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...l of cleverness, and sometimes with perfect reason, the fools, his brother painters. As it was with the utmost difficulty that he could keep himself, ... ... of Newman Street, Gerrard Street, and the Artists’ quarter: and the young painters, when they came to take their gin-and-water with their lazy, disso... ...d his hands bound in a web of green silk, which she was unwinding. In this romantic position Osborne and Amelia found the in- teresting pair, when the... ...Fancy our late monarch George III when he heard of the revolt of the North American colonies: fancy brazen Goliath when little David stepped forward a... ...presents of knives, pencil-cases, gold seals, toffee, Little Warblers, and romantic books, with large coloured pictures of knights and robbers, in man... ... now in hand. We might have treated this subject in the genteel, or in the romantic, or in the facetious manner. Suppose we had laid the scene in Gros... ...ter of an opera- girl. She had danced herself. She had been a model to the painters. She was brought up as became her mother’s daugh- ter. She drank g... ...wether. There was Mr. John Paul Jefferson Jones, titularly attached to the American Embassy and correspondent of the New Y ork Demagogue, who, by way ... ...o well? Finally, the procession being formed in the order described by the American diplomatist, they marched into the apartment where the banquet was...

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...d fain do the little in our power towards introducing him favorably to the American public. The ensuing tale is a translation of his “Beatrice; ou la ... ...tially have counteracted such bad influences. Behold here a train of house painters, all af flicted with a peculiar sort of colic. Next in place we w... ...s, a higher fortune than their abilities could vindicate; writers, actors, painters, the pets of a day, but whose laurels wither unrenewed amid their ... ... reader a few desirable particulars about Drowne himself. He was the first American who is known to have at tempted—in a very humble line, it is true... ...es of a petrified sea; and in one of the corresponding hollows, a wild and romantic spot, had the family reared their hut and kindled their fire. Ther... ... give external reality to his ideas as irresistibly as any of the poets or painters who have arrayed the world in a dimmer and fainter beauty, im per...

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...o could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine. You may deem me romantic, my dear sister, but I bitterly feel the want of a friend. I hav... ...d that my daydreams are more extended and magnificent, but they want (as the painters call it) keeping; and I greatly need a friend who would have se... ...and I greatly need a friend who would have sense enough not to despise me as romantic, and affection enough for me to endeavour to regulate my mind. W... ...unate in being able to secure his services. I heard of him first in rather a romantic manner, from a lady who owes to him the happiness of her life. T... ...re, of chiv alry, Christianity, and kings. I heard of the discovery of the American hemisphere and wept with Safie over the hapless fate of its orig...

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...therwise iden tical with it. She was dressed as simply as possible, in an American print (I think the dry goods people call it so), but with a silken... ...nce She should have made it a point of duty, moreover, to sit endlessly to painters and sculptors, and preferably to the lat ter; because the cold de... ...overdale,—and we will look back cheerfully to these early days, and make a romantic story for the young People (and if a little more romantic than tru... ... fall 133 Hawthorne in love with Priscilla. In society, indeed, a genuine American never dreams of stepping across the inappreciable air line which s... ...although, in writing it out, my pen has perhaps allowed itself a trifle of romantic and legendary license, worthier of a small poet than of a grave bi...

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...nd in which they compose one form. Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in... ...erest; and that the feel- ings of the company never failed to incline to a romantic pity for the wrongs, and a passionate exculpation of the hor- ribl... ... _130 412 V olume One To see what was romantic there. 12. 12. 12. 12. 12. And all this, though quite ideal,— Read... ...ardly practi- cable in this. His life was singular; less on account of the romantic vicissitudes which diversified it, than the ideal tinge which it r... ... the revolution eight hundred students, and among them several Germans and Americans. The munificence and energy of many of the Greek princes and merc... ... reported that this Messiah had arrived at a seaport near Lacedaemon in an American brig. The association of names and ideas is irresistibly ludicrous...

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... stand in the spring in the forest, in a green glade, when I can fancy the romantic notes of Oberon’s fairy horn’ (Bersenyev was a little ashamed when... ...er, knows her not; nei- ther Canaletto nor Guardi (to say nothing of later painters) has been able to convey the silvery tenderness of the atmo- spher... ... of the French school; he has had a great many orders from the English and Americans. Of late, there has been much talk about a Bac- chante of his; th...

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... others, with the jaw-bone of an ass; which is the tooling adopted by most painters. But it is pleasing to the mind of sensibility to know that, as sc... ...eaking in his own person, would have destroyed the unity of his fable. The romantic interest of the early and irrelate incidents (last night of T roy,... ...he sun, 10 “Three hundred.” Of necessity this scale of measurement, to an American, if he happens to be a thoughtless man, must sound ludicrous. Acco... ...less man, must sound ludicrous. Accordingly, I remember a case in which an American writer indulges himself in the luxury of a little lying, by ascrib... ...o an Englishman a pompous account of the Thames, constructed entirely upon American ideas of grandeur, and concluding in something like these terms:— ... ... a malediction on the classical era, and thank your stars for making you a Romanticist. Every morning we thank ours for keeping us back, and reserving...

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...8 The Country of the Blind on a way of settling him at last. It is a South American dodge. I joined all my fishing-lines together with stems of seawee... ..., the people were supposed to be English and were dressed like fashionable Americans of the current epoch, and I fell into the natural error of suppos... ...eboard partially covered by a black velvet cloth, and beside a decanter of American whisky. It is from 202 The Country of the Blind Mr. Wace, indeed,... ... But in that matter he did a thing that seemed to her at once delicate and romantic. He made a go-between of Fanny. Fanny could not keep the secret, a... ...inchelsea. She discovered he had forgotten the names of more than half the painters whose work they had rejoiced over in Florence. It was a sadly disa... ...e of ants, he suspected the authorities of mockery. His promotion had been romantic and irregular, the affections of a prominent Brazilian lady and th...

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...n the doorway. Tall, large-eyed, draped in purple shawls, Mrs. Ambrose was romantic and beautiful; not perhaps sym- pathetic, for her eyes looked stra... ... out in the East, there was cholera in Russia, and he was heard of, not so romantically, in Lisbon. They had been through France; he had stopped at ma... ...might think he was a successful stock- broker, and not one of the greatest painters of the age. That’s what I like.” “There are a great many successfu... ...ave her donkey a sharp cut with a switch and started forward. The full and romantic career of Evelyn Murgatroyd is best hit off by her own words, “Cal... ...“which shall it be?” “Balzac,” said Rachel, “or have you the Speech on the American Revolution, Uncle Ridley?” “The Speech on the American Revolution?... ... she darted and ejaculated he gave Rachel a sketch of the history of South American art. He would deal with one of his wife’s exclamations, and then r... ...essness to think or to look. She was turning over the slippery pages of an American magazine, when the hall door swung, a wedge of light fell upon the...

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... is the outline of Dominie Sampson’s real story, in which there is neither romantic incident nor sentimental passion; but which, perhaps, from the rec... ...is time, when there’s sae little money stirring in Scotland wi’ this weary American war, that somebody may get the land a bargain—Deil be in them, tha... ...ble. In one word, then, here is the matter. “Your daughter has much of the romantic turn of your disposition, with a little of that love of admiration... ...ouse, the resort of walking gentlemen of all descriptions, poets, players, painters, musicians, who come to rave, and recite, and madden, about this p... ...ose sort of fellows that I should fear on her account. She is generous and romantic, and writes six sheets a week to a female correspondent; and it’s ... ...who was to usher him to the man of law. The period was near the end of the American war. The desire of room, of air, and of decent accommodation, had ... ...hly, deserved; yet his pride and interest, like the for- titude of a North American Indian, manned him to sustain the tortures inflicted at once by th...

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...ne of his heroes, and of Lancashire origin, strangely!), flew to the South American station, in and about Lord Cochrane’s waters; then as swiftly back... ...g the strong salt of his similes, likening that rascal and his crew to the American weed in our waters, to the rotting wild bees’ nest in our trees, t... ...h is in working and fighting. With every inducement to offer himself for a romantic figure, he despises the po- mades and curling-irons of modern roma... ...he border fortress, and when the order came for the fleet to enter the old romantic sea of storms and fables, he wrote home a letter fit for his uncle... ...hoped she was not very wrong in preferring the times of the great Venetian painters and martial doges to that pe- riod of faith and stone-cutting. Wha... ...midshipmite days, whole watches through—don’t you re- member? on the North American station, and in the Black Sea, and the Mediterranean. And that gir... ... Reform; but the number for him who appealed to feelings and quickened the romantic sentiments of the com- mon people now huddled within our electoral...

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... which are the despair of language and seem to belong exclu- sively to the painters of genre. What words can picture the alarming zig-zags produced by... ...k, and tints with the color 68 Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau adored of painters, the tracery of blue veins throbbing be- neath the whiteness of he... ...a glowing happiness. If that happiness took from her head the poetry which painters in- sist on giving to their pictures my making them a shade too pe... ...ls, walls hung with an olive-green paper, and otherwise decorated with the American Declaration of Independence, a portrait of Bonaparte as First Cons... ..., and the approach to it through this long gal- lery is at once sombre and romantic. The great hall of the Pas Perdus, on the contrary, presents at th...

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... raised a family, my eldest lad—I hadn’t begun to think of sons then—is an American citizen, and looking for- ward to leaving Harvard. There’s a touch... ...ty at the very beginning.” “What was his name?” “Graham.” “No, I mean—that American’s.” “Isbister.” “Isbister!” cried Graham. “Why, I don’t even know ... ...earn much in the schools nowadays. But I know all about him. He was a rich American who went from En- gland, and he left the Sleeper even more than Wa... ...ciprocity. “I have tried,” she said, “countless times—to imagine those old romantic days. And to you they are memories. How strange and crowded the wo... ...rts grown with the rest of civilised things?” he said. “Who are your great painters?” She looked at him doubtfully. Then laughed. “For a mo- ment,” sh...

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...in camps and coun- cil-rooms, in presence-chambers and in prisons. He knew romantic Spain;—he was himself, standing withal in the vanguard of Freedom’... ... noisy political and other agi- tations of the rest: friendly, by no means romantic appre- ciation of the Blacks; quiet prosperity economic and do- me... ...Cantabs, they, as was said, had wandered a little over the South border of romantic Spain; had per- haps seen Seville, Cadiz, with picturesque views, ... ...nce, which thus compels them to be their own architects, machinists, scene-painters, and actors! In fact, the artifice succeeds,—becomes grounded in t... ...a disastrous shadow hanging over it, not to be cleared away by effort. Two American gentlemen, acquaintances also of mine, had been recommended to him...

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...aby’s cradle, while Jean and Jeannette were out getting in the hay. As our painters are bent on military subjects just now, I throw out this as a good... ... Missionary Register by his side, took that kind of recreation which suits romantic and unromantic men after din- ner. He sipped Madeira: built castle... ...ng very pleasantly out on the sea, and Jim, attracted to the window by the romantic appearance of the ocean and the heavens, thought he would further ... ...wether. There was Mr. John Paul Jefferson Jones, titularly attached to the American Embassy and correspondent of the New Y ork Demagogue, who, by way ... ...o well? Finally, the procession being formed in the order described by the American diplomatist, they marched into the apartment where the banquet was...

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...thee, and thou hadst not, as now, conceived thyself to be the hero of some romantic history, and converted, in thy vain imagi- nations, honest Griffit... ...n to entertain doubts of my own, I often think that this wildfire chase of romantic situation and adventure may lead thee into some mischief; and then... ...naughty night to swim in.’ As for the rest, if you can work mysterious and romantic heroes out of old cross-grained fishermen, why, I for one will rea... ...on- tempt of the present audience, or that caprice which so of- ten tempts painters and musicians and great actors, in the phrase of the latter, to wa... ...ght is by no means an improb- able fiction. Shortly after the close of the American war, Sir James Graham of Netherby constructed a dam-dyke, or cauld...

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...I remem- bered of my mother. The ladies observed that it was clear I was a romantic child. I noticed that the old gentleman said ‘Humph,’ very often, ... ...he spoke of his exposure to the risk of marrying again; it added a curious romantic tenderness to my adoration of him, and made me feel that he and I ... ...e. Standing with my father on deck, and gazing on this fringe of the grand romantic Continent, I remembered our old travels, and felt myself bound to ... ... soit peu philosophe, a ce qu’on dit; a traveller. They say he has a South American complexion. I knew him a boy; and his passion is to put together w... ... shall govern the intellectual world—your poets, 367 George Meredith your painters, your men of science. They reflect a beautiful sovereign mistress ...

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...r,” said he, “which will be nothing but pain and trouble to her; she seems romantic” (extreme sensibility is so called by notaries), “and, you’ll see,... ... three thousand francs, a gift from Havana, which city, at the time of the American War of Independence, he had protected from an attack by the Britis... ...extreme beauty, to which her almost hopeless love gave a depth which great painters have sometimes conveyed in pictures where the soul is brought into...

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...patience seems to have been due to a needless panic, Bootle, the notorious American scientific quack, having made an announcement that Filmer interpre... ... But in that matter he did a thing that seemed to her at once delicate and romantic. He made a go-between of Fanny. Fanny could not keep the secret, a... ...inchelsea. She discovered he had forgotten the names of more than half the painters whose work they had rejoiced over in Florence. It was a sadly disa...

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...atly excited by this beginning of an affair which seemed to have an almost romantic interest, and they began to joke about it. But Hulot stopped them ... ...her, and her lips seemed to quiver on the verge of pronouncing it. Like an American Indian, she watched every muscle of the face of her enemy, tied, a... ...sources, the poesy of ancient times revived in the midst of this weird and romantic nature, these armed and unarmed Chouans, cruel and praying, men ye... ...ore brilliant than on any of her past days, for a serenity like that which painters give to the mar- tyrs added to her face an imposing dignity. She h...