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...of the funeral home flashed through his memory. He was dead. He was really history. Kelly closed his eyes tight, mumbled "No" again. "See? I told you ... ...ow how strong it was, how healthy, how athletic, how capable. What was her history with the Latin homeboy? From his memory of her reflection in the mi... ...ble. There's no explanation for these things ... weak blood vessel, family history, physical fitness ... they just happen.... The important thing now ... ...rnished from the floor to ceiling in oak-finished wood and black and white Italian marble, leather and glass—the tables, the floor-to- ceiling bookshe... ...ite spy novels here, the mysteries and suspenses there, the historical and contemporary romances here, the classics there, the Encyclopedia Britannica...

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...ed the manner in which the ro- mance is interwoven with incidents from the history of the Hawthorne family, “The House of the Seven Gables” has acquir... ...aule had addressed him from the scaffold, and uttered a prophecy, of which history, as well as fireside tradi- tion, has preserved the very words. “Go... ...hich the sun was still mark- ing the passage of the first bright hour in a history that was not destined to be all so bright. All around were scattere... ...ss earthly substance that involves it. We must not stain our page with any contemporary scandal, to a similar pur- port, that may have been whispered ... ...commended by these old associations. This was observable when one of those Italian boys (who are rather a modern feature of our streets) came along wi... ...any case of his organ, and whose principle of life was the music which the Italian made it his business to grind out. In all their variety of occupa- ... ...d to enjoy a harmonious existence, and to make life literally a dance. The Italian turned a crank; and, behold! every one of these small individuals s...

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...blue and white Dutch tiles bearing marvellous representations of Scripture history, and was protected by a very tall green guard; the chairs were much... ...ged in a reverie. She had heard in books of girls writing poetry, romance, history—gaining fifties and hundreds. Could not some of the myriads of fanc... ...onveyed in his tone so opened Ethel’s heart that she went on eagerly:—”The history of it is this. Last time we walked here, that day, I said, and I me... ...d really Ethel has a great talent for languages. How fast she gets on with Italian!” “That she does,” said Margaret. “Suppose you send her up, Flora—y... ...is eye, so long accustomed to the deep mourn- ing of his sisters. A little Italian greyhound, perfectly white, was at her side, making infinite variat... ...ions and intel- ligence. Norman ventured to inquire the name of the little Italian, and was told it was Nipen, because it had once sto- len a cake, mu... ...ty, and Meta, putting Blanche into the car- riage to keep company with her contemporary, went herself in the brake. What a brilliant little fairy she ...

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...gical pinion pass from William Jenkin, Mayor of Folkestone in 1555, to his contemporary ‘John Jenkin, of the Citie of York, Receiver General of the Co... ...constable to defend the passage of the sea at Sandgate. It had a chequered history before it fell into the hands of Thomas of Eythorne, having been so... ...t line. It is not my design, nor have I the necessary knowledge, to give a history of this obscure family. But this is an age when genealogy has taken... ...n 1801) that he has been looking on at these confused pas- sages of family history. In the year 1805 the ruin of the Jenkins was begun. It was the wor... ...eir side; and by means of him the family appear to have had access to much Italian society. T o the end, Fleeming professed his admiration of the 31 ... ...may say – for we are among the small minority of English who side with the Italians. The other day, at dinner at the Consul’s, boy as he is, and in sp... ...l’s, boy as he is, and in spite of my admonitions, Fleeming de- fended the Italian cause, and so well that he “tripped up the heels of his adversary” ... ... actor – a long way to see a picture; in the very bubble of the tideway of contemporary interests. And all the while he was busied about his father an...

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...of which singularly enough constitutes a distinct and important era in the history of Florence. His youth was concurrent with the greatness of Florenc... ...of Florence. His youth was concurrent with the greatness of Florence as an Italian power under the guidance of Lorenzo de’ Medici, Il Magnifico. The d... ...to Lorenzo’s grandson that he dedicates “The Prince.” Machiavelli, in his “History of Florence,” gives us a pic- ture of the young men among whom his ... ...old them both. It is impossible to follow here the varying fortunes of the Italian states, which in 1507 were controlled by France, Spain, and Germany... ...received a commission at the instance of Cardinal de’ Medici to write the “History of Florence,” a task which occupied him until 1525. His return to p... ...in those times the genius of the English more nearly resembled that of the Italian language; to the Englishman of to-day it is not so simple. To take ... ...eece, would by an Elizabethan be correctly rendered “entertain,” and every contemporary reader would understand what was meant by saying that “Rome en... ... the knowledge of the actions of great men, acquired by long experience in contemporary affairs, and a continual study of antiq- uity; which, having r...

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...o him from the further side of the Alps, but he was under the charm of the Italian spring, and he made a pretext for lingering. He had spent five days... ...was a flawless gift of the Middle Ages to the modern imagination. No other Italian city could have been more interesting to an observer fond of recons... ...ature, and at one time had made several lively excursions into medi- aeval history. His friends thought him very clever, and at the same time had an e... ...tions and meditations upon Sienese architecture and early Tuscan art, upon Italian street-life and the geological idiosyn- crasies of the Apennines. I... ...years—a period of his life of which it is not proposed to offer a complete history. The East is a wonderful region, and Bernard, investigating the mys... ...ly empty; every one had gone to listen to the operetta, the sound of whose contemporary gayety came through the open, hot- looking windows in little t... ...I think he would believe you, because he knows you know a great deal about history and all that. I don’t mean this evening, but some time when it is c...

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...footnotes, proc- lamations, acts of Parliament, and citations as that last history. I have been reading a good deal of Herbert. He’s a clever and a de... ... By the way, that is a feature in art which seems to have come in with the Italians. Y our old Greek statues have scarce enough vitality in them to ke... ... Queen Mary: I like them both so much, that I feel as if I could write the history fairly. I have finished Roads to-day, and send it off to you to see... ...a really admirable appear- ance of offended dignity, she said something in Italian which made everybody laugh much. It was explained to me that she ha... ..., in a dawn that was a sunset; snobbery, conservatism, the wrong thread in History, and notably in that of his own land. Voila, ma- dame, le menu. Com... ...e been still in the house since I wrote, and I have worked. I finished the Italian story; not well, but as well as I can just now; I must go all over ... ...lse: the book of a man, that is, who has paid a great deal of attention to contemporary life, and not through the newspapers. I have never seen my Bur... ...e of appetite, etc. Y ou know what a wooden- hearted curmudgeon I am about contemporary verse. I like none of it, except some of my own. (I look back ...

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...Excerpt: Prelude; Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little gir...

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... Middlemarch 1 Book I Miss Brooke Prelude W ho that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying ex... ... not less bare of style than those in which the Blessed Virgin appeared to Italian painters; and her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed ... ...derstood for many years to be engaged on a great work concerning religious history; also as a man of wealth enough to give lustre to his piety, and ha... ... in all the new ideas at one time—human perfectibility, now. But some say, history moves in circles; and that may be very well argued; I have argued i... ...—not to hurt others. Chapter VII. “Piacer e popone Vuol la sua stagione.” —Italian Proverb. M r. Casaubon, as might be expected, spent a great deal of... ...r, and bowed his thanks for Mr. Brooke’s invitation. “We will turn over my Italian engravings together,” continued that good natured man. “I have no e... ...l furniture, to be sold without reserve, comprised a piece of carving by a contemporary of Gibbons. At Middlemarch in those times a large sale was reg...

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...alzac, the founder, as some will have him, of modern French prose, and the contemporary and fellow-reformer of Malherbe. (In- deed, as the novelist po... ...ough there are probably no three writers of any considerable repute in the history of French literature who stand further apart from Balzac. For all t... ...commonly read than any other. It deals with a disguised duke, a villainous Italian, bigamy, a surpris- ing offer of the angelic first wife to submit t... ...art of Argow le Pirate, and not only gives an account of his crimes, early history, and manners (which seem to have been a little robustious for such ... ...e queerest possible cross between an actual fairy story a la Nordier and a history of the fantastic and inconstant loves of a great English lady, the ... ...to make the most of his labor, his projects, and his performance. Even his contemporary, though elder, Southey, the hardest-work- ing and the most scr... ...en to mistake what perhaps the greatest creation of Balzac’s great English contemporary and coun- 24 The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix terpa...

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...e reader the chief personages of this narrative. AT THA T FAMOUS PERIOD OF HISTORY, when the seventeenth century (after a deal of quarrelling, king-ki... ... to hang with him round the neck of his patient, at the end of our and his history. We give the reader fair notice, that we shall tickle him with a fe... ...Of those two gentlemen who are about to act a very impor- tant part in our history, one only was probably a native of Brit- ain,—we say probably, beca... ... recount the story of his London fashionable campaign;— * In the ingenious contemporary history of Moll Flanders, a periwig is mentioned as costing th... ...how dreadfully like a rascal is to an honest man. The man who murdered the Italian boy, set him first to play with his children whom he loved, and who...

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... yet wider knowledge, not only of a country foreign to the author by race, history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two A... ...emans and the Furnivalls, sets himself up to right the wrongs of universal history and criticism. Now, it is one thing to write with enjoyment on a su... ...esults, even with a critic so warmly interested in their favour. The great contemporary master of wordmanship, and indeed of all literary arts and tec... ...or nations, should have gone far to wipe away the guilt of slavery. But in history sin always meets with condign punishment; the generation passes, th... ...sometimes the very clue to comprehension we have sought long and vainly in contemporary masterpieces, so it may be the very weakest of an author’s boo... ...to see him. This, on the other hand, is Burns as he may have appeared to a contemporary clergyman, whom we shall con- ceive to have been a kind and in... ...f accent on the different syllables, almost as in French, the vowels as in Italian, but the consonants in the English manner – except the J, which has...