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...Excerpt: We had been talking about the masters who had achieved but a single masterpiece--the artists and poets who but once in their lives had known the divine afflatus and touched the high level of perfection. Our host had been showing us a charming little cabinet picture by a painter whose name we had never heard, and who, aft...

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...bout the masters who had achieved but a single masterpiece—the artists and poets who but once in their lives had known the divine afflatus and touched... ...ty that I was the friend of Mr. Theobald, he broke out into that fantastic French of which certain Ital- ians are so insistently lavish, and declared ... ...ic art some- times rather a bore? Caricature, burlesque, la charge, as the French say, has hitherto been confined to paper, to the pen and pencil. Now...

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...ooms were as clean as scrubbing and whitewash could make them; with simple French prints (with Spanish titles) on the walls; a few rickety half-finish... ...fan and mantle; to them came three or four dandies, dressed smartly in the French fashion, with strong Jewish physiognomies. There was one, a solemn l... ...y choose his trade,” our little informant said, who addressed us in better French than any of our party spoke, whose manners were perfectly gentlemanl... ...we saw were still rich, tawdry, and splendid to outward show, although the French, as usual, had robbed their shrines of their gold and silver, and th... ...Soult and Junot thought, when they despoiled these places of worship, like French philoso- phers as they were. A friend, with a classical turn of mind... ...r, are you not charmed to be in this famous neighbourhood, in this land of poets and heroes, of whose history your classical edu- cation ought to have... ...to me, that I can’t at present reconcile myself to you in age. I read your poets, but it was in fear and trembling; and a cold sweat is but an ill acc... ...er four were playing with a dirty pack of cards, at a barrack that English poets have christened the “Half-way House. ”Does external nature and beauty... ...erly to the people before him, whose devotions he had marked; quotes their poets, to bring them to think of the God unknown, whom they had ignorantly ...

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...n of absolute integrity of mind. He never wrote his poems (as so many war-poets did) to make the effect of a personal gesture. He pitied others; he d... ...ined until 1915. During this period he became acquainted with the eminent French poet, Laurent T ailhade, to whom he showed his early verses, and fro... ...e to the next. All the poet can do to-day is to warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful. If I thought the letter of this book would last, I ... ...ers. The front line withers, But they are troops who fade, not flowers For poets’ tearful fooling: Men, gaps for filling Losses who might have fought ...

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...leave to the reader the business of interpreting. On the 1st of this month a French general will be killed by a random shot of a cannon-ball. On the 6... ...noise of guns for a victory. On the 14th there will be a false report of the French king s death. On the 20th Cardinal Portocarero will die of a dysen... ...the hands of his enemies. On the 14th a shameful discovery will be made of a French The Bickerstaff Partridge Papers – Swift 9 Jesuit, giving poison ... ...which will make this month memorable to all pos- terity, is the death of the French King, Lewis the fourteenth, after a week s sickness at Marli, whic... ...dge Papers – Swift 10 of Tuscany, who is now about sixty-one years old. The French army acts now wholly on the defensive, strongly fortify d in their... ...id to have been a king of Spain, whom Hercules slew. It was a fiction of the poets, that he had three heads, which the author says he shall have again...

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...ything more than the expres- sion of the artist’s national British idea of Frenchmen. It must be confessed that for that great nation Mr. Cruikshank e... ...e reader examine the “Life in Paris,” or the five hundred designs in which French- men are introduced, and he will find them almost invariably thin, w... ...ing shoulders, and queer hair and mustachios. He has the British idea of a Frenchman; and if he does not believe that the inhabitants of France are fo... ...d Brit- ish gallery would understand that such and such a character W AS a Frenchman unless he appeared in the ancient tradi- tional costume. A curiou... ...s muster very well. A villanous race of shoulder-shrugging mortals are his Frenchmen indeed. And the heroes of the tale, a certain Mr. Dick Wildfire, ... ...t of the paint- ers and tell us who are they? How many among these men are POETS (makers), possessing the faculty to create, the great- est among the ...

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...uspected of a certain un- emotional, grim acceptance of facts; of what the French would call secheresse du coeur. Fifteen years of unbroken silence be... ...it is not the Why that matters so much to our happiness as the How. As the Frenchman said, “Il y a toujours la maniere.” Very true. Yes. There is the ... ...f the matter is, the cap- tain of that ship wants an officer who can speak French fluently, and that’s not so easy to find. I do not know anybody myse... ...ciently a man who could make a second officer for a steamer chartered by a French company. I showed no sign of being haunted by the fate of Nina and b... ... his ambition—to satisfy at a few hours’ notice the un- usual demand for a French-speaking officer. He ex- plained to me that the ship was chartered b... ...iscences Quixote” in abridged editions; I had read in early boyhood Polish poets and some French poets, but I cannot say what I read on the evening be...

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...Distinguished Provincial at Paris is part two of a trilogy. Part one, T wo Poets, begins the story of Lucien, his sister Eve, and his friend David in ... ...uise felt humbled through her love, one of the sharpest of all pangs for a Frenchwoman, a mortification for which she cannot forgive her lover. In the... ...hesse de Langeais’ ruin. The fourth, M. de Canalis, one of the most famous poets of the day, and as yet a newly risen celebrity, was prouder of his bi... ... great people who protect them, the author of Ourika, and one or two young poets with sound views.” “Mme. la Marquise,” said de Marsay, “if you give y... ...ng to the prettiest women, his dress elegant, as became the most dainty of poets. “Great heavens!” exclaimed Lucien. “Money, money at all costs! money... ...is directly affected by the caprices of the season and the vicissitudes of French agricul- ture. By eating your dinners at Flicoteaux’s you learn a ho... ...ather and good or bad seasons. He knows when it is a good year for peas or French beans, and the kind of salad stuff that is plentiful; when the Great... ...hopman. He had read the names on the sign- board—Vidal & Porchon (it ran), French and foreign book- sellers’ agents. “Both gentlemen are engaged,” sai... ...said, addressing both partners. The booksellers nodded slightly. “I have a French historical romance after the style of Scott. It is called The Archer...

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... at the same time, for an English usher to be spouting and glowing about a French general, who had been a stable- boy and became a king, with his Mura... ...lry under your orders is a toss above fifteen hundred; but the claim for a Frenchman of a superlative merit to swallow and make nothing of the mention... ...ading Virgil and parts of Lucan for his recre- ation. He said he liked the French because they could be splendidly enthusiastic. He almost lost his En... ...st lost his English flavour when he spoke in downright approval of a small French fel- low, coming from Orthez, near the Pyrenees, for senselessly das... ...e had got hold of the English trick of not knowing when he was beaten. His French vanity insisted on his engaging the two, though one of them stood as... ...t, were set to think like boys about him: and the boys, the women, and the poets formed a tipsy chorea. Jour- nalists, on the whole, were fairly halve... ... it in her desk, understanding well that it was a laugh lost to the world. Poets could reasonably 25 George Meredith feign it to shake the desk inclo...

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...suspected of a certain unemotional, grim accep- tance of facts—of what the French would call secheresse du coeur. Fifteen years of unbroken silence be... ...it is not the Why that matters so much to our happiness as the How. As the Frenchman said, “Il y a toujours la maniere.” V ery true. Y es. There is th... ... of the matter is, the captain of that ship wants an officer who can speak French fluently, and that’s not so easy to find. I do not know anybody myse... ...ciently a man who could make a second officer for a steamer chartered by a French company. I showed no sign of being haunted by the fate of Nina and b... ...in his ambition—to satisfy at a few hours’ notice the unusual demand for a French-speaking of- ficer. He explained to me that the ship was chartered b... ...and “Don Quixote” in abridged editions; I had read in early boyhood Polish poets and some French po- ets, but I cannot say what I read on the evening ...

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.................................................................. 27 Charlie French ....................................................................... ...l for me: “Taken from the evil to come.” 28 Spoon River Anthology Charlie French DID you ever find out Which one of the O’Brien boys it was Who snapp... ...ear the Champs Elysees Became a center for all sorts of people, Musicians, poets, dandies, artists, nobles, Where we spoke French and German, Italian,... ...orts of people, Musicians, poets, dandies, artists, nobles, Where we spoke French and German, Italian, English. I wed Count Navigato, native of Genoa.... ...ade a nest in my skull Russian Sonia I, BORN in Weimar Of a mother who was French And German father, a most learned professor, Orphaned at fourteen ye... ...tress betimes of sundry dukes and counts, And later of poor artists and of poets. At forty years, passe, I sought New Y ork And met old Patrick Hummer... ...nativity. And there in Rome, among the artists, Speaking Italian, speaking French, I seemed to myself at times to be free Of every trace of my origin.... ...them, sweet was the church to me. It was the vision, vision, vision of the poets Democratized! 119 Edgar Lee Masters Le Roy Goldman WHAT will you do ...

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...embered that the Dutch (who first settled New Y ork), the English, and the French, all gave appellations to the tribes that dwelt within the country w... ... this book, fully a quarter of a century since, it occurred to us that the French name of this lake was too complicated, the American too commonplace,... ..., it was ascertained that a tribe of Indians, called “Les Horicans” by the French, existed in the neighborhood of this beautiful sheet of water. As ev... ... of New Y ork, forming a natural passage across half the distance that the French were compelled to master in order to strike their enemies. Near its ... ...pursuit of their daring plans of annoyance, the restless enterprise of the French even attempted the distant and difficult gorges of the Alleghany, it... ...n New England’.” During this eulogium on the rare production of his native poets, the stranger had drawn the book from his pocket, and fitting a pair ...

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...imated at several mil- lions. All the members of the family spoke Italian, French, *Macedoine, in the sense in which it is here used, is a game, or ra... ...irl of sixteen, whose beauty realized the fabulous conceptions of Oriental poets! Like the Sultan’s daughter in the tale of the Wonderful Lamp, she sh... ...ng escape the no- tice of the performers, male and female. One evening the Frenchman noticed that they were laughing at him in the wings. It is hard t... ... him. As he left the theatre, a stranger grasped his arm. “‘Beware, Signor Frenchman,’ he said in his ear. ‘This is a matter of life and death. Cardin... ...man. She was waiting. “‘You are very late,’ she said. ‘Come.’ “She led the Frenchman through several narrow streets and stopped in front of a palace o... ...t as indicating extreme delicacy of feel- ing. This weakness delighted the Frenchman. There is so much of the element of protection in a man’s love! “...

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...eton in Paris’; and here is an opportunity for ludi- crous contrast of the French and English styles of pushing flatteries—’piping to the charmed anim... ...n…. ‘I could call him my poet also,’ Mr. Redworth agreed with her taste in poets. ‘His letters are among the best ever writ- ten—or ever published: th... ...best English letter- 30 Diana of the Crossways writers are as good as the French— You don’t think so?—in their way, of course. I dare’ say we don’t s... ...onth to have sight of an Irish Beauty …. ‘Think war the finest subject for poets?’ he exclaimed. ‘Flatly no: I don’t think it. I think exactly the rev... ...she wished to see that he held an image of Diana:—surely a woman to kindle poets and heroes, the princes of the race; and it was a curious perversity ... ...na, Redworth, Dacier, the German Eastern traveller Schweizerbarth, and the French Consul and Egyptologist Duriette, composed a voyaging party up the r... ...e two foreign rivals, moved a deeper feeling. The German had a guitar, the Frenchman a voice; Diana joined them in harmony. They complained apart sev-... ...d 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 and Garryowe... ... our flying minds cannot contain a protracted description. That is why the poets, who spring imagination with a word or a phrase, paint lasting pictur...

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...pinesses which a rigid mother denied to the Eugenie of these pages. Though Frenchmen are taxed with incon- stancy, you will find me Italian in faithfu... ... with blue velvet of that tender shade, with shimmering reflections, which French industry has lately learned to fabricate. Over the doors and windows... ..., the daughter of the Comte de Granville, one of the greatest names in the French magistracy,—a man who be- came peer of France after the revolution o... ... maid taught them drawing. A worthy priest instructed them in grammar, the French language, history, geography, and the very little arithmetic it was ... ...e of those whose solution is known only to God. Here, below, the sublimest poets have simply harassed their readers when attempting to picture paradis... ...rrounded by dangerous relations and intimate enemies. Every one knows that French literature at that particular period was endeavoring to defend itsel... ...mitting a volume of verse, which won him a place in the pleiades of living poets; among these verses was a nebulous poem that was greatly admired. For... ...ul pas- sage from the pen of Theophile Gautier, one of the most remarkable poets of our day:— “‘Ideala, flower of heaven’s own blue, with heart of gol...

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...e next chapter, will show the reader that duels between boys, for fun, and duels between men in earnest, are very different affairs.] CHAPTER VIII The... ... tions of our day. Since it is always fought in the open air, the combatants are nearly sure to catch cold. M. Paul de Cassagnac, the most inveterate ... ...nd draughts cannot intrude—he will eventually endanger his life. This ought to moderate the talk of those people who are so stubborn in maintaining th... ... the French duel is the most health-giving of recreations because of the open-air exercise it affords. And it ought also to moderate that foolish talk... ...e im- moral. 31 A Tramp Abroad But it is time to get at my subject. As soon as I heard of the late fiery outbreak between M. Gambetta and M. Fourtou ... ...hich even a royal en- core— But it is better to illustrate. The King of Bavaria is a poet, and has a poet’s eccentricities—with the advantage over all... ...avings to a sharper to be ventured in a glittering speculation. But that was not the worst of it: he signed a paper—without reading it. That is the wa...

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...hy, I thought your papa was a doctor.” “Well!” “I thought only ladies, and poets, and idle silly people, cared for poetry.” “They can hardly be silly ... ...re- ceived an answer, but what it was she could not guess, whether German, French, or English, and her own knowledge of the two first languages was be... ...t,” he said, as if his kind governess had been his enemy. As to Annie, her French verbs were always dreadful things to hear, and the little merry face... ...r far- thing, and her eyes would not have been so hot. Maybe, too, Susan’s French phrases would not have been turned back. Miss Fosbrook would have gi... ...e will go into her understanding instead of those 46 The Stokesley Secret French phrases. She looks up in dull stupefaction. William Rufus is dispose... ...to learn this.” Susan gives a little gasp; and Elizabeth, who has said her French without a blunder, puts in an unnecessary and not very sisterly word...

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...in The Middle, where my dealings were mainly with the ladies and the minor poets. This was his new novel, an advance copy, and whatever much or little... ...nded as a reply to both com- munications. Those few words were in familiar French, the French of the day, which Covick often made use of to 27 Henry ...

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...lic Emancipations, and Rotten Boroughs, and Revolts of Paris, deafen every French and every English ear, the German can stand peaceful on his scientif... ...and fish and flesh, soup and solid, oyster-sauce, lettuces, Rhine-wine and French mustard, were hurled into one huge tureen or trough, and the hungry ... ...imself, as we said, laughed only once. Still less do we make of that other French Definition of the Cooking Animal; which, indeed, for rigorous scien-... ...st can find the kernel.” In such rose-colored light does our Professor, as Poets are wont, look back on his childhood; the historical de- tails of whi... ...itual sort on Europe: I mean the epidemic, now endemical, of View-hunting. Poets of old date, being privileged with Senses, had also enjoyed external ... ...evoured. “Full of such humor, and perhaps the miserablest man in the whole French Capital or Suburbs, was I, one sultry Dog- day, after much perambula... ...y some five hundred souls. From these, by certain ‘Natural Enemies’ of the French, there are suc- cessively selected, during the French war, say thirt... ...e been of- ten irrefragably evinced, of the Tailor alone?—What too are all Poets and moral Teachers, but a species of Meta- phorical Tailors? Touching...

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... the leaders of mankind. I have represented the native common sense of the French mind and of the English mind—for manifestly King Egbert is meant to ... ...ank and honourable gathering of leading men, Englishman meeting German and Frenchman Russian, brothers in their offences and in their disaster, upon t... ...nd he learnt Greek and Latin as well as he had learnt German, Spanish, and French, so that he wrote and spoke them freely, and used them with an uncon... ... dis- ordered thoughts and violent impulses. For more than a cen- tury the French system exhausted its vitality in belligerent convulsions, and then t... ...esently his battalion came up from the depot to London, to entrain for the French frontier. He tells of children and women and lads and old men cheeri... ...but life lengthens out now and the mind of adult humanity detaches itself. Poets who used to die at thirty live now to eighty-five. You, too, Kahn! Th... ...ike a hammer that has lost its anvil, it plunges through hu- man life. You poets, you young people want to turn it to delight. Turn it to delight. Tha... ...between men and women that is not a common evil,’ said Karenin. ‘It is you poets, Kahn, with your love songs which turn the sweet fellowship of comrad...

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...ing”, Bacon’s “Novum Organum”. In Italian, Ariosto, Tasso, and Alfieri. In French, the “Reveries d’un Solitaire” of Rousseau. T o these may be added s... ...n Latin, Lucretius, Pliny’s Letters, the Annals and Germany of Tacitus. In French, the “History of the French Revolution” by Lacretelle. He read for t... ...), but assigned by Mrs. Shelley to 1819. Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets’ food is love and fame: If in this wide world of care Poets could but... ...e As the light chameleons do, Suiting it to every ray T wenty times a day? Poets are on this cold earth, _1... ...ave beneath the sea; Where light is, chameleons change: Where love is not, poets do: _15 Fame is love disgu... ...15 Fame is love disguised: if few Find either, never think it strange That poets range. Yet dare not stain with wealth or power A poet’s free and heav... ...s”, 1839, 2nd edition. How sweet it is to sit and read the tales Of mighty poets and to hear the while Sweet music, which when the attention fails Fil...