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...Trilby, published in 1894, fits into the gothic horror genre which was undergoing a revival during the Fin de siècle and is one of the most popular novels of its time, perhaps the second best selling novel of the Fin de siècle period after Bram Stoker's Dracula. The...

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...vulets of blood. He stared at her in bewilderment. She laughed huskily and speaking in the native language of the bazaars, invited him to make love ... ...y, which had leased it from the British Crown in 1668 for ten pounds per annum. Their grand, neo-Gothic buildings erected along the harbour front, ... ...ey, cantered up to John MacGregor, who addressed him in Urdu. John had taught Helen some of this language on their long sea voyage and she understoo... ... normal again. The man’s eyes opened. He looked at Helen in amazement and muttered something in a language she did not understand, except the words,... ...urved knives tucked into their Audrey Blankenhagen 202 belts. Ram Das shouted to them in their language,’Pushto’, which he had learned during his... ...ed roughly to the floor of the phaeton. Someone shouted something in Audrey Blankenhagen 286 a language she did not understand and she felt the ca...

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...e was for me—as I believe for so many lovers of literature—an early favorite, particularly because of his verse, which is rich with sonic texture and gothic subject matter: insanity, darkness, ghosts, death, etc. It is also quite manageable to read in its entirety at 75 poems depending on how many of those of questionable authorship or in various stages of completion one i...

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...nd gave them uneasy dreams. The Sto- ryteller belonged to another world of languages and symbols, mathematics and mystery: nothing for a Bloon to be ... ...ted for their rousing properties). They squeezed Theo’s toes, hummed dead languages into his ears and blew particles of ground coffee up his nostril... ...ons on ancient parchments. Sometimes he sings under his breath in strange languages that none of us understands. Maybe he’s talking to the stars, bu... ...e come from and why you are riding Jamillah,’ Bozo whispered, to whom all languages were the same. ‘Jamillah?’ Theo repeated dumbly. ‘Who is Jamillah... ... could possibly do with it – unless you happen to be a scholar in ancient languages?’ Omar handed Theo a large book bound in leather. Its cover was i... ...rs overhead, but there was nothing like candlelight to give that sense of gothic drama so appropriate for an old library. They took their seats and ...

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...ou, Missy,” Camilla shrieked. “And I doubt your father would tolerate such language either. Luckily for you, he is out. I doubt he will be home al... ...ny decent man.” Camilla’s hands flew to her ears. “How dare you use such language and insults in the presence of a lady?” “There is no lady her... ... to the Connecticut River north of East Haddam, Daniel Connolly had built a gothic fairytale of a house for his bride, Helene, and his newborn son, R... .... Babbling, he patted Rags’s stringy mane, praising the horse’s valor in a language only he could understand. “You see, Daniel, how far we’ve com... ... Daniel, how far we’ve come since your last visit. Ronan is choosing spoken language as his first means of communication. If you listen closely, yo... ...t in early childhood, after they’ve gained some notion of the sounds of the language and have begun to put them together into words. Ronan is only ... ...e touches Helene had never had the time or inclination to bring it. Triple Gothic-arched windows on two walls were draped in white Irish lace. Star...

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...Rudolpho show up.” Looked like I wasn’t the only one into denial as a second language. “What are we looking for?” “Khaffi handed a slip of paper ov... ...ho is already moving through it.” Okay, felt like I just stepped into a bad gothic novel. Who talked like that anymore? Ooohhhh! Rudolpho is mov... ... his mouth since we entered the alley. I would’ve been worried, but his body language talked volumes. Even in the near pitch black of the ruined st...

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...and parliament of its own, is known to all the world. And a very nice little kingdom it is; full of old towns, fine Flemish pictures, and interesting Gothic churches. But in the memory of very many of us who do not think ourselves old men, Belgium, as it is now called--in those days it used to be Flanders and Brabant--was a part of Holland; and it obtained its own independ...

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...e kingdom it is; full of old towns, fine Flemish pictures, and interesting Gothic churches. But in the memory of very many of us who do not think ours... ...ope a pair of black—.” The whole truth was told in the plain- est possible language. “Oh, Aunt Sally!” “Aunt Sally, how can you?” “Hold your tongue, A...

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...the first their distinctive and characteristic paper, it is as carefully excluded as if it were--that other word which is the basis of all really bad language in this country. But the Great Public and its Press know better, and ?Scientists? they are....

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...xcluded as if it were—that other word which is the basis of all really bad language in this country. But the Great Public and its Press know better, a... ...fore it could go on growing again. And in the muffled and highly technical language of the re- ally careful “scientist,” Redwood suggested that the pr... ...gress. Their dreams, it would appear, ran wholly on little nations, little languages, little households, each self-supported on its little farm. A fas... ...boratories, and proceeded thence to a venerable college in the very ripest Gothic. Few books he had younger than a thousand years; of these, Yarrow an... ...ar lady! A touch of the eighteenth cen- tury about her, I always Said. Her language for example … Bluff vigour … “She died comparatively poor. These b...

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... will see what the next three weeks will produce.’ Poor little fellow! his language is so strong that it is almost a surprise to find that he was repr... ...and partly from the development of his genius for philology . Aptitude for language had already shown itself when his sister Fanny had given him some ... ...ten happens, almost of bewilderment. He did not at first like the Lombardo-Gothic style, but he studied it carefully, and filled his letter with measu... ...on spoke German fluently, and wrote German cor- rectly. He had studied the language assiduously for about two years previously, and so successfully th... ... What makes it so difficult is principally this, that as it is an Oriental language, it is entirely different in structure, and in its inflections, &c... ... is entirely different in structure, and in its inflections, &c., from any language I 52 Life of John Coleridge Patteson ever came across. I can’t fa... ...wenty years to see more than a vision—of a small but exceedingly beautiful Gothic chapel, rich inside with marbles and stained glass and carved stalls...

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...ope are in possession, firstly, of highly developed terri- tories of alien language and race, such as Egypt; and, sec- ondly, of barbaric and less-dev... ...ts and patches, or Dalmatia, where one extremely self-conscious nation and language is present in the towns and another in the surrounding country, or... ...still owes and intends to pay that original debt; but if you translate the language of £.s.d. into realities, you will find that in loaves or iron or ... ...land, forensic exercises in the Union Debating Society, and cant about the Gothic, the Oxford and Cam- bridge that turned boys full of life and hope a... ...ish, and of Ancient Greek by teachers who at best half know this fine lost language. They do not expect any real mastery of either tongue by their stu... ...n- glish in the case of the French and Russians, are essentially governess languages; any intelligent boy or girl from a rea- sonably prosperous home ... ...—on Chinese lines of the high- est merit. They take the utmost care of our Gothic cathe- drals for us. They put our dearest racial possessions into mu...

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...aim fellowship with the great family of man, and wishing (in the affecting language of Mr. Wordsworth) Humbly to express A penitential loneliness. It ... ...ncey thirteen I wrote Greek with ease; and at fifteen my com- mand of that language was so great that I not only com- posed Greek verses in lyric metr... ...s no swindler, would also (I hoped) compel the bishop to reply in the same language; in which case I doubted not to make it appear that if I was not s... ...mity and self-possession proportion- ably difficult. So true it is, in the language of a wise man whose own experience had made him acquainted with bo... ...pure “mother English,” racy and fresh with idiomatic graces, as any in our language—hardly excepting those of Lady M. W. Montague. These are my honour... ... (I describe only from memory of Mr. Coleridge’s account) represented vast Gothic halls, on the floor of which stood all sorts of engines and machiner...

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...rris was in sympathy with me in this. He was as much of an enthusiast in art as I was, and not less anxious to learn to paint. I desired to learn the ... ...n bright eye fixed on me; then he threw out two or three more insults, which I could not understand, further than that I knew a portion of them consis... ...nd some use only simple words, and scarcely ever a comparison or a flowery figure; whereas, certain other animals have a large vocabulary, a fine comm... ...y other creature. He has got more moods, and more different kinds of feelings than other creatures; and, mind you, whatever a bluejay feels, he can pu... ...nguage. And no mere commonplace language, either, but rattling, out-and-out book-talk—and bristling with metaphor, too—just bristling! And as for comm... ... he goes there to add a steeple in the nature of some specialty, such as a particular branch of law, or diseases of the eye, or special study of the a...

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...? Then, have we not a Doctrine of Rent, a Theory of Value; Philosophies of Language, of History, of Pottery, of Apparitions, of In- toxicating Liquors... ...e have no such Philosophy, stands here for the first time published in our language. What English intellect could have chosen such a topic, or by chan... ...bs,—will depend on the nature of such Architectural Idea: whether Grecian, Gothic, Later Gothic, or altogether Modern, and Parisian or Anglo-Dan- diac... ...on and procedure, a valuable de- scriptive History already exists, in that language, under the title of Satan’s Invisible World Displayed; which, how-... ...alking, has a grateful effect. Observe too how fond they are of peaks, and Gothic- arch intersections. The male world wears peaked caps, an 35 Thomas... ...rticle, down from Heaven? Thus is he said also to be clothed with a Body. “Language is called the Garment of Thought: however, it should rather be, La... ... this Flesh- Garment; and does not she? Metaphors are her stuff: ex- amine Language; what, if you except some few primitive elements (of natural sound...

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...stic impediments to intercourse. The whole world will surely have a common language, that is quite elementarily Utopian, and since we are free of the ... ... are free of the trammels of convincing story-telling, we may suppose that language to be sufficiently our own to understand. Indeed, should we be in ... ...in Utopia at all, if we could not talk to every- one? That accursed bar of language, that hostile inscription in the foreigner’s eyes, “deaf and dumb ... ...cts and complica- tions one has fled the earth to escape. But what sort of language would we have the world speak, if we were told the miracle of Babe... ...ific” are worse by far for the skin. You would begin to talk of scientific languages, of Esperanto, La Langue Bleue, New Latin, V olapuk, and Lord Lyt... ...etal can do, but what a University ought to be, somebody who had found the Gothic spirit enchanted, petrified, in a cathedral, and had set it free.” “... ..., and a compact organisation acting with complete external unity. Like the Gothic cathe- dral, the national idea is never found complete with all its ...

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...bject, it is interesting to observe the way in which the ordi- nary use of language has accommodated itself to that feeling. Our northern way of expre... ...ining that relation to the unique Caius Julius— to him, in the appropriate language of Shakspeare, “The foremost man of all this world?” And, in this ... ... the few words which survive of their conversation. He addressed to her no language that could tranquillize her fears. On the contrary, to any but a R... ...each side, took part in the combat. Dramas were represented in every known language, (per omnium linguarum histriones.) And hence [that is, from the c... ... upon nations, and some such Babylonian confusion of dresses, complexions, languages, and jargons, was then witnessed at Rome. Accommodations within d... ...le, Marcus Aurelius raised the first ominous prece- dent in favor of those Gothic, Vandal, and Frankish hives, who were as yet hidden behind a cloud o... ...or instance, in Southey’s Don Roderick there is a cast of sentiment in the Gothic king’s remorse and contri- tion of heart, which has struck many read... ...nts, until at last the emperor succeeded in driving back the relics of the Gothic host into the fastnesses of the Balkan; and there the greater part o...

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...o himself, a con- siderable amount of business. He had done, in commercial language, ‘a good stroke of business.’ Upon two floors, viz., the cellar-fl... ...arr’s murderer, now at work!’ All explained itself in a moment: the silent language of the fact made its own eloquent revelation. The mysterious exter... ... the case of any primitive Christian teacher having attempted to speak the language of scientific truth in dealing with the phenomena of astronomy, ge... ...jects, will not condescend to teach at all. The Bible adopts the erroneous language of men (which at any rate it must do, in order to make itself unde... ...nd, in relation to their causes, speaks by the same popular and inaccurate language which is current for ordinary purposes, even amongst the most scie... ...es, did so, in effect, by his fidel- ity to a new nature, radiating from a Gothic centre. In the midst, however, of much just feeling, which one could...

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... their styles of beauty. They differed neither in their ideas nor in their language; but the expression of their eyes, their glances, occasional gestu... ...nce of the deathbed, beside a dying fire. A 9 Balzac flickering lamp on a Gothic table sent broad uncertain shafts of light, fainter or brighter, acr... ...art. Don Juan the sceptic shut the flask again in the secret drawer in the Gothic table—he meant to run no more risks of losing the mysterious liquid.... ... in articulo mortis to my son. You will find the flask in a drawer in that Gothic table that always stands by the head of the bed …. The precious litt...

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... be quite a polyglot. Not that he could speak fluently in the two thousand languages and twelve thousand dialects which are spoken on the earth, but h... ...nsonants and fifty-five vowels. This is the proportion found in south- ern languages, whilst northern tongues are much richer in consonants; therefore... ...ern tongues are much richer in consonants; therefore this is in a southern language.” These were very fair conclusions, I thought. “But what language ... ... against the notion that these barbarous words could be- long to the sweet language of Virgil. “Yes, it is Latin,” my uncle went on; “but it is Latin ... ... sincerely. As for me, I adored her, if there is such a word in the German language. Thus it happened that the picture of my pretty Virlandaise threw ... ...ed a series of arches succeeding each other like the majestic arcades of a gothic cathedral. Here the architects of the middle ages might have found s...

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...etanism arose, there was no collateral history. Why there was none, why no Gothic, why no Parthian history, it is for Rome to explain. 16 Thomas de Q... ...ficant expression, except through sharp discharges of stones, that being a language older than Hebrew or Sanscrit, and universally intelligible. But, ... ...cable sense. True it was that my eye was preternaturally keen for flaws of language, not from pe- dantic exaction of superfluous accuracy, but, on the... ...the con- trary, from too conscientious a wish to escape the mistakes which language not rigorous is apt to occasion. So far from seeking to “pettifogu... ...nd of interesting suggestions in Lord M.’s “Dissertations on the Origin of Language;” but to 75 Autobiographic Sketches us he communicated only one s... ...even then by name the Aoristus Primus, as a respectable tense in the Greek language. It (or shall we say he?) was known to the whole Christian world b... ...ots are equally obscure. Some have supposed that, during the period of the Gothic warfare with the Moors, the Cagots were a Christian tribe that betra...

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...ngland; and chiefly from the differences between the two nations as to the language of their several churches and law 5 Thomas de Quincey courts. The... ...en warned of the patron’s appointment, and having ‘received’ (in technical language) the presentee—that is, hav- ing formally recognised him in that c... ...onal Society, or Provincial Societies,) of translating the Scriptures into languages scarcely known by name to scholars, of converting Jews, of organi... ...assive resis- tance; and resistance to bad government would become, in his language, the most sacred of duties. In any argument with such a man, he wo... ...ights of property. But since the defeat of this faction by the law courts, language seems to fail them, for the expression of their hatred and affecte... ...ge, under the blessing of Heaven, is pretty nearly a tabula rasa.’ In this Gothic expres- sion of self-congratulation upon the extent of his own igno-... ...ar- mony are essential conditions to their effect. Ruins are be- coming to Gothic buildings—decay is there seen in a grace- ful form; but to an Attic ...