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..., For now foul sluts in dairies May fare as well as they. —BP . Corbet. AN ANCIENT LEAFLESS STUMP of a horse-chesnut stood in the middle of a dusty fi... ...t and imagination, which, half culti- vated, produced a curious mixture of romance and simplic- ity. Her insatiable taste for reading was meritorious ... ...or to mourn over their lost inheritance. Cheveleigh was a winter evening’s romance with no one but Jane Beckett; and the grandmother always answered t... ...other always answered the children’s inquiries by bidding them prove their ancient blood by resolute independence, and by that true dignity which weal... ...ject to train her up in habits of sober judgment, and freedom from all the romance, poetry, and enthusiasm which she fancied had been injurious to Mrs... ... Mrs. Mansell and her visitors.’ 151 Yo n g e ‘Oho! No wonder Beauchastel architecture is so grand. What an impudent fellow you are, Jem!’ ‘The odd t... ... would not do to encourage that old skipper—he was waylaying them like the Ancient Mariner, and was actually growing impudent. ‘An old man’s opinion o... ...of this district, on the side a rich, red, sandstone-coloured church, late architecture, tower rather mouldering—all the more pic- turesque; churchyar...

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...he original edition. The author of these Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my ancient and intimate friend; there is likewise some re lation between us... ...tion to my fortune. My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern, being always provided with a good number of books; an... ... mounting on my body. At the place where the carriage stopped there stood an ancient temple, esteemed to be the largest in the whole kingdom; which, h... ...he carelessness of a maid of honour, who fell asleep while she was reading a romance. I got up in an instant; and orders being given to clear the way ... ...was indeed a noble structure, built according to the best rules of an cient architecture. The fountains, gardens, walks, av enues, and groves, were ... ... conversing with many others of the ancient learned. I saw most of the first Roman em perors. I prevailed on the governor to call up Heliogabalus’s c... ...n war, to cowards; the wis est counsel, to fools; sincerity, to flatterers; Roman vir tue, to betrayers of their country; piety, to atheists; chas ...

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...Excerpt: The tower among the Apennines It was in June that the sculptor, Kenyon, arrived on horse back at the gate of an ancient country house (which, from some of its features, might almost be called a castle) situated in a part of Tuscany somewhat remote from the ordinary track of tourists. Thither we must now accompany him, and endeavor to m...

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...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni: Volume Two by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication o... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni: Volume Two by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Pennsylvania ... ... equal opportunity university. 3 Hawthorne The Marble Faun Vol. II or The Romance of Monte Beni By Nathaniel Hawthorne CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXIV CHA... ...IN JUNE that the sculptor, Kenyon, arrived on horse back at the gate of an ancient country house (which, from some of its features, might almost be ca... ... rich, harmonious glow and variety of color. But the frescos were now very ancient. They had been rubbed and scrubbed by old Stein and many a predeces... ... in the hollow of a great tree, the pair spent a happy wedded life in that ancient neighborhood where now stood Donatello’s tower. From this union spr... ...ith its ca- thedral, its many churches, and public edifices, all of Gothic architecture. With no more level ground than a single piazza in the midst, ... ...er strata of thought, it was delightful to catch glimpses of the grand old architecture that stood around the square. The life of the flitting moment,... ...tion of St. Peter’s was a structure of no definite out- line, misty in its architecture, dim and gray and huge, stretch- ing into an interminable pers...

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...erpretation of their value. In practice they had long sunk into forms. But ancient forms easily lend themselves to a revivification by meanings and ap... ...lf with snake-like folds about the legal es- tablishment; surmount it as a Roman vinea surmounted the fortifications which it beleaguered; and which, ... ...u published a translation of Bottiger’s ‘Sabina,’ a learned account of the Roman toilette. I here send you a companion to that work—not a direct trans... ...n consequence unread,) on the toi- lette and the wardrobe of the ladies of ancient Palestine. Hartmann was a respectable Oriental scholar, and he pub-... ... yields a strong presumption that he has exhausted it. The male costume of ancient Pales- tine is yet to be illustrated; but, for the female, it is pr... ... Bottiger remarks, that, even in the age of Augustus, the morning dress of Roman ladies when at home was nothing more than this very tunic; which, if ... ...of mere natural beauty in its gorgeous prime, with the images of elaborate architecture and of human workmanship; as a place of per- fect innocence in...

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...upon them. I hope I am not likely to be misunderstood by Professors of the Roman Catholic faith, on account of anything con tained in these pages. I ... ...retched from house to house. Bright stuffs and handkerchiefs, curiosities, ancient frames of carved wood, old chairs, ghostly tables, saints, virgins,... ...istian spirit may dictate the observance. Hard by the cathedral stands the ancient Palace of the Popes, of which one portion is now a common jail, and... ... anecdote, quite appropriate to itself, connected with its adventures. ‘An ancient tradition relates, that in 1441, a nephew of Pierre de Lude, the Po... ... lorn surprise; and returning to my villa: the Villa Bagnerello (it sounds romantic, but Signor Bagnerello is a butcher hard by): have sufficient occu... ...ng with a clasp knife, his own personal property, something smaller than a Roman sword. The whole party on board were made merry by these un expected... ...ther times! I wonder, above all, why it is the great feature of do mestic architecture in Italian inns, that all the fire goes up the chimney, except... ...tiest houses. Past plots of garden, theatres, shrines, prodigious piles of architecture—Gothic— Saracenic—fanciful with all the fancies of all times a... ...n hundred years ago. With its marble fit ted churches, lofty towers, rich architecture, and quaint old quiet thoroughfares, where shouts of Montagues...

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... in general, to these restless appeals was the rather grim admonition that romantic and historic sites, such as the land of Italy abounds in, offer th... ...is my account of them—of which I dare say, alas, que cela manque souvent d’architecture. But I would rather, I think, have too little architecture tha... ...lights, and of as many different colours, if possible, as the rockets, the Roman candles and Catherine- wheels of a “pyrotechnic display,” would be em... ...for it to which she currently alluded; they bore upon minor points of that ancient order, but for Mrs. Touchett they amply justified non-residence. Sh... ...othing about bills; but even as a child she thought her grandmother’s home romantic. There was a covered pi- azza behind it, furnished with a swing wh... ...hatched and timbered, past ale-houses latticed and sanded, past patches of ancient common and glimpses of empty parks, between hedgerows made thick by... ...as a nobleman of the newest pattern, a reformer, a radical, a contemner of ancient ways. His other brother, who was in the army in India, was rather w... ...brightness of a garden where nature itself looked as archaic as the rugged architecture of the palace and which cleared and scented the rooms in regu-... ...of local colour. It had local colour enough, and though he knew less about architecture than about Limoges enamels he could see that the proportions o...

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... Mannering by Sir Walter Scott INTRODUCTION TO GUY MANNERING. THE NOVEL OR ROMANCE of Waverley made its way to the public slowly, of course, at first,... ... hitherto exulted in the prospects held out by the birth of an heir to his ancient property, failing which event it must have passed to a distant bran... ... over the general mind sufficient even to con- stitute the mainspring of a romance. Besides, it occurred, that to do justice to such a subject would h... ...ss who are called gipsies; who are in most cases a mixed race, between the ancient Egyptians who arrived in Europe about the beginning of the fifteent... ... worthy Dominie, upon which is founded the part which he per- forms in the romance, and which, for certain particular rea- sons, must be expressed ver... ...ng drunk after the lady or goodwife’s safe delivery. The ken-no has a more ancient source, and perhaps the custom may he derived from the secret rites... ...th his eye lay the modern house; an awkward man- sion, indeed, in point of architecture, but well situated, and with a warm, pleasant exposure.—How ha... ...s of a dark, solemn, and somewhat melancholy cast, according well with the architecture of the house. Everything appeared to be kept in the highest po... ...st grace and ornament, is mingled and confused with the viler parts of the architecture. Oh, my good Mr. Gilbert Glossin, in my time, sir, the use of ...

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...el is, for a boy of twelve, to change heavens; to cross the Atlantic, for a man of twenty-four, is hardly to modify his diet. But I was now escaped ou... ...us a strong sense of home, which the exotic foliage, the daft-like growth of the pandanus, the buttressed trunk of the banyan, the black pigs gallopin... ... that the Marquesan is conscious of achievement, his life all rounded in, his robes (like Caesar’s) adjusted for the final act. Praise not any man til... ...e first foundation, only by propitiatory 27 Robert Louis Stevenson feasts, and, so soon as the fire of life went out upon the hearth, swarmed back in... ...certain date a new god was added to the Society-Island Olympus, or an old one refurbished and made popular. Oro was his name, and he may be compared w... ...the foot of the ravine. Two roads divided it, and met in the midst. Save for this intersection the amphitheatre was strangely perfect, and had a certa... .... Conceive one that has been partly plucked of its rush fringe; you have the atoll of Kauehi. And for either shore of it at closer quarters, con- ceiv...

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...Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret A Romance By Nathaniel Hawthorne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publ... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret: A Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...le as an electronic transmission, in any way. Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret: A Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylvania State University, Elec ... ...hall say not a word more than may sooner or later be needful) was the most ancient in the town. The clay of the original settlers had been incorpo ra... ...ught I know it still exists in the same guise,) it did not appear to be an ancient structure, nor one that would ever have been the abode of a very we... ...of the blood of this being; for, mean as his station looks, he comes of an ancient and noble race, and was the noblest of them all! Let me alone, Ned,... ...iend here a lecture on gargoyles, and other peculiarities of sacred Gothic architecture; and if you will honor me with your attention, I should be gla...

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...y would stand up for the full power of convocation, and the renewal of its ancient privileges. It was true that he could not himself intone the servic... ...welve bedesmen. ‘But, ’ he said, laughing, ‘I shall be greatly shorn of my ancient glory. ’ ‘Why so, papa?’ ‘This new act of parliament, that is to pu... ...the arms of a poor girl from Milan, whom she had taken in exchange for the Roman maid who had accompanied her thus far, and who had then, as her mistr... ...f the blood of the emperors, thus referring Neroni’s extraction to the old Roman family from which the worst of the Caesars sprang. 72 Barchester Tow... ...ld women. She wrote also a kind of poetry, generally in Italian, and short romances, generally in French. She read much of a desultory sort of literat... ... domain of the modern landlord was of wider notoriety than the fame of the ancient saint. He was a fair specimen of what that race has come to in our ... ...hat so little is known by English men and women of the beauties of English architecture. The ruins of the Colosseum, the Campanile at Florence, St Mar...

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...up without any clear traces about it or near it, like the brazen castle of romance round which the sea-tide flows. My father must have borne me miles ... ...I remem- bered of my mother. The ladies observed that it was clear I was a romantic child. I noticed that the old gentleman said ‘Humph,’ very often, ... ...he spoke of his exposure to the risk of marrying again; it added a curious romantic tenderness to my adoration of him, and made me feel that he and I ... ...I was exposed to view twenty-three minutes, odd seconds. Is there not some ancient story of a monstrous wretch baked in his own bull? My situation was... ...ire course of his life was a grand plot, resembling an unfinished piece of architecture, which might, at a future day, prove the wonder of the world: ... ...me; so I performed the task of offer- ing the Hock, stating that it was of ancient birth. The squire bunched his features; he tutored his temper, and ... ...tate, that he would, before leaving the place, do his utmost to revive the ancient glories of Bath: Bath had once set the fashion to the kingdom; why ...

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..., with all due deference to historians, are found only in the pages of the romance-writers, without whom they would be lost to the world. At this peri... ...style of ad- dress, “we are about to do battle for the first time with the Roman prostitute. In a few days either our legions will be dying on the sca... ...le exposure to the north and south, that the counts of Blois built, in the architecture of the twelfth century, a castle where the famous Thibault de ... ...eco- rated than the Louvre, the chateau of Henri II. It is in the style of architecture now called Renaissance, and presents 70 Catherine dé Medici t... ...features of that style. Therefore, at a pe- riod when a strict and jealous architecture ruled construc- tion, when the Middle Ages were not even consi... ... country, as much from a principle of common sense as in opposition to the Roman worship. To those in the crowd who pitied these unfortunate gentlemen... ... Ecco!” “You are right as to yourself, Albert; for they have given you the ancient title and duchy of de Retz.” “Now listen to me,” replied his brothe... ... many great and unknown kings, the rulers of this science, I stand for the ancient theories, not the new. I believe in the transforma- tions of matter... ...nt for some moments. I no longer be- held a queen, but rather one of those ancient druidesses to whom human lives are sacrificed; who unroll the pages...

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...hange them? Though he was soon satisfied that he had dismissed the idea as romantic and unlikely—though possible, there was no denying—he could not he... ...wned by the uproar in the streets, yet were there hints of adventurous and romantic story to be observed in some of the adjacent ob- jects. Gog and Ma... ...After a moment’s groping here and there, he presently returned with a very ancient-looking bottle, covered with dust and dirt. ‘Why, Uncle Sol!’ said ... ...re like an enchanted Moor. A dusty urn at each high corner, dug up from an ancient tomb, preached desolation and decay, as from two pulpits; and the c... ...of schools. Having the power of nominating a child on the foundation of an ancient establishment, called (from a worshipful company) the Chari- table ... ...e in her slumber, building a great many airy castles of the most fantastic architecture; and looking, in the dim shade, and in the close vicinity of a... ... CHAPTER 9. IN WHICH THE WOODEN MIDSHIPMAN GETS INTO TROUBLE THAT SPICE OF ROMANCE and love of the marvellous, of which there was a pretty strong infu...

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...ry suggestions, and though it was by no means the glowing orb of a hero of romance, you could find in it almost anything you looked for. Frigid and ye... ...tis- fied me.” 36 The American “You remind me of the heroes of the French romantic poets, Rolla and Fortunio and all those other insatiable gentlemen... ... fine country. I would give my new parasol to see it! Lakes and mountains, romantic val- leys and icy peaks! Oh, I congratulate you. Meanwhile, I 55 ... ...ace. It is to be feared that his perception of the difference between good architecture and bad was not acute, and that he might sometimes have been s... ...ad been the discovery that one of his college classmates, who was studying architecture in Paris had a love affair with a young woman who did not expe... ...gards his obliging friend, he had suf- 73 Henry James fered the warmth of ancient good-fellowship somewhat to abate. Besides, he had no taste for uph... ...rough a vestibule, vast, dim, and cold, up a broad stone staircase with an ancient iron balustrade, to an apartment on the second floor. Announced and... ... head and looked about the room. “Your house is of a very curious style of architecture,” he said. “Are you interested in architecture?” asked the you... ... that his friendship could ever be importunate. Moreover, the flower of an ancient stem as he was, tradition (since I have used the 90 The American w...

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... color, with old yellow-tinted lace for ornament, to which the spark of an ancient jewel gave its one red gleam. Denham noticed that, although silent,... ...e explain my absurd little puzzle. One can’t help believing gentlemen with Roman noses, even if one meets them in omnibuses.” Mr. Hilbery here interpo... ...r for his odd combination of Spartan self-control and what appeared to her romantic and childish folly. Ralph interested her more than any one else in... ...eap- peared on his brow, as the pleasant impression of com- panionship and ancient sympathy waned, and he was left to think on alone. After a time he ... ...to the verge of decency; and in the night, bereft of life, bare places and ancient blem- ishes were unpleasantly visible. Katharine Hilbery, he though... ...es, gave them sover- eigns and ices and good advice, and weaved round them romances which had generally no likeness to the truth. The quality of her b... ...ernately the pride and the desperation of her teachers. She had worshipped architecture and music, natural history and humanity, literature and art, b... ...ooden doors, and led her up a tiled path to a porch in the Alpine style of architecture. As they listened to the shaking of the bell in the basement, ...

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...-minded devil like you. And it would be rather worth while to own the most romantic house in Brittany. The present people are dead broke, and it’s goi... ...en laid across the entrance, and beyond it I saw a court enclosed in noble architecture. The main building faced me; and I now discovered that one hal... ...n. A few lean hydran- geas and geraniums pined in the flower-beds, and the ancient house looked down on them indifferently. Its garden side was plaine... ... the course of his life two great things had happened to him: he had loved romantically, and he must have talked with Pascal. . . MRS. MANSTEY’S VIEW ... ...n-raiser, the short sharp drama, the bour- geois-realistic and the lyrical-romantic—finally deciding that he would no longer “prostitute his talent” t... ...ess. The long thoroughfare stretched before him, dim and deserted, like an ancient avenue of tombs. But from Denver’s house a friendly beam fell on th... ...th his mother’s property; the paternal estate being near Orvieto, of which ancient city his father was syndic. Soon after his arrival in Siena the you...

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...ted those who did: but biting her lips and throwing up her vener- able and Roman-nosed head (on the top of which figured a large and solemn turban), s... ...ch other, and I am ready to go.” Worthy Miss Pinkerton, although she had a Roman nose and a turban, and was as tall as a grenadier, and had been up to... ...d his hands bound in a web of green silk, which she was unwinding. In this romantic position Osborne and Amelia found the in- teresting pair, when the... ...troduced by the patronage of his grandfather, Lord Binkie, by studying the ancient and modern orators with great assidu- ity, and by speaking unceasin... ... Miss Wirt their gov- erness, that raw-boned V estal. They took her to the ancient concerts by way of a treat, and to the oratorio, and to St. Paul’s ... ... gusty, raw day at the end of April—the rain whipping the pavement of that ancient street where the old Slaughters’ Coffee-house was once situated—Geo... ...th martial splendour; a rare old city, with strange costumes and wonderful architecture, to delight the eyes of little Amelia, who had never before se...

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...n the middle of all were two square, wooden columns, denominated in marine architecture “Bowsprit Bitts.” They were about a foot apart, and between th... ...ivine rights were paid; while for poetry, their mythology rivalled that of ancient Greece. Of Tahiti, earlier and more full accounts were given, than ... ...yages. The journals of its first visitors, con- taining, as they did, such romantic descriptions of a country and people before unheard of, produced a... ...h it from similar places in and about Papeetee. 100 Omoo Though extremely romantic in appearance, on a near ap- proach it proved hut ill adapted to d... ...back the French had been mak- ing repeated ineffectual attempts to plant a Roman Catholic mission here. But, invariably treated with contumely, they s... ...not far from the Calabooza Beretanee. It was esteemed the best specimen of architecture in Tahiti. Of late, they have built their places of worship wi... ...ed; but the alms were proudly refused; Long Ghost preferring to assume the ancient cos- tume of Tahiti—the “Roora.” This garment, once worn as a festi... ...ould be really acceptable, may go and sue for it. But to the credit of the ancient T ahitians, it should here be observed that this blem- ish upon the...

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...se superiority of the house to the rest of mankind, in respect of this its ancient origin, is taken into account. It is remarkable that as there was, ... ...d the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence and vagabondism; for in ancient days those two amusements, combining a wholesome excitement with a ... ...En- gland with the Norman Invasion: an amount which the genealogy of every ancient family lends its aid to swell, and which would beyond all question ... ...irit as is possessed by that extraordinary creature? Was there ever such a Roman as our friend Chiv? Was there ever a man of such a purely classical t... ...ween the study and the hall, a familiar exposition of the whole science of architecture as applied to dwelling-houses, and was yet in the freshness of... ...in, leaning his chin upon his hand, and look- ing at the fire, ‘ornamental architecture applied to domestic pur- poses, can hardly fail to be in great... ...at’s a state of things as opens one of the jolliest look-outs for domestic architecture that ever I heerd tell on.’ Martin glanced at him hastily, not... ...d old grandmother I used to tell you of. You remember! Oh! There’s nothing romantic in our his- tory, John.’ ‘Very well,’ said John in quiet despair. ... ...cimen of what she had to expect. It would do her good. It would dispel the romance of the affair.’ The red-nosed daughters also administered the kinde...

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...ts with blinking casements, such as may be seen in Flanders. Some of these ancient habitations, with high garret gable windows perking into the roofs... ...t likely ever to vie, in point of elegance or beauty, with Cincinnati. The Roman Catholic religion, introduced here by the early French settlers, prev... ...will be sent from Belgium. In addition to these establishments, there is a Roman Catholic cathedral, dedicated to Saint Francis Xavier; and a hospital... ...ew keenly. Looming in the dis tance, as we rode along, was another of the ancient Indian burial places, called The Monks’ Mound; in memory of a body ... ...trived, that one of them always blew the other open: a novelty in domestic architecture, which I do not remember to have seen before, and which I was ...

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...figure, this of uncle John, with his dung cart and his inventions; and the romantic fancy of his Mexican house; and his craze about the Lost Tribes wh... ...g the city, but without disturbance, old La Marmora being a commander of a Roman sternness. With the return of quiet, and the reopening of the univer-... ...nd – Fleeming at Fairbairn’s – Experience in a Strike – Dr. Bell and Greek Architecture – The Gaskells – Fleeming at Greenwich – The Austins – Fleemin... ...re notable, as the girl really derived from the Enfields; whose high-flown romantic temper, I wish I could find space to illustrate. She was but seven... ...is hurly-burly once more. There are awnings all along the ship, and a most ancient, fish-like smell beneath. ‘1 O’CLOCK. – Suddenly a great strain in ... ...k still stands upon a gate, and has left the mark of his strong clutch. Of ancient times when Crete was Crete, not a trace remains; save perhaps in th... ...ar- ing above our heads; old tanks, ruins, and desolation at our feet. The ancient Arsinoe stood here; a few blocks of marble with the cross attest th...

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...isdom Pg 1220 Bicycle Cards Pg 1221 Intelligence Pg 1224 Pre-History and Ancient History Pg 1266 Burial of the Dead Pg 1268 Decapitation Pg... ... Daoist Priest told him that this is what the original Yin-Yang symbol of the ancient concept of Duality looked like before the Daoist Duality of Ev... ... and regardless of size. By using the theoretical abstract straight line of ancient Greek geometry and abstract mathematics which does not exist i... ...h collided and split and became two beating hearts. This is also the reason Romance exists. The beating heart of the 3-dimensional Universe comes ... ...e audacity of it. The fact that they were the underdog at the beginning; was romantic to say the least. What if the North American Indians tried to... ...ccumulation in the present makeup of human culture. This can be seen today in architecture: where modern buildings are still built with facades and ... ...the public square and slaughtered them before the eyes of the entire crowd of Roman vanquished citizens… And after that: they walked around, casuall... ...is towards increasing duplication and identicality. Look at the evolution of architecture, look at the evolution of cars, look at how people are dr... ...plitness Chapter Seven: Entities and the Alternative The entire ancient architecture of temples and large decorated buildings: screaming out th...

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... view its bonds, For I will never feel them?— Italy! Thy late reviving Roman soul desponds Beneath the lie this State thing breathed o’er th... ... Of such as these I should not care to vaunt, I ‘ll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan— We all have seen him, in the pantomime, Sent... ...ayer,’ And Greek—the alphabet — I ‘m nearly sure; She read some French romances here and there, Although her mode of speaking was not pure; ... ...l too (it was the family Missal) Was ornamented in a sort of way Which ancient mass books often are, and this all Kinds of grotesques illumi... ...ontroulless core Of human hearts, than all the long array Of poets and romancers: You ‘re a bore, A charlatan, a coxcomb and have been... ...sorrow through her heart re sent; And he begun a long low island song Of ancient days, ere tyranny grew strong. Anon her thin wan fingers beat t... ...y Of those, forgetting the great place of rest, Who give themselves to architecture wholly; We know where things and men must end at best: ...

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...r example, to trace how Christianity drifted into the consciousness of the Roman world. But when a re- ligion has been interrogated it has always had ... ... make marriage into a mystical sacrament, and, with some excep- tions, the Roman communion exacts the sacrifice of celi- bacy from its priesthood, reg... ...back into religious feel- ing. Amongst the sex-tormented priesthood of the Roman communion in particular, ignorant of the extreme practices of the Ess... ... him.) But when one argues, one finds oneself suddenly in the net of those ancient controversies between species and individual, between the one and t... ...old religions derive from a patriarchal phase. God is in those systems the Ancient of Days. I know of no Christian attempt to represent or symbolise G... ...n are figures far past the prime of their vigour. These are gods after the ancient habit of the human mind, that turned perpetually backward for cause... ...nt to express themselves by art when religion touches them, and many arts, architecture and the drama for example, are collective undertakings. I do n...

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...d, as you inevitably will, the man from Somewhere a bore. Sorry to destroy romance by fixing him with a local habita- tion, but he comes from the plac... ... Tippins who has nothing to leave—I have had no scrap of business but this romantic business.’ ‘And I,’ said Eugene, ‘have been “called” seven years, ... ... you said Rooshan Empire, sir?’ ‘It is Rooshan; ain’t it, Wegg?’ ‘No, sir. Roman. Roman.’ ‘What’ s the difference, Wegg?’ ‘The difference, sir?’ Mr We... ...ied Fledgeby. ‘These are nice games!’ He addressed an old Jewish man in an ancient coat, long of skirt, and wide of pocket. A venerable man, bald and ... ...house, arose and went his patient way; stealing through the streets in his ancient dress, like the ghost of a departed Time. Chapter 16 AN ANNIVERSARY... ...round character. As he stood there, doing his me- thodical penmanship, his ancient scribelike figure intent upon the work, and the little dolls’ dress... ...e imagined to trace a family resemblance between the cherubs in the church architecture, 657 Charles Dickens and the cherub in the white waistcoat. S...

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...— stags’ heads in their horns, peacocks in their pride, jellies with whole romances depicted in them, could not reconcile the young Scots to the presu... ...ulmina- tion of Gothic work, with a fan tracery-vaulted roof, a triumph of architecture, each stalactite glowing with a shield or a badge of England, ... ...ill an island in the middle of swamps, with the great causeways of the old Roman times leading to it. The spire of St. Paul’s and the square keep of t... ...ss. ‘What I speak of is that which beseems a daughter of St. Bennet, of an ancient and royal foundation! The saving of 54 Two Penniless Princesses th... ...eal about him of the flashy side of chivalry, and loved its brilliance and romance; he was an honourable man, and the weak point about him was that he...

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...d super stition grounded into our principles as was beyond the manhood of a Roman recovery, it will be attributed first, as is most due, to the stron... ...pains to be so much historical, as will serve to show what hath been done by ancient and famous commonwealths against this disorder, till the very tim... ...ort of books were prohibited among the Greeks. Areopagitica Milton 8 The Romans also, for many ages trained up only to a military roughness resemb... ... we shall meet with Areopagitica Milton 9 little else but tyranny in the Roman empire, that we may not marvel, if not so often bad as good books w... ... shall therefore deem to have been large enough, in producing what among the ancients was punishable to write; save only which, all other argu ments ... ... as lineally as any pedigree. We have it not, that can be heard of, from any ancient state, or polity or church; nor by any statute left us by our anc... ...cture. Let us therefore be more considerate builders, more wise in spiritual architecture, when great reformation is expected. For now the time seems ...

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... ing to get into business and trying to get out of debt, Walden 6 a very ancient slough, called by the Latins aes alienum, another’s brass, for some... ...r too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence ... ...e Solomon pre scribed ordinances for the very distances of trees; and the Roman praetors have decided how often you may go into your neighbor’s land ... ...ave ever Walden 13 lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class tha... ...we forever resign the pleasure of construction to the carpenter? What does architecture amount to in the experience of the mass of men? I never in all... ... a little better than the common dil ettantism. A sentimental reformer in architecture, he began at the cornice, not at the foundation. It was only h... ...oadway their Trinity Church? But a man has no more to do with the style of architecture of his house than a tortoise with that of its shell: nor need ... ...abled to discern from that remoteness the treasures of antiquity. What the Roman and Grecian multitude could not hear, after the lapse of ages a few s... ... stir though the meeting house burn down. “The Skip of the Tip Toe Hop, a Romance of the Middle Ages, by the celebrated author of ‘Tittle Tol Tan,’ t...

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...s a bookseller and stationer. His mother was Sa- rah Ford, descended of an ancient race of sub- stantial yeomanry in Warwickshire. They were well adva... ...y criti- cal in the elegance of female dress. When I found that he saw the romantick beauties of Islam, in Derbyshire, much better than I did, I told ... ...c- tor, informs me, that ‘when a boy he was im- moderately fond of reading romances of chiv- alry, and he retained his fondness for them through life;... ...age house in the country, he chose for his regular reading the old Spanish romance of Felixmarte of Hircania, in folio, which he read quite through. Y... ... of mere amusement, ‘not voyages and travels, but all literature, Sir, all ancient writers, all manly: though but little Greek, only some of Anacreon ... ... left with- out a shilling. Johnson wrote for him a Preface to A System of Ancient Geography; and, by the favour of Lord Thurlow, got him admitted a p... ...cayed actor himself.’ Johnson expressed his disapprobation of or- namental architecture, such as magnificent col- umns supporting a portico, or expens... ...ed not describe, as there is an account of it published in Adam’s Works in Architecture. Dr. Johnson thought better of it to-day than when he saw it b...

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...ouri, of Mississippi and Arkansas, and through the State of Louisiana. The ancient province so called, the proudest monument of the mighty monarch who... ...comes 33 Trollope used to bright colors, in carriage aprons as well as in architecture, and I soon learned to like them. Rhode Island, as the State i... ... by all around him; and the rule which holds that men at Rome should do as Romans do, if true anywhere, is true in America. Therefore I say that in an... ...France; and has it not always 58 North America V ol. 1 been the case with Roman Catholics when they have been forced to measure themselves against Pr... ...tely be their fate in the country. Surely one may declare as a fact that a Roman Catholic popula- tion can never hold its ground against one that is P... ...ed whether perpendicular Gothic is capable of the high- est nobility which architecture can achieve. I do not pre- tend to say that these Canadian pub... ...ward. Of the library there is a large model showing all the details of the architecture; and if that model be ultimately followed, this building alone... ...New Zealand fighting, and the rest of it. Such complaints remind one of an ancient pater familias who insists on having his children and his grandchil... ...es of life. I very soon abandoned any attempt at drawing a word from these ancient mothers of families; but not the less did I ponder in my mind over ...

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... Domestic Pigeons, their Differences and Origin — Principle of Selec- tion anciently followed, its Effects —Methodical and Unconscious Selection — Unk... ...ecies to each other and to living species — On the state of development of ancient forms — On the suc- cession of the same types within the same areas... ... Domestic Pigeons, their Differences and Origin — Principle of Selec- tion anciently followed, its Effects —Methodical and Unconscious Selection — Unk... ...in are given in a bill of fare in the previous dynasty. In the time of the Romans, as we hear from Pliny, im- mense prices were given for pigeons; ‘na... ...out this same period the Dutch were as eager about pigeons as were the old Romans. The paramount importance of these considerations in explaining the ... ...ancient Chinese encyclopaedia. Explicit rules are laid down by some of the Roman classical writers. From passages in Genesis, it is clear that the col... ...b as perfect as that of the hive-bee. Be- yond this stage of perfection in architecture, natural selection could not lead; for the comb of the hive- b...

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...t any relief to my feelings, and the company came. Mr. Wopsle, united to a Roman nose and a large shining bald forehead, had a deep voice which he was... ...d contu- 26 Great Expectations maciously refused to go there. I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhap... ...became the restless people they were, in consequence. Anyhow, Mr. Wopsle’s Roman nose so aggravated me, during the recital of my misdemeanours, that I... ...ng then, of the discoveries that are occasionally made of bodies buried in ancient times, which fall to powder in the moment of being distinctly seen;... ...ose he was about five-and-twenty , but he usu- ally spoke of himself as an ancient person. “Why, what’ll you do with a half-holiday, if you get it?” s... ...Drummle and Startop. Drummle, an old-looking young man of a heavy order of architecture, was whistling. Startop, younger in years and appearance, was ... ...Joe would have prolonged this word (mightily expressive to my mind of some architecture that I know) into a perfect Chorus, but for his attention bein... ...d stockings ruffles and swords, had had their court days many a time. Some ancient trees before the house were still cut into fashions as formal and u...

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...ith a money box at its el bow, in an ecclesiastical niche of early Gothic architecture, took the money. Miss Josephine Sleary, as some very long and ... ... the winged horse upon the sign board, the Pegasus’s Arms was inscribed in Roman letters. Beneath that inscription again, in a flowing scroll, the pai... ...ss of minds, however, did not need to be informed that the Powlers were an ancient stock, who could trace themselves so exceedingly far back that it w... ... perfect confidence in your good sense. You are not impulsive, you are not roman tic, you are accustomed to view everything from the strong HARD T I... .... An operation which, taken in connexion with the bushy eye brows and the Roman nose, suggested with some liveliness the idea of a hawk engaged upon ... ...were married in the church of the florid wooden legs—that popular order of architecture—Josiah Bounderby Esquire of Coketown, to Louisa eldest daughte... ...ing at the Bank yesterday evening, for Mr. Bounderby’s address, I found an ancient lady there, who seems to enter tain great admiration for your sist... ...dragged in!’ The spectacle of a matron of classical deportment, seizing an ancient woman by the throat, and hauling her into a dwell ing house, would...

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...e hot water; and thence, as I find is always the case, to the most ghastly romancing about Scottish scenery and manners, the High- land dress, and eve... ...r, as his life hitherto has been disgracefully written, and the events are romantic and rapid; the character very strong, salient, and worthy; much in... ... again, the ever delightful man, sane, courageous, admirable; the birth of Romance, in a dawn that was a sunset; snobbery, conservatism, the wrong thr... ...ild- ings, in cosy places with some elbow room about them, after the older architecture. This other is bedevilled and furtive; it seems to stoop; I am... ...Henry is the best part in any play. ‘Though,’ he adds, ‘how it be with the ancient plays I know not. But in this I have ever feared to do ill, and ind... ...manship is jimmy: did I not beseech you I know not how often to find me an ancient mariner – and you, whose own wife’s own brother is one of the ancie... ...ry principles; but my heart and all my interest are with the dweller, that ancient of days and day-old infant man. R. L. S. An excellent touch is p. 5...

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...mals, no rare plants or flowers, no natu- ral or artificial wonders of the ancient world—all taboo with that enlightened strictness, that the ugly Sou... ...en as wretched under its hopelessness as if the house had been a castle of romance. Little more than a week ago at Marseilles, the face of the pretty ... ...d St Paul’s.’ He emptied and put down the wine-glass half-way through this ancient civic toast, and took up the box. It was an iron box some two feet ... ...e. How the trials were made in the presence of a board of six, of whom two ancient members were too blind to see it, two other ancient members were to... ... Refrain was notoriously the invention of a tambour-worker, a spinster and romantic, still lodging in the Y ard. But, forasmuch as all favourite legen... ...ed her present appetite for eating and drinking with her past appetite for romantic love, in a way that made Clennam afraid to lift his eyes from his ... ... of the state windows, where their accoutrements hung drying on the marble architecture, and showing to the mind like hosts of rats who 458 Charles D...

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...bridgments and the last two or three volumes of a translation of Rollin’s Ancient History, begin ning with Philip of Macedon. But I read with great ... ...ject which I had read, and containing many of the best observations of the ancients on human nature and life, my father made me study with pecu liar ... ...member. History continued to be my strongest predilection, and most of all ancient history. Mitford’s Greece I read con tinually; my father had put m... ...et this did not diminish the ever new pleasure with which I read the book. Roman his tory, both in my old favourite, Hooke, and in Ferguson, con tin... ...h addicted, was what I called writing histories. I successively composed a Roman History, picked out of Hooke; and an Abridgment of the Ancient Unive... ...tered myself was something serious. This was no less than a History of the Roman Government, compiled (with the assistance of Hooke) from Livy and Dio... ...le, than the large and free character of their habitations. The middle age architecture, the baro nial hall, and the spacious and lofty rooms, of thi...

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... In its finest passages we indeed seem to hear a voice akin to that of the ancient Hebrew prophets, but there is much in the book which Europeans usua... ...traditions of the Muhammadans themselves, with reference especially to the ancient chronological list printed by Weil in his Mohammed der Prophet, as ... ...10, composed annals of Muhammad’s life and of the progress of Islam. These ancient writers are the principal sources whence any- thing like authentic ... ...es, owed much of her knowledge of dialectic phi- losophy, of medicine, and architecture, to Arabian writers, and that Muslims formed the connecting li... ..., John Baptist, and Jesus, punished by the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans. Comp. T r. Gittin, fol. 57, where we read of the sufferings drawn d... ...time of Muhammad, owing mainly to the navigation of the Red Sea, under the Roman dominion over Egypt, which of course impoverished the tribes situated... ...m censum in marg. 4 Nodhar Ibn El Hareth, who had purchased in Persia the romance of Roustem and Isfendiar, two of the most famous heroes of that lan...

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...re accomplishments were expected in the composition of a fine gentleman in ancient than mod- ern times: His body, though not very large or tall, Was s... ...h cosmography, Arithmetic, and modern his- 11 Sir Walter Scott tory; With architecture and such arts as these, Which I may call specifick sciences Fi... ...oe, in which, instead of saying much himself, the poet informs us what the ancients would have said on such an occasion: A heathen poet, at the news, ... ...to, when he wrote himself artist, was wont to de- rive his origin from the ancient family of Tinto, of that ilk, in Lanarkshire, and occasionally hint... ...nded on misrepresentation. “Description,” he said, “was to the author of a romance exactly what draw- ing and tinting were to a painter: words were hi... ... taste and feelings, Lucy Ashton was peculiarly acces- sible to those of a romantic cast. her secret delight was in the old legendary tales of ardent ... ...efend the forest ground which arose behind it in shaggy majesty. Into this romantic region the father and daughter proceeded, arm in arm, by a noble a...

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...to discontinuous elements. There is a well known, so-called sophism of the ancients consisting in this, that Achilles could never catch up with a tort... ...vered another one hundredth, and so on forever. This problem seemed to the ancients in- soluble. The absurd answer (that Achilles could never over- ta... ...ennigsen opened the council with the question: “Are we to abandon Russia’s ancient and sacred capital without a struggle, or are we to defend it?” A p... ... alone, and after that often came again. One day he took the countess to a Roman Catholic church, where she knelt down before the altar to which she w... ...like stars in the sunlight. The view of the strange city with its peculiar architecture, such as he had never seen before, filled Napoleon with the ra... ...low and simple kind that Pierre had once felt for his wife, nor was it the romantic love stimulated by himself that he experienced for Natasha. (Ramba...

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...l these writers; but how devoid of passion or exultation the spirit of the Roman Emperor is! Compare his fine sentence: “If gods care not for me or my... ...f the subject, sadness and gladness have each been emphasized in turn. The ancient saying that the first maker of the Gods was fear receives volu- min... ...just as the first Christians were accused of indulgence in or- gies by the Romans. It is probable that there never has been a century in which the del... ...eauty. They read his character, not in the disordered world of man, but in romantic and har- monious nature. Of human sin they know perhaps little in ... ...s freedom from all moral sophistry and strain, gives a pathetic dignity to ancient pagan feeling. And this quality Whitman’s outpourings have not got.... ..., it is true, to persons for whom the conception of salvation has lost its ancient theological meaning, but who labor nevertheless with the same etern... ...eir own accord only to disorder and destruction, to heaps of ruins, not to architecture. This principle, though plausible at first sight, seems, in th...

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...tin delenda, meaning that something “must be destroyed,” evoked the famous Roman vow to destroy its rival, Carthage.The overall goal of Clarke’s paper... .... Al Qaeda frequently moved the money it raised by hawala, an informal and ancient trust-based system for transferring funds. 124 In some ways, al Qae... ...d language, pretending to be students discussing various fields of study: “architecture” referred to the World Trade Center,“arts” the Pentagon,“law” ... ...requiring a digital code for all names that need to be translated into the Roman alphabet, ensuring one common spelling for all countries. 41. On achi... ...rson might be the appropriate official. 15. For the information technology architecture, see Ruth David interview (June 10, 2003). For the necessity o...

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.................................................. 98 CHAPTER XV: A GOSSIP ON ROMANCE ...................................................................... ...heir air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest landscape. When the Scotch child sees them first he... ...ndscape. The warm, habitable age of towns and hamlets, the green, settled, ancient look of the country; the lush hedgerows, stiles, and privy path-way... ...hing especially continues unfamiliar to the Scotchman’s eye – the domestic architecture, the look of streets and buildings; the quaint, venerable age ... ...he thin walls and warm colouring of all. We have, in Scot- land, far fewer ancient buildings, above all in country places; and those that we have are ... ...uild- ing even distantly resembling it. But it is not alone in scenery and architecture that we count England foreign. The constitution of society, th... ...nd body, more active, fonder of eat- ing, endowed with a lesser and a less romantic sense of life and of the future, and more immersed in present circ... ...l streets, the warm colouring of the brick, the domestic quaintness of the architecture, among which English children begin to grow up and come to the... ...tranquil aisle, apart from city clamour, among the cats and robins and the ancient effigies and leg- ends of the tomb, he waits the continual passage ...