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...by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle is a publicat... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylv... .................................................................. 274 6 The French Revolution - V olume Three THE FRENCH REVOLUTION A HISTORY by THOMAS... ... Rome had to be swept from the Earth, and those Northmen, and other 8 The French Revolution - V olume Three horrid sons of Nature, came in, ‘swallowi... ...V olume Three horrid sons of Nature, came in, ‘swallowing formulas’ as the French now do, foul old Rome screamed execratively her loudest; so that, th... ...ther. Here, accordingly, if anywhere, the ‘hundred tongues,’ which the old Poets often clamour for, were of supreme service! In defect of any such org...

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...Excerpt: Dear Baron, you have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast ?History of French Manners in the Nineteenth Century,? you have given me so much encouragement to persevere with my work, that you have given me a right to associate your name with some portion of it. Are you not one of the most importan...

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...ar Baron,—Y ou have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast “History of French Manners in the Nineteenth Century,” you have given me so much encour... ...the Church or Finance. Intrusted in the days of yore with the keeping of a French March, the title of marquis in their family meant no shadow of imagi... ...e King had adopted. But the Marquis could not bring himself to give up the Frenchman’s knee-breeches nor yet the white silk stockings or the buckles a... ...omen with whom you cannot meet anywhere else,” said de Marsay. “If all the poets who went there to rub up their muse were like our friend here,” said ... ...versa- tion, and gave the pair a broadside of her eyes, an art acquired by Frenchwomen since the Peace, when Englishwomen im- ported it into this coun... ...ous commentary in the after-thoughts of either speaker, puts the old-world French chat of men and women, with its pleasant familiarity, its lively eas...

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... to the north and to the south. In Canada and Nova Scotia were colonies of French. On the banks of the Hudson River was a colony of Dutch, who had tak... ...overnor Endicott sat in it when he gave audience to an ambassador from the French governor of Acadia, or Nova Scotia. A treaty of peace between Massac... ...of Acadia, or Nova Scotia. A treaty of peace between Massachusetts and the French colony was then signed.” “Did England allow Massachusetts to make wa... ...ood fortune. In the year 1690 he went on a military expedition against the French colonies in America, conquered the whole province of Acadia, and ret... ...ever since. In the course of it, New England suffered much injury from the French and Indians, who often came through the woods from Canada and assaul... ...” Since Grandfather first spoke these words, the most fa mous of American poets has drawn sweet tears from all of us by his beautiful poem Evangeline...

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...nd, and made my two boys proficient in that art; so much so, that when the French came to this country with Monsieur Rochambeau, not one of his office... ...the common people. I have seen in his very old age and decrepitude the old French King Lewis the Fourteenth, the type and model of kinghood—who never ... ...thanks in the Prayer-Book) who sold his country and who took bribes of the French king. What spectacle is more august than that of a great king in exi... ...d then he told her, with respect to the night before, that he un- derstood French, and thanked her for her protection. “Do you?” says she, with a blus... ...the States; and against them, when his Maj- esty made an alliance with the French King. In these cam- paigns Thomas Esmond was more remarked for duell... ...n this desultory way the works of most of the English, French, and Italian poets came under his eyes, and he had a smattering of the Spanish tongue li...

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...nd in the country, and shall hereafter hash and ragoo it with all the high French and Italian seasoning of affecta tion and vice which courts and cit... ...s. First, this is an art well known to, and much practised by, our tragick poets, who seldom fail to prepare their audience for the reception of their... ...ey will most probably be composed by the ensuing scene. And not only the poets, but the masters of these poets, the managers of playhouses, seem to ... ...too dearly purchased; and though it hath charms so inexpressible, that the French, perhaps, among other qualities, mean to express this, when they dec... ...in (though the English gentleman of that name is not at all related to the French family, for he is of a much more serious disposition) was always wel... ...to the latter, we often suffer him to fortify and entrench himself, like a French army; so that the learned gentleman finds it very difficult, and som... ...me at the enemy. Nay, sometimes by gaining time the disease applies to the French military politics, and corrupts nature over to his side, and then al... ...tener hours of labour and fatigue, of pain and sorrow. One of the Ro man poets, I remember, likens our leaving life to our depar ture from a feast;... ...hath often compared to the theatre; and many grave writers, as well as the poets, have considered human life as a great drama, resembling, in almost e...

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...house, sometimes the workman at his toil. No occasion is too small for the poets and musicians; a death, a visit, the day’s news, the day’s pleasantry... ...as of the whites; in practice, they reduce it to a farce. I have heard the French resident in the Marquesas in talk with the French gaoler of Tai-o-ha... ... for a couple of months and be well treated, just as we Germans did to the French chief [Napo- leon III.] some time ago, whom we kept a while and care...

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... Pramlay received them in the pretty chintz drawing- room, which opened by French windows on the trim gar- den, with its croquet lawn, its tennis-net ... ...pewter plaque; Salad bowl (silver mounted) and servers; Madgett’s “English Poets” (twelve volumes), bound purple morocco; Etc., etc. Through all this ... ...rs to a landing upon which stood a bald-headed waiter with whiskers like a French admiral and discretion beyond all limits in his manner. He seemed to...

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...self: the Dowager Viscountess Castlewood, written in the strange barbarous French which she and many other fine ladies of that time—witness her Grace ... ...smond answered. “My father, when wounded at the Boyne, told the truth to a French priest, who was in hiding after the battle, as well as to the priest... ...aks out my lady, speaking, as usual with her when she was agitated, in the French language. “Noblesse oblige,” says Mr. Esmond, making her a low bow. ... ...ailles; nay, the exact force and number of the next expedi- tion which the French king was to send from Dunkirk, and which was to swallow up the Princ... ...air of the Boyne, at Trim, in Ireland, made both to the Irish priest and a French ecclesiastic of Holt’s order, that was with King James’s army. Holt ... ...ess that set one of his auditors a-laughing. “I admire the license of your poets,” says Esmond to Mr. Addison. (Dick, after reading of the verses, was... ...barous. The rites performed before it are shocking to think of. Y ou great poets should show it as it is—ugly and horrible, not beautiful and serene. ... ...a battle, that your humble servant is riding his sleek Pegasus. We college poets trot, you know, on very easy nags; it hath been, time out of mind, pa...

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...his Johnson, right truly even in the Eigh- teenth century. The unbelieving French believe in their Voltaire; and burst out round him into very curious... ...us contrast. No people ever were so little prone to admire at all as those French of V oltaire. Persiflage was the character of their whole mind; ador... ...e of them; 16 Thomas Carlyle the thing they are all wanting to be; of all Frenchmen the most French. He is properly their god,—such god as they are f... ... burst up from the sea, not been discovered by the Northmen! The old Norse Poets were many of them natives of Iceland. Saemund, one of the early Chris... ...hey, have to smart for it. Nature bursts up in fire- 41 On Heroes flames, French Revolutions and such like, proclaiming with terrible veracity that f... ...itative, enthusiastic in the Arab character. The Per- sians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted nobl... ...abia, there were yearly fairs, and there, when the merchandising was done, Poets sang for prizes:—the wild people gathered to hear that. One Jewish qu... ... of Poet and Prophet.— In ancient and also in modern periods we find a few Poets who are accounted perfect; whom it were a kind of treason to find fau... ... in the hearts of all men; no man is made altogether of Poetry. We are all poets when we read a poem well. The “imagination that shudders 72 Thomas C...

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...haped. It was now re- membered that Williams had recently borrowed a large French knife of peculiar construction; and accordingly, from a heap of old ... ...s waistcoat, and glued by gore to the lining of its pockets, was found the French knife. Next, it was matter of notoriety to everybody in the inn, tha... ...teenth and eighteenth century, into the costly collections of the ‘British Poets.’ And really, if you will insist on odious comparisons, they were not... .... There went No. 5. Him succeeded a droller fellow than any of the rest. A French book-seller had caused a prose French translation to 77 Thomas de Q... ... in the title page. Our friend, No. 6, getting hold of this as an original French romance, translated it back into English prose, as a satisfactory no... ...au’s name was first published to London, by Prior’ s burlesque of what the French- man had called an ode. This gasconading ode celebrated the passage ... ...eally exist in the Grecian drama? Even Sophocles, who, of the three tragic poets surviving from the wrecks of the Athenian stage, is reputed the supre... ...h broods over the Grecian trag- edy, and to court which feeling the tragic poets of Greece naturally spread all their canvas, was more nearly allied t... ...r the general ‘setting’ of this Theban jewel. Creon, whom the Greek tragic poets take delight in describing as a villain, has very little more to do (...

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...escaped him in any heat of dispute, on being taxed with it by a celebrated French writer, he solemnly reaffirmed it, with his reasons. 12 many declar... ...leasing to be abridged; I shall give it, there- fore, accurately, from the French of his biographer: “M. Des Cartes had no company but that of his ser... ...tes had no company but that of his servant, with whom he was conversing in French. The sailors, who took him for a foreign merchant, rather than a cav... ...d says (p. 8,) he ran home “because he would not trust his safety with the French clergy;” insinuating that he was likely to be murdered for his reli-... ...ere was Leviathan, no longer afraid of the daggers of English cavaliers or French clergy, but “frightened from his propriety” by a row in an ale-house... ...he old fancy (adopted by Spenser, and no- ticed by so many among our elder poets) of his graciousness to maiden innocence. The wretch is the basest an... ...n this principle we come to understand why it is, that, whenever the Latin poets speak of an army as taking food, the word used is always prandens and...

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... to be as great as he; but every form of greatness is famil- iar to you. A French savant could make a reputation, earn a professor’s chair, and a doze... ...ris is a town whither every man of energy—and they sprout like saplings on French soil—comes to meet his kind; talent swarms here without hearth or ho... ...nse mass of glittering ornaments that sparkled on the rich uniforms of the French army and civil officials. The 31 Balzac Emperor, a true Italian in ... ...runelleschi, Ghiberti, Benvenuto Cellini, John of Bologna, and others. The French masters of the Renaissance had never invented more strangely twining... ...he Opera. Josepha, who had left the Italian Opera six months since for the French Opera, was to take the part of Alice. This little pantomime did not ... ...n why the same prize, the same triumph, the same bays are awarded to great poets and to great generals. Wenceslas, by nature a dreamer, had expended s... ...riumphs in the annals of sculpture may be counted, as we may count the few poets among men. Michael Angelo, Michel Columb, Jean Goujon, Phidias, Praxi... ...aw of life, for art is idealized creation. Hence great artists and perfect poets wait neither for commission nor for purchasers. They are constantly c... ...akes the poet! A man ought to find every woman in his wife, as the squalid poets of the seventeenth century made their Manons figure as Iris and Chloe...

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...end better than when I am fighting with him! To bear malice is more like a Frenchman than an Englishman.” He then proposed a libation as a necessary... ...otle, Horace, and Longinus, among the antients, Dacier and Bossu among the French, and some perhaps among us; who have certainly been duly authorized ... ...the landlord by the hand, saying, “All’s our own, boy, ten thousand honest Frenchmen are landed in Suffolk. Old England for ever! ten thousand French,... ...rs. Fitzpatrick asked Honour who were come? “Who?” answered she, “why, the French; several hundred thousands of them are landed, and we shall be all m... ... terrors she had of being overtaken by her father, that the arrival of the French scarce made any impression on her. She gently chid her maid for the ... ...y Andrew; and now the moon beginning to put forth her silver light, as the poets call it (though she looked at that time more like a piece of copper),... ...n age which ever had any existence, unless in the warm imaginations of the poets, from the expulsion from Eden down to this day. In reality, I know ... .... For the first, perhaps, Byshe’s Art of Poetry, and a few of our mod ern poets, may suffice; for the second, a moderate heap of plays; and, for the ... ...ng twenty five years, lived a life more resembling the model which certain poets ascribe to the golden age, than any of those patterns which are furni...

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...Contents THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: A HISTORY.......................................................................................................... 12 VOLUME I.?THE BASTILLE ...................................................................

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...by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...ylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: A HISTORY ................................................. ................................................................. 547 12 The French Revolution THE FRENCH REVOLUTION A HISTORY by THOMAS CARLYLE VOLUME ... ...the flock knows it, and heeds it not. At most, in the immeasurable tide of French Speech (which ceases not day after day, and only ebbs towards the sh... ...ational Guards lies encompassing it, as blue Nep- tune (in the language of poets) does an island, wooingly. Thither may the wrecks of rehabilitated Lo... ...her. Here, accordingly, if anywhere, the ‘hundred tongues, ’ which the old Poets often clamour for, were of supreme service! In defect of any such org...

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... parts of this matter, so that there resulted a chaos as disordered as the poets ever feigned, and after that did nothing more than lend his ordinary ... ...ely having excellent sheets of music set up before him. And if I write in French, which is the lan guage of my country, in preference to Latin, whic...

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...raged at the outset.?Virgil cheers him by telling him that he has been sent to his aid by a blessed Spirit from Heaven.?Dante casts off fear, and the poets proceed. ................ 19 CANTO III. The gate of Hell.?Virgil lends Dante in.?The punishment of the neither good nor bad.?Aeheron, and the sinners on its bank.?Charon.?Earthquake.?Dante swoons. .........................

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... fear ante casts off fear ante casts off fear ante casts off fear, and the poets pr , and the poets pr , and the poets pr , and the poets pr , and the... ...oets pr , and the poets pr , and the poets pr , and the poets pr , and the poets proceed. oceed. oceed. oceed. oceed. ................ .................. ...rgil b irgil by his fello y his fello y his fello y his fello y his fellow poets.—They enter a w poets.—They enter a w poets.—They enter a w poets.—Th... ...nter a w poets.—They enter a w poets.—They enter a w poets.—They enter a w poets.—They enter a castle, wher castle, wher castle, wher castle, wher cas... ...alcanti. His principal literary work was Li Livres dou T resor, written in French, an interesting compend of the omne scibile. He died in 1290. Dante ... ... was charged with having been bribed to support the at- tempt to expel the French from Sicily, which began with the Sicilian Vespers in 1282. 70 The ... ...th his wings. The city 5 that made erewhile the long struggle, and of the French a bloody heap, finds itself again beneath the green paws. And the ol... ...ido da Montefeltro had defeated, with great slaughter, a troop, largely of French soldiers, sent against him by Pope Martin III. It was now ruled by t... ...o the Poet, “Now was ever people so vain as the Sienese? surely not so the French by much.” Whereon the other leprous one, who heard me, replied to my...

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...stains of Hell. ............................................................................................................ 6 CANTO II. Sunrise.?The Poets on the shore.?Coming of a boat, guided by an angel, bearing souls to Purgatory.? Their landing.?Casella and his song.?Cato hurries the souls to the mountain. ................................. 10 CANTO III. Ante-Purgator...

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.................................................... 6 CANTO II. Sunrise.—The Poets on the shore.—Coming of a boat, guided by an angel, bearing souls to ... .... 23 CANTO VII. Virgil makes himself known to Sordello.—Sordello leads the Poets to the Valley of the Princes who have been negligent of salvation.—He... ...rgatory CANT CANT CANT CANT CANTO II. O II. O II. O II. O II. Sunrise.—The Poets on the shore.—Coming of a boat, guided by an angel, bearing souls to ... ...VII. VII. VII. Virgil makes himself known to Sordello.— Sordello leads the Poets to the Valley of the Princes who have been negligent of salvation.—He... ...logna were both eminent in the art called miniare in Italian, enluminer in French. 5 Ages in which no progress is made. 6 The first Guido is doubtle... ...rdo, 11 and Guido da Castel, who is better named, after the manner of the French, the simple Lombard. 12 “Say thou henceforth, that the Church of Rom... ... memory will always be noble,” says Dante in the Convito, iv. 14. 12 “The French,” says Benvenuto da Linda, “call all Italians Lombards, and repute t... ...ained possession of Flanders, by force and fraud, in 1299; but in 1802 the French were driven out of the country , after a fatal defeat at Courtrai, h... ...r of Tiresias and Thetis, 19 and Deidamia with her sisters.” Now both the poets became silent, once more intent on looking around, free from the asce...

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... published both in this country and in England, I concluded that they were far from being accurate. The majority of them were retranslations from the French, and I found that the respective transitions through which they had passed tended to obliterate many of the beauties of the Russian language and of the peculiar characteristics of Russian life. A satisfactory translati...

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...far from being accurate. The majority of them were retranslations from the French, and I found that the re- spective transitions through which they ha... ...ing of that, I only know my own case). Wein, Weiber und Gesang. So say the poets in their verses: Wine, women, and song! “If it were only that! Take a... ...this is not right. The truth is, that the whole affair has been exalted by poets and romancers to an undue importance, and that love in its various de...

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...e truth and nothing but the truth. I told her I was going to fight for the French and for the Russians; and sure who ever heard of the French or the R... ...issed me and went about the house singing in her old cracky voice that the French was on the sea, and they’d be here without delay, and the Orange wil... ...ir. She says all the En- glish generals is Irish. She says all the English poets and great men was Irish. She says the English never knew how to read ... ...d you such brazen impudence? O’FLAHERTY. The Belgians is good men; and the French ought to be more civil to them, let alone their being half murdered ... ...day. MRS O’FLAHERTY. Well, and if they do itself, isn’t there 17 Shaw the French army? O’FLAHERTY. They only get a hapenny a day. MRS O’FLAHERTY [muc... ... in there was a walking angel; and now if ever I marry at all I’ll marry a Frenchwoman. MRS O’FLARERTY [fiercely]. You’ll not, so; and don’t you dar r...

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... England, which was called after them Normandy. There they learned to talk French, and grew like Frenchmen, though they remained a great deal braver, ... ... Danes to be sad drunkards; but both they and the Danes thought the Norman French fine gentlemen, and could not bear the sight of them. Think, then, h... ...s dull and heavy; but they did not like having a king and court who talked French, and cared more for Normandy than for England. 22 Young Folk’s Hist... ...oy was to be the husband of Alice, daughter to the Count of Anjou, a great French Prince, whose lands were near Normandy. It 25 Charlotte M... ...ting, and was generally seen with a spray of broom blossom in his cap. The French name for this plant is _genet_; and thus his nickname was 28 Young ... ...me when there were many very great men living —soldiers, sailors, writers, poets—and they all loved and look up to the queen as the mother of her coun...