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...roof of my rashness. What I care to remember best is the testimony of some French readers who volunteered the opinion that in those hundred pages or s... ...trick of smoothing his long white beard whenever he was short of a word in French or En- glish imparted an air of leisurely dignity to the tone of his... ...Liberator,” he declared. “My incomparable mother, God rest her soul, was a French-woman, the daughter of an ardent republi- can. As a boy I fought for... ...m, and go to sleep with the necessity of the chambardement général, as the French slang has it, of the general blow-up, always present to his mind? An... ...ment. It is sufficient, for instance, to point out the attitude of the old French aristocracy towards the philosophers whose words were preparing the ... ...eeling a special intensity of existence, that ela- tion common to artists, poets, and lovers—to men haunted by a great passion, a noble thought, or a ...

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... Everard, and his uncle’s friend Stukely Culbrett, expounded the nature of Frenchmen to him, saying that they were un- easy when not periodically thra... ...of our exhi- bition of ourselves in Europe. It looked as if the blustering French Guard were to have it all their own way. And what 9 George Meredith... ...fi- culties to be overcome. As regards his qualifications for ad- dressing Frenchmen, a year of his prae-neptunal time had been spent in their capital... ...nal time had been spent in their capital city for the purpose of acquiring French of Paris, its latest refinements of pronunciation and polish, and th... ...ts of pronunciation and polish, and the art of conversing. He had read the French tragic poets and Moliere; he could even relish the Gallic- classic—’... ...ation and polish, and the art of conversing. He had read the French tragic poets and Moliere; he could even relish the Gallic- classic—’Qu’il mourut!’... ...t, to re- lease your shoulders in a trice. Mr. Timothy felt for his art as poets do for theirs, and considered what was best adapted to speaking, pure... ... Tory’s mentor and his cordial, with other great ancient comic and satiric poets, his old Port of the classical cellarage, reflecting veneration upon ... ... something of the kind of genius in her mood which has hurried the greater poets of sound and speech to impose their naturalness upon accepted laws, o...

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... to a carriage on the off side, containing Kirby, and how she, this little French jade, sprang in to take her place. One snap of the fingers and the t... ...rothers were sons of Geoffrey Fakenham, celebrated for his devotion to the French Count- 19 George Meredith ess Jules d’Andreuze, or some such name, ... ...ted off, on the discovery of the cheat, with horrible imprecations against Frenchwomen. It became known, too; that horses of his were standing saddled... ... to prove her readiness on the spot. A drop of a dozen feet or so from the French window to a flower—bed was not very difficult. Her father had taught... ...u’re a bit of a botanist too. You’re good at English and German; you had a French governess for a couple of years. By the way, you understand the use ... ...hawkers, tinkers, tramps and ploughmen, choughs and crows. A volume of our Poets and a History of Philosophy composed my library. I had scarce any mon... ...e acquaintance with their linea- ments inspired a regard for them, such as poets may feign the throned high moon to entertain for objects causing her ... ... weapon of the man’s weakness. For which my lord calls them heartless, and poets are angry with them, rightly or wrongly. It must, I fear, be admitted...

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... I am the Sonne of Henry the Fift, 122 Who made the Dolphin and the French to stoupe, 123 And seiz’d vpon their Townes and Prouinces. 124... ...a Crowne, 343 Within whose Circuit is Elizium, 344 And all that Poets faine of Blisse and Ioy. 345 Why doe we linger thus? I cannot re... ...geance for his death, 615 ’Gainst thee fell Clifford, and thee false French- woman. 616 Northumb. Beshrew me, but his passions moues me... ...eare) the great Commanding Warwicke 1428 I: thither gone, to craue the French Kings Sister 1429 To wife for Edward. If this newes be true, 1... ...f, Ile plucke it downe. Exit. 1720 Flourish. 1721 Enter Lewis the French King, his Sister Bona, his 1722 Admirall, call’d Bourbon: Prince... ...85 Exeunt. 2186 Enter Warwicke and Oxford in England, 2187 with French Souldiors. 2188 Warw. Trust me, my Lord, all hitherto goes w...

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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... ...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. ... ... battle, that your humble servant is riding his sleek Pegasus. W e college poets trot, you 240 Henry Esmond know, on very easy nags; it hath been, ti...

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...He had been up two or three times: he had planted letter, — English, German, French, &c. These men were slightly clad in shirt and pantaloons, like la... ...ween it and me. It reminded me of the creations of the old epic and dramatic poets, of Atlas, Vulcan, the Cyclops, and Prometheus. Such was Caucasus a... ...w? He lives three thousand years deep into time, an age not yet described by poets. Can you well go further back in history than this? Ay! ay! — for t... ...ds, and convinced me that the Indian was not the invention of historians and poets. It was a purely wild and primitive American sound, as much as the ... ...n shore, who recognized my companion, was full of mirth and gestures, like a Frenchman. A Catholic priest crossed to the island in the same bateau wit... ...is which chiefly has in spired, and will continue to inspire, the strains of poets, such as compose the mass of any literature. Our woods are sylvan, ... ...s familiar with the route. According to his calculation, we should reach the French settlements the next night after The Allegash and East Branch 143... ...ber of them in those parts, “and so insupportable,” says he, “that the three Frenchmen who have made that voyage, affirm that there was no other means ... ...he night, he would be unexpectedly sociable, exhibit even the bonhommie of a Frenchman, and we would fall asleep before he got through his periods. Ni...

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...w link between France and America is made, and some reasons for the strength of the link ought to be discoverable in the suddenly bared depths of the French heart. There are two ways of judging a foreign people: at first sight, impressionistically, in the manner of the passing traveller; or after residence among them, ?soberly, advisedly,? and with all the vain precautions...

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...8 -- IV, 21 -- IV? Intellectual Honesty, 24 -- I, 24 -- II, 26 -- III, 28 -- V? Continuity, 31 -- I, 31 -- II, 32 -- III, 35 -- IV, 37 -- VI? The New Frenchwoman, 39 -- VII? In Conclusion, 48 -- I, 48 -- II, 52 -- III, 53...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 VI — The New Frenchwoman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 VII — In Concl... ...55 V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 FRENCH WAYS AND THEIR MEANING 1 PREFACE T his book is essentially a desul... ...gth of the link ought to be discoverable in the suddenly bared depths of the French heart. There are two ways of judging a foreign people: at first sig... ...terranean culture and the civic discipline of Rome. One can imagine the first Frenchman born into the world looking about him confidently, and saying: “... ...d durable things that may be put into it, is manifest in every motion of the French intelligence. Sooner than any other race the French have got rid o... ...stic art) was something apart from life, as dangerous to it as Plato thought Poets in a Republic, and to be tolerated only when it was so lofty, unapp... ...arther south idle and improvi dent: France offered the happy mean which the poets are forever celebrating, and the French were early aware that the p...

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................37 The Sleeper in the Valley...................38 Evening Prayer.......................39 My Little Lovers .......................40 Poets at Seven Years.....................42 The Stolen Heart .......................45 The Parisian Orgy, or Paris Repeopled ..............46 Jeanne-Marie’s Hands.....................49 The Sisters of Charity ...............

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...EY : afterwards Queen to Edward IV. (QUEEN ELIZABETH:) BONA: sister to the French Queen. Soldiers, Attendants, Messengers, Watchmen, &c. (Soldier:) ... ...Earl of March: I am the son of Henry the Fifth, Who made the Dauphin and the French to stoop And seized upon their towns and provinces. WARWICK: Talk... ... a thing it is to wear a crown; Within whose circuit is Elysium And all that poets feign of bliss and joy. Why do we finger thus? I cannot rest Until ... ... cries vengeance for his death, ‘Gainst thee, fell Clifford, and thee, false Frenchwoman. NORTHUMBERLAND: Beshrew me, but his passion moves me so Tha... ...; And, as I hear, the great commanding Warwick Is thither gone, to crave the French king’s sister To wife for Edward: if this news be true, Poor queen... ...Exeunt.] SCENE II: A plain in Warwickshire. [Enter WARWICK and OXFORD, with French soldiers .] WARWICK: Trust me, my lord, all hitherto goes well; T...

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...indoo is a Hindoo and a brother to the man who knows his vernacular. And a French-man is French because he speaks his own language. But the American h... ...icatured themselves, their associ- ates, and their aims. There was a slick French audacity about 15 Rudyard Kipling the workmanship of these men of t... ... went straight to the heart of the beholder. And yet it was not altogether French. A dry grimness of treatment, almost Dutch, marked the difference. T... ...hought beyond the enjoyment of a good time. As certain, also, of their own poets have said:— “Man is fire and woman is tow, And the devil he comes and... ...of construction. To this nucleus were added all the races of the Continent—French, Italian, Ger- man, and, of course, the Jew. The result you can see ...

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...o and look around! Are they hither wending? Then to make our joy complete, Poets I invited, Who love other’s songs far more Than what they’ve indited.... ...with a friendly contest in the art of ballad-writing between the two great poets, to which many of their finest works are owing.] ONCE a stranger yout... ...d! Ay, my voice shall now be heard, As a peal of thunder, strong! Words as poets’ arms were made,— When the god will he obey’d, Follow fast his darts ... ...voices gave thee, Age can never steal upon thee. Wise and gentle friend of poets, Born a creature fleshless, bloodless, 257 Goethe Though Earth’s dau... ...ne that soon its beautiful margin Into a wall would be turn’d, to keep the French from our country, And its wide-spreading bed a ditch to hinder and c... ...ere warmly excited. Presently after began the war, and the train of arm’ d Frenchmen Nearer approach’ d; at first they appear’ d to bring with them fr... ...ce began round the newly-raised standards. In this manner the overpowering Frenchmen soon conquer’ d First the minds of the men, with their fiery live... .... Presently Fortune declared herself on the side of the Ger- mans, And the French were compell’ d to retreat by forced marches before them. Ah! the sa... ...ernal graces have I from my youth been accustom’d. Our old neighbours, the French, in their earlier days laid much stress on Courteous demeanour; ’twa...

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...lves -- Formation of a communistic settlement -- Occupation by the English and French of many islands -- A fort built at Tortuga -- Capture of the pla... ... and massacre of the people -- A few survivors turn freebooters -- English and French sailors and Colonists become pirates against Spanish ships Rapid... ...citizens hire filibusters to guard their homes -- The English outwitted by the French -- The French return and plunder the city for a second time -- T... ...- Bougainville is entertained by an aged chief -- At the chiefs invitation the French pitch their tents upon the shore -- After a long and delightful ... ...d spirits had set out on the high seas, encouraged by their victories over the French in England, and sailed in quest of new lands. They soon also dis... ...t known and most poetical of all the nautical legends. Novelists have used it, poets have embellished it, dramatists have put it on the boards with al...

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...ch would have to be committed during that movement. And beginning with the French Revolution the old inad- equately large group was destroyed, as well... ...ions, without habits, without tradi- tions, without a name, and not even a Frenchman, emerges— by what seem the strangest chances—from among all the s... ... emerges— by what seem the strangest chances—from among all the seeth- ing French parties, and without joining any one of them is borne forward to a p... ...us give him the victory at Austerlitz; and by chance all men, not only the French but all Europe—except England which does not take part in the events... ...e about the children. “Y ou can see the woman in her already,” she said in French, pointing to little Natasha. “Y ou reproach us women with being illo... ...e another includes also orators, learned men, reformers, philosophers, and poets). Secondly, it is assumed that the goal toward which humanity is bein...

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... the idea of imperialism, not German imperial- ism merely, but British and French and Russian imperial- ism, and we were saying this not because it wa... ...utler. Mater’s “Société des Nations” (Didier) is an able presentation of a French point of view. Brailsford’s “A League of Nations” is already a class... ...rite some language or other; Bogota with a population of a million, mostly poets; Hayti with a population of a mil- lion and a third, almost entirely ... ...sts hate this pro- cess. So do a lot of ours. So do some of the diplomatic French- men. The German junkers are dodging and lying, they are fighting de... ...ved by the British Foreign Office and of somebody or other approved by the French Foreign Office, of somebody with vague pow- ers from America, and so... ...idea. They are morally pledged to it. President Wilson and our British and French spokesmen alike have said over and over again that they want to deal...

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...ble— to sound his praises in his own land. Let us suppose that a courteous Frenchman ventures an opinion among En- glishmen that Wellington was a grea... ...own-trodden country of slaves and pau- pers.” Under such circumstances the Frenchman would probably be shut up. And when I strove to speak of Wash- in... ...must probably be given mainly to Madison and Hamilton, Madison finding the French democratic element, and Hamilton the English conserva- tive element—... ...ordinary honesty. It is not by foreign voices, by English newspapers or in French pamphlets, that the corruption of American politicians has been expo... ... may be that our own soldiers were as badly treated in the Crimea; or that French soldiers were treated worse in their march into Russia. It may be th... ...n historians are acknowledged as great au- thors, and as regards their own poets, will sometimes de- mand your admiration for strains with which you h...

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...s many ideas of what we are and what approaches to life we need to take to be happy. Philosophers have added to the mix. As have playwrights, poets,... ...ms. In boys this is often called the Oedipus complex, in girls, the Electra situation. Both of these ideas come to us from the ancient Greek poets ... ...ur problems with school shootings in America, but we are seeing the seeds of violence planted more often everywhere today. A 2004 study by the French... ... everywhere today. A 2004 study by the French police found that just under 10% of the mosques were under the control of extremists. Yet 23% of French... ...ove can be based primarily on the knowledge of science, but is tempered by insights and speculations of philosophers, religious thinkers, and poets.... ...t that he or she can be. It is a psychological intimacy between people. Here we find in the understandable terms of science that feeling which poets ... ...age was done to public buildings, a thousand cars were burned and at least one death resulted. So an incorrect perception of truth started the French... ...l legate Arnaud when he said ‗Kill them all, for God knows His own.‘ This justified the killing of over 20,000 men, women and children in the French... ... inferiority or worthlessness.‘(22) ―It is possible for some people to skip some needs in the pursuit of achieving the meta-needs. The French...

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.................................................................... 117 XXXIX. POETS ...................................................................... ...Has any one at the end of the nineteenth century any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? If not, I wil... ...ent, and the imperishable! All the imperishable—that’s but a simile, and the poets lie too much.— But of time and of becoming shall the best similes s... ...it; and out of wisdom have ye often made an almshouse and a hospital for bad poets. Ye are not eagles: thus have ye never experienced the happiness of... ...justice. And what I will, they may not will!— Thus spake Zarathustra. XXXIX. POETS “SINCE I HAVE known the body better”—said Zarathustra to one of his... ...on clamber back to the conven- tions of the age they intended reforming. The French then say “le diable se fait hermite,” but these men, as a rule, ha...

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...Tuesday in it you found on the shelf in your bedroom not only the books of poets and novelists, but of revolutionary biologists and even economists. W... ... house would have been out of the movement. You would find Blake among the poets, and beside him Bergson, But- ler, Scott Haldane, the poems of Meredi... ...h Butler and Bergson and Scott Haldane alongside Blake and the other major poets on its shelves (to say nothing of Wagner and the tone poets), was not... ...rman engineering, as malignant abominations stand- ing towards British and French chemistry and so forth in the relation of heaven to hell, it was cle... ... have said if he had seen Ypres as it is now, or returned to Stratford, as French peasants are returning to their homes to-day, to find the old famili... ...was a celebrity of some kind who knew Ellie’s grandparents. They were both poets, like the Brownings; and when her father came into the world Mazzini ... ...ELLIE. My poor father should never have been in business. His parents were poets; and they gave him the noblest ideas; 50 Heartbreak House but they c... ...MRS HUSHABYE. —de Rougemont? ELLIE [innocently]. No: de Larochejaquelin. A French fam- ily. A vicomte. His life has been one long romance. A tiger— MR...

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...calmly where fools may be eager to rush. As a distinguished and successful French novelist 12 Notes on Life and Letters once observed of fiction, “C’... ...force; and he stands excused from the duty of patriotic posturing. He is a Frenchman of Frenchmen beyond question or cavil, and with that he is simple... ...say that during his sojourn in England he had the misfortune to be, as the French say, mal entoure. He was beset by people who understood not the qual... ...y poetry. Meantime, unblushing, unseen, and often unheard, the guile- less poets have gone on singing in a sweet strain. How they dare do the impossib... ...in wrote The Loves of the Plants and a scoffer The Loves of the Triangles, poets have been sup- posed to be indecorously blind to the progress of scie... ...century was, too, a time of optimism and of dismal mediocrity in which the French Revolution exploded like a bomb-shell. In its lurid blaze the in- su... ... but little cour- age in saying at this time of the day that the glorified French Revolution itself, except for its destructive force, was in essentia...

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...ppeals; when the presid- ing genius that watched over the destinies of the French nation had played out all the best cards in his hand, and his advers... ... that the Queen of England did feel seriously alarmed at the notion that a French prince should occupy the Spanish throne; or whether she was tenderly... ...stavus Adolphus Maximilian von Galgenstein, had been in the service of the French as page to a nobleman; then of His Majesty’s gardes du corps; then a... ...erving Her Sacred Majesty, to be sure: long life to her, and down with the French King!” Bullock, a few of the men, and two or three of the boys, pipe... ...trebleu!” and it W AS ventrebleu with him, I warrant you; for bleu, in the French language, means “through;” and ventre—why, you see, ventre means— CA... ...ron nine times, besides extracts from the Latin syntax and the minor Greek poets. Catherine’s pas- sionate embreathings are of the most fashionable or... ...n we have all of us, no doubt, employed in our time. How often have we,—we poets, politicians, phi- losophers, family-men,—found charming excuses for ...

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........................................................ 143 EPIGRAM FROM THE FRENCH. ...................................................................... ... GENIUS AND POETRY OF POP Y OF POP Y OF POP Y OF POP Y OF POPE E E E E Few poets during their lifetime have been at once so much admired and so much a... ...e class. “No T ory for our translator of Homer,” cried the zealous Whigs, “Poets should be poor, and Pope is independent,” growled Grub Street. The an... ...Shakspeare, Young, and Spenser, is one of the four most popular of English poets. In America, too, Lord Carlisle found, he tells us, the most cul- tiv... ...llins, Burns, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Coleridge, and many other poets. His native faculty, indeed, seems rather fine than powerful—rather t... ...cisely such a swing. It was fond of a mixture of strong English sense with French graces and charms of manner; and Pope supplied it. It was fond of ke... ...hunders all his own! Stood up to dash each vain pretender’s hope, Maul the French tyrant, or pull down the Pope! If there’s a Briton then, true bred a... ... whom she subdued: 40 Your scene precariously subsists too long On French translation and Italian song. Dare to have sense yourselves; assert ... ...ndemn a play of theirs, and they evade it; Cry, ‘Damn not us, but damn the French, who made it.’ 10 By running goods these graceless owlers gain; Th...

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...k more and more towards the professional Don Juan. With a leer of what the French call fatuity, he bids the belles of Mauchline beware of his seductio... ...e sudden interest in politics which arose from his sympathy with the great French Revolution. His only political feeling had been hith- erto a sentime... ...ause he lay out of the way of active politics in his youth. With the great French Revolution, something living, practical, and feasible appeared to hi... ... subsequent sale four carronades, and despatched them with a letter to the French Assembly. Letter and guns were stopped at Dover by the English offic... ...vid medium for all that had to do with social life. Hence, whenever Scotch poets left their laborious imitations of bad English verses, and fell back ... ...hrase of one tough verse of the original; and for those who know the Greek poets only by paraphrase, this has the very quality they are accustomed to ... ... these pointed occasions are most useful and inspiring. As those who speak French imperfectly are glad to dwell on any topic they may have 60 Robert ... ...ream so deep and easy that I will venture to call him the best of humorous poets. He turns about in the midst to utter a noble sentiment or a trenchan... ...e poetry, but he flatters himself he has done something towards making the poets. His notion of the poetic function is ambitious, and coin- cides roug...

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...ssioner for the United States. Here he re mained till 1785, the favorite of French society; and with such success did he conduct the affairs of his c... ... was a mere compositor, knowing nothing of presswork. He had been one of the French prophets, and could act their enthusiastic agi tations. At this t... ...indow, we saw the governor and another gentleman (which proved to be Colonel French, of Newcastle), finely dress’d, come directly across the street to... ...d would have me away with him to the tavern, where he was going with Colonel French to taste, as he said, some excellent Madeira. I was The Autobiogra... ...r star’d like a pig poison’d. I went, however, with the governor and Colonel French to a tavern, at the corner of Third street, and over the Madeira h... ...t become eminent in it, and make his for tune by it, alleging that the best poets must, when they first began to write, make as many faults as he did...