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...ness, it would achieve what pencil (the pencils, at least, of the colonial artists who attempted it) never could; for, though the dark eyes might be p... ...ey Col- lege. A golden ray rested upon the spire of the little chapel, the bell of which sent its tinkling murmur down the valley to summon the wander... ... on mountain-tops or in deep solitudes has not felt the influence of these records of humanity, telling him, when such a conviction is soothing to his...

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...entiments of compassion for the little wretch before him. He then rang his bell, and ordered an elderly woman ser vant to rise immediately, and come ... ...er, let us e’en venture to slide down together; for Miss Bridget rings her bell, and Mr. Allworthy is summoned to breakfast, where I must attend, and,... ...in poet— Ad confligendum venientibus undique poenis, Omnia cum belli trepido concussa tumultu Horrida contremuere sub altis aetheris ... ...o set off that beauty which they intend to show you in the evening. Most artists have this secret in practice, though some, perhaps, have not much s... ...tter fully. I cannot, indeed, range him under any general head of com mon artists, as he hath a title to be placed among those Inventas qui vit... ...of the former is by common notoriety supported for a long time; and public records, with the concurrent testimony of many au thors, bear evidence to ... ...ous situation. As we have no public notoriety, no concurrent testimony, no records toand corroborate what we deliver, it becomes us to keep within the...

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...little Edward, his next younger, who died now at the age of nine, Mr. Hare records that John copied out, in large school-hand, a History of Valentine ... ...ic, elo- quent utterance, and noble generosities and pieties of his pupil;—records in particular how once, on a sudden alarm of fire in some neighbori... ...ence and argument was the point, this man was calculated to have borne the bell 39 Thomas Carlyle from all competitors. In lucid ingenious talk and l... ...ing was married: “at Christchurch, Marylebone, 2d November, 1830,” say the records. His blooming, kindly and true-hearted Wife had not much money, nor... ... had per- haps seen Seville, Cadiz, with picturesque views, since not with belligerent ones; and their money being done, had now returned home. So had... ...soul, seeking guidance towards eternal excellence from the official Black- artists, and successful Professors of political, ecclesiasti- cal, philosop...

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... in extension: “Narras et genus Æaci, Et pugnata sacro bella sub Ilio Quo Chium pretio cadum Mercemur, quis aq... ...had bet- ter expressed of a stolen enjoyment betwixt her and Mars: “Belli fera moenera Mavors 100 Essays: Book III Armipotens regit, i... ...o stir up hunger by saturity; not to stuff, instead of merely filling, the belly; to avoid all enjoy- ments that may bring us to want; and all meats a... ...mongst them to the most famous examples of elder times that we find in our records on this side of the world. Far as to those who subdued them, take b... ...ined as to the motion of the moon; what a fine condition are we in to keep records of things past. I was just now ruminating, as I often do, what a fr... ...sdom only is wholly within itself”—Cicero, De Fin., iii. 7.] I leave it to artists, and I know not whether or no they will be able to bring it about, ...

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... of the day, in which successful Bohemianism, politicians, men of affairs, artists, sculptors, and cultivated noblemen generally, mingle together in t... ...e and Mrs. Goopes had a great set-to about the sincerity of Chesterton and Belloc that was ended by Goopes showing signs of resuming the Socratic meth... ...ndeed, almost the only possible way in which she might emerge from her re- bellion with anything like success. If only for the sake of her argument wi... ...h the stream of history and wrote her Christian name upon the police-court records of the land. But out of a belated regard for her father she wrote t... ...really secured your father. He—” “Here they are!” said Ann Veronica as the bell sounded. P P P P Par ar ar ar art 2 t 2 t 2 t 2 t 2 THEY RECEIVED the ...

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...............110 THE PHILOSOPHER?S PUBLIC LIBRARY............................................................................ 126 ABOUT CHESTERTON AND BELLOC.................................................................................... 129 ABOUT SIR THOMAS MORE ................................................................................................... 135 TRAF...

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.................................................... 126 ABOUT CHESTERTON AND BELLOC........................................................................ ... uly uly uly, 1909 , 1909 , 1909 , 1909 , 1909.) .) .) .) .) THE TELEPHONE BELL rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go ... ...sthetic degradation of the Victorian period? Will a great constellation of artists redeem the ambitious sentimentalities and genteel skilfulness that ... ...ial Life flowed on in its immemorial fashion, using no letters, needing no records, leaving no history. Then, a little minority , bulking disproportio... ...s Mr. G.K. 76 An Englishman Looks at the World Chesterton and Mr. Hilaire Belloc for example turn, as be- ing the most desirable state of mankind. Bu... ... ever ventured to think they would. Nor will the state control writers and artists, for example, nor the stage—though it may build and own theatres—th... ...ve mind organised as a branch of the civil service, with authors, critics, artists, scientific investigators appointed in a phrensy of wire-pull- ing—... ...ease to be true, they have a power of veracity quite beyond that of actual records. Every novel carries its own justification and its own condemnation... ...ut suspect, in the mysterious activities that underlie life, some trade in records for these distinguished gramophones, and it is a trade conducted up...

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...d that it seemed time to put in the double windows, and that some one with bells on their harness had driven over the dam. And at such times I read in... ...y fold of one’s fur coat.… “Well, I am running a rig,” I thought, while my bells chimed in with the doctor’ s, the wind whistled, the coachmen shouted... ...ook it as an affront, and held in his three horses, but when the doctor’ s bells had passed out of hearing, he raised his elbows, shouted, and our hor... ...nd not be lazy she might make a remarkable singer; then there were several artists, and chief among them Ryabovsky, a very handsome, fair young man of... ...h various arts. An actor from the Dramatic Theatre recited, a singer sang, artists sketched in the albums of which Olga Ivanovna had a great number, t... ...t her sev- enty-five roubles, and when she wrote him that she had lent the artists a hundred roubles, he sent that hundred too. What a kind, generous-... ...as Nikolay does, its literature would long ago have contained whole epics, records of sayings and doings such as, unfortunately, it cannot boast of no...

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...of municipal distinction. He intended to devote himself not to law, but to belles lettres. He attended Gellert’s lectures on literature, and even join... ...of these principles, he employed for many years the whole of the Frankfort artists,—the painter Hirt, who excelled in animating oak and beech woods, a... ...opportunity of knowing directly that angry God, of whom the Old T estament records so much. A sudden hail-storm, accompanied by thunder and lightning,... ...ather, who accompanied him; and when he heard that the greater part of the artists were still living, and resided in Frankfurt and its neighbor- hood,... ...ng the very first days of the count’s residence with us, all the Frankfort artists, as Hirt, Schütz, Trautmann, Nothnagel, and Junker, were called to ... ... without apprehension. He al- ways wore on his bald head a perfectly white bell-shaped cap, tied at the top with a ribbon. His morning-gowns, of calam... ...nd by the various jests and improprieties which arose, till the ringing of bells and the thunder of cannon announced to us the immediate approach of m...

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... etait 17 shillings. Sur la soiree de Monseigneur Faux il y etait quelques belles feux d’artifice. Mais les polissons entrent dans notre champ et nos ... ...m. About half-past one there began such a trumpeting, shouting, pealing of bells, and scurrying hither and thither of feet as woke every person in Fra... ...our; but as one grew used to it, it gradu- ally resolved itself into three bells, answering each other at short intervals across the town, a man shout... ...ere your name appears. It is called ‘Fontainebleau: Village Communities of Artists,’ and the signature of R. L. Stevenson will be found annexed Please... ... please keep or return. As for not giving a reduction, what are we? Are we artists or city men? Why do we sneer at stock-brokers? O nary; I will not t... ...lures; but when you actu- ally address him, and bring the two statures and records to confrontation, dismay is the result. By mere continuance of year...

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...ng from the road to the church, the inmates of the hut caught the sound of bells. 6 Anton Chekhov “Lord! fancy people wanting to drive about in such ... ...to cover himself up with the bed- clothes he heard a distinct sound of the bell. The sexton looked anxiously at his wife, leapt out of bed and walked,... ... wife, leapt out of bed and walked, waddling, to and fro by the stove. The bell went on ringing for a little, then died away again as though it had ce... ...don’t pay them anything, they have a bother with you, and you damage their records with your deaths —so, of course, you are brutes! It’s not difficult... ...s. The first condition need hardly be consid- ered, in that respect we are artists; and one can always succeed in the second with a little practice. I...

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...Yet this is precisely what France is doing. She does her utmost to produce artists by the artificial heat of competi- tive examination; but, the sculp... ... Decamps, an Auber, a David d’Angers, an Eugene Delacroix, or a Meissonier—artists who take but little heed of grande prix, and spring up in the open ... ...e musi- cal phrase that was ringing in his brain—the motif from Rossini or Bellini or Beethoven or Mozart—had its origin or its counterpart in the wor... ...cello, and harp, as well as the piano, the castanets for the cachucha, the bells, saxhorn, and the like. If the Germans cannot draw harmony from the m... ... yet to play all instruments of music comes to them by nature. The two old artists were exceedingly popular at the the- atre, and took its ways philos... ...think, Madeleine.” “Jean is out, madame, I was all alone; M. Pons rang the bell, I opened the door; and as he is almost one of the family, I could not... ...o the Ar- senal Library, looked out a grotesque case in some of Desplein’s records of extraordinary cures, and fitted the de- tails to Mme. Cibot, mod... .... And yet that miracle was a natural effect, such as medical science often records. A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who ...

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...inspiring mountain scenery of the place. “In the afternoons, nowadays,” he records, shortly before beginning the work, “this valley in which I dwell s... ... eccentric and melancholy turn of mind, and greatly given to rummaging old records and hearkening to old traditions, he had brought himself, it is ave... ...many on the other, — with her antique portraits, pedigrees, coats of arms, records and traditions, and her claim, as joint heiress, to that princely t... ...latest vestige of night’s sanctity with the jingle-jangle of its dissonant bells. A milkman was distributing the con- tents of his cans from door to d... ...ly startled by the tinkling alarum— high, sharp, and irregular—of a little bell. The maiden lady arose upon her feet, as pale as a ghost at cock-crow;... ...ved spirit, and this the talisman to which she owed obedience. This little bell,—to speak in plainer terms, —being fastened over the shop-door, was so... ...uire a look which an artist (if he have anything like the compla- cency of artists nowadays) would never dream of presenting to a patron as his own ch... ...d grace of which had almost transcended the skill of the most exquisite of artists. It could the more adequately be known that the soul of the man mus...

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... and of entreating your acceptance of this trifling present. The ingenious artists who work in silver do not always, I find, keep their promises, even... ...UARY 6, 1853. On Thursday, January 6, 1853, at the rooms of the Society of Artists, in T emple Row, Birmingham, a large company assembled to witness t... ...nt, I can never forget. SPEECH: LONDON, MARCH 29, 1862. At a Dinner of the Artists’ General Benevolent Institution, the following Address was delivere... ...s to day, I will call, as the mover of the first resolution, on Mr. Robert Bell. SPEECH: LONDON, MAY 9, 1865. On the above date Mr. Dickens presided a... ... your feelings. But I have no such chance. Just as a nation is happy whose records are barren, so is a society fortunate that has no history—and its p... ...t by the side of Mrs. Reuter, with a galvanic bat tery under his bolster, bell and wires to the head of his bed, and bells at each ear—think how even... ...e by Mr. Charles Dickens: SIR,—I shall not attempt to follow my friend Mr. Bell, who, in the profession of literature, represents upon this commit te...

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...le from Angers, where he became a novice. As the broth- 7 Rabelais ers Du Bellay, who were later his Maecenases, were then study- ing at the Universi... ...edition of the Latin book of Marliani on the topography of Rome to Jean du Bellay (at that time Bishop of Paris) who was raised to the Cardinalate in ... ...e of 1549, an account of the festivities arranged at Rome by Car- dinal du Bellay in honour of the birth of the second son of Henry II., was addressed... ..., according to the fashion that was then in request. I find by the ancient records or pancarts, to be seen in the chamber of accounts, or court of the... ...r Street he held dispute against all the regents or fel- lows of colleges, artists or masters of arts, and orators, and did so gallantly that he overt... ...that Pantagruel had said well, and what was right, in affirming that these records, bills of inquest, replies, rejoin- ders, exceptions, depositions, ... ...tence or judgment given thereupon, which is to be seen in the registry and records within the clerk’s office of this house. And, therefore, my lord, I...

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.......508 Camps of Green................................509 The Sobbing of the Bells (Midnight, Sept. 19 20, 1881)......................510 As They Draw... ... the antique to justify it. 5 Dead poets, philosophs, priests, Martyrs, artists, inventors, governments long since, Language shapers on other sho... ...from their temples and ribs. The young men float on their backs, their white bellies bulge to the sun, they do not ask who seizes fast to them, They d... ...g ships by the wharves, the refrain of the anchor lifters, The ring of alarm bells, the cry of fire, the whirr of swift streaking engines and hose car... ...erica, The drops I distil upon you shall grow fierce and athletic girls, new artists, musicians, and singers, Leaves of Grass –Whitman 114 The babes... ...d together with wrist chains and ankle chains, I hear the Hebrew reading his records and psalms, I hear the rhythmic myths of the Greeks, and the stro... ...ee the nameless masonries, venerable messages of the unknown events, heroes, records of the earth. I see the places of the sagas, I see pine trees and... ...e Egyptians, I see the pyramids and obelisks. I look on chisell’d histories, records of conquering kings, dynasties, cut in slabs of sand stone, or on... ...hat he has follow’d the sea, And the authors take him for an author, and the artists for an artist, And the laborers perceive he could labor with them...

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...turn at half-past one o’clock; and not long after that time, if ever mimic bells—bells of rejoicing, or bells of mourning, are heard in desert spaces ... ...myself, for, in my growing confusion of thought, I believe that I rang the bell violently in every room I entered. No such summons, how- ever, was nee... ...loud blow upon the 31 Thomas de Quincey door, and in the next moment, the bell having been found, a furious peal of ringing. Oh coward heart! not for... ...erything in this sin-polluted register was in manuscript; but at night the records of each day were regularly transferred to a printed journal, enlarg... ...a Parisian opera-glass, gives it as his opin- ion—that, because Kate first records her prayer on this occa- sion, therefore, now first of all she pray... ...haps it may be said more broadly, none in all history, from its earli- est records, less generally known, or more striking to the imagination, than th... ...open to his own snare by refusing to pay for admission. Spies must be poor artists who proceed thus. Upon which Coleridge remarked—‘That, before the g... ...hom *But judge not, reader, of French skill by the attempts of fourth-rate artists; and understand me to speak with respect of this skill, not as it i...

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... fields; the sluggish, brimming rivers; chalk and smock- frocks; chimes of bells and the rapid, pertly-sounding En- glish speech – they are all new to... ...y different experience of crowded class-rooms, of a gaunt quadrangle, of a bell hourly booming over the traffic of the city to recall him from the pub... ...st tingles in our blood; no proctor lies in wait to intercept us; till the bell sounds again, we are the masters of the world; and some portion of our... ...tudents sat, as I was saying, in the corridor, under the mural tablet that records the virtues of Macbean, the former secretary . We would often smile... ...in of the old divine. CHAPTER VIII MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET THOSE WHO TRY to be artists use, time after time, the matter of their recollections, setting an...

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...has no back- ward pages whereon, if you choose to turn them, you will find records such as might justly cause you either bitterness or shame. I await ... ...orothea was glad of a rea- son for moving away at once on the sound of the bell, as if she needed more than her usual amount of preparation. She was a... ...p from the lace-mending which was occupying her plump fingers and rang the bell. 89 George Eliot “Knock at Mr. Fred’s door again, Pritchard, and tell... ...ther it’s right to say `superior young men,’” said Mrs. Vincy, ringing the bell. “Oh, there are so many superior teas and sugars now. Su- perior is ge... ...ill as a distinguishable vigorous enthusiasm in certain long-haired German artists at Rome, and the youth of other nations who worked or idled near th... ... It is too one-sided a life. I have been seeing a great deal of the German artists here: I travelled from Frankfort with one of them. Some are fine, e... ...e called them—by which he tested his public and deposited small monumental records of his march, were far from having been seen in all their signifi- ...

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...l, has no backward pages whereon, if you choose to turn them, you will find records such as might justly cause you either bitterness or shame. I await ... ...ad of a reason for moving away at once on the sound of Middlemarch 69 the bell, as if she needed more than her usual amount of preparation. She was a... ...up from the lace mending which was occupying her plump fingers and rang the bell. “Knock at Mr. Fred’s door again, Pritchard, and tell him it has struc... ...ther it’s right to say ‘superior young men,”’ said Mrs. Vincy, ringing the bell. “Oh, there are so many superior teas and sugars now. Superior is gett... ...ill as a distinguishable vigorous enthusiasm in certain long haired German artists at Rome, and the youth of other nations who worked or idled near th... ... It is too one sided a life. I have been seeing a great deal of the German artists here: I travelled from Frankfort with one of them. Some are fine, ev... ...e called them—by which he tested his public and deposited small monumental records of his march, were far from having been seen in all their significan...

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...other men to be found wanting in address by a pretty woman. So he rang the bell, and bade the servant send Master Cashel Byron. Presently a door was h... .... Bet you twopence I’ll be first at the cross roads. I say, let’s pull the bell at the front gate and give an awful yell before we start. They’ll neve... ...y died. She had some difficulty in quelling the tumult that arose when the bell was answered. The whole household felt bound to be overwhelmed, and to... ...ove to read better than to work. Beware of painters, poets, musicians, and artists of all sorts, except very great artists: beware even of them as hus... ...not seem an exceptionally intelligent mechanic, while the very writers and artists who have preserved the memory of the coaching days for us do not ap... ..., Irishmen, Chris- tians, atheists, lawyers, doctors, politicians, actors, artists, flesh-eaters, and spirit-drinkers are all of necessity degraded be... ...- tion is a Bible with half the pages torn out, and the rest scrawled with records of bets, recipes for sudorific and other medicines, and a mass of u...