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...f recovering, from some good standpoint on the ground gained, the intimate history of the business—of retrac- ing and reconstructing its steps and sta... ...s, if one could do so subtle, if not so monstrous, a thing as to write the history of the growth of one’s imagination. One would describe then what, a... ...and Miss Stackpole, the definite array of contributions to Isabel Archer’s history. I recognised them, I knew them, they were the numbered pieces of m... ...Portrait of a Lady had been trudging over the sandy plains of a history of German Thought. Suddenly she became aware of a step very different from her... ...en, for a Frenchwoman; but extended observation might have ranked her as a German—a German of high degree, perhaps an Austrian, a baroness, a countess... ...alian, as if it needed to be translated. “Yes,” the other went on, “he’s a German, and we’ve had him many years.” The young girl, who was not heeding ... ...ld Florentine; I mean literally an old one; not a modern outsider. She’s a contemporary of the Medici; she must have been present at the burning of Sa... ...heavy to her, 302 The Portrait of a Lady but that of something altogether contemporary would suddenly give it wings that it could wave in the blue. H... ... friend; the Count- ess could see at a glance that this lady was much more contemporary; and she received an impression of the improvements that were ...

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...im were the current Whitaker’s Almanac, an open note-book, a book from the Contemporary Science Series, and the Science and Art Department’s Directory... ... the art of marriage according to the best authorities. (The book from the Contemporary Science Series was Professor Letourneau’s “Evolution of Marria... ... any chance of lodgers stopping for a shorter period.) Something happened (German) and now he kept his carriage—apparently an outcome of his stay. She... ...rdid import, that its list of items in an illegible mixture of English and German was lengthy. “1 kettle of coals 6d.” occurred regu- larly down that ... ... tory and lucid, but unhappily bi-lingual, and at all the cru- cial points German. Mr. Lewisham’s natural politeness re- strained him from too close a... ... Science Schools rising fair, and tall across the gar- dens of the Natural History Museum. He looked back to- wards it regretfully. He was quite sure ... ...at’s all over too. Everything’s over.” Presently the corner of the Natural History Museum came between him and his receding Alma Mater. He sighed and ...

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...d ride and fish and shoot, and breed largely: we were athletes with a fine history and a full purse: we had first-rate sporting guns, unrivalled park-... ...en, whose high, stout, Western castle had weathered our cyclone periods of history without changeing hands more than once, and then but for a short ye... ... Rosamund Culling that he thought the parsons happy in having time to read history. And oh, to feel for certain which side was the wrong side in our C... ...d and foot to sell us to the biggest buyer, and were not En- glishmen but ‘Germans and Jews, and quakers and hybrids, diligent clerks and speculators,... ...rom welcoming you. I have telegraphed to him; he is at one of the Baths in Germany, and will come assuredly, if there is a prospect of finding you her... ...g counsel, in council, with men upon public affairs, like the women in the Germania! Mr. Austin, if this time he talked in earnest, deemed that Englis... ... his laughter more than fun. He seemed to acquiesce in some of the current contemporary despair of our immoveable England, though he winced at a satir...

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... and had taken up what was then called the Langued’oui, a language between German and Latin, which was the beginning of French. On this day, Duke Will... ... Norway was educated by Ethelstane of England. It was Foulques le Bon, the contemporary Count of Anjou, who, when derided by Louis IV. for serving in ... ...saying it were foul wrong to both King Louis of France, and Kaiser Otho of Germany, to take from them their vassal. They took leave of each other in a... ...” cried Richard, starting forward; for to his childish fancy this dreadful history was more like one of Dame Astrida’s legends than a reality, and at ... ...te clavete De sol itant ert tresorier Kar nul tresor n’vait plus cher. The history of the adventures of Jumieges is literally true, as is Martin’s ref... ...ichard. “And it was!” said Abbot Martin. Then the good Abbot told them the history, part of which was already known to some of them. About five or six... ...e it was who made me King— it was he who gained me the love of the King of Germany; he stood godfather for my son—to him I owe all my wealth and state...

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...tainly—fifty more if you like to hear ‘em—strange life mine—rather curious history—not extraor dinary, but singular.’ In this strain, with an occasio... ...gle and Miss Wardle, for reasons of sufficient importance in this eventful history to be narrated in another chapter. CHAPTER IX A DISCOVERY AND A CH... ...s which remain at the close of this, to nar rate, with great brevity, the history of the antiquarian dis covery. Charles Dickens 147 It appears fro... ...hey were. Such leading articles, and such spirited attacks!—’Our worthless contemporary, the Ga zette’—’That disgraceful and dastardly journal, the ... .... That gentleman took it up, and read as follows:— ‘Our obscure and filthy contemporary, in some disgusting observations on the recent election for th... ...efeat, we will add, our future member, Mr. Fizkin. What does our dastardly contemporary mean? What would the ruffian say, if we, setting at naught, li... ...emainder of the company smiled, and looked on in si lence. ‘T alk of your German universities,’ said the little old man. ‘Pooh, pooh! there’s romance...

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...ly there is no deputy from Arcis in the Chamber. Discretion, required in a history of contemporaneous man- ners and morals, dictates this precautionar... ...he inheritance of his grandfather the banker of Hamburg. But when that old German died in 1826, he left his grandson Giguet a paltry two thousand fran... ...s for family interests, a whole region for a man.” Simon then reviewed the history of the Arcis elections for the last twenty years. While approving t... ... and position had been frankly declined when, about six months before this history begins, he had privately pre- sented himself to Madame Beauvisage a... ...rica. I’ll stay there long enough to make my promotion to the same post in Germany legitimate. If I am worth anything, they will soon take me out of i... ...First, Marianina’s brother has just married into a grand-ducal fam- ily of Germany. Immense sacrifices must have been required of the de Lanty family ... ... in future years.” It would be difficult to mark the precise moment in our contemporary habits and customs when a new species of re- ligion, which mig...

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...e generation as Cervantes; “Don Quixote” had to him a vitality that only a contemporary could feel; it cost him no dramatic effort to see things as Ce... ...anish, and can at best be only distantly imitated in any other tongue. The history of our English translations of “Don Quixote” is in- structive. Shel... ...nd comely volumes hold out to every lover of Cervantes. From the foregoing history of our translations of “Don Quixote,” it will be seen that there ar... ...n of Castile, Leon, and the Asturias. As it hap- pens, there is a complete history of the Cervantes family from the tenth century down to the seventee... ...he real, between the spirit of poetry and the spirit of prose; and perhaps German phi- losophy never evolved a more ungainly or unlikely camel out of ... ...ld, too, that Don Fernando de Guevara did not go in quest of adventures to Germany, where he engaged in combat with Micer George, a knight of the hous...

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...les, Frank, the Parent’s Assistant, and later, Croker’s Tales from English History, Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare, Tales of a Grandfather, and the Riv... ... an antiquarian friend of my father, Mr. Stafford, who was great in county history, I hunted 39 Yo n g e up in the Museum library all I could discove... ...E OLD HOUSE VIII—THE OLD HOUSE VIII—THE OLD HOUSE VIII—THE OLD HOUSE ‘Your history whither are you spinning? Can you do nothing but describe? A house ... ...ed down many traditions to her great-niece. The old lady’s father had been contemporary with the Margaret of ghostly fame, so that the stages had been... ...ly what Miss Fordyce called the sword of her rescue. She had been learning German—rather an unusual study in those days, and she narrated to us most e... ...ue or the Black Death, and thought of its victims as doomed. That terrible German engraving, ‘Death as a Foe,’ which represents the grisly form as inv... ...od, but devoted the long vacation of the ensuing year to a walking tour in Germany, with one or two congenial spirits, who shared his delight in scene...

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...en they were at home; he knew about a great many things—about mathematics, history, Greek, zoology, eco- nomics, and the Icelandic Sagas. He had turne... ...d. “And you’ll find yourself some employment, eh? Scales, French, a little German, eh? There’s Mr. Pepper who knows more about separable verbs than an... ...ere she would sit for hours playing very difficult music, reading a little German, or a little English when the mood took her, and doing—as at this mo... ...as told, invent reasons for anything she said. The shape of the earth, the history of the world, how trains worked, or money was invested, what laws w... ...ll never forget my first Parsifal—a grilling August day, and those fat old German women, come in their stuffy high frocks, and then the dark theatre, ... ...” “It’s the continuity,” said Richard sententiously. A vi- sion of English history, King following King, Prime Minis- ter Prime Minister, and Law Law ... ...e bastard waltz and spurious polka which have ousted them most unjustly in contemporary popularity—when the waiters gently pushed him on to his table ...

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... wildly before a long and lamentable blast. I returned to my book—Bewick’s History of British Birds: the letterpress thereof I cared little for, gener... ...ke a slave-driver—you are like the Roman emperors!” I had read Goldsmith’s History of Rome, and had formed my opinion of Nero, Caligula, &c. Also I ha... ...n geography; the lower classes were called by the teachers: repetitions in history, grammar, &c., went on for an hour; writing and arithmetic succeede... ...Jane Eyre “Yet,” I reflected, “she has been young once; her youth would be contemporary with her master’s: Mrs. Fairfax told me once, she had lived he... ...t eyes. Shall I tell you of what it reminded me?” “Y ou may.” “Of the foul German spectre—the Vampyre.” “Ah!—what did it do?” “Sir, it removed my veil... ...n with her terminated. She had two successors: an Italian, Giacinta, and a German, Clara; both considered singularly handsome. What was their beauty t... ...Charlotte Brontë tongue—neither French nor Latin. Whether it were Greek or German I could not tell. “That is strong,” she said, when she had finished:...

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... creatures; now I am only the most unhappy. Excuse me from telling you the history of my poor mother, who was murdered—” “By a Captain, in a house of ... ...will be first Secretary to an Embassy; later, he shall be Minister at some German Court, and God, or I—better still—helping him, he will take his seat... ...ne as a diplomate, and he would probably be accredited as Minister to some German Court. For the last three years Lucien’s life had been regular and a... ...ofound policy that Lucien should have gallant adventures. Happiness has no history, and the story-tellers of all lands have understood this so well th... ...ayfarers. The footman, seated be- hind, was snoring like a wooden top from Germany—the land of little carved figures, of large wine-vats, and of hum- ... ...s or in fess, with the famous motto: Caveo non timeo, which epitomizes the history of the family. The coat of the Vicomtes de Grandlieu is the same qu... ... of fa- mous pedigree, which will be always known by the name of the great contemporary poet who made them fashionable; and Esther, proud of owning th...

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...s of the pen. Yet not altogether worthless, perhaps, as materials of local history. Here, no doubt, statistics of the former com merce of Salem might... ...ter, or not impossibly may be worked up, so far as they go, into a regular history of Salem, should my veneration for the natal soil ever impel me to ... ...n the antiquary of days to come, among the sites memo rable in the town’s history, shall point out the locality of The T own Pump . THE SCARLET LETT... ...ht an absolute miracle, by transporting an eminent Doctor of Physic from a German university bodily through the air and setting him down at the door o... ...nd, whether in some remote rural village, or in vast London—or, surely, in Germany, in France, in pleasant Italy—thou wouldst be beyond his power and ... ...some of whom had known Hester Prynne, while others had heard the tale from contemporary witnesses fully confirms the view taken in the foregoing pages...

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...her’s life, her sister’s, her own, that of her two lost brothers—the whole history of their house had the effect of some fine florid voluminous phrase... ... promptly clear about it—was now her only possible basis; she was just the contemporary London female, highly modern, inevitably battered, honourably ... ... she subsequently remembered that though on this occasion she had left the history of her new alliance as scant as the facts themselves, Mrs. Lowder h... ...one to church, she broke it to me by the school-room fire. I was reading a history-book by the lamp—when we didn’t go to church we had to read his- to... ...w of his early years abroad, his migratory parents, his Swiss schools, his German uni- versity, as she had easy attention for. A man, he inti- mated, ... ...ed at that season with the polyglot herd, cock- neys of all climes, mainly German, mainly American, mainly English, it appeared as the corresponding s... ...the vulgarised hall, away from the amiable Ameri- can families and overfed German porters. He had in each case made terms for a lodging more private a...

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...ty folding Thames: a man of wealth and honour, and a some- what lamentable history. The outline of the baronet’s story was by no means new. He had a w... ...e he was growing to be lord of kingdoms where Beauty was his handmaid, and History his minister and Time his ancient harper, and sweet Romance his bri... ...Raynham. Whoever had been about Richard since his birth, she must know the history of, and he for a kiss will do her bidding. Thus goes the tender due... ...o down to posterity with heightened characteris- tics, to say nothing of a contemporary celebrity nothing less than our being turned inside-out to the... ... dame, and my lady the hope of Raynham. Joy and blessings unto all! as the German poet sings. Lady Judith accepted the hand of her decrepit lord that ... ...ne awaits him fruitful within. We heard of him last that he was trying the German waters—preparatory to his undertaking the re- lease of Italy from th...

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...fterwards preserved so profound a silence, that Cropole was almost offended, so much did he prefer people who were good company. 39 Dumas This gentle... ...anniversary of the other battle of Dunbar, so fatal to the Scots, I was conquered. Two thousand men fell around me before I thought of retreating a st... ...er, and you have, in the eyes of France, the responsibility of peace and war. But that you should pretend to prevent me, who am king, from extending m... ...- erything except courage, when the king your father guessed that there was a man in me. I was a man, sire, when the Cardinal de Richelieu, who was a ... ...ke air- bubbles upon the water, on the surface of each event. It is doubtless time to trace, in a few words, one of the most interesting portraits of ... ...disdainfully, “a million! What will your majesty do with a million?” “It appears to me, nevertheless —— “ said Louis XIV . “That is not more than is s... ... which holds its head high, it is said, never tires his rider’s hand. The withers are rather low. 572 Ten Years Later – V ol. 1 The drooping of the h...

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...and easily awakened. His keen, piercing, dark eyes, told in every glance a history of difficulties subdued, and dangers dared, and seemed to challenge... ...r Scott CHAPTER III Then (sad relief!) from the bleak coast that hears The German Ocean roar, deep-blooming, strong, And yellow hair’ d, the blue-eyed... ... is unnecessary to be particular on these subjects. To borrow lines from a contemporary poet, who has written but too little— “The knights are dust, A... ...uperstitions which his ances- tors had brought with them from the wilds of Germany. He remembered, moreover, that he was in the house of a Jew, a peop... ...ed to Roger de Quincy, Earl of Winchester, who, dur- ing the period of our history, was absent in the Holy Land. Prince John, in the meanwhile, occupi... ...n *Nota Bene.—We by no means warrant the accuracy of this piece of natural history , which we give on the authority of the Wardour MS.—L. T . 194 Iva... ...dustrious Henry one of those numerous passages which he has collected from contemporary historians, to prove that fiction itself can hardly reach the ... ...th Queen of England, niece to Edgar Atheling, and mother to the Empress of Germany, the daughter, the wife, and the mother of monarchs, was obliged, d...

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...stretch out their narrative, so as to be at least consistent with the real history, at the entire sacrifice of the plot. And it may be feared that thu... ...t really reigned over the tangled thread of events. There is no portion of history better illustrated by memoirs of the actors therein than is the Fro... ...only provoked violent tumults. The young Prince of Conde, coming home from Germany flushed with victory, hated Mazarin extremely, but his pride as a P... ...y sentiments on record for you, my children. But how I have anticipated my history! I must return, to tell you that when I was just sixteen I was told... ...ly after he had placed me in my little house at Nancy, to join the army in Germany under Marshal Guebrian. I lived through that time by the help of th... ...r marched up and laid standard after standard before the Altar, heavy with German blazonry, or with the red and gold stripes of Aragon, the embattled ... ...ble, instead of a poor old Scottish cavalier and his wife, my mother’s old contemporary Madame de Delincourt, and a couple of officers waiting for Sol...

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...people beyond the family circuit, just as it was part of his plan to learn German this autumn, and to review legal books for Mr. Hilbery’s “Critical R... ...ine de- cided must go. It might be advisable to introduce here a sketch of contemporary poetry contributed by Mr. Hilbery, and thus terse and learned ... ...oint of view first,” she said, speaking directly to her mother, as if to a contemporary, but before the words were out of her mouth, there was more co... ... Cromwell cutting the King’s head off. Some of the most terrible things in history have been done on principle,” she concluded. “I’m afraid I take a v... ...onclusion that it would be a good thing to learn a language—say Italian or German. She then went to a drawer, which she had to unlock, and took from i... ...other asking for news of John, and to her aunt replying with the authentic history of Hilda’s engagement to an officer in the Indian Army, but she cas... ...talking about books. He told her unhesitatingly that he meant to write the history of the English village from Saxon days to the present time. Some su...

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...wn so marked as when figuring for the chosen language, he must suppose, of contemporary art. They twanged with a vengeance the aesthetic lyre—they dre... ...t monsters; and in particular the right femmes du monde. You can fancy his history on that side—I be- lieve it’s fabulous: they never give him up. Yet... ... of which failed to reverberate—only gave the moments more of the taste of history. It was history, to begin with, that Jeanne’s mother had been three... ...s so impossible that she had the advantage of all her merits. It was still history for Strether that the Comte de Vionnet—it being also history that t... ...a little Jewess (which she wasn’t, oh no!) and chattering French, English, German, Italian, anything one would, in a way that made a clean sweep, if n... ...d accumula- tions that had possibly from time to time shrunken than on any contemporary method of acquisition or form of curiosity. Chad and Miss Gost...

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...ccess of Pawkins, and now Pawkins outshone by Hapley, belong rather to the history of entomology than to this story. * “Remarks on a Recent Revision o... ...he memories that had slipped out. I stopped opposite Stevens’, the natural history dealer’s, and cudgelled my brains to think what he had to do with m... ...eedles were gorgeous with clumps of fungi,—he recapitulated the melancholy history of his marriage. It was brief and com- monplace enough. He now perc... ...he almost spat it out again, then merely hot and full-flavoured: a kind of German mustard with a touch of horse-radish and—well, mushroom. He swallowe... ...onscience, for she was a good girl, and pain- fully aware, from Ruskin and contemporary fiction, how entirely men’s activities are determined by women...