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...can only state that she arrived there, at the very instant when his detached members were passing through the passage on a small tray. Her shrieks sti... ... many valuable hints for the improvement of our met ropolitan universities, national galleries, and other public edifices. ‘The President wished to b... ...rish, and other offenders, has any lawful authority whatever over the rising youth of this country. I have yet to learn that a beadle can be called ou... ... up. Considering it a matter of the deepest im portance, in connection with national education, that the people should not lose such opportunities of... ...gentleman attending that section could fail to be aware of the fact that the youth of the present age evinced, by their behaviour in the streets, and ... ...brutish appetite could possibly explain. It was dreadful to reflect that our youth were so rapidly verging into a generation of bears. ‘After a scene ... ...tion by de tailing the plot of this portion of the pantomime not of the theatre, but of life. The Honourable Captain Fitz Whisker Fiercy, attende... ...mime, that we hardly know which to select as the proper fellow of him of the theatres. At one time we were disposed to think that the harlequin was ne... ...been objected that by ex hibiting gratuitously through the country when the theatre is closed, they reduce themselves to the level of mounte Mudfog ...

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... home at his grand swing in the October dusk, their school hero drew their national hero closer to them. Every fellow present was dead against the ush... ...a heaving picture, like the sea in the background of a marine piece at the theatre, which rouses anticipations of storm, and shows readiness. Browny’s... ...was touched or an old blocked path of imagination thrown open, a sensitive youthfulness; still quick to blush as far as the skin of a grandmother matr... ...ey were for holiness. My brother, Lord Ormont, has never been still in his youth or his manhood. See him now. He counts his years by scores; and be ha... ...stoutly and cognizantly on the climb, with a good aim overhead, axed green youth’s enthusiasms a step below his heels: one of the lovers of life, beau... ... Lord Ormont saw his name cited, with the effect on him that such signs of national repentance approaching lodged a crabbed sourness in his consulting... ... a month in Paris! There’s nothing doing here. And we both like the French theatre.’ ‘London will soon be filling.’ ‘Well, but—’ He stopped; for the f... ...est:—The ‘Beautiful Lady Doubtful’ of a report that had scorched her cars. Theatres, rides, pleasure-drives, even such houses as she saw standing open... ... I look forward. I do hope good for the world. If at my school we have all nationali- ties—French boys and German, Italian, Russian, Spaniard— without...

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...s, and a continuous leaping of its rivulets, give the Motterone a voice of youth and homeliness amid that stern company of Titan-heads, for whom the h... ...enery had few awakening charms. The remaining couple were an old man and a youth, upon whose shoulder the veteran leaned, and with a whimsical turn of... ...e it. He was carelessly wrapped about in long loose woollen stuff, but the youth was dressed like a Milanese cavalier of the first quality, and was ev... ...utside the army the empire was a jealous congery of intriguing disaffected nationalities. The same policy which played the various States against one ... ...- leged force wherein the sentiment of union was fostered till it became a nationality of the sword. Nothing more fatal can be done for a country; but... ...hink you can do something, because you read books and frequent the talking theatres—fourteen syllables to a word. Mother of heaven! will you never lea... ...ens the skies!’ and immediately appended: ‘It is destined to suffocate the theatres!’ Pausing as before a splendid vision: ‘Money—let it go like dust!... ...re of the case: tremendous discipline alone gives homogeneity to all those nationalities. Somehow they get beaten. I doubt whether anything will beat ... ...the general vomitorium, but Carlo and Luciano held her firmly by them. The theatre was a rageing darkness; and there was barely a light on the stage. ...

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...ng their produce to market continue the stir of carriages re- turning from theatres and balls. Near the middle of this sus- tained pause in the grand ... ... 9 Balzac there not vinegar merchants and mustard men who com- mand in the National Guard and are very well received at the Palace? Let us imitate the... ...s Cesar Birotteau became deputy-mayor and perfumer, retired officer of the National Guard, and chevalier of the Legion of honor. In bringing to light ... ...between Paris and the West secretly went on. Carried away by the fervor of youth, electrified by his intercourse with the Georges, the Billardiere, Mo... ... large a fortune, and he owed it to happy chances which only come in early youth; he intended to marry in Touraine some woman rich enough to enable hi... ... her own ideas far better than the dangerous vanities which seduce so many youthful Parisian imaginations. Constance, with her narrow intelligence, wa... ...se grounds the worthy people of the arrondissement made him captain of the National Guard; but he was cashiered by Napoleon, who, according to Birotte... ...o his friends, at Roland’s, Rue du Hasard, and took them afterwards to the theatre. He played the part of those old bachelors on whom married women dr... ...of the heads tiled by his father,—he is in litera- ture; he does the minor theatres in the ‘Courrier des Spec- tacles.’ His father, an old dog chock-f...

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...nny, sir!I say, English! tam your ays! penny!” in all voices, from extreme youth to the most lousy and venerable old age. When it is said that these ... ...“Groenenland’s” abrupt demise with grins of satisfaction. It was a sort of national compliment, and cause of agreeable congratulation. “The lubbers!”... ... benighted people among whom they live an opportunity to admire the spirit national. There is the brave honest major, with his wooden leg—the kindest ... ...to represent them at Wapping or Portsmouth Point, with each, under its own national signboard and language, its ap- propriate house of call, and your ... ...and finally reeled away. How charming is the conversation of high-spirited youth!I don’t know whether the guard got hold of them:but certainly if a ci... ...ich the present pathetic letter is written; but I was made so miserable in youth by a classical education, that all connected with it is disagreeable ... ... despise such a homely ornament. I have got a map with squares, fountains, theatres, public gar- dens, and Places d’Othon marked out; but they only ex... ...ty which will only bear to be looked at from a distance, like a scene in a theatre. What is the most beautiful nose in the world, if it be covered wit... ... gauze curtains lifted away, one by one, before a great fairy scene at the theatre. This will give idea enough of the fog; the difficulty is to descri...

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... piness of others nipped the roses of my childhood and blighted my budding youth. The first time that I, mistaking my comrades’ actions for generosity... ...e and for translation,— neither my father nor my mother was present in the theatre when I came forward to receive the awards amid general ac- clamatio... ...r. The first day we were to dine in the Palais-Royal, so as to be near the Theatre-Francais. In spite of the intoxi- cation such a programme of unhope... ...not the courage to speak first. Cold and alien looks made me ashamed of my youth, which seemed to annoy them. I counted on this indifference to aid me... ... fate interpose between the hell of the Palais- Royal and the heaven of my youth. On the day when I, ashamed at twenty years of age of my own ignoranc... ...eal sympathy of a poet, these fugitive allegories of human life, that vast theatre I was about to enter, the scenes of which my memory must presently ... ...k natures, and weakness is soon appraised in a soci- ety which regards its members as nothing more than or- gans—and perhaps justly, for nature hersel... ...ct; the rules which are to guide your individual steps give way before the national interests. If you reach that sphere where great men revolve you wi... ...ot more graceful, that woman you may be very sure, will tremble in all her members. You cer- tainly have given me a desire to receive a few of those i...

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...e of one of the largest estates in the county. This gentleman had in his youth married a very worthy The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry... ...at raptures as sometimes inspire the sage dame of forty and five towards a youthful and vigorous bridegroom, crying out, in a shrill voice, “O, the de... ...ofession he disliked. In obedience to this obstinacy the doctor had in his youth been obliged to study physic, or rather to say he studied it; for in ... ...h, like the secrets of freemasonry, should be divulged to none who are not members of that honourable fraternity, Mrs. Partridge was pretty well satis... ...wo learned person ages, who have lately made a considerable figure on the theatre of this history, had, from their first arrival at Mr. Allworthy’s h... ...ical story:— King Pyrrhus was at dinner at an ale house bordering on the theatre, when he was summoned to go on the stage. The heroe, being unwillin... ...n; “but I thought the whole story altogether deserved commemorating. As to national matters, your worship knows them best. My concerns extend no farth... ...r hath any one living at tempted to explain what the modern judges of our theatres mean by that word low; by which they have happily suc ceeded in b... ...s desperate cause, and think it a holy war; but that Protestants, that are members of the Church of England, should be such apostates, such felos de s...

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... for himself: but wis- dom and moderation are not characteristics of early youth. At home we had great enjoyment of his long descriptive let- ters, wh... ...f the other two mid- shipmen, one was a dull lad of low stamp, the other a youth of twenty, a born bully, with evil as well as tyrannical pro- pensiti... ...vere discipline on board, but otherwise wild and lawless. In such a ship a youth with good habits, sensitive conscience, and lack of moral or physical... ... took it, there is no knowing, but Griff would neither skate nor go to the theatre, nor to any other diversion, without his brother; and 30 Chantry H... ...oked incongruous with the rest of the congregation, the most distinguished members of which were farmers in drab coats with huge mother-of-pearl butto... ...de- cided negative. He had never gone out with Griffith except once to the theatre, and to dine at the Castlefords, and at first he had sat up for his... ...but defended; and, moreover, he was known at parties, at races, and at the theatre, as one of the numerous satellites who revolved about that gay and ... ...ith a large family, and there was no driving into Wattlesea without seeing members of it scattered about the place. The Fordyces being anxious to show... ...or teachers, and much besides which is now ready 243 Yo n g e done by the National Society and Sunday School Institute, we could do a good deal to as...

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...irculating the Scriptures, (whether through the Bible Society, that is the National Society, or Provincial Societies,) of translating the Scriptures i... ...ealm. But probably it was the deep sense of that truth which reined up the national resistance. Sure of a speedy collision between some patron and the... ...will think, if this reformation were so vast that it drove them out of the national church, absolutely exploded them, then it follows that it must hav... ...though by a work differing in form. Thus, supposing Butler to have died in youth, and the Hudibras to have been intercepted by his premature death, st... ...gin, if she happened to be aware of it. The reason lurks here:—In the word theatre, is contained an evanescent image of a great audience—of a populous... ...d,—any relics of historical records which might happen to survive from his youthful studies. ‘ And I am happy to say,’ added he, ‘and it is consoling ... ... knowledge current in Rome, Athens, or Rhodes, at the pe- riod of Caesar’s youth, the entire cycle of a nobleman’s edu- cation in a republic where all... ...tain degree of human sympathy with the dread tumults going on in that vast theatre—a conscience- haunted mind. So far he stands on common ground; but ... ...; whilst to him the large deputation from female Megara furnished an extra theatre for the inspection of Greek beauty. ‘There was no river mouth visib...

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...secured for him, in preference to other writers of his class, the favor of youthful readers. It would be too much to say that the talent that attracts... ...h ever-increasing sympathy the lonely and sensi- tive child, the wandering youth, the neuralgic patient, into the terrible grasp of opium, who realize... ...ess, of danger—over- ruled all obstacles into one steady co-operation to a national result. For my own feeling, this post-office service spoke as by s... ...onflicts of ordinary warfare, so often no more than gladiatorial trials of national prowess. The victo- ries of England in this stupendous contest ros... ...ty it was that the French domination had prospered. The mail-coach, as the national organ for publishing these mighty events, thus diffusively influen... ...clipse, we entered at least the skirts of its penumbra. And the analogy of theatres was valid against us,—where no man can complain of the annoyances ... ...e boxes. But the soundness of this analogy we disputed. In the case of the theatre, it cannot be pretended that the inferior situations have any separ... ... so warm, the glasses are all down; and one may read, as on the stage of a theatre, everything that goes on within. It contains three ladies—one likel... ... wheels. Who and what could it be? Was it industry in a taxed cart? Was it youthful gaiety in a gig? Was it sorrow that loitered, or joy that raced? F...

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.... No—Paris! No—London! She shall astonish London fairst.—Y ez! if I take a theatre! Yez! if I buy a newspaper! Yez! if I pay feefty-sossand pound!” Hi... ...ty of our Press, sent a smile circling among the ladies and gentlemen. The youth who had wished to throw the fair 15 George Meredith unknown a dozen ... ...These were the lessons that made the ladies of Brookfield put a check upon youth’s tendency to feel delightful satisfac- tion with its immediate work,... ...pitated into the arms of the ladies, Mr. Barrett bowed. He was a tolerably youthful man, as decently attired as old black cloth could help him to be. ... ...nch mind, and the French habit of quick social intercourse, have made them nationally far richer in language. Let me add, individually as much poorer.... ...nd summoned its brethren of the band to give their various versions of the National Anthem. “Can’t they be stopped?” Emilia murmured, clenching her li... ... a fertile tear! Anticipating that it will eventually be hung up among our national symbols, I proceed. The drum of Hillford entered the Brookfield gr... ... by-and-by, my dear. And, I say; I’ll tell you what:— I’ll take you to the theatre to-night. I want to laugh. A man’s all right when he’s laughing. I ... ... Braintop was useful. It appeared that there were farces at several of the theatres. Braintop rattled them out, their plot and fun and the merits of t...

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...guished) could place upon sale little miracles of dexterity and taste. Some had a more engaging appearance; fine features were found to do as well as ... ...e at least of the others I possessed; and finding much entertainment in our commerce, I did not suffer my advantages to rust. I have never despised th... ... with him the smell of soap. Cleanliness is good, but I cannot bear a man’s nails to seem japanned. And cer- tainly he was too self-possessed and cold... ...ed. ‘Well,’ said I, ‘there is a point about them: they have a defect,—they are not to be trusted in a retreat. I have seen them behave very ill in a r... ...be trusted in a retreat. I have seen them behave very ill in a retreat.’ ‘I believe that is our national character,’ he said—God forgive him!—with an ... ... is time we should be going.’ ‘High time,’ said Ronald, whom (to say the truth) I had a little forgotten. On the way back, as I was laying myself out ... ...se new impressions, worked with unusual vivacity. I was here shut off with Fenn and his hireling in a deserted house, a neglected garden, and a wood o... ...t (which we lay at Lichfield, I believe) there was no sleep for me in my bed. I put out the candle and lay down with a good resolution; and in a momen... ...ion, who made of the Hunters’ Tryst a frequent resort. They told me I had intruded on an ‘all-night sitting,’ following upon an ‘all-day Saturday tram...

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...ll accomplishments resulted in that ap- pearance of success which deceives youth and befogs it about the future. Mademoiselle Thuillier, from 1806 to ... ...s his sister did for him, the necessity of profiting by the remains of his youth to make a settlement. In such a situation, a sister as jealous of her... ...equently not at home her- 24 The Lesser Bourgeoisie self. She went to the theatres, where boxes were sometimes given to her; and she would send word ... ...but final re- hearsals. Thanks to Madame Colleville’s intimacies, both the theatre and the ministry lent themselves kindly to the needs of this indust... ... industrious pluralist, who, moreover, was bringing up, with great care, a youth, warmly recommended to him by his wife, a future great musician, who ... ...ds which said noth- ing but answered all things,—progress, steam, bitumen, National guard, order, democratic element, spirit of associa- 33 Balzac ti... ...ter a service of thirty-six years. In 1832 he had led his battalion of the National Guard to the attack on Saint-Merri, but his neighbors had previous... ...there was no such thing as deliberation,—a saying of Louis-Philippe to the National Guard of Metz. Nevertheless, the bourgeois virtues of Phellion, an... ...me. Mere Cardinal, who to entertain a neighbor had taken her to the Bobino theatre, recognized in the leading lady her 157 Balzac own daughter, whom ...

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...r and mother, then retired from busi- ness, placed upon him stimulated the youth’s vanity without exciting his pride. His parents lived simply, like t... ... Balzac luxury of houses and furniture, the glitter of its restaurants and theatres, the tumult and movement of the heart of Paris, would have shared ... ...endent. Rosy tints were spreading on the waxen cheeks, her eyes shone, the youthfulness of her soul changed the light wrinkles into gracious lines, an... ... letters, Imitation of Jesus Christ. The simplicity of this old woman, her youthful candor, her certainty of doing a good deed, confounded the ex-dand... ...I saw him from a distance coming towards me in that dark passage under the Theatre Feydeau, well dressed, al- most elegant; he pretended not to see me... ...went to the play; for Mongenod and his family were actually hungry for the theatre. The next morning I placed the whole sum in the Funds, and I now ha... ... attacked, especially in Normandy, the holders of property bought from the National domain.* These armed bands sent terror throughout those regions. I... ...en captured, however, they were tried and executed as highwaymen.—TR. *The National domain was the name given to the confis- cated property of the emi... ... government, and the levying of a heavy tribute from the purchasers of the National domain; a tax he enforced by means of tortures invented by him whi...

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...on- veying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard. Among the Paris crowd, who are supposed to be so clever, th... ...ve at her command. During all these preparations—odd, to say the least—the National Guardsman studied the furniture of the room in which he found hims... ..., I know; but at my age a woman’s follies ought to be justified by beauty, youth, fame, superior merit— some one of the splendid qualities which can d... ...as very happy. The girl had one of those voices that make the fortune of a theatre; I can only describe her by saying that she is a Duprez in petticoa... ...use her.” Tears of shame hanging to Madame Hulot’s long lashes checked the National Guardsman. He stopped short, and forgot his attitude. “To proceed,... ...e that she is the illegitimate child of a rich Jew banker. The life of the theatre, and, above all, the teach- ing of Jenny Cadine, Madame Schontz, Ma... ...hild. Three years before the conversation reported above, Hortense, at the Theatre des Varietes, had recognized her father in a lower tier stage-box w... ... Hortense laughing with her Cousin Betty—the reckless laughter of heedless youth; and she knew that such hysterical laughter was quite as distressing ... ...te vitality in her countenance, a bril- liancy of feature, a full fount of youth, a fresh vigor and abundance of health, which radiated from her with ...

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... tertained herself, besides, with such humane achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his ... ...land, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting. Daring bur glaries by armed men, and highway robberies,... ...the worse and by lighted shops, gay crowds, illuminated coffee houses, and theatre doors, to one of the city gates. Soldiers with lanterns, at the gu... ... had drifted this person to the post. His surname was Cruncher, and on the youthful occasion of his renouncing by proxy the works of darkness, in the ... ...t the mature Jerry bit and spat out straw, while the twinkling eyes of the youthful Jerry were as restlessly watchful of him as of every thing else i... ...t to break down in this attempt to practise for popular ity on the lowest national antipathies and fears, and there fore Mr. Attorney General had ma... ...all worn out. Monseigneur (often a most worthy individual gentleman) was a national blessing, gave a chivalrous tone to things, was a polite example o... ...d its head in red nightcaps, and put on heavy shoes, and trudged. But, the theatres were all well filled, and the people poured cheerfully out as he p... ... poured cheerfully out as he passed, and went chatting home. At one of the theatre doors, there was a little girl with a mother, looking for a way acr...

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...urt, from which we had no hope, you know why—” This was an allusion to the members of the First Court of Appeal of 1830; the Legitimists had almost al... ...points—the uses of words and the fashions of dress. God Save the King, the national air of England, is a tune written by Lulli for the Chorus of Esthe... ...t his hair curled and a fine linen shirt into the bargain? If this unhappy youth should seem to you to have become a lion on very cheap terms, you mus... ...s into the ear of a bigot is in her eyes a charming man. If this exemplary youth had better known the human heart, he might without risk have allowed ... ... re- called her daughter, and tried to detect symptoms of jealousy in that youthful soul, so as to have occasion to repress them. She imitated the pol... ...rn to his narrative, “one fine morning the mail-coach dropped at the Hotel National a gentleman from Paris, who, after seeking apartments, made up his... ...lleagues, the Ministerial officials, the Councillors of the Court, and the members of the bench, with the name, ‘Albert Savaron.’” “The name of Savaro... ...Legitimists. The show of hands at an election, like a dress rehearsal at a theatre, is the most deceptive thing in the world. Albert Savarus came home... ...elle, an old gentleman from Paris arrived yester- day morning at the Hotel National; he came in his own car- riage with four horses, and a courier in ...

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... lived less than fifty years under our Constitution. In that time no great national commotion had occurred that tested its strength, or its power of r... ...ic then subdued to settle- ment, studying the methods of local, State, and national ad- ministration, and observing the manners and habits, the daily ... ...the nations of Europe had to hope or fear from its final supremacy. That a youth of twenty-six should entertain a design so broad and bold implies sin... ...entury. The first chapter, upon the exterior form of North America, as the theatre upon which the great drama is to be enacted, for graphic and pictur... ...revolution throughout the whole of Christendom. The various occurrences of national existence have every- where turned to the advantage of democracy; ... ...most of those who now enjoy leisure were absorbed in business during their youth; the consequence of which is, that when they might have had a taste f... ...t placed upon the earth by the Creator, the earth was inexhaustible in its youth, but man was weak and ignorant; and when he had learned to explore th... ... schools do not receive the child of the black and of the European. In the theatres, gold cannot procure a seat for the servile race beside their form... ...affect a class of the community, it instantly draws them to the stage. The theatres of aristocratic nations have always been filled with spectators no...

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...nd the expan- sion of horror attending them, had risen to the dignity of a national interest. I may add that this interest benefited also by the myste... ...ontier), and still more when it is fought simply as a gladiator’s trial of national prowess. This is the principle upon which, very naturally , our Br... ...ren of Israel. In the case of one memorable outrage by a Hebrew tribe, the national ven- geance which overtook it was complete and tearful beyond all ... ... that criminal imposture which Dr. Oliver Goldsmith had practised upon her youthful credulity. In that case, a book altogether fabulous, and not meani... ...e when life itself unfolded a new interest, under the companionship of his youthful wife. And here, by the way, as subsequently in scores of other ins... ...ong by a babble of impossible forms, as fantastic as any that our Lon- don theatres have traditionally ascribed to English rustics, to English sailors... ...ith a view to the amusement of Lady Massey and my sister, for both of whom youth and previous seclusion had created a natural interest in all such sce... ...e to modifi- cation from personal qualities, inasmuch as there is no great theatre (as with us) for individual display. Forensic eloquence is unknown ... ...e irresolute Christian in the fascinations of the public amuse- ments. The theatre, the circus, and, far beyond both, the cruel amphitheatre, constitu...

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...be done in a little space through the panes of his Win- dow in Thrums. The National Observer was at the climax of its career of heroic insistence upon... ...cattered. Then came the generous opportunities of the Yellow Book, and the National Observer died only to give birth to the New Review. No short story... ... and dust-pan. She used in the old days to sing hymn tunes, or the British national song for the time being, to these instruments, but latterly she ha... ...he Straits Settle- ments and beyond, into London. He had heard even in his youth of the greatness and riches of London, where all the women are white ... ... dream would be over, and I should wake up strong and vigorous again to my youth and studies. I shut my eyes, breathed regularly, and, finding myself ... ...mprisonment meant to me. T o be young and full of the desire and energy of youth, and to be caught, and presently to be crushed in this totter- ing ru... ...deed, I had the happiest prospects a young man could have. I never went to theatres in those days. My Aunt Charlotte before she died had told me not t... ...t.” 135 H.G . Wells “Did you call me a fool?” “Well, I’ve never been to a theatre in my life.” “Virgin soil.” “But I don’t know anything about it, yo... ...t remember I had lived a quiet and retired life, and had never been to the theatre before, and that I am extremely sensitive to vivid impressions. At ...