...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ................................................. 4 CHAPTER I – VICTOR HUGO’S ROMANCES ..................................................................... ...y sheer force of repetition, that view is imposed upon the reader. The two English mas- ters of the style, Macaulay and Carlyle, largely exemplify its... ...myself, seek to disarm the wrath of other and less partial critics. HUGO’S ROMANCES. – This is an instance of the “point of view.” The five romances s... ...on Society in England; and Mr. John Payne has translated him entirely into English, a task of un- usual difficulty. I regret to find that Mr. Payne an... ...st. R. L. S. 15 Familiar Studies of Men & Books CHAPTER I – VICTOR HUGO’S ROMANCES Apres le roman pittoresque mais prosaique de Walter Scott il leste... ...duction to a book* in which he exposes the hypocritical de- mocracy of the Catholics under the League, steps aside for a moment to stigmatise the hypo...

... PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTER II ? SOME ASPECTS OF ROBERT BURNS.......................................................... 34 CHAPTER III ? WALT WHITMAN..............

...g student publication project to bring classical works of lit- erature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...uple of hours. The spencer, as its name indicates, was the invention of an English lord, vain, doubtless, of his handsome shape. Some time before the ... ...ing in the minority, the success of the spencer was short-lived in France, English though it was. At the sight of the spencer, men of forty or fifty m... ...a colander, honeycombed with the shadows of the dints, hollowed out like a Roman mask. It set all the laws of anatomy at defiance. Close inspection fa... ...se abysses, you find nothing but a German at the bottom. Both friends were Catholics. They went to Mass and per- formed the duties of religion togethe... ...3 Balzac Mephistopheles is blended with a homely cheerfulness found in the romances of August Lafontaine of pacific memory; but the predominating elem... ...ssion in a Frenchified German seemed to Cecile to be in the highest degree romantic; the descendant of the Virlaz was a second Werther in her eyes—whe...

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...s possible; I had nothing but my share in the very limited knowledge of my English fellow worshipper John Cumnor, who had never seen the couple. The w... ...oking at me with wonder; and then, “Nothing here is mine,” she answered in English, coldly and sadly. “Oh, you are English; how delightful!” I remarke... ...melt to- gether.” My eccentric private errand became a part of the general romance and the general glory—I felt even a mystic companionship, a moral f... ...landes- tine, in their relations. I on the other hand had hatched a little romance according to which she was the daughter of an artist, a painter or ... ...visitors to Europe. When Americans went abroad in 1820 there was something romantic, almost heroic in it, as compared with the perpetual ferryings of ... ...urano. It appeared from these circumstances that the Misses Bordereau were Catholics, a discovery I had never made, as the old woman could not go to c...

...g student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...e gentle and graceful soldiers that, to this day, are the most pleasant of Englishmen to see. But though he was in these ways noble, the dunce scholar... ...figure, this of uncle John, with his dung cart and his inventions; and the romantic fancy of his Mexican house; and his craze about the Lost Tribes wh... ...t was received with hurrahs. It was an odd entrance upon life for a little English lad, thus to play the part of rumour in such a crisis of the histor... ...g the city, but without disturbance, old La Marmora being a commander of a Roman sternness. With the return of quiet, and the reopening of the univer-... ...re notable, as the girl really derived from the Enfields; whose high-flown romantic temper, I wish I could find space to illustrate. She was but seven... ...ard Dr. – expound in a remarkable way a prophecy of St. Paul’s about Roman Catholics, which mutatis mutandis would do very well for Protestants in som...

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...er tell the whole. It seems that her name was Faith Le Blanc; she was half English, half French-Canadian, and lived in a village in a very unsettled p... ...t at Montreal, where she learnt a good many accomplishments. They were not Roman Catholics; but it was the only way of getting an education. Dayman mu... ...ontreal, where she learnt a good many accomplishments. They were not Roman Catholics; but it was the only way of getting an education. Dayman must hav... ... not listen to her. Why should she wish to make his son a good-for-nothing English lord? That was his 9 Lady Hester view. Nothing but misery, distres... ...at was actually my case. I was enamoured of the blue-spectacle plan; I had romances of watching Alured day and night, and pouring away dan- gerous dra... ...and our dignity. Lady Hester Lea was the heroine of the neighbourhood. The romance of the disowned daughter was charming; and I 42 Charlotte M. Yonge...

...ST CHAPTER XVIII — EASTER SUNDAY—’’SAIL HO!’’—WHALES—SAN . . . . . . 67 JUAN—ROMANCE OF HIDE DROGH ING—SAN DIEGO AGAIN CHAPTER XIX — THE SANDWICH 7... ... She hailed us at first in French, but receiving no answer, she tried us in English. She was the ship La Carolina, from Havre, for New York. We desir... ...e saw a sail on our weather (starboard) beam. She proved to be a brig under English colors, and passing under our stern, reported herself as forty ni... ...e scuppers, and the bearer lying at his length on the decks. I remember an English lad who was always the life of the crew, but whom we afterwards ... ...ous for the day, that I might see more nearly, and perhaps tread upon, this romantic, I may almost say, classic island. When all hands were call... ... its still beauty, and I gave a parting look, and bid farewell, to the most romantic spot of earth that my eyes had ever seen. I did then, and have e... .... Consequently, the Americans and English who intend to remain here become Catholics, to a man; the current phrase among them beings—‘‘A man must le... ..., and they would not be allowed to remain, were it not that they become good Catholics, and by marrying natives, and bringing up their children as ... ...Catholicism’s spreading in New England; Yankees can’t afford the time to be Catholics. - 69 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana American...

..., 59 -- CHAPTER XVII ? SAN DIEGO?A DESERTION?SAN PEDRO AGAIN?BEATING UP -- COAST, 63 -- CHAPTER XVIII ? EASTER SUNDAY???SAIL HO!???WHALES?SAN -- JUAN?ROMANCE OF HIDE-DROGHING?SAN DIEGO AGAIN, 67 -- CHAPTER XIX ? THE SANDWICH -- ISLANDERS?HIDE-CURING?WOOD-CUTTING? RATTLE-SNAKES?NEW-COMERS 74 -- CHAPTER XX ? LEISURE?NEWS FROM HOME???BURNING THE WATER??, 82 -- CHAPTER XXI ? C...

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...hose of a prince. I felt like an overgrown ploughboy beside him. He speaks English perfectly, but with, I think, sufficient foreign accent to stamp hi... ...er (about thirteen, I suppose, and a pretty little girl) had been learning English at the school, and was anxious to play it off upon a real, veritabl... ...e hot water; and thence, as I find is always the case, to the most ghastly romancing about Scottish scenery and manners, the High- land dress, and eve... ...r, as his life hitherto has been disgracefully written, and the events are romantic and rapid; the character very strong, salient, and worthy; much in... ... again, the ever delightful man, sane, courageous, admirable; the birth of Romance, in a dawn that was a sunset; snobbery, conservatism, the wrong thr... ... (3) The Evictions. (4) Emigration. (5) Present State. V. RELIGION (1) The Catholics, Episcopals, and Kirk, and Soc. Prop. Christ. Knowledge. (2) The ...

...g student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...e-a- tete, I do not say. I should think there he would be—a stick! All you English are. But what sort of a bow has he got, I ask you? How does he ente... ...man smile. O mio Deus! honeyed, my dears! But Evan has it not. None of you English have. You go so.’ The Countess pressed a thumb and finger to the si... ...cheese, and a chaste bed, seemingly utterly extinguished. I am cured of my romance. Of course, when I say bread and cheese, I speak figuratively. Food... ...ourt, that Evan would be confer- ring a benefit on all by carrying off the romantically-inclined but little presentable young lady. The diplomatist, w... ...y touching and delicate? Can you not see Providence there? Out of Evil—the Catholics again! ‘ Address. If Lord Lax—’s half-brother. If wrong in noddle... ...ually divided between alarms of sisterly affection and a keen sense of the romance of the thing. Miss Carrington ordered the carriage to be driven rou...

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...d great personal gifts. He had taught himself to regard himself as a young English gentleman of the first water, qualified by his birth and position t... ...im,—except the girl herself. He would find no other friend so generous, so romantic, so unworldly as the Duchess had been. It was clear to him that La... ... most pernicious courtship,—if she had encouraged it,—a repetition of that romantic folly by which she had so nearly brought herself to shipwreck her ... ...to be innumer- able, but which did, in truth, amount to three of four,— of English gentlemen who had come up from a former Carlist war, bearing the ti... ... had been married. There was an absence in it of 85 Anthony Trollope that romance which, though he had never experienced it in his own life, was alwa... ...e House of Commons. I had assisted humbly in the emancipation of the Roman Catholics, and have learned by the legislative troubles of just half a cent...

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...y commenced by the President. And even General Taylor himself, the noblest Roman of them all, has declared that as a citizen, and particularly as a so... ... will read “all men are created equal, except negroes and for- eigners and Catholics.” When it comes to this, I shall pre- 195 The Writings of Abraha... ...de of Great Britain and America were not spoken of in that instrument. The English, Irish, and Scotch, along with white Americans, were included, to b...