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...ion of 1830, Guerande is still a town apart, essentially Breton, fervently Catholic, silent, self-contained,—a place where modern ideas 7 Beatrix hav... ...erior to the latter in antiquity and for- tune as the T rojans were to the Romans. The Guaisqlains (the name is also spelled in the olden time du Glai... ... with the East, where the semi-Saracenic architects, careless of the great Catholic thought, give four leaves to clover, while Chris- tian art is fait... ... dispossessed Elder branch. The future of the exiled Bourbons, that of the Catholic religion, the influence of political innovations on Brittany were ... ...rnalist, and has at this very moment in her house the most venomous of all writers,—so the post- master says, and he’s a juste-milieu man who reads th... ...iterature of the dead languages, and to a very restricted choice of French writers. When, at sixteen, he began what the Abbe Grimont called his philos... ...ort of literary revolution when the great question of the classics and the romanticists palpitated on all sides,—in the newspapers, at the clubs, at t... ...pire, and behold the Grand Army when it came to the Champ de Mars, as to a Roman circus, to salute its Caesar before it went to its death at Waterloo.... ... the ranks of the bourgeoi- sie, to which we owe the greater number of our writers. “Which way did you come?” asked Mademoiselle des T ouches, colorin...

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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... ... 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... ...nce of machine guns, a significance thoroughly ven- tilated by imaginative writers fifteen years before, was being grasped by the conservative but by ... ... large a proportion of its mem- bers to the front; the scientific men, the writers, have been begging to be used in any capacity at any price or none;... ...ne of the many corrupting lies in British intellectual life. English comic writers never weary of sneering at the Hindu who claimed to be a “failed B.... ...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... ...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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......................................................................... 352 ROMAN ELEGIES. ............................................................... ...N a town where parity According to old form we see,— That is to say, where Catholic And Protestant no quarrels pick, And where, as in his father’s day... ... Luth’ran children used to dwell, By songs and sermons taught as well. The Catholic clingclang in truth Sounded more pleasing to our youth, For all th... ...across my mind it rush’d With pristine force the other day. The New-Poetic Catholics In ev’ry point its aptness fix! 1815.* SONGS. SONGS are like pain... ...irst occasioned by some violent attacks made on them by some insignificant writers. They are extremely numerous, but scarcely any of them could be tra... ...ings, then mayst thou dread the soft breeze.” 352 Goethe ELEGIES. PART I. ROMAN ELEGIES. [The Roman Elegies were written in the same year as the V e-...

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... and is already beginning in several of the inert portions of our country. Writers, administrators, the Church from its pulpit, the Press in its colum... ...olution. Attached to the Simeuse family, and consequently, good 39 Balzac Catholics, the Beauvisage father and mother desired to have their son bapti... ...tness, and the manners of a petted child, all that her person presented of romantic charm. Still, a husband capable of reforming her education and eff... ...of Arcis and her future expectations as Lady Croesus, and would spin her a romance to end in true love and a marriage.” “That’s a very pretty idea!” c... ... money.” “And,” continued Ernestine, “she has selected for the hero of her romance—” “Oh!” interrupted Madame Mollot, “an old man of fifty!— fie!” “Ho... ...ntre, and is republican without wanting a republic, he proclaims himself a Catholic, and sits astride the hobby of that party, namely,—liberty of educ... ...y are intended.” “Ah ca!” exclaimed Emile Blondet, “and it is this fervent Catholic who fights a duel!” “Better or worse than that. This Catholic live... ...he said, had been provided for him by Daniel d’Arthez, one of our greatest writers, 119 Balzac and the payment for that, added to his own small means...

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...nglish, nay, in the human mind, to be safely neglected. The essence of all romance is a quest; the quest most perennially and univer- sally interestin... ...e conscious of what there was to forgive; and in the second, a little more roman- tic in her attachment to him. As it is, he was son homme; he 5 Henr... ...ere is indeed not much good to be said. The peer of the eighteenth-century writers (even when, as in Fielding’s case, there was no reason why they sho... ... de- rive the full quantity of pleasure from him without it. The exuberant romantic faculty of Joseph Andrews and its pleas- ant satire; the mighty cr... ...go of honour,” he is admirable, and up to his time almost unique. Ordinary writers and ordinary readers have never been quite content to admit that br... ...s have generally consulted the Latin only; which, in some of the few Greek writers I have read, is intolerably bad. And as the English translators, fo... ...e, we will call back your husband; for, upon my word, he hath shewn a good catholic patience. And where is the honest serjeant and his wife? I am plea...

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...oor creatures had never, before their marriage, read a tale, or heard of a romance; their very drawings were of figures whose anatomy would have been ... ...d 8 A Daughter of Eve decided that music was a Christian art, born of the Catholic Church and developed within her. The two Maries were there- fore p... ...f a devote’s character to make a merit of doing her duty. The master was a Catholic German; one of those men born old, who seem all their lives fifty ... ... and composition, three daughters of heaven, whose choir was led by an old Catholic faun drunk with music, were to these poor girls the compensation o... ... Lady Dudley. In the eyes of many Parisian women, Felix, a sort of hero of romance, owed much of his success to the evil that was said of him. Madame ... ...e this. Felix, however, found in his work the same pleasure that painters, writers, architects take in their creations. He dou- bly enjoyed both the w... ...eceived illustrious artists, leading financial personages, dis- tinguished writers; but only after subjecting them to so rigid an examination that the... ...r salon, brought there by one of the wittiest, but also one of the laziest writers of that epoch, Emile Blondet, celebrated behind closed doors, highl... ...once before appeared at the great and noble Theatre-Francais in a splendid romantic play of the style of “Pinto,”—a pe- riod when the classic reigned ...

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...more. Indeed, the fascinating powers of opium are admitted even by medical writers, who are its greatest enemies. Thus, for instance, Awsiter, apothec... ...rding prejudices of birth and education, but should look upon himself as a catholic creature, and as stand- ing in equal relation to high and low, to ... ...mber a thought (obvious enough, and which has been prettily expressed by a Roman poet) which gave me some consolation at that moment under my poverty.... ...ury of thought had failed even to advance by one hair’s breadth? All other writers had been crushed and overlaid by the enormous weight of facts and d... ...told him that he had almost as unlim- ited a command over apparitions as a Roman centurion over his soldiers.—In the middle of 1817, I think it was, t... ...om I confess that I prefer, both for style and matter, to any other of the Roman histori- ans; and I had often felt as most solemn and appalling sound...

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... gone too, and their Italian successors are already tracing out a score of Roman traces that it was the Austrian custom to minimise. Captain Pirelli r... ... those great architectural wrecks that seem most to impress con- temporary writers. I have seen the injuries and ruins of the cathedrals at Arras and ... ...erly trained and disciplined infantry in the field from the passing of the Roman legions to the appearance of the Swiss footmen. he makes it very clea... ...es that have happened to all these arms. Before this war began speculative writers had argued that infantry drill in close formation had now no fighti... ...es and clubs and revolvers serve better in the trenches. The krees and the Roman sword would be as useful. The fine flourish of the bayonet is only po... ...an- choly exemplification of this than the spectacle of the Angli- can and Catholic churches at the present time, one using the tragic stresses of war... ... the intellectual values of the leading divines of both the Angli- can and Catholic communions. The self-styled Intelligen- tsia of Great Britain is a... ...was aggressive from 1875 onward, if Belgium was invaded unrighteously, if (Catholic) Austria forced the pace upon (non-Catholic) Russia. But now—now t... ...Another is Blight the solicitor, who goes about bewailing the fact that we writers are “holding out false hopes of higher agricultural wages after the...

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...Art of Preserving Beauty.” He picked up the so-called Arab book, a sort of romance written by a physician of the preceding cen- tury, and happened on ... ...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... ...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... ...the cashier and his master had thrown them all into the wildest regions of romance. The mutual satisfaction of Cesar and Anselme, betrayed by looks di... ...ke. We can say to the old man, ‘Ha, monsieur! the ancients, the Greeks and Romans, knew a thing or two, and were not so stupid as some would have us b... ...so plain as to check confidence, had grown sublime through the exercise of Catholic virtues; upon it shone, as it were by anticipation, the celestial ... ... of illu- sions. Possibly, hope is the better half of courage; indeed, the Catholic religion makes it a virtue. Hope! has it not sus- tained the weak,... ...arious ways. Birotteau found himself among a numerous company of deputies, writers, journalists, stock- brokers, merchants of the upper grades, agents... ...ition, in the hearing of his uncle, his daughter, and Popinot, the sublime catholic prayer:— “Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name; Thy ...

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...omp- ous bronze statue or two of some periwigged, hook-nosed emperor, in a Roman habit, waving his bronze baton on his broad-flanked brazen charger. W... ...f the 13 Thackeray time. Who can respect a simpering ninny, grinning in a Roman dress and a full-bottomed wig, who is made to pass off for a hero? or... ...town. Some of our party went to a Spanish venta, as a more con- venient or romantic place of residence than an English house; others made choice of th... ...ck which has an air at all picturesque or romantic; there is a plain Roman Catholic cathedral, a hideous new Protestant church of the cigar-divan arch... ...moke had darkened the whole city with soot, and when, according to the old writers, there really was bright weather. The fleets of caiques bustling al... ...e it is impossible for us to comprehend the source and nature of the Roman Catholic devotion. I once went into a church at Rome at the request of a Ca... ...reverence. It costs one no small effort even to admit the possibility of a Catholic’s credulity:to share in his rapture and devotion is still further ... ...mo- rial accorded to the Christians of the Latin rite in Syria. All French writers and travellers speak of this protection with de- lightful complacen... ...I would urge, humbly, however, is this—Do not let us be led away by German writers and aes- thetics, Semilassoisms, Hahnhahnisms, and the like. The l...

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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... ...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... ...racelsus and Albertus Magnus. I read and studied the wild fancies of these writers with de light; they appeared to me treasures known to few beside... ...ites was a judgement from heaven to chastise her partiality. She was a Roman Catholic; and I believe her confessor confirmed the idea which she had co... ...ll of imagination; and very often, in imita tion of the Persian and Arabic writers, he invented tales of wonderful fancy and passion. At other times...

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...I sent the diva, with excuses and compliments, a nuptial present-necklace, Roman goldwork, locket-pendant, containing sunny curl, and below a fine pea... ... has the oldest in the kingdom. But he will have the best of everything. A Romanee! A Musigny! Sip, my friend, you embrace the Goddess of your choice ... ...we’ll hope, you will be sitting with us over a mag- num of Victor Radnor’s Romance Conti aged thirty-one: a wine, you’ll say at the second glass, High... ...treat precipitately into the nooks where waxen tapers, carefully tended by writers on the Press, light-up mysterious images of our national selves for... ...tonished them with a Provencal or Cevennes air, Hugue- not, though she was Catholic; but it suited her mezzo-so- prano tones; and it rang massively of... ...he Fate of Princes! The Paths of Glory! St. Louis was a very distant Roman Catholic mon- arch; and the young gentleman of Evangelical education could ... ...or the servants, with the remark: ‘It would give us a nightmare of a Roman Catholic Cathedral!’ A bit of the window was lifted by Dorothea, cautiously...

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...lined and uncoordinated minority of inventors, experi- menters, educators, writers and organisers has achieved this development of human possibilities... ...ing, and upon nations for weakening towards Ritualism, or treating Ro- man Catholics as tolerable human beings; there would be great rejoicings over t... ...ess homes in which so many find themselves, a going out towards something, romance if you will, beauty, that has suddenly be- come a need—a need that ... ...e, joys and fears on such a scale, in such an intricacy as never Greek nor Roman knew. The interminable procession of horse omnibuses went lumbering p... ...g fingers flat together, carried the point against him. He quoted Cato and Roman law and the monasteries of Thibet. “Well, anyway,” said Hatherleigh, ... ...of young Jews ascendant from Whitechapel, here a circle of journalists and writers, here a group of Irish politicians, here two East Indians, here a p... ...ut I went on talking. It’s the grim irony in the lives of all politicians, writers, public teach- ers, that once the audience is at their feet, a new ...

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...er the promptings of transient excitement, a love-adventure in an age when romances are written precisely because they never happen; to have dreamed o... ...ne of the grotesque figures so often set before us by German novelists and writers of /libretti/, he beheld a simple, unpretentious man, whose manners... ...sitions of Rossini, in whom this mu- sic is personified, with those of the writers who are more or 19 Balzac less of his school, to me seem worthy at... ...l lover, to whom she abandons herself with the rapture of the woman in the Roman mosaic who embraces a chimera; yet a third is thinking that this very... ...eroic life of the period is there: the mind enters into it; I read in it a romance, a poem of chivalry. The expo- sition is now finished; the resource... ...en unheard; but at this critical moment it sounds like thunder; the divine Catholic Church rises glori- ous in light. And here I was amazed to find th... ... of hell; we ought to emerge with hope in our heart. “I, as musician and a Catholic, wanted another prayer like that in Mose. I should have liked to s...

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... 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... ...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... ...arth might become such, did mankind them- selves consent. The charm of the Roman climate helped to clothe his thoughts in greater beauty than they had... ...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... ...h century into cold impersonations of my own mind. They are represented as Catholics, and as Catholics deeply tinged with religion. T o a Protestant a... ... by a feigned tale to confess himself before death; this being esteemed by Catholics as essential to salvation; and she only relinquishes her purpose ... ... _130 412 V olume One To see what was romantic there. 12. 12. 12. 12. 12. And all this, though quite ideal,— Read... ...r the worshipped father of our common country, With contributions from the catholics, Will make Rebellion pale in our excess. Be these the expedients ...

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...es of the States and T erritories themselves form a chorus of sweet and most romantic vocables: Delaware, Ohio, Indiana, Florida, Dakota, Iowa, Wyomin... ...ended, and the most varied subject for an enduring liter- ary work. If it be romance, if it be contrast, if it be heroism that we require, what was Tr... ...me was Dickson and you a journeyman baker; but beyond that, whether you were Catholic or Mormon, dull or clever, fierce or friendly, was all one to th... ...ICANS, AND INDIANS THE HISTORY OF MONTEREY has yet to be written. Founded by Catholic missionaries, a place of wise beneficence to In- dians, a place ... ...nues to inhabit and to paint it. There is in France scenery incomparable for romance and harmony. 53 Robert Louis Stevenson Provence, and the valley ... ...ast, the king’s highway of progress. Here, in England, too many painters and writers dwell dis- persed, unshielded, among the intelligent bourgeois. T... ...and pleasant fact is this, that they were never needed. Painters, sculptors, writers, singers, I have seen all of these 62 Across the Plains in Barbi... ...ining-room at Siron’s. CHAPTER V RANDOM MEMORIES I. – THE COAST OF FIFE MANY WRITERS HAVE vigorously described the pains of the first day or the first... ...some possible romance or as words to add to my vocabulary. T o grow a little catholic is the compensa- tion of years; youth is one-eyed; and in those ...

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...g than able; but, at whatever distance I may be from the greatest of comic writers, I shall still be glad to have used these crumbs in showing the mod... .... She went to church, reformed her dress, 27 Balzac wore gray, and talked Catholicism, mysticism, and so forth. All this produced, in 1825, another l... ...hen it had fallen he went away as happy as an academician at the fall of a romantic drama. Veritable supernumeraries of the social comedy, Phellion, L... ...s youth: modern society could have no other basis than heredity. An ardent Catholic, like all men from the Comtat, he went to the earliest morning mas... ...oisie Flavie, to whom in all her life love had never taken the language of romance, sat still, but happy, her heart palpitat- ing, and saying to herse... ...ised to heaven in religious ecstasy, he recited a prayer; he was a fervent Catholic; he reverently crossed himself. It was fine; like the vision of Sa... ...Christ.’ Strive to convert yourself to the holy Catholic, apos- tolic, and Roman Church, and you will see how empty your words are. Hear me, Felix; ma...

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...r example, to trace how Christianity drifted into the consciousness of the Roman world. But when a re- ligion has been interrogated it has always had ... ...s; English, Americans, Bengalis, Russians, French, people brought up in a “Catholic atmosphere,” Positivists, Baptists, Sikhs, Mohammedans. Their dive... ... make marriage into a mystical sacrament, and, with some excep- tions, the Roman communion exacts the sacrifice of celi- bacy from its priesthood, reg... ...back into religious feel- ing. Amongst the sex-tormented priesthood of the Roman communion in particular, ignorant of the extreme practices of the Ess... ... is an extremely interesting case. He is a writer who was formerly a Roman Catholic priest, and in his 54 God The Invisible King reaction from Cathol... ...as but to realise fully that God is not necessarily the T riune God of the Catholic Church, and banish his in- tense suspicion that he may yet be lure... ...hly thought out than those of any other of 63 H. G. Wells these sceptical writers I have quoted. On that account they are perhaps more typical. He sp... ...ious,” or they become murderous, or they become suicidal. All these letter-writers in confinement have con- vinced their fellow-creatures by some extr...

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...greatest disciple, ‘Flesh is but an external propagation.’ To poets and to writers his presentation of the marvellous is amazing; to Seers it is simpl... ...ed spiral letters (‘True Christian Religion,’ 278). Even in the North some writers have laughed at the gates of pearl, and the dia- monds which stud t... ...ouple. Their lives were those of saints whose virtues are the glory of the Roman Church. They ame- liorated the condition of our people; they supplied... ...n; her days are spent in the state of mystical contemplation which was, so Catholic writers tell us, habitual with the early Christian solitaries, in ... ...ys are spent in the state of mystical contemplation which was, so Catholic writers tell us, habitual with the early Christian solitaries, in whom the ... ...cu- lous to call Him God as to call the slave who turns the grind- stone a Roman citizen? Besides, another difficulty, as insoluble to this supreme hu... ...ion of God which yet is not God. This hypothesis seemed so criminal to the Roman Church that she has made the omnipresence of God in the least particl... ...o a step further. You believe in physics. But your physics begin, like the Catholic religion, with an act of faith. Do they not pre-suppose some exter...

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... the un- known painter from oblivion and blazed the trail which succeeding writers, with more or less do- cility , have followed. For a long time no c... ...e lines which he laid down. The rise of this reputation is one of the most romantic incidents in the history of art. But I do not propose to deal with... ...purpose. And when such as had come in contact with Strickland in the past, writers who had known him in Lon- don, painters who had met him in the cafe... ... legend to which it then attaches a fanatical belief. It is the protest of romance against the commonplace of life. The incidents of the legend become... ... was enough in the little that was known of him to give opportunity to the romantic scribe; there was much in his life which was strange and terrible,... ...y the reader is safer of entertainment in their hands than in those of the writers who take a malicious pleasure in rep- resenting the great figures o... ...he’s a Protestant, and you know they don’t look upon these things like the Catholics.’ 203 Somerset Maugham “Then he said: `But what does Ata say to ...