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...c- ture, or the chief city of their own province, these towns re- gard the new civilization as a spectacle to be gazed at; it amazes them, but they ne... ...graphy of the inscription on the banderols beneath each figure prove their age, but being, 12 Balzac as they are, in the naive language of the fablia... ...ummoned at any moment to take arms. No sooner was Calyste sixteen years of age than his father accompanied him to the marshes and the forest, teaching... ...rush nor written word can pic- ture. Beautiful still at forty-two years of age, many a man would have thought it happiness to marry her as she looked ... ...The alterations of that beauty Plato would have glorified as the coming of new graces. Her skin, so milk-white once, had taken the warm and pearly ton... ...faubourg Saint- Germain of the old Breton province, where no member of the new administration sent down by the government was ever allowed to penetrat... ... write a French opera; he does not find in Italy the pecuniary gains which composers obtain in Paris. Here’s the letter I received yesterday from Beat...

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...at it would have been an idle piece of affectation to attempt getting up a new incognito, after his original visor had been thus dashed from his brow.... ...tly conscious of a better title to it. It was not until I had attained the age of thirty years that I made any serious attempt at distinguishing mysel... ...ng of a decisive character, and are not eagerly and easily diverted into a new channel. When I made the discov- 15 Sir Walter Scott ery—for to me it ... ...try—they would find that it was referred to by all Frenchmen as the golden age of the drama there. And also in England in the time of Queen Elizabeth ... ... are in a particular manner entitled to the support or regard, when in old age or distress, of those who 23 Sir Walter Scott have partaken of the amu... ...t a want of energy on the part of the performers was the probable cause. A new set of Rules and Regulations were lately drawn up, submitted to and ap-... ...d, and set my old tales to some popular tune? But there have been too many composers, if that be the word, in the field before. The Highlands were ind...

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...came towards the owner. He was a man of twenty-five or twenty-six years of age, of unprepossessing countenance, obsequious to his superiors, insolent ... ...t adherents of the exiled princes, your father lost no time in joining the new government; and that while the Citizen Noirtier was a Girondin, the Cou... ...lmly; “I am mate of the Pharaon, belonging to Messrs. Morrel & Son.” “Your age?” continued Villefort. “Nineteen,” returned Dantes. “What were you doin... ...s XVIII., was carelessly listening to a man of fifty or fifty-two years of age, with gray hair, aristocratic bearing, and exceedingly gentlemanly at- ... ... felt sure it must be you.” “Well, then, if you felt so sure,” replied the new-comer, putting his cane in a corner and his hat on a chair, “allow me t... ...ign from the emperor the incon- gruous structure of ancient prejudices and new ideas fell to the ground. Villefort, therefore, gained nothing save the... ...that she was an object of almost paternal interest to one of the principal composers of the day, who excited her to spare no pains in the cultivation ...

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... which of my grand lady friends has taken this fine bird under her patron- age; then I might find the means of amusing myself this evening. My ticket,... ... out reserve. “Well, Rastignac, have you seen Lucien? He has come out in a new skin.” “If I were half as good looking as he is, I should be twice as r... ...rt false dealing. “Hallo! Lucien, my boy, why here we are patched up again—new stuffing and a new cover. Where have we come from? Have we mounted the ... ...omething more than money. Like soldiers who find no market for their cour- age, Lucien had just done what many men do in Paris: he had still further c... ...by the assumed superiority of his editor, restored him to the sense of his new position. “What is that, my dear boy?” “I have a party.” “There is a Lu... ...aper!—We must advertise the ap- pearance of one of the finest books of the age, l’Archer de Charles IX.! We will appeal to Dauriat to bring out as soo... ... after a fatiguing pas seul, or one of those tremendous duets which modern composers inflict on the public. Malefactors are, in fact, so entirely bere...

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...u may neglect yourself, but you owe your talents to us. 4 Gambara GAMBARA NEW YEAR’S DAY of 1831 was pouring out its packets of sug- ared almonds, fo... ...ured, under the promptings of transient excitement, a love-adventure in an age when romances are written precisely because they never happen; to have ... ... their sight, Andrea 9 Balzac had not fallen in love with a cousin at the age of eleven, or seduced his mother’s maid by the time he was twelve; he h... ...ust come here from Germany. He was hoping to get the T edeschi to try some new music and some new instruments. Isn’t it pitiable?” said Giardini, shru... ... about music. I have invited every one for the evening, poor things. Being New Year’s Day, I am treating the company to a dish in which I believe I ha... ...miled, in a way that betrayed, perhaps, some pride at this speechless hom- age. The Count, too thoroughly fascinated to miss the small- est indication... ...uction and for the way the scheme is worked out,” the Count went on. “Most composers make use of the orches- tral parts in a vague, incoherent way, co... ...enable us to combine all these forces in accordance with their true laws. “Composers work with substances of which they know nothing. Why should a bra... ...ans who write grammars of harmony may, like literary critics, be atrocious composers.” “Then you do not like my music?” “I do not say so. But if, inst...

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... have remarked a Spectre who Was doing all that Ghosts can do To welcome the new comer. “In Villas this is always done — However cheaply rented: For, ... ...host began. Here I broke in — “Inspector who? Inspecting Ghosts is something new! Explain yourself, my man!” “His name is Kobold,” said my guest: “One... ...e host’s a man like you — I mean a man of sense; And if the house is not too new —” “Why, what has that,” said I, “to do With Ghost’s convenience?” “... ...te of rhyme. Phantasmagoria & Other Poems 26 HIAWATHA’S PHOTOGRAPHING In an age of imitation, I can claim no special merit for this slight attempt at... ...ight produce in a more concentrated form. The process is termed “setting” by Composers, and any one, that has ever experienced the emotion of being un... ...body proposes, what is there to be done? Five showy girls — but Thirty is an age When girls may be engaging, but they somehow don’t engage. Five dres... ... young men they snubbed so much before! * * * * Five passe girls — Their age? Well, never mind! We jog along together, like the rest of human kind...

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...rofits, like its labor, belong to me: its morals, its manners, its philosophy, its influence on the young, are for you to justify. You were of mature age when you made the suggestion; and you knew your man. It is hardly fifteen years since, as twin pioneers of the New Journalism of that time, we two, cradled in the same new sheets, made an epoch in the criticism of the the...

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...hy, its influence on the young, are for you to justify. You were of mature age when you made the suggestion; and you knew your man. It is hardly fifte... ...knew your man. It is hardly fifteen years since, as twin pio- neers of the New Journalism of that time, we two, cradled in the same new sheets, made a... ...aperone; and even the Times must sometimes 4 GB Shaw thank its stars that new plays are not produced every day, since after each such event its gravi... ...venturous young sower of wild oats. Had you and I been in his place at his age, who knows whether we might not have done as he did, unless indeed your... ...unt. Mozart’s is the last of the true Don Juans; for by the time he was of age, his cousin Faust had, in the hands of Goethe, taken his place and carr... ...far beyond mere lovemaking into politics, high art, schemes for reclaiming new continents from the ocean, and recognition of an eternal womanly princi... ...repared and resolved or retarded or anticipated in the manner of the great composers, think they can learn the art of Palestrina from Cherubim’s treat...

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...clock in the afternoon of one October day 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, o...

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...or thereabouts, whom anybody might have credited with more than his actual age, was walking along the Boulevard des Italiens with his head bent down, ... ...” just as you call a certain kind of furniture “Empire furniture;” yet the new- comer only symbolized the Empire for those who had known that great an... ... dependent upon his earnings. Running about to give private lessons at his age!—Think of it. How many a mys- tery lies in that unromantic situation! B... ...hen he might have begun his stud- ies afresh and held his own among modern composers, when he might have been, not certainly a Rossini, but a Herold. ... ...he Cabinet des Estampes, borrow adroitly, and give out their pastiches for new inventions. Pons had obtained many a piece by exchange, and therein lie... ...to trot about for us.—What else would he do?” Very soon the cold which old age spreads about itself be- gan to set in; the communicable cold which sen... ... went in search himself; and every day he was careful to provide something new for his friend, for they always breakfasted together at home. If any on... ... the laws of supply and demand for the tor- ment of managers, authors, and composers alike. Every one esteemed Pons with his kindness and his mod- est...

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...n his ways are not ways of pleasantness; he is mighty disagreeable; ‘crabbed age and youth cannot live together.’At every hour of the night and day he... ... in modesty and holy fear . And now their bliss is consummated; the same im age of love dwells in the breast of either, and if they have self control... ...nger of this; the politicians are them selves the great rhetoricians of the age, who desire to attain immortality by the authorship of laws. And ther... ...r as he is who is possessed of them, you and I would fain become. And to all composers in the world, poets, orators, legislators, we hereby announce t... ...d perhaps he might more severely chastise some of us for trying to invent ‘a new shudder’ instead of bringing to the birth living and healthy creation... ...ledge; they are—what we please, and if employed as ‘peacemakers’ between the new and old are liable to serious misconstruction, as he elsewhere remark... ...decline of the Greek drama and of the contrast of the old literature and the new was present to the mind of Aristophanes after the death of the three ... ...e went down, and were bidden by them to convey a message to him and to other composers of speeches—to Homer and other writers of poems, whether set to...

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... the Day ....................................................132 Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me?................................................. ...............229 A Song of the Rolling Earth..............229 Youth, Day, Old Age and Night.........235 BOOK XVII. BIRDS OF PASSAGE .236 Song of the Un... ...Hour.....289 Thought..............................................290 To Old Age.......................................290 Locations and Times........... ...................535 The Calming Thought of All.............535 Thanks in Old Age............................536 Life and Death........................... ... OREIGN L ANDS I heard that you ask’d for something to prove this puzzle the New World, And to define America, her athletic Democracy, Therefore I sen... ...ns to come! Not to day is to justify me and answer what I am for, But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known, Arou... ...ith Nature’s rhythmus all the tongues of nations; You chords left as by vast composers—you choruses, You formless, free, religious dances—you from the... ...th gorgeous color’d windows, The passionate Agnus Dei or Gloria in Excelsis. Composers! mighty maestros! And you, sweet singers of old lands, soprani,...

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...usehold laws;’ that is, not teaching such laws, not formally prescribing a new economy of life, so much as inspiring it indirectly through a new atmos... ...ring it indirectly through a new atmosphere surround- ing all objects with new attributes. But there is also in Chris- tianity, 4thly. A doctrinal par... ...this divides into two great sections, α, A system of ethics so absolutely new as to be untranslat- able* into either of the classical languages; and,... ..., in the celebration of the worship, and are traditionally preserved, from age to age, without dependence on a book. But, if a religion has a doctrine... ...ght or for manoeuvring. Yet even so, it was clearly the opinion of Homer’s age, that, in a fair fight, the gods might have been found liable to de- fe... ...lums of all classes, had arisen under the same idea brooding over man from age to age. Thirdly, I should have attempted to show, that from the same mi... ...First of all, at starting, we have the inspiration (No. 1) to the original composers of the sacred books. That I grant, though distinguishing as to it...

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... It was your birthright to be, like a Rafael or a Pitt, a great poet at an age when other men are children; it was your fate, the fate of Chateaubrian... ...e bear that M. de Chateaubriand remarked it among the ursine tribes of the New World. But philosophers inform us that old age is apt to revert to the ... ...ng the ursine tribes of the New World. But philosophers inform us that old age is apt to revert to the habits of youth, and Sechard senior is a case i... ...the name. “Laugh away! After twelve years of wear, that type is as good as new. That is what I call a typefounder! M. Vaflard is an honest man, who us... ...ools,” said he. “In our line of business they ought to fetch more than the new, like goldbeaters’ tools.” Hideous vignettes, representing Hymen and Cu... ... the paper 20 Two Poets was sold to the Cointets. He pleaded his advanced age, but the truth was that he took little interest in the establishment no... ...n, and Italian literatures, and deciphered with her the music of the great composers. Finally, as time hung heavy on his hands in the seclusion enforc...

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... I am that you did not come too; really Tibby is too tiresome, he starts a new mortal disease every month. How could he have got hay fever in London? ... ...he did. She learnt, to her horror, that Marga- 14 Howards End ret, now of age, was taking her money out of the old safe investments and putting it in... ... Margaret will have a nest-egg to fall back upon.” This year Helen came of age, and exactly the same thing happened in Helen’s case; she also would sh... ...rminate note. Into which country will it lead, England or Suburbia? It was new, it had is- land platforms and a subway, and the superficial comfort ex... ...ng with that parcel.” He strode into the booking-office, and called with a new voice: “Hi! hi, you there! Are you going to keep me waiting all day? Pa... ...he should draw nearest to the robust ideal. He and she were about the same age, Evie said. Most people thought Paul handsomer than his brother. He was... ...im to hear what we are doing in music. Oh,—you musn’t run down our English composers, Margaret.” “For my part, I have heard the composition at Stettin...

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...e dandies, all the wits, all the scholars, and all the voluptuaries of the age—an indefinite period of time between Queen Anne and George II.—dines wi... ... chapter; but it must be remembered that the au- thor wished to present an age at a glance: and the dialogue is quite as fine and correct as that in t... ... Welcome to my Bosom, thou faithful Serpent; I hug thee, peace-bearing Im- age of the Eternal! Ha, the hemlock cup! Fill high, boy, for my soul is thi... ...e congregated the habitations of men. In Tehran, or Pekin, or Stamboul, or New Y ork, or Timbuctoo, or London, there is a certain district where a cer... ...to his nation. All the airs which the Hebrew maid selected were written by composers of her race; it was either a hymn by Rossini, a polacca by Braham... ...in piping bullfinches; and a Cardinal in disguise, with a pro- posal for a new loan for the Pope, were heard by turns; and each, after a rapid colloqu... ... quite distinct from his former nonchalant manner, he advanced towards the new-comer. He was an old man—an old man evidently, too, of the He- brew rac...

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...hould be deemed conclusive against me, unless that custom and feeling from age to age can be shown to have owed their exist ence to other causes than... ...e greatest of all provocatives to a repetition and increase of the ill us age. It is this which frustrates all attempts to maintain the power but pro... ...rers have stood in the pillory for presuming to carry on their business by new and improved methods. In modern Europe, and most in those parts of it w... ...surest test and most correct measure of the civilisation of a people or an age. Through all the progressive period of human history, the condition of ... ...sts while the woman is young and attractive, often only while her charm is new, and not dimmed by familiarity; and on many men they have not much infl... ...tion, society, all go on training human beings for the old, long after the new has come; much more when it is only coming. But the true virtue of huma... ... purpose of composing, only of executing it: and accordingly it is only as composers, that men, in music, are superior to women. The only one of the f... ...al gift: and it may be thought surprising that no one of the great musical composers has been a woman. But even this natural gift, to be made availabl... ...votion to the pur suit. The only countries which have produced first rate composers, even of the male sex, are Germany and Italy— countries in which,...

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.......................................................... 92 The Old and the New Music .................................................................... ...came careless and he never became indifferent. I have therefore inserted a new section in which I show how the revolutionary history of West- ern Euro... ...ess than it appears in Wagner’s Siegfried. I have therefore interpolated a new chapter which will perhaps induce some readers of the original English ... ... their sakes Germany stands consecrated as the Holy Land of the capitalist age, just as Italy, for its painters’ sakes, is the Holy Land of the early ... ...the early unvulgarized Renascence; France, for its builders’ sakes, of the age of Christian chivalry and faith; and Greece, for its sculptors’ sakes, ... ...chivalry and faith; and Greece, for its sculptors’ sakes, of the Periclean age. These Holy Lands are my fatherlands: in them alone am I truly at home:... ...tablecloth. It was an ignorant demand too, because it is not true that the composers of these exceptional examples were always, or even often, able to...

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...rquhart’s trans- lation of Book III. appeared posthumously in 1693, with a new edition of Books I. and II., under Motteux ’s editorship. Motteux ’s re... ...is troubles. In spite of the wide-spread ignorance among the monks of that age, the encyclopaedic movement of the Renaissance was attracting all the l... ...he great century, gives us on this subject his own opinion and that of his age: ‘Marot and Rabelais are inexcusable in their habit of scat- tering fil... ...ce, warms herself in a fashion which it is not advisable that dames of our age should imitate. The statue of Cybele by the Tribolo, executed for Franc... ... tions we must set the privilege of Francis I. of September, 1545, and the new privilege granted by Henry II. on August 6th, 1550, Cardinal de Chatill... ...ssed to Cardinal de Guise, and in 1552 the fourth book was dedicated, in a new prologue, to Cardi- nal de Chatillon, the brother of Admiral de Coligny... ...gerating inventions, makers of jun- kets, fit disposers of cooling shades, composers of green arbours, and refreshers of wine. Jupiter, said Rondibili...

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...ells had in old days played the adventurer and charmed a maid of a certain age into yielding her hand to him; and the lady was the squire of Earlsfont... ...o wins a game by playing it without an adversary. Mr. Adister had sprung a new sense in him on the subject of the renunciation of the religion. No tho... ...y assured him that the description of the prince’s lineaments would not be new. It was, as he was aware, derived from a miniature of her husband, tran... ...ndly put for the sake of promoting conversation with a companion of unripe age by a gentleman who had whole- somely excited his blood to run. They wer... ...about where we’re going and what we came out of. No wonder they call it an age of despair, when you see the big wigs filing up and down the thoroughfa... ...n’t accept this blazing fine offer, then I will, and you’ll behold me in a new attitude. The fellow yawns! You don’t know me yet, Philip. They tell us... ... a moot point: as it is whether some of our poets have meaning and are not composers of zebra. ‘No one knows but them above!’ he said aloud, apparentl...

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...e placed not at the end but at the beginning of them; for they belong to the age in which the human mind was first making the attempt to distinguish t... ...ich spelling or arithmetic do to the mind of a child. It was long before the new world of ideas which had been sought after with such passionate yearn... ...e human mind. There are indeed many old fallacies which linger among us, and new ones are constantly springing up. But they are not of the kind to whi... ...y perplexities are avoided by keeping them apart. There might certainly be a new science of logic; it would not however be built up out of the fragmen... ...re noted by him appear trifling to us now, but they were not trifling in the age before logic, in the decline of the earlier Greek philoso- phies, at ... ... a certain point of view only. The pe- culiarity of the fallacies of our own age is that we live within them, and are therefore generally unconscious ... .... And why should you say so? I asked. I see, he replied, that there are some composers of speeches who do not know how to use the speeches which 37 E... ...e have so long been seeking might be discovered in that di- rection; for the composers of speeches, whenever I meet them, always appear to me to be ve...