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...d. They spread out into a pattern. They were like the little monks who run from St. Jerome’s lion in the picture by Carpaccio. Then one zealot rushed ... ...ere had been a Third Person in the Trinity at all. He suggested a reaction from a too-Manichaean dualism at some date after the time of St. John’s Gos... ...e bed rested upon these evidences of his episcopal dignity. Then he turned from them to the watch at the bedside. He groaned helplessly. 8 The Soul o... ...nd weak, and left him a prey to strange disturbances, rather than that any new process of thought was eating into his mind. These doubts in his mind w... ...epis- copal dignities go so far into the outer world as Archbishop Lang of York, who began as a barrister. This early predesti- nation has always been... .... The fine old abbey church of Princhester, which was the cathedral of the new diocese, looked when first he saw it like a lady Abbess who had taken t... ...were resolved to pin his suc- cessor to an immediate decision. Of this the new bishop was unaware. Mindful of a bishop’s constant need to travel, he w... ...fact of men. This God—this God here, that you want to worship, is a God of artists and poets—of elegant poets, a God of bric-a- brac, a God of choice ...

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...re nor less than with an aquatic mammal, unknown till then, which threw up from its blow-holes columns of water mixed with air and vapour. Similar fac... ...Navigation Company. But this extraordinary creature could transport itself from one place to another with surprising velocity; as, in an inter- val of... ...ed in the pa- pers caricatures of every gigantic and imaginary crea- ture, from the white whale, the terrible “Moby Dick” of sub-arctic regions, to th... ... months of the year 1867 the question seemed buried, never to revive, when new facts were brought before the public. It was then no longer a scien- ti... ...tached me to that expedition. After six months in Nebraska, I ar- rived in New York towards the end of March, laden with a precious collection. My dep... ...ed me to that expedition. After six months in Nebraska, I ar- rived in New York towards the end of March, laden with a precious collection. My departu... ...e invited to put their finger on the wound of the Scotia. On my arrival at New York the question was at its height. The theory of the floating island,... ...vited to put their finger on the wound of the Scotia. On my arrival at New York the question was at its height. The theory of the floating island, and... ... last souvenirs of that world which is dead to me. In my eyes, your modern artists are already old; they have two or three thousand years of existence...

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...he beginning. Originally I intended Anticipations to be my sole digression from my art or trade (or what you will) of an imaginative writer. I wrote t... .... I have a slow con- structive hesitating sort of mind, and when I emerged from that undertaking I found I had still most of my questions to state and... ...th a future history, and if I made this second book even less satisfactory from a literary standpoint than the former (and this is my opinion), I blun... ...at, indeed, is the cardinal assumption of all Utopian speculations old and new; the Republic and Laws of Plato, and More’s Utopia, Howells’ implicit A... ... force; the Republic of Plato stood armed ready for defensive war, and the New Atlantis and the Uto- pia of More in theory, like China and Japan throu... ...ould begin to talk of scientific languages, of Esperanto, La Langue Bleue, New Latin, V olapuk, and Lord Lytton, of the philosophical language of Arch... ...an agree- able little Utopia, that like the holy families of the mediaeval artists (or Michael Angelo’s Last Judgement) should compli- ment one’s frie... ... last to the test of effectual experiment in the Oneida Com- munity of New York State (1848-1879). This latter body did not long survive its founder, ... ...ue, that later we come to consider a sort of voluntary uniform for Utopian artists. As he walks about the workshop, stopping to laugh at this producti...

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...olutely without meaning. Fortunately, after all such churls have withdrawn from my audience in high displeasure, there remains a large majority who ar... ...jority who are loud in acknowledging the amusement which they have derived from a former paper of mine, ‘On Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts;... ... the entire speculation, furnishes the surest means of disen- chanting him from the horror which might else gather upon 5 Thomas de Quincey his feeli... ...y himself, he might be regarded as the most aristocratic and fastidious of artists. But who meantime was the victim, to whose abode he was hurrying? F... ...ounds. Like all men engaged in trade, he suffered some anxieties. He was a new beginner; but, already, bad debts had alarmed him; and bills were com- ... ...d 28 The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater have had time to relax, some new murder, equally appalling, might be counted upon. Such was the public e... ...s of incrimination; this was, that the shoes of the mur- derer, apparently new, and bought, probably , with poor Marr’s money, creaked as he walked, h... ... terms of his contracts. At least I know of people now-a-days (much better artists) that would execute such contracts, and enter into any penalties fo... ...and Mont Blanc might be improved by a century of chiselling from judicious artists. Such are the works of blind elements, which (poor things!) cannot ...

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...urch has canonized and your devotion has doubly sanctified for me guard it from perils. De Balzac. I THE SAUVIATS IN THE LOWER TOWN of Limoges, at the... ...een seen, a generation ago, one of those shops which were scarcely changed from the period of the middle-ages. Large tiles seamed with a thousand crac... ...e a few seemed disposed to fall apart; all had a compost of earth, brought from heaven knows where, in the nooks and crannies hollowed by the rain, in... ... Sauviat wore a frock-coat of maroon cloth, so well taken care of that two new ones were all he bought in twenty years. The living of galley-slaves wo... ...aught her the history of the people of God, the catechism, the Old and the New Testaments, and a very little arithmetic. That was all; the worthy sist... ...r beauty. Every one admired her face, which promised much to the pencil of artists who are always seek- ing a noble ideal. She was called “the Little ... ...rself draws so delicately with her lissom outlines, revealed to the eye of artists in spite of swathing linen and thick clothes, which mould themselve... ...ghout the depart- ment, in consequence of his outlay in having built, in a new quarter of the town called the place d’Arbres (thus assisting to give L... ...ave put into her passion something of the genius that inspires the work of artists and poets, the creative force which exists in woman under another f...

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...rs to a period towards the end of the reign of Richard I., when his return from his long captivity had become an event rather wished than hoped for by... ... of their less powerful neighbours, who attempted to separate them- selves from their authority, and to trust for their protection, during the dangers... ...r- anny of the nobility, and the sufferings of the inferior classes, arose from the consequences of the Conquest by Duke Will- iam of Normandy . Four ... ... rustic character, which belonged to the wood- lands of the West-Riding of Yorkshire at that early period. The eldest of these men had a stern, savage... ...ith great perseverance, paying not the least attention to the wants of the new guest. The attendants of the Abbot crossed themselves, with looks of pi... ... of defiance from the northern extremity . All eyes were turned to see the new cham- pion which these sounds announced, and no sooner were the barrier... ...into the lists. As far as could be judged of a man sheathed in armour, the new adventurer did not greatly exceed the middle size, and seemed to be rat... ... strangers our bosom friends, our confidential servants; we borrowed their artists and their arts, and despised the honest simplicity and hardihood wi... ... be seen in the censures usually passed by vulgar criticism upon actors or artists who venture to change the character of their efforts, that, in so d...

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... being also warden of the almshouses, if the bishop in each case approved. From that day to this the charity had gone on and pros- pered —at least, th... ...red with rows of houses; the value of the property had gradually increased from year to year and century to cen- tury, and was now presumed by those w... ...ral a steward. For many, many years—records hardly tell how many, probably from the time when Hiram’s wishes had been first fully carried out—the proc... ...e belonged to him, also four shops in the High Street, and a moiety of the new row of genteel villas (so called in the advertisements), built out- sid... ... parish of Plumstead Episcopi. ’Tis only when he has ex- changed that ever-new shovel hat for a tasselled night- cap, and those shining black habilime... ...m under the comfortable bed-clothes. ‘There’s 15 Anthony Trollope nothing new in that. ’ ‘No, my dear, there’s nothing new—I know that; but, at the p... ...n all) were girls; the elder, Florinda, bore the name of the Archbishop of York’s wife, whose godchild she was: and the younger had been christened Gr... ... lady looking intently at a lily as no lady ever looked before. Our modern artists, whom we style Pre-Raphaelites, have delighted to go back, not only...

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...afford to have you ill.” “I am ill. But you can’t afford to have me absent from that Commission.” “Your technical knowledge—” “Technical knowledge be ... ... a different world. The public won’t stand things it used to stand. It’s a new public. It’s—wild. It’ll smash up the show if they go too far. Everythi... ...said the doctor. “It’s at the back of all sorts of mental trouble. It is a new state of mind. Before the war it was abnormal—a phase of neur- asthenia... ...here is a discord, a jarring.” The doctor pursued his train of thought. “A new, raw and dreadful sense of responsibility for the universe. Accompa- ni... ...t feel in the slightest degree re- sponsible. They hide all their troubles from the road. Their backyards are tucked away out of sight, they show a br... ... well as far as it goes. But it does not cover my case. I am not suffering from inadaptation. I have adapted. I have thought things out. I think—much ... ...o crystallize. Before I came along she’d mixed chiefly with a lot of young artists and students, all doing nothing at all except talk about the things... ...d travelling about Eu- rope. My father is rather a big business man in New York.” “The oil Grammont?” “He is rather deep in oil, I believe. He is comi... ...ctive, interesting men, rising politicians, university men of distinction, artists and writers even, men of science, men—there are still such men— act...

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...us peculiarities; and, in describing their customs, refrains in most cases from entering into ex- planations concerning their origin and purposes. As ... ... come immediately under the writer’s cognizance. The con- clusions deduced from these facts are unavoidable, and in stating them the author has been i... ...er were both descended, on the fathers’ and moth- ers’ sides respectively, from have families of British New En- gland and Dutch New York extraction. ... ... fathers’ and moth- ers’ sides respectively, from have families of British New En- gland and Dutch New York extraction. Whitman and Van Velsor, Melvil... ...es respectively, from have families of British New En- gland and Dutch New York extraction. Whitman and Van Velsor, Melville and Gansevoort, were the ... ...father of Herman, was an importing merchant,—first in Boston, and later in New York. He was a man of much cul- ture, and was an extensive traveller fo... ...er of Herman, was an importing merchant,—first in Boston, and later in New York. He was a man of much cul- ture, and was an extensive traveller for hi... ...sequently resi- 6 Typee dents of Albany, N.Y. Herman Melville was born in New Y ork on August 1,1819, and received his early education in that city. ... ...f a song tattooed upon his chest, and a variety of spirited cuts by native artists in other parts of his body. He sported a fishing rod in his hand, a...

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...of voyage and travel. Such books have had a strong fascination for my mind from my earliest childhood; and I wonder it should have come to pass that I... ...roned, tomahawked, or eaten. Sitting on my ruddy hearth in the twilight of New Year’s Eve, I find incidents of travel rise around me from all the lati... ... the twilight of New Year’s Eve, I find incidents of travel rise around me from all the latitudes and longitudes of the globe. They observe no order o... ...one upon the sea with his disaffected crew, looks over the waste of waters from his high station on the poop of his ship, and sees the first uncertain... ...ike a torch in the bark of some fisherman,’ which is the shining star of a new world. Bruce is caged in Abyssinia, surrounded by the gory horrors whic... ...ney he acquired an inappeasable relish for his dreadful food. He urged the new man away, expressly to kill him and eat him. In the pockets on one side... ...y collection of clocks, purporting to be the work of Parisian and Genevese artists—chiefly bilious faced clocks, supported on sickly white crutches, w... ...,) it fills my soul with terror at the British Institution, it lures young artists on to their destruction. Go where I will, the Ghost of Art, eternal... ...eously—and goes below. The re maining Mystery then smiles upon the sister artists (who, I am afraid, wouldn’t greatly mind stabbing each other), and ...

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...the reflection that an af- fectionate farewell might help to exonerate him from the charge of neglect frequently preferred by this lady. It was not th... ...on her marriage, he had seemed to feel the upward sweep of the empty bough from which the golden fruit had been plucked, and had then and there accept... ... Mallet imagined there was a private reason for it—a reason quite distinct from her pleasure in receiving her honored kins- man. The next day he flatt... ...owland spent his days at her side and felt before long as if he had made a new friend. All his impressions at this period were commented and interpret... ...well. It had the stamp of genius. Rowland envied the happy youth who, in a New England village, without aid or encourage- ment, without models or reso... ...y, I imagine, a very fine fellow. When the war broke out he found that the New England blood ran thicker in his veins than the Virginian, and immediat... ...t ‘s all I can get out of her. A more regular damnation! Is it a fact that artists, in general, are such wicked men? I never had the pleasure of knowi... ...beauty reminded his companion of the flexible temperament of those Italian artists of the sixteenth century who were indifferently painters and sculpt... ...the shortness of their acquaintance, Rowland was bound to appreciate. “The artists are all crazy about her. When she goes into a studio she is fatal t...

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...not true.” Hackluyt. “WHALE. * * * Sw. and Dan. hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. hvalt is arched or vaulted.” Webster... ...ed or vaulted.” Webster’s Dictionary. “WHALE. * * * It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. Wallen; A.S. Walw ian, to roll, to wallow.” Richards... ...how ever authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets he... ... the Pacific Ocean. ” By Owen Chase of Nantucket, first mate of said vessel. New York. 1821. “A mariner sat on the shrouds one night, The wind was pipin... ... Pacific Ocean. ” By Owen Chase of Nantucket, first mate of said vessel. New York. 1821. “A mariner sat on the shrouds one night, The wind was piping fr... ...pen the haunts of the whale, the whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North West Passage.” From “Something” unpubli... ... What does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament? Do you think the archangel Gabriel thinks 18 Chapter 1 Loom... ...t jet is so often descried by passengers crossing the Atlantic, in the New York packet tracks. In the length he attains, and in his baleen, the Fin b... ...t ignorance of those times, when the true form of the whale was unknown to artists; and considering that as in Perseus’ case, St. George’s whale might...

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...ty’s Electronic Classics Series. Cover design: Jim Manis; portrait of Byron from a painting by Thomas Philips, 1814 Copyright © 1999 The Pennsylvania... ...a pye;’ ‘Which pye being open’d they began to sing’ (This old song and new simile holds good), ‘A dainty dish to set before the King,’ Or ... ...sion (I think the quarto holds five hundred pages), Has given a sample from the vasty version Of his new system to perplex the sages; ‘T i... ... five hundred pages), Has given a sample from the vasty version Of his new system to perplex the sages; ‘T is poetry — at least by his asserti... ... Don Juan “Dedication” 3 You — Gentlemen! by dint of long seclusion From better company, have kept your own At Keswick, and, through still ... ...I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discov... ...mirari’ Was what he call’d the ‘Art of Happiness;’ An art on which the artists greatly vary, And have not yet attain’d to much success. Ho... ... and now Still older mansion; of a rich and rare Mix’d Gothic, such as artists all allow Few specimens yet left us can compare Withal: it ... ...anto Sixteen” 330 But as Lord Henry was a connoisseur,— The friend of artists, if not arts,—the owner, With motives the most classical and pu...

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...have just set down. It is this: I have never touched a character precisely from the life, but some coun- terpart of that character has incredulously a... ...o born and so bred, admired for that which made him hateful, and justified from his cradle in cunning, treachery, and avarice; I claim him as the legi... ... the American character—of that side which was, four-and-twenty years ago, from its nature, the most obtrusive, and the most likely to be seen by such... ...LIC DINNER given to me on Saturday the 18th of April, 1868, in the city of New York, by two hundred representatives of the Press of the United States ... ...DINNER given to me on Saturday the 18th of April, 1868, in the city of New York, by two hundred representatives of the Press of the United States of A... ...ges in the amount of land subdued and peopled, changes in the rise of vast new cities, changes in the growth of older cities almost out of recognition... ...r some months past been collecting materials for, and hammering away at, a new book on America has much astonished me; seeing that all that time my de... ...s whether a man has a thousand pound, or nothing, there. Particular in New York, I’m told, where Ned landed.’ ‘New York, was it?’ asked Martin, though... ...d not half pretty enough; though, as hath been mentioned in its place, the artists always made those sketches beautiful, and he had drawn at least a s...

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...it seems, was proved by the report of Dr. Walter Bayly, sometime fellow of New College, then living in Oxford, and professor of physic in that univers... ...man only and Forster, who had that day forcibly sent away all her servants from her to Abington market, about three miles distant from this place; the... ...n her head), yet the inhabitants will tell you there that she was conveyed from her usual chamber where she lay, to another where the bed’s head of th... ... which he willed her to use in any faintness, which she, after his returne from court, not knowing it was poison, gave him, and so he died.”—Ben Jonso... ...ing boys to bring my harvests home, Or I shall hear no flails thwack. —The New Inn. IT IS THE PRIVILEGE of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn,... ...rs, I have been where it grew, and was to be had for the gathering. In the New World have I been, man—in the Eldorado, where urchins play at cherry- p... ... so far as I know, he has, nevertheless, a just respect and admiration for artists of our class. He will come to in time, as seldom fails; but as yet ... ...evil ever had such a hand among ye, as to snatch away your smiths and your artists from under your nose, when the good Abbots of Abingdon had their ow... ...ss- ing, I have advanced so far that I would not call the wisest of living artists my better or my teacher—I say, howsoever yon- der reprobate may sco...

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...s not true.” —Hackluyt “Whale. ... Sw. and Dan. Hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. Hvalt is arched or vaulted.” —W ebst... ...ed or vaulted.” —W ebster’ s Dictionary “Whale. ... It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. wallen; a.s. walw-ian, to roll, to wallow.” —Richard... ..., however authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets he... ...the pacific ocean.” By Owen Chace of Nantucket, First Mate of said vessel. New York, 1821. “A mariner sat in the shrouds one night, The wind was pip- ... ...pacific ocean.” By Owen Chace of Nantucket, First Mate of said vessel. New York, 1821. “A mariner sat in the shrouds one night, The wind was pip- ing ... ... of the whale, 12 Moby Dick the whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North-West Passage.” —From “Some- thing” unpu... ... What does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament? Do you think the archangel Gabriel thinks any- thing the les... ...t ignorance of those times, when the true form of the whale was unknown to artists; and considering that as in Perseus’ case, St. George’s whale might...

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...ve thought of, had my means been limited to the competence which I derived from inher- itance, with the moderate income of a professional situa- tion.... ...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.... ... getting up a new incognito, after his original visor had been thus dashed from his brow. Hence the personal narrative prefixed to the first work of f... ...as his party-coloured jacket implies, a buffoon or clown, whose mouth, far from being eternally closed, as amongst us, is filled, like that of Touchst... ...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 ... ... he proposed to drink to the memory of his late Royal Highness the Duke of York.—Drunk in solemn silence. The chairman then requested that gentlemen w... ...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-... ...band occupied Holyrood in a species of honourable banishment; [The Duke of York afterwards James II., frequently resided in Holyrood House when his re... ...it will recover its better qualities when it gets into the hands of better artists.” “Umph!” said Mrs. Baliol, tapping her box, “we are happy in our o...

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...hern coast. The hill on which the houses of Sancerre are grouped is so far from the river that the little river-port of Saint-Thibault thrives on the ... ...re wine is shipped and oak staves are landed, with all the produce brought from the up- per and lower Loire. At the period when this story begins the ... ...ion bridges at Cosne and at Saint-Thibault were al- ready built. Travelers from Paris to Sancerre by the southern road were no longer ferried across t... ...Baudraye fell, sad to say, into one of the snares laid for heretics by the new decrees, and were hanged—an unwor- thy deed of the great King’s. Under ... ...ause the ex- farmer-general had small hopes of his heir’s perpetuating the new race of La Baudraye. Jean Athanase Polydore Milaud de la Baudraye, his ... ... Japanese bowl full of flowers on the round table among a selection of the new- est books; when they heard the fair Dinah playing at sight, without ma... ...f conformity of fortune governs every matrimonial alliance. Men of talent, artists, superior brains—every bird of bril- liant plumage flies to Paris. ... ...y is too free with, rather too like the flayed anatomical figures known to artists as /ecorches/. Then, by a highly philosophical revulsion, after des... ... who, in all Paris, most delighted in such practical jokes—in the slang of artists, a “charge”—Lousteau made a great show of settling the Muse of Sanc...

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...n the United Kingdom greatly cares for my opinion of its brandy or sherry. When I go upon my jour- neys, I am not usually rated at a low figure in the... ... I travel for the great house of Human Interest Brothers, and have rather a large connection in the fancy goods way. Literally speaking, I am always w... ...been for some two hours and a half; there was a slight obstruction in the sea within a few yards of my feet: as if the stump of a tree, with earth eno... ...rising and falling of the Tug-steamer, the Lighter, and the boat—the turning of the windlass—the coming in of the tide—that I myself seemed, to my own... ... little garden in coming out to meet me, not half an hour ago. So cheerful of spirit and guiltless of affectation, as true practical Christianity ever... ...ance of him! The ladies of the clergyman’s family, his wife and two sis- ters-in-law, came in among the bodies often. It grew to be the business of th... ...; but whose intellectual quali- ties in association with dramatic fiction, I cannot rate high. Indeed, he is too honest for the profession he has ente... ...opolis. Firstly, that he have his boots cleaned. Secondly, that he eat a penny ice. Thirdly, that he get himself photographed. Then do I speculate, Wh... ...heatrical arrondissement of the department of the North,’ invited French-Flemish mankind to come and par- take of the intellectual banquet provided by...

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...’ burst forth the merry voice of the young- est, ‘you must see our letters from Edinburgh.’ ‘You have heard, then? It was the very thing I came to ask... ...orge had often driven my father out,’ said Aubrey, again looking lazily up from bal- ancing his spoon. Ethel laughed; and even Richard smiled; then re... ... the maiden’s affection or her father’s consent; but both had been implied from the first. The bride- groom was barely of age, the bride not seventeen... ...hard went; and the sisters took up their employments— Ethel writing to the New Zealand sister-in-law her history of the wedding, Mary copying parts of... ... Zealand sister-in-law her history of the wedding, Mary copying parts of a New Zealand letter for her brother, the lieutenant in command of a gun-boat... ...father had over-lived the first pangs of change and separation, had formed new and con- genial habits, saw the future hope before him; and since poor ... ... ‘T o-day’s paper-account of inquest;’ and the illustrated press sent down artists, whose three-legged cameras stared in all directions, from the Vint... ... wanted to do a civil thing by that poor girl. Where is she now?’ ‘A t New York.’ ‘They’d better take care how they send me to watch the Yankees, then... ...t, and he had stolen a little time, in the dead season, to hurry up to New York, partly on business, and partly to see his daughter, who had communica...