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...ed with a certain relief from his sinister strength to a slender figure in bronze, stationed beneath the high light loggia, which opposes the free and... ...fec- tion. An American, to excel, has just ten times as much to learn as a European. We lack the deeper sense. We have neither taste, nor tact, nor po... ...ver. The very heat of his devotion was a sign of conversion; those born to European opportunity manage better to reconcile enthusiasm with comfort. He... ...wing-room chimney-piece. Surrounded by these treasures, and by innumerable bronzes, mosaics, majolica dishes, and little worm-eaten diptychs covered w... ...h his confidence. You needn’t be ashamed, my dear young man; a man of your age is none the worse for a certain generous credulity. Only allow me to gi... ...a masterpiece she will be! Old—old! Old—old!” he murmured. “Never mind her age,” I cried, revolted at what I had done, “never mind my impression of he... ...ccess. They are especially admired by Americans. I have sent them all over Europe—to London, Paris, Vienna! You may have observed some little specimen... ...sixty francs for a little group like that. My statuettes are as durable as bronze—aere perennius, signore—and, between ourselves, I think they are mor...

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...andrian Library. Suidas also informs us elsewhere that Aristophanes at the age of sixty two succeeded Apollonius in this office. Many modern scholars ... ...e curious ground that it was impossible for abuse to go further. It was an age when literary men were more inclined to comment on writings of the past... ...uliar to epic poetry. Callimachus was in accordance with the spirit of the age when he proclaimed “a great book” to be “a great evil,” and sought to c... ...) After them from T aenarus came Euphemus whom, most swift footed of men, Europe, daughter of mighty Tityos, bare to Poseidon. He was wont to skim th... ...the ground; and Ancaeus struck the broad neck of the other with his axe of bronze, and shore through the mighty sinews; and it fell prone on both its ... ... Oenoe bore to Thoas. Now for all the women to tend kine, to don armour of bronze, and to cleave with the plough share the wheat bearing fields, was e... ... of her tunic was loosed beneath her breast; and opposite in the shield of bronze her image appeared clear to view as she stood. The Argonautica 28 (... ...his land, it is said, a king * made his way all round through the whole of Europe and Asia, trusting in the might and strength and courage of his peop...

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...some paintings of Scotch scenery, three big armchairs, a buhl clock, and a bronze Dancing Faun, by their want of any col- lective idea enhanced rather... ... fed your household on ten shillings a head a week. You could run over all Europe, barring Turkey and Russia, without even a passport. You could get t... ... was intended to make a great splash in the world, his Psychology of a New Age. He had his metaphors ready. “We said: ‘This system will always go on. ... ...he former time fails to give safe responses, and the psychology of the New Age has still to develop.” S S S S Section 4 ection 4 ection 4 ection 4 ect... ...t humbugs us into what she wants with us. All very well in the early Stone Age—when the poor dear things never realized that their mutual endearments ... ...oon to Silbury Hill, that British pyramid, the largest artificial mound in Europe. They left the car by the roadside and clambered to the top and were... ...s manner. “I was explaining to the young lady that it dates from the early bronze age. Before chronol- ogy existed…. But she insists on dates.” “Nothi... ... age. Before chronol- ogy existed…. But she insists on dates.” “Nothing of bronze has ever been found here,” said Sir Richmond. “Well, when was this e... ...“She’ll agree to all that. She’s been saying it right across 81 H G Wells Europe. Rome, Paris, London; they’re simply just done. They don’t signify a...

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...is doing more…. A quarter of a million years ago the utmost man was a sav- age, a being scarcely articulate, sheltering in holes in the rocks, armed w... ... changed. That keen chisel of necessity which sharp- ened the tiger’s claw age by age and fined down the clumsy Orchippus to the swift grace of the ho... ..., the quicker eye, the bigger brain, the better bal- anced body prevailed; age by age, the implements were a little better made, the man a little more... ...rate polities came the great struggle of Carthage and Rome. The history of Europe is the history of the victory and breaking up of the Roman Empire. E... ...he victory and breaking up of the Roman Empire. Every ascendant monarch in Europe up to the last, 10 The World Set Free aped Caesar and called himsel... ...e doing much the same things and living much the same life as they were in Europe in A.D. 1500. The English excavators of the year A.D. 1900 could del... ... a twentieth- century rendering of mediaevalism, mediaevalism in steel and bronze and sham stone and opaque glass. Against the sky it splashed a confu...

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...DAY IT OCCURRED TO ME that it had been many years since the world had been afforded the spectacle of a man adventurous enough to undertake a journey t... ...ght sort of person to accom- pany me in the capacity of agent, and finally hired a Mr. Harris for this service. It was also my purpose to study art wh... ...down it. This last affords the most extensive view, and it is one of the loveliest that can be imagined, too. Out of a billowy upheaval of vivid green... ...amined the hole, they all made the sufferer tell it over again, then they all discussed it, and got off as many leather-headed opinions about it as an... ...the Legion of Honor has been conferred upon me. However, few escape that distinction. Such is the true version of the most memorable private conflict ... ...d their hats or bonnets on. What a blessed thing it would be if a lady could make herself conspicuous in our theaters by wearing her hat. It is not us... ...ver the silent land, while the distant boatmen and peasants thrust their fingers into their ears and shuddered out a prayer. And now came the Crusader... ...g. Everything is on a large scale; the public buildings, for instance—and they are architecturally imposing, too, as well as large. The big squares ha...

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...graphy of the inscription on the banderols beneath each figure prove their age, but being, 12 Balzac as they are, in the naive language of the fablia... ...ummoned at any moment to take arms. No sooner was Calyste sixteen years of age than his father accompanied him to the marshes and the forest, teaching... ...rush nor written word can pic- ture. Beautiful still at forty-two years of age, many a man would have thought it happiness to marry her as she looked ... ...hs, closing his eyes at the moment when Napoleon was strug- gling with all Europe on the corpse of France. Her removal to Paris was therefore still fu... ...ut the tone is warm. The pupil is surrounded by an orange circle; it is of bronze set in gold, but vivid gold and animated bronze. This pupil has dept... ...ld like her, if I had said as she has said, “I love,” in every language of Europe, I should be consoled, I should be pitied, I should be adored for se... ...taly. He is beginning now to say it is ridiculous that he knows nothing of Europe. I can guess what those words mean, flung out in advance. If Calyste... ... This artist, a charming lad, worked for jewellers, for manufactur- ers in bronze and silver-smiths; he longed to be another Benvenuto Cellini. Claude...

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...u command (and whose fleet alone makes them a third-rate maritime power in Europe) should appoint a few admirals in their navy, I hope to hear that yo... ...ny!” in all voices, from extreme youth to the most lousy and venerable old age. When it is said that these beggars were as ragged as those of Ireland... ...ous, all the world over; and that there is scarcely a capital city in this Europe but has its pomp- ous bronze statue or two of some periwigged, hook-... ...that there is scarcely a capital city in this Europe but has its pomp- ous bronze statue or two of some periwigged, hook-nosed emperor, in a Roman hab... ...r two of some periwigged, hook-nosed emperor, in a Roman habit, waving his bronze baton on his broad-flanked brazen charger. We only saw these state o... ... period a building mania seems to have seized upon many of the monarchs of Europe, and innumerable public edifices were erected. It seems to me to hav... ...iro disagreeable to me, that I can’t at present reconcile myself to you in age. I read your poets, but it was in fear and trembling; and a cold sweat ... ...s, and cal- culations with a measuring-line?It can’t be done by giving the age and measurement of all the buildings along the river, the names of all ... ... may see there the Thebaic stone set up by the Emperor Theodosius, and the bronze column of 67 Thackeray serpents which Murray says was brought from ...

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...iod of their marriage—the first at eighteen, the second at twenty years of age—without ever leaving the domestic zone where the rigid maternal eye con... ... of love, so cold and sadly resigned were their faces. They were all of an age when mankind is sulky and fretful, and natural sensi- bilities are chie... ...German; one of those men born old, who seem all their lives fifty years of age, even at eighty. And yet, his brown, sunken, wrinkled face still kept s... ...ould be found in those mountains of the moon, still virgin of the tread of Europeans—intoxicates a secondary mind as much as it saddens great ones; bu... ...and the more gracious faces of the French aristoc- racy. All the orders of Europe glittered on the breasts or hung from the necks of these men. Examin... ...ellow salon, its effect heightened by trimmings of the color of Florentine bronze, was in harmony with the rest of these magnificences, a fur- ther de... ... abruptly? In the spring we will travel; we will go to Italy, and all over Europe; you shall see life. But to-morrow night we must go to the Opera-bal...

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...o link each other’s arms together, and wander gently downwards towards old age in happy and perfect fruition. But our little Amelia was just on the ba... ...windler to scorn. Such a Corsican wretch as that with- stand the armies of Europe and the genius of the immortal 9 Thackeray W ellington! Amelia held... ...ered her cousin Mick to marry her when she was about thirty-three years of age; and the honest fellow obeying, carried her off to the West Indies, to ... ... went to bed to the note of the British fife and drum: all the country and Europe was in arms, and the greatest event of history pending: and honest P... ...he au- gust jobbers assembled at Vienna, and carving out the king- doms of Europe according to their wisdom, had such causes of quarrel among themselv... ...pecially have shrunk very much of late. When he was about seventy years of age (he is now nearly eighty), his hair, which was very scarce and quite wh... ...survey his house—his own house—with ge- raniums in the window and a carved bronze knocker. The foot- man occasionally lounging at the area railing, tr... ...rkling round the mantel piece, in all sorts of quaint sconces, of gilt and bronze and porcelain. They lighted up Rebecca’s figure to admiration, as sh... ...nd many-tinted. There was the jewel-case, silver-clasped, and the wondrous bronze hand on the dressing-table, glistening all over with a hundred rings...

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... July by Mademoiselle Marie-Jeanne- Brigitte Thuillier, a spinster of full age, stands about the middle of the rue Saint-Dominique d’Enfer, to the rig... ...or him. Yes; it will be something like administrating the finances to man- age a piece of property.” “Oh, sister! you will save his life,” cried Madam... ...ing to make herself the sole arbiter of her own fate. At fourteen years of age, she went to live alone in a garret, not far from the ministry of finan... ...Phellion. “He is cousin- germain to Tartuffe, that immortal figure cast in bronze by our honest Moliere; for Moliere, my children, had honesty and pat... ...aps, by the lady’s Hungarian nationality —always that of the hussar. A few bronzes and statuettes of exquisite selection, chairs rolling softly on Per... ...announce the sale of the new work, destined to be- come, as he believed, a European event. Without actually deciding the manner in which he would puni... ...a Peyrade. “It happened to him that this serpent knows every lan- guage in Europe; she is witty and clever to the tips of her fingers, but more manoeu...

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...he daughter of a rich banker of Hamburg. It is well known what a fancy all Europe had for the splendid troopers of Napoleon! In 1814, Madame Marion, h... ...France, ex- pected, no doubt, to transfer to his son, then thirty years of age, his electoral succession, in order to make him some day eligible for t... ...period he refused the honors of the mayor- alty on the ground of his great age, and finally, although the town, in order to manifest its affection for... ...ion, the Empire, and the Restoration. Achille Pigoult, thirty-two years of age, had been eighteen years a clerk in Grevin’s office with no means of be... ... as precious as that of Napoleon. The English merchants, in buying out the European markets, certainly got the better of the colossus who threatened t... ...se. Her hands were cov- ered with black silk mittens, and her feet were in bronze kid boots. This gala air, which gave her somewhat the appear- ance o... ...vel and a certain faculty for observation had imparted an understanding of European interests, of foreign cabinets, and of all the ramifications of 8...

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...reat step. But I tried to take it, my ambition fired When sixteen years of age, Seeing “East Lynne,” played here in the village By Ralph Barrett, the ... ...ing under my cedar tree at evening. The years went on. I sent the girls to Europe; I dowered them when married. I gave the boys money to start in busi... ...th my wings were strong and tireless, But I did not know the mountains. In age I knew the mountains But my weary wings could not follow my vision— Gen... ...on River, That in the hall—way of the New Court House There is a tablet of bronze Containing the embossed faces Of Editor Whedon and Thomas Rhodes? An... ... Scientific Association, For this modest boulder, And its little tablet of bronze. Twice I tried to join your honored body, And was rejected And when ... ...our husband is dead, your sister lives far away, Y our father is bent with age; He has forgotten you, he scarcely leaves the house Any more. No one re... ...r it be assailed by a barbarous tribe of Tagalogs Or the greatest power in Europe.” And we cheered and cheered the speech and the flag he waved As he ...

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...ou are not reasonable, my love. Do you think that at thirty-seven years of age, fresh and pretty as you are, you can go and bury yourself at Chinon? I... ...g well. Those sentiments never die.” “Alas! I know it well.” “At a certain age men will turn their souls inside out to get hair, if they haven’t any. ... ...he last child is the hero of this story. When Cesar at four- teen years of age could read, write, and cipher, he left his na- 20 Rise and Fall of Ces... ...logne in the domain of the toilet, has been widely sought by both sexes in Europe. Devoting long vigils to the study of the skin and cuticle of the tw... ...rniture with arched tops covered in yellow, a carpet, chimney ornaments of bronze without gilding, a painted chimney-board, a console bear- ing a vase... ...rotteau,” said Vauquelin, “there are not two ounces of Macassar oil in all Europe. Macassar oil has not the slightest action upon the hair; but the Ma... ... splendors of the approaching ball were announced by the newspapers to all Europe, and were also made known to the world of commerce by rumors to whic... ...ce—like the image on a medal and of the same stern char- acter—took a deep bronze tone, such as the metal itself takes 163 Balzac under the oscillati...

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...crossing the imaginary line drawn from Punta Mala to Azuera the ships from Europe bound to Sulaco lose at once the strong breezes of the ocean. They b... ... was just the bos’n of an Italian ship, a big Genoese ship, one of the few European ships that ever came to Sulaco with a general cargo before the bui... ...y’s property. That and the prop- erty of the railway were preserved by the European residents; that is, by Captain Mitchell himself and the staff of e... ...hat they seemed to throw a glow upon her thin, colourless face. There were bronze glints in the sombre clusters of her hair, and the eyelashes, long a... ...stromo; but as to his daughters, the severity of his temper, his advancing age, his absorption in his memories, had prevented his taking much notice o... ...ligion. This stern devotion to a cause had cast a gloom upon Giorgio’s old age. It cast a gloom because the cause seemed lost. Too many kings and empe... ...e of engine-drivers and foremen of the railway shops. With their handsome, bronzed, lean faces, shiny black ringlets, glistening eyes, broad-chested, ... ...n from the ground, struck a match to light a cigarette. The flame showed a bronzed, black-whiskered face, a pair of eyes gaz- ing straight; then, rear... ...k on and on with a sort of complacent virtuosity wonderful in a man of his age, while he held the cup in his hands for a long time. His close-cropped ...

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...ter, in 1830, Mr. Patteson was raised to the Bench, at the unusually early age of forty. It is probable that there never was a period when the Judi- c... ...him, step by step, from grace to grace. Five years old is in many cases an age of a good deal of thought. The intelligence is free from the misapprehe... ...ts that often seems to swamp the deeper nature throughout boyhood. By this age Coley was able to read, and on his birthday he received from his father... ...k and Anschauungswerk of the Orientals, which is so different from that of Europeans or their language. How hard are the meta- phors of the Bible for ... ...l, in 1826, a sandal-wood trader named Dillon found in the possession of a European, who had lived since 1813 in Ticopia, the silver guard of a sword,... ... by the sharks, and others killed by the natives; indeed, there were sixty European skulls in a temple. The other vessel had drifted over the reef, an... ...tone work, &c.,—perfect.’ And the house, ‘full of first-rate works of art, bronzes, carvings, &c.,’ was pleasant to the eyes that had been so enthusia...

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...undergone less change since the seventeenth cen- tury than any language in Europe, and by far the greater and cer- tainly the best part of “Don Quixot... ...victory of the combined fleets at Lepanto, belong rather to the history of Europe than to the life of Cervantes. He was one of those that sailed from ... ...comforted and helped the weak-hearted, how he kept up their drooping cour- age, how he shared his poor purse with this deponent, and how “in him this ... ... in an official document as his natural daughter, and then twenty years of age. With his crippled left hand promotion in the army was hopeless, now th... ...o the man she is proudest of; no monument, that is to say, of him; for the bronze statue in the little garden of the Plaza de las Cortes, a fair work ... ...tion of the work it had been translated into the four leading languages of Europe. Except the Bible, in fact, no book has been so widely diffused as “... ...za and Don Quixote would not be recognized as true to nature. In the stone age, among the lake dwellers, among the cave men, there were Don Quixotes a...

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..., a Story of California. The Pit, a Story of Chicago. The Wolf, a Story of Europe. These novels, while forming a series, will be in no way connected w... ...California to the time of its consumption as bread in a village of Western Europe. The first novel, “The Octopus,” deals with the war be- tween the wh... ...ast a glance about the vestibule. They saw a gentleman of an indeterminate age—judged by his face he might as well have been forty as thirty-five. A h... ...ing outward from the middle of its turmoil, a dozen bourses of continental Europe clamoured with panic, a dozen Old-World banks, firm as the establish... ... the drop light—the only light in the room—turning over the leaves of “The Age of Fable,” looking for graceful and appropri- ate names for the yacht. ... ...aconically, “there are others.” The man who spoke was about forty years of age. His name was Calvin Hardy Crookes. He was very small and very slim. Hi... ...garettes and ash trays at his elbow. Then he lit the tall lamp of corroded bronze, with its heavy silk shade, that stood on a table in the angle of th... ... antique por- trait bust of the days of decadent Rome, black marble with a bronze tiara; now a framed page of a fourteenth-century version of “Li Quat... ...a chalk draw- ing by Baudry hung against the wall close by together with a bronze tablet by Saint Gaudens; while across the entire end of the room opp...

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...’s compulsion to go on pro- ducing them for applause until it is extremest age that knocks their knees. We are informed by Lady Pennon of ‘the most am... ...ern!’ he sighed, in the theatrical but cordially melancholy style of green age viewing Cytherea’s market. His poorest subaltern was richer than he in ... ...hew.’ Him she described as a ‘gentlemanly official,’ a picture of him. His age was thirty- four. He seemed ‘fond of her scenery.’ Then her pen swept o... ... days. ‘You are to know, dear Emmy, that we English are the aristocracy of Europeans.’ Lady Dunstane inclined to think we were; nevertheless, in the m... ...of being born to command: in fine, an aristocrat among the ‘aristocracy of Europeans.’ His differences of opinion were prefaced by a ‘Pardon me,’ and ... ... and beats her; strikes that woman! He drags her about to every Capital in Europe to make money for him, and the scoundrel pays her with blows.’ In th... ... etageres, holding every knickknack she had possessed and scattered, small bronzes, antiques, ivory junks, quaint ivory figures Chinese and Japanese, ...

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...plumage of the feathered tribes of India and America, instead of the sober European families. Those were two wretched hours that Lucien spent in the G... ...stinguished Provincial at Paris Marais, could be ruled out on the score of age; and hard upon the discovery of a distinction between morning and eveni... ...ed because Mme. de Bargeton did not seem to recognize him in his new plum- age; but when he stepped up to her, she smiled at him and said: “This has f... ...a world where my vanity might suffer at any moment. The great men of every age are obliged to lead lives apart. What are they but birds in the forest?... ...ac a third, Michel Chrestien, the great Republican thinker, who dreamed of European Federation, and had no small share in bringing about the Saint-Sim... ... belief in the Monarchy was quite as strong as Michel Chrestien’s faith in European Federation. Fulgence Ridal scoffed at Leon Giraud’s philosophical ... ...ct, I vow and declare, for a captain of the Impe- rial Guard, those men of bronze—” “Well said, my little civilian, there are several kinds of con- tr... ...tten, on a pauper’s bier. As for the men whose brains are encompassed with bronze, whose hearts are still warm under the snows of experience, they are...

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... because, obviously, the venerable Maga at her pa- 6 The Rescue triarchal age of 1000 numbers could not be kept wait- ing. Then “Lord Jim,” with abou... ... ers having submitted—at least at sea—to the indig- 16 The Rescue nity of European trousers. Only two sat on the spars. One, a man with a childlike, ... ...treamed flicking to leeward. The overpowering deluge seemed to last for an age; 42 The Rescue became unbearable—and, all at once, stopped. In a coupl... ... and he wore it wide open on a muscular chest the colour and smoothness of bronze. From the twist of threadbare sarong wound tightly on the hips protr... ...erstanding; he should have the fearlessness of youth and the sagac- ity of age; he should be diplomatic and courageous, so as to secure the favour of ... ... and the then prac- tically unknown shores of New Guinea; every spot where European trade had not penetrated—from Aru to Atjeh, from Sumbawa to Palawa... ...was ended, though he also travelled, leaving behind him in the capitals of Europe a story in which there was noth- ing scandalous but the publicity of... ...stockade was thrown open she perceived an expectant and still multitude of bronze figures draped in coloured stuffs. They crowded the patches of shade... ...beads, remained cross-legged with their swords across their knees like two bronze idols. Even the plumes of their head- dresses stirred not. “Sudah! I...