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... has displayed uncommon courage, seamanship, affability, or other good qualities, grateful passengers often present him with a token of their esteem, in the shape of teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of precious metal. Among authors, however, bullion is a much rarer commodity than paper, whereof I beg you to accept a little in the shape of this small volume. It contains a few ...

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few ...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Lost Illusions Part II) by... ...blouse, and how shall you recognize the god- like creature of the Greek or Roman chisel? The eyes note and compare before the heart has time to revise... ...ment he believed in chance. Had he not a volume of poems and a magnificent romance entitled The Archer of Charles IX. in manuscript? He had hope for t... ...ue de Cluny, one of the poorest and darkest slums, shut in be- tween three churches and the old buildings of the Sorbonne. I have a furnished room on ... ...to is a permanent in- stitution; there might not be a single tuber left in Ireland, and prevailing dearth elsewhere, but you would still find po- tato... ...ravity of the diners is hardly relaxed. Perhaps this gravity is due to the catholicity 44 A Distinguished Provincial at Paris of the wine, which chec... ...“But my book is very serious. It is an attempt to set the struggle between Catholics and Calvinists in its true light; the Catholics were supporters o... ...Royalist and Ministerial journals; still, though Canalis is 85 Balzac for Church and King, and patronized by the Court and the clergy, he reaches oth...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley... ...ion of 1830, Guerande is still a town apart, essentially Breton, fervently Catholic, silent, self-contained,—a place where modern ideas 7 Beatrix hav... ... whose presence still lingers in a fold of your heart. 9 Beatrix Near the church of Guerande stands a mansion which is to the town what the town is t... ...erior to the latter in antiquity and for- tune as the T rojans were to the Romans. The Guaisqlains (the name is also spelled in the olden time du Glai... ... a stone dais like those that crown the statues of saints at the portal of churches. Can you not see a woman walking in the morning along this balcony... ... with the East, where the semi-Saracenic architects, careless of the great Catholic thought, give four leaves to clover, while Chris- tian art is fait... ...urned to Guerande, and from Guerande went to Croisic, whence he crossed to Ireland, faithful to the ancient Breton hatred for England. The people of G... ...ort of literary revolution when the great question of the classics and the romanticists palpitated on all sides,—in the newspapers, at the clubs, at t...

...zac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Vanity Fair: Volume Two (Chapters Twenty-six through Fifty) by ... ...f an honest round game (wherein me fawther, as pious a man as ever went to church, me uncle Dane Malony, and our cousin the Bishop, took a hand at loo... ...lly mingled with fat and lean, there was no country like England.” “Except Ireland, where all your best mate comes from,” said the Major’s lady; proce... ...is happy time there was novelty and amusement for all parties. There was a church to see, or a picture-gallery—there was a ride, or an opera. The band... ...ur? Time out of mind strength and courage have been the theme of bards and romances; and from the story of Troy down to to-day, poetry has always chos... ... Missionary Register by his side, took that kind of recreation which suits romantic and unromantic men after din- ner. He sipped Madeira: built castle... ...es and towers and plantations of flowers and shrubs, under which the Roman Catholic dead repose. It seemed a humiliation to old Osborne to think that ... ... seemed eligible. She had been engaged to be married a half-score times in Ireland, besides the clergyman at Bath who used her so ill. She had flirted...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Modern T elemachus by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania St... ...adventures of the Comtesse de Bourke and her daughter was published in the Catholic World, New York, July 1881. It exactly agrees with 6 A Modern Tel... ...s Consul or Envoy; I incline to think the latter. The transla- tion in the Catholic World speaks of Sir Arthur, but Mr. Scott’s ‘M. Arture’ is much mo... ...anty Callaghan, now he has shed the marmiton’s slough, and come out in old Ireland’s colours, like a butterfly from a palmer? La Jeunesse, instead of ... ... war and policy, so as to receive the title of Comte de Bourke. The French Church was called on to provide for the other two children. The daughter, A... ...listening with all her ears, and try- ing to find a character in Fenelon’s romance to be repre- sented by Arthur Hope, now further heard it explained ... ..., surmounted with tall towers, extinguisher-capped, of castle, convent, or church, the clear reaches of river, the beautiful turns, the little vil- la... ...s a possible martyr, sometimes as a figure in the mythological or Arcadian romance that had filtered into her nursery. CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER...

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...SANDRA BELLONI Originally Emilia in England By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publi... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... He does. But in him it is not combined with an indigestion of high German romances. Here is so notable a difference, that he cannot possibly be said ... ...e interrogator: “Oh, because—do you know, we have very select music at our church?” “We have a highly-paid organist,” added Arabella. “Recently electe... ...ed part of their male escort to the place of worship. Mr. Pericles met the church-goers on their return in one of the green bowery lanes leading up to... ...lthy Irish widow of an alderman, whose unaccountable bad taste in going to Ireland for a wife, yet filled the ladies with astonishment. She pretended ... ... scious of it. They leaped at one bound to the conclusion that there was a romance attached to him. Do not be startled. An attested tail-coat, clearly... ...now, my feeling is, and I cannot at all account for it, that if she were a Catholic she would not seem so gross?” “Some of the poetry of that religion... ...ister. She said pointedly once: “Really, if we are to be miserable, I turn Catholic and go into a convent.” The strange thing was that Arabella imagin...

...e of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. THE CÆSARS By Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...HE CÆSARS THE CÆSARS THE CÆSARS THE CÆSARS THE CÆSARS THE CONDITION of the Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been suffic... ...s not been repeated; neither has Cæsar. Ubi Cæsar, ibi Roma—was a maxim of Roman jurisprudence. And the same maxim may be translated into a wider mean... ...nctities of the next world. Thus, for instance, the Pope, as the father of Catholic Christendom, could not but be viewed with awe by any Christian of ... ...etween this pagan supersti- tion and the adoration of saints in the Romish church, as at first sight appears. The fault is purely in the names: divus ... ...d, in combination with the manufacturing system (as in England,) or (as in Ireland) under the stimulus of idle habits, cheap subsistence, and a low st... ...nies in some measure resembled the English Pale, as existing at one era in Ireland. This mode of service, it is true, became obsolete in process of ti...

...Excerpt: The condition of the Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts,...

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...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to disown any one thing that I have ever published; but some t...

...APTER IX: FIRST REBELLION.......................................................................................... 206 CHAPTER X: FRENCH INVASION OF IRELAND, AND SECOND REBELLION............ 227 CHAPTER XI: TRAVELLING.................................................................................................... 243 CHAPTER XII: MY BROTHER ...............................

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylvania S... ...tunate. Archdeacon Hare, both by natural tendency and by his position as a Churchman, had been led, in editing a Work not free from ecclesiastical her... ...character and writ- ings, which had little business to be spoken of in any Church-court, have hereby been carried thither as if for an exclusive trial... ...nces of mere costume and dialect still divide him, what- soever is worthy, catholic and perennial in him, from a brother soul who, more than most in h... ...anishes from the Commons Journals. What became of him when Cromwell got to Ireland, and to Munster, I have not heard: his knighthood, dating from the ... ...tters of Vetus treated of I do not know; doubtless they ran upon Napoleon, Catholic Emancipa- tion, true methods of national defence, of effective for... ...t of these two Universities, Cambridge is decidedly the more catholic (not Roman catholic, but Human catholic) in its tendencies and habitudes; and th... ...ch of Sterling’s and ours. A world all rocking and plunging, like that old Roman one when the measure of its iniquities was full; the abysses, and sub...

...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total o...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey, th... ...nto political economy, into the Greek and Latin accents, into antiquities, Roman roads, old castles, the ori- gin and analogy of languages; upon all t... ...val of interest in earlier modern English prose, which is a feature of the Romantic Movement. Still none of his contemporaries wrote as he did; eviden... ...armony like that of heart, *“The same thing”:—Thus, in the calendar of the Church Festivals, the discovery of the true cross (by Helen, the mother of ... ...hould be most sudden.” On the other hand, the divine Litany of our English Church, when breathing forth supplications, as if in some representative 3... ...irely unparalleled in literature, could not have existed ex- cept in Roman Catholic times, nor subsequently have lin- gered in any Protestant land. It... ...Coach and Joan of Arc His great work, Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, was used by Shakespeare as the source of several plays. He writes ...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf, the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...er occasions, or made some sentence, they pass on. Sometimes the flats and churches and hotels of Westminster are like the outlines of Constantinople ... ...n the doorway. Tall, large-eyed, draped in purple shawls, Mrs. Ambrose was romantic and beautiful; not perhaps sym- pathetic, for her eyes looked stra... ...o had, he said, many difficulties to contend with, he con- tinued with the Romans, passed to England and the right method, which speedily became the w... ...gh their juicy stalks, and laid them upon cold stone ledges in the village church. Innu- merable parties of picnickers coming home at sunset cried, “W... ...iting and asking to be caught. I’m not exactly a Protestant, and I’m not a Catholic, but I could almost pray for the days of popery to come again—beca... ...ar tone of voice, “I’m sure Miss Vinrace, now, has secret leanings towards Catholicism,” she had no idea what to answer, and Helen could not help laug... ...rked her head at the Villa. “A little house in a garden. I had one once in Ireland. One could lie in bed in the mornin’ and pick roses outside the win...