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...H E S S K E T C H E S AUTOBIOGRAPHIC S K E T C H E S Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN ST... ...Quincey AUTOBIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRAC... ...the nobler benefits of wealth, with extra means of health, of intellectual culture, and of elegant enjoyment, on the other hand, we knew nothing of it... ... Deum” for supposed victories which he had won; and he insisted also on my bearing a part in these “Te Deums.” Now, as I knew of no such victories, bu... ...perceived, that whatsoever is seen in the maturest adult, blos- soming and bearing fruit, must have preëxisted by way of germ in the infant. Yes; all ... ...nd, even of ser- vants, when the arrow came winged and made buoyant by the gay feathering of so many splendid accomplishments. This general fact was a... ...een due to alien suggestion. But now, when Suetonius writes a little book, bearing this title, “De Illustribus Grammaticis,” what does he mean? What i... ... The school which professes to teach grammatica, professes, therefore, the culture of lit- erature in the widest and most liberal extent, and is oppos... ...dioms, and verbal peculiarities belonging to the primitive ages of Ro- man culture were to be found still lingering in the old Ro- man settlements, bo...

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...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and le...

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...ed by Korean parents; that his father despised him and suspected his son was gay; and that Yang Lin felt that his English level was the same as his Ko... ... its existence. In that respect, free of discrimination, one was free to be gay in Korea. Then the18 year-old boy was told to meet the masculine and ... ... by like a shell-shocked soldier; circumventing normal sexual drive by being gay would not free him to an innocence that was forlorn. Now there was j... ...reans or did they yearn for bigger and better things seduced by the American culture that came to them through the cinema and the music and through hi... ...their bodies and faces in a shared bathroom not much different than the ones bears use in zoos. One low faucet fed the cement creek, which had a plast... ...sion toward the rock-a-by song by telling herself that it was the collective culture in the earliest of all primitive American, if not western minds, ... ...ruth. Gabriele backed away from the cat, and wished for death rather than to bear this horror where not even the surety of the death of thousands or m... ... reasons for the specific elements of a myth (the cryptic reason why a given culture might have chosen a serpent god or the son of god over the sun go... ...munism of Trotsky was an experiment on how equal life could get and still be bearable in its world of frightened and impoverished clones. It all misse...

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... last day of November, entering by the Porta del Popolo, and putting up at Bear. But he afterwards hired, at twenty crowns a month, fine furnished roo... ...rer and nearer to me, I did not make some effort, before the time came, to bear the trial with fortitude. For reason prescribes that we should joyfull... ... evils by which mankind is surrounded, whatever they are, is to resolve to bear them so far as our nature permits, or to put an end to them courageous... ...eed, he had shown a desire to speak to his wife, and had told her, with as gay a countenance as he could contrive to assume, that he had a story to te... ...tue than to any other assistance what- ever. This pleasure, for being more gay, more sinewy, more robust and more manly, is only the more seriously vo... ...place particularly, the women take it for a mark of honour to have as many gay fringed tassels at the bottom of their garment, as they have lain with ... ...is not to be blamed if he did not reap fruits answerable to so exquisite a culture. Of this, two things were the cause: first, a sterile and improper ... ...of ours, in several fruits wherein those countries abound with- out art or culture. Neither is it reasonable that art should gain the pre-eminence of ...

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...e o’clock, when a collation was served, though the conversa- tion had been gay and grave by turns, and constantly enliv- ened by Leon de Lora’s sallie... ...ized afterwards that marriages contracted under such circumstances as ours bear in themselves a rock against which many affections are wrecked, many p... ...ning up the soil of the market-garden, and appropriating the ground to the culture of flowers. Like the maniacs of England, or of Holland, I gave it o... ... the street, the least respectful working man would have made way for her. Gay and tender, haughty and imposing, it was impossible to understand her, ... ...he belief in happiness, of a child I nursed for seven months, that I shall bear in my womb all the days of my life. If other children should draw thei... ...an I should choose; but that is the very reason of my refusal. I could not bear to blush before that man. What! I should be always on my knees, he alw... ... and I am dying, dying with stupendous courage. No courtesan was ever more gay than I. My poor Octave is happy; I let his love feed on the illusions o...

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... doorkeeper, pointing to a strongly build, broad shouldered man with a curly beard, who, without taking off his sheepskin cap, was running lightly and... ...growing up,” she said to him, glancing towards Kitty, “and growing old. Tiny bear has grown big now!” pursued the Frenchwoman, laughing, and she remin... ...m of his joke about the three young ladies whom he had compared to the three bears in the English nursery tale. “Do you remember that’s what you used ... ...l time when childhood is just ending, and out of that vast circle, happy and gay, there is a path growing narrower and narrower, and it is delightful ... ... and all that was seen was she—simple natural, elegant, and at the same time gay and eager. 76 Anna Karenina She was standing holding herself, as alw... ...all belonged, and in it the great thing was to be elegant, generous, plucky, gay, to abandon oneself without a blush to every passion, and to laugh at... ...mate and the soil, and consequently deducing all the principles of scientific culture, not simply from the data of soil and climate, but from the data ... ... all there is in his soul,” she thought; “as for these lofty ideals, love of culture, religion, they are only so many tools for getting on.” From his ... ...m Alexey Alexandrovitch had a high opin ion, noted for his intelligence and culture. Alexey Alexandrovitch entered into conversation with him. There ...

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...KS, 1730.................................................... 159 XI. ON MR GAY, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, 1732. ............................................. ...evenge. His own friends, on the other hand, hailed his work with applause,—Gay writing a most graceful and el- egant poem, in ottava rima, entitled, “... ...r some time with Pope. Bolingbroke came over occasionally from Dawley; and Gay was often there to laugh with, and be laughed at by, the rest. Swift ha... ...d unhappiness sprung from his own fault. He attacked others, and could not bear to be attacked in return. He was a bully and a coward. He threw himsel... ...s, say, in what glad soil appears, A wondrous tree 6 that sacred monarchs bears? Tell me but this, and I’ll disclaim the prize, And give the conquest... ...ore I shun, &c. VER. 79, 80— Your praise the tuneful birds to heaven shall bear, And listening wolves grow milder as they hear. 44 The Poetical Works... ...? Where grows?—where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil: Fix’d to no spot is happiness sincere, Tis nowhere t...

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... to say How soon the wrecking discords cease, When every wandering wave is gay With golden argosies of peace! Now when the ark of human fate, Long baf... ...The latest revellers are at peace, The signs of in-door tumult cease, From gay saloon and low resort, Comes not one murmur or report: The clattering c... ...m its death, Immortal melodies in each deep breath; Sweeps thro’ my being, bearing up to thee Myself, the weight of its eternity; Till, nerved to life... ... sung, Regeneration to the young, Reverberation of the truth, And virtuous culture unto youth! Youth! in whose season let abound All flowers and fruit... ...here? 66 TO A SKYLARK O skylark! I see thee and call thee joy! Thy wings bear thee up to the breast of the dawn; I see thee no more, but thy song is... ...ar upon their cheeks, Where clung the salt wet locks, and on their breasts Beards, the thick growth of many a proud campaign; And on their brows the b... ...mer ray, A sweeter song, a dearer ditty; Ouzel and throstle, new-mated and gay, Singing their bridals on every spray – Oh, hear them, deep in the song...

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...s, and Hegewisch’s History of Maximilian, will, I think, be found fully to bear out the picture I have tried to give of the state of things in the rei... ...s closed by the gray wall of a court-yard, laden with fruit- trees in full bearing, and inclosing paved paths that radiated from a central fountain, a... ...t such as join not in it will fare the worse.” “Let Kaiser Fritz catch his bear ere he sells its hide! He has never tried to mount the Eagle’s Ladder!... ...y, and to desire her brother’s success in chamois-hunting. The only mental culture she had ever received was that old Ursel had taught her the Credo, ... ... the noble Fraulein, Count- ess Valeska von T rautbach, and a present of a gay dagger for each of his godsons. Frau Kunigunde triumphed a good deal 1... ...nd down the rows of smiling expectants at each balcony, or window, equally gay with hangings, while the bells of all the churches clashed forth their ... ...lank and tramp, rode a bright-faced troop of lads, with feathered caps and gay mantles. Y oung Count Rudiger looked up with cour- teous salutation; an...

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...he sun into a rusty dark-red colour, forming a contrast with the overgrown beard upon his cheeks, which was rather of a yellow or amber hue. One part ... ...silver bracelets upon his arms, and on his neck a collar of the same metal bearing the inscription, “W amba, the son of Witless, is the thrall of Cedr... ...s upon this matter, and they are alto- gether of opinion, that to carry my gay garments through these sloughs, would be an act of unfriendship to my s... ...nce, from the extremity of which fluttered a small banderole, or streamer, bearing a cross of the same form with that embroidered upon his cloak. He ... ...nce John, who at that moment entered the lists, attended by a numerous and gay train, con- sisting partly of laymen, partly of churchmen, as light in ... ...ing partly of laymen, partly of churchmen, as light in their dress, and as gay in their demeanour, as their companions. Among the latter was the Prior... ...d was naturally rough rather than mellow, and, in short, had done all that culture can do in supplying natural deficiencies. His performance, therefor...

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..., and soon to be as popu- lous as many an incorporated town in the land to which she was to bear us. I was not, in truth, a steerage passenger. Althou... ...ailed to mention it, smelt. Now he came forward in a pause with another contribution to our culture. ‘Just by way of change,’ said he, ‘I’ll ask you a... ...ch and emphasise an argument. When he began a 26 Essays of Travel discussion, he could not bear to leave it off, but would pick the subject to the bo... ...of corn and steam-engines. It may be argued that these opinions spring from the de- fect of culture; that a narrow and pinching way of life not only e... ...is not to be learned in Scotland, and that is the way to be happy. Yet that is the whole of culture, and perhaps two-thirds of mo- rality. Can it be t... ...ooking seaman, who must have passed near half a century upon the seas; square-headed, goat- bearded, with heavy blond eyebrows, and an eye without rad... ...ks that these spacious chimneys are now cold, which have so often blazed and flickered upon gay folk at supper, while he and his hollow-eyed children ... ... for the edification of the others at their work. They wear gaudy shawls, white caps with a gay ribbon about the head, and sometimes a black felt brig... ...s and helps to build up what Walt Whitman calls ‘the cheerful voice of the public road, the gay, fresh sentiment of the road.’ But out of the great ne...

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...g gown, I pass it by, With other signs of manhood which supplied The lack of beard. The weeks went roundly on, 40 With invitations, suppers, wine, and... ... round, and cannot right itself; And, though an aching and a barren sense Of gay confusion still be uppermost, 670 With few wise longings and but litt... ...ation 55 But with more shame, for my habiliments, The transformation and the gay attire. Delighted did I take my place again At our domestic table; an... ...ange rendezvous my mind was at that time, A party coloured shew of grave and gay, Solid and light, short sighted and profound, Of considerate habits a... ...en, come, and go, a child 405 And nothing more, no partner in the years That bear us forward to distress and guilt, Pain and abasement; beauty in such... ...iate—that deep farewell light by which The setting sun proclaims the love he bears To mountain regions. 120 Beauteous the domain Where to the sense of... ...pression worse than death Salutes the being at his birth, where grace 195 Of culture hath been utterly unknown, And labour in excess and poverty From ...

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...welve Members of the Legislative go daily, ’ not to encourage only, but to bear a hand, and delve: it was decreed with accla- mation. Arms shall eithe... ...th of horrors that lie in it; the same leaky bottom, in these wild waters, bears us all. One can judge what stir there was now among the ‘thirty thous... ...ashion her monsters, and prodigies of Events, which thou seest her visibly bear! Terror is on these streets of Paris; terror and rage, tears and frenz... ...rench Revolution - V olume Three The men were men of parts, of Philosophic culture, decent behaviour; not condemnable in that they were Pedants and ha... ...orded what death they made. To our no- tions, it is not an edifying death. Gay satirical Pot-pourri by Ducos; rhymed Scenes of Tragedy, wherein Barrer...

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...m, straight features, a lively grey eye and the rich adornment of a chestnut beard. This person had a certain fortunate, brilliant exceptional look—th... ...ry justly said, after you had read the Interviewer you had lost all faith in culture. Her tendency, with this, was rather to keep the Interviewer out ... ...ne, which at times, in its strained deliberation, suggested a person of high culture speaking a foreign language. Ralph Touchett subsequently learned ... ...this she made no direct reply; there was an amount of truth in it that would bear consideration. At last she said abruptly: “I don’t see what harm the... ...sit.” A servant had come in with lamps and was presently followed by another bear ing the tea tray. On the appearance of this repast Mrs. Touchett ha... ...rmless paradox, intended to puzzle her? or was it the last refinement of high culture? She trusted she should learn in time; it would be very interesti... ...n American jeune fille—what could be better than that? She would be frank and gay, and yet would not have walked alone, nor have received letters from ...

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... labours in forgetfulness, I trust; Let me my feverish watch with patience bear, Thankful that none with me its sufferings share. Yet, oh, for light! ... ...transient strength and ardour stirred, In minds to strength unused, Yet in gay crowd or festal glare, Grave and retiring was her air; ’T was seldom, s... ...nd-in-hand we tread again The mazes of this varying wood, And soon, amid a cultured plain, Girt in with fertile solitude, We shall our resting-place d... ... meed, Which has no licence to complain, “Which must be borne; yet who can bear, Hours long, days long, a constant weight— The yoke of absolute despai... ... There Want or Discord never come, And seldom T oil or T ears. The carpets bear the peaceful print Of comfort’s velvet tread, And golden gleams, from ... ... the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed. And days may pass in gay confusion, And nights in rosy riot fly, While, lost in Fame’s or Wealth... ...course—still o’er my grave, Lord, may thy harvest whitening wave. So I the culture may begin, Let others thrust the sickle in; If but the seed will fa... ...ctant then, T o joyless labour did we rise; But full of hope, and glad and gay, We welcomed the returning day. 95 Poems by Charlotte, Emily and Anne ...

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...one century and a quarter before the birth of William Shakspeare, a person bearing the same name as his maternal grandfather had been returned by the ... ...ers. With respect to his libera- tion from the weekly assessment, that may bear a construc- tion different from the one which it has received. This pa... ...alone.” We, however, at this day, are chiefly interested in the case as it bears upon the education and youthful happiness of the poet. Now if we supp... ... sense and the necessities of business on the other, drove him to quit his gay rhetoric in letter-writing. But there are passages surviving in his cor... ...as setting up for the ideal type of the pastoral style, the quotation from Gay, beginning, “Rager, go vetch tha kee, or else tha zun Will quite bego b... ...1732 died his friend Atterbury; and on De- cember the 7th of the same year Gay, the most unpretend- ing of all the wits whom he knew, and the one with... ...between the departments of poetry which he cultivated and the merit of his culture. The first place must undoubtedly be given for ever,—it cannot be r... ...t indiscriminate? From this defect in his nature it arose, that, except by culture and by reflec- tion, Lamb had no genial appreciation of Milton. The... ...y towards either pole, still it is next to impossible, in the exercise and culture of the two powers, but some bias must arise which would give that a...

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...kground of the picture, the features portrayed may escape caricature and yet bear some resemblance to the original. Lastly, the use of the labels “Ang... ...hose habits and opinions are threaded through and through with Mediterranean culture and the civic discipline of Rome. One can imagine the first French... ...h an unfamiliar object; and no one can hope to understand the French without bearing in mind that this unquestioning respect for rules of which the me... ...s which humanise and unite society. And he chose “taste”—taste in speech, in culture, in manners,— as the fusing principle of his new Academy. The tra... ... taste in tabloids, she will never come into her real inheritance of English culture. A gentleman travelling in the Middle West met a charming girl wh... ...surrounded with a white silk fringe in imitation of his hoary hair and “chin beard.” A Horace Greeley fan had long been knocking about our country hou... ...reign agents) to cater to foreign pornography. The French have always been a gay and free and Rabelaisian people. They attach a great deal of importan...

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...the Scriptures? Does 59 Thomas de Quincey an aeon, though a Grecian word, bear scripturally (either in Daniel or in St. John) any sense known to Grec... ...ffirm it. And he returns to his native country, quartering in his armorial bearings these new trophies, as though won by new trials, when, in fact, th... ...trary, Schlosser wonders not at all, but simply criticises; which we could bear, if the criticism were even ingenious. Whereas, he utterly misundersta... ...is prose. But what the world knows Wieland by is his ‘Oberon.’ Now in this gay, musical romance of Sir Huon and his enchanted horn, with its gleams of... ...successively fading into darkness, still cheering his languid hours by the culture of classical literature, and in his eighty-second year drawing sola... ...iest years, Amidst your parents’ grief and pain alone Cheerful and gay, you smiled to soothe their tears; And in their agonies forgot yo... ... they no longer express themselves in the same way. In an age of imperfect culture, all passions and emotions are in a more elementary state—‘speak a ... ...ir parents’ presence. But with us, in an age of more complete intellectual culture, a thick disguise is spread over the naked foundations of human lif...

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...where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power? Others will teach us how to dare, And against fear our breast to steel; Others ... ...abides. But tasks in hours of insight will’d Can be through hours of gloom fulfill’d. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, l... ...ure shine— But ah! I could not stay! “Action I had not, followers, fame; I pass’d obscure, alone. The after-world forgets my name, Nor do I wish it ... ...heir drops of blood, their death in life. The garden, overgrown—yet mild, See, fragrant herbs are flowering there! Strong children of the ... ...e learned your lore too well! Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, 44 Matthew Arnold Which without hardness... ...to war! And through the wood, another way, Faint bugle-notes from far are borne, Where hunters gather, staghounds bay, Round some fair for... ...er me roll. Yes, yes, we know that we can jest, We know, we know that we can smile! But there’s a something in this breast, To which thy light words b...

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...d millions, and all safely planted in Good Things, gilt edged and interest bearing. Income, $120,000,000 a year. Aleck fetched a long purr of soft de ... ...building her first university, what was he doing? Polluting himself with a gay and dissipated secret life in the company of other fast bloods, multimi... ... the bank at Monte Carlo. He stopped. He could go no farther; he could not bear the rest. He rose up, with a great resolution upon his lips: this secr... ... our grand children will sit upon thrones!” “T rue as you live, Aleck—and bear scepters, too; and handle them as naturally and nonchantly as I handle... ...nition every time, which showed me that she had more presence of mind than culture, though I said nothing, The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories 34 o... ...ter; and so had its front yard, which was a garden of flow ers, abundant, gay, and flourishing. I was invited in, of course, and required to make mys... ...tell a cow from a horse by the like process, the result of observation and culture. I should ex plain that I am speaking of legitimate verbs, those v... ...idst and look out over the furry expanse it is so mottled and splashed and gay with color and frisking sheen and sun flash, and so rippled with stripe...

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...h endurance becomes 13 Charles Dickens ridiculous, if not culpable. I can bear much; but not too much. What spell was on me when I came into this hou... ...ar!’ repeated Mr Chick. ‘Oh, don’ t talk to me!’ said Mrs Chic ‘if you can bear to see me in this state, and not ask me what the matter is, you had be... ...rself to her feelings for some minutes, to Mr Chick’s great terror. ‘I can bear to resign Paul’s confidence in favour of one who, I hope and trust, ma... ...n, who was standing by the door looking at him. ‘I excessively regret poor Gay ,’ said Carker, ‘and the crew. I understand there were some of our very... ...s happens so. Many men with families too. A com- fort to reflect that poor Gay had no family, Captain Cuttle!’ The Captain stood rubbing his chin, and... ...ris?’ she asked, subduing her emotion. ‘It was cold,’ returned Mr Dombey. ‘Gay as ever,’ said Mrs Skewton, ‘of course. ‘Not particularly. I thought it... ...d not, however, in his musings, neglect his own improvement, or the mental culture of Rob the Grinder. That young man was generally required to read o...

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...our head; a long head is as good as shorthand.’ Miss Hannah More recalls a gay meeting at the Garricks’, in Johnson’s absence, when Boswell was bold e... ... at random to a line which 8 Boswell’s Life of Johnson has not its direct bearing upon the one subject of the work. Nor is the unity of the book that... ...The single scenes and pictures which Boswell has given us will all of them bear close scrutiny for their precision, their economy of means, their life... ...from Johnson knowledge of that in which Johnson is expert, Johnson’s manly bearing and voice throughout—all is set forth with the unadorned vividness ... ...vitality and significance to everything about him. A part of education and culture is the exten- sion of one’s narrow range of living to include wider... ...e was at Pembroke College, ‘was caressed and loved by all about him, was a gay and frolicksome fellow, and passed there the hap- piest part of his lif... ..., Johnson had a fancy that as a dramatick authour his dress should be more gay than what he ordinarily wore; he therefore appeared behind the scenes, ...

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...ion. ‘The Surname of Bien-aime (Well-beloved), ’ says he, ‘which Louis XV. bears, will not leave posterity in the same doubt. This Prince, in the year... .... The man so nourished and decorated, thenceforth named royal, does verily bear rule; and is said, and even thought, to be, for example, ‘prosecuting ... ...ds done in the body:’ they are done now; and lie there unalterable, and do bear their fruits, long as Eternity shall last. Louis XV. had always the ki... ... the sons of the Saxon Puritans, with their Old-Saxon tem- per, Old-Hebrew culture, sleek Silas, sleek Benjamin, here on such errand, among the light ... ...born (Vous vous etes donne la peine de naitre),” all men must laugh: and a gay horse-racing Anglomaniac Noblesse loudest of all. For how can small boo... ...ea- tures, how shall he, in all Philosophe-soirees, and saloons of elegant culture, become notable as a Friend of Darkness? Among the Paris Long-robes... ... 71 Thomas Carlyle ecution;’ no flaunting it in the Oeil-de-Boeuf, as the gay- est man-pleaser and woman-pleaser; gleaning even a good word from Phil...

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...ion. ‘The Surname of Bien- aime (Well-beloved),’ says he, ‘which Louis XV. bears, will not leave posterity in the same doubt. This Prince, in the year... .... The man so nourished and decorated, thenceforth named royal, does verily bear rule; and is said, and even thought, to be, for example, ‘prosecuting ... ...ds done in the body:’ they are done now; and lie there unalterable, and do bear their fruits, long as Eternity shall last. Louis XV. had always the ki... ....) the sons of the Saxon Puritans, with their Old-Saxon temper, Old-Hebrew culture, sleek Silas, sleek Benjamin, here on such errand, among the light ... ...born (Vous vous etes donne la peine de naitre),” all men must laugh: and a gay horse-racing Anglomaniac Noblesse loudest of all. For how can small boo... ...creatures, how shall he, in all Philosophe-soirees, and saloons of elegant culture, become notable as a Friend of Darkness? Among the Paris Long-robes... ...h woes, are they not Majesty’s and Nature’s? Speaks, at the same time, his gay defi- ance, his firm-set resolution. Citizens, still more Citizenesses,... ...e striving to be glad. Louis looks out, mainly on the variegated lamps and gay human groups, with satisfaction enough for the hour. In her Majesty’s f... ...out a sigh from most Historians. The men were men of parts, of Philosophic culture, decent behaviour; not condemnable in that they were Pedants and ha...

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...igh because we are not in that Provence where even the saddest stories are gay. Consider the lamentable history of Peire Vidal. Two years ago Florence... ... and over the salons of modistes and over the plages of the Riviera—like a gay tremu- lous beam, reflected from water upon a ceiling. And my function ... ...epsie graduate. I guess Flo- 11 Ford Madox Ford rence wanted to raise the culture of the Stuyvesant crowd and did it as she might have gone in slummi... ...akes me think of that fellow Peire Vidal. Because, of course, his story is culture and I had to head her towards culture and at the same time it’s so ... ...together. It really worried poor Florence that she couldn’t, in matters of culture, ever get the better of Leonora. I don’t know what Leonora knew or ... ... after the other (I’m not really interested in these facts but they have a bearing on my story). And we went through 29 Ford Madox Ford chapels, and ... ...hat hall, long after Florence had gone to bed, so that I might witness her gay reception of that pair. She could play up. And that enables me to fix e... ...at her feet with their faces hidden might have been two swans that were to bear her away to kissing-kindness land, or wherever it is. Leonora showed h... ...She wanted, you know, to spare poor dear Edward’s feelings. He never could bear the sight of a corpse. And, since she never gave him an idea that Mais...

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...an’s companion was a powerful, handsome fel- low, with a remarkable auburn beard, who struck the ob- server immediately as being uncommonly well dress... ... have engaged to bring your superior wisdom and your immense experience to bear upon me! That ‘s the understanding.” “You must think us a pretty pair ... ...ng poplar, looking as if it had survived from some more primitive stage of culture, with its stiff boughs motionless and its leaves forever trembling.... ...l of nature about it, and at this moment, na- ture, embodied in the clear, gay sunshine, in the blue and quiet sea, in the daisied grass of the high-s... ...ave it, ben trovato, and it was wonderful how well it bore thinking of. It bears telling less well; but I can at least give a hint of it. The theory t...

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... me above all others. For I also in those days was among the young and the gay; I was healthy; I was strong; I was prosperous in a worldly sense! I ow... ...d had been for some hours, out of anxiety and terror about my mistress, to bear much more. So, when he heard that, he was less willing to speak freely... ...solute and universal? Might not, at least, a female servant, simply as the bearer of such articles as were indispensable to female delicacy and comfor... ...ue, I whispered to myself; my day also, my season of trial will be hard to bear; but that also will have an end; that also ‘se passera.’ Thus I talked... ...eyes. His saluta- tion was something to this effect. ‘What the hell do you gay fellows want with me? What the blazes is this humbugging letter about? ... ...etly listening to the music, when some street ruffians, in derision of the gay colors and the form of her forest-made costume—[rascals! one would like... ...h and the nectarine are said to have radiated from this austere stock when cultured, developed, and trans- ferred to all varieties of climate. Superst... ...flictions of our human state that spring up as inevitably without separate culture and in defiance of all hostile culture, as verdure, as weeds, and a... ...rom the bosom of war itself. Gradu- ally the mere practice of war, and the culture of war though merely viewed as a rude trade of bloodshed, ripened i...

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...Whatsoever a man is, is due to his make, and to the influences brought to bear upon it by his heredities, his habitat, his associations. He is moved,... ...fering old face pierced his generous heart with a sharp pain. He could not bear it. He could endure the three mile walk in the storm, but he could not... ... real why of his making the investment. In the first place he couldn’t bear the pain which the old suffering face gave him. So he was thinking of ... ...ied it. I was shaving. I had slept well, and my mind was very lively, even gay and frisky. It was reveling in a fantastic and joyful episode of my rem... ...avage race has produced architects who could approach the air in genius or culture. No civilized race has produced architects who could plan a house b... ...her eyes—and she impulsively kissed my hand in return. Then with the usual gay “Sleep well, dear!” from both, we parted. At half past seven this morni... ... in measureless pomp and with blare of music through a fluttering world of gay flags and decorations, down streets walled on both hands with a press o... ... had been stocked, but not their understandings. It was a case of brickbat culture, pure and simple. There are several curious “compositions” in the l... ...s are very well, but books do not cover the whole domain of esthetic human culture. Pride of profes sion is one of the boniest bones in existence, if...

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...ELIMINARY 3 CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY C ONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne a... ...mpressing a political or other immediately practical tendency on all English culture and endeavor, cramps the free flight of Thought,—that this, not Ph... ...ther cock, no biped stands so high. Couriers arrive bestrapped and bebooted, bearing Joy and Sorrow bagged up in pouches of leather: there, top laden,... ... wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant streets, are bearing her to Halls roofed in, and lighted to the due pitch for her; and... ... and crowbars, or lurks in wait till the watchmen first snore in their boxes. Gay mansions, with supper rooms and dancing rooms, are full of light and ... ...sewhere, the ninety and nine Public Men can for most part be but mute train bearers to the hundredth, perhaps but stalking horses and willing or unwi... ...n; nay, the graces also have been consid ered, and frills and fringes, with gay variety of color, featly appended, and ever in the right place, are n... ...tion and environment, where on pegs of honor they hung, looked ever trim and gay: a roomy painted Cottage, embowered in fruit trees and forest trees, ... ...rtheless,” continues he, “I too acknowledge the all but omnipotence of early culture and nurture: hereby we have either a doddered dwarf bush, or a hi...

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.............................................................. 143 EPITAPH ON GAY........................................................................... ................................................................... 160 TO MR GAY,.......................................................................... ...gether irrespective of the mere merit or demerit of his poetry. “We cannot bear a Papist to be our principal bard,” said one class. “No T ory for our ... ...lowing elements to be analysed:—His original genius—his kind and degree of culture—his purpose—his special faculties—the works he has written—and the ... ...vention.” A splendid sylph let us call him—a “giant angel” he was not. His culture, like his genius, was rather elegant than pro- found. He lived in a... ... More wise, more learn’d, more just, more everything, 140 Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heaven’s influence scarce can... ...sun, 160 And Britain, if not Europe, is undone. That gay free-thinker, a fine talker once, What turns him now a stupid silent du... ... ‘Most women have no characters at all.’ Matter too soft a lasting mark to bear, And best distinguish’d by black, brown, or fair. How many pictures of...

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...languages. Of the cultivated tongues of Europe, the Magyar, or Hungarian, bears the most positive signs of a deep rooted similarity to the Finnish. B... ... is often represented as sitting upon a cloud in the vault of the sky, and bearing on his shoulders the firmament, and therefore he is termed, “The Pi... ...on were stolen from the heav ens, and hidden away in a cave of the copper bearing moun tain, by the wicked hostess of the dismal Sariola, he, like A... ... in safety, 143 The Kalevala For the moose was well imprisoned. Thereupon gay Lemminkainen Filled with joyance spake as follows: “Pride of forests, q... ...ee, dear mother, For thy tender care and guidance, For my birth and for my culture, Nurtured by thy purest life blood! Gratitude to thee, dear brother...

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...Excerpt: Heartbreak house is not merely the name of the play which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a shot had been fired; and only the professional diplomatists and the very few amateurs whose hobby is foreign policy even knew that the guns were loaded. ...

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...HOUSE is not merely the name of the play which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a sho... ...uld read; some of them could write; and they were the sole repositories of culture who had social opportunities of con- tact with our politicians, adm... ...They took the only part of our society in which there was leisure for high culture, and made it an economic, political and; as far as practicable, a m... ...ith tight- ening hearts studying the phases of the moon in London in their bearing on the chances whether our houses would be standing or ourselves al... ...le to understand the vagaries of public feeling during the war unless they bear constantly in mind that the war in its entire magnitude did not exist ... .... A blockade that cuts off “the grace of our Lord” is in the long run less bearable than the block- ades which merely cut off raw materials; and again... ...n with him by chance at a concert. MRS HUSHABYE. You seem to have rather a gay time at your concerts, Ellie. ELLIE. Not at all: we talk to everyone in...