus. In the meanwhi... ...ophon. The calamities which befell Phaedra and this son, since none of the historians have contradicted the tragic poets that have written of them, we... ...asion and mutual agreement and composition, for so the greater part of the historians write; Philochorus adds further that this was the first treaty t... ...d them on a smooth piece of ground, which they now call Cermanes, formerly Germanus, perhaps from Germani, which signifies brothers. Near this place g... ... exact form as far as Numa Pompilius, yet there is great diversity amongst historians concerning the time in which he reigned; a certain writer called...

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...it, the wine-skins at the bed-head, and those notable examples of hostelry art, Helen going off in high spirits on Paris’s arm, and Dido on the tower ... ...n. He was to found a great national drama, based on the true principles of art, that was to be the envy of all nations; he was to drive from the stage... ...nze statue in the little garden of the Plaza de las Cortes, a fair work of art no doubt, and unexceptionable had it been set up to the local poet in t... ...he real, between the spirit of poetry and the spirit of prose; and perhaps German phi- losophy never evolved a more ungainly or unlikely camel out of ... ... which is ill done and worse contrived, for it is the business and duty of historians to be exact, truthful, and wholly free from passion, and neither... ...- nificant they might be, an example that might be followed by those grave historians who relate transactions so curtly and briefly that we hardly get... ...ld, too, that Don Fernando de Guevara did not go in quest of adventures to Germany, where he engaged in combat with Micer George, a knight of the hous... ...r way,” said Don Quixote, “would not be to write truth, but falsehood, and historians who have recourse to falsehood ought to be burned, like those wh... ... that being so, the usage should in justice extend to all nations, and the German poet should not be undervalued because he writes in his own lan- gua...

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...ave served him for the prompter’s copy; For her Feinagle’s were an useless art, And he himself obliged to shut up shop — he Could never make a... ... a doubt; but ne’er magician’s wand Wrought change with all Armida’s fairy art Like what this light touch left on Juan’s heart. And if she met h... ...curity entwine, Here is the empire of thy perfect bliss, And here thou art a god indeed divine.’ The bard I quote from does not sing amiss, ... ... ye! who teach the ingenuous youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany, or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends... ...make a ballad or romance on The last war—much the same in Portugal; In Germany, the Pegasus he ‘d prance on Would be old Goethe’s (see what ... ...n’ (As Pistol calls it), but a young Livonian. Juan, to whom he spoke in German, knew As much of German as of Sanscrit, and In answer made a... ...yore, Who painted their bare limbs, but not with gore. And when you hear historians talk of thrones, And those that sate upon them, let it be ... ...fter all, what is a lie? ‘T is but The truth in masquerade; and I defy Historians, heroes, lawyers. priests, to put A fact without some leav...

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...rius, as to his re- nown, in proving that he was able to conquer places by art, which were impregnable by the force of arms. So long as he had to do w... ...h and florid, and his shape as delicate as if his limbs had been carved by art in the most accurate proportions. He was not a great orator, but winnin... ...rs with the same nation, as this would be to instruct their enemies in the art of it. Meanwhile, the allies of Sparta were not a little discon- tented... ...e, to hide his arms, that so the greatness of the number might not appear. Historians differ about the cause of the Thebans’ depar- ture from Sparta. ... ...hree hundred several nations; that had fought innumerable battles with the Germans and Gauls, and always carried the victory; that had taken a million... ... that must still be fed with new tro- phies and triumphs, the Parthian and German wars would yield matter enough to satisfy the most covetous of honor... ...is army along the sea-coasts of Pamphylia with such expedi- tion that many historians have described and extolled it with that height of admiration, a... ...throne of Cyrus.” Such is the narrative given by the greater number of the historians. But to return to Alexander. After he had reduced all Asia on th... ...ad deserted, and the cities which they had burnt. This he did for fear the Germans should pass in and possess themselves of the land whilst it lay uni...

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...elf, “God keep thee in his hand, poor Don Quixote, for it seems to me thou art precipitating thyself from the height of thy madness into the pro- foun... ...hat are islands? Is it something to eat, glutton and gormandiser that thou art?” “It is not something to eat,” replied Sancho, “but something to gover... ...tunes belong more properly to knights-errant than to their squires.” “Thou art mistaken, Sancho,” said Don Quixote, “according to the maxim quando cap... ...r way,” said Don Quixote, “would not be to write truth, but falsehood, and historians who have recourse to false- hood ought to be burned, like those ... ... they scrutinised. Men fa- mous for their genius, great poets, illustrious historians, are al- ways, or most commonly, envied by those who take a part... ...c Church holds and believes, and that I am a mortal enemy of the Jews, the historians ought to have mercy on me and treat me well in their writings. B... ... that being so, the usage should in justice extend to all nations, and the German poet should not be undervalued because he writes in his own lan- gua... ...ave him with him that he would not have changed places with the emperor of Germany. On taking leave he kissed the hands of the duke and duchess and go... ... there I was anxious to see all I could. I crossed into Italy, and reached Germany, and there it seemed to me we might live with more freedom, as the ...

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...it, the wine-skins at the bed-head, and those notable examples of hostelry art, Helen going off in high spirits on Paris’s arm, and Dido on the tower ... ...n. He was to found a great national drama, based on the true principles of art, that was to be the envy of all nations; he was to drive from the stage... ...nze statue in the little garden of the Plaza de las Cortes, a fair work of art no doubt, and unexceptionable had it been set up to the local poet in t... ...he real, between the spirit of poetry and the spirit of prose; and perhaps German phi- losophy never evolved a more ungainly or unlikely camel out of ... ... which is ill done and worse contrived, for it is the business and duty of historians to be exact, truthful, and wholly free from passion, and neither... ...- nificant they might be, an example that might be followed by those grave historians who relate transactions so curtly and briefly that we hardly get... ...ld, too, that Don Fernando de Guevara did not go in quest of adventures to Germany, where he engaged in combat with Micer George, a knight of the hous...

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...never let these tastes bring him into debt or ex- travagance. His turn for art and music began to show itself, and the anthems at St. George’s Chapel ... ...lieve on Me through their word; that they all may be One, as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be One in Us: that the world m... ...on began, partly from the opening of his mind by the wonders of nature and art, and partly from the development of his genius for philology . Aptitude... ...language had already shown itself when his sister Fanny had given him some German lessons; and even on his first halt at Cologne, he received the comp... ...ompliment, ‘Sie sprechen Deutsch wohl’ and he found him- self talking to a German on one side and a Frenchman on the other. His letters throughout his... ...ed to obtain a Fellowship at Merton, and wished in the mean- time to learn German thoroughly in order to study Hebrew by the light of German scholarsh... ...and the whole thing was drudgery tn me. I had no ap- preciation, again, of Historians, or historians; only thought Thucydides difficult and Herodotus ...

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...ntive bent, And locks flung back, and lips apart, Like monument of Grecian art, In listening mood, she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the stra... ...llant’s sigh, And leading star of every eye, And theme of every minstrel’s art, The Lady of the Bleeding Heart!’ XI. ‘Fair dreams are these,’ the maid... ... chorus wild, the Chieftain’s name; While, prompt to please, with mother’s art The darling passion of his heart, The Dame called Ellen to the strand, ... ...e soil That paid so ill the labourer’s toil; Their rolls showed French and German name; And merry England’s exiles came, T o share, with ill-concealed... ...is way in the town which he inhabited, the capital, if I mistake not, of a German province. He had accidentally involved himself among the narrow and ... ...eed, they are not the same class of beings. In the huge metrical record of German chivalry entitled the Helden- Buch, Sir Hildebrand, and the other he... ...landers, for which no apology was necessary. The Gael, great tradi- tional historians, never forgot that the Lowlands had, at some remote period, been...

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...tre de Poste, with a broad oath, orders his Postilion, “Va bon train; thou art driving M. de Voltaire.” At Paris his carriage is “the nucleus of a com... ...as Carlyle great ingenuity, native talent, what one might call unconscious art; altogether a perspicuous clear work, pleasant reading still: this is t... ...cs! But perhaps the notablest god we hear tell of is one of whom Grimm the German Etymologist finds trace: the God Wunsch, or Wish. The God Wish; who ... ...Speech of the com- mon people is still in a singular degree Icelandic; its German- ism has still a peculiar Norse tinge. They too are “Normans,” 20 T... ...t are sunk from us forever into unknown thousands of years. Nay Grimm, the German Antiquary, goes so far as to deny that any man Odin ever existed. He... ... no school-learning; of the thing we call school-learning none at all. The art of writing was but just introduced into Arabia; it seems to be the true... ...mselves, were this one undeniable fact kept hon- estly in view by History! Historians indeed will tell you that they do keep it in view;—but look whet...

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...d of French historical papers, and are the one great source from which all historians derive their insight into the closing years of the reign of the ... ...tus; the author of a language of his own, lacking in accuracy, system, and art, yet an admirable writer.” Leon Vallee reinforces this by saying: “Sain... ... in the streets the coach of Madame de Bouillon, which the servants of the German woman forced to give way to their mistress’s. The Bouillons, piqued ... ...mself in the matter. She was so outraged, that she resolved to retire into Germany, and in a very few months did so. My year of service in the Muskete... ...onduct of that weak King governed by that first minister to whom poets and historians have given the glory they have stripped from his master; as, for... ...aint-Simon to Versailles, and sent off a large detachment of the army into Germany. The surprise of the Marechal de Luxembourg was without bounds. He ... ...ad through Marly, and thence to Paris; and Madame la Duchesse, who had the art of writing witty songs, made one upon this theme. The Princesse de Cont... ...l in- formed of the anecdotes that he relates, and which escape almost all historians. I have found there, for instance, the Day of the Dupes related ... ... air. He had learned from the Queen his mother, and well re- membered this art. The crowd, therefore, constantly flocked towards the Palais Royal. At ...

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...he inheritance of his grandfather the banker of Hamburg. But when that old German died in 1826, he left his grandson Giguet a paltry two thousand fran... ...his capacity of page to the Emperor, trained from the age of twelve in the art of riding, he was held to be the skilfulest of horsemen. 84 The Deputy... ...a daring man kept for use at any moment and possessing many secrets of the art of diplomacy, was insufficient for the dissipations of a life as splend... ...rica. I’ll stay there long enough to make my promotion to the same post in Germany legitimate. If I am worth anything, they will soon take me out of i... ... nar- rative for this purpose would be to fly in the face of every rule of art and expose the present pious guardian of literary orthodoxy to the wrat... ...at name. This church is a building of very little interest, no matter what historians and certain “Guides to Paris” may say. I should therefore have p... ...First, Marianina’s brother has just married into a grand-ducal fam- ily of Germany. Immense sacrifices must have been required of the de Lanty family ... ... in your midst—better than you, better than I, better than all orators and historians—a woman who has weighed and understood Danton, and who says to t...

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...ial revolutions, the ed- dies, as it were, of the storm of 1789, which the historians of great social movements neglect to inquire into, although as a... ...over- whelmed by it. Was France less prolific of political capacities than Germany? The rather silly game of what are called “con- stitutional institu... ...ssessed sketches, engravings, and pictures. He did a great deal of good to art- ists by simply not injuring them and by furthering their wishes on cer... ...ull of good taste and of exquisite things, where each detail was a work of art well placed and 33 Balzac well surrounded, and where Madame Rabourdin,... ...f some kind, or a widow,—who might fall in love with him, he practised the art of twirling his cane and of flinging the sort of glance which Bixiou to... ...the triumph of his opinions from end to end of Europe. He dreamed of a new Germany and a new Italy. His heart swelled with that dull, collective love ... ...leville, let me tell you that Bonaparte may perhaps be styled Em- peror by historians, but it is extremely out of place to refer to him as such in a g... ...ret. “Is that your last word?” Bixiou. “Yes, sir! whether English, French, German or Ital- ian,—I let you off the other languages.” 195 Balzac Poiret...

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...offering him at the same time that engraving which I have at last found in Germany, after two years’ search. He is now engaged in analyzing hair: Chif... ...is eyes lighted on the following title, yellow with dust: “Abdeker, or the Art of Preserving Beauty.” He picked up the so-called Arab book, a sort of ... ...rds. This curious document belongs to the class which, in a higher sphere, historians call pieces justificatives. We give it here: THE DOUBLE PASTE OF... ...These striking points of information on the French lan- guage, on dramatic art, politics, literature, and science, will explain the bearings of the bo... ...e upon the mecha- nism of life, has been perhaps too much neglected by the historians of the social kingdom. Madame Cesar had guessed the secret of Ro... ...the return of the Bourbons and anxious to stand well at court, had gone to Germany and bought up all the debts contracted by the princes during the em... ... all sides. Du Tillet accompanied Monsieur Clement Chardin des Lupeaulx to Germany during the Hundred Days, and came back at the second Restoration, h... ...hree years at the cost of the State. In Italy the young man had dreamed of art; in Paris he thought of fortune. Government alone can pay the needful m...

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... have not been defeated, Though we can’t be overcome, Still, whene’er thou art repeated, I would fain that grief were dumb. Chillianwallah, Chillianwa... ...t hath no theme, and where sleep hath no dream, In patience and peace thou art gone—to thy grave! Gone where no warning can wake thee to morning, Dead... ...mile or a sigh. The tree that is rootless must ever be fruitless; And thou art alone in thy death and thy birth; No last loving token of wedded love b... ... dull MacMahon: ‘The cow that sees a passing train’: So spies she Russian, German, French. VIII She? no, her weakness: she unbraced Among those athle... ... with the foul intent Occult, by him observed and foiled betimes, Let fool historians chronicle as crimes. His blows were dealt to clear the way he we... ...me she saw, Nor when dispieced as prey, As victrix when abhorred - A Grand Germania, stout on soil; Audacious up the ethereal dim; The forest’s Infant...