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...tanding between the allied peoples. Neither the English, the Russians, the Italians, nor the French, to name only the bigger European allies, are con-... ... a suggestion that I should go in 1915. I travel badly, I speak French and Italian with incred- ible atrocity, and am an extreme Pacifist. I hate sold... ...ces in evidence. I am the least collecting of men, but I have brought home Italian cartridges, Austrian cartridges, the fuse of an Austrian shell, a b... ...n cartridges, Austrian cartridges, the fuse of an Austrian shell, a broken Italian bayonet, and a note that is worth half a franc within the confines ... ...st camp. From those stories we came to the question whether the uneducated Italians were more su- perstitious than the uneducated English; the king th... ...e have indubitably an end conceived and sought and achieved; but did these inventors and business organisers do more than heed certain unavoidable imp...

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... the king. But the persistent craft and dissimulation of the woman and the Italian, which she had never failed to employ, was incompatible with the de... ...l power, may well have been instigated in part by such scenes, of which an Italian girl of nine years of age was assuredly not ignorant. The rise of A... ...reat power are laid. In France we blamed Napoleon when he made use of that Italian genius for craft which was bred in his bone,— though in his case it... ...nce, accompanied by a vast number of ladies and gentlemen, both French and Italian. “The Holy Father having arrived in the midst of this com- pany at ... ...enice, Ferrara, and others; also all the princes and noble strangers, both Italian and German, who were then residing at his court in great numbers. T... ... and ruler. Calvin, like all burghers raised to moral sovereignty, and all inventors of social systems, was 180 Catherine dé Medici eaten up with jea...

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...e possibilities of my suburb, that hot- bed of revolution in which heroes, inventors, and practical men of science, rogues and scoundrels, virtues and... ... the orchestra), neither did the dancers, nor, for that matter, did my old Italian’s acolytes; for I had made up my mind that he must be Italian, and ... ...lian’s acolytes; for I had made up my mind that he must be Italian, and an Italian he was. There was something great, something too of the despot abou... ... not one that had failed to leave its traces on the grandly- hewn, lividly Italian face. Y ou trembled lest a flash of thought should suddenly light u... ...eir liquor supply. Each time they did so they held out a full glass to the Italian, who could not reach it for himself because he sat in front of the ... ...ach it for himself because he sat in front of the table, and each time the Italian thanked them with a friendly nod. All their movements were made wit...

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...ion: English—Protestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Moham... ... her tongue took to languages with an easy facility. She never allowed her Italian, French, and German to get rusty through neglect. The telegrams of ... ...in five minutes’ time, at no cost of brain, or labor, or genius this mangy Italian tramp has beaten them all, transcended them all, outstripped them a... ...ing little suns distributed over it. Think of it—it was by command of that Italian loafer yon der on his imperial throne in the Geneva prison that th... ...day night the life of the President of the French Republic was taken by an Italian assassin. Last night a mob surrounded our hotel, shouting, howling,... ...ors, judges, lawyers, poets, dramatists, historians, biographers, editors, inventors, reformers, states men, generals, admirals, discoverers, prize f...

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..., we have sat down to table day after day, a French- man, two Portuguese, an Italian, a Mexican, and a Scotchman: we had for common visitors an Americ... ...nd venerable to the eye; and yet beneath these outworks, all twittering with Italian superstition, his eye scouting for omens, and the whole fab- ric ... ...he was English. “Ah!” she said, surprised. “We have no English. We have many Italians, however, and they do very well; they do not complain of the peo... ...s along the grotto under Virgil’s tomb – two little dark-eyed, white-toothed Italian vagabonds, of twelve to fourteen years of age, one with a hurdy-g... ...y, the other with a cage of white mice. The coach passed on, and their small Italian chatter died in the distance; and I was left to marvel how they h... ...t ripely. For now he sees why I speak of the little people as of substantive inventors and performers. To the end they had kept their secret. I will g...

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...d, I shall now attend with such a homily, as shall lay before ye, first the inventors of it to be those whom ye will be loth to own; next what is to ... ... to spell such a dictatory presumption English. And thus ye have the inventors and the original of book licens ing ripped and drawn as linea... ...onour Truth, will clear ye readily. But some will say, What though the inventors were bad, the thing for all that may be good? It may be so; yet... ...ortful poem, not now extant, writ by Homer; and why not then of Morgante, an Italian romance much to the same purpose? But if it be agreed we sha... ...his revels; and the notorious ribald of Arezzo, dreaded and yet dear to the Italian courtiers. I name not him for posterity’s sake, whom Henry VIII.... ...ing amongst them was brought; that this was it which had damped the glory of Italian wits; that nothing had been there written now these many years bu...

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...nd pleaded very ingeniously for me in my presence against another (also an Italian) who opposed my sentiments.” Such is what passed between Montaigne ... ...Montaigne’s arrival at the first French town on his homeward route, are in Italian, be- cause he wished to exercise himself in that language. 19 Mont... ..., and conscience. Oh foolish and base or- nament!” Florio, 1613, p. 3]—The Italians have more fitly baptized by this name—[La tristezza]—malignity; fo... ... of his oxen; the soldier of his wounds; the shep- herd of his flocks.”—An Italian translation of Propertius, ii. i, 43] For it often falls out that, ... ...en it falls and tumbles headlong from the middle to the bottom. But if the inventors do the greater mischief, the imitators are more vicious to follow... ...NTRY Y Y Y Y I WAS OFTEN, when a boy, wonderfully concerned to see, in the Italian farces, a pedant always brought in for the fool of the play, and th...

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...wer—the Spanish are a generous race. The Spaniard is generous! even so the Italian is jealous and a poisoner, the Frenchman fickle, the German frank, ... ...eshold of the jail, was a piece of cunning strategy—a combinazione, as the Italians call an indefinable mixture of treachery and truth, a cunningly pl... ...cess began to occur to him, and he passed through an agony which none save inventors can un- derstand. Going from doubt to doubt, David began to see h...

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...turn- attack of fever,—not, the count stated pointedly, in the hands of an Italian physician. He had brought his own with him to meet his son, who was... ...ed himself: ‘Signore, there be hereditary qualifications. One must be born Italian to appreciate the merits of Nostrani!’ Roland laughed. He had cover... ...tely that he had, Palmet cried, ‘Oh! for dancing, the Frenchwoman beat the Italian.’ ‘Did you see her often—more than once?’ 149 George Meredith ‘My ... ...- atres, promenades, rides, churches.’ ‘ And you say she dressed up to the Italian, to challenge her, rival her?’ ‘Only one night; simple accident. Ev... ...s my sight to be imperfect: but will you ever do so?’ Her musical voice in Italian charmed his hearing. ‘What poet was that you quoted?’ ‘The wisest: ... ...champ’s Career young genius of this horde conceiving, in the spirit of the inventors of our improved modern ordnance, that it was vain to cast missile...

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...thing but prodigies and fictions, the only in- habitants are the poets and inventors of fables; there is no credit, or certainty any farther. Yet, aft... ... we say in Greek, Greek words at that time not being as yet overpowered by Italian. But if this be the case, and if the Romans did at that time use th... ...rote to one of the kings with an account of the expedition, three thousand Italians that were not Romans, and his left wing consisting of five thousan... ...ors sent into Epirus, not only in their own names, but in those of all the Italian Greeks, carrying presents to Pyrrhus, and letting him know they wan... ...w if before the war they would decide the differences between them and the Italian Greeks by his arbitrament and media- tion. But Laevinus returning a... ...ressed by the en- emy. Here Leonnatus the Macedonian, observing one of the Italians very intent upon Pyrrhus, riding up towards him, and changing plac...

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...e; you are an artist, and you understand me.” “This is one of our greatest inventors,” said Bixiou present- ing Gazonal. “He might be as great as Jacq... ... van- ity, modern sycophants, septembriseurs, disguised in philan- thropy, inventors of palpitating questions, preaching the emancipation of the negro... ...you have a tuft which must be conquered.) A Jew proposed to supply me with Italian cantatrices who, during the interludes, were to depilate the young ...

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...lept at the Pont Beauvosin that night, and on the mor- row parted with her Italian attendants without shedding a single tear. On the 4th of November s... ...he died a few years after. The King at this time drove away the company of Italian actors, and would not permit another in its place. So long as the I... ...resentations, given con- secutively on account of the gain it brought, the Italians re- ceived orders to close their theatre and to quit the realm in ... ...ted them and played with them. M. de Noailles and his clever wife were the inventors and promoters of these interior pleasures, for the purpose of in-... ...r repugnance to abandon herself to the caprices and the jealousy of an old Italian ‘debauche’ the horror she felt at the idea of being left alone with... ...ear, so as to com- plete that subject at once. M. de Vendome commenced his Italian campaign by a victory. He attacked the troops of Prince Eugene upon...

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...ass-Tata engine—the invention of two among the brilliant galaxy of Bengali inventors the modernisation of Indian thought was producing at this time—wh... ... or whether they were implicit in your paper. No doubt—after the manner of inventors—you think most things that were ever likely to be discovered are ... ...that most subsequent additions and modifications are merely superfi- cial. Inventors have a way of thinking that. The law isn’t concerned with that so... ...rned with that sort of thing. The law has nothing to do with the vanity of inventors. The law is concerned with the question whether these patent righ... ...y saw the black shape of a man. ‘Any one here?’ he asked, speaking with an Italian accent. The king broke into a cold perspiration. Then Pestovitch an...

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...emplified a com- mon abuse, not confined to literature. An artist from the Italian opera of London and Paris, making a professional excursion to our p... ...The first elementary idea of a Greek tragedy, is to be sought in a serious Italian opera. The Greek dialogue is represented by the recitative, and the... ...are represented by the impassioned airs, duos, trios, choruses, &c. on the Italian. And there, at the very outset, occurs a question which lies at the... ... Fine Art,— that is of any Fine Art: for had the views of Addison upon the Italian opera had the least foundation in truth, there could have been no r... ...hostility arose, probably, in his want of sensibility to good (that is, to Italian) music. But whatever might be his motive for the hostility, the si... ...o adds some words to this effect—’that if the patriot of that day were the inventors of the maxim [The king can do no wrong], we are much indebted to ...

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...the sea. He has more manners of villainy, and no more con- science than an Italian prince of the seventeenth cen- tury. His weapon is a dagger carried... ...rded with honourable liberality as justice demanded; and the bodies of the inventors should have been blown to pieces by means of their own perfected ... ...s bits of it sometimes in measured, ironic tones. He spoke Catalonian, the Italian of Corsica and the French of Provence with the same easy naturalnes...

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...eople asked in mono-rail trains, “When are we going to fly?” A new crop of inventors sprang up in a night or so like fungi. The Aero Club announced th... ...r service, the splendid genius, and patience of thousands of engineers and inventors, wealth and material beyond esti- mating; to their account we mus... ...hemently building airships and whatever approach to a fly- ing machine its inventors’ had discovered. There was no time for diplomacy. Warnings and ul... ...stroy it. There was first the battle of the Bernese Oberland, in which the Italian and French navigables in their flank raid upon the Franconian Park ...

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...ting, bowing with all sorts of unfamiliar genuflexions. Had it pleased the inventors of the Sepulchre topography to have fixed on fifty more spots of ... ... a much more Eastern look than the European quarter, with its Anglo-Gallic-Italian inhab- itants, and Babel-like civilisation. Here and there a large ... ...the town, who conveyed it in a language com- posed of French, Spanish, and Italian, and with a volubility quite worthy of a barber of “Gil Blas. ” The... ...and military Commanders, finding England here in a French hotel kept by an Italian, at the city of Grand Cairo, in Africa. On retiring to bed you take...

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...flys to stare at us, and drive away again as if they thought us very dull; Italian boys come, Punch comes, the Fantoccini come, the T umblers come, th... ...ook them in. Are you going across the Alps, and would you like to air your Italian at our Great Pavilionstone Hotel? Talk to the Manager—always conver... ... of ten children, six whereof are living. My eldest son is engineer in the Italian steam packet ‘Mezzo Giorno, plying between Marseilles and Naples, a... ...lse can a man feel, when he is met by such difficulties at every turn? All inventors taking out a Patent must feel so. And look at the expense. How h... ...expression by means of action, they were no bet ter than the chorus at an Italian Opera in England—and would have been worse if such a thing were pos... ...ay pupil), and further that he ‘favoured Maxby.’ As we remember, he taught Italian to Maxby’s sisters on half holi 193 Charles Dickens days. He once...

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...nd, I should say, to the sellers of invigorating electric belts and to the inventors of patent medicines. But of that last I am not sure, not having c... ...ssistant Commissioner was already giving his order to a waiter in a little Italian restaurant round the cor- ner—one of those traps for the hungry, lo... ...108 The Secret Agent vate characteristics. And this was strange, since the Italian res- taurant is such a peculiarly British institution. But these pe... ...y way, professionally, socially or ra- cially. They seemed created for the Italian restaurant, unless the Italian restaurant had been perchance create... ... herself—of a murdering type. He gazed at her, and invoked Lombroso, as an Italian peasant recommends himself to his favourite saint. He gazed scienti...

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...xample, has turned in upon itself again and again; but for all we know one Italian proselyte in the first year of the Christian era may have made by t... ...ts estimating the world’s resources in metals and minerals, the mechanical inventors perpetually economizing force. The scientific agriculturist again...

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...son. Joseph Mirouet, a singer and com- poser, having made his debut at the Italian opera under a feigned name, ran away with a young lady in Germany. ... ...-discovering magnetism Mesmer came to France, where, from time immemorial, inventors have flocked to obtain recognition for their discoveries. France,... ...ng to have a voice,” he said; “and I shall give you masters of drawing and Italian also. A woman,” added the doctor, looking at Ursula as he unfastene...

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...oing the wrong way. Blessed be the king who introduced cards, and the kind inventors of piquet and cribbage, for they employed six hours at least of h... ...and must impart it to some one. She made herself a good scholar of French, Italian, and Latin, having been grounded in these by her father in her yout... ... hand. In 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 t...

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...dy, I shall have the hap- piness of finding names already dear to your old Italian romancers among those of women whom we love, and to whose memory I ... ... Caryatides which the architects of the Middle Ages intro- duced into some Italian palaces, remotely imitated in those of the front of the Porte-Saint... ...y. And observe how immeasurably more imposing was the life of Mazarin, the Italian cardinal, than that of Richelieu, the French cardinal. Richelieu me... ...which his fair hair fell in thick curls, pre- sented a godlike appearance. Italian genius could invent the tale of Othello; English ge- nius could put... ..., Old Wide-Awake, or The Right Man—a man with legs of iron, arms of steel, Italian whiskers, hair like an artist’s, a beard like a sapper’s, and a fac... ... thieves have theirs! “Now, I know the murderer of those two women and the inventors of that bold, strange plot; I have been told every detail. Postpo...

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...ttle straggling, incidental, un- disciplined and uncoordinated minority of inventors, experi- menters, educators, writers and organisers has achieved ... ...ndence with a number of cousins and friends, writing letters in a slanting Italian hand and dealing mainly with births, marriages and deaths, business... ...ses and fellow travel- lers, with my first essays in colloquial German and Italian, with disputes about the way to take, and other things that I will ... ...e glorious freedoms. Margaret had missed Verona and Venice in her previous Italian journey—fear of the mosquito had driven her mother across Italy to ... ... that brooked no resistance, took him at once into a corner and showed him Italian photo- graphs by Coburn. We dispersed early. I walked with Britten ... ...argaret’s big silver- adorned, chintz-bright room, looking out on the trim Italian garden… . Yes, the beginning of it has escaped me altogether, but I...

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...luminous. It’s arched roof, brilliant with gold and azure like those of an Italian cathedral, sparkled above my head. Melodies such as the angels sang... ...in- ventor, Linnaeus is an inventor, Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire and Cuvier are inventors. Such men are men of genius of the first rank. They renew, increa... ...y a series of fluted pilasters surmounted by an entablature which hides an Italian roof, from which rise several stone chimneys masked by carved troph...

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...he penetrating keen- ness of a Chicago evening at the end of February. The Italian Grand Opera Company gave one of the most popular pieces of its repe... ...tone, leaning forward, his hands upon his chest. Though the others sang in Italian, the tenor, a Parisian, used the French book con- tinually, and now... ...nd patent-leather pumps, a cigarette between his fingers, read a volume of Italian verse. “It was the confirmation of the failure of the Argentine cro... ...whole half days to get but a nod and a word from the great man. Promoters, inventors, small fin- anciers, agents, manufacturers, even “crayon artists”...

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...e call our own children after our own names (we fathers being the original inventors and patentees), so likewise should we denominate after ourselves ... ...intended when the device was first introduced. It was introduced by an old Italian pub- lisher somewhere about the 15th century, during the Revival of... ...mberless straight marks in thick array, something like those in the finest Italian line engravings. But these marks do not seem to be impressed upon t... ...ng that hard- scrabble scramble upon the dead whale’s back. Y ou have seen Italian organ-boys holding a dancing-ape by a long cord. Just so, from the ... ...y reveal of the divine love in the Son, the soft, curled, hermaphroditical Italian pictures, in which his idea has been most successfully embod- ied; ...

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...call our own chil dren after our own names (we fathers being the original inventors and patentees), so likewise should we denominate after ourselves ... ... intended when the device was first introduced. It was introduced by an old Italian publisher somewhere about the 15th century, during the Revival of L... ...umberless straight marks in thick array, something like those in the finest Italian line engravings. But these marks do not seem to be impressed upon t... ...ing that hard scrabble scramble upon the dead whale’s back. You have seen Italian organ boys holding a dancing ape by a long cord. Just so, from the ... ...y reveal of the divine love in the Son, the soft, curled, hermaphroditical Italian pictures, in which his idea has been most successfully embodied; th...

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... (with the same sort of diligence as we daily see practised in the case of Italian operas), will find more sweetness, variety, and majesty of sound, t... ...antment. Homer not only appears the inventor of poetry, but excels all the inventors of other arts, in this, that he has swallowed up the honour of th...

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... in the year 1844, a man of sixty or thereabouts, whom anybody might have credited with more than his actual age, was walking along the Boulevard des Italians with his head bent down, as if he were tracking 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 t...

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... nor Schmucke fared so sumptuously. The dishes were a rapture to think of! Italian paste, delicate of flavor, unknown to the public; smelts fried as n... ...o all appearance, untouched fields, made one mis- take, the mistake of all inventors; that is to say, they erected an absolute system on a basis of is... ... that he thought of it as a deputy-advocate thinks of the silk gown, as an Italian priest thinks of the tiara. It was indeed a wild dream! M. Vitel, t... ...urer, is a portrait of a woman; the second, likewise a portrait, is of the Italian School; the third, a Dutch landscape by Breughel; and the fourth, a... ...ending over the dead Christ, in a pieta carved in bas-relief by some great Italian sculptor. The divine effort, the outpouring of one life into anothe...

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...here, by such a mistake, I lost both men and horses, and amongst others an Italian gentleman my page, whom I bred with the greatest care and affection... ...se of our times, who take upon them to write comedies (in imitation of the Italians, who are happy enough in that way of writing), take three or four ... ... it happen, that men have been commended for what really merited blame. An Italian lord once said this, in my presence, to the disadvantage of his own... ... presence, to the disadvantage of his own nation: that the subtlety of the Italians, and the vivacity of their conceptions were so great, and they for... ...and battles. Solitude was, doubtless, terrible to those who were the first inventors of this practice: “Quum in se cuique minimum fiduciae ess... ...y victories, which one blow of fortune might deprive him of. ’Tis what the Italians say, when they would reproach the rashness and foolhardiness of yo...

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...ssive application to their peculiar species of work. Ramuzzini, an eminent Italian physician, has written a particular book concerning such diseases. ... ...tageous to plant a new vineyard, was a matter of dispute among the ancient Italian husbandmen, as we learn from Col- umella. He decides, like a true l... ...e history is somewhat different, it is the history of all the considerable Italian republics, of which so great a number arose and perished between th... ...s of the greater part of Europe, were extremely favourable to that of some Italian cities. The great armies which marched from all parts to the conque... ...of their respective towns. They accordingly seem to have been the original inventors of those restraints upon the importation of foreign goods, which ... ...s are in general the soberest people of Europe; witness the Spaniards, the Italians, and the inhabitants of the southern provinces of France. People a... ...t the interest of merchants and manu- 415 Adam Smith facturers, the great inventors of all these expedients, that the home market should be overstock...

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...Leaves of Grass –Whitman 5 Wandering at Morn...........................412 Italian Music in Dakota.....................412 With All Thy Gifts.......... ...que to justify it. 5 Dead poets, philosophs, priests, Martyrs, artists, inventors, governments long since, Language shapers on other shores, Nati... ... I heard your long stretch’d sighs up above so mournful, I heard the perfect Italian tenor singing at the opera, I heard the soprano in the midst of t... ...al echoes from the Thames, I hear fierce French liberty songs, I hear of the Italian boat sculler the musical recitative of old poems, I hear the locu... ...rom none. Whoever he looks at in the traveler’s coffee house claims him, The Italian or Frenchman is sure, the German is sure, the Spaniard is sure, a... ...oriah, The same on the walls of your German, French and Spanish castles, and Italian collections, For know a better, fresher, busier sphere, a wide, u... ...e great captains and engineers have accomplish’d their work, After the noble inventors, after the scientists, the chemist, the geologist, ethnologist,... ...ome singing his songs. Then not your deeds only O voyagers, O scientists and inventors, shall be justified, All these hearts as of fretted children sh... ...e well as they go, the heroes and good doers are well, The known leaders and inventors and the rich owners and pious and distinguish’d may be well, Bu...

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...e Abbe was not only a musician, he was well and widely read, and knew both Italian and German; so Mlle. de Negrepelise received instruction in those t... ...unterpoint. He explained the great masterpieces of the French, German, and Italian literatures, and deciphered with her the music of the great compose... ...en was a great man, and she meant to form him; she thought of teaching him Italian and German and per- fecting his manners. That would be pretext suff... ... this too,” Eve said, interrupting him; “I knew that you were one of those inventors, like my poor father, who must have a woman to take care of them.... ...Greek refugees, according to some authorities; or at Padua, in 1301, by an Italian named Pax, according to others. In these ways the manufacture of pa...

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...sers of delightful industries, like gardening; some are students, artists, inventors, or dis- coverers, men lured forward by successive hopes; and the... ... the success of the perfor- mance. At the end of the incantation scene the Italian trans- lator has made Macbeth fall insensible upon the stage. This ... ... from pit to gallery with inextinguishable laughter. It is, I am told, the Italian tradition; but it is one more honoured in the breach than the obser...

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...im less by 63 Thomas de Quincey much than the one he succeeded: he had an Italian appear- ance, and he wore an air of Italian subtlety and dissimula-... ...of Europe observed him. But now, up and down Europe, from the deep blue of Italian skies to the cold frosty atmospheres of St. Petersburg and Glasgow,... ...the inevitable catastrophe could be delayed no longer. The com- mander, an Italian named Morandi, was a brave man; any fate appeared better than that ... ...e of the vessel Napoleon read an augury of the fate which had befallen the Italian territory. Considered as a dependency of France, he felt certain th... ... and critical through every stage, it was the pointed contrast between his Italian campaigns and 235 Thomas de Quincey those of his successors which ... ...many people, could not belong to all of them: all of them could not be the inventors. Logic and common sense unite in showing us that it must have bel...

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...oing the wrong way. Blessed be the king who introduced cards, and the kind inventors of piquet and cribbage, for they employed six hours at least of h... ...and must impart it to some one. She made herself a good scholar of French, Italian, and Latin, having been grounded in these by her father in her yout... ... hand. In 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 t... ..., that the town talked about for two whole days, when the appearance of an Italian singer supplied a fresh subject for conversation,) and having busin...