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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... ...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... ...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... ...h they supposed to be religious; and, once, he had stayed for some time in Paris. Learning, however, was so little cared for, then, that at twelve yea... ...laints. He was a gay, careless, thoughtless fellow, spending all he got on musicians and dancers; but his mother loved him, and often, against the Kin... ... of Guienne, was summoned to present himself before the King of France, at Paris, and answer for the damage done by his sailor subjects. At first, he ... ...elf, was soon defeated by the French King’s son, and shut up in a tower in Paris; but his wife, a courageous and beautiful woman, who is said to have ...

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...man only and Forster, who had that day forcibly sent away all her servants from her to Abington market, about three miles distant from this place; the... ...n her head), yet the inhabitants will tell you there that she was conveyed from her usual chamber where she lay, to another where the bed’s head of th... ... which he willed her to use in any faintness, which she, after his returne from court, not knowing it was poison, gave him, and so he died.”—Ben Jonso... ...iles Gosling, “this many a day since.” “That he is,” said the clerk of the parish; “I sat by his bed 19 Sir Walter Scott the whilst. He passed away i... ...shovel-board; and there was at the other end an el- evated gallery for the musicians or minstrels, who might be summoned to increase the festivity of ... ...ill see that they attend you at Kenilworth. And as we shall then have both Paris and Menelaus within our call, so we will have the same fair Helen als... ...arney himself. But who can climb when the room turns round with him like a parish-top? I would the distance were greater, or the road rougher, betwixt...

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... could not shut them soon enough; and of two cities which take their names from the most agree- able odoriferous plants, Ios and Smyrna, the one from ... ...ble odoriferous plants, Ios and Smyrna, the one from a vio- let, the other from myrrh, the poet Homer is reported to have been born in the one, and to... ...them men born for command, for warfare, and for stratagem; both ban- ished from their countries, and holding command over strangers; both had fortune ... ...sed athletes. He often appointed prizes, for which not only tragedians and musicians, pipers and harpers, but rhapsodists also, strove to outvie one a... ... should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labor and sweat to describe and cel- ebrate them. ... ...t of the antiquities and curiosities of the place, being told he might see Paris’s harp, if he pleased, he said, he thought it not worth looking on, b... ...ce, he would ac- knowledge that indeed he might be accounted such, in com- parison with some other men, “but,” said he, “when I com- pare myself with ... ...e of Canopus and T aphosiris, and play about. And in the end, like another Paris, he left the battle to fly to her arms; or rather, to say the truth, ...

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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... ...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... ... only sing like a lark, or a Mrs. Billington, and dance like Hillisberg or Parisot; and embroider beauti- fully; and spell as well as a Dixonary itsel... ... some education somewhere, and her daughter spoke French with purity and a Parisian accent. It was in those days rather a rare accomplishment, and led... ...iated state), he almost drew away the audience who were gathered round the musicians in the gilt scollop-shell, and received from his hearers a great ... ...Pitt Crawley. Podder and another versus Crawley, Bart. Overseers of Snaily parish against Crawley, Bart. They can’t prove it’s common: I’ll defy ‘em; ...

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...d Least stains of gore-guiltiness lie; To the hearts of the just her blood from the dust Not in vain for mercy will cry. Poor scape-goat of nations an... ...shed oak, the walls hung with leather, gilded in some places and depending from cornices, whose ornaments proved to an initiated eye, that this had on... ... could tell her of chances and conjectures; and when her boy began to fret from hun- ger and weariness, she had left her serving-man, Gervas, to watch... .... Master Joseph Heatherthwayte was the greatly underpaid curate of a small parish on the outskirts of Hull. He con- trived to live on some (pounds)10 ... ...eir suites drawn up in a circle, the servants where they could, the Earl’s musicians thundering with drums, tooting with fifes, twanging on fiddles, o... ...ake a new-born baby for one. I tell thee I heard that Cuthbert was safe in Paris. But, be that as it may, I trust thou hast been discreet.” “So I stro... ...father says that cannot be, for Master Cuthbert Langston is beyond seas at Paris.” “Soh! that is well,” returned Mary, in a tone of relief. “See, chil... ... on the ground for numer- ous spectators, and a small gallery intended for musicians was granted, with some reluctance, to the ladies and gentle- men ...

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...to Vettori, and it seems to me, now that I have released myself altogether from his literary precedent, that he still has his use for me. In spite of ... ...s unfair. The old sort of Prince, the old little principality has vanished from the world. The commonweal is one man’s absolute es- tate and responsib... ...the interest of womanhood was in a region of life almost infinitely remote from his statecraft. They were the vehicle of children, but only Imperial R... ...stead of brasses and the protestant severity of the communion-table in the parish church,—both from the material point of view very little things. A R... ...mind a weak tradition of some local quality that embraced us all. Then the parish graveyard filled up and became a scandal, and an ambitious area with... ..., “me, having no son of my own,” was anything but an illustration for com- parison with my own chosen career. I still remember very distinctly my uncl... ... upon Margaret one evening. She was just back from the display of some new musicians at the Hartsteins. I remember she wore a dress of golden satin, v...

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...hich the vicar was not slow to un- derstand. ‘I cannot say I expected much from your conversation, and perhaps we ought not to wish it. We are likely ... ...ou ever see any one so utterly broken down? She can hardly beguile a smile from him.’ ‘His melancholy is one of his charms in her eyes.’ ‘So it may be... ...er she will be to his poor children, I do not think we ought to grudge her from our own home.’ ‘You and she have so strong a feeling for motherless ch... ...Maurice’s study was the thoroughfare of the house- hold, the place for all parish preparations unpresentable in the drawing-room, and Albinia was take... ...see what leisure you have to give us.’ ‘Nay, I have been used to think the parish my business, home my leisure.’ ‘Yes,’ said Mrs. Dusautoy, ‘but then ... ...nstead of clearing off had turned to violent rain, Albinia had been out on parish work, and afterwards enlivening old Mrs. Meadows by dutifully spend-... ...ours, and the Kendals felt every song a trespass upon their hosts, but the musicians had their backs to the world, and gave no interval, so that it wa...

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...y was full of such grotesqueries, but the clean towers were thrusting them from the business center, and on the farther hills were shining new houses,... ... hood and noiseless engine. These people in evening clothes were returning from an all-night rehearsal of a Little Theater play, an artistic adventure... ...rs wearily raised their celluloid eye-shades after a night of talking with Paris and Peking. Through the building crawled the scrubwomen, yawning, the... ... in the darkness beyond mysterious groves. When at last he could slip away from the crowded house he darted to her. His wife, his clamoring friends, s... ...f-timbered, with Tudor leaded casements, an oriel, a somewhat musicianless musicians’-gallery, and tapes- tries believed to illustrate the granting of... ...ith you tightwads!” and guided Paul to one of the small tables beneath the musicians’- 54 Babbitt gallery. He felt guilty. At the Zenith Athletic Clu... ...Kelvey an adornment to the social circles of Zenith, Washington, New York, Paris, and numbers of other places. But he could not stir them. It was a di... ...er-ware 335 Sinclair Lewis and first editions as though they were back in Paris. All of them agreed that the working-classes must be kept in their pl...

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...okenly, the sense of having lived. Long had I turned it over, standing off from it, yet coming back to it; convinced of what might be done with it, ye... ...s incurred, the precious experience somehow compassed. These things, I had from the first felt, would require much working-out; that indeed was the ca... ...ways to be invoked and cultivated, but that are absolutely to be jumped at from the moment they make a sign. Yes then, the case prescribed for its cen... ...incredibly fatuous behaviour of Mr. Condrip, the parson of a dull suburban parish, with a saintly profile which was always in evi- dence, being so dis... ...s that had lapsed for her through the wanton ways of fore- fathers fond of Paris, but not of its higher sides, and fond almost of nothing else; but th... ...ehow more stout and more instituted and Susie, at her distance and in com- parison, more thinly improvised and more different—dif- ferent, that is, fr... ...me ar- rived; and with this call on her attention, the further call of her musicians ushered by Eugenio, but personally and separately welcomed, and t... ...ober—that night when she was in white, when she had people there and those musicians—she com- 404 The Wings of the Dove mitted him to my care. It was...

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...ess of manner, said of her: ‘She is a smart woman.’ She had just come back from London, where she had spent several years, working at an art-school, a... ...he said. ‘Do you feel like that?’ asked Gudrun. ‘I get no feeling whatever from the thought of bearing children.’ Gudrun looked at Ursula with a maskl... ...ravened. She lived a good deal by herself, to herself, working, passing on from day to day, and always thinking, trying to lay hold on life, to grasp ... ...gation—but nega- tively something, at any rate.’ ‘What are they?—painters, musicians?’ ‘Painters, musicians, writers—hangers-on, models, ad- vanced yo... ...e’ll be gone in a week or two,’ said Birkin. ‘Where will she go?’ ‘London, Paris, Rome—heaven knows. I always expect her to sheer off to Damascus or S... ...r rootless life of the Russians appealed to her. She did not want to go to Paris. Paris was dry, and essen- tially boring. She would like to go to Rom... ... be on the wing. She and Gerald, being ready first, set off via London and Paris to Innsbruck, where they would meet Ursula and Birkin. In London they...

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...Woolf The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf Chapter I A s the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk... ... beyond the reach of malice and unpopularity. In his guess one might guess from the moving lips that it was thought; and in hers from the eyes fixed s... ...it was sorrow. It was only by scorn- ing all she met that she kept herself from tears, and the friction of people brushing past her was evidently pain... ...y’s wife had been perhaps the one woman Helen called friend, and this com- parison often made the staple of their talk. Ridley was a scholar, and Will... ...hadow tapered on the horizon, scarcely thick enough to stand the burden of Paris, which nevertheless rested upon it. They were free of roads, free of ... ...o be recognised, and held in respect. Meanwhile as they stood talking, the musicians were unwrapping their instruments, and the violin was repeating a...

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...k to have been greater than I anticipated, and the praises it has elicited from a few kind critics to have been greater than it deserved, I must also ... ...kind critics to have been greater than it deserved, I must also admit that from some other quarters it has been censured with an asperity which I was ... ...extravagant over- colouring in those very parts that were carefully copied from the life, with a most scrupulous avoidance of all exaggera- tion, so, ... ...en years ago, for a more modern and commodious mansion in the neighbouring parish. Now, Halford, I bid you adieu for the present. This is the first in... ...er, with one of her arch, sidelong glances. ‘Papa’s just gone out into the parish, and not likely to be back for an hour!’ ‘Never mind; I can manage t... ...f it too. So he talked common-place with my mother and Rose, and discussed parish affairs with the vicar, farming matters with me, and politics with u... ...ing it no scandal to be present on the occasion, though one of the village musicians was engaged to direct our evolu- tions with his violin. But Mary ...

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...elderly distinguished people successful, that she scarcely needed any help from her daughter, provided that the tiresome business of teacups and bread... ...still; and the faces of the elderly people were mellowed, at some distance from each other, and had a bloom on them owing to the fact that the air in ... ...e- ing much about the same age and both under thirty, they were prohibited from the use of a great many convenient phrases which launch conversation i... ...er surface, were like deep pools trembling beneath starlight. But the com- parison to a religious temple of some kind was the more apt of the two, for... ...beach. So large is the church, and in particular the church tower, in com- parison with the little street of cottages which compose the village, that ... ...d them. He would have a far better chance of understanding some dweller in Paris or Rome, Berlin or Madrid, than these countrymen of his who have live... ...ut on their coats, others stood upright to salute “God Save the King,” the musicians folded their music and encased their instru- ments, and the light...

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... some one. There was a smug expression about the mouth--he looked like a merchant who has just done a good stroke of business, or a bachelor emerging from a boudoir in the best of humors with himself; and in Paris this is the highest degree of self-satisfaction ever registered by a human countenance....

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...hant who has just done a good stroke of business, or a bach- elor emerging from a boudoir in the best of humors with himself; and in Paris this is the... ...h- elor emerging from a boudoir in the best of humors with himself; and in Paris this is the highest degree of self-satis- faction ever registered by ... ...broke out over the faces of the frequenters of the bou- levard, who daily, from their chairs, watch the passers-by, and indulge in the agreeable pasti... ...ulge in the agreeable pastime of analyzing them. That smile is peculiar to Parisians; it says so many things—ironi- cal, quizzical, pitying; but nothi... ...rest of human curiosities can summon that look of interest to the faces of Parisians, sated as they are with every possible sight. A saying recorded o... ...h a pair of enormous ears had left their marks which no brush could efface from the underside of the brim; the silk tissue (as usual) fitted badly ove... ...ll of God, from its source in the Garden of Eden. Before very long the two musicians could not live without each other. Confidences were exchanged, an... ...dust made by the grinding of the wheels; but it was otherwise with the two musicians; the in- visible grains of sand sank perpetually into the very fi... ...he world, and even in the world of speculation. The house in which the two musicians used to live is an old mansion with a courtyard in front and a ga...

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............................................. 53 BOOK 1.III. THE PARLEMENT OF PARIS ........................................................................ .......................................................... 241 Chapter 1.7.XI.From V ersailles. ............................................................ ...osterity in the same doubt. This Prince, in the year 1744, while hastening from one end of his kingdom to the other, and suspending his conquests in F... ...z by a malady which threatened to cut short his days. At the news of this, Paris, all in terror, seemed a 7 Thomas Carlyle city taken by storm: the c... ...priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an interest so dear and tender that this Surname of Bien- aime fashion... ... great Prince has earned. ’ (Abrege Chronologique de l’Histoire de France (Paris, 1775), p. 701.) So stands it written; in lasting memorial of that ye... ...essure from him;’ for all Versailles is crowding and shouting. The Chateau Musicians, with a felicitous promp- titude, strike up the Sein de sa Famill...

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............................................. 44 BOOK 1.III. THE PARLEMENT OF PARIS......................................................................... ......................................................... 173 Chapter 1.7.XI. From V ersailles. ............................................................ ............................................... 266 Chapter 2.4.II. Easter at Paris. ....................................................................... ........................................... 369 Chapter 3.1.IV . September in Paris. ....................................................................... ...osterity in the same doubt. This Prince, in the year 1744, while hastening from one end of his kingdom to the other, and suspending his conquests in F... ...priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an interest so dear and tender that this Surname of Bien-aime fashione... ...essure from him;’ for all Versailles is crowding and shouting. The Chateau Musicians, with a felicitous promptitude, strike up the Sein de sa Famille ... ...Champ-de-Mars Federation, with three hundred drummers, twelve hundred wind-musicians, and artillery planted on height after height to boom the tid- in...

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...Introduction: Francois Marie Arouet, who called himself Voltaire, was the son of Francois Arouet of Poitou, who lived in Paris, had given up his office of notary two years before the birth of this his third son, and obtained some years afterwards a treasurer?s office in the Chambre des Comptes. Voltaire was born in the year 1694. He lived until...

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...d himself Voltaire, was the son of Francois Arouet of Poitou, who lived in Paris, had given up his office of notary two years before the birth of this... ... and the Stupidities. He was then sent to the law schools, and saw life in Paris as a gay young poet who, with all his brilliant liveli- ness, had an ... ...he Hague. In December, 1713, he was dis- missed for his irregularities. In Paris his unsteadiness and his addiction to literature caused his father to... ...d with success in November, 1718. A few months later he was again banished from Paris, and finished the Henriade in his retirement, as well as another... ...n December, 1721, Voltaire visited Lord Bolingbroke, who was then an exile from England, at the Chateau of La Source. There was now constant literary ... ..., at the Chateau of La Source. There was now constant literary activ- ity. From July to October, 1722, Voltaire visited Holland with Madame de Rupelmo... ...endeavoured to lessen the character of that great comic poet. Such Italian musicians as despise Lully are themselves persons of no char- acter or abil...

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...ess analogous to that of the gardener?s craft in the Vegetable Kingdom, to wit, by the forcing-house--a species of hybrid which can be raised neither from seed nor from slips. This product is known as the Cashier, an anthropomorphous growth, watered by religious doctrine, trained up in fear of the guillotine, pruned by vice, to flourish on a third floor with an estimable w...

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...it, by the forcing-house—a species of hybrid which can be raised nei- ther from seed nor from slips. This product is known as the Cashier, an anthropo... ...le wife by his side and an uninteresting family. The number of cashiers in Paris must always be a problem for the physiologist. Has any one as yet bee... ...creed, educational sys- tem, school, or institution you please, and select Paris, that city of fiery ordeals and branch establishment of hell, as the ... ...uis among the market gardens of the Marais. Some day, when the cashiers of Paris come to a sense of their real value, a cashier will be hardly obtaina... ...wife and family, and all the comforts that sweeten life for mediocrity. If from among this race of dupes there should escape some five or six men of g... ...g up of the situation, it will perhaps receive some thought- ful attention from minds capable of recognizing the real plague-spots of our civilization... ...m from all sides; he looked round the square, but there was no sign of any musicians. The melody brought visions of a distant heaven and far-off gleam...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, f...

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.................................23 Thou Reader........................................23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III..........................................38...

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..............23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III............................... ...OK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM ...103 To the Garden the World...................103 From Pent Up Aching Rivers............103 I Sing the Body Electric.......... ...t Pipes of the Organ.........................................121 Facing West from California’s Shores ................................................... ....................549 Long, Long Hence.............................549 Bravo, Paris Exposition!....................549 Interpolation Sounds............... ... will thrill to every page. POETS TO C OME Poets to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not to day is to justify me and answer what I am for, ... ...e drops I distil upon you shall grow fierce and athletic girls, new artists, musicians, and singers, Leaves of Grass –Whitman 114 The babes I beget ... ...he cities of the earth and make myself at random a part of them, I am a real Parisian, I am a habitan of Vienna, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Constantinopl... ...to be cherish’d for themselves, They fill their hour, the dancers dance, the musicians play for them, The show passes, all does well enough of course,... ...I maintain the bequeath’d cause, as for all lands, And I send these words to Paris with my love, And I guess some chansonniers there will understand t...

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...le girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve....

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...er, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with hu... ...til domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child-pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theres... ...illiant girl to her? Her flame quickly burned up that light fuel; and, fed from within, soared after some illimitable satisfaction, some object which ... ...e after some lofty conception of the world which might frankly include the parish of Tipton and her own rule of con- duct there; she was enamoured of ... ...e in imitation—it would be as if the spirit of Oberlin had passed over the parishes to make the life of poverty beautiful! Sir James saw all the plans... ...en and less of a skin- flint. Indeed, both the farmers and laborers in the parishes of Freshitt and Tipton would have felt a sad lack of conversation ... ...es, and you will find Middlemarch very tuneless. There are hardly any good musicians. I only know two gentlemen who sing at all well.” “I suppose it i... ...story that had its relics in church and castle) was one of those excellent musicians here and there to be found in our provinces, worthy to compare wi...