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...with regard to Shakespeare’s sonnets, Spenser’s minor poems, and the great writers and characters of Elizabeth’s age and those of Cromwell’s time.” Fr... ...y by the poet. In reality his style owed much to the seven- teenth-century writers, such as Milton and Sir Thomas Browne. He took part with Coleridge,... ...ative skill of De Quincey that has secured for him, in preference to other writers of his class, the favor of youthful readers. It would be too much t... ...d* miles— *“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 fibbing, by ascr... ...o an Englishman a pompous account of the Thames, constructed entirely upon American ideas of grandeur, and concluding in something like these terms:— ... ...sts of Judea—rose suddenly out of the quiet, out of the safety, out of the religious inspiration, rooted in deep pasto- ral solitudes, to a station in... ...nctity over what else might have seemed a heathen wilderness. This sort of religious talisman being secured, a man the most afraid of ghosts (like mys... ...itatione,” how prodigious must have been the adaptation of the book to the religious heart of the fifteenth century! Excepting the Bible, but exceptin...

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...ight beds, and this into a third apart- ment with yellow grained paper and American cloth tables, which was the dining-room by day and the men’s sitti... ...r Literature.” “It’s the only time we’ve got. And besides—” The horrors of religious controversy would begin…. Mr. Polly stuck loyally to the Three Ps... ...o have known that woman. At Canterbury, too, he first to his knowledge saw Americans. His shop did a good class trade in Westgate Street, and he would... ...emselves remorselessly locked out. The Canterbury employer was an amiable, religious-spir- ited man and he would probably not have dismissed Mr. Polly... ...ul and support and respect (I suppose) a perfect horde of pro- fessors and writers and artists and ill-groomed difficult people, instead of using our ...

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...from entering into ex- planations concerning their origin and purposes. As writers of travels among barbarous communities are generally very diffuse o... ...le INTRODUCTION TO THE EDITION OF 1892 BY ARTHUR STEDMAN Of the trinity of American authors whose births made the year 1819 a notable one in our liter... ...tsfield, Mass., ‘boarding around’ with the families of his pupils, in true American fashion, and easily suppressing, on one memorable occasion, the ef... ...e remained for four months, employed as a clerk. He joined the crew of the American frigate United States, which reached Boston, stopping on the way a... ... hesitate to employ, with all his patriotism, toward many renowned English writers. Dana is, indeed, great. There is nothing in literature more remark... ... pirated copies. Beside Hawthorne, Mr. Richard Henry Stoddard, of American writers, specially knew and appreciated Herman Melville. Mr. Stoddard was c... ...lding of considerable size, reserved for the habitation of the priests and religious attendants of the groves. In its vicinity was another remarkable ... ...their established notions of propriety, but was at variance with all their religious ordinances. However, although the ‘taboo’ was a ticklish thing to... ...—A SINGULAR SUPERSTITION—THE PRIEST KOLORY AND THE GOD MOA ARTUA—AMAZ- ING RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCE—A DILAPIDATED SHRINE—KORY-KORY AND THE IDOL—AN INFEREN...

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...now, he may be held first to have devised it as a mode of history. The six writers, whose sketches are collected under the general title of the August... ...tion of his mind, and the general cast of his character, indisposed him to religious thoughts. Nay, it has been common to class him amongst deliberate... ...profound believer, or a steadfast reposer of his fears and anxi- eties, in religious influences. A man of the world is but an- other designation for a... ...s. A man of the world is but an- other designation for a man indisposed to religious awe or contemplative enthusiasm. Still it is a doctrine which we ... ...and extensive ravages by fire, such as now happen, not unfrequently in the American woods, (but gen- erally from carelessness in scattering the glowin... ...es, their merit was such in the eyes of the discerning, that all judicious writers shrank from the attempt to alter them. In another instance of his l... ...t is equally certain, however, upon the concurring evidence of independent writers, that this connection had an oracular sanction—not to say, suggesti...

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...hilosophy: “One feels certain that behind all these light- ning-flashes of religious and philosophic thought there is a distant past, a dark backgroun... ...e all pre- vious centuries.” This testimony is borne out by the thoughtful American scholar, Thoreau, who writes: “What extracts from the Vedas I have... ...d agitations of worldly affairs, we cannot enter into the spirit of higher religious study. No study is of avail so long as our inner being is not att... ...It has since appeared in various languages; and English, German and French writers are all agreed in pronouncing it one of the most perfect expression...

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...ora, they pay no at- tention to the reptiles; happily, they abandon to the writers of comedy the shading and colorings of a Chardin des Lupeaulx. Vain... ...ame eager after gain. Though she was not lacking in sense or perspicacity, religious theories, and her complete igno- rance of higher emotions had enc... ...they were able to concentrate themselves on a matter in hand. Repressed by religious devotion, her natural intelligence exercised itself within the li... ...ed an enor- mous bunch of old trinkets, among which in 1824 he still wore “American beads,” which were very much the fashion in the year VII. In the b... ... the year VII. In the bosom of this family, bound together by the force of religious ties, by the inflexibility of its customs, by one soli- tary emot... ...do the work gratis for a certain number of years), various copying clerks, writers of bills and deeds, order clerks, principal clerks, sec- ond or und... ..., Bievre, Fontenay-aux-Roses, and Aulnay, so famous as the resort of great writers, and hoped in time to know the whole western side of the country ar... ...ling his cane and of flinging the sort of glance which Bixiou told him was American. He smiled to show his fine teeth; he wore no socks under his boot... ...nd China (where all government officials steal), also that of Austria, the American republics, and indeed that of the whole world, to the fact that fo...

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...and his sister in gentler manner hanged, and whether these two were simply religious mani- acs of the more furious order, or had real as well as imagi... ... the Orkneys; nor so much as a poor, over-driven, Covenanting slave in the American plantations; but can lay claim to a share in that memorial, and, i... ... this round of sordid pleasures. A Scot of poetic temperament, and without religious exaltation, drops as if by nature into the public-house. The pict... ...e the beginning of history. The date is reassuring; for I think cau- tious writers are silent on the General’s exploits. But the stone is connected wi... ...and without exactly casting in one’s lot with that disenchanting school of writers, one cannot help hearing a good deal of the winter wind in the last...

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...was the one leading characteristic of Coley’s life, namely, a reverent and religious spirit, which seems from the first to have been at work, slowly a... ... the day with the four children, and after these a portion of some book of religious instruction, such as ‘Horne on the Psalms’ or ‘Daubeny on the Cat... ...governess, and the life-long friend of her pupils; but the mother made the religious instruction her individual care, and thus upheld its pre-eminence... ...h Greek and Roman customs, law courts and expressions, and Greek and Roman writers. I do not find myself wanting in making out a stiff bit of Greek or... ...orce’s new book, and this involved an examination of the question in other writers; but lately I have laid all controversial works aside almost entire... ...expeditions; but of late whalers and sandal wood traders, both English and American, had been finding their way among them, and too often acting as ir... ...d interest in all questions of philology. Both were also readers of German writers on Church history and of critical interpretation of the New Testame... ...e the chief obstacle to the Mission. After describing an interview with an American captain, he continues:—’Reports are rife of a semi-legalised slave... ...tion, a sugar plantation has not been found a very advanced school for the American or West Indian negro, and as a matter of fact, the islander who ha...

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...and as it were spreading it over the whole field of his delineation; as if religious hetero- doxy had been the grand fact of Sterling’s life, which ev... ...acon’s mind it could by no means seem to be. Hinc illae lachrymae. For the Religious Newspapers, and Periodical Heresy-hunters, getting very lively in... ...er the lesson his life had to teach us is not much the reverse of what the Religious Newspapers hitherto educe from it. Certainly it was not as a “sce... ...er, a kind of mysterious nim- bus as the principal or one of the principal writers in the Times, which gave an interesting chiaroscuro to his char- ac... ...ng, and a power of serious eloquence, far beyond that of any of these four writers; and to which indeed there is nothing at all comparable in any of t... ... German Literature, very slight at this time, limited itself altogether to writers on Church mat- ters,—Evidences, Counter-Evidences, Theologies and R... ...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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...the blood- less dethronement of their oppressors, and the unveiling of the religious frauds by which they had been deluded into submission; the tranqu... ... a resemblance, which does not depend upon their own will, between all the writers of any particular age. They cannot escape from subjection to a comm... ...ct, I have written fear- lessly. It is the misfortune of this age that its Writers, too thoughtless of immortality, are exquisitely sensible to tem- p... ...t on the site of a Capuchin convent, demolished when the French suppressed religious houses; it was situated on the very overhanging brow of a low hil... ...lley PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE. CE. CE. CE. CE. The Greek tragic writers, in selecting as their subject any portion of their national histor... ...easure. In the minds of those who consider that magnificent fiction with a religious feel- 232 V olume One ing it engenders something worse. But Prom... ... 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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... the word pity; and hence, instead of saying “sympathy with another,” many writers adopt the monstrous barbarism of “sympathy for another.” 7 ably di... ...sts of Judæa—rose suddenly out of the quiet, out of the safety, out of the religious inspiration, rooted in deep pasto- ral solitudes, to a station in... ... France has produced, one of the reputed leaders is M. Michelet. All these writers are of a revolutionary cast; not in a political sense merely, but i... ... to read, may introduce you, that have not, to two or three dozen of these writers; of whom I can assure you beforehand that they are often profound, ... ...tity over what else might have seemed a heathen wilder- ness. This sort of religious talisman being secured, a man the most afraid of ghosts (like mys... ...tatione, how pro- digious must have been the adaptation of the book to the religious heart of the fifteenth century! Excepting the Bible, but exceptin... ...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:— ...

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...ome; I thought of the many people in Australia, who would have an interest in such a shipwreck, and would find their way here when they visit the Old ... ...g come but the jug of ale and the bread, you implore your waiter to ‘see after that cutlet, waiter; pray do!’ He cannot go at once, for he is carrying... ...within the hut, who would stream out hast- Charles Dickens 70 ily, throwing her child over one of her shoulders and her goitre over the other, as she... ...lergyman. In a little while, this hypocrite, with an elaborate demon- stration of hushing his footsteps, and with a face generally expressive of havin... ...o bitterly anathematised a poor little Circus. Similarly, in the reading provided for the young people enrolled in the Lasso of Love, and other excell... ...as already in the un- commercial line. This was a man who, though not more than thirty, had seen the world in divers irreconcilable capacities—had bee... ... at every violent roll, becomes the regular blast of a high pressure en- gine, and I recognise the exceedingly explosive steamer in which I ascended t... ...ere, where the old- est inhabitants were circling round and round a barrel-or- gan on hobby-horses, with the greatest gravity, and where the principal... ...dren played up and down all the steps, and in and out among all the people’s legs, and were beheld, to the general dismay, toppling over all the dange...

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...nest woman, a good mother of a family, and looked at life according to the religious programme of the middle classes. Such a career suited her own ide... ...boiled like a saucepan, and that several times, if it had not been for his religious sentiments, he should have flung himself into the Seine. Harassed... ...on horseback at full gallop up the stairway of the orangery at Versailles. Writers and artists died in the hospi- tal, as a natural consequence of the... ...inions on men and life in a way to shock a scrupulous woman who shared the religious feelings of her husband, and who thought it a crime to do the lea... ...ulties; but neither the conquerors, nor the actors, nor the women, nor the writers in the great drama will listen to the salutary voice. Cesar Birotte... ...ls, walls hung with an olive-green paper, and otherwise decorated with the American Declaration of Independence, a portrait of Bonaparte as First Cons... ...arious ways. Birotteau found himself among a numerous company of deputies, writers, journalists, stock- brokers, merchants of the upper grades, agents...

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...ould satisfy; he devoured books of every kind, feeding indiscriminately on religious works, history, philosophy, and physics. He has told me that he f... ...eur Saint-Martin, Monsieur de Gence, and a few other French or half German writers were almost the only persons in the French Empire to whom the name ... ...and beyond which was the refectory. This dining-hall, worthy of an ancient religious Order, ac- commodated all the school. Contrary to the usual pract... ...ticism, swathed in the wrap- pings of the phraseology affected by mystical writers: an ob- scure language full of abstractions, and taking such effect... ...away.” But how, then, in the ages when the understanding had preserved the religious and spiritualist impressions, which pre- vailed from the time of ... ...k him. She found him, with- out a guide, making her way alone in the North American wilderness, reaching him just in time to save his life. Louis had ...

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...e anecdote is trivial, but it shows the power of Julia Jowler over me. The writers of marine novels have so exhausted the subject of storms, shipwreck... ...s whom I have mentioned, and some la- dies in the cantonment of very rigid religious principles, re- fused to appear at my little party. They had bett... ...he dollars: do you hear?” Y ou see I had her in my power—up a tree, as the Americans say, and she very humbly lighted my pipe for me, and then departe... ... Irishman, and a Catholic.” “But he has not been very particular about his religious duties?” “Alas, no!” 68 Major Gahagan “He has not been to his mo...

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... coming into lower, less unspeakable provinces, is not all Loyalty akin to religious Faith also? Faith is loyalty to some inspired T eacher, some spir... ... a great distinction and ep- och in Human Beliefs; a great landmark in the religious de- velopment of Mankind. Man first puts himself in relation with... ... Poetic sport. Allegory and Poetic Delineation, as I said above, cannot be religious Faith; the Faith itself must first be there, then Allegory enough... ...th. Give a thing time; if it can succeed, it is a right thing. Look now at American Saxondom; and at that little Fact of the sailing of the Mayflower,... ...complaint, as we all know. But perhaps if we look at this of Books and the Writers of Books, we shall find here, as it were, the summary of all other ... ...which all other confusion circu- lates in the world! Considering what Book writers do in the world, and what the world does with Book writers, I shoul... ...ally to learn it!—Doubtless there is still peculiar virtue in Speech; even writers of Books may still, in some circumstances, find it convenient to sp...

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... who deserve a special word of condemnation. One of them was Scots; the other claimed to be American; admitted, after some fencing, that he was born i... ...ne, for instance, the composition of which he had bought years ago for five dollars from an American pedlar, and sold the other day for a hundred poun... ...ead break in the course of our enjoyment. STEERAGE TYPES WE HAD A FELLOW on board, an Irish-American, for all the world like a beggar in a print by Ca... ... and authority into the choice of a man’s own pleasures. I can excuse a person combating my religious or philosophical heresies, because them I have d... ...acid beech-woods. I was sure, by her face, that she had already recommended her spirit most religiously to Heaven, and prepared herself for the worst.... ...e betwixt a village and a town. I heard a great deal about drinking, and a great deal about religious revivals: two things in which the Scottish chara... ... a great chorus of grateful voices have arisen to spread abroad its fame. Half the fa- mous writers of modern France have had their word to say about ...

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...an. Extraordinary as this may seem, it is none the less true. Almost every religious house in the Peninsula, or in Eu- rope for that matter, was eithe... ...e detachment of the soul from all earthly things, which is demanded by the religious life, albeit on the continent of Europe there are many convents m... ...or in the cloister the great saying, “Peace in the Lord,” enters the least religious soul as a living force. The monk’s life is scarcely comprehensibl... ...ey needed its support. While Lamartine, Lamennais, Montalembert, and other writers were putting new life and elevation into men’s ideas of religion, a... ... island, 128 The Duchesse de Langeais and the crew of the vessel were all American sailors, who spoke nothing but English. One of M. de Montriveau’s ...

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...tch the outline of a romance laid in En gland, and having for its hero an American who goes thither to assert his inherited rights in an old manor ho... ...pened them), brown, brittle, sapless; so even the thoughts, which when the writers had gathered them seemed to them so brightly colored and full of li... ...d insisted on everywhere, al though without any discoverable reference to religious or moral motives; and always when the author seemed verging towar... ...he savage strain of the woman, mixed up as it was with the other weird and religious parts of her composition, sometimes snatch her back into barbaria... ...lous was a spider over the doctor’s head; a spider, I think, of some South American breed, with a cir cumference of its many legs as big, unless I am... ...ils stretching across the gulf of a hun dred and fifty years by which the American branch of the family was separated from the trunk of the family tr... ...d pay especial attention to this youth, consider it their duty to give him religious instruc tion in the faith of his fathers, and try to use him as ...

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...tating interest of others would have seemed quite poetic. Nowadays romance-writers arrange such effects; and it is quite within their province to do s... ...d Dumay to his wife, mak- ing her sit close by him. Madame Dumay, a little American about thirty-six years of age, wiped her eyes furtively; she adore... ... richest com- mercial house in Havre. Madame Dumay, a rather pretty little American, had the misfortune to lose all her children at their birth; and h... ...rnelle when Dumay held the thirteenth card or drew out his last trump. Her religious faith drove Modeste for a time into a singu- lar track of thought... ...ears which, it is said, were lacking in those of the wittiest of En- glish writers. Modeste existed for some time on a comprehension, not only of the ... ...tter as yours addressed to a poet of whom you know nothing personally. All writers are not angels; they have many defects. Some are frivolous, heedles... ...ectation for the calm of inno- cence. No matter how firmly family laws and religious pre- cepts may bind, there will always be the Clarissas and the J... ...d Dumay, “and you shall be a notary and the successor of Latournelle.” The American wife took the hand of the poor hunchback and pressed it. “What! yo...