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... then, in these words:— INTRODUCTION All who are acquainted with the early history of the Italian stage are aware that Arlecchino is not, in his origi... ... words:— INTRODUCTION All who are acquainted with the early history of the Italian stage are aware that Arlecchino is not, in his original concep- tio... ...r, as will appear from the following theatrical anecdote:— An actor on the Italian stage permitted at the Foire du St. Germain, in Paris, was renowned... ... antiquarian interest. It was Mr. Train who brought to my recollection the history of Old Mortality, al- though I myself had had a personal interview ... ...n correspondent (a lady), [The late Mrs. Goldie.] who favoured me with the history of the upright and high-prin- cipled female, whom, in the Heart of ... ...swain, of somewhere inclining to sixty could resist the advances of a fair contemporary? So we allowed the full degree of kind- ness to the meeting—ho... ...- nished to the scarlet and white of the other regiments.] There were some Italian and Flemish pictures of admitted authenticity, a few genuine bronze...

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...nges.” “Consistently with itself.” “I have been trying to recall my sexual history ,” said Sir Rich- mond, going off at a tangent. “My sentimental edu... ...ious principles, as the doctor considered them, that the general muddle in contemporary marital af- fairs was very largely due. We left divorce-law re... ...o think on that scale. Just as a man who has been trained in 49 H G Wells history and law grows to think on the scale of the Roman empire. I don’t kn... ...r before. It was her wit took me. It didn’t occur to me that she wasn’t my contemporary and as able as I was. As able to take care of herself. All sor... ... be a tattooed creature wearing a knife of stone…. “ “The healing touch of history.” “And for the first time my damned Committee has mat- tered scarce... ...wered to the name of Belinda. “It gave me cold shivers to think that those Italian officers might understand English. “ The lady who was called V.V. s...

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...e generation as Cervantes; “Don Quixote” had to him a vitality that only a contemporary could feel; it cost him no dramatic effort to see things as Ce... ...anish, and can at best be only distantly imitated in any other tongue. The history of our English translations of “Don Quixote” is instructive. Shelto... ... charges Shelton with having translated not from the Spanish, but from the Italian version of Franciosini, which did not appear until ten years after ... ...nd comely volumes hold out to every lover of Cervantes. From the foregoing history of our translations of “Don Quixote,” it will be seen that there ar... ...writing, no record of his conversation, no character of him drawn ... by a contemporary has been produced.” It is only natural, therefore, that the bi... ...n of Castile, Leon, and the Asturias. As it hap- pens, there is a complete history of the Cervantes family from the tenth century down to the seventee... ... who, like Garcilaso de la Vega and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, followed the Italian wars, had brought back from Italy the products of the post-Renaissa... ...e speaks his own tongue I will put him upon my head.” “Well, I have him in Italian,” said the barber, “but I do not un- derstand him.” “Nor would it b...

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...he most astounding incident in the whole of that dramatic chapter of human history, the coming of flying, occurred. People talk glibly enough of epoch... ...ying power of from seventy to two hundred tons. How many Germany possessed history does not record, but Bert counted nearly eighty great bulks recedin... ... the paradox of the time. It was a period altogether unique in the world’s history. The apparatus of warfare, the, art and method of fighting, changed... ...an intimation of the extraordi- nary and quite important things of which a contemporary may go in ignorance. He had always clung to the illusion that ... ...ever entered their heads. They did not, so far as one can judge from their contemporary literature, think that they meant anything to their personal l... ...ude of the mother country to her great daughter was constantly compared in contemporary caricature to that be- tween a hen-pecked husband and a viciou... ...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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...exander Pope; the Little Corporal shook Europe; and if all wolves had been as this wolf, they would have changed the history of man. M. Elie Berthet h... ...est and the commandant assured me of their sympathy with all I said, and made a heavy sighing over the bitterness of contemporary feeling. ‘Why, you c... ...omewhat embarrassed how to answer, in came one of the monks, a little brown fellow, as lively as a grig, and with an Italian accent, who threw him- se... ...te of wolves. But now I was to go down into the scene of a romantic chapter – or, better, a romantic footnote in the history of the world. What 55 Ro... ...His religion does not repose upon a choice of logic; it is the poetry of the man’s experience, the philosophy of the history of his life. God, like a ...

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...nts had oc- curred while he slept; for reflection is an event in our inner history, and Mme. de Bargeton had been reflecting. About two o’clock that a... ... she looked like an old woman. He saw women whose names will appear in the history of the nineteenth century, women no less famous than the queens of ... ...ther, of all the promises of his genius. He spent his mornings in studying history at the Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve. His very first researches mad... ...voc of Joseph’s heart, he might have continued the traditions of the great Italian masters, though, for that matter, the last word has not yet been sa... ...se. No Frenchman can hope to rival Petrarch; for the language in which the Italian wrote, being so infinitely more pliant than French, lends itself to... ...t, Lousteau indited an article of the kind described as moeurs—a sketch of contemporary manners, entitled The Elderly Beau. “The buck of the Empire,” ... ... “That, my boy , is a woman who all unconsciously will work great havoc in contemporary literature,” said Etienne, when they came away. “Poor V ernou ... ...eming to pity Nathan for a mistake, and speak of him as of a man from whom contemporary literature may look for great things if he renounces these way... ...vorites and great lords. The original inventor was Pietro Aretino, a great Italian. Kings went in fear of him, as stage-players go in fear of a newspa...

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... VI. Attendance on the patient had prevented the Countess from hearing the history of the accident, but presently the clatter of horses’ feet showed t... ...MA OKEN MAT T T T TCH CH CH CH CH The Earl of Salisbury, called Prudence. —Contemporary Poem. LITTLE GRISELL DACRE did not die, though day after day s... ...ins in memory of whom the lamps were carried. Both these, and many another history, parable, or legend were told her by Sister Avice, training her sou... ...y those who did not learn Latin, as did Grisell. Selections from Scripture history, generally clothed in rhyme, and versified lives of the Saints, wer... ...he deaf, and almost dumb, portionless orphan daughter of an old friend and contemporary, and to save her from the scorn and slights of his relatives—t... ...nd hindered your being professed?” “Nay, madame; it was the Proctor of the Italian Abbess.” Therewith the inquiries of the Duchess elicited all Grisel...

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...mention for the sake of king Juba, of all monarchs the greatest student of history, whose ances- tors are said to have sprung from Diodorus and Sophax... ...t might be to gratify Pompey, whose father is described by Rutilius in his history, as the vilest man alive. From thence Pompey came to the city of Am... ...L GESIL GESIL GESIL GESILA A A A AUS US US US US THUS HAVING DRAWN out the history of the lives of Agesilaus and Pompey, the next thing is to compare ... ..., the philosopher. Diophanes was a refugee from Mitylene, the other was an Italian, of the city of Cuma, and was educated there under Antipater of Tar... ...o was not full seventeen years old; another gave the same right to all the Italians in general, of voting at elections, as was enjoyed by the citizens... ...ween the citizens and their confederates, and underhand to be inciting the Italians to rebel; though there was little other evidence of the truth of t... ...ank with Cimon, Thucydides, and Pericles. Certainly amongst those who were contemporary with him, Phocion, though he appeared on the less commendable ...

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...med to him that perhaps after all it was as well to let fruit- growers and Italians deal with singing-birds in their own way. Perhaps after all they h... ...the demand that action should be taken increased. The literature of church history and the controversies aris- ing out of doctrinal development became... ...eled over like a ship that founders. Through the swiftest, tensest week in history Europe cap- sized into war. 6 6 6 6 6 The first effect of the war u... ... countless minds that for the first time they realized the epic quality of history and their own relationship to the destinies of the race. The flimsy... ... different and antagonistic strands that interweave in the twisted rope of contemporary religion; the old strand of the priest, the fetishistic elemen...

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...e generation as Cervantes; “Don Quixote” had to him a vitality that only a contemporary could feel; it cost him no dramatic effort to see things as Ce... ...anish, and can at best be only distantly imitated in any other tongue. The history of our English translations of “Don Quixote” is in- structive. Shel... ... charges Shelton with having translated not from the Spanish, but from the Italian version of Franciosini, which did not appear until ten years after ... ...nd comely volumes hold out to every lover of Cervantes. From the foregoing history of our translations of “Don Quixote,” it will be seen that there ar... ...n of Castile, Leon, and the Asturias. As it hap- pens, there is a complete history of the Cervantes family from the tenth century down to the seventee... ... who, like Garcilaso de la Vega and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, followed the Italian wars, had brought back from Italy the products of the post-Renaissa... ...e speaks his own tongue I will put him upon my head.” “Well, I have him in Italian,” said the barber, “but I do not un- derstand him.” “Nor would it b...

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...hrough the In- solvent Court many times. But to those who did not know his history intimately there was some difficulty in identifying him with the in... ...What Mr. Howard Walker’s age was at the time of the com- mencement of this history, and, indeed, for an indefinite period before or afterwards, it is ... ...h, it is more with characters than with astounding events that this little history deals, and Mr. W alker is one of the principal of our dramatis pers... ... doubtful character), who sang no- where, but was always coming out at the Italian Opera. There was Lumley Limpiter (Lord Tweedledale’s son), one of t... ...ligence the Hammersmith Observer will question the next week, as thus:— ”A contemporary, the Brentford Champion, says that Blazes is engaged to give S...

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...upposed it—a simple reca- pitulation, or resumé, of the Roman imperatorial history. It moves rapidly over the ground, but still with an exploring eye,... ...ath- ered so thickly over the one solitary road 5 traversing that part of history. Glimpses of moral truth, or suggestions of what may lead to it; in... ...imagined, any liter- ary valuation of Cicero; it is a new reading of Roman history in the most dreadful and comprehensive of her convulsions, in that ... ..., and (if that were possible) to have conciliated his support; but, says a contemporary Irishman, “those were not times of conciliation.” Some days af... ... half had served under Na- poleon in his first foreign campaign, viz., the Italian cam- paign of 1796, which accomplished the conquest of North- ern I... ...land something of that rank which the golden milestone of Rome held in the Italian peninsula. At Birmingham it was (which I, like myriads beside, had ... ...he soil was deep and adhesive, a worse evil beset the stately equipage. An Italian of rank, who has left a record of his perilous adventure, visited, ...

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... Norway was educated by Ethelstane of England. It was Foulques le Bon, the contemporary Count of Anjou, who, when derided by Louis IV. for serving in ... ...” cried Richard, starting forward; for to his childish fancy this dreadful history was more like one of Dame Astrida’s legends than a reality, and at ... ...te clavete De sol itant ert tresorier Kar nul tresor n’vait plus cher. The history of the adventures of Jumieges is literally true, as is Martin’s ref... ...ichard. “And it was!” said Abbot Martin. Then the good Abbot told them the history, part of which was already known to some of them. About five or six... ...ld Dane, cautiously; “it depends on the numbers that may be engaged in the Italian war with the Saracens, but of this be sure, Sir King, that every ma...

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... strangula- tion or naturally is of no consequence — the house had been sold, then abandoned, and lastly isolated from the other houses of the street.... ...ted by the royal mouth. This double favor, of a strangulation and a macaroni, conferred upon the triangular house, gave poor Cropoli a fancy to grace ... ... sonable dowry by showing them what there was beneath the slab of the chimney. These two points accomplished, he went in search of the painter who was... ...fterwards preserved so profound a silence, that Cropole was almost offended, so much did he prefer people who were good company. 39 Dumas This gentle... ...anniversary of the other battle of Dunbar, so fatal to the Scots, I was conquered. Two thousand men fell around me before I thought of retreating a st... ...- erything except courage, when the king your father guessed that there was a man in me. I was a man, sire, when the Cardinal de Richelieu, who was a ... ...ke air- bubbles upon the water, on the surface of each event. It is doubtless time to trace, in a few words, one of the most interesting portraits of ...

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...stretch out their narrative, so as to be at least consistent with the real history, at the entire sacrifice of the plot. And it may be feared that thu... ...t really reigned over the tangled thread of events. There is no portion of history better illustrated by memoirs of the actors therein than is the Fro... ...he high-handed son of her ancient nobility was intolerable from a low-born Italian, of graceful but insinuating manners. Moreover, the war increased t... ...p of Corinth in partibus infidelium, a younger son of the Duke of Retz, an Italian family introduced by Catherince de Medici. There seemed to be a hop... ...y sentiments on record for you, my children. But how I have anticipated my history! I must return, to tell you that when I was just sixteen I was told... ...plex- 102 Stray Pearls ion a clear pale brown, the eyes with something of Italian softness in them, rather than of French vivacity, the brows almost ... ...ble, instead of a poor old Scottish cavalier and his wife, my mother’s old contemporary Madame de Delincourt, and a couple of officers waiting for Sol...

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..., and beating the sea before him into a foam.” —Tooke’ s Lucian. “The True History.” “He visited this country also with a view of catching horse- whal... ...an incredible quantity of oil will be extracted out of one whale.” —Ibid. “History of Life and Death.” “The sovereignest thing on earth is parmacetti ... ...ture where our children’s grand-children will go for bread.” —Obed Macy’ s History of Nantucket. “I built a cottage for Susan and myself and made a ga... ...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 ... ...ring your mind to bear on it, the other will be utterly excluded from your contemporary consciousness. How is it, then, with the whale? True, both his... ...lle first day after the venison season, and that particular venison season contemporary with an unusually fine vintage of the vine- yards of Champagne... ...fore at any one period of time, several distinct adult generations must be contemporary. And what that is, we may soon gain some idea of, by imagining...

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...fter the title of Paine’s volume, the man of Dundee was something like his contemporary shipowner, Stephen Girard of Philadelphia, whose sympathies, a... ...s treating of actual men and events no mat- 22 Billy Budd ter of what era—history, biography and unconventional writers, who, free from cant and conv... ...that time, admiring the strangeness of their personal beauty so unlike the Italian stamp, their clear ruddy complexion and curled flaxen locks, exclai...

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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 ... ... creatures; now I am only the most unhappy. Excuse me from telling you the history of my poor mother, who was murdered—” “By a Captain, in a house of ... ... 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... ...ofound policy that Lucien should have gallant adventures. Happiness has no history, and the story-tellers of all lands have understood this so well th... ...s or in fess, with the famous motto: Caveo non timeo, which epitomizes the history of the family. The coat of the Vicomtes de Grandlieu is the same qu... ... of fa- mous pedigree, which will be always known by the name of the great contemporary poet who made them fashionable; and Esther, proud of owning th...

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...les, Frank, the Parent’s Assistant, and later, Croker’s Tales from English History, Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare, Tales of a Grandfather, and the Riv... ... an antiquarian friend of my father, Mr. Stafford, who was great in county history, I hunted 39 Yo n g e up in the Museum library all I could discove... ...E OLD HOUSE VIII—THE OLD HOUSE VIII—THE OLD HOUSE VIII—THE OLD HOUSE ‘Your history whither are you spinning? Can you do nothing but describe? A house ... ...ed down many traditions to her great-niece. The old lady’s father had been contemporary with the Margaret of ghostly fame, so that the stages had been... ...ong letters to my father on home business, Austrian misgovernment, and the Italian Church and people, full of shrewd observations and new lights; and ... ... brown- legged street children, without trying to make her speak French or Italian—in her eyes one of the inflictions of the journey, in those of her ...

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...l order, that had no more relevance to the realities and needs of everyday contemporary life than if they were clean linen that had been put away with... ...Clayton National School, for example, inscribed in old English lettering, “Italian T ravel Pictures, by the Rev. E. B. Gabbitas.” For this it seemed h... .... Wells “Here,” said I. “We’re on the verge of the biggest lock-out in the history of this countryside; here’s distress and hunger coming, here’s all ... ...wned that arm and hand, as though he had been some one else. Of course! My history—its rough outline rather than the immediate past—began to shape its... ...ntent, without reservations or aggressions, in the common, open fashion of contemporary intercourse to- day, but which then, nevertheless, was the rar... ...across the frontier near Belfort nearly to the Rhine… . The Hungarian, the Italian peasant, yawned and thought the morning dark, and turned over to fa... ...he past, but it will rob them of any effect of reality. The whole of their history becomes more and more foreign, more and more like some queer barbar...