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...allow to make over the whole palace in the superior manner of his superior age. This had been a part of Gaston’s plan,—he was a blunderer born, and th... ... It is a pardonable flight of fancy to say that the expressive faces of an age in which hu- man passions lay very near the surface seem to look out at... ...his stock-in-trade and as house- hold ornament. As we all know, this is an age of prose, of 26 A Little Tour in France machinery, of wholesale produc... ... services to the Pope. It is proof of the consideration that he enjoyed in Europe, and of the vari- ety of his accomplishments, that Calixtus III. sho... ... from it, especially if he were to bring in, as they say, the little black bronze statue of the good King Rene (a weak production of David d’Angers), ... ... and a shroud thrown over his body. At each of the angles sits a figure in bronze, the two best of which, representing Charity and Military Cour- age,... ...leteness of those extraordinary monuments, nearly the most impres- sive in Europe; but, as one may say, it is very well for Poitiers. Not far from it,... ...ll, with a brush dipped in blackness; and, placed among the paint- ings, a bronze replica of the charming young David of Mercie. These things have bee... ...aples, and its ladies were sought in marriage by half the first princes in Europe. A considerable part of the little narra- tive of M. Canonge is take...

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...trength, in population, wealth, and military and commer- cial power, as no age had ever witnessed. De Tocqueville had a special inquiry to prosecute, ... ...selected, under our laws, because he has certain physical qualifications – age and sex. His disqualifications, when any are imposed, relate to his edu... ... received at once by the scholars and thinkers 10 Democracy in America of Europe as a profound, impartial, and entertaining exposi- tion of the princ... ...ld to ascertain its natural consequences, and to learn what the nations of Europe had to hope or fear from its final supremacy. That a youth of twenty... ... till M. de Tocqueville said, “This gradual and continuous progress of the European race toward the Rocky Mountains has the so- lemnity of a provident... ... Old Regime and the Revolution.” He died at Cannes, April 15, 1859, at the age of fifty-four. Hon. John J. Ingalls Introductory Chapter Amongst the no... ... vast num- ber of insignificant ones. In the former, statues are raised of bronze; in the latter, they are modelled in plaster. When I arrived for the...

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...d skin was the colour of cinders, and whose lean body was bent double from age. If some bullets from those mus- kets fired off at fifteen paces were s... ...r projection over the nape of the neck, and the gleam of a rounded mass of bronze on its back. “In front of a silent semicircle of men it squatted alo... ... again.’ “He lay there before me on his breast under the darkly glittering bronze of his monstrous burden, such as no love or strength of man had ever... ...good friend of mine in Paris, specifically to see my collection of Chinese bronzes and porcelain. My friend in Paris is a collector, too. He collects ... ...the galleries of his mind. He has schemed, plotted, and travelled all over Europe in order to add to his collection of distinguished personal ac- quai... ...him —from my friend—as a certainty what the guard- ians of social order in Europe had at most only sus- pected, or dimly guessed at. He had had what I... ...template him calmly across the gulf of racial difference. He was alive and European; he had the manner of good so- ciety, wore a coat and hat like min... ...t have done to go too far in that direction—you understand. But she was of age, and nothing stood in the way of her offering her house to the revoluti... ...e mostly to exercise her fascinations upon Sevrin, and to receive his hom- age in her queenly and condescending way. She was aware of both—her power a...

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... the man who bore it, a tall, fair woman, evidently young- looking for her age, rose as if she had received an electric shock. “Hortense, my darling, ... ...e year 1809, the Baroness, pointing to an armchair with the arms ending in bronze sphinxes’ heads, while the paint was peeling from the wood, which sh... ...h, “you are fifty—ten years younger than Monsieur Hulot, I know; but at my age a woman’s follies ought to be justified by beauty, youth, fame, superio... ... which can dazzle us to the point of making us forget all else—even at our age. Though you may have fifty thousand francs a year, your age counter- ba... ...m listening; I am a wooden image,” said Hortense. “My lover has finished a bronze group ten inches high,” Lisbeth went on. “It represents Samson slayi... ... protests against obvious good sense 49 Balzac which Frenchmen love, that Europe may reassure itself as to the quantum of brains they are known to ha... ...s have received, during those thirty-six years, the elite of France and of Europe. Between the little gate leading to the Bridge of the Car- rousel an... ...shabby cotton velvet, the plaster statu- ettes pretending to be Florentine bronze, the clumsy cast chandelier merely lacquered, with cheap glass sauce... ...—all alike, men who know nei- ther law nor fidelity.” “And who want to set Europe on fire,” said the peaceable Rivet, “to ruin every trade and every t...

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...rought together several per- sons, whose indisputable merits have won them European reputations. This is not a piece of flattery addressed to France, ... ...ere conspicu- ous for their really artistic grace and spirit. Elsewhere in Europe you will find elegant manners, cordi- ality, genial fellowship, and ... ...tt, or Napoleon, he was a monster. I became such a monster at a very early age, thanks to a woman.” “I fancied,” said Madame de Montcornet with a smil... ...at it. Marriage was never spoken of between us; six years’ differ- ence of age might give her pause; she knew nothing of my fortune, of which, on prin... ...y rage vanished. I could smile again. Hence this cheerfulness, which at my age now would be the most atrocious dissimulation, was the result of my you... ... foreign lands before that of the masses. The women who could have founded European salons, could have guided opinion and turned it inside out like a ... ...a man to whom nature, as a rare privilege, had given a heart in a frame of bronze; mirthful and kind at midnight amid women, and next morning ma- nipu...

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...e. I find I don’t remember anything, for my recollections of our voyage to Europe, so many years ago, are exceedingly dim; I only have a painful impre... ... to come only because she saw that, having no dot, I should never marry in Europe; and I pretended to be immensely pre-occupied with this idea, in ord... ...d effect of Paris) chiefly of the men. In fact, he means the bad effect of Europe altogether. This, however, is compromising to mamma; and I am afraid... ... The social importance of the young American increases steadily up to that age, and then it suddenly stops. The young girls, of course, are more impor... ...ntellectual foreheads. These curious collations are organised according to age. I have also been present as an inquiring stranger at sev- eral “girls’... ...ite and bare, they shine in the rays of a horrible chandelier of imitation bronze, which de- pends from the middle of the ceiling. It flings a patch o...

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...andrian Library. Suidas also informs us elsewhere that Aristophanes at the age of sixty two succeeded Apollonius in this office. Many modern scholars ... ...e curious ground that it was impossible for abuse to go further. It was an age when literary men were more inclined to comment on writings of the past... ...uliar to epic poetry. Callimachus was in accordance with the spirit of the age when he proclaimed “a great book” to be “a great evil,” and sought to c... ...) After them from T aenarus came Euphemus whom, most swift footed of men, Europe, daughter of mighty Tityos, bare to Poseidon. He was wont to skim th... ...the ground; and Ancaeus struck the broad neck of the other with his axe of bronze, and shore through the mighty sinews; and it fell prone on both its ... ... Oenoe bore to Thoas. Now for all the women to tend kine, to don armour of bronze, and to cleave with the plough share the wheat bearing fields, was e... ... of her tunic was loosed beneath her breast; and opposite in the shield of bronze her image appeared clear to view as she stood. The Argonautica 28 (... ...his land, it is said, a king * made his way all round through the whole of Europe and Asia, trusting in the might and strength and courage of his peop...

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... EVE AND DAVID Lucien had gone to Paris; and David Sechard, with the cour- age and intelligence of the ox which painters give the Evan- gelist for acc... ...y of the periodical press. He saw the direction in which the spirit of the age was tend- ing, and sought to find means to the required end. He saw als... ...ities which a man of his class looks for in a wife— the robust health that bronzes the cheeks, the strength of a man (Marion could lift a form of type... ... the day of Saint- Bartholomew. He lived to be rich and honored in his old age, and lectured on the ‘Science of Earths,’ as he called it, in the face ... ..., and lectured on the ‘Science of Earths,’ as he called it, in the face of Europe.” “So long as my fingers can hold an iron, you shall want for nothin... ...go see that I receive by the end of the week a charming morning suit, dark bronze-green jacket, and three waistcoats, one a brim- stone yellow, one a ... ...uivered; the sounds that rang through every nerve seemed to come from some bronze instrument, some Chi- nese gong. “I am only a poor priest,” returned... ...han rags, France can produce paper more cheaply than any other 179 Balzac European country. Dutch paper, as David foresaw, no longer exists. Sooner o...

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...haps I have never drawn a picture that shows more plainly how essential to European society is the indissoluble marriage bond, how fatal the results o... ...e would have been taken in.” In 1809, Madame Descoings, who never told her age, was sixty-five. In her heyday she had been popularly called a beauty, ... ...wo Brothers advancing twenty thousand francs to a woman sixty-six years of age, on an annuity of about four thousand, at a period when ten per cent co... ...holy appartement in the rue Mazarin; and the winning ways of a lad of that age went far to confirm the maternal beliefs. Joseph, three years younger, ... ... said. His imposing stature had taken on a certain rotundity, his face was bronzed from exposure in T exas, he was still succinct in speech, and had a... ...nderstood by those who remember the deluge of engravings, screens, clocks, bronzes, and plaster-casts produced by the idea of the Sol- dier-laborer, a... ...entre of the woollen trade, supplied that commodity to the greater part of Europe, and manufactured on a large scale blankets, hats, and the excellent... ...s an enormous branch of pine, looking as though it were cast in Florentine bronze. As if this symbol were not explanatory enough, the eye was arrested... ...o a marshal of France, and a breast broad enough to wear all the orders of Europe. Every movement betrayed intelligence; born with grace and charm, li...

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... That he was exercised in his mind about something was evident on his fine bronzed face. He was a lean, lounging, active man. The journalist continued... ...nial statesman, but had now retired from active poli- tics after a tour in Europe and a lengthy stay in England, during which he had had a very good p... ...m as much as the others. He detected a degrading quality in the touches of age which every day adds to a human countenance. They moved and disturbed h... ...paper in the Antipodes could not ignore the fashionable philosopher of the age. Not that anybody read Moorsom at the Antipodes, but everybody had hear... ...I dare say,” and only then went on to explain that old Dunster, during his European tour, had been made rather a lion of in London, where he stayed wi... ...tony eyes. “And you proceed from one set to the other in this demo- cratic age,” the Editor went on with unperturbed complacency. “That is if you are ... ...iver in Paris. A serious matter. That lectures by Professor Moorsom were a European event and that brilliant audiences would gather to hear them Renou... ..., and the chin well forward, had such a profile as may be seen amongst the bronzes of classical museums, pure under a crested helmet—recalled vaguely ... ...denly lowered eyelids brought out star- tlingly his resemblance to antique bronze, the profile of Pallas, still, austere, bowed a little in the shadow...

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...some paintings of Scotch scenery, three big armchairs, a buhl clock, and a bronze Dancing Faun, by their want of any col- lective idea enhanced rather... ... fed your household on ten shillings a head a week. You could run over all Europe, barring Turkey and Russia, without even a passport. You could get t... ... was intended to make a great splash in the world, his Psychology of a New Age. He had his metaphors ready. “We said: ‘This system will always go on. ... ...he former time fails to give safe responses, and the psychology of the New Age has still to develop.” S S S S Section 4 ection 4 ection 4 ection 4 ect... ...t humbugs us into what she wants with us. All very well in the early Stone Age—when the poor dear things never realized that their mutual endearments ... ...oon to Silbury Hill, that British pyramid, the largest artificial mound in Europe. They left the car by the roadside and clambered to the top and were... ...s manner. “I was explaining to the young lady that it dates from the early bronze age. Before chronol- ogy existed…. But she insists on dates.” “Nothi... ... age. Before chronol- ogy existed…. But she insists on dates.” “Nothing of bronze has ever been found here,” said Sir Richmond. “Well, when was this e... ...“She’ll agree to all that. She’s been saying it right across 81 H G Wells Europe. Rome, Paris, London; they’re simply just done. They don’t signify a...

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...is doing more…. A quarter of a million years ago the utmost man was a sav- age, a being scarcely articulate, sheltering in holes in the rocks, armed w... ... changed. That keen chisel of necessity which sharp- ened the tiger’s claw age by age and fined down the clumsy Orchippus to the swift grace of the ho... ..., the quicker eye, the bigger brain, the better bal- anced body prevailed; age by age, the implements were a little better made, the man a little more... ...rate polities came the great struggle of Carthage and Rome. The history of Europe is the history of the victory and breaking up of the Roman Empire. E... ...he victory and breaking up of the Roman Empire. Every ascendant monarch in Europe up to the last, 10 The World Set Free aped Caesar and called himsel... ...e doing much the same things and living much the same life as they were in Europe in A.D. 1500. The English excavators of the year A.D. 1900 could del... ... a twentieth- century rendering of mediaevalism, mediaevalism in steel and bronze and sham stone and opaque glass. Against the sky it splashed a confu...

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...r-Fanciers. Every fresh atrocity of that class, which the police annals of Europe bring up, they meet and criticise as they would a picture, statue, o... ...as little understood, and few great models had been exhibited; but in this age, when masterpieces of excellence have been executed by professional men... ...nworthy of notice, until long after the Christian era. Greece, even in the age of Pericles, produced no murder of the slightest merit; and Rome had to... ...h of the art has flourished by fits. It never rains, but it pours. Our own age can boast of some fine specimens; and, about two centuries ago, there w... ...hing has sufficed to smash a philosoper; and the next great philosopher of Europe undoubtedly was murdered. This was Spinosa. 20 I know very well the... ...this purpose he resorted to Germany, conceiving the police in that part of Europe to be more heavy and drowsy than else- where. His debut as a practit... ..., made the attempt impossible. Y ou still think otherwise. See, then, that bronze equestrian statue. The cruel rider has kept the bit in his horse’s m...

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... “I cry your pardon. The heat of these present times ripens child- hood to age more quickly than I can follow. But we are at peace with Spain. Where d... ... charges,’ she whispered straight be- fore her. ‘Oh, enviable and adorable age of youth!’ Her eyes shone through the mask-holes. ‘But I warn you you’l... ...d his eye and his hand. I mind the night I had finished the models for the bronze saints round the tomb; Torrigiano embraced me before all the chapel,... ... remember him. Body o’ me, but I worked that winter upon the gates and the bronzes for the tomb as I’ d never worked before! I was leaner than a lath,... ..., scarcely resting on me. Then I remembered the solemn chapel roof and the bronzes about the stately tomb he’d lie in, and—d’ye see? —the unreason of ... ...things.’ Ah, it’s a great responsibility, you’ll find, when you come to my age. Last year Dad said I was fatiguing myself with my duties, and he actua... ... what he said to his Cabinet after Genet rode off I believe I could change Europe—the world, maybe.” ‘“I’m sorry,” I says. “Maybe you’ll do that witho... ...at he’s done already . He’s conquered Egypt and Austria and Italy—oh! half Europe!” he says, “and now he sails back to Paris, and he sails out to St C...

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...hands, I fancy, mur- mured vaguely, was satisfied with my French. Bon voy- age. “In about forty-five seconds I found myself again in the waiting-room ... ...iling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or sav- 15 Joseph Conrad age, and always mute with an air of whispering, Come and find out. This one... ...a somebody in the Ad- ministration before long. They, above—the Council in Europe, you know —mean him to be.’ “He turned to his work. The noise outsid... ...ays, it could not be found there, and as it was not likely to be sent from Europe, it did not appear clear to me what he was waiting for. An act of sp... ...trying to get at something—in fact, pumping me. He al- luded constantly to Europe, to the people I was supposed to know there—putting leading question... ...g eyes,—the bush was swarming with human limbs in movement, glistening, of bronze color. The twigs shook, swayed, and rustled, the arrows flew out of ... ...hand with menaces at a motionless crowd of men made of dark and glittering bronze. I saw him open his mouth wide—it gave him a weirdly voracious aspec... ...stinctly against the gloomy border of the for- est, and near the river two bronze figures, leaning on tall spears, stood in the sunlight under fantast... ..., and imagined myself living alone and unarmed in the woods to an advanced age. Such silly things—you know. And I remember I confounded the beat of th...

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...in the way of activity it was something definite, at least, to be going to Europe and to be meaning to spend the winter in Rome. Cecilia met him in th... ...g more about her visitor than about herself. “What is it you mean to do in Europe?” she asked, lightly, giving a turn to the frill of her sleeve—just ... ...e an idle, useless creature, and that he would probably be even more so in Europe than at home. “The only thing is,” he said, “that there I shall seem... ...r- midable accent, and suffering from dropsy. Captain Rowland was a little bronzed and wizened man, with ec- centric opinions. He advocated the creati... ...wland. But he was absorbed; he lost her immediate reply. The statuette, in bronze, something less than two feet high, represented a naked youth drinki... ...d it cast at the foundry at Chicopee; I believe it ‘s a beautiful piece of bronze. He begged me to accept.” “Upon my word,” said Mallet, “he does thin... ...mall, eager woman, with a pale, troubled face, which added to her apparent age. After looking at her for some minutes Rowland saw that 37 Henry James... ...e gather depends upon the seed we sow. He may be the biggest genius of the age: his potatoes won’t come up without his hoeing them. If he takes things... ...f- ter another, and asked Rowland a number of questions about himself, his age, his family, his occupations, his tastes, his religious opinions. Rowla...

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...the schoolroom; and all their hands were black too. By reason of my tender age (and there are some critics who, I hope, will be satisfied by my acknow... ...qwarden, it is painful to have to use personal correction to a boy of your age; but really . . . Siste tandem carnifex! The butchery is too horrible. ... ...e one at the end of the oak room oppo- site the fireplace, with the little bronze Shakespeare on the mantelpiece (or what not).” I don’t say this to a... ...e. One eye is evidently false. Can I say that the other is not? If a man’s age may be calculated by the rings round his eyes, this man may be as old a... ...house of Sidonia, Pozzosanto and Co., is known to be one of the richest in Europe, and as for the Countess Rachel, she was known to be the chief manag...

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...n way under them. Built en colombage, that is to say, with a wooden front- age, the whole facade was covered with slates, so put on as to form geometr... ...after ceasing to roam the country as a peddler. Sauviat was fifty years of age when he married old Champagnac’s daughter, who was herself not less tha... ...worthy sister thought it enough; it was in fact too much. At nine years of age Veronique surprised the whole neigh- borhood with her beauty. Every one... ...uted, together with the climate, to the epi- taph of douce bestowed by all Europe on our sunny France. Though this abrupt transition from the smiling ... ...y aware of the indescribable de- pression caused by the brown tones of all European prod- ucts, will understand how the constant sight of these gray, ... ... Behind him could be seen, on one side, for a foil, the dark masses of the bronze-green forest; on the other, the church and the ruins of the castle p... ... chestnut, to which age had given the richest tints of the oldest woods of Europe. This roof was supported at equal distances by strong shafts resting... ...tanding by the wall, their faces seamed with deep-cut, rigid wrinkles, and bronzed like a 83 Balzac Florentine medal. These persons, stoically erect ... ...d on his head with that symmetry which gives a charm to these brown faces, bronzed by toil in the open air. It was easy to see that the rector’s appea...

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..., the Russian ambassador; a most valuable collection, the fame of which is European. Such was the gentleman who addressed me in that im- petuous manne... ...of science! Many a time, instead of enjoying the company of lads of my own age, I had preferred dusting these graphites, anthracites, coals, lig- nite... ...ifice of the Exchange, nor its spire composed of the twisted tails of four bronze dragons, nor the great windmill on the ramparts, whose huge arms dil... ...s own intense disgust, and his greater shame, was ill all through the voy- age. 46 A Journey to the Interior of the Earth He therefore was unable to ... ...the male takes his turn to pluck himself. But as the coarse and hard plum- age of the male has no commercial value, the hunter does not take the troub... ...d on our small but hardy animals. Iceland is one of the largest islands in Europe. Its surface is 14,000 square miles, and it contains but 16,000 inha... ...under England, under the channel, under France, perhaps under the whole of Europe. * * * A fresh noise is heard! Surely it is the sea breaking...

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...DAY IT OCCURRED TO ME that it had been many years since the world had been afforded the spectacle of a man adventurous enough to undertake a journey t... ...ght sort of person to accom- pany me in the capacity of agent, and finally hired a Mr. Harris for this service. It was also my purpose to study art wh... ...down it. This last affords the most extensive view, and it is one of the loveliest that can be imagined, too. Out of a billowy upheaval of vivid green... ...amined the hole, they all made the sufferer tell it over again, then they all discussed it, and got off as many leather-headed opinions about it as an... ...the Legion of Honor has been conferred upon me. However, few escape that distinction. Such is the true version of the most memorable private conflict ... ...d their hats or bonnets on. What a blessed thing it would be if a lady could make herself conspicuous in our theaters by wearing her hat. It is not us... ...ver the silent land, while the distant boatmen and peasants thrust their fingers into their ears and shuddered out a prayer. And now came the Crusader... ...g. Everything is on a large scale; the public buildings, for instance—and they are architecturally imposing, too, as well as large. The big squares ha...