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...Excerpt: It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representative of the illustrious house of Cajetani, which has given more than one Pope to the Christian Church, that I dedicate this short portion of a long history; it is to the learned commentator ...

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...tion To Don Michele Angelo Cajetani, Prince of Teano. It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representa- tive of the illustrious house of Cajet... ...uthor of some strange tales indeed, who left us the splendid collection of romances whence Shakespeare derived many of his plots and even com- plete c... ...at of a perfect lover dy- ing for his mistress. In the same way, these two romances form a pair, like twins of opposite sexes. This is a literary vaga... ... of the Imperial Guard forget that time was when the mayors of the largest towns in the Empire and the Emperor’s prefects, Emperors themselves on a mi... ...e objects you admired at Crevel’s were to be bought in any shop. These two types of luxury are divided by the river Million. A mirror, if unique, is w...

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...is surrounded by a land of fruits. It is a very agreeable little city; few towns of its size are more ripe, more complete, or, I should suppose, in be... ...g side,—the side that comes out in the “Contes Drolatiques,” which are the romantic and epicu- rean chronicle of the old manors and abbeys of this re-... ...present, indeed, when once you have caught a glimpse of the stout, serious Romanesque tower,—which is not high, but strong,— you feel that the buildin... ...brick is pointed out to you by your cabman (if you happen to drive) as the romantic abode of a superstitious king, and where a strong odor of pig- sti... ...he sun, and has that aspect of cheerful leisure which belongs to all white towns that reflect, them- selves in shining waters. It is the water-front o... ... and the master of the establishment is one of those com- pletely artistic types that are often found in France. His reception is as friendly as his w... ...mboise either from Blois or from Tours; it is about half-way between these towns. The great point is to go, especially if you have put it off repeated... ..., crowded with shipping and spanned by the largest of bridges. Some of the types on the water-side are of the sort that arrest a sketcher,—figures of ...

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...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsy... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Pennsylva- nia State Univ... ...ty is an equal opportunity university. 3 Hawthorne The Marble Faun or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne In Two Volumes Volume One CHAP... ...less of heroic muscle, than the old sculptors were wont to assign to their types of masculine beauty. The character of the face corresponds with the f... ...f Italy over his canvas. He studies the old schools of art in the mountain towns where they were born, and where they are still to be seen in the fade... ... father’s homestead. White villas, gray convents, church spires, villages, towns, each with its battlemented walls and towered gateway, were scattered... ...knights-errant, among the valleys, and the mountains, and the old mountain towns of that pic- turesque and lovely region. Save to keep the appointment... ... venal and polluted flowers, therefore, and those de- ceptive bonbons, are types of the small reality that still sub- sists in the observance of the C...

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...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni: Volume Two by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication o... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni: Volume Two by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Pennsylvania ... ... equal opportunity university. 3 Hawthorne The Marble Faun Vol. II or The Romance of Monte Beni By Nathaniel Hawthorne CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXIV CHA... ...f Italy over his canvas. He studies the old schools of art in the mountain towns where they were born, and where they are still to be seen in the fade... ... father’s homestead. White villas, gray convents, church spires, villages, towns, each with its battlemented walls and towered gateway, were scattered... ...knights-errant, among the valleys, and the mountains, and the old mountain towns of that pic- turesque and lovely region. Save to keep the appointment... ... venal and polluted flowers, therefore, and those de- ceptive bonbons, are types of the small reality that still sub- sists in the observance of the C...

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...ondition of Scotland is much altered from what it was; pauperism and great towns have worked ‘strange defeatures’ in Scottish society. A vast capital ... ...lf with snake-like folds about the legal es- tablishment; surmount it as a Roman vinea surmounted the fortifications which it beleaguered; and which, ... ...u published a translation of Bottiger’s ‘Sabina,’ a learned account of the Roman toilette. I here send you a companion to that work—not a direct trans... ... Bottiger remarks, that, even in the age of Augustus, the morning dress of Roman ladies when at home was nothing more than this very tunic; which, if ... ...t in poets like the Augustan, expressly mod- elling their poems on Grecian types, ought the Roman mind to be studied. On the other hand, for that spec... ...ab- jectly dependent on social interests; and these must conform to modern types. Hence, partly, the reason that only the Brit- ish travel. The German... ...ing to the ancient usages of Mediterranean seamanship), or if it possessed towns containing accumulations of provisions or other stores, or offered go...

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...ng along roads you don’t know and seeing houses and parks and villages and towns for which you do not feel in the slightest degree re- sponsible. They... ...ven tearing in through the gaps.” Upstairs on Dr. Martineau’s desk lay the typescript of the opening chapters of a book that was intended to make a gr... ...- ing boat-hooks with ease and charm. They look to meet, under pleasant or romantic circumstances, other possessors and worshippers of grace and beaut... ...g can be curi- ously fatiguing; punting involves dreadful indignities. The romance here tarnishes very quickly. Romantic encounters fail to occur; in ... ...n’t primarily for offspring—not even in the most intelligent and farseeing types. The desire just points to glow- ing satisfactions and illusions. Qui... ...ection. Except,” the doctor stipulated, “for a few highly developed modern types, most men found the sense of achieving her a necessary condition for ... ...rained in 49 H G Wells history and law grows to think on the scale of the Roman empire. I don’t know what your pocket map of the universe is, the map...

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...oses of fiscal con- 26 First and Last Things troversy discovered economic types; but this is a transparent device, and one is surprised to find thoug... ... left far away down the scale, but that the method of classification under types, which has served so useful a purpose in the middle group of subjects... ...validate my assumption that if we go back only to the closing years of the Roman Republic, we go back to an age in which nearly every person living wi... ... which nearly every person living within the confines of what was then the Roman Empire who left living offspring must have been ancestral to every pe... ...erty as such, sensibilities can be hardened to endure the life led by the “Romans” in Dartmoor jail a hundred years ago (See “The Story of Dartmoor Pr... ...onomized and used with scientific skill for the maximum of result. It sees towns and cities finely built, a race of beings finely bred and taught and ... ...e would keep his hands clean anyhow, retrench his social work, abandon the types of cocoa involved, and pass by on the other side. But indeed I do not... ...ress of social construction for a vast interval of time. One figures great towns red with destruction while giant airships darken the sky, one picture... ...t many have not one capital but many chief cities, and all have cities and towns and villages beyond the capital. It is an impover- ished capital that...

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...sible read- ers, “as good as manuscript”? Not to insist, however, upon any romantic rigor in constructing this idea, and abiding by the ordinary stand... ...n a saintly scheme of ethics; but where is the scheme of mediation? In the Roman church, there have been some theologians who have also seen reason to... ... there have been some theologians who have also seen reason to suspect the romance of “Essenismus.” And I am not sure that the knowledge of this fact ... ...weather was dry, the sky was cloudless, the blue depths seemed the express types of infinity; and it was not possible for eye to behold, or for heart ... ...ertainly proved more than a match for all the clergymen of the neighboring towns, some of whom (as the most intellectual persons of that neighborhood)... ...ewspapers, &c., it followed, naturally enough, that the distant provincial towns, though not without their own separate literature and their own liter... ...oaning respiration which is made by men who use an axe, or by those who in towns ply the “three-man beetle” of Falstaff, as paviers; echoes they certa...

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...hey are described as merely deaf to the lessons of experience, and as too “romantic” in their expectations. The very opposite is, to my thinking, thei... ... The very opposite is, to my thinking, their criminal reproach. He that is romantic errs usually by too much elevation. He violates the standard of re... ...l Swede, that he fought for the freedom of conscience. Many an enlightened Roman Catho- lic, supposing only that he were not a Papist, would have give... ...he rustic; though, considering the multi- plied distribution of our assize towns, our cathedral towns, our sea-ports, and our universities, all so man... ...men and English women in past genera- tions, for connecting the provincial towns with the two royal universities of the land, this Manchester school w... ... where they please and as they please; necessarily distributed amongst the towns- people; in any case, therefore, liable to no control or super- visio... ...eautiful youth, with a torch inverted, &c., as compared with the Christian types of a skel- eton and hour-glasses, &c. And much surprised I was to hea...

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...r valleys about the warm, temper- ate zone of the earth there were already towns and temples, a score of thousand years ago. They flourished unrecorde... ...The history of Europe is the history of the victory and breaking up of the Roman Empire. Every ascendant monarch in Europe up to the last, 10 The Wor... ...airvoyant vision of this populated world as a whole, of all its cities and towns and villages, its high roads and the inns beside them, its gar- dens ... ...ing softly into the sky. And with an equal speed atomic engines of various types invaded industrialism. The railways paid enormous premi- ums for prio... ...here was excellent reason for every one to be afraid of those clumsy early types—and he never attempted steep descents or very high flying. He also, h... ... multitude, for the most part incapable of any but obsolete and superseded types of labour. They bore a few banners with the time-honoured inscription... ...side, in straggling villages, each with its fine old church, or in compact towns laced with canals and abounding in bridges and clipped trees, were hu... ...k how long that beauti- 92 The World Set Free ful old life lasted. In the Roman times and long ages before ever the rumour of the Romans had come int... ... official mis- tress, for his semi-barbaric court was arranged on the best romantic models. His tactics were ably seconded by Doctor Pestovitch, his c...

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...f hopelessly broken soldiers in an iron spoon. Note, too, the peculiar and romantic shell beach of this country. It is an island of exceptional intere... ...one example others are easy, and next I will tell you of our way of making towns. S S S S Section III ection III ection III ection III ection III OF O... ...s City.” You see now how we set out and the spirit in which we set out our towns. It demands but the slightest exercise of the imagination to devise a... ...ed End will pass, and follow Carthage and Nineveh, the empire of Aztec and Roman, the arts of Etruria and the palaces of Crete, and the plannings and ... ...WAR GAMES AR GAMES AR GAMES AR GAMES AR GAMES I HAVE NOW GIVEN TWO GENERAL TYPES of floor game; but these are only just two samples of delightful and ... ...call Funiculars. There are times when islands cease somehow to dazzle, and towns and cities are too orderly and uneventful and cramped for us, and we ...

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...nd herds”—I am quoting Mr. Bagehot again—“the keen-eyed Greek, the stately Roman, the watch- ing Jew, the uncouth Goth, the horrid Hun, the settled pi... ...w not what shall succeed. “Haply, the river of Time— As it grows, as the towns on its marge Fling their wavering lights On a wider, statelier stre... ...e whom they attack. We instinctively asso- ciate serenity with the highest types of power among men, seeing in it the poise of knowledge and calm visi...

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...cter as possible. An exception has been made, however, in the case of such Romance words as were in use in England 4 The Nibelungenlied during the ag... ...ords as were in use in England 4 The Nibelungenlied during the age of the romances of chivalry, and which would help to land a Romance coloring; thes... ...se poems are products of the age of chivalry, and are characterized by the romantic and courtly features of this movement. The one which concerns us h... ...with the slaughter of the Burgundians, for a leg- end operates mainly with types, and as Attila was a Hun and throughout the Middle Ages was looked up... ... Orientalis”, the region to the east of the Spessart forest, including the towns of Fulda, Wurzburg and Barnberg. In “Biterolf ” Dietlich journeys thr...

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...e guessing. “Think of the men who have walked here!” said a tourist in the Roman Coli- seum. It was a Futurist mind that answered: “Think of the men w... ...he direction of the war business. Ability is con- centrated upon that; the types of ability that are not appli- cable to warfare are neglected; there ... ...ds a release—or, if you prefer it, a flight—from the habitual and selfish. Types of intense religiosity, of devotion and of endeavour are let loose, a... ... any group of financial enterprises. They will be more comprehensive, less roman- tic, and more businesslike altogether. They will be, to use a phrase... ...ot see that the hope of an ultimate world peace vanishes. But it will be a Roman world peace, 17 H G Wells made in Germany, and there will have to be... ..., where one extremely self-conscious nation and language is present in the towns and another in the surrounding country, or Asia Minor, where no defin... ...g rustic with a tin of the canned fruit that is popular with the Braintree townsfolk, you dis- cover one of these differences. A dustman perambulates ... ... with their idle trucks and their separate coal stores; in many provincial towns you will find two or even three railway stations at opposite ends of ... ... of deportment of women in the London streets during that time. There were types that dressed neatly and quietly and went upon their business with int...

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...it my present com- parison—creatures of the woods and wilds, not in walled towns, not grouped and toned to pursue a comic exhibition of the narrower w... ...hens was enslaved but prosperous, have lent his hand to the composition of romantic comedy. He certainly inspired that fine genius. 10 An Essay on Co... ... it. The farce of the Precieuses ridiculed and put a stop to the monstrous romantic jargon made popular by certain famous novels. The comedy of the Fe... ...auty, the adorable bundle of caprices, very feminine, very sympathetic, of romantic and sentimental fiction? Our women are taught to think so. The Agn... ...medy and in the Misanthrope. Menander and Moliere have given the principal types to Comedy hitherto. The Micio and Demea of the Adelphi, with their op... ...ason is, that these two poets idealized upon life: the foundation of their types is real and in the quick, but they painted with spiritual strength, w...

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...e was kept up at the residence. It was furnished with the loot of frontier towns. When first admitted to the principal sala, they saw his wife lying d... ... Joseph Conrad and hats. Middle-sized and spare, his eyes alert in a long, Roman-nosed countenance, X walked on his neat little feet, with short steps... ...eo—(and by the by he had expressed his dislike of the busts and statues of Roman emperors in the gallery of marbles: their faces were too vigorous, to... ...ly one which suited him was the climate of the Gulf of Naples. The ancient Romans, who, he pointed out to me, were men expert in the art of living, kn... ... very many pretty toi- lettes. There was, of course, a quantity of diverse types: showy old fellows with white moustaches, fat men, thin men, officers...

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... gone too, and their Italian successors are already tracing out a score of Roman traces that it was the Austrian custom to minimise. Captain Pirelli r... ...sited it I found it very little injured—compared, that is, with such other towns as have been fought through. Here and there the front of a house has ... ...they felt extremely uneasy. As one motors through these ripe and beautiful towns and through the rich valleys that link them—it is a smiling land abou... ...vanished in the direction of the smashed-up refinery. 2 2 2 2 2 About such towns as Rheims or Arras or Soissons there is an effect of waiting stillnes... ...erly trained and disciplined infantry in the field from the passing of the Roman legions to the appearance of the Swiss footmen. he makes it very clea... ...es and clubs and revolvers serve better in the trenches. The krees and the Roman sword would be as useful. The fine flourish of the bayonet is only po... ...ge very rapidly. Any added invention will necessitate the scrapping of old types and the production of the new patterns in quantity. It is of supreme ... ...ht at all, are not of that opinion. Both Italy and France produce parallel types to those lat- ter, but it would seem that in each case England displa... ...tion was this, that among these stop-the-war people there are really three types. First there is a type of person who hates violence and the inflictio...

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...I think of chiefly; over the oilcloth of which, assumed to be land, spread towns and villages and forts of wooden bricks; there are steep square hills... ...nough for every engineering project I could undertake. I could build whole towns with streets and houses and churches and citadels; I could bridge eve... ...ess homes in which so many find themselves, a going out towards something, romance if you will, beauty, that has suddenly be- come a need—a need that ... ...e, joys and fears on such a scale, in such an intricacy as never Greek nor Roman knew. The interminable procession of horse omnibuses went lumbering p... ...g fingers flat together, carried the point against him. He quoted Cato and Roman law and the monasteries of Thibet. “Well, anyway,” said Hatherleigh, ... ...il far on in the twenties. Britten and I belonged to one of the precocious types, and Cossington very probably to another. It wasn’t that there was an... ..., behind this nearer landscape, and the southward waters with remote coast towns shining dimly, waters that merged at last in a luminous golden haze, ... ... to lead poisoning, and it would be quite easy to pick out the susceptible types—as soon as they had it—and put them to other work. Thirdly, the evil ... ...seemed clear I could not marry for some years; I was attractive to certain types of women, I had vanity enough to give me an agree- able confidence in...

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...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... ...ow, green, and purple. Under that illumination even the roofs of the great towns glittered. In thousands of small gardens, millions of dark-red flower... ... out in the East, there was cholera in Russia, and he was heard of, not so romantically, in Lisbon. They had been through France; he had stopped at ma... ... at a 52 The Voyage Out great distance. They could distinguish the little towns that were sprinkled in the folds of the hills, and the smoke rising f... ...ere sprinkled in the folds of the hills, and the smoke rising faintly. The towns appeared to be very small in comparison with the great purple mountai... ...u and me now.” “So I used to think once,” said Hirst. “But now they’re all types. Don’t take us,—take this hotel. You could draw circles round the who...

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...this type, the chairman remarks with a sudden intrusion of exposition, are romantic with a shadow of meanness, they seek at once to conceal and shape ... ...nterrupt our Utopian speculations. We should both discover that the little towns below had changed—but how, we should not have marked them well enough... ...harity, and white and black, brown, red and yellow, all tints of skin, all types of body and character, will be there. How we are to adjust their diff... ...ithout some further provision we con- cede the possibility that the poorer townsman (if there are to be rich and poor in the world) will be forced to ... ...ll, paths through the flowery garden spaces amidst which the houses in the towns will stand. And everywhere about the world, on road and path, by sea ... ...ncredulous astonishment. Except for the habits of the very rich during the Roman Empire, there was never the slightest precedent for this mod- ern det... ...agreement with the So- cialist. In Utopia we conclude that, whatever other types of property may exist, all natural sources of force, and indeed all s... ... your friend, with his love for the lady who’s so mysteriously tied—you’re romancing! People could not possi- bly do such things. It’s—if you’ll excus... ...asonable physical and mental comfort, without the reproduction of inferior types, there is no reason whatever why that should not be 87 H G Wells sec...