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...l,’ the maid replied, and high Her father’s soul glanced from her eye, ‘My debts to Roderick’s house I know: All that a mother could bestow T o Lady M... ...ain son, from ire Of Scotland’s king who shrouds my sire, A deeper, holier debt is owed; And, could I pay it with my blood, Allan! Sir Roderick should... ...hief, I vowed thy death; Yet sure thy fair and generous faith, And my deep debt for life preserved, A better meed have well deserved: Can naught but b... ...s they, from far who roved, T o live by battle which they loved. There the Italian’s clouded face, The swarthy Spaniard’s there you trace; The mountai... ...Incur any peril. Milton uses the verb intran- sitively in Reason of Church Government, ii. 3: “it may peril to stain itself.” 587. Not in action. The ... ... rights of sepulture as may be expected from a people whose whole laws and government, if clanship can be called so, turned upon the single principle ... ...er among many other great lords.’ Nor was the matter much mended under the government of the Earl of Angus; for though he caused the King to ride thro... ...sword and shield. The masters of the noble science of defence were chiefly Italians. They made great mys- tery of their art and mode of instruction, n...

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... any public furtherance or requisition. To all appearance, the enlightened Government of Weissnichtwo, in founding their New University, imagined they... ...lasses, was the ad- miration of this new Professorship: how an enlightened Government had seen into the Want of the Age (Zeitbedurfniss); how at lengt... ...; so ready to hold his peace for indefinite periods, should an enlightened Government con- sider that occasion did not call. But such admiration and s... ...es have been out- miracled: for there are Rothschilds and English National Debts; and whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over... ...ess. 70 Sartor Resartus Topbooted Graziers from the North; Swiss Brokers, Italian Drovers, also topbooted, from the South; these with their subaltern... ...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 ... ... manhood is the Tailor not conjectured to per- form? Can he not arrest for debt? Is he not in most coun- tries a taxpaying animal? “To no reader of th... ...nd it will be Day. Mankind will repay with interest their long-accumulated debt: the Anchorite that was scoffed at will be worshipped; the Fraction wi...

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...nd from Saint-Nazaire by water, with Nantes. The land road is used only by government; the more rapid and more fre- quented way being by water from Sa... ... little fitted to encourage travel- lers, still exist. In the first place, government is slow in its proceedings; and next, the inhabitants of the reg... ...reton province, where no member of the new administration sent down by the government was ever allowed to penetrate. For the last six years the rector... ... 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... ...became, at heart, unknown to the world, a sort of female Don Juan, without debts and without conquests. Encouraged by success, she published the two v... ... 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... ...e. After knowing various writers, poor but dishonest, clever but deeply in debt; after trying certain rich men as calculating as they were foolish; an... ...et at the close of the month on two thousand five hundred francs without a debt, —a thing unheard of in the faubourg Saint-Germain of the 13th arrondi...

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...ere lacking to Pierrotin, and where to get them he did not know. He was in debt to the master of the Lion d’Argent; he was in danger of his losing his... ...cil of State, and received one of the most disorganized departments of the government to reconstruct. This scion of an old histori- cal family proved ... ...accession to power. At this crisis, Monsieur de Serizy, anxious to pay his debt of grati- tude, enabled Moreau, lying under sentence of death, to make... ...4 he asked for his pardon, obtained it, of- fered him first a place in his government office, and finally took him as private secretary for his own af... ...l-powerful protection, a purveyor who was making his mil- lions out of the government, and whom Napoleon ruined in 1802. This man, named Husson, becam... ...- selves on never opening their lips; Germans are melancholy in a vehicle; Italians too wary to talk; Spaniards have no public 46 A Start in Life con... ...it on heavily,” replied Schinner. “But the people are used to it. Besides, Italians are so good-natured that if you let ‘em murder a few travellers al... ...st left to each of us, he has an income of thirty thousand. So he pays his debts, and gives up the law. He hopes to be Marquis de las Florentinas, for...

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... Bixiou. “With a man who is selling him the incarceration of an unseizable debtor,” replied a handsome woman who now appeared in a charming morning to... ...t and missed him in the morning.” “How could I help it? I never saw such a debtor! he’s a locomotive; goes to sleep in Paris and wakes up in the Seine... ...ecture! I resigned, and I’ve made myself a small vocation by arresting for debt.” “He is the right arm of the commercial police,” said Gaillard in Bix... ...you have a tuft which must be conquered.) A Jew proposed to supply me with Italian cantatrices who, during the interludes, were to depilate the young ... ...ideas and bring them within range of the intellect by two arts. Ah! if the government would only lend me one of the galleries of the Louvre!” “I’ll me... ...n de Lora. “My dear friend, to prove the sincerity of the constitu- tional government we are forced to tell the most frightful lies with incredible se... ...t us go back to the rue de Berlin.” “Yes; you’ve now seen the heart of the government, cousin, and you must next be shown the ascarides, the taenia, t...

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...WITH ITS OFFICERS was to be transported in ships provided by His Majesty’s government for the occasion: and in two days after the festive assembly at ... ... army, folks mistook him for a great personage, a commissary-general, or a government courier at the very least. He suffered hugely on the voyage, dur... ... cursed his past follies and extravagances, and bemoaned his vast outlying debts above all, which must remain for ever as obstacles to prevent his wif... ...hich is gained by living in a fast set at a small college, and contracting debts, and being rusticated, and being plucked. He was a handsome lad, howe... ...ll this excursion, she condescended to say civil things to him: she quoted Italian and French poetry to the poor bewildered lad, and persisted that he... ...which he found himself, in a house full of old women, jabbering French and Italian, and talking poetry to him. “Reglarly up a tree, by jingo!” exclaim... ...oosed with the port, and he told his cousin his life, his pros- pects, his debts, his troubles at the little-go, and his rows with the proctors, filli... ...never recovered the use of his intellect or his speech completely, and the government of the estate devolved upon his elder son. In a strange conditio...

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... a distinguished part in the debate upon the Excise bill in the support of government; and, lastly, that Richard Waverley, Esquire, had been honoured ... ...of a more sentimental description. In this respect his ac- quaintance with Italian opened him yet a wider range. He had perused the numerous romantic ... ...House during Godolphin’s administration, he encoun- tered every measure of government. Aunt Rachel’s anxiety , however, lent her address to carry her ... ... Walter Scott was no overt act which an attainder could be founded on; and government, contented with suppressing the insurrection of 1715, felt it ne... ...ste, which required only cultivation. Her father had taught her French and Italian, and a few of the ordinary au- thors in those languages ornamented ... ...ns of Glennaquoich, she found that her re- sources in French, English, and Italian literature, were likely to be few and interrupted; and, in order to... ...and upon this occasion Callum Beg, who still thought himself in Waverley’s debt, since he had declined accepting compensation at the expense of mine H... ...d-pieces we’ll pay with broadswords, Lero, lero, &c. With duns and with debts we will soon clear our score, Lillibulero, &c. For the man that’s ... ...of the pains of love, could not forget, that, at the same time, he was ‘in debt and in drink,’ which, doubtless, were great ag- gravations of his dist...

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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... ... Don’t you see (but you never did un- derstand anything of politics!) that government puts such heavy taxes on wine only to hinder our profits and kee... ...ne only to hinder our profits and keep us poor? The middle classes and the government, they are all one. What would become of them if everybody was ri... ...self,” replied the officer. “It will be a bad business for you in the end; government will interfere.” “Then we, poor unfortunates, must give up the g... ...ed wide open into the rivulet to give them a final cleansing. “I have some debtors in there that I’ll cause to rue the day they saw the light.” “If yo... ... he became mayor of Blangy. Thus he was able, contrary to law, to make the debtors pay in coin, by “terrorizing” (a phrase of the day) such of them as... ...eeds and con- tracts, Amaury committed a variety of foolish acts, and made debts, being led thereto by a certain Georges Marest, a clerk in the same o...

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...see you paid fifty pounds a year into the bargain. Stop! and I’ll pay your debts 12 The Adventures of Harry Richmond under two or three hundred. For ... ...street where all the house-doors were painted black, and shut with a bang. Italian organ-men and milk- men paraded the street regularly, and made it s... ...he, beaming at every fresh sight of my doings: ‘madam, I am your life-long debtor and friend!’ He kissed 29 George Meredith her on the cheek. John Th... ...me that if my father would not pay for me, I at least should not escape my debts. The title of little impostor, transmitted from the master’s mouth to... ...a language of an alphabet; it is pleasant to hear when one would lull, but Italian can do that, and do it more—am I right? soft? ‘Bella Vista, lovely ... ... weapon of destruction, which he believed to be in the hands of the French Government. Major Dykes disap- peared on the scent, but we had the satisfac... ...ed me imperiously. ‘Are you prosecuting his claims? Are you besieging your Government? What! you are in the season of 221 George Meredith generosity,... ...Are they your leaders? Do they lead you in Letters? in the Arts? ay, or in Government? No, not, I am informed, not even in military service! and there... ...es known too well. It cost me a struggle to turn aside to Germany from the Italian highroad. I chose the line of the Brenner, and stopped half a day a...

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...nt companion; a careless student; with a great propensity for running into debt, and a partiality for the tavern. When he was drunk, he used to beat h... ...ting anecdotes about that country and him- self. He described the balls at Government House, and the manner in which they kept themselves cool in the ... ...at by one of the infuriated animals. How delighted Miss Rebecca was at the Government balls, and how she laughed at the stories of the Scotch aides-de... ...out that country and him- 36 V anity Fair self. He described the balls at Government House, and the manner in which they kept themselves cool in the ... ...nce to paying anybody, and could only be brought by force to discharge his debts. Miss Sharp calculated (for she became, as we shall hear speedily, in... ...ion. What’s the good of being in Parliament, he said, if you must pay your debts? Hence, indeed, his position as a senator was not a little useful to ... ...d the rudiments of Hebrew; in mathematics and history; in Spanish, French, Italian, and geography; in music, vocal and instrumental; in dancing, witho... ...ll this excursion, she condescended to say civil things to him: she quoted Italian and French poetry to the poor bewildered lad, and persisted that he... ...which he found himself, in a house full of old women, jabbering French and Italian, and talking poetry to him. “Reglarly up a tree, by jingo!” exclaim...

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...egard. They ran of her messages, purchased her gloves and flowers, went in debt for opera-boxes for her, and made themselves amiable in a thousand way... ...ed persons, under pretence of getting them confidential appointments under Government. Who knows what stories were or were not told of our dear and in... ... against her. If every person is to be banished from society who runs into debt and cannot pay—if we are to be peering into everybody’s private life, ... ...ind glance from those dazzling eyes. Jabotiere wrote home about her to his government. The ladies at the other tables, who supped off mere silver and ... ...the benevolent nobleman had given his protegee money.to pay off her little debt to Miss Briggs, who however still remained behind with 26 V anity Fai... ...k upon his eyes, and he did not know in the least what he was reading. The Government news and appointments (which Sir Pitt as a public man was bound ... ...too, knew some ladies here and there—French widows, dubious 159 Thackeray Italian countesses, whose husbands had treated them ill—faugh —what shall w...

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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... ...rs’ lease, was really lying in wait for an opportunity to serve either the government or Malin, who distrusted Michu. Violette, by the help of the gam... ...r with them. What nonsense! those who cut Louis XVI.’s head off are in the government; France is full of men who have bought national property , and y... ... Laurence had been able to escape the observation of others; but since the government had become a more settled thing, the new authorities, the prefec... ...er. The younger, on the other hand, put all his own pride into paying such debts. This rivalry of noble natures in a feeling which leads men often to ...

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...ef from the dulness of pro- vincial life; where persons connected with the government could express themselves freely on politics without fear of havi... ...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... ...nnocence, less from con- viction than for the satisfaction of opposing the government. “What an outrage,” they said, “to condemn a man because his foo... ... What could be done in that great tract of barren land, ne- glected by the government, abandoned by the nobility, use- less to industry,—what but war ... ...oice of emotion, “at this very moment a child of this parish is paying his debt to hu- man justice by enduring its last penalty, while we are offer- i... ...aits you; you must think now of your eternal hap- piness. You can pay your debt to man with your life, but God is not content with such a little thing... ...weeping at an idea which had never yet occurred to her. “I come to pay his debt to you—so far, at least, as money can pay an eternal debt.” “Pray sit ... ... 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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...id to solicit mercy; whither also messengers from Lafayette and the French Government were hurrying, on the like er- rand: at Bayonne, news met the po... ...amily, his books and himself, and live in a decent manner, in no terror of debt, for one thing. His income, I suppose, was not large; but he lived gen... ... goal of it, the journey to be done in company with Calvert, whom also the Italian climate might be made to serve instead of Madeira. One of the livel... ...ather for doing so, as indeed we have had ever since we left Lausanne. The Italian de- scent is greatly more remarkable than the other side. “We slept... ...ne and Italy. “At this place we dismissed our Swiss voiturier, and took an Italian one; who conveyed us to Omegna on the Lake of Orta; a place little ... ...present, it appears, the English Education Question is settled. I wish the Government had said that, in their inspection and superintendence, they wou... ...gs of delicacy, express my deep sense of the power- ful support which that Government over which I had the honor to preside received from the Times Ne...

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... and supported the almost con- tinual evil tidings of the Emperor as best they might. It chanced I was the only gentleman among the privates who remai... ...o tend my childhood… . But I must not recall these tender and sor- rowful memories twice; their place is further on, and I am now upon another busines... ...iseries and infamies,’ pursued the lawyer, with a ris- ing inflection and a heightening colour; and then broke sud- denly off,—‘In short, sir, he has ... ...cat that stirred in a quarter of a mile. During this interval, I have to direct your sympathies on the Vicomte de Saint-Yves! All addressed me softly,... ...od account of you,’ said she, ‘which I hope you may justify. I told them there was noth- ing against you beyond the fact that you were put to the haw ... ...othing of that. I am in the law, you know, and tace is the Latin for a candle,’ answered the gentleman. ‘But I hope it’s nothing bad.’ 75 Stevenson S... ...n have naething to do with it, then.’ ‘My good man,’ said I, ‘I can allow myself to be placed in no such ridiculous position. Mrs. Gilchrist is nothin... ...d my eyes to my enemy. He had his hat on, a little on one side: it was a very tall hat, raked extremely, and had a narrow curling brim. His hair was a...

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...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... ...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... ... 40 Your scene precariously subsists too long On French translation, and Italian song. Dare to have sense yourselves; assert the stage, Be justly wa... ...t, dear Marquess! or a pique. Once, for a whim, persuade yourself to pay A debt to reason, like a debt at play. For right or wrong have mortals suffer... ...political societies, ver. 196. Origin of mon- archy, ver. 207. Patriarchal government, ver. 212. VI. Origin of true religion and government, from the ... ... to the social and public good, ver. 266. Restoration of true religion and government on their first principle, ver. 285. Mixed government, ver. 288. ... ... 270 The same self-love, in all, becomes the cause Of what restrains him, government and laws. For, what one likes, if others like as well, What serv... ...erle, his old and faithful servant. 95 ‘Mint:’ a place to which insolvent debtors retired, to enjoy an illegal protection, which they were there suff... ...l. Yet then did Dennis rave in furious fret; I never answer’d—I was not in debt. If want provoked, or madness made them print, I waged no war with Bed...

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... attracted around him a motley group of those that were in distress, or in debt, or discontented, and among them were the ‘mighty men’ whose brave dee... ...to battle under the command of one of the con- suls. Many little States or Italian tribes, who had nearly the same customs as Rome, surrounded the Cam... ...ad their dominion over the cen- tral part of Italy. They were well used to Italian and Etruscan ways of mak- ing war, but after nearly 400 years of th... ...was there to bring relief to them, who were themselves the Roman State and government? Now there was a citizen, named Marcus Furius Camillus, who was,... ...t that time, the first soldier of Rome, and had taken several of the chief Italian cities, espe- cially that of Veii, which had long been a most dange... ...h of them, and almost exactly resem- bling themselves in language, habits, government, and fash- ions of fighting. Indeed the city of Rome itself was ... ...of flowers, telling him they better became his years than did the cares of government. He burst into tears, threw the wreath upon the ground, and fed ...

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...nt companion; a careless student; with a great propensity for running into debt, and a partiality for the tavern. When he was drunk, he used to beat h... ...ting anecdotes about that country and him- self. He described the balls at Government House, and the manner in which they kept themselves cool in the ... ...at by one of the infuriated animals. How delighted Miss Rebecca was at the Government balls, and how she laughed at the stories of the Scotch aides-de... ...ry and him- 36 V anity Fair – V olume One self. He described the balls at Government House, and the manner in which they kept themselves cool in the ... ...nce to paying anybody, and could only be brought by force to discharge his debts. Miss Sharp calculated (for she became, as we shall hear speedily, in... ...ion. What’s the good of being in Parliament, he said, if you must pay your debts? Hence, indeed, his position as a senator was not a little useful to ... ...d the rudiments of Hebrew; in mathematics and history; in Spanish, French, Italian, and geography; in music, vocal and instrumental; in dancing, witho...

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...itch Shubin happened to be a distant cousin of hers. His father had been a government official in Mos- cow. His brothers had entered cadets’ corps; he... ...uaintance with all sorts of people, young and old, of high and low degree, Italian models and Russian artists. He would not hear of the Academy, and r... ...uid lady—was a Russian, the daughter of a ru- ined official, educated at a government boarding school, a very emotional, soft-hearted, and deceitful c... ...ng two years there, and learning his mother tongue over again. The Turkish Government persecuted him, and he was certainly exposed to great dangers du... ...or else he spent days in Moscow where he had a studio, to which models and Italian sculp- tors, his friends and teachers, used to come to see him. Ele... ... on his consent. She did not tell her that she had promised to pay all his debts, and had given him a thou- sand roubles down on the spot. Moreover, h... ...ang with that passion of expression and rhythm which is only vouchsafed to Italians. Elena and Insarov were sitting alone together in a dark box close...

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...e’s ex- istence. Gregorio they call him. He was plainly used to abso- lute government, and viewed the coming down amongst us as an assertion of libert... ...e to the West Indies. The whole affair was, as he said, complicated by his debts, those debts that the estate has never paid off. The General probably... ...they can’t help.’ ‘We have yet to see if this is worse than an Austrian or Italian festival. See, we can look down from behind this yew tree. It reall... ...M. Young his better feelings, and habituated him to dissipation, while his debts, his expensive habits, and his dread of losing the inheritance, had b... ...e he liked old-fashioned simplicity, and did not choose to be worried with Government inspection. ‘And,’ said Blanche, ‘every one says our girls work ... ...urse of a week Mark showed no signs of improvement in vernacular French or Italian, Lord Kirkaldy’s conscience would let him give no other advice than... ...rawing-room than 92 Nuttie’s Father anywhere at Monks Horton, whither the Italians could pen- etrate. The marchesino spoke English very well, but tha... ...m of money 143 Charlotte M. Young which could be sincerely called ‘only a debt of gratitude from my husband and me,’ and which would smooth the way e...