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...lucky for me I have met you!” cried the stranger. These words, said in the Corsican patois, stopped Lucien at the moment when he was springing under t... ...gnized him. At the first word that Bartolomeo said in his ear, he took the Corsican away with him. Murat, Lannes, and Rapp were at that moment in the ... ... me?” said the First Con- sul. “I wish to be alone with my compatriot.” “A Corsican!” replied the aide-de-camp. “I distrust those fellows too much to—... ... said Napoleon. “T o ask asylum and protection from you, if you are a true Corsican,” replied Bartolomeo, roughly. “What ill fortune drove you from th... ...u were the richest, the most—” “I have killed all the Portas,” replied the Corsican, in a deep voice, frowning heavily. The First Consul took two step... ...s if to say: “Be calm, be prudent.” And the young man cried out in his own language: “Ah! Dio! che non vorrei vivere dopo averla veduta?—who would not... ...timent. This persecuted man was a child of Corsica; he spoke its cherished language! She stood, for a moment, motionless; held by a magical sensation;... ...ppy omen. The stranger seemed to her a ce- lestial messenger, speaking the language of her own country. He thus unconsciously put her under the spell ...

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...he regular John Bull style, with the Gilray model for the little up- start Corsican: but as soon as the Emperor had yielded to stern fortune our artis... ... the best designs of our artist, and some of the most amusing tales in our language. The invention of the pic- tures, for which Mr. Clark takes credit... ...bdin school, treating of the virtues of British tars, in approved nautical language. They maul Frenchmen and Spaniards, they go out in brigs and take ...

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... The newspapers laughed the wretched upstart and swindler to scorn. Such a Corsican wretch as that with- stand the armies of Europe and the genius of ... ...ocured for Jos’s party a swarthy little Belgian servant who could speak no language at all; but who, by his bustling behaviour, and by invariably ad- ... ...de. Each was pro- testing against the rapacity of the other; and could the Corsican but have waited in prison until all these parties were by the ears... ...in his profession. When the Countess Dowager of Southdown fell foul of the Corsican upstart, as the fashion was in those days, and showed that he was ... ... was remarkable. All the French ladies voted her charming. She spoke their language admirably. She adopted at once their grace, their liveliness, thei... ...ociety. Too much shaken in mind and body to compose a letter in the French language in reply to that of her correspon- dent, she dictated to Briggs a ... ... been twenty years in England, she did not understand a single word of the language, and contented herself by informing Mrs. Rawdon Crawley at their n... ... haps you knew him. He died the death of a hero, sir, fighting against the Corsican tyrant.” Colonel Crawley blushed quite red. “I knew him very well,... ...ard ship you would have supposed that it was not the first time he and the Corsican had met, and that the civilian had bearded the French General at M...

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...-color properly; she danced extremely well; and she had studied the French language, history, geography, English, Italian,— in short, all that constit... ...ally are in the eyes of Southerners. Let us remark, in passing, that among Corsicans, a race subject to fits of anger and dangerous iras- cibility, we... ...ible to these vulgar minds; he was navigating their waters; he spoke their language. His painter was Pierre Grassou, and not Joseph Bridau; his book ... ...was bewildered; she was, however, awake to the ex- treme frankness of such language, and she said to herself, “He is not a secret manoeuvrer, certainl... ...esser Bourgeoisie Flavie, to whom in all her life love had never taken the language of romance, sat still, but happy, her heart palpitat- ing, and say... ...ents of this man most was his joviality and his repartees; he talked their language. Cadenet, his two shop-men, and Cerizet, living in the midst of dr...

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...ke Nostromo! “You hombres finos!” Very much like Nostromo. But Dominic the Corsican nursed a cer- tain pride of ancestry from which my Nostromo is fre... ... examples of lofty devotion, on the din of armed struggle, on the inflamed language of proc- lamations. He had never parted from the chief of his choi... ...ing the greatness of his native land—the same to whom the doctors used the language of horrid and veiled men- aces. He was a big-limbed, deliberate ma... ...; for the Decoud fam- ily—except the old father and mother—used the French language amongst themselves. “And you should see the explanatory and confid... ...medicines, even a few dusty books in paper covers and mostly in the French language. The big black let- ters formed the words, “Offices of the Porveni... ...times, degrading by a strange, anx- ious whine the sonority of the Spanish language, which he pattered rapidly, like some sort of cring- ing jargon. A...

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...ains, and is inhabited by descen- dants of the first comers, who speak the language of their fathers. For three or four centuries they have remained u... ...customs and the costume of their mother-country as they have preserved its language. Our readers will follow us along the only street of this little v... ...me, come, do not strip the latter of his just rights to bestow them on the Corsican, who, to my mind, has usurped quite enough.” “Nay, madame; I would... ... “Are we threatened with a fresh Reign of Terror?” asked another. “Has the Corsican ogre broken loose?” cried a third. “Marquise,” said Villefort, app... ... must entreat your forgiveness if my anxiety leads to some obscurity in my language.” A glance at the king after this discreet and subtle exordium, as... ... retire, but M. de Blacas, taking his hand, restrained him. Chapter 11 The Corsican Ogre. AT THE SIGHT OF THIS AGITATION Louis XVIII. pushed from him ... ...f the towns, and the prejudices of the army; he whom in Paris you call the Corsican ogre, who at Nevers is styled the usurper, is already saluted as B... ...omes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven! He prayed, and prayed alou... ...n, Bonaparte, became emperor.” We had for- gotten to say that Jacopo was a Corsican. Two months and a half elapsed in these trips, and Edmond had beco...

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...-doux hidden among the flowers; but there was no letter. “Do they talk the language of flowers at Boggley Wollah, Sedley?” asked Osborne, laughing. “P... ...William Dobbin, from an incapacity to acquire the ru- diments of the above language, as they are propounded in that wonderful book the Eton Latin Gram... ...Mrs. Salmon performed the Battle of Borodino (a savage cantata against the Corsican upstart, who had lately met with his Russian re- verses)—Mr. Dobbi... ... he cannot keep down, and which must find a vent in suitable abuse and bad language. I warn my “kyind friends,” then, that I am going to tell a story ... ...cals, I promise you. When we come to the proper places we won’t spare fine language—No, no! But when we are go- ing over the quiet country we must per... ...ment. The fact is, peace was declared, Europe was going to be at rest; the Corsican was overthrown, and Lieutenant Osborne’s regiment would not be ord... ...t, but he would soon: and quit the army now that peace was proclaimed; the Corsican monster locked up at Elba; promotion by consequence over; and no c... ...ng on to the skirts of history. When the eagles of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Corsican upstart, were flying from Provence, where they had perched after a... ... Bill Dob- bin, could any man ever have speculated upon the return of that Corsican scoundrel from Elba? When the allied sover- eigns were here last y...

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...d, could I, the first time, the first moment I beheld her, adopt caressing language, and a familiar tone, as readily as after ten years’ intimacy had ... ...from difficulties by saying he was not suf- ficiently versed in the French language. The next day, lest my indiscreet objections should injure the min... ...It was time to seek a lodging: as I already knew enough of the Piedmontese language to make myself understood, this was a work of no great difficulty;... ...fue pas’. As the Piedmontese are not in general very perfect in the French language, they found fault with the orthography, saying, that in the word f... ...es already promised to equal those of Rome and Sparta, I had spoken of the Corsicans in the ‘Social Contract’ as a new people, the only nation in Euro... ...ortunate enough to have a wise legislator. My work was read by some of the Corsicans, who were sensible of the honor- able manner in which I had spoke... ...did in the service of France. In fact, his zeal for the legislation of the Corsicans, and his connections with M. Paoli, could not leave a doubt on my... ...his inten- tion, and I confess the frightful description he gave me of the Corsicans and their country, considerably abated the desire I had of going ... ... ill-sup- porting by my presence the opinion my books might have given the Corsicans of my capacity, I should lose my reputa- tion amongst them, and, ...

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...n—1898 Edition. CHAPTER I—A TALE OF A LION RAMPANT IT WA S IN THE MONTH of May 1813 that I was so unlucky as to fall at last into the hands of the ene... ...erchandise, and an air of youth in particu- lar (as it appealed to the sentiment of pity in our visitors) to be a source of profit. Others again enjoy... ...nd as for the impulse that had made her bring and introduce him, I could not sufficiently admire it. It seemed to me finer than wit, and more tender t... ...observing me from a dis- tance, for a sparrow sat betwixt us quite unalarmed on the breech of a piece of cannon. So soon as our eyes met, he drew near... ...member the existence of such a person as myself, and will he deign to count kinship with a soldier of Napoleon?’ ‘You speak English well,’ observed my... ...h a history like mine?’ ‘I have no wish to try,’ said he. ‘And yet there is one point I cannot understand: I cannot understand that one of your blood ... ...verything gener- ous in you must rise against that—domination.’ ‘And perhaps,’ I retorted, ‘had your childhood passed among wolves, you would have bee...

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...ed of the power of participation. Three persons only could understand this language of the poor paralytic; these were Villefort, Valentine, and the ol... ... look all the varied feelings which were passing in his mind. To this dumb language, which was so unintelli- gible to others, she answered by throwing... ...ief, that she arrested the departure of the notary . “Sir,” said she, “the language which I speak with my grandfather may be easily learnt, and I can ... ...baroness sharply, “I tell you I will not hear cash named; it is a style of language I never heard in the house of my parents or in that of my first hu... ...t down in haste. Scarcely had I covered it with earth, when the arm of the Corsican was stretched towards me; I saw a shadow rise, and, at the same ti... ...urbed me during my year of constant agony came back with double force. The Corsican, who had declared the vendetta against me, who had followed me fro... ...ocket and armed myself. I fancied continually that I saw the figure of the Corsican between the 79 Alexandre Dumas branches. I examined the thicket w... ...hundredth time I took up my spade, I asked myself again and again what the Corsican could have done with the child. A child encumbers a fugitive; perh... ...phosphoric light, they rise but to mislead. The story has been told by the Corsican to some priest, who in his turn has re- peated it. M. de Monte Cri...

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...e, and at first had nothing but praise for the Vendean. This officer was a Corsican and married; his wife was pretty and charming, and he thought her,... ...ought her, perhaps, not to be trusted— at any rate, he was as jealous as a Corsican and a rather ill- looking soldier may be. The lady took a fancy to... ... Republican colonel, who cared not a rap for Imperial gentility and choice language. “The surgeon-major looked about him cautiously, as if to make sur... ... to your wife!—Why her misconduct leaves you as free as a bachelor—” “Your language is as blunt as a cannon ball.” “I love you for your own sake, that... ...tain several of his friends—Nathan, Bixiou, Blondet, Finot, whose manners, language, and intercourse were depraving. They tried to con- vince Madame d... ...udraye had hitherto cost him quite as much as it had cost her. T o use the language of business, the two sides of the account balanced, and they could...

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...d Zoya in German. When she was taken un- awares she always used her native language. Elena drew her- self up. Shubin looked at her with a playful smil... ...kes you think so?’ ‘Why as far as I could hear, they talked to him in some language I did not know, but Slavonic … You are always saying, Elena Nikola... ... him the words for lily-of-the-valley, clover, oak, lime, and so on in his language… ‘Bulgaria’s in it!’ thought poor Andrei Petrovitch. Suddenly a sh... ...ered. ‘If one thing doesn’t do, one must try another. However, like a true Corsican, I am more concerned with revenge than with pure art. Trema, Bisan...

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...ghtnings, which were soon quenched. Sometimes I feared he might detect the language of my eyes and kill me. I was young then and merely tender. Will, ... ...uish like branches robbed of their foliage. I described to her in feverish language many cruel details which I have here spared you. I spread before h... ...- 64 The Lily of the Valley stand me?” I cried, falling into the mystical language to which our religious training had accustomed us. “See the paths ... ...ther belonged, as quickly as a min- eralogist recognizes Swedish iron. Her language was that of the old court; she pronounced the “oit” like “ait,” an... ...hich we rested from our common 80 The Lily of the Valley sufferings. When language failed silence as faithfully served our souls, which seemed to ent... ...ays your self!” The tones of her voice revealed the determined hatred of a Corsican, implacable as the judgments of those who, not having studied life...

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...face to face with some other horses, whom they, no doubt, asked in horses’ language: “Who may you be? What are you doing? Are you comfortable?” When t... ..., and the fresh blacking on a pair of boots with gaping soles, to which no language can do justice. However, to give some notion of this medley of eff... ...esan’s Life eye for a woman,” said he to himself, using an expression of a language of his own, in which his observations, or Corentin’s, were summed ... ... know me at all,” Peyrade went on, with a keen glance at the Prefet. “Your language is either too severe to a man who has been the head of the police ... ...bered by Jacques Collin at such a critical moment. Theodore Calvi, a young Corsican, imprisoned for life at the age of eighteen for eleven murders, th... ...he imminent end of his former comrade—the dead body of Theodore, the young Corsican. Only to see the boy would demand extraordinary cleverness; to sav... ...hance,” cried Bibi-Lupin. “I had forgotten that. Theodore Calvi, the young Corsican, was the man chained to Jacques Collin; they say that on the hulks... ... is, in my opinion, no conclusive evidence against him.” “He is a thorough Corsican,” said Monsieur Gault; “he has not said a word, and has held firm ... ... added misery of enforced idleness and inaction. And yet Theodore Calvi, a Corsican, now twenty-seven years of age, muffled, as it were, in a shroud o...

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...and ask for information, but I didn’t get any; they couldn’t un derstand my language, and I could not understand theirs. I got dreadfully lonesome. ... ...e — “I’ll set you right on that point very quick. People take the figurative language of the Bible and the allegories for literal, and the first thing... ...stly misses, in heaven, is company — company of his own sort and color and language. I have come near settling in the European part of heaven once ... ...of a billion years, with dif ferent kinds of people and different sorts of languages, that this sort of mongrel business was bound to be the result ... ...s book stand.” “Did you ever see Napoleon, Sandy?” “Often — sometimes in the Corsican range, sometimes in the French. He always hunts up a conspicuou...

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...-doux hidden among the flowers; but there was no letter. “Do they talk the language of flowers at Boggley Wollah, Sedley?” asked Osborne, laughing. “P... ...William Dobbin, from an incapacity to acquire the ru- diments of the above language, as they are propounded in that wonderful book the Eton Latin Gram... ...Mrs. Salmon performed the Battle of Borodino (a savage cantata against the Corsican upstart, who had lately met with his Russian re- verses)—Mr. Dobbi... ... he cannot keep down, and which must find a vent in suitable abuse and bad language. I warn my “kyind friends,” then, that I am going to tell a story ... ...cals, I promise you. When we come to the proper places we won’t spare fine language—No, no! But when we are go- ing over the quiet country we must per... ...ment. The fact is, peace was declared, Europe was going to be at rest; the Corsican was overthrown, and Lieutenant Osborne’s regiment would not be ord... ...t, but he would soon: and quit the army now that peace was proclaimed; the Corsican monster locked up at Elba; promotion by consequence over; and no c... ...ng on to the skirts of history. When the eagles of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Corsican upstart, were flying from Provence, where they had perched after a... ... Bill Dob- bin, could any man ever have speculated upon the return of that Corsican scoundrel from Elba? When the allied sover- eigns were here last y...

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... to communicate to fireside travellers some sense of its seduction, and to describe the life, at sea and ashore, of many hundred thousand persons, som... ...ed by Caesar, and never been ruled by the wisdom of Gaius or Papinian. By 8 In The South Seas the same step I had journeyed forth out of that comfort... ...our intimates, and one, at least, was to mourn sincerely our departure. CHAPTER II—MAKING FRIENDS THE IMPEDIMENT OF TONGUES was one that I particularl... ... acquittal, and declared she would engage the prisoner to be her children’s nurse. The bystanders exclaimed at the proposal; the woman was a savage, s... ...population could be isolated, and this mispronunciation should become the rule, it might prove the first stage of transition from T to K, which is the... ...man was coming down the mountain, and as he passed, and while he paused to exchange saluta- tions with myself, Hoka was still staring and ruffling lik...

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...hey would have had no weight, they would hardly have seemed an apology for language, beside Victor’s gaze of pleasure in the noble forthroll of the no... ...d to be. ‘Victor speaks of the certainty of his release.’ His release! Her language pricked a satirist’s gallbladder. Colney refrained from speaking t... ...were, of his missing or misapprehended person in a foreign country, of the language of which three unpronounce- able words were knocking about his hea... ...totally other. Thus we are taught, that a foreign General, ignorant of the language, must confine him- self to defensive operations at home; he would ... ... the native bent of the civilized 139 George Meredith man: endow him with language too. He was as if unlocked; he met Nesta’s eyes and ran in a volub... ..., Speckbacker, Haspinger; and wrath had filled them at the meanness of the Corsican, who posed after it as victim on St. Helena’s rock; the scene in g...

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...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 ... ...and I spend our time over him as though he were a riddle. How odd it is! A language-master captures my fancy as no other man has done. Yet by this tim... ... 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 ... ..., to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind, in their wretc... ...nism, not only of the Spanish tongue, but also of human thought and of all language. His mother tongue seems to be French. When I expressed surprise a... ...rigneuse and d’Espard and my mother, as though they were talking a foreign language and I wanted to know what it was all about, but inwardly my soul s...

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...tter pamphlets also, written in a sickly enthusiastic style and in several languages, giving statistics of slaughter and blood- shed enough to make a ... ...nced it with a disagreeable forced precision as though he meant to guy the language. The man in the launch answered him quickly in a pleasant voice. H... ...s intellectual efforts degenerated into mere mental repetitions of profane language. “Mille tonnerres! … Sacré nom de nom …” he thought. Lieut. D’Hube... ...iments appeared to him unduly violent, lacking fineness and measure, their language needlessly exaggerated. He joined calmly the General on the road, ... ...rauds. Feraud! What is Feraud? A va-nu-pieds disguised into a general by a Corsican adventurer masquerading as an emperor. There is no earthly reason ... ... to say, I never looked. At any rate, he was a good European—he spoke four languages to my certain knowledge—and a man of fortune. Not of great fortun...

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...ith his blue National Guards lies encompassing it, as blue Neptune (in the language of po- ets) does an island, wooingly. Thither may the wrecks of re... ...l men, of whom it was of old written, Bray them in a mortar! Or, in milder language, They have wedded their delusions: fire nor steel, nor any sharpne... ...ure of God and of my sword,”—he fiercely answered in old days. Overfalling Corsican batteries, in the deadly fire-hail; wriggling invin- cible from un... ...st Book or Pamphlet,—eloquent vehement Letter to M. Matteo Buttafuoco, our Corsican Deputy, who is not a Patriot but an Aristocrat, unworthy of Deputy... ...g into the man, and through him, had to ejaculate in strong untranslatable language: Ce j—f—ne vaut pas la peine qu’on se donne pour lui. It came all ... ...nd fiery heart; ‘volcano hid under snow;’ styled like- wise, in irreverent language, ‘mouton enrage, ’ peaceablest of creatures bitten rabid! Or note,... ...Dungeon of the Glaciere, or Ice-Tower: there may be deeds done—? For which language has no name!—Darkness and the shadow of horrid cruelty envelopes t...

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...neither shabby, nor insolent, nor churlish, nor ignorant. He spoke his own language with perfect propriety, and seemed to con sider himself, in his w... ...nces upon its body, inscribed there, at an unknown time, and in an unknown language; so that their purport was a mystery to all men. There was little ... ...ures, and stable their horses among triumphs of architecture. But the same Corsican face is so plentiful in some parts of Italy at this day, that a mo... ...ena, and such a whirl of strife, and blood, and dust going on there, as no language can describe. Its solitude, its awful beauty, and its utter deso ... ...ars will ever understand. But, in Naples, those five fingers are a copious language. All this, and every other kind of out door life and stir, and mac...

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...is royal ally. Nor was the rise of his domestic fortunes at all behind the Corsican’s: three days after landing, the exquisitely tattooed hand of a pr... ...riginal name,—Wymontoo- Hee, meaning (as he maintained), in the figurative language of the island, something analogous to one who had got him- self in... ...In some respects the natives re- 55 Melville semble the T ahitians: their language, too, is very similar. The people of the southeasterly clusters—co... ...l and gratifying, is that they have trans- lated the entire Bible into the language of the island; and I have myself known several who were able to re... ...e this end, every effort is made to prevent them from acquiring the native language. They went even further at the Sandwich Islands; where, a few year... ...t. Some time previous, he had been a denizen of Papeetee, where the native language is broidered over with the most classic sailor phrases. He seemed ...

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...?’ he said. ‘I’ll give it you in Low Ger- man.’ And he went off in another language, changing his voice and manner so completely that they hardly knew... ...orget yourself, Consul,” says Talleyrand, “or rather you remember yourself—Corsican.” ‘“Pig!” says Boney, and worse. ‘“Emperor!” says Talleyrand, but,...

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...s an odd, equivocal silence. It marked our final abandonment of the French language. I was the one to speak first, proposing that my companions should... ...sica somewhere. She has it now as she has everything he ever had; and that Corsican palace is the portion that will stick the longest to Dona Rita, I ... ...e knowledge of evil, more var- ied meanings to the subtle phrases of their language. Natu- rally! I was still so young! And yet I assure you, that jus... ... we in the path?” He addressed me then in French, which was between us the language of more formal moments. 93 Joseph Conrad “Prenez mon bras, monsie... ... That was the trouble. Captain Blunt might have been a Frenchman as far as languages, tones, and man- ners went. But you could not have mistaken him f... ... not made it, at himself and even at his mother. All this rather in parrot language, in the words of tradition and morality as understood by the membe...

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...nd workwomen. She, whose character had a marked resemblance to that of the Corsicans, worked upon without fruition by the instincts of a strong nature... ... kissed it, declared it was a beauty and a darling; he spoke to it in baby language, prophesied that it would grow to be taller than himself, insinuat... ... be feared. For that instant, Lisbeth Fischer had been her real self; that Corsican and savage temperament, bursting the slender bonds that held it un... ..., Crevel had “never looked at both sides of a crown-piece,” to use his own language, when he wanted to “do up” his rooms; he had gone with his purse o... ...nto other hands. It was only by dint of endless complaints and much strong language that the com- mittee of subscribers succeeded in seeing the plaste... ...s in the 201 Balzac candle!—Come, give me your arm, dinner is served.” No language could be so thoroughly demoralizing as this; for if you show a Pol... ... tea. This was more than a compliment, it was a favor. There is a complete language in the manner in which a woman does this little civility; but wome...

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... an adjective signifying godlike also. Indeed, Adam Smith, in his Essay on Language, surmises that all adjectives whatsoever were formed precisely in ... ...oration;—held mainly by the inward indissoluble bond of a common blood and language. In this way had the Arabs lived for long ages, unnoticed by the w... ...exaggerated, this of the Nestorian Monk. Mahomet was only fourteen; had no language but his own: much in Syria must have been a strange unintelligible... ..., impatient of the silence, started up, and exclaimed in passionate fierce language, That he would! The assembly, among whom was Abu Thaleb, Ali’s Fat... ... Prophet differ greatly in our loose modern no- tions of them. In some old languages, again, the titles are synonymous; Vates means both Prophet and P... ...ly despair of human things. Nevertheless look, for example, at Napoleon! A Corsican lieutenant of artillery; that is the show of him: yet is he not ob...

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...anchor. Now, an anchor is never cast, and to take a liberty with technical language is a crime against the clearness, precision, and beauty of perfect... ...hor is a forged piece of iron, admirably adapted to its end, and technical language is an in- strument wrought into perfection by ages of experi- ence... ...or’s phrase which has all the force, precision, and imag- ery of technical language that, created by simple men with keen eyes for the real aspect of ... ...be a little private ship’s storm going on in which you could detect strong language, pronounced in a tone of passion and exculpatory protestations utt... ...or amiability must have been expounded to him with that capacity for vivid language which seems joined naturally to the shadiness of moral character a... ...sh he had poisoned me—charogne! But this: that I, a confidential man and a Corsican, should have to ask your pardon for bringing on board your vessel,...

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...pictures representing Boney and his family in rags, gnawing raw bones in a Corsican hut; Boney murdering the sick at Jaffa; Boney with a hookah and a ... ... hookah and a large turban, having adopted the Turkish religion, &c.)—this Corsican monster, never- theless, had some devoted friends in England, acco... ...he assault— what garbage hurled at opponents—what foul blows were hit—what language of Billingsgate flung! Fancy a party in a country-house now lookin...

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... emprise, Which was so very prompt in the beginning. “If I have well thy language understood,” Replied that shade of the Magnanimous, “Thy soul ... ... And she began to say, gentle and low, With voice angelical, in her own language: ‘O spirit courteous of Mantua, Of whom the fame still in the wo... ...hrough the air without a star, Whence I, at the beginning, wept thereat. Languages diverse, horrible dialects, Accents of anger, words of agony, ... ... Thou fain wouldst have,” then said he unto me, “The empress was of many languages. To sensual vices she was so abandoned, That lustful she made l... ...iting yonder leads me here, Whom in disdain perhaps your Guido had.” His language and the mode of punishment Already unto me had read his name; ... ...s Which the sun sets aflame, when he of Rome Sees it ‘twixt Sardes and Corsicans go down; 195 Dante And that patrician shade, for whom is named ...

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... o spare myself the task of disclosing my unheard-of sufferings, for which language has no name, I will tell you this—that I am in the deepest, most h... ...d and body unruffled. Yet, I have seen the whole world. I have learned all languages, lived after every manner. I have lent a Chinaman money, taking h... ...ith a child’s simplicity, a worker only from necessity or caprice. “In the language of Maitre Alcofribas, we are about to make a famous troncon de chi... ... I devoted most of my time to that long work, for which I studied Oriental languages, physiology and anatomy. If I do not deceive myself, my la- bors ... ...l refuse. All women fallen on evil days are sis- ters; they speak a common language; they have the same generosity—the generosity that possesses nothi... ...s project preyed upon me as a thirst for re- venge gnaws at the heart of a Corsican monk. This is how I carried it out. On the days when Foedora recei...

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...d.—But if the very Rocks and Rivers (as Metaphysic teaches) are, in strict language, made by those outward Senses of ours, how much more, by the Inwar... ...termination to have dinner does it. And then as to Pamphlets—in figurative language; ‘it is a sheer snowing of pamphlets; like to snow up the Governme... ...ing to see, beset that Paper-Warehouse; demonstrate, in loud ungrammatical language (addressed to the passions too), the insufficiency of sevenpence h... ...ds Lecointre: a picture for Salvator! He asks, in temperate but courageous language: What they, by this their journey to Versailles, do specially want... ...h his blue National Guards lies encompassing it, as blue Nep- tune (in the language of poets) does an island, wooingly. Thither may the wrecks of reha... ...ure of God and of my sword,”—he fiercely answered in old days. Overfalling Corsican batteries, in the deadly fire-hail; wriggling invincible from unde... ...st Book or Pamphlet,—eloquent vehement Letter to M. Matteo Buttafuoco, our Corsican Deputy, who is not a Patriot but an Aristocrat, unworthy of Deputy...

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...e, he glanced at the girl before he turned to his host and said in his own language:— “Is that your daughter, signore?” Perez de Lagounia (such was th... ...ith Genoa, Florence, and Livorno; he knew Italian, and replied in the same language:— “No; if she were my daughter I should take less precau- tions. T... ...se to noises significantly made from one floor to the other, an artificial language which all lovers know well how to create. But chance, or it may ha... .... Mio caro sposo!” she said, as if it were impossible to give in any other language the infinite tenderness, the lov- ing elegance with which the Ital... ...ccent clothe those delightful words. Besides, Italian was Juana’s maternal language. “I should find,” she continued, with a glance at Montefiore in wh... ...court, where most of the court- iers had been his equals. But Napoleon was Corsican, and Diard Provencal. Given equal genius, an islander will always ...

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...interest in Frederic of Prussia during his difficulties, and in Paoli, the Corsican patriot; but when I came to the American War, I took my part, like... ...s. Greek and Latin verses I did not write, nor learnt the prosody of those languages. My father, thinking this not worth the time it required, content... ...t to the value of this practice, in giving a thorough knowl edge of these languages, but because there really was not time for it. The verses I was r... ... read with my father were chiefly such as were worth studying, not for the language merely, but also for the thoughts. This included much of the orato... ...Plato and Demosthenes, since I could now read these authors, as far as the language was concerned, with perfect ease, I was not required to construe t... ...ational reformers to entertain the ill judged proposal of discarding these languages altogether from general educa tion. If I had been by nature extr...

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...e rightly di- 11 George Meredith rected by benevolent attraction. This is language derided by the victorious enemy; it speaks nevertheless what the w... ... with three or four Nea- politans, formed the quarterdeck society; and our Corsican captain took no pains to hide his contempt at the dilatory proceed...

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...menos prosephe,” read on the student, his voice choked with emotion. “What language!” he said; “how rich, how noble, how sonorous! prosephe podas—” Th... ...d he, with high-bred courtesy: “’twas not French I read, ’twas the Godlike language of the blind old bard. In what can I be serviceable to ye, lady?” ... ...ointed to sit with the Prisoner, was affected by his noble and appropriate language, and also burst into tears. “Y ou weep, my Snoggin,” the Boy said;... ...the Pope, were heard by turns; and each, after a rapid colloquy in his own language, was dis- missed by Rafael. 26 Thackeray “The queen must come bac... ...have we here?” The august individual who had spoken, had used the He- brew language to address Mendoza, and the Lord Codlingsby might easily have plea... ...sal. He argued justly that, as the immediate relatives of the cel- ebrated Corsican had declined to compete for the crown which was their right, he, P...

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...in any way now: everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don’t know;—unless it were building good cottages—there can be n... ...the beauty of those pictures which you say are so much praised. They are a language I do not understand. I suppose there is some relation between pict... ...e Mrs. Casaubon, and was on her way to Rome. CHAPTER XI “But deeds and language such as men do use, And persons such as comedy would choose, ... ...nd things—as an exquisite bird could teach a bear if there were any common language be- tween them. Happily, there is a common language between women ... ...n.” “And a devilish deal better than too much,” said Mr. Hawley, whose bad language was notorious in that part of the county. 169 George Eliot “Sick ... ...ected,” said Mr. Hawley, mounting his horse. “Any cursed alien blood, Jew, Corsican, or Gypsy.” “I know he’s one of your black sheep, Hawley. But he i...

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...ds to expose his precious person to the chances of war. God grant that the Corsican monster who is destroying the peace of Europe may be overthrown by... ..., “because I have a detestation for all the French, and the same for their language which I cannot support to hear spoken.... We in Moscow are elated ... ...poleon wished to come to Moscow, grew angry, abused the French in very bad language, came out of the drink shop, and, under the sign of the eagle, beg... ...a position j’ai des devoirs,”* said Helene changing from Russian, in which language she always felt that her case did not sound quite clear, into Fren... ...rs formed of him soon after his arrival at the shed. With his knowledge of languages, the re- spect shown him by the French, his simplicity, his readi... ...racteristic of genius. Even that final running away, described in ordinary language as the lowest depth of baseness which every child is taught to be ...

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...ilitary enthusiasm, as we can all remember in the year 1801, what time the Corsican upstart menaced our shores. A recruiting-party and captain of Cutt... ...ded, entirely indiffer- ent about his birthplace; but speaking the English language, and having been during the course of his life pretty generally en... ...!” and it W AS ventrebleu with him, I warrant you; for bleu, in the French language, means “through;” and ventre—why, you see, ventre means— CAPTAIN. ... ...ccasions when he condescended to walk abroad with her, and extravagance of language and passion in the frequent quarrels they had together. Perhaps in... ...e shine as ye did in the olden days! WE change, but ye speak ever the same language. Gazing in your abysmal depths, the feeble ratioci—” * * *... ...e accustomed in those days to use much more simple and expressive terms of language than are now thought 137 Thackeray polite; and it would be danger...

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...ey are so only in appearance. The fact is that art is working far ahead of language as well as of science, realising for us, by all manner of suggesti... ... anything clear until we are able to formulate it in words, and analytical language has not been sufficiently shaped to that end. We all know this dif... ...s may be the impression that it has left with us; and it is only be- cause language is the medium of romance, that we are pre- vented from seeing that... ...ons of man to man, he has set before himself the task of realising, in the language of romance, much of the involu- tion of our complicated lives. Thi... ...ults and their signal excellences, are the five great novels. Romance is a language in which many persons learn to speak with a certain appearance of ... ...ut there is something enlivening in a hatred of so genuine a brand, hot as Corsican revenge, and sneering like Voltaire. Pencils, school-keeping, and ...