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...over the way. ‘Such,’ thought Mr. Pickwick, ‘are the narrow views of those philosophers who, content with examining the things that lie before them, l... ...y by the roadside). ‘Very!’ said Mr. Tupman. ‘English girls not so fine as Spanish—noble creatures—jet hair —black eyes—lovely forms—sweet creatures—b... ...n him, and he felt it necessary to say something. ‘Go on, Jemmy,’ said the Spanish traveller, ‘like black eyed Susan—all in the Downs—no croaking—spea... ...ed—take home the lady —do for T uppy.’ Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all. The shaft had reached him, ... ..., come, Tom,” said the old gentleman, “that’s not the way to address solid Spanish mahogany. Damme, you couldn’t treat me with less respect if I was v... ... or other happened, from time immemorial, that many of the best and ablest philosophers, who have been perfect lights of science in matters of theory,...

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...Europe all rallying on us. It is a problem like few. Truly, if man, as the Philosophers brag, did to any extent look be- fore and after, what, one may... ...t widowed Dame de Fontenai, brown beautiful woman, daughter of Cabarus the Spanish merchant,—has softened the red bristly counte- nance; pleading for ... ...and Host over the Western Scotch Whigs; Jamaica Planters got Dogs from the Spanish Main to hunt their Maroons with: France too is bescoured with a Dev... ...210 The French Revolution - V olume Three of the most scarped description; Spanish Field-officerism struck mute at such cat-o’-mountain spirit, the ca... ...! Deputy Feraud, stretching out his hands, baring his bosom scarred in the Spanish wars, obtests vainly: threatens and resists vainly. Rebellious Depu...

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...ason against us all, had been demonstrated to the satisfaction of all true philosophers. Who were these shams and make-believe men? They were, in fact... ...a perpetual memento of their degradation? Wherefore is it that men of pure Spanish blood will hold no intercourse with the Cagot? Wherefore is it that... ...respected a secret which was guarded so severely. This might be supposed a Spanish tale; yet it hap- pened in England, and in a pretty populous neighb... ... be found still lingering in the old Ro- man settlements, both Gaulish and Spanish, long after they had become obsolete (and sometimes unintelligible)... ...s. These volun- teers came forward as allies of England against French and Spanish invasion; but once embattled, what should hinder them from detectin... ...e regions which they frequented,) supposing him to have been captured by a Spanish guarda costa, he would scarcely have been able, from his ignorance ...

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...ed their nimble way on the edge of the incomprehensible. Some- times great philosophers seemed to have noth- ing to say to him, but at others he recog... ...without look- ing at it. Philip took it up and saw that it was a volume of Spanish verse, the poems of San Juan de la Cruz, and as he opened it a shee... ... in a hospital patient.” “I was trying to do some translations. D’you know Spanish?” “No.” “ Well, you know all about San Juan de la Cruz, don’t you?”... ...bout San Juan de la Cruz, don’t you?” “I don’t indeed.” “He was one of the Spanish mystics. He’s one of the best poets they’ve ever had. I thought it ... ...h a peculiar intensity. He took up his volume of poetry . “You should read Spanish,” he said. “It is a noble tongue. It has not the mellifluousness of... ..., much broken but rich in colour; and on the walls were old masters of the Spanish school in beautiful though dilapidated frames: though gruesome in s...

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...ever fallen under a single sceptre. Amongst modern empires, doubtless, the Spanish of the sixteenth century, and the British of the present, can- not ... ...n him with the force of a thunderbolt, that the revolt had extended to the Spanish provinces, and was headed by Galba. He fainted upon hearing this; a... ...philosophic attainments, and perhaps upon philosophic glory. All the great philosophers of his own time, whether Stoic or Peripatetic, and amongst the...

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...ncampment, prodigal and magnificent because it was vic- torious. After the Spanish campaign, the administration seemed to enter upon an era of tranqui... ...with a sinister wig, a face the color of Seine water, lighted by a pair of Spanish-tobacco-colored eyes, cold as a well-rope, always smelling a rat, a... ...mple; but above all—and 199 Balzac what I am going to say is intended for philosophers—I wish (if you’ll allow me to misquote a saying of Louis XVIII...

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... designed to attract notice; here a cap from the Pays de Caux, and there a Spanish mantilla; the hair crimped and curled like a poodle’s, or smoothed ... ...rds all round the room. A dresser was putting the finish- ing touches to a Spanish costume; for Florine was to take the part of a countess in an imbro... ...ingly pretty and graceful, wear very short skirts, 125 Balzac and dance a Spanish dance, and possibly they may carry off the piece with the public. T... ...ty, worthy of an Eastern poet, was brought into relief by the conventional Spanish costume of the stage. Coralie was the delight of the pit; all eyes ... ...or the sake of appear- ances, and vogue le galere!” She began to dance her Spanish dance, with an excited eagerness that revealed the strength of the ... ...nking-cup; Any catch is good, I wot, If good fellows take it up. Let philosophers protest, Let us laugh, And quaff, And a fig for the rest...

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...ation of this charming face was in the eyes, the iris of which, brown like Spanish tobacco and flecked with black, shone with golden reflections round... ... the hectic of death, is a wonderful fact worthy of the attention alike of philosophers and of heedless minds. He who has ever seen one of these subli...

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...rf kept the ice from forming. A wind, whose effects were like those of the Spanish levanter, swept the ice of the Strom- fiord, driving the snow to th... ... all to them. By the time they had swallowed their fifth cup of tea, these philosophers had come to think the mysterious scene of the preceding evenin...

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...quier’s meditation. He plumed himself on belonging to the class of cynical philosophers who could never be “taken in” by women,—putting them, one and ... ...d in place by a low privet hedge. A few monthly roses, pinkes, lilies, and Spanish broom filled this bed, around which in the sum- mer season boxes of...

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.......................................................255 A PREACHING FROM A SPANISH BALLAD ............................................................... ...ke a wreath Of our most blushful flower shine trembling through, T o teach philosophers the thirst of thieves: Is one for me? is one for you? II —Fair... ...eat, beat! white of heat, Red of heat, beat, beat! 259 A PREACHING FROM A SPANISH BALLAD I Ladies who in chains of wedlock Chafe at an unequal yoke, ... ...irt. And dog, bull, cook, was he, fanged, horned, plumed; Original man, as philosophers vouch; Carnivorous, cannibal; length-long exhumed, Frightfully... ...pressive scene, beyond arrest, A darkness not with stars of heaven dressed Philosophers behold; desponding view Your Many nourished, starved my brilli...

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... to be made one with Him after passing through 4 Love and Life Death. The Spanish poet Calderon made it the theme of two sacred dramas, in which the ... ...character of Marshal Berwick, recently slain at Philipsburg, an account of Spanish outrages at sea, or mayhap the story of a marvel- ous beast, half-t... ...for his new gown and cassock; but la! it was only a set of old doctors and philosophers, and he wished to know what musty discoveries they had been ma... ...ick grizzled brows overhanging searching dark grey eyes, shaded by a great Spanish hat. “Sir! oh sir, is it you?” he cried, breathlessly; “now all wil...

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...ed for much nobler purposes, than to enforce a lesson which many hea then philosophers had taught us long before, and which, though it might perhaps ... ... to confess the truth, this inconsistency is rather imagi nary than real. Philosophers are composed of flesh and blood as well as other human creatur... ...y ourselves to the examination of that modern doctrine, by which cer tain philosophers, among many other wonderful discover ies, pretend to have fou... ... out, that there is no such pas sion in the human breast. Whether these philosophers be the same with that sur prising sect, who are honourably me... ...Fielding 194 To avoid, however, all contention, if possible, with these philosophers, if they will be called so; and to show our own disposition to... ...rother, I thank heaven, are no slaves. We are not to be locked up like the Spanish and Italian wives. We have as good a right to liberty as yourselves...

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...nd adoration of abstract good, the to agathon kai to kalon of the Socratic philosophers, with our sympathies with our kind. In this, Shelley resembled... ...der institutions not more perfect than those of Athens, each would produce philosophers and poets equal to those who (if we except Shakespeare) have n... ...e reflected, and in which they compose one form. Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors and musicians, are, in one sense, the cre... ...ance at the close of the last century. But at this time a book, “Scenes of Spanish Life”, translated by Lieutenant Crawford from the German of Dr. Hub... ...originality that, though greatly struck by his first acquaintance with the Spanish poet, none of his pecu- liarities crept into the composition of “Th... ...h were there, With everything belonging to them fair!— We will have books, Spanish, Italian, Greek; And ask one week to make another week As like his ... ... volume 4 pages 40-41] from a proof copy of Hellas in his possession.] The Spanish Peninsula is already free. France is tranquil in the enjoyment of a... ...ate of great political excite- ment at the beginning of the year 1821. The Spanish Revolu- tion had been a signal to Italy; secrete societies were for...

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...lodgement there. It conducts the youthful man to temples of dusky thought: philosophers partaking of it are drawn by the arms of garlanded nymphs abou... ...idal wine! We heard of Giulia Sanfredini’s mar- riage to come off with the Spanish Duke, and drank it to the toast of our little Nesta’s godmother. I ... ...h his Andalusian lady-love in easy whispers about their mutual passion for Spanish chocolate all the while: so the musical critic of the Tirra-Lirra s... ..., and painfully, not ignobly—was in process of development: interesting to philosophers, if not to maidens. Victor accused her of paying too much heed... ... the science of specifics, in the style of the foreign physician, probably Spanish, who had no practice, and wished for leisure to let him prosecute h...

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...y of the Athletic Club was Gothic, the washroom Roman Imperial, the lounge Spanish Mission, and the reading-room in Chinese Chippendale, but the gem o... ...e Memory, Motion-picture-acting and Developing the Soul-power, Banking and Spanish, Chiropody and Photography, Elec- trical Engineering and Window-tri... ... to have Vision—” “I think those correspondence-courses are terrible!” The philosophers gasped. It was Mrs. Babbitt who had made this discord in their... ...ets of statistics, they were trudging off to lectures by authors and Hindu philosophers and Swedish lieutenants. “Gosh,” Babbitt wailed to his wife, a... ... but a crisp- ing frost had already stamped the maple trees with gold, the Spanish oaks were hung with patches of wine red, the sumach was brilliant i...

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...ts of the conversation were inaudible, and frag- ments incomprehensible. A Spanish galleon from the Phil- ippines hopelessly aground, and its treasure... ...ve dry for me, houses, copyrights, investments; I had never suspected that philosophers were so rich. He watched me drink and eat with a touch of envy... ...big gun, and was forbidden to waste his ammunition. Holroyd was learn- ing Spanish industriously, but he was still in the present tense and substantiv... ... one night, danced with Creole girls, who found Holroyd’s poor elements of Spanish, without either past tense or future, amply suffi- cient for their ... ...ips. He appeared to be addressing some imaginary public tribunal either in Spanish or Portu- guese. Holroyd’s improving ear detected something about a... ...or so of Peruvian half-breeds fleeing from the lust and tyranny of an evil Spanish ruler. Then came the stupendous outbreak of Mindobamba, when it was... ... insisted on his lying in the dark, and that was a great misery. And blind philosophers came and talked to him of the wicked levity of his mind, and r...

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...e irreducible mathematical expression will at times bring it to unity. Now philosophers after my Utopian pattern, who find the ultimate significance i... ...who profess what is called Science as against psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, and literary men, whom he regards as wild, foolish, immoral s... ... at present prospering politically, such as the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Spanish, the Moors, the Chinese, the *The T rue-born Englishman. 200 A Mod...

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... knows best; and the Dream, I say again, is the responsible party. 4. “The Spanish Nun.”* —There are some narratives, which, though pure fictions from... ... of the heroine, and from the unsettled state of society at that period in Spanish America, that a reader the most credulous would at times be startle... ...urous, not essentially differing from the monotonous character of ordinary Spanish life. Suppose the case, therefore, that Kate’s memoirs had been thr... ...gress of the dispute threw the decision at length upon the archives of the Spanish Marine. Those for the southern ports of Spain had been transferred,... ...se words: “Jeremy T aylor, the most eloquent and the subtlest of Christian philosophers, was the son of a barber, and the son-in-law of a king,”— allu... ..., were deluged with gold and silver coins, moidores, and dollars, from the Spanish 76 Memorials, and Other Papers mint of Mexico, etc. These, during ...

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... centuries after the discovery of the adjacent islands by the agent of the Spanish Viceroy. Notwithstanding this, I shall 29 Melville follow the exam... ..., as they liked, but that he for one preserved his go-ashore traps for the Spanish main, where the tie of a sailor’s neckerchief might make some diffe... ... consideration in which the ever-adorable sex is held by the men be—as the philosophers affirm—a just cri- terion of the degree of refinement among a ... ...his back, and who always reminded me of 244 Typee a man with a blister of Spanish flies, stuck between his shoul- ders. Another whom I frequently met... ...ore they left the house, he made T oby promise that he would give him five Spanish dollars if he succeeded in getting any part of his wages advanced f...