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...he had heard in the servants’ hall? Again, had my title borne ‘Waverley, a Romance from the German,’ what head so obtuse as not to image forth a profl... ...te knowledge of the particular ingredients necessary to the composition of romances and novels of various descrip- tions: but it is enough, and I scor... ...readers under- stand, that they will meet in the following pages neither a romance of chivalry, nor a tale of modern manners; that my hero will neithe... ... of the house of W averley. With a grace and delicacy worthy the hero of a romance, Sir Everard withdrew his claim to the hand of Lady Emily. He had e... ...ical scholar, but reasonably skilled in science, and master of most modern languages. He was, however, old and indulgent, and the recurring interregnu... ...m an almost exhaustless collection of memoirs, scarcely more faithful than romances, and of romances so well written as hardly to be distinguished fro... ...aught her French and Italian, and a few of the ordinary au- thors in those languages ornamented her shelves. He had en- deavoured also to be her prece... ...e said to be very ancient, and if they are ever translated into any of the languages of civilized Europe, cannot fail to produce a deep and general se... ...bly owed to her foreign educa- tion, and command of the French and Italian languages. When the bustle attending the conclusion of the dance per- mitte...

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...en Such sights before among the shining streams Of fairyland, the forests of romance— Thence came a spirit hallowing what I saw With decoration and id... ...hink not, what they do. The tales that charm away the wakeful night In Araby—romances, legends penned For solace by the light of monkish lamps; Fictio... ... also—by that overprized And dangerous craft of picking phrases out 130 From languages that want the living voice To make of them a nature to the hear... ...time when whatso’er is feigned Of airy palaces and gardens built By genii of romance, or hath in grave Authentic history been set forth of Rome, 85 Al... ... I was I gladdened more than if I had beheld Before me some bright cavern of romance, Or than we do when on our beds we lie At night, in warmth, when ... ...us, The enchantment spreads and rises—all are rapt Astonished—like a hero in romance 540 He winds away his never ending horn: Words follow words, sens...

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...onal Society, or Provincial Societies,) of translating the Scriptures into languages scarcely known by name to scholars, of converting Jews, of organi... ...y in England who start with a blind faith, inherited from Mrs. Radeliffe’s romances, and thousands beside, that, in Southern France or in Italy, from ... ...ant in a high moral degree. The plain truth is—that Southern Europe has no romance in its household literature; has not an organ for comprehend- ing w... ...as not an organ for comprehend- ing what it is that we mean by Radcliffian romance. The old ancestral romance of knightly adventure, the Sangreal, the... ...hetically, simply as a subject adapted to the ludicrous. And the secondary romance of our later literature is to the south unintelligible. No Frenchma... ...perstition, in the other half it wears the grace of chivalry and legendary romance. Any malignant scoff, there- fore, against the peerage of England, ...

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...n- glish in the case of the French and Russians, are essentially governess languages; any intelligent boy or girl from a rea- sonably prosperous home ... ...f expression. Educational needs and public neces- sity point alike to such languages as Russian or, in the case of Great Britain, Hindustani to supply... ... and no posi- tion should be attainable by half accomplishment. Of course, languages and mathematics do not by any means round off the education of a ... ...dequate criticism is essentially an uneducated mind, though it has as many languages as a courier and as 84 What Is Coming? much computation as a boo... ...career. House- hold cares, a dozen children, and she was consumed. All her romances ended in marriage. All a decent man’s romance ended there, too. Sh... ...surface where the population is not homogeneous, where people of different languages or differ- ent incompatible creeds live village against village, ...

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...t?” The most curious register of the history of King Richard is an ancient romance, translated originally from the Norman; and at first certainly havi... ... the most aston- ishing and monstrous fables. There is perhaps no metrical romance upon record where, along with curious and genu- ine history, are mi... ...ts. We have placed in the Appendix to this Introduction the passage of the romance in which Richard figures as an ogre, or literal cannibal. A princip... ..., however, was reckoned the enemy of Richard is agreed both in history and romance. The general opinion of the terms upon which they stood may be gues... ...ria, which they were to yield to the Christians. Richard, according to the romance which bears his name, “could no longer repress his fury. The Marqui... ...answered, the louder grew his song. Sir Kenneth knew enough of the Eastern languages to be assured that he chanted sonnets of love, containing all the... ...tive troops, most of them of Saxon and Norman descent, speak- ing the same languages, possessed, some of them, of English as well as Scottish demesnes... ...ubian, by what- ever means he had acquired the art of writing the European languages, the King remained convinced that the English tongue at least was... ..., in long perspec- tive—a host composed of different nations, complexions, languages, arms, and appearances, but all fired, for the time, with the hol...

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...likely to have a strong feeling on the subject of the sham chivalry of the romances. It gives a point, too, to what 10 Don Quixote he says in more th... ...Part of “Don Quixote” alone proves a vast amount of miscellaneous reading, romances of chivalry, ballads, popular poetry, chronicles, for which he had... ...notable consequence, per- haps, of the spread of printing was the flood of romances of chiv- 11 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. alry that had continued... ...ant in outrageous panoply and plumes with which the publishers of chivalry romances loved to embellish the title-pages of their folios. If the boy was... ...in in the autumn of 1583, bringing with him the manuscript of his pastoral romance, the “Galatea,” and probably also, to judge by internal evidence, t... ...om the completion of the work it had been translated into the four leading languages of Europe. Except the Bible, in fact, no book has been so widely ... ...” The “Imitatio Christi” may have been translated into as many differ- ent languages, and perhaps “Robinson Crusoe” and the “Vicar of Wakefield” into ... ...her Morisco nor Castilian, nor of any other nation, but a mix- ture of all languages, by means of which we can all understand one another. In this sor... ...e poets who are mere Spanish verse writers, without any knowledge of other languages or sciences to adorn and give life and vigour to their natural in...

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...ayer,’ And Greek—the alphabet — I ‘m nearly sure; She read some French romances here and there, Although her mode of speaking was not pure; ... ...branch was made a mystery To Juan’s eyes, excepting natural history. The languages, especially the dead, The sciences, and most of all the abs... ...ontroulless core Of human hearts, than all the long array Of poets and romancers: You ‘re a bore, A charlatan, a coxcomb and have been... ...ed of three servants and A tutor, the licentiate Pedrillo, Who several languages did understand, But now lay sick and speechless on his pill... ...thing in domestic doings Which forms, in fact, true love’s antithesis; Romances paint at full length people’s wooings, But only give a bust ... ...n; In England a six canto quarto tale; In Spain, he’d make a ballad or romance on The last war—much the same in Portugal; In Germany, the ... ...t look, Set down his sayings in her common place book. Juan knew several languages—as well He might—and brought them up with skill, in time ... ... Of his own country;—seldom since that day Has Spain had heroes. While Romance could charm, The world gave ground before her bright array; ...

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...shoulder his hand was laid some- times as they strolled and chatted in two languages. He re- ally went a long way to make French fellows popular, and ... ...bly fair. The shadow about her secretes mystery, just as the forest breeds romance: 52 Lord Ormont and His Aminta and mystery is a measureless realm.... ... upon how it had come to pass, and let the curtain hang, though dramas and romances, with the miracles involved in them, were agitated by a transient ... ...n sword-edges of shade,—and now the wedded riddle; illusion dropping mask, romance in its anatomy, cold English mist. Ah, what a background is the pre... ...on days was not a cajolery to her. His name had been that of the Christian Romancero Knight Durandarte, and she gave it to him, to be on the proper le... ...s dream, that her heart had been faithful, that he who conjures visions of romance in a young girl’s bosom must always have her heart, as a crisis wil... ...here’ll be a “general rabble tongue,” unless we English are drilled in the languages we filched from. Lots of lords and ladies want the drilling, then... ...gymnas- tic fixtures, carpenter’s shed, bowling alley, and four Euro- pean languages in the air by turns daily; and the boys, too, all the boys rosy a... ...ay- ground: exactly the reverse of what should have been. A school of four languages in bracing air, if a school with healthy dor- mitories, and a sch...

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...es, gave them sover- eigns and ices and good advice, and weaved round them romances which had generally no likeness to the truth. The quality of her b... ... sound of feet coming down the corridors, and other properties of size and romance—had they any existence? Yet why should Mrs. Alardyce live all alone... ...re all, in some way, connected with Katharine, or with vague feel- ings of romance and adventure such as she inspired. But he could not talk to Mary a... ... “Here,” he thought, “is where we differ from women; they have no sense of romance.” “Well, Mary,” he said at length, “why don’t you say some- thing a... ... a garret, writing immortal novels by the light of a farthing dip. But the romance which fell upon the figures of great writers and illumined their pa... ... ‘amo’ is Greek?” Ralph asked. “Did I say Greek? Well, never mind. No dead languages at tea- time. My dear boy, don’t trouble to make me any toast—” “...

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... action, a man who all his life long had 6 The Duchesse de Langeais lived romances instead of writing them, a man pre-eminently a Doer, was sure to b... ...u to pardon him if he cannot pay them himself, but he knows neither of the languages which you speak—” The aged nun bent her head slowly, with an expr... ...ught and feeling. And he would very promptly have been dropped but for the romance that hung about his adventures and his life; but for the men who cr... ...ts, it were superfluous to follow the story step by step—the progress of a romance growing in those hours spent together, a ro- mance controlled entir...

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...cter as possible. An exception has been made, however, in the case of such Romance words as were in use in England 4 The Nibelungenlied during the ag... ...ords as were in use in England 4 The Nibelungenlied during the age of the romances of chivalry, and which would help to land a Romance coloring; thes... ...antedates the latter by many centuries, and was known to all nations whose languages prove by their resemblance to the German tongue their original id... ...nd the wise dwarf Regin, who taught him the knowledge of runes and of many languages. * At the suggestion of Regin, Sigurd asks for and receives the s... ...nd spo- ken in the period between 1100 and 1500, the language of the great romances of chivalry and of the “Minnesingers”. More exactly, the poem is w... ...number of legends, e.g., in the “Ortnit saga” and in “Biterolf.” Under the Romance form of his name, “Oberon”, he plays an im- portant role in modern ...

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... there have been some theologians who have also seen reason to suspect the romance of “Essenismus.” And I am not sure that the knowledge of this fact ... ...s true that no such case had ever actually occurred; so that it was a mere romance of casuistry to tax myself with coward- ice so shocking. But, to fe... ...rrow and Isaac Newton. He was also a learned man, but still with a veil of romance about him, as may be seen in his most elaborate work—“The Es- say t... ...es of time—past, present, future—are used (though not equally used) in all languages for this purpose of generaliza- tion. Thus,— 1. The future; as,... ...s. Even the inarticulate or brutal sounds of the globe must be all so many languages and ciphers that somewhere have their cor- responding keys—have t... ...ct word; nor is there any word in any language (because none in the finest languages) which exactly expresses the state; since it is not a depressing,... ...mongst bystanders; and this advantage it has, that it is applicable to all languages alike; nor can it possibly be penetrated by one not initiated in ... ...; yet it hap- pened in England, and in a pretty populous neighborhood. The romances which occur in real life are too often con- nected with circumstan... ...y must be of more frequent occurrence than is usually supposed. Among such romances, those cases, perhaps, form an unusual proportion in which young, ...

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...tunate. I have examined many fine and apparently self sacrificing deeds in romances and biographies, but— O.M. Under searching analysis the ostensible... ...with her pen. She had but an indifferent ear music, but her tongue took to languages with an easy facility. She never allowed her Italian, French, and... ...r—were the other three. They were all of a sentimental cast; they were all romance read ers; they all wrote poetry, such as it was; they were all vai... ...nd and tradition—and, oh, all the darling tribe are clothed in mystery and romance, and we read about them with deep interest and discuss them with lo... ...one, there is nothing resembling it in history, noth ing resembling it in romance, nothing approaching it even in tradition. How sublime is their pos... ... and their ways and talk; also a knowledge of some foreign lands and their languages: for he was daily emptying fluent streams of these various knowle... ...Frenchman or Spaniard or Italian has proclaimed him a past master in those languages; I don’t remember— well, I don’t remember that there is testimon... ...pations, for the study of classics, literature, and law, to say nothing of languages and a few other matters. Lord Penzance further asks his readers: ... ...Princes of the House of Tudor, a body of National History, a Philosophical Romance. He made extensive and valuable additions to his Essays. He publish...

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...ative and Miscellaneous Essays.” 13 Thomas de Quincey everywhere pass for romances, if severed from the documents which attest their fidelity to fact... ...appeared that this artless young rustic, who had never heard of novels and romances as a bare possibility amongst all the shameless de- vices of Londo... ... stood a good chance at one period of being classed as the most lawless of romances. It is, indeed, undeniable, and this arises as a natural result fr... ...te direction, on remarking that the incidents are far from being such as a romance-writer would have been likely to invent; since, if striking, tragic... ...et, Irish style of innocent gayety. No transformation that ever legends or romances had reported was more memo- rable. Lapse of time (for Lord Massey ... ...udies and researches, will naturally have been directed to those difficult languages amongst which lie their daily tasks. I make it no subject of comp... ... than from the theorists; and, among those artists, in the most plastic of languages, I hold Demosthenes to have been the greatest. The Greek is, beyo... ...which bent to the purposes of him who used it beyond the material of other languages; it was an instrument for a larger compass of modulations; and it...

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... his first wife’s grave. Yes, you may smile, Maurice, as if I were talking romance; but only look at him, poor man! Did you ever see any one so utterl... ...is one of his charms in her eyes.’ ‘So it may be, as a sort of interesting romance. I am sure I pity the poor man heartily, but to see her at three-an... ...tes, which, directed 43 The Young Step-Mother as they had been to Eastern languages, had even less chance of sympathy among his neighbours than if th... ... of The Three Musqueteers, one of the worst and most fascinating of Dumas’ romances. ‘You wont tell papa!’ cried Gilbert, raising himself, in far more... ...termitted, but Edmund had constantly re- ceived instructions in the Indian languages, and whatever he learnt had been imparted to Sophia. It was piteo... ...onouns.’ ‘But there is hardly anything which I could let her read in those languages.’ ‘Very likely not; but you can pick out what there is. Do you re... ... has seen him looking at it.’ ‘Ah! depend upon it, Miss Sophy, it is all a romance of these young gentlemen,’ said Genevieve, turning to her with a dr... ...tting well one into the other. His senti- ment accorded with her strain of romance, and they read poetry and had discussions as they sat over the fire... ...ack-eyed fairy, ‘little Awk,’ who was impressing him by her fluency in two languages at once, according as she chattered to him in English, or in Fren...

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...ot only more celebrated but more opulent every year. It, is one of the few romances written in the epistolary form that do not oppress the reader with... ...elf. Every night, after supper, we read some part of a small collection of romances which had been my mother’s. My father’s design was only to improve... ...ife, which experience and reflection have never been able to eradicate. My romance reading concluded with the summer of 1719, the following winter was... ...ved from repeated readings I gave this author, extinguished my passion for romances, and I shortly pre- ferred Agesilaus, Brutus, and Aristides, to Or... ...nd a child that at six years old is de- lighted, interested, affected with romances, even to the shed- ding floods of tears; I shall then feel my ridi... ...d wrote to me in Latin, I answered in French, and this mingling of the two languages did not make our conversations either less smooth or lively. He s...

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...nsen- sibility upon the writer, and accuse him of exaggeration, of writing romances. Ah! once for all, this drama is neither a fiction nor a romance! ... ...r no? Those by-words—”at- oms,” “affinities”—are facts surviving in modern languages for the confusion of philosophic wiseacres who amuse them- selves... ... entrancing than the noblest deeds done for love’s sake in the most famous romances. This plain-song of love, to use the pretty expression of our fore... ... to in all the countryside, and had a numerous family. That is how all the romances end.—Now, mamma,” he went on, as he turned to Madame Vauquer and p...

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... those of former generations. It has no distinction, no beauty of color or romance; it appeals neither to the senses, nor the mind, nor the eye, and i... ...ll not lack a zealous protectress. Farewell, then, for me at least, to the romances and thrill- ing adventures in which we used ourselves to play the ... ... it is likely he may persevere in it. You, my dear Louise, will supply the romance of my life. So you must narrate to me in full all your adventures, ... ...d VII., your witticism would be unkind; but if I am only a poor teacher of languages, is it not a heartless satire? Neither is worthy of a young lady ... ... whole thing is mere trifling. What is a man, a Spaniard, and a teacher of languages to me? I make no account of any man whatever, were he a king. We ... ...stand why you are deter- 108 Letters of Two Brides mined to throw so much romance over it. Your ideal man must have more soul than fire, more nobilit... ... leads to such rich reward. The spectacle of your life, which, for all the romance and poetry with which you invest it, still remains based on nothing...

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...up without any clear traces about it or near it, like the brazen castle of romance round which the sea-tide flows. My father must have borne me miles ... ...e, I should listen to his re- marks, because he ‘s a scholar: he knows the languages and knows what they contain.’ Captain Welsh replied, ‘If the Arch... ...inded Temple of a say- ing of the Emperor Charles V . as to a knowledge of languages. ‘Hem!’ he went critically; ‘it’s all very well for a German to t... ...ons ev- erywhere; we are like Continental people, and speak a vari- ety of languages, and I am almost a foreigner, we are so much abroad; but I do thi... ...id! It is my Herr Professor’s word. But English is the choice gathering of languages, and honey is hybrid, unless you condemn the bee to suck at a sin... ...ocket on his breast, which proved him to be his sovereign’s son.—A perfect romance, Mr. Chancellor. We will say the soldier son loved a delicate young... ...rs as in his blooming youth, in Lancer uni- form.—Young sir, your piece of romance has exaggerated history to caricature. Romances are the destruction... ... read it’—(Chancellor von Redwitz is the speaker)’nothing but poetry makes romances passable: for poetry is the everlastingly and embracingly human. W... ...the terri- tory to be bequeathed to her at his demise. But, as there is no romance to be extracted from her story, I may as well tell you at once that...

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...liness would have been necessary to give the meeting its proper fulness of romance. The bailiff was pointed out to Gabriel, who, checking the palpitat... ...was unexpectedly attractive; it was ‘the low and dulcet note suggestive of romance; common in descriptions, rare in experience. ‘I’ll thank you to tel... ...he moved between them as a chaise between carts, was heard after them as a romance after sermons, was felt among them like a breeze among furnaces. It... ...ed whether he was right in his thought, for it seemed impossible that this romance in the flesh, if so sweet as he imagined, could have been going on l... ...l, and sent to Casterbridge Grammar School for years and years. Learnt all languages while he was there; and it was said he got on so far that he coul... ...ed. ‘I do that already,’ she said, quickly. ‘What do you regret?’ ‘That my romance has come to an end.’ ‘All romances end at marriage.’ ‘I wish you wo...