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..., that the town talked about for two whole days, when the appearance of an Italian singer supplied a fresh subject for conversation,) and having busin... ...hin at the Council. There were with 133 Thackeray him two more lieutenant-generals, nine major-generals and brigadiers, seven colonels, eleven Peers ... ...egiment at Kensington on which we could rely. “Oh, Harry!” says one of the generals there present, “you were born under an unlucky star; I begin to th...

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...re she beheld the beautiful head of the young man—rather a Grecian than an Italian head, with fair, regu lar features, and a glistening of gold among... ...e witty, and the famous in every walk of life; princes, presidents, poets, generals, artists, actors, and philanthropists,—all making their own market... ..., who possess the kingly gifts to lead armies or to sway a people—Nature’s generals, her lawgivers, her kings, and with them also the deep philosopher... ...and oftenest, perhaps, by the splendor of its garments. Statesmen, rulers, generals, and all men who act over an extensive sphere, are most liable to ...

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... are to be guided, lords and commons controlled, judges instructed in law, generals in strategy, admirals in naval tactics, and orange-women in the ma... ...ladstone, when Tom Towers without a struggle can put us right? Look at our generals, what faults they make; at our admirals, how inactive they are. Wh... ...nly to retire as quickly as may be to some Ger- man obscurity, some unseen Italian privacy, or indeed, anywhere out of sight. What has made this awful... ...eared him; judges doubted their own verdicts unless he confirmed them; and generals, in their councils of war, did not consider more deeply what the e...

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...o insubordinately steps out of square to rescue a comrade than over twenty generals slaving even to baldness at the gross details of transport and com... ...- demned passenger-ship turned into a cargo-boat and owned by a second-had Italian firm. She was a crazy basket. We were cut down to fifteen ton of co... ...gels in the half dark, and wondering whether the next minute would put the Italian captain’s knife between his shoulder-blades. And the go-fever which... ... cen- sorships, railway-routes, transport, water-supply, the capacities of generals,—these in language that would have horrified a trusting public,—ra...

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...he Clothes fly off the whole dramatic corps; and Dukes, Grandees, Bishops, Generals, Anointed Presence itself, every mother’s son of them, stand strad... ...ess. 70 Sartor Resartus Topbooted Graziers from the North; Swiss Brokers, Italian Drovers, also topbooted, from the South; these with their subaltern... ...ank on a level with blowing their bodies to pieces by Gunpowder; that with Generals and Field-mar- shals for killing, there should be world-honored Di... ...isian life was at best but a scientific Hortus Siccus, bedizened with some Italian Gumflowers, such virtue could come out of it; what is to be looked ...

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...ost illustrious lives as in the most obscure, in ani- mals as in secretary-generals, there is a zenith and there is a nadir, a period when the fur is ... ... his foothold; for in the fortified city into which he had wormed himself, generals do not long keep useless mouths. So to his general trade of househ... ... her face. The charms which particularly distinguished this woman were the Italian ease of her artistic nature, her ready compre- hension, and the gra... ...rest of the wave, and you should have taken, like Monsieur de Villele, the Italian motto ‘Col tempo,’ in other words, ‘All things are given to him who...

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...e cracks and crevices where the eye de- lights to wander. Here you see the Italian pine, the stone pine, with its red bark and its majestic parasol; h... ...-room. The eye is first attracted to the ceiling, painted in fresco in the Italian manner, where lightsome arabesques are frolicking. Female forms, in... ... of the old parliament; hammers have demolished Montmorency, which cost an Italian fol- 13 Balzac lower of Napoleon untold sums; Val, the creation of... ...the courage of a daring man; he lacks mind and breadth of view. Like other generals to whom mili- tary common-sense, the natural boldness of those who... ...et little Genevieve on the road in a miserable condition, you cried out in Italian, ‘Piccina!’ The word became a nickname, and is now cor- rupted all ... ...yielded his “corps d’armee” to the Bourbons, that duty (performed by other generals and termed the disbanding of the army of 89 Balzac the Loire) cou... ...f one of the royal courts of a great city, who has various equals, such as generals, bish- ops, and prefects; whereas the judge of the court of a smal... ... till some time later, but she did not wish to lose the first night of the Italian Opera, and moreover she was lonely and bored; she missed Emile, who...

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...dy, I shall have the hap- piness of finding names already dear to your old Italian romancers among those of women whom we love, and to whose memory I ... ... Caryatides which the architects of the Middle Ages intro- duced into some Italian palaces, remotely imitated in those of the front of the Porte-Saint... ...y. And observe how immeasurably more imposing was the life of Mazarin, the Italian cardinal, than that of Richelieu, the French cardinal. Richelieu me... ...which his fair hair fell in thick curls, pre- sented a godlike appearance. Italian genius could invent the tale of Othello; English ge- nius could put... ...e savage, checking Lucien’s lamentations merely by his attitude. “How many generals died in the prime of life for the Emperor Napoleon?” he asked, aft... ...epartment, highly esteemed by MM. Lenoir and d’Albert, the last Lieutenant-Generals of Police. The Revolution had no police; it needed none. Espionage... ... was hardly five-and-twenty. Corentin, who had been retained as one of the generals of whom the Minister of Police is the High Constable, still held u... ..., Old Wide-Awake, or The Right Man—a man with legs of iron, arms of steel, Italian whiskers, hair like an artist’s, a beard like a sapper’s, and a fac...

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...d since under the Director-General, the Rex-Chancellor Oxensterne, and his Generals: collected and gathered together, at spare hours, by Colonel Rober... ...struments, each playing his own favourite tune with such a din, that if an Italian musician had lain buried within ten miles of them, he must have ris... ...ar to moun- taineers. One officer of the Covenanters alone, trained in the Italian wars, made a desperate defence upon the right wing. In every other ... ...er Scott and scarce were they again united, ere Argyle and his associ- ate generals were informed, that the royalists, having sud- denly disappeared f... ...mong the dusky and impenetrable mountains of Lochaber. The sagacity of the generals opposed to Montrose imme- diately conjectured, that it was the pur...

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...ghters, now married to the Comte de Montcornet, one of those of Napoleon’s generals who went over to the Bourbons. The Vidame held that a dinner-party... ...e loved him as they floated together on the breast of the amorous Queen of Italian seas. But even in that moment of bliss, such as angels know, some o... ...istocrat’s point of view; telling how he had been welcomed by the greatest Italian families of Genoa, T urin, Milan, Flo- rence, V enice, Rome, and Na...

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...n a pack of highly glazed cards and was going to spread them out, when his Italian valet brought him a letter on a silver tray. “ Another courier, ... ...ed the first interview between Hadji Murad and Vorontsov . That even an Italian opera was performed at the new theater, which was decorated in Orie... ...prove my action. “ All that I have written above I have also written to Generals Zavodovsky and Kozlovsky , to guide the lat- ter when communicatin...

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...ainst it) kissed them. Really, if young women will insist on kissing major generals, they must expect that the 64 Thomas de Quincey generals will ret... ...ral Needham, who commanded on this day, would have followed the example of Generals Fawcet and Loftus, and have ordered a retreat, had he not been det... ... half had served under Na- poleon in his first foreign campaign, viz., the Italian cam- paign of 1796, which accomplished the conquest of North- ern I... ...land something of that rank which the golden milestone of Rome held in the Italian peninsula. At Birmingham it was (which I, like myriads beside, had ... ...he soil was deep and adhesive, a worse evil beset the stately equipage. An Italian of rank, who has left a record of his perilous adventure, visited, ... ...eridge re- published in his “Biographia Literaria.” 2 From the well-known Italian epitaph—“Stava bene; ma per star meglio, sto qui”—I was well; but, ...

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...er to freshen his pillow. For ’tis Ireland gives England her soldiers, her generals too. Farther 19 George Meredith away, over field and bogland, the... ...uring his recent term of Indian services, was on the hills, where a day of Italian sky, or better, a day of our breezy South-west, washed from the sho... ...na came to Copsley to introduce her husband. They had run over Italy: ‘the Italian Peninsula,’ she quoted him in a letter to Lady Dunstane: and were f... ...ouple. A description of ‘a bit of a wrangle between us’ at Lucca, where an Italian post-master on a journey of in- spection, claimed a share of their ... ...them declined to be vocal. Diana sang alone for the credit of the country, Italian and French songs, Irish also. She was in her mood of Planxty Kelly ... ...he a pointedly complimentary acquaintance. His enthusiasm was reserved for Italian scenery. She had already formed a sort of estimate of his character...

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...re? Philip complains that certain of her gentlemen have fought against his generals in the Low Countries. He prays her to hang ‘em when they re-enter ... ...he wells. He was a Frenchy—a bad enemy he was.’ ‘I had mine too. He was an Italian, called Benedetto. I met him first at Oxford on Magdalen T ower whe... ... did. Was he a Frenchy like?’ ‘No, a hectoring, hard-mouthed, long-sworded Italian builder, as vain as a peacock and as strong as a bull, but, mark yo... ...ers, iron-workers and the rest—all toiling like cock- angels, and this mad Italian hornet fleeing one to next up and down the chapel. Done your heart ...

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...ne, and carved all over with names of Allah, and titles of old pirates and generals who reposed there. The guardian of the mosque sat in the garden-co... ... a much more Eastern look than the European quarter, with its Anglo-Gallic-Italian inhab- itants, and Babel-like civilisation. Here and there a large ... ...the town, who conveyed it in a language com- posed of French, Spanish, and Italian, and with a volubility quite worthy of a barber of “Gil Blas. ” The... ...and military Commanders, finding England here in a French hotel kept by an Italian, at the city of Grand Cairo, in Africa. On retiring to bed you take...

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... words:— INTRODUCTION All who are acquainted with the early history of the Italian stage are aware that Arlecchino is not, in his original concep- tio... ...r, as will appear from the following theatrical anecdote:— An actor on the Italian stage permitted at the Foire du St. Germain, in Paris, was renowned... ...f were to rise from the dead, he could not act Hamlet alone. There must be generals, colo- nels, commanding-officers, subalterns. But what are the pri... ...- nished to the scarlet and white of the other regiments.] There were some Italian and Flemish pictures of admitted authenticity, a few genuine bronze... ...t of Billingsgate. The vowels were not pronounced much broader than in the Italian language, and there was none of the dis- agreeable drawl which is s... ... or to submit to the laws of the ring; and that therefore, like a cowardly Italian, he had recourse to his fatal stiletto, to murder the man whom he d...

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...med to him that perhaps after all it was as well to let fruit- growers and Italians deal with singing-birds in their own way. Perhaps after all they h... ...d defensive. The events of the early spring, the bloody failure of British generalship at Neuve Chapelle, the naval disaster in the Dardanelles, the s... ...having need of them, having need of their service, even as great kings and generals and leaders need and use men. For a moment, for an endless age, th...

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... two gentlemen. The third party, which had ascended from the valley on the Italian side of the Pass, and had arrived first, were four in number: a ple... ...ther vehicles were there, much company being on the road, from the patched Italian V ettura—like the body of a swing from an English fair put upon a w... ...cannot learn. Mrs General is always with us, and we speak French and speak Italian, and she takes pains to form us in many ways. When I say we speak F... ...nd she takes pains to form us in many ways. When I say we speak French and Italian, I mean they do. As for me, I am so slow that I scarcely get on at ... ... even as he sat before her on his sofa, in the brilliant light of a bright Italian day, the wonderful city without and the splendours of an old palace... ...se’s sieve. Nobody said what anything was, but everybody said what the Mrs Generals, Mr Eustace, or somebody else said it was. The whole body of trave...

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...on each side, such as Mansart very justly delighted in; for in France, the Italian attics and flat roofs are a folly against which our climate protest... ...ul, irresist- ible, drawn from the same mysterious source from which great generals on fields of battle who inflame an army, great orators inspiring v... ...t motionless on their horses. The carriage was now surrounded by a mass of generals, marshals, and other offic- ers, all extremely brilliant in appear...

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...ve with Colibri.... And how well everything was arranged in it! Walls with generals’ gold lace on it, everywhere epaulettes, people blowing trumpets i... ...ver me; I sipped water, opened the window and played the ‘Kamarinsky’ with Italian variations on the guitar.... No good! I felt I must get out of the ... ...to declare that he could not go without powder as he had to associate with generals and their ladies. Well, my name-day had come. Nastasey Nastasyeitc...