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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...rounded by a host of mendicants, screaming, “I say, sir! penny, sir!I say, English! tam your ays! penny!” in all voices, from extreme youth to the mos... ... little guard; and by low-roofed whitewashed houses, with balco- nies, and women in them,—the very same women, with the very same head-clothes, and ye... ...he houses curiously small, with arcades and balconies, out of which looked women apparently a great deal too big for the chambers they inhabited; the ... ... us. Boom! the gun fired at the end of the funny little entertainment. The women and the balconies, the beggars and the walking Murillos, Pooch and th... ...mythological pieces relative to the kings before alluded to, and where the English visitor will see some astonishing pictures of the Duke of Wellingto... ...r, are you not charmed to be in this famous neighbourhood, in this land of poets and heroes, of whose history your classical edu- cation ought to have... ...to me, that I can’t at present reconcile myself to you in age. I read your poets, but it was in fear and trembling; and a cold sweat is but an ill acc... ...er four were playing with a dirty pack of cards, at a barrack that English poets have christened the “Half-way House. ”Does external nature and beauty...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...n the end, Chinesed the T artars, and will, it is to be hoped, Chinese the English. Poland ought to have Polonized Russia. Poniatowski tried to do so ... ...ntal equipment. There are two species of Pole, as there are two species of Englishwoman. 7 Balzac When an Englishwoman is not very handsome she is ho... ... Paris. Ma- dame Laginska is now a member of that charming circle of young women represented by Mesdames de Lestorade, de Portenduere, Marie de Vanden... ...f tenderness for her that in Poland he becomes her inferior, though Polish women make admirable wives. Now a Pole is still more easily vanquished by a... ...- thrift father, knew nothing of the management of a house- hold which the women of the present day, however rich or noble they are, are often compell... ...as Laplace, Kepler, Descartes, Malebranche, Spinoza, Buffon; also the true poets and solitarys of the second Chris- tian century, and the Saint Teresa...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...me. I gather, though I am not sure, that Mr. Wedmore, the latest writer in English on Balzac at any length, had not read them through when he wrote. N... ... la Nordier and a history of the fantastic and inconstant loves of a great English lady, the Duchess of “Sommerset” (a piece of actual scandalum magna... ... to grapple, once drawing up an elaborate list of his virtuous and vicious women, and showing that the former outnumbered the latter; and, again, labo... ...endix parison, that it suggests the remembrance of the fact—that the great poets have usually been themselves extremely exact observers of detail. It ... ...themselves extremely exact observers of detail. It has not made them great poets; but they would not be great poets without it. And when Eugenie Grand... ...at we see in Dante and Shakespeare, in Chaucer and Tennyson. But the great poets do not as a rule accumulate detail. Balzac does, and from this very a... ...te in that respect. If in some of his types—his journalists, his mar- ried women, and others—he seems to have sacrificed to con- ventions, let us reme... ...f civilization. Hence the work to be written needed a threefold form— men, women, and things; that is to say, persons and the material expression of t...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ES of the rue Neuve-des-Mathurins, at half-past eleven at night, two young women were sitting before the fireplace of a boudoir hung with blue velvet ... ...apricious disor- der of a happy home. At the present moment, the two young women were weeping. Pain seemed to predominate. The name of the owner, Ferd... ...dies, was spent in needlework done for the poor, or in walks like those an Englishwoman allows herself on Sunday, saying, apparently, “Not so fast, or... ... and the very little arithmetic it was thought necessary in their rank for women to know. Their reading, selected from authorized books, such as the “... ...e of those whose solution is known only to God. Here, below, the sublimest poets have simply harassed their readers when attempting to picture paradis... ...mitting a volume of verse, which won him a place in the pleiades of living poets; among these verses was a nebulous poem that was greatly admired. For... ...e well-fitting clothes, had a charming “desinvoltura,” and was a votary of English nicety, to which, in earlier days, Lady Dudley had trained him. Mar... ...ul pas- sage from the pen of Theophile Gautier, one of the most remarkable poets of our day:— “‘Ideala, flower of heaven’s own blue, with heart of gol...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...Susan tells him that she is but a poor dairymaid. He has been a student of women at Courts, in which furnace the sex becomes a transparency, so he re-... ...om the thorn! Apart from its historical value, the ballad is an example to poets of our day, who fly to mythological Greece, or a fanci- ful and morbi... ... mark!—abstract ideas, for themes of song, of what may be done to make our English life poetically interesting, if they would but pluck the treasures ... ...eart of the people. A living native duke is worth fifty Phoebus Apollos to English- men, and a buxom young lass of the fields mounting from a pair of ... ...bewitchingly. And so she is now for airing her accom- plishments: such are women!’ ‘Have you heard of Chloe?’ said Mr. Beamish. ‘There you have an exa... ...e came here very young, and at once her suitors were legion. In the way of women, she chose the worst 10 The Tale of Chloe among them; and for the fe... ...tain of bills, with the lawyers piled above—Pelion upon Ossa, to quote our poets. In fact, obeying the dictates of a soul steeped in gener- osity, she...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...with energy amongst the affectations of the boudoir and the cajolements of women. There are fledglings of forty, old doctors of sixty years. The wealt... ...ries, in- terests, affairs, arts, and gold is profitable. These beings are women. Although they also have a thousand secret causes which, here more th... ...ies, who live in Oriental fashion and can preserve their beauty; but these women rarely show themselves on foot in the streets, they lie hid like rare... ...of quite exceptional manners and education. T o the youthful beauty of the English stock they unite the firmness of Southern traits. The fire of their... ...more words of it, came to Paris in 1816 to take refuge from the pursuit of English justice, which protects nothing Oriental except commerce. The exile... ...ing, cadaverous, mon- strous, savagely ferocious, which the imagination of poets and painters had not yet conceived. In effect, no rendezvous had ever...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ns of the peasantry and the original and sacredly preserved jewelry of the women. These two classes, and that of the sailors in their jerkins and varn... ...- ers, honeysuckles, roses, box, and many enchanting plants. It is like an English garden, designed by some great architect. This rich, coy nature, so... ...aise of the Connetable par excellence, the great du Guesclin who drove the English for a time from France. The depth of this carving, which has been p... ...his shoulder; but so simple a matter did 21 Beatrix it seem that even the women scarcely thanked him. The baron and his guests uttered neither curses... ... seated on one of the antique chairs, presented the type of those adorable women who exist in England, Scotland, or Ireland only. There alone are born... ...ut her toilet, pleased with the airy nothings so seductive to women and to poets. She understands very well that after Madame de Stael there is no pla... ...roubled spirits, with the Roman Church, ever kind to repentance, poetic to poets, childlike with children, and yet so profound, so full of mys- tery t... ...rty of Monsieur le Duc de Rhetore’? You had much better give that money to poets, who would carry you in prose and verse to immortality , like the lat...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...beat her foes with slaughter from her walls. 4 The Princess ‘O miracle of women,’ said the book, ‘O noble heart who, being strait-besieged By this wi... ...here such a woman now?’ Quick answered Lilia ‘There are thousands now Such women, but convention beats them down: It is but bringing up; no more than ... ...herself she laughed; A rosebud set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could make her, she: But Walter hailed a score of names upon he... ....’ So I began, And the rest followed: and the women sang 8 The Princess Between the rougher voices of the men, Like linn... ...broad and bounteous Earth Should bear a double growth of those rare souls, Poets, whose thoughts enrich the blood of the world.’ She ended here, and b... ...happy sleep. Deep in the night I woke: she, near me, held A volume of the Poets of her land: There to herself, all in low tones, she read. ‘Now sl... ...d looked No little lily-handed Baronet he, A great broad-shouldered genial Englishman, A lord of fat prize-oxen and of sheep, A raiser of huge melons ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ut the rest, infi nitely the greater number (and especially we French and English), were so far from stooping to so base an example, that there never... ...hee more barbarous; thy study of humanity more inhuman; thy converse among poets more grovel ling, miry, and dull. All arts of civilising others rend... ...ollutions he pretends to sweep away. His last days are spent in slavery to women, and generally the least deserving; till, worn to the stumps, like hi... ... usual road, nor even in their prefaces write common sense or intelligible English. Then for their observations and predictions, they are such as will... ...stenings well could act his part, And had the service all by heart; Wished women might have children fast, And thought whose sow had farrowed last Aga... ...lt on t’other sex. That modern love is no such thing As what those ancient poets sing; A fire celestial, chaste, refined, Conceived and kindled in the... ...same, In different breasts together burn, Together both to ashes turn. But women now feel no such fire, And only know the gross desire; Their passions... ... morrow, ere the setting sun, She’d all undo that she had done. But in the poets we may find A wholesome law, time out of mind, Had been confirmed by ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...poleonic wars; but as this island was protected through those times by the English fleet, its wealthy convent and peaceable inhabit- ants were secure ... ...o much as reached the shore of the island, it is doubtful whether the holy women kneeling in the cloisters grasped the reality of his dream-like progr... ...ne which nothing had changed; the purity of its rule had attracted unhappy women from the furthest parts of Europe, women deprived of all human ties, ... ...sting to him. He informed himself as to the manner of life led by the holy women. Were they allowed to go out of the convent, or to see visitors? “Sen... ...time. The Faubourg should have looked the facts fairly in the face, as the English aristocracy did before them; they should have seen that every insti... ...e did not love as yet. Love and passion are two different conditions which poets and men of the world, philosophers and fools, alike con- tinually con...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... is part three of a trilogy. Eve and David’s story begins in part one, Two Poets. Part one also introduces Eve’s brother, Lucien. Part two, A Distingu... ...ego the least of his ambitions. He is indolent, like all who would fain be poets; he thinks it clever to juggle with the difficulties of life instead ... ...ours of argument Eve was fain to go, defeated by the unanswerable dictum, “Women never understand business.” She had come with a faint hope, she went ... ...and fondled the child, who held out both little arms to him. No heir to an English peerage could be more tenderly cared for than this little one in th... ...eautiful woman. The apothecary advanced the opinion that little red-haired women were preferable to tall, dark women, who, like fine horses, were alwa... ...the calm and sweet expression that devout submission gives to the faces of women who walk by the will of God, as the saying is. Then the Abbe understo... ...it becomes intolerable to keep perpetual watch over looks and words. Great poets know this; Paul and Virginie die before youth is over; can we think o... ...of those days were sown with notes 99 Balzac of admiration, as reports of English election speeches are stud- ded with “cheers” in brackets.) “In spi...

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...try had anything like our treasures to defend? countless riches, beautiful women, an inviolate soil! T rue, and it must be done. Ministers were author... ...ut, think of us! He sat down to write them a challenge. He is not the only Englishman who has been impelled by a youthful chivalry to do that. He is p... ...ation and polish, and the art of conversing. He had read the French tragic poets and Moliere; he could even relish the Gallic- classic—’Qu’il mourut!’... ...supposing he addressed a body of midshipmen just a little loftily. But the English, when translated, was bald and blunt to the verge of offensiveness.... ...emen of the French Guard, ‘I take up the glove you have tossed us. I am an English- man. That will do for a reason.’ This might possibly pass with th... ...mp nodded. She left him hard at work. He was a popular boy, a favourite of women, and therefore full of engagements to Balls and dinners. And he was a... ...ed a bone in his mouth; and it was natural wisdom, though unappreciated by women. A bone in a boy’s mind for him to gnaw and worry, corrects the vagra... ...t, to re- lease your shoulders in a trice. Mr. Timothy felt for his art as poets do for theirs, and considered what was best adapted to speaking, pure... ... Tory’s mentor and his cordial, with other great ancient comic and satiric poets, his old Port of the classical cellarage, reflecting veneration upon ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...hange her. But fortune, good or ill, as I take it, does not change men and women. It but develops their characters. As there are a thousand thoughts l... ... famous officer of King William’s, the bravest and most beloved man of the English army. The two jolly prisoners had been drinking with a party of fri... ...I would say, ’twas a pity he was not hanged. He was familiar with dice and women at a time other boys are at school being birched; he was as wicked as... ...with a word or two of reproof and send him into the world again, to pursue women with lust and falsehood, and to mur- der unsuspecting guests that har... ...h as he chose. His kinswoman’s greater faith had swallow for them all. The English High Church party did not adopt these legends. But truth and honor,... ...ess that set one of his auditors a-laughing. “I admire the license of your poets,” says Esmond to Mr. Addison. (Dick, after reading of the verses, was... ...barous. The rites performed before it are shocking to think of. Y ou great poets should show it as it is—ugly and horrible, not beautiful and serene. ... ...a battle, that your humble servant is riding his sleek Pegasus. We college poets trot, you know, on very easy nags; it hath been, time out of mind, pa...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...- 7 H. G . Wells promised at length on the science course at the Tredgold Women’s College—she had already matriculated into Lon- don University from ... ... But he was not a father one could make much of. His ideas about girls and women were of a sentimental and modest quality; they were creatures, he tho... ... classes had to be kept apart even in thought and remote from one another. Women are made like the potter’s vessels—either for worship or contumely, a... ...amental pewter plaque; Salad bowl (silver mounted) and servers; Madgett’s “English Poets” (twelve volumes), bound purple morocco; Etc., etc. Through a... ...pewter plaque; Salad bowl (silver mounted) and servers; Madgett’s “English Poets” (twelve volumes), bound purple morocco; Etc., etc. Through all this ... ... shining through the quiet self-possession of her face. She was dressed as English girls do dress for town, without either coquetry or harshness: her ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...is certainly no method by which the shadowy out lines of departed men and women can be made to assume the hues of life more effectually than by conne... ...is supposed to have been made of an oak tree which grew in the park of the English Earl of Lincoln between two and three centuries ago. In its younger... ...r it was for New England to have such settlers. They were the best men and women of their day. Among the passengers was John Winthrop, who had sold th... ...beard upon his chin.* There was likewise a minister of the gospel whom the English bishops had forbidden to preach, but who knew that he should have l... ...used to hold lectures in Boston once or twice a week, at which most of the women attended. Mrs. Hutchinson presided at these meetings, sitting with gr... ...” Since Grandfather first spoke these words, the most fa mous of American poets has drawn sweet tears from all of us by his beautiful poem Evangeline...

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...g student publication project to bring classical works of lit- erature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...s; whereupon the footmen took agile leaps to the post of danger, while the women, in whose bosoms intense curiosity now supplanted terror, pro- ceeded... ...ad got me forward with instruc- tions on the piano, and exercises in early English history and the book of the Peerage, I became the wonder of the hou... ...stay here?—Am I going away tomorrow?—What’s going to be done with me?’ The women found these questions of a youthful wanderer touching. Between kissin... ... that goal. But whenever he spoke he suffered correction on account of his English. ‘More than his eating and his drinking, that child’s father worrit... ...eturned to him. He carried me almost the whole of the way back to Dipwell. Women must feel for the lucky heroes who win them, something of what I felt... ...in the direction of Pagan Gods and Goddesses, and heathen histo- rians and poets; adding, it was not new to him, and perhaps that was why the world wa... ...on earth. Kunst, Wissenschaft, Ehre, Liebe. Die Liebe. Quick at the German poets. Frau: Fraulein. I am actually dazzled at the prospect of our future.... ...y moonlight with matter for a year of laughter, sing- ing like two Arabian poets praises of dark and fair, challengeing one to rival the other. Kiomi!...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... put Pango-Pango, instead of Pago-Pago; the sound being that of soft NG in English, as in singer, not as in finger. R. L. S. VAILIMA, UPOLU, SAMOA. 4... ...or many offices and members of the body are taboo in the drawing- rooms of English ladies. Special words are set apart for his leg, his face, his hair... ...he skirmishers will be exchanging the useless volleys of barbaric warfare. Women are also respected; they are not fired upon; and they are suffered to... ...house, sometimes the workman at his toil. No occasion is too small for the poets and musicians; a death, a visit, the day’s news, the day’s pleasantry... ...ed by guards in uniform; smiling policemen with their pewter stars; girls, women, crowds of cheerful children. And he will have asked himself with som... ... squalor of degradation. They are now unspeak- ably improved, both men and women. T o-day they must be called a more than fairly respectable populatio...

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...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, an... ...Wordsworth has his place in the Excise. You’re shabby fellows — true — but poets still, And duly seated on the immortal hill. Your bays may hide... ...for my new one); So, as I said, I ‘ll take my friend Don Juan. Most epic poets plunge ‘in medias res’ (Horace makes this the heroic turnpike ... ...ather. In Seville was he born, a pleasant city, Famous for oranges and women — he Who has not seen it will be much to pity, So says the pr... ... problem, As if she deem’d that mystery would ennoble ‘em. She liked the English and the Hebrew tongue, And said there was analogy between ‘em... ...ments lean ‘em, ‘’T is strange — the Hebrew noun which means “I am,” The English always use to govern d—n.” Byron’s Don Juan “Canto One” 8 S... ...English always use to govern d—n.” Byron’s Don Juan “Canto One” 8 Some women use their tongues — she look’d a lecture, Each eye a sermon, an... ...th an only mother Is brought up much more wisely than another. Sagest of women, even of widows, she Resolved that Juan should be quite a parag... ...n the leafy nooks Where the wild branch of the cork forest grew; There poets find materials for their books, And every now and then we read ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...niscences of those who insist on talking about V enice after so many great poets and petty travelers. The interest of the tale requires only this reco... ...lue or russet fishes swam. Whatever may be said in favor of the natural or English garden, these trees, pruned into parasols, and yews fantastically c... ...ce shawl. But the thing which no one could ever understand in Paris, where women are sheathed in their dresses as a dragon-fly is cased in its annular... ...upiter alone could hold his own with his divine better- half, on whom many English ladies model themselves. Emilio set his mistress far too high ever ... ...es obtain from his beloved a promise that led her to the edge of what many women call “the gulf,” and thus found himself obliged to be satisfied with ... ..., and she had that air of native majesty that is characteristic of Italian women. La Tinti—whose name also resembled that which the French singer assu... ...s land—pitied for its fallen state by traveled simpletons and hypocritical poets, while its character is traduced by politicians—in this land, which a... ...tion of the ecstatic joys of which Cataneo and Capraja were speaking; both poets, each for himself alone. Only, in matters of the intellect, as soon a...

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...g student publication project to bring classi- cal works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...oubled, and at the end of twenty he knows, or knows something about, every Englishman in the Empire, and may travel anywhere and everywhere without pa... ... conceal from you their opinion that you are an incompe- tent ass, and the women who blacken your character and misunderstand your wife’s amusements, ... ...ce, tired of her company, and weary of the sound of her voice. Ninety-nine women out of a hun- dred would have wearied of me as I wearied of them; sev... ... prove the existence of a spectral illusion. One may see ghosts of men and women, but surely never of coolies and carriages. The whole thing is absurd... ...ons as to the manner of my death. Shall I die in my bed decently and as an English gentle- man should die; or, in one last walk on the Mall, will my ... ...omething of it. When next he came to me he was drunk—royally drunk on many poets for the first time revealed to him. His pupils were dilated, his word... ...had she seen them—and launched into his sea dreams. Again I cursed all the poets of England. The plastic mind of the bank-clerk had been overlaid, col...