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An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...he were to be perceived as another wealthy and indolent foreigner (usually German or French but not always so) suffering and despondent because of a k... ...tood that her wish for it was just that. Hers was the ingenuous voice of a romantic who believed that he brought the world to her for he was the new w... ...d out of the window and withdrew back into himself. He once again began to romanticize those cars of laborers with their families. It would be there, ... ...rmatous brute although perceived more erotically for it. As this issue was germane to him, he thought that nothing truer could have been spoken. He fe... ...ion. He would never equal the great artists of the world and of prostitute painters he was one of myriad in contemporary Southeast Asian art alone. Th... ...nd when you live somewhere your habits are embedded in it There is nothing romantic or visceral: just day to day life." "Don't you like it?" "It has i... ...tch pad, charcoal pencils, an easel, and other material items so vital for painters obsessed in depicting the inner world that was demotically and mis...

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Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus

By: Mary Wollstonecraft

...o could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine. You may deem me romantic, my dear sister, but I bitterly feel the want of a friend. I hav... ...d that my daydreams are more extended and magnificent, but they want (as the painters call it) keeping; and I greatly need a friend who would have se... ...and I greatly need a friend who would have sense enough not to despise me as romantic, and affection enough for me to endeavour to regulate my mind. W... ...unate in being able to secure his services. I heard of him first in rather a romantic manner, from a lady who owes to him the happiness of her life. T... ... wonders, as a restor ative for her weakened frame. From Italy they visited Germany and France. I, their eldest child, was born at Naples, and as an ... ...was not her child, but the daughter of a Milanese nobleman. Her mother was a German and had died on giving her birth. The infant had been placed with ... ... Leghorn, but who understood the common language of Turkey, and departed for Germany. “She arrived in safety at a town about twenty leagues from the c...

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Eve and David

By: Honoré de Balzac

...is; and David Sechard, with the cour- age and intelligence of the ox which painters give the Evan- gelist for accompanying symbol, set himself to make... ... duty which they owe to them- selves. Joking apart, no account of the most romantic adven- ture could be more mildly improbable than this of the jour-... ...! even so the Italian is jealous and a poisoner, the Frenchman fickle, the German frank, the Jew ignoble, and the Englishman noble. Reverse these verd... ...igion is accepted, they have lent money to the Holy Father himself! As for Germany, a foreigner is often asked whether he has a contract in writing, a...

...Excerpt: Lucien had gone to Paris; and David Sechard, with the courage and intelligence of the ox which painters give the Evangelist for accompanying symbol, set himself to make the large fortune for which he had wished that evening down by the Charente, when he sat with Eve by the weir, and she gave him her hand and her heart....

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Chicago Manual of Style

By: University of Chicago

... appel- lation used as if a real geographical name: (I) Holy Roman Empire, German Empire (-Dmtschw Reich), French Republic (=Rt?pdliquce Frawaise),... ... (but: scribe); Epicurean, Stoic, Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, Literalist; the Romantic movement; the Sym- bolic school of painters. But do not capita... ... Neoplatonism, Literalist; the Romantic movement; the Sym- bolic school of painters. But do not capitalize any of the above or similar words, or t... ...al assembly, the legislature of the state, the upper house of Congress, the German federal parliament, the Dutch diet; the council, the department, ... ...wealth (Cromwell's), Commune (Paris); Old English (OE-see IIO), Middle High German (MHG), the Age of Elizabeth; Pleistocene, Silurian, Lower Carbon...

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Cousin Pons

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ully indulgent in small. Pons’ notes were drowned before long in floods of German har- mony and the music of Rossini; and if in 1824 he was known as a... ...are to accept the conclusion. This pianist, like all other pianists, was a German. A Ger- man, like the eminent Liszt and the great Mendelssohn, and S... ...city which a musical genius needs if he is to push his way to the front. A German’s naivete does not invariably last him through his life; in some cas... ... buy miracles of painting on vellum cheaply enough. There are two thousand painters in Paris, you know.’—And I opened out the fan carelessly, keeping ... ...do you call him?” “Watteau, cousin. One of the greatest eighteenth century painters in France. Look! do you not see that it is his work?” (pointing to... ...ssion in a Frenchified German seemed to Cecile to be in the highest degree romantic; the descendant of the Virlaz was a second Werther in her eyes—whe... ...ulated grime of a century; he knew all schools, and the handwriting of all painters. He had come to Paris from Bordeaux, and so long ago as 1835 he ha... ...egitimate spouse, and his thoughts turned from a misdemeanor to a crime. A romantic purely speculative dream, persistently followed through a tobacco-...

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

...till more tedious and expen- sive. The pecuniary recompence, therefore, of painters and sculp- tors, of lawyers and physicians, ought to be much more ... ...and occasions of acquiring honour and distinction which never occur. These romantic hopes make the whole price of their blood. Their pay is less than ... ...y and curiosity, is likely to increase among them. But as statu- aries and painters are not likely to be worse rewarded in times of wealth and prosper... ...en much improved. England, Holland, France, and 172 The Wealth of Nations Germany; even Sweden, Denmark, and Russia, have all advanced considerably, ... ... O- O- MAN EMP MAN EMP MAN EMP MAN EMP MAN EMPIRE IRE IRE IRE IRE WHEN THE GERMAN and Scythian nations overran the western prov- inces of the Roman em... ... purveyance has been entirely abolished. It still sub- sists in France and Germany. The public taxes, to which they were subject, were as irregular an...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...man, was ordered by a government official not to publish her criticism of the romanticization of the Old South, at least not in the words she wanted to... ...ial was not one of the many in Congress and the Administration who share the romantic view of the Confederacy. It was a fed- eral judge in Atlanta who... ...w—not recombining the resources of the commons. 47 That is an account of the romantic theory of authorship in the context of contemporary Anglo-Americ... ...lves and, thus, are a highly deceptive form of compensation; the Congress of German Economists resolves: that patents of invention are injurious to co... ...e slanted toward American sensibilities, downplaying both anti- Semitism and German expansionism. His solution? T o publish his own English translatio... ...on? T o publish his own English translation, taken direct and uncut from the German edition. He wanted to prove, with Hitler’s own words, that the Uni... ...and I paid you that amount.” He admitted this was true, but pointed out that painters in other countries sometimes received higher amounts, as did scu... ...gher amounts, as did sculptors in our own country. In fact, he told you, all painters in our country planned to demand another $450 for each picture t... ...h other countries, put painting on the same footing as sculpture, and enable painters to hire more apprentices. His other argument was that painters o...

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Modeste Mignon

By: Honoré de Balzac

...d terminating in a pointed chin like that of Mephistopheles,— a type which painters give to cats. This double resemblance was observable on the face o... ... just as mountain torrents de- scribe curves which are beyond the skill of painters to con- vey, and accomplish giant deeds in displacing or smoothing... ...tood in France, where we choose to call it sentimentality, but which among German women is the po- etry of the heart coming to the surface of the bein... ...cal fu- ture of a soldier of fortune of that day. Old Wallenrod, a decayed German baron (there is always a baron in a German bank) delighted to know t... ... there really was one in Frankfort) had lately painted as an ideal head of Germany. Wallenrod invested enough money in the French funds to give his da... ...0 Modeste Mignon CHAPTER VII A POET OF THE ANGELIC SCHOOL ALL YOUNG GIRLS, romantic or otherwise, can imagine the impatience in which Modeste lived fo... ...ted, and wholly noble. I worship the beautiful, the ideal, with- out being romantic; though I have been, in my heart of hearts, in my dreams. But I re... ... woman, and which three months of close communion of souls now rendered as romantic as the most imaginative maiden could have wished. Every one, excep... ... only by the sea. “Butscha was right, God is the greatest of all landscape painters,” said Canalis, contemplating the view, which is unique among the ...

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The Marble Faun : Or, The Romance of Monte Beni, Illustrated with Photogravures

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...ome of which had a very probable air, while others were evidently wild and romantic fables. We cite a few, leaving the reader to designate them either... ...few, leaving the reader to designate them either under the probable or the romantic head. It was said, for example, that Miriam was the daughter and h... ...umulation of wealth within the family. Another story hinted that she was a German prin- cess, whom, for reasons of state, it was proposed to give in m... ...al atmosphere of these pro- ductions was thereby so influenced, that rival painters pro- nounced it a case of hopeless mannerism, which would de- stro... .... Thence, it came back among the Anglo-Saxons, and was communicated to the German artists, who so richly sup- plied it with romantic ornaments and exc... ...d was communicated to the German artists, who so richly sup- plied it with romantic ornaments and excrescences, after their fashion, that it became a ... ...layfulness, Miriam let her fancy run off into wilder fables than any which German ingenuity or Italian supersti- tion had contrived. For example, with... ...merely as the delineation of a lovely face; although Miriam, like all self-painters, may have endowed herself with certain graces which Other eyes mig... ... fore many a famous picture by Guido, Domenichino, Raphael, and the devout painters of earlier schools than these. Other artists and visitors from for...

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The Brotherhood of Consolation

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ite, resembling those of the cold, grave women of Holland whom the Flemish painters have so won- derfully reproduced with their smooth skins, in which... ...om your old ideas that you do not look forward to something adven- turous, romantic, as they say, in the incidents of our life.” Godefroid could not k... ...d he studied much and observed much, but he had travelled in every part of Germany, Russia, Persia, and Turkey, whence he had gath- ered many a tradit... ...time with Hedenius of Dresden, Chelius of Heidelburg, and the cel- ebrated German doctors, all the while holding his hand closed, though it was full o... ...up in bronze representing Cupid playing with Death, the present of a great German sculptor whom Halpersohn had doubtless cured. On the mantel-shelf wa...

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The Heir of Redclyffe

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...t,’ cried Laura; ‘he only looks on it as we have always done, as a sort of romantic appendage to Redclyffe. I should think better of a place for being... ...g-book,’ said Charles; ‘certain lines in the predicament of the cherubs of painters—heads “et proeterea nihil”.’ ‘0 Guy, do you write verses? cried Ch... ...m, to beg for a sight of it; and Philip asked Charles what it was like. ‘A romantic incident,’ said Charles, ‘just fit for a novel. A Petrarch leaving... ...uy’s favour, besides the ancient name and long ancestry, which conferred a romantic inter- est, and caused even Philip to look up to him with a feudal... ...y had time for thought. Guy says we are all growing dissipated.’ ‘Ah! your German, and dancing, and music, do not agree with thought.’ ‘Poor music!’ s... ... do last winter; Laura commenced some compli- cated perspective, or read a German book with a great deal of dictionary; Amy had a book of history, and... ...either in May or June; but he intended, himself, to travel on foot through Germany and Italy, and would write again before quitting Ireland. ‘So,’ sai...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...r hair had that deep glowing tinge in it which has been the delight of all painters, and which, therefore, the vulgar sneer at. It was of burning aubu... ...ies of the Ninety-ninth, and Sixty-sixth, and the Grenadier Brigade of the German Legion began to advance up the echelon. The devoted band soon arrive... ...ng in educating her child in an elegant though small cottage in one of the romantic marine villages of beautiful Devonshire. Her child! What a gush of... ... pesews his dalitefle coarse through the fair rellum of Franse (as a great romantic landskippist and neamsack of mind would say) never chaumed his i’s... ... certain about Lady Angelina’s feelings. Girls are wild and 106 Thackeray romantic. They do not see the necessity of prudent establish- ments, and I ... ... exploit before Ascalon, by the Emperor Maximilian, and a reference to the German Peerage of that day, or a knowledge of high families which every gen... ...he latter rushed into his arms, grown to be one of the finest young men in Germany: tall and exces- sively graceful in proportion, with the blush of h...

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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...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... ...is innocent and living piety. I had meant to tell of his cottage, with the German pipe hung reverently above the fire, and the shell box that he had m... ...o that Edinburgh was a world centre for that branch of applied science; in Germany, he had been called “the Nestor of light- house illumination”; even... ...im dangling about the town from one old book-shop to another, and scraping romantic acquaintance with every dog that passed. His talk, compounded of s... ...coming forth into the sunshine, in a beautiful green, gardened corner of a romantic city; and as I sat and smoked, the music moving in my blood, I see... ...ng to write about the inn at Burford, or to describe scenery with the word-painters; it is quite another to seize on the heart of the suggestion and m...

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