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...e guessing. “Think of the men who have walked here!” said a tourist in the Roman Coli- seum. It was a Futurist mind that answered: “Think of the men w... ...is no great feat for a naive imagination to suppose the Presi- dent of the Swiss Confederation or the President of the United States—for each of these... ... any group of financial enterprises. They will be more comprehensive, less roman- tic, and more businesslike altogether. They will be, to use a phrase... ...ot see that the hope of an ultimate world peace vanishes. But it will be a Roman world peace, 17 H G Wells made in Germany, and there will have to be... ...he only solution of the Irish difficulty along the belt between Ulster and Catholic Ireland lies in the same arrangement. Then; thirdly, there are the... ...the Russians. I am democratic and scientific, and the Poles I have met are Catholic and aristocratic and ro- mantic, and all sorts of difficult things... ... Central belt of Europe. To the liberal idealist the thought of a possible Swiss sys- tem or group of Swiss systems comes readily to mind. One thinks ... ...n a German republic. That is by no means conclusively true. The nucleus of Swiss freedom was the German-speaking can- tons about the Lake of Lucerne; ... ...a phase in the long process of the break-up of the Roman Empire and of the catholic system that inherited its tradition. These royalties have formed a...

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... Mannering by Sir Walter Scott INTRODUCTION TO GUY MANNERING. THE NOVEL OR ROMANCE of Waverley made its way to the public slowly, of course, at first,... ... over the general mind sufficient even to con- stitute the mainspring of a romance. Besides, it occurred, that to do justice to such a subject would h... ... worthy Dominie, upon which is founded the part which he per- forms in the romance, and which, for certain particular rea- sons, must be expressed ver... ... drank himself daily drunk with brimming healths to the king, council, and bishops; held orgies with the Laird of Lagg, Theophilus Oglethorpe, and Sir... ...omas Kittlecourt’s uncle—and how they brought hame relics, like those that Catholics have, and a flag that’s up yonder in the garret—if they had been ... ...wn communication to his special friend and confidant, Captain Delaserre, a Swiss gentleman, who had a company in his regiment. “Let me bear from you s... ...ousand a year. She would be ill pre- pared for the privations of that real Swiss cottage we have so often talked of, and for the difficulties which mu... ...laserre; you will be delighted with his specimens of art, and he with your Swiss fanaticism for mountains and torrents. “When I lose Dudley’s company,... ...to speed the passage of a parting spirit, like the tolling, of the bell in catholic days. 186 Guy Mannering She accompanied this dismal sound with a ...

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...lift a stone without stooping. Into the body of the poor Tatars execrative Roman History intercalated an alphabetic letter; and so they continue Ta-r-... ...Daughter with him, refusing to quit him. Why, O Cazotte, wouldst thou quit romancing, and Diable Amoureux, for such reality as this? Poor old M. de So... ...nt Regiment du Roi in mutiny; but the bravest heart may quail at this. The Swiss Prisoners, remnants of the Tenth of August, ‘clasped each other spas-... ...ey, with a torch, lighted them; he pointed to the bed of the unfortu- nate Swiss, Reding. Reding spoke with a dying voice. One of them paused; but the... ... like;—and having given it well forth, shall depart by the death they call Roman. Sieyes old-Constituent comes; to make new Constitutions as many as w... ...ional convention, are hovering and gathering about the Hall of the Hundred Swiss; with intent to constitute themselves! On the morrow, about noontide,... ... kind of genuine productive hope again. Doctrine of Fraternity, out of old Catholicism, does, it is true, very strangely in the vehicle of a Jean-Jacq... ...owledges, thoughts and things, which the French have, suddenly plump down; Catholicism, Classicism, Sentimentalism, Can- nibalism: all isms that make ... ...er aspect, which one may call a Tophet- red aspect: the Destruction of the Catholic Religion; and indeed, for the time being of Religion itself. We sa...

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...e across kingdom after kingdom during his meteor life. In the minds of the Roman Catholic world, the convent stood out pre-eminent for a stern discipl... ...ss kingdom after kingdom during his meteor life. In the minds of the Roman Catholic world, the convent stood out pre-eminent for a stern discipline wh... ... action, a man who all his life long had 6 The Duchesse de Langeais lived romances instead of writing them, a man pre-eminently a Doer, was sure to b... ...or the time necessary to carry out his plans. The General, nothing if not “catholic and monarchical,” took occasion to inform himself of the hours of ... ... the Mother is, for a deliverer of our holy religion and the throne of his Catholic Majesty, the rule might be relaxed for a moment,” said the confess... ...ught and feeling. And he would very promptly have been dropped but for the romance that hung about his adventures and his life; but for the men who cr... ...t the Chamber of Peers, unlike the English House of Lords, had no bench of bishops. Nev- ertheless, the Abbe rose, yielded his place to the General, a... ...ned. I have just come across your coachman, the man is as tipsy as all the Swiss in Switzerland.” The Duchess made no answer; she was looking round th...

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... abstract Thought can still take shelter; that while the din and frenzy of Catholic Emancipations, and Rotten Boroughs, and Revolts of Paris, deafen e... ...rn-boots, and other riding and fighting gear have been bepainted in modern Romance, till the whole has acquired somewhat of a sign-post character,—I s... ... which picture of a State of Nature, affecting by its singularity, and Old-Roman contempt of the superfluous, we shall quit this part of our subject. ... ... presented by Archduke that, and Colonel A by General B, and innu- merable Bishops, Admirals, and miscellaneous Function- aries, are advancing gallant... ...ables about the Mechanics’ Institute of Science, and cackle, like true Old-Roman geese and goslings round their Capitol, on any alarm, or on none; nay... ...ble, for happiness. 70 Sartor Resartus Topbooted Graziers from the North; Swiss Brokers, Italian Drovers, also topbooted, from the South; these with ... ...here is none to conceal. Speech too is great, but not the greatest. As the Swiss 155 Thomas Carlyle Inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen... ...versally arrogated Virtue, almost the sole remain- 165 Thomas Carlyle ing Catholic Virtue, of these days? For some half-century, it has been the thin... ...sed legs, wearing thy ankle-joints to horn; like some sacred Anchorite, or Catholic Fakir, doing pen- ance, drawing down Heaven’s richest blessings, f...

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...he form of a fictitious narrative of the voyage of one Mr. Pye, an English traveller, and his conversation with a chief; there are touches of satire ... ...rein; two of my old stories, ‘Delafield’ and ‘Shovel,’ are incorporated; it is to be told in the third person, with some of the brevity of history, so... ...y more ahead before this cup is drained; sweat and hyssop are the ingredients. We are clearing from Carruthers’ Road to the pig fence, twenty-eight po... ...n’t be. Did not go down last night. It showered all afternoon, and poured heavy and loud all night. You should have seen our twenty-five popes (the Sa... ...ll be glad to have it there; it is still only a reminder of your absence. Fanny wept when we unpacked it, and you know how little she is given to that... ... set out than I was to be going. I had a little serious talk with Mataafa on the floor, and we went down to the boat, where we got our food aboard, su... ... it was enough to have made anybody laugh or cry to see Henry going the rounds with a slop-bucket and going inside the mosquito net of each of the sic... ...29TH. I had two priests to luncheon yesterday: the Bishop and Pere Remy. They were very pleasant, and quite clean too, which has been known sometimes ...

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...ut she seemed glad to see my father become animated and like himself while Roman Catholic Emancipation was vehemently discussed, and the ruin of Engla... ... seemed glad to see my father become animated and like himself while Roman Catholic Emancipation was vehemently discussed, and the ruin of England hot... ...et’s owner was called Ellen, which just then was the pet Christian name of romance, in honour of the Lady of the Lake. In the midst of her raptures, h... ...ing it with the other ladies, and was in a mingled state of elation at the romance, and terror at the supernatural, which found vent in excited giggle... ...and courtship among the dolls; the hero being a small jointed Dutch one in Swiss costume, about an eighth part of the size of the resuscitated Celesti... ...t it was forced open with a crowbar, while shouts rang out ‘No King and no Bishops!’ A fire was made in the din- ing-room with chairs and tables, and ... ...s her strength served her. The little figures in costume, coloured prints, Swiss carvings, French knicknacks, are preserved in many a Hillside cottage...

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...itution. The five first are Grecian, and the last in Washington is called— Romanesque. Had I been left to classify it by my own unaided lights, I shou... ...unless indeed they be needed to give to the whole struc- ture that name of Romanesque which it has assumed. The building is used for museums and lectu... ... cause there might money be made with the greatest ease. “Make money,” the Roman satirist said; “make it honestly if you can, but at any rate make mon... ...heir coun- try-men, as was the case long since with reference to the Roman Catholic adherents of the Stuarts, and as has been the case since then in a... ...etter they are paid, within measure, the better they will be as judges and bishops. Now, the judges in America are not well paid, and the best lawyers... ...uniary results. Of all hotels known to me, I am inclined to think that the Swiss are the best. The things wanted at a hotel are, I fancy, mainly as fo... ... which they can never accomplish. Taking them as a whole, I think that the Swiss hotels are the best. They are perhaps a little close in the matter of...

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...ASUISTRY ....................................................................................................................... 143 GREECE UNDER THE ROMANS..................................................................................... 189...

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...E UNDER GREECE UNDER GREECE UNDER GREECE UNDER THE R THE R THE R THE R THE ROMANS OMANS OMANS OMANS OMANS ............................................... ...ve arisen from irreligion. The noblest of all idolatrous peoples, viz. the Romans, have left deeply scored in their very use of their word religlo, th... ...he ancient Ro- mans. Now, considering that the word religion is originally Roman, [probably from the Etruscan,] it seems probable that it presented th... ...nd here only, is found the outermost expansion, the centrifugal, of the TO catholic, united with the innermost centripetal of the personal con- scious... ...ively—in the sense that, if one did not write the book, the other did. The Bishops of Oxford and St. David’s, Wilberforce and Thirlwall, are the two p... ...ng but one man, should it carry so alarming a sound? Is the whole bench of bishops bound and compromised by the audacity of any one amongst its member... ...nal principles of Protestantism available for the defence of certain Roman Catholic mysteries too in- discriminately assaulted by the Protestant zealo... ... shedding innocent blood, ‘pudeat Christianos magistratus [as if the Roman Catholic magistrates were not Christians] in tuenda certa veritate nihil pr... ... count- less translators of the Bible. Of what use is it to a German, to a Swiss, or to a Scotsman, that, three thousand years before the Reformation,...

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........... 6 CHAPTER I JULIUS CAESAR. B.C. 55 ........................................................................................ 6 CHAPTER II THE ROMANS IN BRITAIN. A.D. 41?418.......................................................... 8 CHAPTER III THE ANGLE CHILDREN A.D. 597.................................................................... 10 CHAPTER IV THE NORTHMEN...

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............................................................ 6 CHAPTER II THE ROMANS IN BRITAIN. A.D. 41—418 ............................................... ... He could not bear that there should be any place that his own people, the Romans, did not know and subdue. So he commanded the ships to be prepared, ... ...hese. He only made the natives give him some of their pearls, and call the Romans their masters, and then he went back to his ships, and none of the s... ...doms learnt to know God, and broke down their idols, and became Christian. Bishops were appointed, and churches were built, and par- ishes were marked... ...ld not undo it. He had been a great church-builder, and so were his Norman bishops and barons. You always know their work, because it has round pillar... ...e time been in Germany, and had made friends with some of these German and Swiss Protestants, and he invited them to England to consult and help him a... ...ver the Church, held with him and Mary of Scotland. They were called Roman Catholics, while Elizabeth and her friends were the real Catholics, for the... ... her across the lake, and she was soon at the head of an army of her Roman Catholic subjects. They were defeated, however, and she found no place safe... ...ficult to judge was, that the kings of France and Spain, and all the Roman Catholics at home, thought Mary ought to be queen instead of Elizabeth, and...

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...atthias acknowledged King of Bohemia. — The Elector of Cologne abjures the Catholic Religion. — Consequences. — The Elector Palatine. — Dis- pute resp... ...r the slightest suspi- cion of heresy. Distrust on the part of the Ro- man Catholics, and a rupture with the church, would have been fatal also to man... ...stances natu- rally placed this prince at the head of the league which the Roman Catholics formed against the Reformers. The principles which had actu... ...s natu- rally placed this prince at the head of the league which the Roman Catholics formed against the Reformers. The principles which had actuated t... ...the church widened, the firmer became the attachment of the Span- iards to Roman Catholicism. The German line of the House of Austria was apparently m... ...con- sistency could an apostate from the Romish Church wear the crown of a Roman emperor?) bound the successors of Ferdinand I. to the See of Rome. Fe... ...nce of 16 The History of the Thirty Y ears’ War the liberties of Holland. Swiss is arrayed against Swiss; German against German, to determine, on the... ...eat resemblance to the German Protestants. Among them both, the German and Swiss opin- ions on religion made rapid progress; while the name of Utraqui... ...re nearly the same as those which constituted the groundwork of the Union. Bishops formed its principal mem- bers, and at its head was placed Maximili...

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...EMENT OF AGRICULTURE IN THE ANCIENT STATE OF EUROPE, AFTER THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE............................311 CHAPTER III OF THE RISE AND PRO... ...ER III OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF CITIES AND TOWNS, AFTER THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE ................................................................. ... and impartially with every sort of in- dustry. Since the down-fall of the Roman empire, the policy of Eu- rope has been more favourable to arts, manu... ...e mean- ness of their pecuniary recompence. In England, and in all Ro- man catholic countries, the lottery of the church is in reality much more advan... ...ch affected by any quan- tity or corn that was likely to be exported. In a Swiss canton, or in some of the little states in Italy, it may, perhaps, so... ..., and established there the four governments of New En- gland. The English catholics, treated with much greater injustice, established that of Marylan... ...f the Persian empire; and such, too, were those which, in later times, the Swiss militia gained over that of the Austrians and Burgundians. The milita... ...upposed, had been gradually ac- commodated to support the doctrines of the Catholic Church. They set themselves, therefore, to expose the many errors ... ...ublicly upon oath, the amount of his fortune, must not, it seems, in those Swiss cantons, be reck- oned a hardship. At Hamburg it would be reckoned th...

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... end of the fifteenth century. And, indeed, it is in the references in his romance to names, persons, and places, that the most certain and valuable e... ...iscon- duct and vice, or is he ever the apologist of these? Many poets and romance writers, under cover of a fastidious style, without one coarse expr... ...rent. They have only one point in common, their attack and ridicule of the romances of chivalry and of the wildly improbable adventures of knight-erra... ...ook upon himself to develop and to add to, and in the attacks on the Roman Catholic Church. According to Jean Paul Rich- ter, Fischart is much superio... ... be to find fault with and laugh at the members and the authorities of the Catholic Church, I protest that he did not compose it, for it was written l... ... is the faith; for in such a business thou wilt have no coadjutors, only a catholic confession and service of thy word, and hast forbidden us all armi... ...e, that is, a garden, in Greek. Pray now tell me who can tell but that the Swiss, now so bold and warlike, were formerly Chitterlings? For my part, I ... ...ind of the huge bull of Berne, that was slain at Marignan when the drunken Swiss were so mauled there. Believe me, it had little less than four inches... ...make a cloak, he’ d 639 Rabelais cut out a pair of your big out-strouting Swiss breeches, with panes like the outside of a tabor. Insomuch that Snip ...

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.................................................... 346 Chapter 2.6.VII. The Swiss. ....................................................................... ...s English a Shakspeare and Era of Shakspeare, and so produced a blossom of Catholicism—it was not till Catholicism itself, so far as Law could abolish... ...s what nameless innumerable multitude of ready Writers, profane Sing- ers, Romancers, Players, Disputators, and Pamphleteers, that now form the Spirit... ...n two opinions, is it not trying? He who would under- stand to what a pass Catholicism, and much else, had now got; and how the symbols of the Holiest... ...hen Emperor asks of his soul: Into what places art thou now departing? The Catholic King must answer: To the Judgment-bar of the Most High God! Yes, i... ..., and salute the Young Spring. (Mercier, Tableau de Paris, ii. 51. Louvet, Roman de Faublas, &c.) Manifold, bright-tinted, glittering with gold; all t... ...r him! For as to this of Sentimentalism, so use- ful for weeping with over romances and on pathetic occasions, it otherwise verily will avail nothing;... ...theless its hearth is warm, its larder well replenished: the in- numerable Swiss of Heaven, with a kind of Natural loyalty, gather round it; will prov... ...esolution: orders out the Gardes Suisses with two pieces of artillery. The Swiss Guards shall proceed thither; summon that rabble to depart, in the Ki...

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...r of ge- 14 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 nius, like true catholicity of faith, counts “nothing common or unclean.” What poetry Burns... ...him. His self-will, his ambition, his Pariah position, as belonging to the Roman Catholic faith, the feebleness of his constitution, the uncertainty o... ...is self-will, his ambition, his Pariah position, as belonging to the Roman Catholic faith, the feebleness of his constitution, the uncertainty of his ... ...er beauty, crowds and courts confess, Chaste matrons praise her, and grave bishops bless. In golden chains the willing world she draws, And hers the g... ...and harps divine; Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Come then, the colours and the ground prepare! D... ...er share alike the box, 140 And judges job, and bishops bite the town, And mighty dukes pack cards for half-a-crown. See Br... ...Oh! when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll’d, And vanquish’d realms s... ...fish, servile band, Prompt or to guard or stab, to saint or damn, Heaven’s Swiss, who fight for any god, or man. Through Lud’s famed gates, 338 along... ... T emple of Fame. By Mr Preston. Sold by John Morphew, 1715, price 6d. The Catholic Poet, or Protestant Barnaby’s Sorrowful Lam- entations; a Ballad a...

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...of the soul and another may not; one man may be a Swedenborgian, another a Roman Catholic, another a Calvinistic Methodist, another an En- glish High ... ... soul and another may not; one man may be a Swedenborgian, another a Roman Catholic, another a Calvinistic Methodist, another an En- glish High Church... ...that the son of Marcus Aurelius was the unspeakable Commodus, and that the Roman Em- pire fell from the temporizing detachment of his rule into a cent... ...ial people, are simply a proof of the earnest preoccupation of our judges, bishops, and leaders and great officers of all sorts with re- moter and nob... ...th of November anti-popery. They will tell you the peers un- derstand, the bishops understand, the coronating archbishop has his tongue in his cheek. ... ...e tall, fair Scandinavian, the dark and brilliant south Italian, the noble Roman, the dainty Japanese—to name no others. Each of these types has its p... ...ds out its hardy and capable sons wherever the world has need of them; the Swiss mountains, too, send their sons far and wide in the world; and on the... ...man or the Spaniard of the middle ages, and such it is to-day to the Roman Catholic priest; such is Arabic to the Malay, written Chinese to the Canton... ...ay, for example, the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, the Catholic T ruth Society, the Rationalist Press Association, and the Fabian ...

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...47 -- BOOK II 55 -- CHAPTER I ?GENESIS, 55 -- CHAPTER II ?IDYLLIC, 61 -- CHAPTER III ?PEDAGOGY, 68 -- CHAPTER IV? GETTING UNDER WAY, 79 -- CHAPTER V? ROMANCE, 88 -- CHAPTER VI? SORROWS OF TEUFELSDRO? CKH, 97 -- CHAPTER VII? THE EVERLASTING NO, 104 -- CHAPTER VIII? CENTRE OF INDIFFERENCE, 110 -- CHAPTER IX? THE EVERLASTING YEA, 118 -- CHAPTER X? PAUSE, 126 -- BOOK III 133 -...

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... CHAPTER IV — GETTING UNDER WAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 CHAPTER V — ROMANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 CHAPTER VI — SOR... ...re abstract Thought can still take shelter; that while the din and frenzy of Catholic Emancipations, and Rot ten Boroughs, and Revolts of Paris, deaf... ...churn boots, and other riding and fighting gear have been bepainted in modern Romance, till the whole has acquired somewhat of a sign post character,—I... ...h which picture of a State of Nature, affecting by its singularity, and Old Roman contempt of the superfluous, we shall quit this part of our subject.... ...is presented by Arch duke that, and Colonel A by General B, and innumerable Bishops, Admirals, and miscellaneous Functionaries, are advancing gallant... ...treating, and if possible, for happiness. Topbooted Graziers from the North; Swiss Brokers, Italian Drovers, also topbooted, from the South; these wit... ... there is none to conceal. Speech too is great, but not the greatest. As the Swiss Inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden (Speec... ...e,” says he, “is the universally arrogated Virtue, almost the sole remaining Catholic Virtue, of these days? For some half century, it has been the th... ...ossed legs, wearing thy ankle joints to horn; like some sacred Anchorite, or Catholic Fakir, doing penance, drawing down Heaven’s richest blessings, f...

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...from their great resolve. That child-pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theresa?s passionate, ideal nature demanded an epic life: what were many-volumed romances of chivalry and the social conquests of a brilliant girl to her? Her flame quickly burned up that light fuel; and, fed from within, soared after some illimitable satisfaction, some object which would never justify we...

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...nce narrow and promiscuous, first in an English family and afterwards in a Swiss family at Lausanne, their bachelor uncle and guardian trying in this ... ...th to provincial families, still discussing Mr. Peel’s late conduct on the Catholic question, in- nocent of future gold-fields, and of that gorgeous p... ...hing or it did not, that he himself was a Protestant to the core, but that Catholicism was a fact; and as to refusing an acre of your ground for a Rom... ...at Catholicism was a fact; and as to refusing an acre of your ground for a Romanist chapel, all men needed the bridle of religion, which, properly 16... ...er you are both suspicious characters since you took Peel’s side about the Catholic Bill. I shall tell everybody that you are go- ing to put up for Mi... ... speech which, at a later period, he was led to make on the incomes of the bishops. What elegant historian would neglect a striking opportunity for po... ...lf in vain. And a stranger was absolutely neces- sary to Rosamond’s social romance, which had always turned on a lover and bridegroom who was not a Mi... ... and word, and estimated them as the opening incidents of a pre- conceived romance—incidents which gather value from the foreseen development and clim... ...t abruptly on the notions of a girl who had been brought up in English and Swiss Puritanism, fed on meagre Protestant histories and on art chiefly of ...

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...from their great resolve. That child pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theresa?s passionate, ideal nature demanded an epic life: what were many-volumed romances of chivalry and the social conquests of a brilliant girl to her? Her flame quickly burned up that light fuel; and, fed from within, soared after some illimitable satisfaction, some object which would never justify we...

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...a’s passionate, ideal nature demanded an epic life: what were many volumed romances of chivalry and the social conquests of a brilliant girl to her? H... ...once narrow and promiscuous, first in an English family and afterwards in a Swiss family at Lausanne, their bachelor uncle and guardian trying in this ... ...th to provincial families, still discussing Mr. Peel’s late conduct on the Catholic ques tion, innocent of future gold fields, and of that gorgeous pl... ...hing or it did not, that he himself was a Protestant to the core, but that Catholicism was a fact; and as to refusing an acre of your ground for a Rom... ...at Catholicism was a fact; and as to refusing an acre of your ground for a Romanist chapel, all men needed the bridle of religion, which, properly spe... ...er you are both suspicious characters since you took Peel’s side about the Catholic Bill. I shall tell everybody that you are going to put up for Midd... ... speech which, at a later period, he was led to make on the incomes of the bishops. What elegant historian would neglect a striking opportunity for po... ...self in vain. And a stranger was absolutely necessary to Rosamond’s social romance, which had always turned on a lover and bridegroom who was not a Mi... ...t abruptly on the notions of a girl who had been brought up in English and Swiss Puritanism, fed on meagre Protestant histories and on art chiefly of t...

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...ining his wan but noble features, “why speak to thee in the accents of the Roman poet, which thou comprehendest not? Bright One, there be other things... ...sm: the above sentiment is expressed much more eloquently in the ingenious romance of Eugene Aram:—”The burning desires I have known—the resplendent v... ...mbassador’s lady, appeared in a suite of diamonds which outblazed even the Romanoff jewels, and Rafael Mendoza obtained the little caique. He never tr... ...wn rifle. He was laughing in his quiet way. He had shot the Colonel of the Swiss Guards through his cockade. Three days afterwards, as the gallant fri... ...urpose: this author or au- thoress with the most delicate skill insinuates Catholicism into you, and you find yourself all but a Papist in the third v... ...icer before them (I have the honor to hold that rank in the service of his Catholic Majesty), and more- over one six feet four in height, and armed wi... ...miserable captain—oh shame! Of what creed is he?” “I am an Irishman, and a Catholic.” “But he has not been very particular about his religious du- tie... ...ark. The windows were smashed; the door stove in; the lodge, a neat little Swiss cottage, with a garden where the pinafores of Mrs. Gurth’s children m... ... It was accepted: and the Plush Guard has been established in place of the Swiss, who waited on former sovereigns.” “The Irish Brigade quartered in th...

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...w she listened at first to the sonorous lamenta- 33 Flaubert tions of its romantic melancholies reechoing through the world and eternity! If her chil... ...and that cannot thrive elsewhere. Why could not she lean over balconies in Swiss chalets, or enshrine her melancholy in a Scotch cottage, with a husba... ...r Leon sang a barcarolle, and Madame Bovary , senior, who was godmother, a romance of the time of the Empire; finally, 79 Flaubert M. Bovary , senior... ...f bond was established between them, a con- stant commerce of books and of romances. Monsieur Bovary , little given to jealousy, did not trouble himse... ...olume slipped from her hands, she fancied herself seized with the fin- est Catholic melancholy that an ethereal soul could conceive. As for the memory... ...de; here are the tombs of the Ambroise. They were both cardinals and arch- bishops of Rouen. That one was minister under Louis XII. He did a great dea...