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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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...t Charing Cross to see Lilia off-- Philip, Harriet, Irma, Mrs. Herriton herself. Even Mrs. Theobald, squired by Mr. Kingcroft, had braved the journey from Yorkshire to bid her only daughter good-bye. Miss Abbott was likewise attended by numerous relatives, and the sight of so many people talking at once and saying such different things caused Lilia to break into ungovernab...

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...self. Even Mrs. Theobald, squired by Mr. Kingcroft, had braved the journey from Yorkshire to bid her only daughter good-bye. Miss Abbott was likewise ... ...bott was likewise attended by numerous relatives, and the sight of so many people talking at once and saying such different things caused Lilia to bre... ...a museum of antiquities and art. Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.” “How I wish you were coming, Phi... ...journey—the Campanile of Airolo, which would burst on her when she emerged from the St. Gothard tunnel, presaging the future; the view of the Ticino a... ...ly. “I and Caroline Abbott had the greatest difficulty in dis- suading her from the Riviera.” “No, Mother; no. She was really keen on Italy. This trav... ...really keen, for the hotel’s none too com- fortable.” “I cannot understand people,” said Harriet. “What can they be doing all day? And there is no chu... ...f a waste of glaciers and hotels was waltzing at sunset round the walls of Verona. “Absurd nonsense they talk about the heat,” said Philip, as they dr... ...e tomb of Juliet. From that moment every- thing went wrong. They fled from Verona. Harriet’s sketch-book was stolen, and the bottle of ammonia in her ...

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...sible to know anybody, and yet, in another sense, we knew nothing at all about them. This is, I believe, a state of things only possible with English people of whom, till today, when I sit down to puzzle out what I know of this sad affair, I knew nothing whatever. Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart...

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...out them. This is, I believe, a state of things only possible with English people of whom, till today, when I sit down to puzzle out what I know of th... ...llows. I don’t mean to say that we were not acquainted with many En- glish people. Living, as we perforce lived, in Europe, and being, as we perforce ... ...a provided yearly winter quar- ters for us, and Nauheim always received us from July to Septem- ber. You will gather from this statement that one of u... ... from this statement that one of us had, as the saying is, a “heart”, and, from the statement that my wife is dead, that she was the sufferer. Captain... ...th, the two months or so were only just enough to keep poor Florence alive from year to year. The reason for his heart was, approximately, polo, or to... ...ing more particularly what in England it is the custom to call “quite good people”. They were descended, as you will probably expect, from the Ashburn... ..., we never did go back anywhere. Not to Heidelberg, not to Hamelin, not to Verona, not to Mont Majour—not so much as to Carcassonne itself. We talked ...

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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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...Excerpt: CANTO I. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e?en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet to discourse of what t...

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...the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e’en to tell It were no easy task, how savage ... ... its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet to discourse of what there good befell, All else will I r... ...: And as a man, with difficult short breath, Forespent with toiling, ‘scap’d from sea to shore, Turns to the perilous wide waste, and stands At gaze; ... ...the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric mov’d: To rear me w... ... Hell 29 As thou shalt tell me, why in all their laws, Against my kin this people is so fell?” “The slaughter and great havoc,” I replied, “Tha... ...te Hell 44 This said he turn’d, and seem’d as one of those, Who o’er Verona’s champain try their speed For the green mantle, and of them he se... ...t hand new misery I saw, New pains, new executioners of wrath, That swarming peopled the first chasm. Below Were naked sinners. Hitherward they came... ...his Veronese patron Can Grande della Scala. v. 102. ‘Twizt either Feltro.] Verona, the country of Can della Scala, is situated between Feltro, a cit... ...Romano, a most cruel tyrant in the Marca Trivigiana, Lord of Padua, Vicenza, Verona, and Brescia, who died in 1260. His atrocities form the subject of...

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...Excerpt: CANTO I. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e?en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet to discourse of what t...

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...the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e’en to tell It were no easy task, how savage ... ... its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet to discourse of what there good befell, All else will I r... ...: And as a man, with difficult short breath, Forespent with toiling, ‘scap’d from sea to shore, Turns to the perilous wide waste, and stands At gaze; ... ...the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric mov’d: To rear me w... ... Hell 29 As thou shalt tell me, why in all their laws, Against my kin this people is so fell?” “The slaughter and great havoc,” I replied, “Tha... ...te Hell 44 This said he turn’d, and seem’d as one of those, Who o’er Verona’s champain try their speed For the green mantle, and of them he se... ...t hand new misery I saw, New pains, new executioners of wrath, That swarming peopled the first chasm. Below Were naked sinners. Hitherward they came... ...his Veronese patron Can Grande della Scala. v. 102. ‘Twizt either Feltro.] Verona, the country of Can della Scala, is situated between Feltro, a cit... ...Romano, a most cruel tyrant in the Marca Trivigiana, Lord of Padua, Vicenza, Verona, and Brescia, who died in 1260. His atrocities form the subject of...

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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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............................. 6 CANTO I. Invocation to the Muses.?Dawn of Easter on the shore of Purgatory.?The Four Stars.?Cato.?The cleansing of Dante from the stains of Hell. ............................................................................................................ 6 CANTO II. Sunrise.?The Poets on the shore.?Coming of a boat, guided by an angel, bearing ...

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...er on the shore of Purgatory.—The Four Stars.—Cato.—The cleansing of Dante from the stains of Hell. ..................................................... ...... 53 CANTO XV . Second Ledge: the Envious.—An Angel removes the second P from Dante’s forehead.—Discourse concerning the Sharing of Good.—Ascent to ... .............................. 60 CANTO XVII. Third Ledge the Wrathful.—Issue from the Smoke.—Vision of examples of Anger.—Ascent to the Fourth Ledge, wh... ... mind upon the other pole, and saw four stars never seen save by the first people. 4 The heavens appeared to rejoice in their flamelets. O widowed no... ...ide men in the right path, but not to bring them to Paradise. By the first people arc prob- ably meant Adam and Eve, who from the terrestrial Para- di... ...an this, along which I have set myself. I have shown to him all the guilty people; and now I intend to show him those spir- its that purge themselves ... ... His death ended the hopes of Dante. 12 Famous families, the first two of Verona, the last two of Orvieto, at enmity with each other in their respect... ...ou holdest our obligation for churlishness. I was Abbot 17 of San Zeno at Verona, under the empire of the good Barbarossa, of whom Milan, still griev... ...7 Unknown, save for this mention of him. 18 Alberto della Scala, lord of Verona; he died in 1301. He had forced upon the monastery for its abbot his...

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...ante, doubtful of his own powers, is discouraged at the outset.?Virgil cheers him by telling him that he has been sent to his aid by a blessed Spirit from Heaven.?Dante casts off fear, and the poets proceed. ................ 19 CANTO III. The gate of Hell.?Virgil lends Dante in.?The punishment of the neither good nor bad.?Aeheron, and the sinners on its bank.?Charon.?Earth...

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...sed S y a blessed S y a blessed Spirit fr pirit fr pirit fr pirit fr pirit from H om H om H om H om Heav eav eav eav eaven.—D en.—D en.—D en.—D en.—Da... ...le. E cle. E cle. E cle. E cle. Escape fr scape fr scape fr scape fr scape from the fifth pit.—The sixth pit: hypocrites, in cloaks of gilded lead.—J ... ...r The poets climb fr The poets climb fr The poets climb fr The poets climb from the sixth pit.—S om the sixth pit.—S om the sixth pit.—S om the sixth ... ...rough me is the way into eternal woe; through me is the way among the lost people. Justice moved my lofty maker: the divine Power, the supreme Wisdom ... ...ve come to the place where I have told thee that thou shalt see the woeful people, who have lost the good of the understanding.” And when he had put h... ...r feet by loathsome worms. And when I gave myself to looking onward, I saw people on the bank of a great river; wherefore I said, “Master, now grant t... ..., and more I ask not.” Then he turned back, and seemed of those who run at Verona for the green cloth 9 across the plain, and of these he seemed the ... ... one that wins, and not he that loses. 9 The prize in the annual races at Verona. CANT CANT CANT CANT CANTO XVI. O XVI. O XVI. O XVI. O XVI. Third ro...

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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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... most of its light I have been, and have seen things which he who descends from thereabove neither knows how nor is able to recount; because, drawing ... ...into my breast, and breathe thou in such wise as when thou drewest Marsyas from out the sheath of his limbs. O divine Power, if thou lend thyself to m... ...nd. The lamp of the world rises to mortals through different passages, but from that which joins four circles with three crosses it issues with better... ... me what are the dusky marks of this body, which there below on earth make people fable about Cain?” 6 She smiled somewhat, and then she said, “If the... ...lown to the sorrow of Lucretia, in seven kings, conquering the neighboring peoples round about. Thou knowest what it did when borne by the illustri- o... ... revolving in the third epicycle rayed out mad love; wherefore the ancient people in their ancient error not only unto her did honor with sacrifice an... ...ine exiles of the party of the Whites. 5 Bartolommeo della Scala, lord of Verona, whose armorial bearings were the imperial eagle upon a ladder (scal... ... the youngest brother of Bartolommeo, and finally his successor as lord of Verona. 7 Before Pope Clement V., under whom the Papal seat was establishe...

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... assigned to it, 1591 and 1596 1597) DRAMATIS PERSONAE ESCALUS: prince of Verona. (PRINCE:) PARIS: a young nobleman, kinsman to the prince. MONTAGU... ...t. JULIET: daughter to Capulet. 3 Nurse to Juliet. (Nurse:) Citizens of Verona; several Men and Women, relations to both houses; Maskers, Guards, W... ...t:) (First Watchman:) (Second Watchman:) (Third Watchman:) Chorus. SCENE: Verona: Mantua. PROLOGUE Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Ve... ...households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hand... ...t grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star cross’d lovers ... ...essels, are ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push Montague’s men from the wall, and thrust his maids to the wall. GREGORY: The quarrel is b... ...PULET: What should it be, that they so shriek abroad? LADY CAPULET : The people in the street cry Romeo, Some Juliet, and some Paris; and all run, W...

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...s historical. The later sugges- tion of Mr Acheson that the Dark Lady, far from being a maid of honor, kept a tavern in Oxford and was the mother of D... ...namiable; it was accidental, external, excrescential. Attached to his face from the left ear to the point of his chin was a monstrous goitre, which hu... ... talked to him as you might to 5 GB Shaw Romeo or Lovelace; only, so many people, especially women, would not risk the preliminary ordeal, that he re... ...his hand occasionally at deciphering ancient inscriptions, reading them as people seem to read the stars, by discovering bears and bulls and swords an... ...ut T yler would have it that she was Mary Fitton; and he tracked Mary down from the first of her marriages in her teens to her tomb in Cheshire, whith... ...the Museum and spoke to me about something or other, no doubt finding that people who were keen on this sort of conversation were rather scarce. He re... ...asy ways with servants which is seen not only between The Two Gentlemen of Verona and their va- lets, but in the affection and respect inspired by a g...

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...tereotyped compliments which every suc- cessful farce or melodrama elicits from the newspapers. Give me that critic who rushed from my play to declare... ...r wast- ing my energies on “pleasant plays” for the amusement of frivolous people, when I can build up such excellent stage sermons on their own work.... ...innocent court official like the Lord Chamberlain’s Examiner, much less of people who consciously profit by Mrs Warren’s profession, or who personally... ...ournalists I have shocked reason so unripely that they will gather nothing from this but a confused no- tion that I am accusing the National Vigilance... ...y of complicity in my own scandalous immorality. It will seem to them that people who would stand this play would stand anything. They are quite mista... ...nclusion, it is not because I am one of those who claim that art is exempt from moral obligations, and deny that the writing or performance of a play ... ... is. PRAED [enthusiastically] You will not say that if you come with me to Verona and on to Venice. You will cry with de- light at living in such a be... ...ope—at fifty! At your age, Miss Warren, you would not need to go so far as Verona. Your spirits would absolutely fly up at the mere sight of Ostend. Y... ...ls to talk to me about? PRAED [puzzled] Of course it’s very different from Verona. I dont suggest for a moment that— VIVIE [bitterly] Probably the bea...

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..., Witness of things, which to relate again Surpasseth power of him who comes from thence; For that, so near approaching its desire Our intellect is to... ...y bosom, and there breathe So, as when Marsyas by thy hand was dragg’d Forth from his limbs unsheath’d. O power divine! If thou to me of shine impart ... ...ard (more shame for human wills Deprav’d) joy to the Delphic god must spring From the Pierian foliage, when one breast Is with such thirst inspir’d. F... ...gh me from Charles and Rodolph; had not ill lording which doth spirit up The people ever, in Palermo rais’d The shout of ‘death,’ re echo’d loud and l... ... spouse He sent, who by their deeds and words might join Again his scatter’d people. In that clime, Where springs the pleasant west wind to unfold The... ... reflected back The scripture image, by distortion marr’d. “Let not the people be too swift to judge, As one who reckons on the blades in field, ... ...allen by the same hand she, after her brother’s death, was again wedded in Verona. v. 37. This.] Folco of Genoa, a celebrated Provencal poet, commo... ...i, Dante’s political enemy, slain. Purg. C. XXIV. 81. He seeks an asylum at Verona, under the roof of the Signori della Scala. Par. C. XVII. 69. He ...

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...so piteously. And even as he, who, with distressful breath, Forth issued from the sea upon the shore, T urns to the water perilous and gazes; So d... ...edingly, Which with a spotted skin was covered o’er! And never moved she from before my face, Nay, rather did impede so much my way, That many t... ...e forlorn! She brought upon me so much heaviness, With the affright that from her aspect came, That I the hope relinquished of the height. And as ... ... the fire, because they hope to come, Whene’er it may be, to the blessed people; To whom, then, if thou wishest to ascend, A soul shall be for tha... ...t; Through me the way is to eternal dole; Through me the way among the people lost. Justice incited my sublime Creator; Created me divine Omnipo... ... We to the place have come, where I have told thee Thou shalt behold the people dolorous Who have foregone the good of intellect.” 15 Dante And a... ...d no more I ask.” Then he turned round, and seemed to be of those Who at Verona run for the Green Mantle Across the plain; and seemed to be among ... ...us, If thou for churlishness our justice take. I was San Zeno’s Abbot at Verona, Under the empire of good Barbarossa, Of whom still sorrowing Mi...

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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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...sea behind; And of that second region will I sing, In which the human spirit from sinful blot Is purg’d, and for ascent to Heaven prepares. Here,... ...the first circle, to mine eyes Unwonted joy renew’d, soon as I ‘scap’d Forth from the atmosphere of deadly gloom, That had mine eyes and bosom fill’d ... ... northern site, bereft Indeed, and widow’d, since of these depriv’d! As from this view I had desisted, straight Turning a little tow’rds the othe... ...ut softly come. And thou be firm in hope, my son belov’d.” Now was that people distant far in space A thousand paces behind ours, as much As at a... ..., if thy saddle be unpress’d? Nought doth he now but aggravate thy shame. Ah people! thou obedient still shouldst live, And in the saddle let thy Caes... ...y Caesar, why dost thou desert my side?” Come and behold what love among thy people: And if no pity touches thee for us, Come and blush for thine own ... ...safe us then Thy pardon, if our duty seem to thee Discourteous rudeness. In Verona I Was abbot of San Zeno, when the hand Of Barbarossa grasp’d Imper... ...t Ilerda (Lerida) in Spain. v. 118. abbot.] Alberto, abbot of San Zeno in Verona, when Frederick I was emperor, by whom Milan was besieged and red... ... and reduced to ashes. v. 121. There is he.] Alberto della Scala, lord of Verona, who had made his natural son abbot of San Zeno. v. 133. First t...

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...thing for publication. At the age of nearly sixty-two I received an injury from a fall, which confined me closely to the house while it did not appare... ...he aid of my eldest son, F . D. Grant, assisted by his brothers, to verify from the records every statement of fact given. The comments are my own, an... ... occupied by descendants of his to this day. I am of the eighth generation from Mathew Grant, and sev- enth from Samuel. Mathew Grant’s first wife die... ...and but few east; and above all, there were no reporters prying into other people’s private affairs. Consequently it did not become generally known th... ...s in imitation of mine. The joke was a huge one in the mind of many of the people, and was much enjoyed by them; but I did not appreciate it so highly... ...pture of Santa Anna, the Mexican President. Before long, however, the same people—who with permission of Mexico had colonized T exas, and afterwards s... ...cember. On the 25th he surprised and captured Forrest’s dismounted camp at Verona, Mississippi, on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, de- stroyed the railr...

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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...

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...ony Motteux The text of the first Two Books of Rabelais has been reprinted from the first edition (1653) of Urquhart’s translation. Foot- notes initia... ...on (1653) of Urquhart’s translation. Foot- notes initialled ‘M.’ are drawn from the Maitland Club edition (1838); other footnotes are by the translato... ...(as the footnotes indicate) passages omitted by Motteux have been restored from the 1738 copy edited by Ozell. 4 Gargantua & Pantagruel Introduction ... ...harts, and other such-like counterfeited pictures at discretion, to excite people unto laughter, as Silenus himself, who was the foster-father of good... ...ht of force in all countries whatsoever. For you know well enough that all people, and all languages and nations, except the ancient Syracusans and ce... ...the city, and was beheld of everybody there with great admiration; for the people of Paris are so sottish, so badot, so foolish and fond by nature, th... ... by chance, at the foot of Mount Celion, with a beautiful Latin lady named Verona, who from her very cradle upwards had always been both deaf and dumb...

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...imackRivers I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind, New lands, new people, and new thoughts to find; Many fair reaches and headlands appear... ...f England in 1635, when it received the other but kindred name of C ONCORD from the first plantation on its banks, which appears to have been commence... ...rass ground to Concord farmers, who own the Great Meadows, and get the hay from year to year. “One branch of it,” according to the historian of Concor... ...te so good author ity, “rises in the south part of Hopkinton, and another from a pond and a large cedar swamp in Westborough,” and flow ing between ... ...hich causeth their meadows to lie much covered with water, the which these people, together with their neighbor town, have several times essayed to cu... ... hold but speak not, silently glided past the firm lands of Concord, both peopled cape and lonely summer meadow, with steady sweeps. And yet we did u... ...d grown more outward when I can express it. On his journey from Brenner to Verona, Goethe writes: “The T ees flows now more gently, and makes in many ...