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...of companions richer than he or cleverer at their work, who laughed at his accent, who jeered at his clothes, and whose mothers came to the school wit... ... to mend the linen. Patronized by the clergy, be- cause she belonged to an ancient family of noblemen ruined by the Revolution, she dined in the refec... ...ining beneath arbours in the arms of Bayaderes; Djiaours, T urkish sabres, Greek caps; and you especially , pale 35 Flaubert landscapes of dithyrambi... ..., Picardy, and the Ile-de-France, a bastard land whose language is without accent and its landscape is without character. It is there that they make t... ...wn hall, constructed “from the designs of a Paris architect,” is a sort of Greek temple that forms the corner next to the chemist’s shop. On the groun... ... in a wood, in a field, or even contemplat- ing the eternal vault like the ancients. My God! Mine is the God of Socrates, of Franklin, of Voltaire, an... ...s, his head in his hands, went on in a broken voice, and with the resigned accent of 298 Madame Bovary infinite sorrow— “No, I don’t blame you now.” ...

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..., sir,’ proceeded Goodchild, with a disparaging assumption of the Scot tish accent, ‘I’d get me oop and peetch into somebody. Wouldn’t you?’ ‘I would... ..., with the purple and brown moor close upon its one street; a curious little ancient market cross set up in the midst of it; and the town itself looki... ...ies of Greece, associated with one of the most engaging and most fa mous of Greek women. On this point, Mr. Goodchild con tinued at intervals to bre... ...was followed by a social supper, and by the presentation, in accordance with ancient custom, of a pound of sweetmeats and a bottle of Madeira, offered... ...e. A place dropped in the midst of a charming landscape, a place with a fine ancient fragment of castle, a place of lovely walks, a place possessing s... ...o occupied the middle seat of the carriage, expounded in his peculiar pulpit accent to the young and lovely Rev erend Mrs. Crinoline, who occupied th...

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...re was the distinction of line which stamps the beauty of the antique; the Greek profile, with the velvet whiteness of women’s faces, and eyes full of... ...hat have come and gone during the last forty years, have tried to tame the ancient families perched aloft like wary ravens on their crag; the said fam... ...own will tell you, speaking of a merchant in the lower suburb, throwing an accent into the speech which no words can describe. When the Restoration de... ...he seclusion enforced by political storms, he taught his pu- pil Latin and Greek and some smatterings of natural science. A mother might have modified... ...warded him beyond his hopes by that tone in her voice; the kindness of her accent had solved the difficul- ties of the position, her suggestion was so... ...s marvelous than the other de- pendent invention of printing, was known in ancient times in China. Thence by the unrecognized channels of commerce the... ...mitation, made from rags, was first made at Basel, in 1170, by a colony of Greek refugees, according to some authorities; or at Padua, in 1301, by an ...

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... at the mouth and along the brows, even in men. He was tall, and had clear Greek outlines: the lips were locked metal, thin as edges of steel, and his... ... devel- oped nature are seen armed and furious against our mild prevailing ancient mother nature; and the contrast is between our utter wrath and her ... ...ose forms of faith the princess had embraced. She answered that it was the Greek Church. ‘The Greek,’ said he, gazing harder at the portrait. Presentl... ... grey grass nods and seems to know the wind and have a whisper with it, of ancient times maybe and most like; about the big chief lying underneath in ... ...implements, while Patrick examined guns and Philip un- sheathed swords. An ancient clay pipe from the bed of the Thames and one from the bed of the Bo... ...aid instantly, and they beheld a flashing of white teeth and heard Italian accents. The monkey saluted militarily, but with painful suggestions of his...

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...onal emanation in place of a coercive weapon of statecraft. Freed from its ancient shackles of dogma and despo tism it eludes analysis. We know not h... ... God although sunk in su perstition and held down by the despotism of the Greek Leo Tolstoy 6 Church. It was the cumbrous ritual and dogma of the or... ..., – In those two years of intellectual work, I discovered a truth which is ancient and simple, but which yet I know better than others do. I found out... ...ve is tinged with a vague colouring of oriental leg end, but the personal accent is marked throughout. No similar achievement. Mr. Chertkov has st... ...you see the whole man with his worst faults and best qualities; weaknesses accentuated by the en ergy with which they are charactered, apparent waste... ...ath throes of spiritual conflict issued a new birth and a new life. In the ancient Scripture “God is love” Tolstoy discerned fresh meaning, and strove... ...rines which we have re ceived from Egyptian, Jewish, Hindoo, Chinese, and Greek antiquity. The two great principles of Jesus: love of God – in a word... ...ve Thyself. ’ And a superscription also was written over Him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, ‘This is the King of the Jews.’ And one of th...

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...o his book which seems at first sight unnatural. Ferragus is, according to ancient custom, a name taken by the chief or Grand Master of the Devorants.... ...l. This young man belonged to a good family, whose nobil- ity was not very ancient; but there are so few really old fami- lies in these days, that all... ...e are so few really old fami- lies in these days, that all men of rank are ancient without dispute. His grandfather had bought the office of counsello... ...worthy of it.” “Not worthy?” The words were repeated amid her sobs and the accent in which they were said would have moved 67 Balzac any other man th... ... on all sides the emblems of professions, and every style of art,—Moorish, Greek, Gothic,—friezes, ovules, paintings, vases, guardian-angels, temples,... ...hion?” Among these wandering creations some belong to the spe- cies of the Greek Hermae; they say nothing to the soul; they are there, and that is all...

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...hese people who had never been soldiers, who would never be soldiers. “The Greeks used to say,” he said bitterly, using as phrase that had been a long... ...that made him think of wide sun-scorched up- lands, and dancing figures on Greek vases. Since he had seen her two nights ago, he had thought of nothin... ...he apse of the cathedral bulged against the pale sky. On a narrow and very ancient bridge they stopped and looked at the water, full of a shimmer of b... ...?” “I’m on strike already,” answered Andrews laughing. The man noticed his accent, looked at him sharply a sec- ond, and turned back to the conversati...

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...e you the fact is exactly the reverse, and I have com pletely baulked the ancient proverb that “a rolling stone gath ers no moss;” and in my progres... ...they have not been? Is there no Bracebridge Hall in exist ence? Has it no ancient shades or quiet streets? In bygone times, when Irving left that Hal... ...n the rail way, as I came here. In the same carriage with me there sat an ancient gentleman (I feel no delicacy in alluding to him, for I know that h... ...me when the old man and his son took their donkey home, which were the old Greek days, I believe, and probably ever since the time when the donkey wen... ...ose sweet little voices which ought to be heard speaking in very different accents, anathematise by rote any human being who does not hold what is tau...

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...ov?” said the newly arrived gen- eral speaking quickly with a harsh German accent, looking to both sides and advancing straight toward the inner door.... ...f in this way,” he added in Russian—but pronouncing the word with a French accent- having noticed that Zherkov could still hear him. He waited a momen... ...ar fellow. Y ou see it’s hurrah for the Tsar, for Russia, for the Orthodox Greek faith! All that is beau- tiful, but what do we, I mean the Austrian c... ...icate that he was about to say something witty. “Buonaparte?” he repeated, accentuating the u: “I think, how- ever, now that he lays down laws for Aus... ...v…,”* said Dolokhov. “Qu’ est-ce qu’il chante?”** asked a Frenchman. “It’s ancient history,” said another, guessing that it referred to a former war. ...

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..., Por- tuguese, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolitans, V e- netians, Greeks, Turks, descendants from all the builders of Babel, come to trade at... ...nd travellers for pleasure; officers from India on leave; merchants in the Greek and Turkey trades; a clerical English husband in a meek strait-waistc... ...mals, no rare plants or flowers, no natu- ral or artificial wonders of the ancient world—all taboo with that enlightened strictness, that the ugly Sou... ...d St Paul’s.’ He emptied and put down the wine-glass half-way through this ancient civic toast, and took up the box. It was an iron box some two feet ... ...e. How the trials were made in the presence of a board of six, of whom two ancient members were too blind to see it, two other ancient members were to... ... at him with her work-worn hands folded together, and in the same resigned accents as before. ‘I press for no confidence now. I only ask you to repose...

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...apparent assumption which they create, Paul was bored to death among these ancients, unaware that the connections of his youth would eventually secure... ...per- sons whose mind is neither keen nor broad. Her hands, like those of a Greek statue, confirmed the predictions of face and figure by revealing an ... ...u are my ambition; I live only in you.” Hearing this speech uttered in the accents of the heart, and noting, more especially, the limpid azure of Paul...

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..., Por- tuguese, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolitans, V e- netians, Greeks, Turks, descendants from all the builders of Babel, come to trade at... ...nd travellers for pleasure; officers from India on leave; merchants in the Greek and Turkey trades; a clerical English husband in a meek strait-waistc... ...mals, no rare plants or flowers, no natu- ral or artificial wonders of the ancient world—all taboo with that enlightened strictness, that the ugly Sou... ...d St Paul’s.’ He emptied and put down the wine-glass half-way through this ancient civic toast, and took up the box. It was an iron box some two feet ... ...e. How the trials were made in the presence of a board of six, of whom two ancient members were too blind to see it, two other ancient members were to... ... at him with her work-worn hands folded together, and in the same resigned accents as before. ‘I press for no confidence now. I only ask you to repose... ... one piece, pair of gaudy vases of very artificial flowers; between them a Greek warrior with his helmet off, sacrificing a clock to the Genius of Fra... ... and the Bosom, as a rallying answer, and inquired in his most insinuating accents: ‘What am I to call the most elegant, accomplished and charm- ing o...

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...des!” said Lucy, who had been further saddened by the Signora’s unexpected accent. “It might be London.” She looked at the two rows of English people ... ... View shipped as asceticism. A Gothic statue implies celi- bacy, just as a Greek statue implies fruition, and perhaps this was what Mr. Beebe meant. A... ... bumble-puppy with Minnie Beebe, niece to the rector, and aged thirteen—an ancient and most honourable game, which consists in striking tennis- balls ... ...Mr. Vyse?” 173 EM Forster “Never.” “Then you don’t see the wonder of this Greek visit. I haven’t been to Greece myself, and don’t mean to go, and I c... ...nk too highly of her. But the future. Seriously, what do you think of this Greek plan?” He pulled out the letter again. “I don’t know whether you over...

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... a feature in art which seems to have come in with the Italians. Y our old Greek statues have scarce enough vitality in them to keep their monstrous b... ...bout a recumbent figure of Michael Angelo’s than about the most excited of Greek statues. The very marble seems to wrinkle with a wild energy that we ... ...de him. He speaks English perfectly, but with, I think, sufficient foreign accent to stamp him as a Russian, especially when his man- ners are taken i... ...uld be ‘cruel, lewd, and kindly,’ all at once. There is more sense in that Greek myth of Pan than in any other that I recollect except the lumi- nous ... ...Henry is the best part in any play. ‘Though,’ he adds, ‘how it be with the ancient plays I know not. But in this I have ever feared to do ill, and ind... ...manship is jimmy: did I not beseech you I know not how often to find me an ancient mariner – and you, whose own wife’s own brother is one of the ancie... ...ry principles; but my heart and all my interest are with the dweller, that ancient of days and day-old infant man. R. L. S. An excellent touch is p. 5...

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...branches of mathemat ics and physical science, French, German, Latin, and Greek. 9 CHARLES D ICKENS He knew all about all the Water Sheds of all the... ...l particular in respect of showing their legs; and one of them, alone in a Greek chariot, drove six in hand into every town they came to. They all ass... ...ss of minds, however, did not need to be informed that the Powlers were an ancient stock, who could trace themselves so exceedingly far back that it w... ...ast been a cruel sufferer, Heaven reward thee!’ she said, in compassionate accents. ‘I am thy poor friend, with all my heart and mind.’ The wounds of ... ...ing at the Bank yesterday evening, for Mr. Bounderby’s address, I found an ancient lady there, who seems to enter tain great admiration for your sist... ...dragged in!’ The spectacle of a matron of classical deportment, seizing an ancient woman by the throat, and hauling her into a dwell ing house, would...

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...ing made a great cawing. At the foot of the hill was a river, with a steep ancient bridge crossing it; and be- yond that a large pleasant green flat, ... ...s indeed—it’s treason, I would lay a wager,” cries the lawyer. “Egad! it’s Greek to me,” says Captain Westbury. “Can you read it, little boy?” “Y es, ... ...eeding, and many accomplishments, that he was not. I am of one of the most ancient families in the empire; I have had my education at a famous school,... ... eagerly about their progress 93 Thackeray in books. Tom had learned some Greek and Hebrew, besides Latin, in which he was pretty well skilled, and a... ...ction, that it was all her guests could do to refrain from laughing in her ancient face. She asked Harry what his profession was to be; and my lord, s... ...h the horrors of war. These are indicated rather than described; as in the Greek tragedies, that, I dare say, you have read (and sure there can be no ... ... for surprise. Frank was further cautioned to speak English with a foreign accent, which task he performed indif- ferently well, and this caution was ...

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...ppears to have been that printing was first carried on in England in an ancient chapel converted into a printing house, and the title h... ... to be kept up, and guard maintained against the unremitting at traction of ancient habits, and the force of perpetual temp tations. This being acqu... ...modern languages which are deriv’d from it; and yet we do not begin with the Greek, in order more eas ily to acquire the Latin. It is true that, if y... ... delivery of the latter was so improv’d by frequent repetitions that ev ery accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well ...

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...y readers. The Framley property belonged to her son; but as Lufton Park—an ancient ramshackle place in another county—had heretofore been the family r... ...d said, and there would be some hope of reform, some chance that England’s ancient glory would not be allowed in these perilous times to go headlong i... ...se of much more pretension than Framley Court. Indeed, if one looks at the ancient marks about it, rather than at those of the present day, it is a pl... ...uaded her husband? But yet she did not altogether like it. She feared that Greek from Chaldicotes, even when he came with the present of a prebendal s... ...t he did not believe it. She at any rate would revolt from the gift of the Greek of Chaldicotes. ‘Oh, indeed, ’ she said, when the vicar had with some... ... child to her. ‘I don’t know, ’ said Grace, with a sheepish face. ‘I am in Greek Delectus and the irregular verbs. ’ ‘Greek Delectus and the irregular... ...ine, saith the Lord,”’ answered the young wife, not with solemn, preaching accent, as though bent on reproof, but with the softest whisper into his ea...

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...ms, were crying to the silent waters for mercy, in the shrill and piercing accents of the most acute agony and despair. The scene changed; and I stood... ...ine. Of her family—I have surely heard her speak. That it is of a remotely ancient date 170 Poe in Five V olumes cannot be doubted. Ligeia! Ligeia! i... ...h, the softness and the majesty, the fullness and the spirituality, of the Greek—the contour which the god Apollo revealed but in a dream, to Cleomene... ...e head of which only the back was visible, rivalled in outline that of the Greek Psyche, and was rather displayed than concealed by an elegant cap of ...

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...m the garland of Princess’s Place. Miss T ox endued herself with a pair of ancient gloves, like dead leaves, in which she was accustomed to perform th... ...tler (who was charged extra on that account, as having the appearnce of an ancient family retainer), two very tall young men in livery , and a select ... ... understanding of its heavenly spirit, as if he had got it all by heart in Greek, and had been able to write any number of fierce theological disquisi... ...sh you to hear me.’ ‘To be addressed by Mrs Dombey,’ he returned, ‘even in accents of unmerited reproach, is an honour I so greatly es- teem, that alt... ...was so extremely full of antiquity as to be nearly on a par with a genuine ancient Roman in his knowledge of English: a triumph that affected his good... ... mother- tongue, but fifteen quotations from the Latin, and seven from the Greek, which moved the younger of the young gentlemen to discontent and env...