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...rles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...University is an equal opportunity University. 3 Charles Dickens Pictures From Italy by Charles Dickens THE READER’S PASSPORT IF THE READERS OF T... ...ions—mere shadows in the water—of places to which the imaginations of most people are attracted in a greater or less degree, on which mine had dwelt f... ...nd touch it. For it is something to touch a carriage that has held so many people. It is a legacy to leave one’s children. The rooms are on the first ... ..., in white; with canvassed stalls; and fluttering merchandise. The country people are grouped about, with their clean baskets before them. Here, the l... ...r, and neighbouring hills, bursts proudly on the view. CHAPTER V TO PARMA, MODENA, AND BOLOGNA I strolled away from Genoa on the 6th of November, boun... ...em on this ghostly stage. It was most delicious weather, when we came into Modena, where the darkness of the sombre colonnades over the footways skirt... ...ations, riding two and two, and haughtily surveying the tame population of Modena: among whom, however, they occasionally conde scended to scatter la...

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...f necessity the same must often recur, and in the same sequence. There are people who take a pleasure in mak- ing collections of all such fortuitous o... ... could not shut them soon enough; and of two cities which take their names from the most agree- able odoriferous plants, Ios and Smyrna, the one from ... ...ble odoriferous plants, Ios and Smyrna, the one from a vio- let, the other from myrrh, the poet Homer is reported to have been born in the one, and to... ..., the boldness of Pompey, the success of Sylla, and the power of the Roman people, all to be encountered by one who was a banished man and a stranger ... ...them men born for command, for warfare, and for stratagem; both ban- ished from their countries, and holding command over strangers; both had fortune ... ...who beheld his misfortune, must at the same time recognize his merits. The people also paid him the respect he deserved, and when he came into the the... ...ho were the consuls, to drive Antony out of Italy. The armies engaged near Modena, and Caesar himself was present and took part in the battle. Antony ...

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...nce six times, the British Is lands or Italy ten times. Conceptions formed from the river basins of Western Europe are rudely shocked when we con ... ...con sider the extent of the valley of the Mississippi; nor are those formed from the sterile basins of the great rivers of Siberia, the lofty plateau... ...ames. No other river has so vast a drainage basin: it draws its water supply from twenty eight States and T erritories; from Dela ware, on the Atlant... ...psed since the river took its place in history. The belief of the scientific people is, that the mouth used to be at Baton Rouge, where the hills ceas... ...d fifty years there had been white settlements on our Atlantic coasts. These people were in intimate communication with the Indians: in the south the ... ...t always happens that when a man seizes upon a neglected and important idea, people inflamed with the same notion crop up all around. It happened so i... ...Professor Bianchi demonstrated how the fearful reappearance of the plague at Modena was caused by exca Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 233 va...

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... sense of honour and independence, and an obstinate refusal to take advice from those who really wished to befriend him; nor should it be forgotten th... ...The apostle of affliction, he who threw Enchantment over passion, and from woe Wrung overwhelming eloquence, first drew 5 Rousseau The... ...n its shadows and blemishes; let us not, then, seek to “draw his frailties from their dread abode.” His greatest fault was his renunciation of a fathe... ...ains, lakes and islands, formerly regarded with aversion, into a fairyland peopled with crea- tures whose joys and sorrows appealed irresistibly to ev... ... my eyes only examples of mildness, and was surrounded by some of the best people in the world? My father, my aunt, my nurse, my relations, our friend... ...y Latin, history, and antiquities; I could hardly recol- lect whether such people as Romans ever existed. When I visited my father, he no longer behel... ... will was 293 Rousseau relative to a dinner he was to give to the Duke of Modena and his family, who were at Venice, and at which he signi- fied to m... ...ot angry, that having the honor daily to dine at his table, if the Duke of Modena, when he came, required I should not appear at it, my duty as well a... ...e doge and the senate of Venice should not eat in private with the Duke of Modena.” Though this argument was unanswerable, it did not convince the amb...

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...ntony. SILIUS: an officer in Ventidius s army. EUPHRONIUS: an ambassador from Antony to Caesar. ALEXAS MARDIAN: a Eunuch, SELEUCUS: attendants on ... ... [Enter an Attendant.] Attendant: News, my good lord, from Rome. MARK ANTONY: Grates me: the sum. CLEOPATRA: ... ...nay, and most like: You must not stay here longer, your dismission Is come from Caesar; therefore hear it, Antony. Where s Fulvia s process? Caesar s... ... alone To-night we ll wander through the streets and note The qualities of people. Come, my queen; Last night you did desire it: speak not to us. [E... ...sis, I be- seech thee! IRAS: Amen. Dear goddess, hear that prayer of the people! for, as it is a heartbreaking to see a handsome man loose-wived, so... ...iven the dare to Caesar, and commands The empire of the sea: our slippery people, Whose love is never link d to the deserver Till his deserts are pas... ... Antony, Leave thy lascivious wassails. When thou once Wast beaten from Modena, where thou slew st Hirtius and Pansa, consuls, at thy heel Did fami...

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...English fleet, its wealthy convent and peaceable inhabit- ants were secure from the general trouble and spoliation. The storms of many kinds which sho... ... spent their force before they reached those cliffs at so short a distance from the coast of Andalusia. If the rumour of the Emperor’s name so much as... ...ch nothing had changed; the purity of its rule had attracted unhappy women from the furthest parts of Europe, women deprived of all human ties, sighin... ...c de Maine—the Benjamin among his legiti- mated offspring. And indeed, for people accustomed to a stately life, can there be more unseemly surrounding... ...l differ- ences are patent in all ages; the fact is always accepted by the people; its “reasons of state” are self-evident; it is at once cause and ef... ...trike the imagination, the best-modulated melo- dies are taken over by the people; clearness of thought, the intellectual simplicity of an idea attrac... ...pe in the dress of a travelling hawker to brave the dag- gers of a Duke of Modena, and to shut himself up in the dressing-room of the Regent’s daughte...

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...n the United Kingdom greatly cares for my opinion of its brandy or sherry. When I go upon my jour- neys, I am not usually rated at a low figure in the... ... I travel for the great house of Human Interest Brothers, and have rather a large connection in the fancy goods way. Literally speaking, I am always w... ...been for some two hours and a half; there was a slight obstruction in the sea within a few yards of my feet: as if the stump of a tree, with earth eno... ...f as being then beside me, that I had purposed to myself to see, when I left home for Wales. I had heard of that clergy- man, as having buried many sc... ...the way was steep, and a horse and cart (in which it was wrapped in a sheet) were necessary, and three or four men, and, all things considered, it was... ... day; the beneficent Earth had already absorbed it. The drowned were buried in their clothes. T o supply the great sudden demand for coffins, he had g... ...ful Tract of me. The suspicions that attached to this innocent Bottle, greatly aggravated my difficulties. It was like the apple-pie in the child’s bo...

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...OVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR ......................................................................... 10 CHAPTER II OF THE PRINCIPLE WHICH GIVES OCCASION TO THE DIVISION OF LABOUR ...................

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...CH ITS PRODUCE IS NATU- RALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE. .......... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .................... ...ERCIAL OR MERCANTILE SYSTEM 342 CHAPTER II OF RESTRAINTS UPON IMPORTATION FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES OF SUCH GOODS AS CAN BE PRODUCED AT HOME .............. ...XTRAORDINARY RESTRAINTS UPON THE IMPORTATION OF GOODS OF ALMOST ALL KINDS, FROM THOSE COUNTRIES WITH WHICH THE BALANCE IS SUPPOSED TO BE DISADVANTAGEO... ...mmediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations. According, therefore, as this produce, or what is purch... ...irectly destroy- ing, and sometimes of abandoning their infants, their old people, 9 Adam Smith and those afflicted with lingering diseases, to peris... ... civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do not labour at all, many of whom consume the produce of ten times,... ...heavy, take place in the Milanese, in the states of Genoa, in the duchy of Modena, in the duchies of Parma, Placentia, and Guastalla, and the Ecclesia...

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...Excerpt: CANTO I. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e?en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet to discourse of what t...

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...the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e’en to tell It were no easy task, how savage ... ... its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet to discourse of what there good befell, All else will I r... ...: And as a man, with difficult short breath, Forespent with toiling, ‘scap’d from sea to shore, Turns to the perilous wide waste, and stands At gaze; ... ...the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric mov’d: To rear me w... ... Hell 29 As thou shalt tell me, why in all their laws, Against my kin this people is so fell?” “The slaughter and great havoc,” I replied, “Tha... ...t hand new misery I saw, New pains, new executioners of wrath, That swarming peopled the first chasm. Below Were naked sinners. Hitherward they came... ..., is now by Cassius and Brutus Bark’d off in hell, and by Perugia’s sons And Modena’s was mourn’d. Hence weepeth still Sad Cleopatra, who, pursued by ...

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... most of its light I have been, and have seen things which he who descends from thereabove neither knows how nor is able to recount; because, drawing ... ...into my breast, and breathe thou in such wise as when thou drewest Marsyas from out the sheath of his limbs. O divine Power, if thou lend thyself to m... ...nd. The lamp of the world rises to mortals through different passages, but from that which joins four circles with three crosses it issues with better... ... me what are the dusky marks of this body, which there below on earth make people fable about Cain?” 6 She smiled somewhat, and then she said, “If the... ...lown to the sorrow of Lucretia, in seven kings, conquering the neighboring peoples round about. Thou knowest what it did when borne by the illustri- o... ... standard-bearer, 14 Bruttis and Cassius are barking in Hell; and it made Modena and Perugia woful. Still does the sad Cleopatra weep therefor, who, ... ... revolving in the third epicycle rayed out mad love; wherefore the ancient people in their ancient error not only unto her did honor with sacrifice an...

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...iod” are those of Baumeister and Flach respectively: where I have diverged from these, the fact has been noted. Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Rampton, NR. Cam... ...rliest epic, and we are therefore thrown back upon the evidence of analogy from other forms of literature and of inference from the two great epics wh... ...which the characteristic epic metre, diction, and structure grew up slowly from crude elements and were improved until the verge of maturity was reach... ...rdly we may ascribe the rise of the new epic to the nature of the Boeotian people and, as already re- marked, to a spirit of revolt against the old ep... ...ady re- marked, to a spirit of revolt against the old epic. The Boeotians, people of the class of which Hesiod represents himself to be the type, were... ... little for works of fancy, for pathos, or for fine thought as such. T o a people of this nature the Homeric epos would be inacceptable, and the post-... ... Bibl. Royale 11377-11380 (16th cent.). D Milan, Amrbos. B 98 sup. E Modena, Estense iii E 11. G Rome, Vatican, Regina 91 (16th cent.). H ... ...tican, Regina 91 (16th cent.). H London, British Mus. Harley 1752. J Modena, Estense, ii B 14. K Florence, Laur. 31, 32. L Florence, Laur....

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...so piteously. And even as he, who, with distressful breath, Forth issued from the sea upon the shore, T urns to the water perilous and gazes; So d... ...edingly, Which with a spotted skin was covered o’er! And never moved she from before my face, Nay, rather did impede so much my way, That many t... ...e forlorn! She brought upon me so much heaviness, With the affright that from her aspect came, That I the hope relinquished of the height. And as ... ... the fire, because they hope to come, Whene’er it may be, to the blessed people; To whom, then, if thou wishest to ascend, A soul shall be for tha... ...t; Through me the way is to eternal dole; Through me the way among the people lost. Justice incited my sublime Creator; Created me divine Omnipo... ... We to the place have come, where I have told thee Thou shalt behold the people dolorous Who have foregone the good of intellect.” 15 Dante And a... ...the next standard-bearer Brutus and Cassius howl in Hell together, And Modena and Perugia dolent were; Still doth the mournful Cleopatra weep Be...

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..., Witness of things, which to relate again Surpasseth power of him who comes from thence; For that, so near approaching its desire Our intellect is to... ...y bosom, and there breathe So, as when Marsyas by thy hand was dragg’d Forth from his limbs unsheath’d. O power divine! If thou to me of shine impart ... ...ard (more shame for human wills Deprav’d) joy to the Delphic god must spring From the Pierian foliage, when one breast Is with such thirst inspir’d. F... ..., is now by Cassius and Brutus Bark’d off in hell, and by Perugia’s sons And Modena’s was mourn’d. Hence weepeth still Sad Cleopatra, who, pursued by ... ...gh me from Charles and Rodolph; had not ill lording which doth spirit up The people ever, in Palermo rais’d The shout of ‘death,’ re echo’d loud and l... ... spouse He sent, who by their deeds and words might join Again his scatter’d people. In that clime, Where springs the pleasant west wind to unfold The... ... reflected back The scripture image, by distortion marr’d. “Let not the people be too swift to judge, As one who reckons on the blades in field, ...

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...pected accent. “It might be London.” She looked at the two rows of English people who were sitting at the table; at the row of white bottles of water ... ...hite bottles of water and red bottles of wine that ran between the English people; at the portraits of the late Queen and the late Poet Laure- ate tha... ...f the late Queen and the late Poet Laure- ate that hung behind the English people, heavily framed; at the notice of the English church (Rev. Cuthbert ... ...e of conversa- tion that you have just accepted the living—” “Yes, I heard from mother so last week. She didn’t know that I knew you at Tunbridge Well... ..., and round by Settignano, or something of that sort.” “No!” cried a voice from the top of the table. “Mr. Beebe, you are wrong. The first fine aftern... ...ope that people will be nice.” “I think he is; nice and tiresome. I differ from him on almost every point of any importance, and so, I expect—I may sa... ...ed suitably. Mr. Beebe was not able to tell the ladies of his adventure at Modena, where the chambermaid burst in upon him in his bath, ex- claiming c...

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...angely contradict one another that it seems impossible they should proceed from one and the same person. We find the younger Marius one while a son of... .... Gell., xvii. 14.] There seems some reason in forming a judgment of a man from the most usual methods of his life; but, considering the natural insta... ...the whole course of his life, that he has slipped away clear and undecided from the most daring critics. I can more hardly believe a man’s constancy t... ...how to die? Josephus, when engaged in so near and apparent danger, a whole people being violently bent against him, that there was no visible means of... ...city of Epirus being reduced by the Romans to the last extremity, gave the people counsel uni- versally to kill themselves; but, these preferring to g... ... rather than await the stroke of justice, told him that it was to do other people’s business to preserve his life to put it after into the hands of th... ...ing back an answer. D. Brutus made use of the same device when besieged in Modena, and others elsewhere have done the same. In Peru they rode post upo...