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...ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley Dedication To Madame la Princesse Caroline Galitzin de Genthod, nee Comtesse Walewska. Homage and remembrance... ...ed over there, look!” said the fisherman, going up a hillock to show us an island in the little Mediterranean between the dunes where we were walk- in... ...as hard for folks who once had twelve thousand francs, and who owned their island. No one ever knew what Cambremer paid at Nantes to get his son away ... ...on which sprouted through the sand of the beach. As we crossed, we saw the island on which the Cambremers had lived; but we turned away our heads. Arr...

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...r murmurs not. _65 Ay, many flowering islands lie In the waters of wide Agony: To such a one this morn was led, M... ... _90 The waveless plain of Lombardy, Bounded by the vaporous air, Islanded by cities fair; Underneath Day’s azure eyes 60 V olume Two Ocean’... ... _305 Of the olive-sandalled Apennine In the south dimly islanded; And the Alps, whose snows are spread High between the clouds and ... ...of the abyss were hurled Into the depths of Heaven. The daedal earth, That island in the ocean of the world, Hung in its cloud of all-sustaining air: ... ...glorious world! thou flowery wilderness! _205 Thou island of eternity! thou shrine Where Desolation, clothed with loveliness, ... ...E. TIRE. Published by Edward Dowden, “Correspondence of Robert Southey and Caroline Bowles”, 1880. If gibbets, axes, confiscations, chains, And racks ...

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...sting things The temple of the mightiest Daemon stands. Yet not the golden islands That gleam amid yon flood of purple light, ... ...rhang the world: for wide expand Beneath the wan stars and descending moon Islanded seas, blue mountains, mighty streams, _555 D... ...et, Or where with sound like many voices sweet, Waterfalls leap among wild islands green, _15 Which framed for my lone boat... ...ing brain and overburdened breast. 51 51 51 51 51. Winding among the lawny islands fair, Whose blosmy forests starred the shadowy deep, The wingless b... ...darkness of brief frenzy cast on me, So that I knew not my own misery: The islands and the mountains in the day Like clouds reposed afar; and I could ... ...ted by the pigs at the fair of San Giuliano.’ This was the period of Queen Caroline’s landing in England, and the struggles made by George IV to get r...

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...r of the Waverly Novels did for Scotland, turning its mountains, lakes and islands, formerly regarded with aversion, into a fairyland peopled with cre... ...pt, who complained of be- ing made a daily show, “like Sancho Panza in his island of Barataria.” During his short stay in the capital there was cir- c... ...izen, and erected his statue, mod- elled by his compatriot, Pradier, on an island in the Rhone. “See nations, slowly wise and meanly just, ... ... and elsewhere. I there saw many curious things, amongst others the Boroma islands, which are wor- thy of being described. But I am pressed by time, a... ...itants I intended to place there. I thought a good while upon the Boromean Islands, the de- lightful prospect of which had transported me, but I found... ...y and almost uncivilly. I saw nothing in her which re- sembled the amiable Caroline, who, when a maid, expressed for me so many good wishes. I thought...

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...elt the sunlight nor understood why column and campanile rose, nor why the islands basked, and boats and people moved. All were as remote little bits ... ...es, those early birds, fully to understand that a change has come in their island mother’s mind. If there is a balance to be righted, she leaves that ... ... season the Shakesperian ‘This England . . .’ and Byronic—’The invio- late Island . . .’ shake the frame, as though smiting it with the tail of the gy... ...l than these green waves and that dark forest’s edge, and the garden of an island! The yachting-water here is an unrivalled lake; and if I miss colour... ...oad water and its opposite border of forest, beyond which the downs of the island threw long interlapping curves. Great ships passed on the line of 1... ...t is what the men go to. The women die. V era Winter died at twenty-three. Caroline Ormond was hardly older. You know her story; everybody knows it. T...

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...knew afterwards, and may as well mention now; they were Eulalie, Hortense, Caroline. Eulalie was tall, and very finely shaped: she was fair, and her f... ...e she might possess, but none of her fea- tures betokened those qualities. Caroline was little, though evidently full grown; raven-black hair, very da... ... freedom— “Dictez-nous quelquechose de facile pour commencer, mon- sieur.” Caroline shook her loose ringlets of abundant but some- what coarse hair ov... ... Borghese, she looked at the moment scarcely purer than Lucrece de Borgia. Caroline was of noble family. I heard her lady-mother’s character afterward... ...ance, with her vermilion lips, damask cheek, and roguish laughing eye. And Caroline de Blemont! Ah, there is beauty! beauty in perfection. What a clou... ...lack eyes! Y our Byron would have worshipped her, and you—you cold, frigid islander!—you played the austere, the insensible in the presence of an Aphr... ...ladylike. She had many things to say to the Englishman just fresh from his island-country, and she urged him with an enthusi- asm of curiosity, which ... ...ent a whole summer and autumn in travelling from end to end of the British islands, and afterwards passed a winter in London. Then we thought it high ...

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...rade and pier soon seen, and are tantalized by having no time for Portland Island, only con- tenting ourselves with an inspection of shop fossils, whi... ...es, and every one that is worth anything. I say, Ave, when I go out to the islands, you are coming too?’ ‘Oh yes! I know I could do a great deal. If n... ...ould sometimes hope a spark had been lit that would shine some day in your islands, Harry.’ Going up that hill was not the place for Etheldred May to ... ...at did you do, the day you walked him to Cocksmoor? he was fuller of those islands than ever after it.’ ‘I did not mean it,’ said Ethel; ‘but the firs... ...ld enough to build up the market-cross, or else of going to see the Feejee Islands. ‘Then you understood the prisoner not to express a delib- erate pu... ...l hours of daylight, and oh! for Mary’s power of mak- ing every one happy! Caroline and Annie Cheviot were ladylike, nice-looking 306 The Trial girls... ...ne without vouchsafing a good-bye?’ ‘Oh no, he has taken pity on Annie and Caroline Cheviot’s famine of croquet, and gone with them to the gardens.’ ‘...

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...otice my absence. T o escape blame, our governess, a terrible Mademoiselle Caroline, worked upon my mother’s fears,—told her I had a horror of my home... ...n of your age know nothing of astronomy.” “Ah, madame,” cried Mademoiselle Caroline, “he has opened the faucet of the reservoir; the gar- den is inund... ... my heart made me fancy without an equal. Imagine three mills placed among islands of graceful outline crowned with groves of trees and rising from a ... ...g-nets; the monoto- nous sing-song of a shepherd; ducks paddling among the islands or preening on the “jard,”—a name given to the coarse sand which th... ...s now clean and inviting. Soon we were like two beings flung upon a desert island, for not only do anxieties isolate, but they brush aside as petty th... ... people are as if they were not. The British present an image of their own island, where law rules everything, where all is automatic in every station...

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...s idea to them — ‘Ah, she bears it very well.’ Moreover, alone in a desert island would she have been wretched at what had happened to her? Not greatl... ...he grass were marks where the cows had lain through the night — dark green islands of dry herbage the size of their carcases, in the general sea of de... ...y herbage the size of their carcases, in the general sea of dew. From each island proceeded a serpentine trail, by which the cow had rambled away to f... ...nsequence 149 the river, and masses of them were floating past her — moving islands of green crow foot, whereon she might almost have ridden; long lock... ... said no more then. As they drove on the fragment of an old manor house of Caroline date rose against the sky, and was in due course passed and left b... ...trated purpose of revenge on the other sex — so it seemed to him then. The Caroline bodice of the portrait was low — precisely as Tess’s had been when... ...ided, serpentining in purposeless curves, looping themselves around little islands that had no name, returning and re embodying themselves as a broad ...

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...dation for our pride! when the utmost we can hope is but to be read in one island, and to be thrown aside at the end of one age. All that is left us i... ...dant alders crown’d; 340 Cole, whose dark streams his flowery islands lave; And chalky Wey, that rolls a milky wave; The blue, transparen... ...All flutter, pride, and talk. 62 This, it is said, was intended for Queen Caroline. 124 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope – V olume One PHRYNE. 1... ... on sceptres and tiaras trod, 62 This, it is said, was intended for Queen Caroline. 64 ‘The youth:’ Alexander the Great: the tiara was the crown pec... ... humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold... ... George and Fred’ric roughen every verse, Then smooth up all and Caroline rehearse. A. No—the high task to lift up kings to god Le...

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... more plants in it than were quite conve nient, a coloured print of Queen Caroline, several shells, a good many tea trays, two stuffed and dried fish... ... to be exact and open. I am a widower with three daughters—Emma, Jane, and Caroline—and my desire is so to discharge the duties of life as to leave th... ...I have most wished to mix in. But with my three daughters, Emma, Jane, and Caroline—and my aged father—I cannot afford to be selfish. It is true I hav... ...ied woman, I believe?” said Mr. Guppy. “Married woman. Thank you. Formerly Caroline Jellyby, spinster, then of Thavies Inn, within the city of London,... ...ssessed through industry and perseverance, to my daughters Emma, Jane, and Caroline. I also desire to live in amity with my professional brethren. Whe... ...ter meadows are fresh and green, and the stream sparkles on among pleasant islands, murmuring weirs, and whispering rushes; not only does the stillnes... ... point, with no new equipage and out fit, were the Cape of Good Hope, the Island of Ascension, Hong Kong, or any other military station. But when the...

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...d gain safe earth, whither he followed her. CHAPTER XV HE HAD LANDED on an island of the still-vexed Bermoothes. The world lay wrecked behind him: Ray... ...YSTEMS! Away with a corrupt World! Let us breathe the air of the Enchanted Island. Golden lie the meadows: golden run the streams; red gold is on the ... ...hantment. Here, secluded from vexed shores, the prince and princess of the island meet: here like darkling nightingales they sit, and into eyes and ea... ...ne-branch, circled by moonlight. 123 George Meredith CHAPTER XX ENCHANTED ISLANDS have not yet rooted out their old brood of dragons. Wherever there ... ...etter from the baronet, describing the house and maternal System of a Mrs. Caroline Grandison, and the rough grain of hope- fulness in her youngest da... ...isite to the young man, he had introduced him to the people he knew in the island; among others to the Lady Judith Felle, a fair young dame, who intro...

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...eem dishonor- able in me under my present circumstances. I owe the British Islander six louis, which I lost at cards; don’t fail to pay him— “Dear cou... ...ade him less scrupulous about the rights of his fellow men. He went to the Island of St. Tho- mas and bought, for a mere song, merchandise that had be... ... brilliant; and in 1827 Charles Grandet returned to Bordeaux on the “Marie Caroline,” a fine brig belonging to a royalist house of busi- ness. He brou... ... of marrying a woman of fashion with a fortune derived from the West India Islands. To meet the costs of Madame d’Aubrion’s extravagance, he had gone ...

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...d for half a mile in breadth is a stagnant river with melancholy trees for islands in it and a surface punctured all over, all day long, with falling ... ...d and given him a little, tiny horse!—“and, cousin John, she softened poor Caroline, the eldest one, so much and was so thoughtful for me and so amiab... ...nson Crusoe could have read it, though he had had no other on his desolate island. We were much relieved, under these circumstances, when Mrs. Pardigg... ...ony to fu ture ages how civilization and barbarism walked this boast ful island together. Come night, come darkness, for you cannot come too soon or... ...tices, what a thing it is in such hot weather to think that you live in an island with the sea a rolling and a bowling right round you. Guster is bus... ...ou, father, that our first wish and intention is to consider your comfort. Caroline and I do not forget our duty—what is my duty is Caroline’s, as we ... ...ome to dinner.” “Good!” said Mr. Turveydrop. “You will find fires, my dear Caroline, in your own room, and dinner prepared in my apartment. Yes, yes, ... ... self de nying objection on his son’s part with a great air. “You and our Caroline will be strange in the upper part of the pre mises and will, ther... ... more plants in it than were quite conve nient, a coloured print of Queen Caroline, several shells, a good many tea trays, two stuffed and dried fish...

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...d for half a mile in breadth is a stagnant river with melancholy trees for islands in it and a surface punctured all over, all day long, with falling ... ...d and given him a little, tiny horse!—“and, cousin John, she softened poor Caroline, the eldest one, so much and was so thoughtful for me and so amiab... ...nson Crusoe could have read it, though he had had no other on his desolate island. We were much relieved, under these circumstances, when Mrs. Pardigg... ...ony to fu ture ages how civilization and barbarism walked this boast ful island together. Come night, come darkness, for you cannot come too soon or... ...tices, what a thing it is in such hot weather to think that you live in an island with the sea a rolling and a bowling right round you. Guster is bus... ...ou, father, that our first wish and intention is to consider your comfort. Caroline and I do not forget our duty—what is my duty is Caroline’s, as we ... ...ome to dinner.” “Good!” said Mr. Turveydrop. “You will find fires, my dear Caroline, in your own room, and dinner prepared in my apartment. Yes, yes, ... ... self de nying objection on his son’s part with a great air. “You and our Caroline will be strange in the upper part of the pre mises and will, ther...

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... catalogue is at least as happy as that which distinguishes an inscription upon a certain picture in Rome—to wit: “Revelations-View. St. John in Patte... ...one of those old stones, which was quaint and pretty, and was plainly not the work of any other than a poet. It was to this effect: Here Reposes i... ... or anything else if left to their own devices. This is an argument of some value in support of the theory that they were the original colonists of th... ...f the theory that they were the original colonists of the wild islands of the coast of Scotland. A schooner laden with oranges was wrecked upon one of... ... chalets, a cozy little domain hidden away from the busy world in a cloistered nook among giant precipices topped with snowy peaks that seemed to floa...

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...ere the supper was laid was oak panelled, but painted white. Like a little island in the vast polished slippery floor lay a square much-worn carpet, j... ...en it is indeed true that My Lady is one of the greatest beauties of Queen Caroline’s Court, if not the greatest?” said Harriet. “T ruly she is,” said... ..., the lovely cliffs, and the charm of the open coun- try, with its strange islands of hills dotted about, raised her spirits, as she rode through the ...

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...Robin Crusoe, he called him, when he came home again after sailing round the island. ‘Poor Robin Crusoe, where have you been, Robin Crusoe.’ The man t... ...help him. ‘Bad,’ he answered. ‘We are quite ruined.’ ‘No. There is hope yet, Caroline.’ ‘If he relents,’ she said, amazed, ‘there is. Nothing is past ... ...ciless a creditor in his successor. We may sleep to night with light hearts, Caroline. ’ Yes. Soften it as they would, their hearts were lighter. The ...

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...Robin Crusoe, he called him, when he came home again after sailing round the island. “Poor Robin Crusoe, where have you been, Robin Crusoe?” The man t... ...help him. “Bad,” he answered. “We are quite ruined?” “No. There is hope yet, Caroline.” “If he relents,” she said, amazed, “there is. Nothing is past ... ...ciless a creditor in his successor. We may sleep to night with light hearts, Caroline!” Yes. Soften it as they would, their hearts were lighter. The c...

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...ng a pair of slippers to the little feet. “We might as well be in a desert island,” continued Vera, “shut up from everything with an old frump.” “T ak... ...’t have us be- cause she is a governess. We might as well be upon a desert island at once.” Agatha could not help laughing and repeating - “I am out o... ... were over, Thekla expressed her hopes that they had been cast on a desert island and would bring home Man Friday. 82 Modern Broods The Goyle ladies ... ...father made a point of it, instead of his wife’s name, which, I think, was Caroline.” “I don’t think I ever knew a Magdalen except my own el- der sist... ...thing.” No more it did, it only called the child the daughter of Henry and Caroline Field, and the surname was omitted in the bequest. “Who was the mo... ...fter her?” “No. I remember Fulbert saying he supposed she should be called Caroline; and he exclaimed, ‘No, no, I always said it should be Magdalen an...