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...Virgin Soil by Ivan S. T urgenev T ranslated from the Russian by R. S. T ownsend A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ...unity university. 3 Turgenev Virgin Soil by Ivan S. T urgenev T ranslated from the Russian by R. S. Townsend INTRODUCTION T urgenev was the first wri... ...ich belonged to his temperament. He suffered in youth, and suffered badly, from the romantic malady of his century, and that other malady of Russia, b... ...Isis. He died in exile, like his early master in romance Heine— that is in Paris-on the 4th of September, 1883. But at his own wish his remains were c... ...er, Valentina Mihailovna was dressed in a beautiful pale lavender-coloured Parisian gown, and during the service read her prayers out of a tiny little... ...th us,” Father Kiprian assured everyone. “First he questioned us about our parish, about our arrange- ments, and then he began to examine us… . He tur... ...verly clean), frequented the theatre, and had many protegees among variety actresses, with whom he conversed in some extraordinary jargon meant to be ...

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... to distinguish what is true and genuine in this historic kind of writing, from what is false and counterfeit. Indeed, it seems likely that some such ... ...h two or three authors have lately procured for their works of this nature from the public, will probably serve as an encouragement to many others to... ...r was principally induced to prefix Greek and Latin mottos to every paper, from the same consideration of guarding against the pursuit of those scribb... ...ety in mentioning this great ac tor, and these two most justly celebrated actresses, in this place, as they have all formed themselves on the study o... ...perform; and, indeed, she executed it so well, that none of our theatrical actresses could exceed her, in any of their performances, either on or off ... ...He was thought to see far ther and deeper into things than any man in the parish, the 445 The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding; V... ...hem. And so constantly do they abide and act by this maxim, that, in every parish almost in the kingdom, there is a kind of confederacy ever carrying ... ... for alms; upon which Partridge gave him a severe rebuke, say ing, “Every parish ought to keep their own poor.” Jones then fell a laughing, and asked...

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... words a more universal criticism of life than he did when he wrote “I saw from the beach,” with its moral of— “Give me back, give me back, the wild f... ...ut it; I do not think that we could de- rive the full quantity of pleasure from him without it. The exuberant romantic faculty of Joseph Andrews and i... ... will be inclined to pardon many faults for the plea- sure he will receive from a tender sensation: and for readers of a different stamp, the more fau... ...of peace. ON THE FIRST OF APRIL, in the year ——, the watchmen of a certain parish (I know not particularly which) within the lib- erty of Westminster ... ...ad settled themselves a little below the girdle. 18 Amelia I wish certain actresses on the stage, when they are to per- form characters of no amiable... ...ow again renewed his intimacy, for the countess, his mistress, was gone to Paris; at which my wife, at first, shewed no dissatisfaction; and I imagine... ... writing to my good friend the doctor, acquainting him with our journey to Paris, whither I desired he would direct his answer. “At Paris we all arriv...

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...his beer—very flat and stale by this time—and tak- ing down his concertina from the bookcase, where in week days it kept the company of seven volumes ... ... the necessary books, but he was too hopelessly stupid to get much benefit from them. Then one day at San Francisco had come the news of his mother’s ... ... money—not much, but enough to set him up in business; so he had cut loose from the charlatan and had opened his “Dental Par- lors” on Polk Street, an... ...while he went about his work, he thought of her. As he made his plaster-of-paris moulds at the washstand in the corner behind the screen he turned ove... ...ews to Trina. As soon as he heard her come in, he laid down the plaster-of-paris mould he was making and went out into the kitchen and found her chopp... ...r Dentist was in his operating room at the time, at work upon a plaster-of-paris mould. T o his call of “‘Come right in. Don’t you see the sign, ‘Ente... ... it intently, a great mirror over the mantle of- fered to view an array of actresses’ pictures thrust between the glass and the frame, and a big bunch...

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...to Vettori, and it seems to me, now that I have released myself altogether from his literary precedent, that he still has his use for me. In spite of ... ...s unfair. The old sort of Prince, the old little principality has vanished from the world. The commonweal is one man’s absolute es- tate and responsib... ...the interest of womanhood was in a region of life almost infinitely remote from his statecraft. They were the vehicle of children, but only Imperial R... ...stead of brasses and the protestant severity of the communion-table in the parish church,—both from the material point of view very little things. A R... ...mind a weak tradition of some local quality that embraced us all. Then the parish graveyard filled up and became a scandal, and an ambitious area with... ..., “me, having no son of my own,” was anything but an illustration for com- parison with my own chosen career. I still remember very distinctly my uncl... ...ressed up like —”—and had arrested himself and fumbled and decided to say—“actresses, and showin’ their fat arms for every fool to stare at!” Nor woul...

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...oz by Charles Dickens Boz is a pseudonym of Charles Dickens Volume Two OUR PARISH TALES CHAPTER I—THE BOARDING-HOUSE. CHAPTER I. MRS. TIBBS WAS, BEYON... ...te, with the interesting in- scription ‘Mrs. Tibbs,’ had never caught fire from con- stant friction, so perseveringly was it polished. There were meat... ...the wandering Jew of Joe Millerism. Mr. Tibbs enjoyed a small independence from the pen- sion-list—about 43£. 15S. 10D. a year. His father, mother, an... ...out 43£. 15S. 10D. a year. His father, mother, and five interesting scions from the same stock, drew a like sum from the revenue of a grateful country... ... and died after dinner. There is a man- telpiece-looking tablet in a civic parish church, setting forth his virtues, and deploring his loss. He never ... ..., was as affable and gracious as possible. Miss Teresa played the ‘Fall of Paris, ’ as Mr. Sparkins de- clared, in a most masterly manner, and both of... ...Ay, ay, I see,’ replied the mayor.—’Horses and dogs, play and wine—grooms, actresses, and cigars—the stable, the green-room, the saloon, and the taver...

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...Woolf The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf Chapter I A s the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk... ... beyond the reach of malice and unpopularity. In his guess one might guess from the moving lips that it was thought; and in hers from the eyes fixed s... ...it was sorrow. It was only by scorn- ing all she met that she kept herself from tears, and the friction of people brushing past her was evidently pain... ...y’s wife had been perhaps the one woman Helen called friend, and this com- parison often made the staple of their talk. Ridley was a scholar, and Will... ...hadow tapered on the horizon, scarcely thick enough to stand the burden of Paris, which nevertheless rested upon it. They were free of roads, free of ... ... judges, professors, states- men, editors, philanthropists, merchants, and actresses; what clubs they belonged to, where they lived, what games they p...

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...y was full of such grotesqueries, but the clean towers were thrusting them from the business center, and on the farther hills were shining new houses,... ... hood and noiseless engine. These people in evening clothes were returning from an all-night rehearsal of a Little Theater play, an artistic adventure... ...rs wearily raised their celluloid eye-shades after a night of talking with Paris and Peking. Through the building crawled the scrubwomen, yawning, the... ... in the darkness beyond mysterious groves. When at last he could slip away from the crowded house he darted to her. His wife, his clamoring friends, s... ...Kelvey an adornment to the social circles of Zenith, Washington, New York, Paris, and numbers of other places. But he could not stir them. It was a di... ...to grab this celebrated Thespian off his lovely aggregation of beauti- ful actresses—and I got to admit I butted right into his dressing-room and told... ...er-ware 335 Sinclair Lewis and first editions as though they were back in Paris. All of them agreed that the working-classes must be kept in their pl...

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... some one. There was a smug expression about the mouth--he looked like a merchant who has just done a good stroke of business, or a bachelor emerging from a boudoir in the best of humors with himself; and in Paris this is the highest degree of self-satisfaction ever registered by a human countenance....

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...hant who has just done a good stroke of business, or a bach- elor emerging from a boudoir in the best of humors with himself; and in Paris this is the... ...h- elor emerging from a boudoir in the best of humors with himself; and in Paris this is the highest degree of self-satis- faction ever registered by ... ...broke out over the faces of the frequenters of the bou- levard, who daily, from their chairs, watch the passers-by, and indulge in the agreeable pasti... ...ulge in the agreeable pastime of analyzing them. That smile is peculiar to Parisians; it says so many things—ironi- cal, quizzical, pitying; but nothi... ...rest of human curiosities can summon that look of interest to the faces of Parisians, sated as they are with every possible sight. A saying recorded o... ...h a pair of enormous ears had left their marks which no brush could efface from the underside of the brim; the silk tissue (as usual) fitted badly ove... ...ces that needs must come when a corps de ballet is blended with actors and actresses, one of the most trying combinations ever created by the laws of ... ...t, I should have thought that you had had mistresses by the dozen—dancers, actresses, and duchesses, for you went out so much. . . . When you went out... ...e official contributions. He sold boxes, he took presents from indifferent actresses burning to go upon the stage to fill small speaking parts, or sim...

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...Preface: Thirteen men were banded together in Paris under the Empire, all imbued with one and the same sentiment, all gifted with sufficient energy to be faithful to the same thought, with sufficient honor among themselves never to betray one another even if their intere...

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...Dedication To Hector Berlioz. PREFACE THIRTEEN MEN were banded together in Paris under the Em- pire, all imbued with one and the same sentiment, all g... ...ivil law, just as Morgan, that Achilles among pirates, transformed himself from a buccaneering scourge to a quiet colonist, and spent, without 4 Ferr... ... give himself. Is it not the incognito of genius? T o write the “Itinerary from Paris to Jerusalem” is to take a share in the human glory of a single ... ... himself. Is it not the incognito of genius? T o write the “Itinerary from Paris to Jerusalem” is to take a share in the human glory of a single epoch... ...eing some day pub- lished as a foil of tales to listeners,—that race apart from others, so curiously energetic, and so interesting in spite of its cri... ...recisely because it appeared to be so impossible. There was, therefore, in Paris a brotherhood of thirteen, who belonged to each other absolutely, but... ...women, street-sweepers, beggars, occasionally insolent countesses, admired actresses, applauded singers; she has even given, in the olden time, two qu...

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...he total ruin she had caused by her own extravagance. The prince left France with the royal family, and never returned to it, leaving the princess in Paris, protected by the fact of his absence; for their debts, which the sale of all their salable property had not been able to extinguish, could only be recovered through him. The revenues of the entailed estates had been se...

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...e with the royal family, and never returned to it, leaving the princess in Paris, pro- tected by the fact of his absence; for their debts, which the s... ...ecided to live in retirement, and to make herself, if possible, forgotten. Paris was then so carried away by the whirling current of events 4 The Sec... ...the revolu- tion of July, did really become a stranger in her own city. In Paris the title of duke ranks all others, even that of prince; though, in h... ...is XIV. to give supremacy to the title of duke, have pre- vented Frenchmen from claiming the appellation of “high- ness” for the few princes who exist... ...her in that humble little abode in the rue de Miromesnil, a few steps away from her splendid mansion, which no amount of fortune had en- abled her to ... ...! One must be a queen to know how to abdicate, and to descend with dignity from a lofty position which is never wholly lost. Those only who have an in... ...ment full of modest confusion. One of the most skilful manoeuvres of these actresses is to veil their manner when words are too expressive, and speak ...

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...le girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve....

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...er, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with hu... ...til domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child-pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theres... ...illiant girl to her? Her flame quickly burned up that light fuel; and, fed from within, soared after some illimitable satisfaction, some object which ... ...e after some lofty conception of the world which might frankly include the parish of Tipton and her own rule of con- duct there; she was enamoured of ... ...e in imitation—it would be as if the spirit of Oberlin had passed over the parishes to make the life of poverty beautiful! Sir James saw all the plans... ...en and less of a skin- flint. Indeed, both the farmers and laborers in the parishes of Freshitt and Tipton would have felt a sad lack of conversation ... ...g sor- row, herself wandering, and finding no faithful comforter. Hid- den actresses, however, are not so difficult to find as some other hidden facts...

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...ard Longueville had been spending the winter in Rome. He had travelled northward with the consciousness of several social duties that appealed to him from the further side of the Alps, but he was under the charm of the Italian spring, and he made a pretext for lingering....

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...hward with the consciousness of several social duties that appealed to him from the further side of the Alps, but he was under the charm of the Italia... ...ugh these bright, still days of a Tuscan April, drawing much entertainment from the high picturesqueness of the things about him. Siena, a few years s... ...same time had an easy feeling about him which was a tribute to his freedom from pedantry. He was clever indeed, and an excellent companion; but the re... ...t, beautifully arranged and crowned by a smart little hat that savoured of Paris. She had also a slender little fig- ure, neatly rounded, and delicate... ...rd her mother. She looked round at him quickly. “Where are you going?” “To Paris,” he said, quite at hazard; for he had not in the least determined wh... ..., quite at hazard; for he had not in the least determined where to go. “To Paris—in the month of August?” And she gave a little laugh. “What a happy i... ...that his gaze was heavy and opaque, and that, though he was staring at the actresses, their charms were lost upon him. He saw that, like himself, poor...

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...le girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve....

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...er, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide eyed and helpless looking as two fawns, but with hu... ...til domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theres... ...rilliant girl to her? Her flame quickly burned up that light fuel; and, fed from within, soared after some illimitable satisfaction, some object which ... ...ption of the world which might 4 Book I — Miss Brooke frankly include the parish of Tipton and her own rule of conduct there; she was en amoured of ... ...e in imitation—it would be as if the spirit of Oberlin had passed over the parishes to make the life of poverty beautiful! Sir James saw all the plans... ...poken and less of a skinflint. Indeed, both the farmers and laborers in the parishes of Freshitt and Tipton would have felt a sad lack of conversation ... ...ring sorrow, herself wandering, and find ing no faithful comforter. Hidden actresses, however, are not so difficult to find as some other hidden facts, ...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, a...

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...t Louis Stevenson PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan... ...iderable an amount of copy. These nine worthies have been brought together from many different ages and countries. Not the most erudite of men could b... ... strain of thought in Scotland, – a country far more essentially different from England than many parts of America; for, in a sense, the first of thes... ...al end that the author had before him in the con- ception of Notre Dame de Paris was (he tells us) to “denounce” the external fatality that hangs over... ...e artistic conception is developed with the most consum- mate success. Old Paris lives for us with newness of life: we have ever before our eyes the c... ...d in- tricate and quaint. And throughout, Notre Dame has been held up over Paris by a height far greater than that of its twin towers: the Cathedral i... ...danc- ing, singing, and drinking, become his natural element; ac- tors and actresses and drunken, roaring courtiers are to be found in his society; un...

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...Excerpt: MONCRIEF HOUSE, Panley Common. Scholastic establishment for the sons of gentlemen, etc. Panley Common, viewed from the back windows of Moncrief House, is a tract of grass, furze and rushes, stretching away to the western horizon....

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...lastic establishment for the sons of gentlemen, etc. Panley Common, viewed from the back windows of Moncrief House, is a tract of grass, furze and rus... ...on could hear, at certain hours, a hubbub of voices and racing foot- steps from within the boundary wall. Sometimes, when the strollers were boys them... ...t Cashel has not escaped that tendency to violence which sometimes results from the possession of unusual strength and dexter- ity. He actually fought... ...did not dare to tell her so; indeed, having a prejudice to the effect that actresses were deficient in natural feeling, he doubted the use of daring. ... ...f Faust for his model.” Seeing by his face that he did not relish the com- parison, she added, “I am paying you a compliment. Wagner represents a very... ... is expensive and dishonest. When we are tired of Wiltstoken we will go to Paris, and be millinered there; but in the meantime we can resort to Madame... ...picion of his unfitness, he was awake to the fact that the favorite London actresses, though admirable in modern com- edy, were not mistresses of what... ...h that at last she began to trifle with plans of retirement, of playing in Paris, of taking a theatre in London, and other whims. The chief public glo...

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...Excerpt: How much is conveyed in those two short words--?The Parish!? And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large famil...

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... Charles Dickens Boz is a pseudonym of Charles Dickens SKETCHES BY BOZ OUR PARISH CHAPTER I—THE BEADLE. THE PARISH ENGINE. THE SCHOOLMASTER. H OW MUCH... ...INE. THE SCHOOLMASTER. H OW MUCH IS CONVEYED in those two short words—’The Parish!’ And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune ... ...poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely suff... ...rrives: he can procure no more quarter for himself, and is summoned by—the parish. His goods are distrained, his children are crying with cold and hun... ...and hunger, and the very bed on which his sick wife is ly- ing, is dragged from beneath her. What can he do? To whom is he to apply for relief? To pri... ...e boys run to the beadle as fast as their legs will carry them, and report from their own personal observation that some neighbouring chim- ney is on ... ...Ay, ay, I see,’ replied the mayor.—’Horses and dogs, play and wine—grooms, actresses, and cigars—the stable, the green-room, the saloon, and the taver...

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............................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........................................................................................................................

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..................................................................77 A LETTER FROM “JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.” ............................................ ...ss One, and the Poet Priest who ministers at thy Shrine draws his auguries from the bleeding hearts of men! While Love hath no end, Can the Bard ever ... ...the gilded equipage of the Millionary; the humbler, but yet larger vehicle from the green metropolitan suburbs (the Hang- ing Gardens of our Babylon),... ...his finger to his lip. “C’est la fortune de la guerre: if ever you come to Paris, ask for the Marquis d’ O’Mahony, and I may render you the hospitalit... ... Philip,” said the Colonel; “you are at my house in the Place V endome, at Paris, of which I am the military Governor. Y ou and Lanty were knocked dow... ... Philip Fogarty, who saved my life in ’98, I brought you in my carriage to Paris.” “And many’s the time you tried to jump out of the windy, Masther Ph... ...ts of young and old gents of the fashion crowding round and staring at the actresses prac- tising their steps. Fancy yellow snuffy foreigners, chatter...

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...m. By the way, I always like better brooding over my works and dreaming how they should be written than actually writing them. And this really is not from laziness. Why is it?...

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...hey should be written than actually writ- ing them. And this really is not from laziness. Why is it? I had been feeling unwell all day, and towards su... ...ew sharper, and began to nip one’s nose: the twilight deepened; gas flared from the shops. As I reached Muller’s, the confectioner’ s, I suddenly stoo... ...e to look after him, especially as he looked like a madman who had escaped from his keepers. I was struck, too, by his extraordi- nary emaciation ; he... ... million when his father died, and now he’s having a good time. He went to Paris, and there he got through no end of money. He’ d have spent all there... ... he came in for another fortune when his uncle died, and he came back from Paris. So he’s getting through the rest of it here. In another year he’ll b... ...He goes about in the best restaurants and in cellars and taverns, and with actresses, and he’s trying to get into the hussars—he’s just applied for a ... ...ter 137 Dostoevsky inviting one!” “He’s just been telling me he’s been in Paris,” put in the officer’s wife. “He must be fibbing.” “Fedosya Titishna,...

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... important episode of the war of 1812 was the movement of the Russian army from the Ryazana to the Kaluga road and to the Tarutino camp—the so-called ... ...en could have guessed that the best position for an army after its retreat from Moscow in 1812 was on the Kaluga road. So it is impossible to under- s... ...or the French. If the position of the Russian army really began to improve from the time of that march, it does not at all follow that the march was t... ... of the welfare of the people of Russia, or of the direction of affairs in Paris, or of diplomatic considerations concerning the terms of the anticipa... ... and in Posnyakov’s house were closed again at once because the actors and actresses were robbed. Even philanthropy did not have the desired effect. T...

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...entertaining than the report of this Com- mittee. Its full title is REPORT FROM THE JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS AND THE HOUSE OF COMM... ...se. The number of the Bluebook is 214. How interesting it is may be judged from the fact that it contains verbatim reports of long and animated interv... ...turb the ex- isting state of things. How this was effected may be gathered from the recommendations finally agreed on, which are as follows. 1. The dr... ...he House of Lords then proceeded to its selection. As fashionable drama in Paris and London concerns itself almost exclusively with adultery, the firs... ...ould appear on the English stage without being pelted off as the Ital- ian actresses were. The theatrical profession was regarded as a shameless one; ... ...fession was regarded as a shameless one; and it is only of late years that actresses have at last succeeded in living down the assumption that actress... ... their best not only innocent, but refining in their effect, whereas those actresses and skirt dancers who have brought the peculiar aph- rodisiac eff... ...iritual necessities, as 66 The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet she has on her parish church. If mob censorship can- not be trusted to keep naughty playwr...

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...e furniture for what it could fetch, and within a month I was on my way to Paris. I took a room in a cheap hotel on the Left Bank. A few months before... ...e Montparnasse, where a number of artists were in the habit of dining; and from then on I dined there every night. I have described the place elsewher... ...hese casual visi tors was Aleister Crowley. He was spending the winter in Paris. I took an immediate dislike to him, but he interested and amused me.... ...atanism, magic and the occult. There was just then something of a vogue in Paris for that sort of thing, occasioned, I surmise, by the interest that w... ... Paris to return to London. Once, long after wards, I received a telegram from him which ran as follows: ‘Please send twenty five pounds at once. Mot... ...s lips broke into a smile, and it was so tender that his thin face, sallow from long exposure to subtropical suns, was transfigured. He no longer stru... ...ere. Innumerable mirrors re flected women of the world, admirably gowned, actresses of renown, and fashionable courtesans. The noise was very great. ... ...ook at Arthur, ‘if only to show you how much more amusing I am than lovely actresses.’ Arthur, forcing himself to smile, accepted the invitation. The ...

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...FE I I RECEIVED the following letter: “Dear sir, Pavel Andreitch! “Not far from you — that is to say , in the village of Pestrovo — very distressing i... ...day that they can do nothing, and yet continue to re- ceive their salaries from people who are living upon frozen potatoes, and consider they have a r... ...hink, my thoughts were in a muddle, my eyes began blinking, I would get up from the table with a sigh and begin walking about the big rooms of my dese... ... eyes. From his baggy, crumpled clothes and his manners I took him to be a parish clerk or a teacher, but my wife introduced him to me as Dr. Sobol. “... ...FICULT PEOPLE YEVGRAF IVANOVITCH SHIRYAEV, a small farmer, whose father, a parish priest, now deceased, had received a gift of three hun- dred acres o... ...empered as his father and his grandfather the priest, who used to beat his parishioners about the head with a stick. Pale and clenching his fists, he ... ... dies, for Olga Ivanovna considered all ladies wearisome and vulgar except actresses and her dressmaker. Not one of these entertainments passed withou... ...ries Later on she used to bring with her dozens of portraits of actors and actresses which she worshipped; then she attempted several times to take pa... ...e; that for the benefit of the Actors’ Fund, which they only talked about, actresses of the serious drama demeaned themselves by singing chansonettes,...

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...ortality is no dream but a hard fact, such a shriek of despair would go up from the human race as no other conceivable horror could provoke. With all ... ...-drivers. And there is a grow- ing body of law designed to prevent parents from using their children ruthlessly to make money for the household. Such ... ... the bond of affection between parents and children does not save children from the slavery that denial of rights involves in adult political relation... ...to the South Pole; but they are not so common as the clerk who has been to Paris or to Lovely Lucerne, and who “goes away somewhere” when he has a hol... ...nditions may vary between opposite extremes: for ex- ample, in a London or Paris slum every child adds to the burden of poverty and helps to starve th... ...ments of art. Tenors and prima donnas, pianists and violinists, actors and actresses enjoy powers of seduction which in the middle ages would have exp...

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...Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Translated from the French Translated from the French Translated from the French Trans... ...he French Translated from the French Translated from the French Translated from the French Translated from the French by by by by by Eleanor Marx-Avel... ...unity university. 3 Flaubert Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Translated from the French by Eleanor Marx-Aveling TO MARIE-ANTOINE-JULES SENARD Membe... ...French by Eleanor Marx-Aveling TO MARIE-ANTOINE-JULES SENARD Member of the Paris Bar, Ex-President of the National Assembly , and Former Minister of t... ...er attain the height of your eloquence and your devotion. Gustave Flaubert Paris, 12 April 1857 MADAME BOVARY PART I Chapter One W E WERE IN CLASS whe... ...said, while he lived at Rouen, to go to the theatre to see the actors from Paris. He could neither swim, nor fence, nor shoot, and one day he could no... ...y the light of wax candles, laughed the motley crowd of men of letters and actresses. They were prodigal as kings, full of ideal, ambi- tious, fantast... ...And you don’t know what a life those dogs lead in the Latin quar- ter with actresses. Besides, students are thought a great deal of in Paris. Provided...

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... as in an old dressing gown. 4 War and Peace – Book Eight Moscow society, from the old women down to the children, received Pierre like a long-expect... ...ees, Freemasons, churches, and books—no one and nothing met with a refusal from him, and had it not been for two friends who had borrowed large sums f... ...How horrified he would have been seven years before, when he first arrived from abroad, had he been told that there was no need for him to seek or pla... ...vinities? Look at our youths, look at our ladies! The French are our Gods: Paris is our Kingdom of Heaven.” He began speaking louder, evidently to be ... ...act that he slighted them and plainly preferred the gypsy girls and French actresses—with the chief of whom, Mademoiselle 43 Tolstoy George, he was s... ...re. On Sunday morning Marya Dmitrievna invited her visitors to Mass at her parish church—the Church of the Assumption built over the graves of victims... ...new dress of her own made of “metallic gauze,” which she had received from Paris, and advised Natasha to have one like it. “But anything suits you, my...

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...graphy blindly in, but enter considerately, or, if we see good, keep aloof from it altogether. Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but ... ... in the depths of his own con- sciousness, or be betrumpeted and beshouted from end to end of the habitable globe. These are plain truths, which no on... ...oice, how feeble soever, how unheeded soever, against the common delusion; from which, if he can save, or help to save any mortal, his endeavours will... ...to Vienna, and thence towards Italy; although he repeatedly mentioned that Paris should first be seen, because after coming out of Italy nothing else ... ...till hovers entire in my imagination and memory. 68 Autobiography THE NEW PARIS A BOY’S LEGEND O N THE NIGHT before Whitsunday, not long since, I dre... ... starlings, particularly, chattered the silliest stuff. One always cried, “Paris, Paris!” and the other, “Narcissus, Narcissus!” as plainly as a schoo... ... upon the stage, and led me especially to the foyers, where the actors and actresses remained during the intervals of the performance, and dressed and...

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...ESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY original from the publishers Boston, Estes and Lauriat, Publishers To the Right Hono... ...ll the produce that, for long after the Restora- tion, our family received from their Virginian estates. My dear and honored father, Colonel Henry Esm... ...d here in our Republic, or at home in the always beloved mother coun- try, from which our late quarrel hath separated us, may surely be proud to be de... ... young to understand), how this person, having left her family and fled to Paris, out of jealousy of the Pretender be- trayed his secrets to my Lord S... ...future Bishop’ s lady had quitted Castlewood and joined the Pre- tender at Paris, pursued him, and would have killed him, Prince as he was, had not th... ...ond, who had frequented the one as long as he had money to spend among the actresses, now came to the church as assiduously. He looked so lean and sha... ...her Holt, the director of the family, and Doctor Tusher, the rector of the parish—Mr. Holt moving amongst the very highest as quite their equal, and a... ...l- land. My lord had a paper of oranges, which he ate and of- fered to the actresses, joking with them. And Mrs. Bracegirdle, when my Lord Mohun said ... ...ad made acquaintance, had promised to present him to that most charming of actresses, and lively and agreeable of women, Mrs. Bracegirdle, about whom ...

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...na Pavlovna had had a cough for some days. She was, as she said, suffering from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg, used only b... ... in the coun- try. He is the well-known Prince Bolkonski who had to retire from the army under the late Emperor, and was nicknamed ‘the King of Prussi... ...ld lady , wearing large bows of ribbon in her cap, who had come sailing in from another room as soon as the guests began to arrive; and slowly turning... ...e, then current, to the effect that the Duc d’Enghien had gone secretly to Paris to visit Mademoiselle George; that at her house he came upon Bonapart... ... a bear somewhere, put it in a carriage, and set off with it to visit some actresses! The police tried to interfere, and what did the young men do? Th... ...sband?” “Non, madame.” He smiled quite inappropriately. “Y ou have been in Paris recently, I believe? I suppose it’s very interesting.” “V ery interes... ...s to the strict- ness and assiduity of its commander the regiment, in com- parison with others that had reached Braunau at the same time, was in splen... ...act that he slighted them and plainly preferred the gypsy girls and French actresses—with the chief of whom, Mademoiselle George, he was said to be on... ... and in Posnyakov’s house were closed again at once because the actors and actresses were robbed. Even philanthropy did not have the desired effect. T...

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...ony Motteux The text of the first Two Books of Rabelais has been reprinted from the first edition (1653) of Urquhart’s translation. Foot- notes initia... ...on (1653) of Urquhart’s translation. Foot- notes initialled ‘M.’ are drawn from the Maitland Club edition (1838); other footnotes are by the translato... ...(as the footnotes indicate) passages omitted by Motteux have been restored from the 1738 copy edited by Ozell. 4 Gargantua & Pantagruel Introduction ... ...rliani on the topography of Rome to Jean du Bellay (at that time Bishop of Paris) who was raised to the Cardinalate in 1535. Beside these dedica- tion... ...tood. The Inquisition would have been a far more serious opponent than the Paris’ Sorbonne, and no one ventured on the experiment. Yet Rabelais forces... ... dialect was he indebted? Was it that of Touraine, or Berri, or Poitou, or Paris? It is too often forgotten, in regard to French patois— leaving out o... ...d Xenomanes; you may find there many goodly hypocritesses, jolly spiritual actresses, kind hermitesses, women that have a plaguy deal of religion; the...

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...ere the blockheads and impostors who might naturally be expected to spring from such a state of things, and to flourish in it; these Y orkshire school... ... that those gentlemen might, in their modesty, be shy of receiving a visit from the author of the “Pickwick Papers,” I consulted with a professional f... ... can gang to bed and not tellee, for weedur’s sak’, to keep the lattle boy from a’ sike scoondrels while there’s a harse to hoold in a’ Lunnun, or a g... ...ty; possibly because this species of humour is now confined to St James’ s parish, where door knockers are preferred as be- ing more portable, and bel... ...a competent au- thority; and discovering, on further conversation and com- parison of notes, a great many points of resemblance between the behaviour ... ...re words of ceremony; for, Mr Cutler, having kept house in Mr Lillyvick’ s parish, had heard of him very often indeed. His attention in calling had be... ...k on the ground with the umbrella before-men- tioned. ‘I have known divine actresses before now, sir, I used to collect—at least I used to call for—an... ...for upwards of four year but never—no, never, sir of all divine creatures, actresses or no actresses, did I see a diviner one than is Henrietta Petowk... ...holas. ‘No, sir, not to make her Mrs Lillyvick,’ replied the collec- tor. ‘Actresses, sir, always keep their maiden names—that’s the regular thing—but...

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...ere the blockheads and impostors who might naturally be expected to spring from such a state of things, and to flourish in it; these Y orkshire school... ... that those gentlemen might, in their modesty, be shy of receiving a visit from the author of the “Pickwick Papers,” I consulted with a professional f... ... can gang to bed and not tellee, for weedur’s sak’, to keep the lattle boy from a’ sike scoondrels while there’s a harse to hoold in a’ Lunnun, or a g... ...ty; possibly because this species of humour is now confined to St James’ s parish, where door knockers are preferred as be- ing more portable, and bel... ...a competent au- thority; and discovering, on further conversation and com- parison of notes, a great many points of resemblance between the behaviour ... ...re words of ceremony; for, Mr Cutler, having kept house in Mr Lillyvick’ s parish, had heard of him very often indeed. His attention in calling had be... ...k on the ground with the umbrella before-men- tioned. ‘I have known divine actresses before now, sir, I used to collect—at least I used to call for—an... ...for upwards of four year but never—no, never, sir of all divine creatures, actresses or no actresses, did I see a diviner one than is Henrietta Petowk... ...holas. ‘No, sir, not to make her Mrs Lillyvick,’ replied the collec- tor. ‘Actresses, sir, always keep their maiden names—that’s the regular thing—but...

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...rince Chancellor and a pair of Field Marshals, and some ladies of the day, from the metropolis to Richmond Hill in fifty or sixty odd minutes, having ... ...ervice of the first insurgent State of Span- ish America, to save his ship from being taken over to the enemy,—he blew her up, fifteen miles from land... ...l under Buccaneer Kirby. He fought on shore as well; and once he came down from the tops of the Andes with a black beard turned white, and went into a... ...r, that he is now fancying a thousand things. We won’t talk of the road to Paris.’ A shot of colour swept over Henrietta. ‘I will speak to papa:—if he... ... in the German sack, affecting the graces of a born gentle- man fresh from Paris,—bowing, smirking, excusing himself for something; and he jumped down... ...aightway slip out into the heavenly starlight, thence down among the jolly Parisian and Viennese Bacchanals. CHAPTER XII HENRIETTA’S LETTER TREATING O... ...no; not clergymen!’ She laughed at the suggestion. She might be one of the actresses by nature. Is the man unsympathetic with women a hater of Nature ... ...man unsympathetic with women a hater of Nature deductively? Most women are actresses. As to worshipping Nature, we go back to the state of heathen bea...

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...na Pavlovna had had a cough for some days. She was, as she said, suffering from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg, used only b... ...es in the country. He is the well-known Prince Bolkonski who had to retire from the army under the late Emperor, and was nicknamed ‘the King of Prussi... ...old lady, wearing large bows of ribbon in her cap, who had come sailing in from another room as soon as the guests began to arrive; and slowly turning... ...e, then current, to the effect that the Duc d’Enghien had gone secretly to Paris to visit Mademoiselle George; that at her house he came upon Bonapart... ... a bear somewhere, put it in a carriage, and set off with it to visit some actresses! The police tried to interfere, and what did the young men do? Th... ...sband?” “Non, madame.” He smiled quite inappropriately. “Y ou have been in Paris recently, I believe? I suppose it’s very interesting.” “V ery interes...

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...of growing enlightenment and happy compan- ionship, and an innocent refuge from the cares and perturbations of life. Princeton, June 28, 1917. INTRODU... ...ect and setting are so closely allied that each borrows charm and emphasis from the other. Let the devoted reader of Boswell ask himself what glamor w... ...ther. Let the devoted reader of Boswell ask himself what glamor would fade from the church of St. Clement Danes, from the Mitre, from Fleet Street, th... ... not delayed; for his baptism is re- corded, in the register of St. Mary’s parish in that city, to have been performed on the day of his birth. His fa... ...traordinary powers of mind, of which he could not but be conscious by com- parison; the intellectual difference, which in other cases of comparison of... ...e. Boileau had imitated the same satire with great success, applying it to Paris; but an attentive * Johnson later told Boswell that ‘as soon as he fo... ...behind your scenes, David; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensi- ties.’ 1750: AETAT. 41.]—In 1750 he c...

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... AT LAST!’ cried Nicholas, throwing back his great- coat and rousing Smike from a long nap. ‘It seemed to me as though we should never reach it.’ ‘And... ...ing lights, and illuminated besides with the brilliant flood that streamed from the windows of the shops, where spar- kling jewellery, silks and velve... ...assed before the eye. Emporiums of splendid dresses, the materials brought from every quarter of the world; tempt- ing stores of everything to stimula... ...d in question. The certificates were regularly signed as extracts from the parish books, the first letter had a genuine appearance of having been writ... ...which he had to pass on his way home, and reading a list of the actors and actresses who had promised to do honour 217 Charles Dickens to some approa... ...s emphasis, and in nearly the same order, all day long: ‘Rooge-a-nore from Paris! Gentlemen, make your game and back your own opinions—any time while ... ...nd back your own opinions—any time while the ball rolls— rooge-a-nore from Paris, gentlemen, it’ s a French game, gentle- men, I brought it over mysel...