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...rles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...University is an equal opportunity University. 3 Charles Dickens Pictures From Italy by Charles Dickens THE READER’S PASSPORT IF THE READERS OF T... ...ions—mere shadows in the water—of places to which the imaginations of most people are attracted in a greater or less degree, on which mine had dwelt f... ...nd touch it. For it is something to touch a carriage that has held so many people. It is a legacy to leave one’s children. The rooms are on the first ... ..., in white; with canvassed stalls; and fluttering merchandise. The country people are grouped about, with their clean baskets before them. Here, the l... ...stress. Thus it floated me away, until I awoke in the old market place at Verona. I have, many and many a time, thought since, of this strange Dream ... ...nder ing if it lie there yet, and if its name be Venice. CHAPTER VIII BY VERONA, MANTUA, AND MILAN, ACROSS THE PASS OF THE SIMPLON INTO SWITZERLAND ... ...E PASS OF THE SIMPLON INTO SWITZERLAND I HAD BEEN HALF AFRAID to go to Verona, lest it should at all put me out of conceit with Romeo and Juliet. ...

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... found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ideas of right and wrong. And yet we reckoned ourselves people of the educated class and some of us talk and lecture and write with considerable confidence....

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...eelings and in our ideas of right and wrong. And yet we reckoned ourselves people of the educated class and some of us talk and lecture and write with... ...and made what it could of them. And after that was over I let myself loose from limits of time and length altogether and have ex- panded these memoran... ...ty. And it is not only the claim of the specialist that I would repudiate. People are too apt to suppose that in order to dis- cuss morals a man must ... ...so and I think it may interest a certain number of simi- larly constituted people. I am not teaching. How far I suc- ceed or fail in that private and ... ...ICS HYSICS HYSICS AS A PRELIMINARY to that experiment in mutual confession from which this book arose, I found it necessary to consider and state cert... ...g at once difficult and fruitless, as an idle system of en- quiries remote from any human interest. I suppose this odd misconception arose from the vu... ...keep ourselves apart; the worst enemies will some day come to the Peace of Verona. All the Montagues and Capulets are doomed to intermarry. A time wil...

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...ea-kest goes to the wall. Samp. True, and therefore women being the weaker Vessels, are ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push Mountagues men from the wall, and thrust his Maides to the wall. Greg. The Quarrell is betweene our Masters, and us |(their men. Samp. ?Tis all one, I will shew my selfe a tyrant: when I have fought with the men, I will bee civill with the ...

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...are euer thrust to the wall: therefore I will push 21 Mountagues men from the wall, and thrust his Maides to 22 the wall. 23 Gre... ... the fire of your pernitious Rage, 87 With purple Fountaines issuing from your Veines: 88 On paine of Torture, from those bloody hands 89... ...93 Haue thrice disturb’d the quiet of our streets, 94 And made Verona’s ancient Citizens 95 Cast by their Graue beseeming Ornaments,... ... Where vnderneath the groue of Sycamour, 124 That West- ward rooteth from this City side: 125 So earely walking did I see your Sonne: 126 ... ...81 Come, goe with me: goe sirrah trudge about, 282 Through faire Verona, find those persons out, 283 Whose names are written there, and... ... Rosaline, whom thou so loues: 333 With all the admired Beauties of Verona, 334 Go thither and with vnattainted eye, 335 Compare her ... ...ap. What should it be that they so shrike abroad? 3063 Wife. O the people in the streete crie Romeo. 3064 Some Iuliet, and some Paris, ...

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...ndon; but of Rome in her palmy days, nothing less could be said in the naked severity of logic. A million and a half of souls--that population, apart from any other distinctions, is per se for London a justifying ground for such a classification; … fortiori, then, will it belong to a city which counted from one horn to the other of its mighty suburbs not less than four mil...

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...ed severity of logic. A million and a half of souls—that population, apart from any other distinctions, is per se for London a justifying ground for s... ...classification; à fortiori, then, will it be- long to a city which counted from one horn to the other of its mighty suburbs not less than four million... ... purity of her civil liberties. Doubtless, then, Rome had risen immaculate from the arms of Sylla and of Marius. But, if it were Caius Julius who defl... ...uld have been otherwise who lived and conversed with that genera- tion and people. But if superstitious, he was so after a mode of his own. In his ver... ...rs of the Augustan era, it would seem that this custom was not confined to people of distinction, but was familiar to a class of travellers so low in ... ...re met him from the neighboring garrison of Ariminium. The tribunes of the people, those great officers of the democracy, corresponding by some of the... ...and then hastening with a veteran army into Italy, he fought the battle of Verona, where Philip was de- feated and killed, whilst the son of Philip wa... ... every instant ready to be converted into coup-de-mains upon Aquileia—upon Verona—or even upon Rome itself, unless vigorously curbed at the outset,— e...

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...Excerpt: The text is taken from the printed ?Sterling Edition? of Carlyle?s Complete Works, in 20 volumes, with the following modifications: The footnote (there is only one) has been embedded directly into text, in brackets, [thusly]. Greek text has be...

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...RO-WORSHIP , AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY By Thomas Carlyle The text is taken from the printed “Sterling Edition” of Carlyle’s Complete Works, in 20 volu... ...s profession and assertion; which is often only a profession and assertion from the outworks of the man, from the mere argumentative re- gion of him, ... ...mbassy to that country, and see. They have their belief, these poor Thibet people, that Provi- dence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into ... ...ectively name Universe, Nature, or the like,—and so with a name dismiss it from us. T o the wild deep-hearted man all was yet new, not veiled under na... ... Im- mensity, old as Eternity. What is it? God’s Creation, the reli- gious people answer; it is the Almighty God’s! Atheistic sci- ence babbles poorly... ...know not what:— the notes being all false, and no gold to be had for them, people take to crying in their despair that there is no gold, that there ne... ...; and it goes deep, and through long generations, into ours. The people of Verona, when they saw him on the streets, used to say, “Eccovi l’ uom ch ’ ...

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...ess, tempered, however, by the somewhat illiberal compression assumed by her lips in obedience to something that was passing in her mind. She was far from the lamp, but though her eyes were fixed upon her active needles she was not looking at them. What she really saw was quite another train of affairs....

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...n equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James The Chaperon by Henry James From the 1893 Macmillan and Co. edition. CHAPTER I A n old lady, in a high ... ...r lips in obedience to something that was passing in her mind. She was far from the lamp, but though her eyes were fixed upon her active needles she w... ...the old lady, getting up as her maid came in. This attendant took her work from her, gave her an arm and helped her out of the room, while Rose Tramor... ...bly be small. Eric’s attitude was eminently simple; he didn’t care to know people who didn’t know his people. If his mother should ever get back into ... ...t discuss my mother with you.” “You’ll have to discuss her with some other people!” Miss Tramore proclaimed, going out of the room. Rose wondered whet... ..., lean and high-shouldered. He looked every inch a soldier, yet there were people who considered that he had missed his vocation in not becoming a par... ... I never saw such a sweet temper in my life!” She lost one of her boxes at Verona, and made the prettiest joke of it to Captain Jay. When Rose saw thi...

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... to save the face of Germany by ini- tiating peace negotiations. But apart from their steady record and reminder of German brutalities and German aggr... ...d confuse and divide the enemy, but to get a real under- standing with the peoples and spirits of a number of differ- ent nations, an understanding th... ...rease and become a fruitful and permanent understanding between the allied peoples. Neither the English, the Russians, the Italians, nor the French, t... ...what he has seen among the submarines, and Mr. Hugh Walpole catches things from Mr. Stephen Gra- ham in the Dark Forest of Russia. All this is quite o... ...olved that Italy shall not feel neglected by the refusal of the invitation from the Comando Supremo by anyone who from the perspective of Italy may se... ...ld is not really awake. This vague appeal for explanations to all sorts of people, this desire to exhibit the business, to get something in the way of... ...NT 1 1 1 1 1 I HAVE A PECULIAR AFFECTION for V erona and certain things in Verona. Italians must forgive us English this little streak of impertinent ... ...-being of the common man in Britain. 3 3 3 3 3 I left my military guide at Verona on Saturday afternoon and reached Milan in time to dine outside Salv... ...eat numbers of young men not in uniform in Milan and Turin and Vicenza and Verona; there was no effect anywhere of a depletion of men. The whole crowd...

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...mely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without a...

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...ntents MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES..............................................................................................

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........................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ........................ ...pers MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY FR FR FR FR FROM OM OM OM OM THE A THE A THE A THE A THE AUTHOR, UTHOR, UTHOR, UTHOR, U... ... difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous de- pression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in hav... ... any, had been already tried for me vicariously amongst the Ameri- cans; a people so nearly repeating our own in style of intel- lect, and in the comp... ...rciful bloodshed”—In reading either the later religious wars of the Jewish people under the Maccabees, or the ear- lier under Joshua, every philosophi... ...s, it is painful to witness the childish state of feeling which the French people manifest on every possible question that connects itself at any poin... ...peare uses, very near the close of the first act in the “T wo Gentlemen of Verona,” as the technical ex- pression in England), were few, and not gener...

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...to Vettori, and it seems to me, now that I have released myself altogether from his literary precedent, that he still has his use for me. In spite of ... ...red, happier, finer, securer. They imagined cities grown more powerful and peoples made rich and mul- titudinous by their efforts, they thought in ter... ...s unfair. The old sort of Prince, the old little principality has vanished from the world. The commonweal is one man’s absolute es- tate and responsib... ...the interest of womanhood was in a region of life almost infinitely remote from his statecraft. They were the vehicle of children, but only Imperial R... ... Natural History, a brand-new illustrated Green’s His- tory of the English People, Irving’s Companions of Columbus, a great number of unbound parts of... ...The Science and Art Department has vanished altogether from the world, and people are forgetting it now with the utmost readiness and generosity. Part... ...delicate innuendo of what should be glorious freedoms. Margaret had missed Verona and Venice in her previous Italian journey—fear of the mosquito had ... ...d walked to the window and surveyed a pretty fountain, facsimile of one in Verona, amidst trim-cut borderings of yew. Beyond, and seen between the ste...

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...left vaguely unsatisfied by that epitome of civiliza- tion which stretches from the Arc de Triomphe to the Gymnase theatre. It had already been intima... ...one rainy morning in mid-September, for the charming little city of Tours, from which point it seemed possible to make a variety of fruit- ful excursi... ...of the sky. Nothing can be finer than the view of its course which you get from the battlements and terraces of Amboise. As I looked down on it from t... ...ng in, which the French, as the vota- ries of art for art, excel all other people. The little sol- diers, weighed down by the contents of their enormo... ...le an image of the good King Louis. Good as he had been,—the father of his people, as he was called (I believe he remitted various taxes),—he was not ... ..., rising straight through the building, with two courses of steps, so that people may ascend and descend without meeting. This staircase is a truly ma... ...stones covered with wa- ter-moss. The Roman arena is the rival of those of Verona and of Arles; at a respectful distance it emulates the Colosseum. It... ...ver, can afford to dispense with detail. The seats at Nimes, like those at Verona, have been largely renewed; not that this mattered much, as I lounge... ...he church of Brou are not the noblest that one may see; the great tombs of Verona are finer, and various 188 A Little Tour in France other early Ital...

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...y was full of such grotesqueries, but the clean towers were thrusting them from the business center, and on the farther hills were shining new houses,... ...ete bridge fled a limousine of long sleek hood and noiseless engine. These people in evening clothes were returning from an all-night rehearsal of a L... ... hood and noiseless engine. These people in evening clothes were returning from an all-night rehearsal of a Little Theater play, an artistic adventure... ...r poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay. His large head was pink, his brown hair thin an... ... in the darkness beyond mysterious groves. When at last he could slip away from the crowded house he darted to her. His wife, his clamoring friends, s... ...e air of the bathroom was thick with the smell of a heathen tooth- paste. “Verona been at it again! ‘Stead of sticking to Lilidol, like I’ve re-peat-e... ...clair Lewis The bath-mat was wrinkled and the floor was wet. (His daughter Verona eccentrically took baths in the morning, now and then.) He slipped o... ...wet, he found, as he blindly snatched them—his own face-towel, his wife’s, Verona’s, Ted’s, Tinka’s, and the lone bath-towel with the huge welt of ini... ...that’s 8 Babbitt got the slightest doggone bit of consideration for other people and thoughtfulness and consider there may be others that may want to...

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...ow, the Venetian aristocracy is the first in Europe. Its Libro d’Oro dates from before the Crusades, from a time when Venice, a survivor of Imperial a... ...and a similar title was in use at Venice, justified by ancient inheritance from Facino Cane, Prince of Varese. The Grimaldi, who assumed sover- eignty... ...sion of Monaco till much later. The last Cane of the elder branch vanished from Venice thirty years before the fall of the Republic, condemned for var... ...etter than what we have in our hearts? Italy is mad.” “I cannot see that a people is mad because it wishes to be its own master,” said the physician. ... ...narrow streets of the Merceria they did not speak, for there were too many people; but as they turned into the Piazzi di San Marco, the Prince said: ... ... was evidently depressed. The Duke, uncomfortable enough between two sulky people, took advantage of the French doctor’s entrance to slip away. “Monsi... ...he Geulphs and Ghibellines every- where; the Capulets and the Montagues at Verona; the Geremei and the Lomelli at Bologna; the Fieschi and the Doria a...

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...d diffidence contrasted with Ursula’s sensitive expectancy. The provincial people, intimidated by Gudrun’s perfect sang-froid and exclusive bareness o... ...ess of manner, said of her: ‘She is a smart woman.’ She had just come back from London, where she had spent several years, working at an art-school, a... ...he said. ‘Do you feel like that?’ asked Gudrun. ‘I get no feeling whatever from the thought of bearing children.’ Gudrun looked at Ursula with a maskl... ...run’s face. She did not want to be too definite. ‘When one thinks of other people’s children—’ said Ursula. Again Gudrun looked at her sister, almost ... ...ravened. She lived a good deal by herself, to herself, working, passing on from day to day, and always thinking, trying to lay hold on life, to grasp ... ... submit herself to it, the insufferable torture of these ugly, meaningless people, this defaced coun- tryside? She felt like a beetle toiling in the d... ... ‘Well,’ he said, ‘we can go away—we can go tomorrow. We’ll go tomorrow to Verona, and find Romeo and Juliet, and sit in the amphitheatre—shall we?’ S... ...o and Juliet,’ she said. ‘My love!’ ‘Though a fearfully cold wind blows in Verona,’ he said, ‘from out of the Alps. We shall have the smell of the sno...

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... SHOULD NOT EASILY CHANGE A LAW RECEIVED 153 CHAPTER XXIII V ARIOUS EVENTS FROM THE SAME COUNSEL ........................................................ ...d, as Hallam observes, the Frenchman’s literary importance largely results from the share which his mind had in influencing other minds, coeval and su... ..., the leader of a new school in letters and morals. His book was different from all others which were at that date in the world. It diverted the ancie... ...n the practical side of it. To associ- ate closely his son Michel with the people, and attach him to those who stand in need of assistance, he caused ... ...e lofty column, which, though thus buried, was still standing upright. The people there have no recourse to other founda- tions than the vaults and ar... ...aging, and which carried off 14,000 persons at Bordeaux.]—particularly for people coming away from so fine an air as this is where I am. I will draw a... ...ic in Brescia, and his corpse being to be carried through the territory of Verona, an enemy’s country, most of the army were inclined to demand safe-c...

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...niversity. 3 George Meredith VITTORIA By George Meredith BOOK 1 CHAPTER I FROM MONTE MOTTERONE you survey the Lombard plain. It is a towering dome of... ...aten at them until they have got the aspect of the storm. They take colour from sun- light, and are joyless in colour as in shade. When the lower worl... ...tered swans; 4 Vittoria here and there a tented boat is visible, shooting from terraces of vines, or hanging on its shadow. Monte Boscero is un- veil... ...Spring of the great Italian uprising, when, though for a tragic issue, the people of Italy first felt and acted as a nation, and Charles Albert, calle... ...o. “If he marches out of his dominions, the king confers a blessing on his people perchance.” “Our king, signore!” The mountaineer waved his finger as... ...e that Carlo Ammiani, a Milanese, had reason to anticipate the approach of people by whom he, or they, might not wish to be seen. Had he studied Carlo... ...he danger is for her, if they once lay hands on her. They will have her in Verona in four-and-twenty hours; through the gates of the Adige in a couple... ...glish persons. The Englishman who is an Aus- trian officer is quartered at Verona, and the Signor AntonioPerirles said that the Englishman should not ... ... the hotel. He is appar- ently kept on constant service between Milan, and Verona, and Venice. His quarters are at Verona. He informs me that he is to...

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... JOURNEY The Crucifix Across the Mountains THE IMPERIAL ROAD to Italy goes from Munich across the T yrol, through Innsbruck and Bozen to Verona, over ... ...o Italy goes from Munich across the T yrol, through Innsbruck and Bozen to Verona, over the moun- tains. Here the great processions passed as the empe... ...he great processions passed as the emperors went South, or came home again from rosy Italy to their own Germany. And how much has that old imperial va... ...ht in the air that is so unnaturally bright and rare with the reflec- tion from the snows above, a darkness hovering just over the earth. So rare and ... ...spective and self-conscious. But still they are genuine expressions of the people’s soul. Often one can distinguish the work of a particular artist he... ...the under-shadow were looking at me. I was of another element. The Italian people are called ‘Children of the Sun’. They might better be called ‘Child... ...the house, and a part was divided off for the he-goat, be- cause the other people brought their she-goats to be covered by the he-goat. But how the ew... ...n the lake from the Austrian end, creeping under the cliffs. Far away, the Verona side, beyond the Island, lay fused in dim gold. The mountain opposit... ...re we had the world below us—the lake, the distant island, the far-off low Verona shore. Then ‘John’ began to talk, and he talked continuously, like a...

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...t betray her trust. 4 The Man Who Kept His Money in a Box As one goes out from Switzerland towards Italy, the road through the Via Mala ascends somew... ...ia Mala ascends somewhat steeply, and passengers by the diligence may walk from the inn at Tusis into the gorge, and make their way through the greate... ... he was making a painful effort to look upwards to the summit of the rocks from his posi- tion inside the carriage. There was such a roar of wind and ... ...f bound to apply myself to her assistance. “Oh, thank you,” said she. “The people are so stupid that one can really do nothing with them. And as for M... ... inconsiderable airs the moment her foot was on the shore, and ordered the people about as though she were the Lady Paramount of Bellaggio. Italians, ... ...l the boxes had been put into the small boat, I thought nothing of it. The people at Bellaggio could not have known which box to steal, nor had there ... ...ence to Milan, in which city I had no heart to look at anything; thence to Verona, and so over the pass of the Brenner to Innspruck. When I once found...

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...olutely without meaning. Fortunately, after all such churls have withdrawn from my audience in high displeasure, there remains a large majority who ar... ...jority who are loud in acknowledging the amusement which they have derived from a former paper of mine, ‘On Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts;... ... the entire speculation, furnishes the surest means of disen- chanting him from the horror which might else gather upon 5 Thomas de Quincey his feeli... ... of exertion is very lim- ited, and is soon filled by regular professional people, trained and equipped for the service. In the case of a fire which i... ...ain rob her mistress of a night’s rest. And she well knew that, with three people all 19 Thomas de Quincey anxiously awaiting her return, and by this... ...r below-stairs, or in one of the bedrooms above. Immedi- ately a stream of people poured down into the kitchen, where at once they saw the cradle—but ... ...ulous by disproportion. Seat your- self at this day in the amphitheatre at Verona, and judge for yourself. In an amphitheatre, the stage, or properly ...

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... sense of honour and independence, and an obstinate refusal to take advice from those who really wished to befriend him; nor should it be forgotten th... ...The apostle of affliction, he who threw Enchantment over passion, and from woe Wrung overwhelming eloquence, first drew 5 Rousseau The... ...n its shadows and blemishes; let us not, then, seek to “draw his frailties from their dread abode.” His greatest fault was his renunciation of a fathe... ...ains, lakes and islands, formerly regarded with aversion, into a fairyland peopled with crea- tures whose joys and sorrows appealed irresistibly to ev... ... my eyes only examples of mildness, and was surrounded by some of the best people in the world? My father, my aunt, my nurse, my relations, our friend... ...y Latin, history, and antiquities; I could hardly recol- lect whether such people as Romans ever existed. When I visited my father, he no longer behel... ...h regret and indignation stifle pleasure and surprise. The amphitheatre at Verona is a vast deal smaller, and less beau- tiful than that at Nismes, bu...

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...ng on a stile between two threadbare looking fields, and suffering acutely from indigestion. He suffered from indigestion now nearly every afternoon i... ...r quarter of his face, and he spoke with a wrathful eye regarding his wife from under the brim. In a voice thick with fury he said: “I s’pose you’d li... ...d not seem to her to justify his ingratitude. There had been the cold pork from Sunday and some nice cold potatoes, and Rashdall’s Mixed Pickles, of w... ...e best part of the jugful of beer…. But there seems to be no pleasing some people. “Tantrums!” said Mrs. Polly at the sink, struggling with the mustar... ... tumbrils…. I do not know why the east wind aggravates life to un- healthy people. It made Mr. Polly’s teeth seem loose in his head, and his skin feel... ...t, mewling and puking in its nurse’s arms.” There had been a time when two people had thought Mr. Polly the most wonderful and adorable thing in the w... ...ountersign was: “We bite our thumbs.” For weeks the glory of Shakespeare’s Verona lit Mr. Polly’s life. He walked as though he carried a sword at his ...

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... humanely great—great, I mean, as affecting a whole mass of lives—has come from reflection. On the other hand, you cannot fail to see the power of mer... ...d for the edifica- tion of posterity. Amongst other sayings—I am quot- ing from memory—I remember this solemn admo- nition: “Let all thy words have th... ... reality in an invented world, amongst imaginary things, hap- penings, and people. Writing about them, he is only writing about himself. But the discl... ...re was noth- ing in them to perplex a young conscience. Having broken away from my origins under a storm of blame from every quarter which had the mer... ...his worship for Napoleon the Great, he loved really, I believe, only three people in the world: his mother—your great- grandmother, whom you have seen... ... so far as the old King Louis-Philippe, who used to say in his exile, “The people are never in fault”—one may admit that there must be some righteousn... ...lish literature. My first acquaintance was (or were) the “Two Gentlemen of Verona,” and that in the very MS. of my father’s trans- lation. It was duri... ...rs. I reflect proudly that I must have read that page of “Two Gentlemen of Verona” tolerably well at the age of eight. The next time I met them was in...

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...or, pro- ceeded to a vacant room overlooking the front entrance, and spied from the window. Meanwhile Sewis stood by his master’s bedside. The squire ... ...ne with me last night? By George, if it is I’ll souse him; I’ll drench him from head to heel as though the rascal ‘d been drawn through the duck-pond.... ... boot, Sewis, and say it ‘s mine; you ‘ve my leave.’ Sewis withdrew a step from the bedside. At a safe distance he fronted his master steadily; almost... ...ade it sound hollow to their music. Milk, and no cows anywhere; numbers of people, and no acquaintances among them; my thoughts were occupied by the s... ...twithstanding my father’s elo- quent talk of ruling a realm, shepherding a people, hurling British thunderbolts. The day’s discipline was, that its se... ...d him to me as a sort of shadow about a pastrycook’s shop. But I surprised people by speaking of him. I made remarks to our landlady which caused her ... ...ched season, and that chance of a career in Parliament! The captain of the Verona hinted as much when, after a year of voyaging, we touched at an East... ...f Harry Richmond Our interview satisfied my heart’s hunger no further. The Verona’s erratic voyage had cut me off from letters. Janet might be a widow...

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...xholme still kept to dancing, and had effectually driven away Mr. Pericles from their gather- ings. For Mr. Pericles said: “If that they will go ‘so,’... ... colossus, when the Winter sun despatches a feeble greeting messenger-beam from his miserable Arctic wallet. The simile must be accepted in its might,... ...as things below the musical Art, gave a distinguishing tone to Brookfield, from which his French accentuation of our tongue did not detract. Mr. Peric... ...s. Eclipsed as they may be in the gross appreciation of the world by other people, who excel in this and that accomplishment, persons that nourish Nic... ...s, and was there- fore useful in exaggerating the features of disagreeable people, and showing how odious they were: besides endearing pleas- ant ones... ...s thought by the ladies. She added: “I feel that I sing better when I have people to listen to me.” “You find it more sympathetic, do you not?” remark... ...nd the matter passed. He was affectionate with Wilfrid, and invited him to Verona, with the assurance that his (the Austrian) school of cavalry was th... ...lfrid produced a momentary hesi- tation on Cornelia’s Part—”He has gone to Verona. We have an uncle in the Austrian service,” she said; and Merthyr bo...

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...rs to a period towards the end of the reign of Richard I., when his return from his long captivity had become an event rather wished than hoped for by... ... of their less powerful neighbours, who attempted to separate them- selves from their authority, and to trust for their protection, during the dangers... ...r- anny of the nobility, and the sufferings of the inferior classes, arose from the consequences of the Conquest by Duke Will- iam of Normandy . Four ... ... war or insurrection, mark the existence of the Anglo-Saxons as a separate people subsequent to the reign of William the Second; yet the great nationa... ...d, impressed them no less with an opinion of his sanctity. Even the common people, the severest critics of the conduct of their betters, had commisera... ...ippers of Mahound and T ermagaunt have so greatly the ad- vantage over the people once chosen of Heaven.” “He shall sit with thee, Wamba,” said Cedric... ... 3d Out. Ay, by my beard, will we; For he’s a proper man. Two Gentlemen of Verona. THE NOCTURNAL ADVENTURES of Gurth were not yet concluded; indeed he... ... end, And love you ‘gainst the nature of love, force you. Two Gentlemen of Verona. THE APARTMENT to which the Lady Rowena had been intro- duced was fi...

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...e originated. In such mouths I might have coupled it with an apt quotation from one of Shakespeare’s sonnets: “My nature is subdued To what it works i... ...true, and within the truth. The case of Gridley is in no essential altered from one of actual occurrence, made public by a dis interested person who ... ...on who was professionally acquainted with the whole of the monstrous wrong from beginning to end. At the present moment (August, 1853) there is a suit... ...minutely investigated and described by Giuseppe Bianchini, a prebendary of Verona, otherwise dis tinguished in letters, who published an account of i... ...the toes and fingers of his shivering little ‘prentice boy on deck. Chance people on the bridges peep ing over the parapets into a nether sky of fog,... ...ses. Innumerable children have been born into the cause; innumerable young people have married into it; innumerable old people have died out of it. Sc... ...pleasantry that particularly tickled the maces, bags, and purses. How many people out of the suit Jarndyce and Jarndyce has stretched forth its unwhol...

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...e originated. In such mouths I might have coupled it with an apt quotation from one of Shakespeare’s sonnets: “My nature is subdued To what it works i... ...true, and within the truth. The case of Gridley is in no essential altered from one of actual occurrence, made public by a dis interested person who ... ...on who was professionally acquainted with the whole of the monstrous wrong from beginning to end. At the present moment (August, 1853) there is a suit... ...minutely investigated and described by Giuseppe Bianchini, a prebendary of Verona, otherwise dis tinguished in letters, who published an account of i... ...the toes and fingers of his shivering little ‘prentice boy on deck. Chance people on the bridges peep ing over the parapets into a nether sky of fog,... ...ses. Innumerable children have been born into the cause; innumerable young people have married into it; innumerable old people have died out of it. Sc... ...pleasantry that particularly tickled the maces, bags, and purses. How many people out of the suit Jarndyce and Jarndyce has stretched forth its unwhol...

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...e Thackeray. He received the main part of his education at the Charterhouse, as we know to our profit. Thence he passed to Cambridge, remaining there from February 1829 to sometime in 1830. To judge by quotations and allusions, his favourite of the classics was Horace, the chosen of the eighteenth century, and generally the voice of its philosophy in a prosperous country. ...

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...........................................................1 3 CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SEAT OF WAR IN ITALY ................................................ ..., as we know to our profit. Thence he passed to Cambridge, remaining there from February 1829 to sometime in 1830. T o judge by quotations and allusio... ... generally the voice of its philosophy in a prosperous country. His voyage from India gave him sight of Napoleon on the rocky island. In his young man... ...ian policy was from step to step a mis- reading of the will of the English people. He went forth on this campaign, with the finger of Egypt not ineffe... ... and we shall be made sensible that we have an enemy in our midst, until a people, slow to think, have taken counsel of their native generosity to put... ...of those cries, we shall see how they illumine the councils of a governing people. They are wiser than the barking dogs. Cromwell and Bis- marck are g... ... obtain such victories, for they are the victories of Pyrrhus! There is at Verona some element in the Austrian councils of war which we don’t understa... ...body of the Austrians seems to be still concentrated between Peschiera and Verona, I should not wonder if they crossed the Mincio either to-day or to-... ...sesses? Still these are facts, and no one will ever dare to deny them from Verona and Vienna, for they are known as much as it was known and seen that...

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...f Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Malone has inferred that he was born on the 23d. There is doubtless, on the one hand, no absolute necessity deducible from law or custom, as either operated in those t...

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...in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Malone has inferr... ... 23d. There is doubtless, on the one hand, no absolute necessity deducible from law or custom, as either operated in those times, which obliges us to ... ... for children might be bap- tized, and were baptized, at various distances from their birth: yet, on the other hand, the 23d is as likely to have been... ...y is to be received as evi- dence of pauperism, nine tenths of the English people might occasionally be classed as paupers. With respect to his libera... ... their debts. And the prob- ability is, that Master Sadler acted like most people who, when they suppose a man to be going down in the world, feel the... ...nevitably have mixed chiefly with mechanics and humble tradesmen, for such people composed perhaps the total community . But had there even been a gen... ...been supposed that Shakspeare wrote his first drama, the T wo Gentlemen of Verona; the least characteristi- cally marked of all his plays, and, with t... ...hird Part, 1595 1591 7. The T wo Gentlemen of Verona, 1595 1591 8. Richard III., ...

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... taken Mrs. Prest into my confidence; in truth without her I should have made but little advance, for the fruitful idea in the whole business dropped from her friendly lips. It was she who invented the short cut, who severed the Gordian knot. It is not supposed to be the nature of women to rise as a general thing to the largest and most liberal view--I mean of a practical ...

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...de but little advance, for the fruitful idea in the whole business dropped from her friendly lips. It was she who invented the short cut, who severed ... ... Bordereau was scarcely larger than mine, and indeed I had brought with me from En- gland some definite facts which were new to her. Their name had be... ...and we had done it by opening lights into his life. He had nothing to fear from us because he had nothing to fear from the truth, which alone at such ... ...re spent. We were glad to think at least that in all our publishings (some people consider I believe that we have overdone them), we had only touched ... ...ver thinks of doing so. It has the air of a Protestant Sunday. Perhaps the people are afraid of the Misses Bordereau. I daresay they have the reputati... ...he way for them, are to be had for five shil- lings a year. And as for the people who live in them—no, until you have explored Venice socially as much... .... I looked at the windows of the palace to see if by chance the example of Verona (Verona being not far off) had been followed; but everything was dim...

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...re is no end, there never will be an end, of the lamentations which ascend from earth and the rebellious heart of her children, upon this huge opprobr... ...n-place of humanity, is the subject in every age of variation without end, from the poet, the rhetorician, the fabulist, the moralist, the divine, and... ... sunny smiles and many tears—a little love and infinite strife—whisperings from paradise and fierce mockeries from the anarchy of chaos—dust and ashes... ...great masters of literature, especially those of modern times; so that few people knew the high classics more familiarly: and as to the passage in que... ... necessities of public business coming back in a torrent upon the official people after this momentary interruption, forbade them to indulge any furth... ...int seemed to justify almost more than hopes. This might be said, and most people would have been more or less con- soled by it. I was not. I felt as ... ...arly ages of Chris- tianity, exposed in the bloody amphitheatre of Rome or Verona, to ‘fight with wild beasts,’ as it was expressed in mockery—she to ...

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... me, and yet that I can’t place him.” The orchestra was playing the Prayer from Der Freischutz, but Weber’s lovely music only deepened the blank of me... ...now that I observed him at my leisure, the look of familiarity quite faded from his face. What had made us call his appearance odd was his great lengt... ...ently observed that she was trying to catch his eye. Though at Homburg, as people said, “one could never be sure,” I yet doubted whether this lady wer... ...e and there by a pale blue ribbon. I used to flatter myself on guessing at people’s nationality by their faces, and, as a rule, I guessed aright. This... ...of her neighbours, she had no little pile of gold before her, but she drew from her pocket a double napoleon, put it into his hand, and bade him place... ...sweetheart hardly suffered more; she was not, at least, a standing joke in Verona. Remembering these things, I hastened to say to Pickering that I hop... ...part. We lived in the country, winter and summer, seeing but three or four people. I had a succession of tutors, and a library to browse about in; I a...