... Classics Series Publication Vittoria by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...assics Series Publication Vittoria by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...t asses,’ may not be absolutely objectionable, for transparency is, as the critics rightly insist, meritorious in a composition. And, according to the... ...and I must have distractions. My present distraction is De Pyrmont, a good Catholic and a good Aus- trian soldier, though a Frenchman. I grieve to say... ...of insurrection—a carol, a jangle of all dis- cord, savage as flame. Every church of the city lent its iron tongue to the peal; and now they joined an... ...strange and sudden devotion to the king. Rainy dawn and the tongues of the churches ushered in the last day of street fighting. Ammiani found Romara a... ...shed the Austrians to be beaten, remarking, how- ever, that they were good Catholics, most fervent Catholics. As the Lord decided, so it would end! “O...

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...ics Series Publication Sandra Belloni by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... Series Publication Sandra Belloni by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...e interrogator: “Oh, because—do you know, we have very select music at our church?” “We have a highly-paid organist,” added Arabella. “Recently electe... ...also we owe everything to the licence our poets have taken in the teeth of critics. Shall I give you examples? It is not necessary. Our simplest prose... ...now, my feeling is, and I cannot at all account for it, that if she were a Catholic she would not seem so gross?” “Some of the poetry of that religion... ... her note high from a full chest and with glad bright eyes, which her fair critics thought just one de- gree brazen, after the revelation in the doorw... ...ister. She said pointedly once: “Really, if we are to be miserable, I turn Catholic and go into a convent.” The strange thing was that Arabella imagin...

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...LORD ORMONT AND HIS AMINTA By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Lord Ormont a... ...ublication Lord Ormont and His Aminta by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ication Lord Ormont and His Aminta by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...them; one of the fellows hummed bars of some hymn tune, rather faster than church. And next day there was a murmur of letters passing between Matey an... ...nd. Lord Ormont wrote intemperately. His Titanic hurling of blocks against critics did no harm to an enemy skilled in the use of trimmer weapons, nota... ... into orders if you aim at any distinction?” “And a member of the Anglican Church would not be al- lowed to exchange his frock for a cavalry sabre,” s... ...plained; “I said, America. Y ou would be among Prot- estants in America.” “Catholics and Protestants are both welcome to us, accord- ing to our scheme...

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...y George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ... Publication One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...lause of the boys and girls of both ages in this land; and all the English critics heap their honours on its brave old Simplicity: our national litera... ...pplied the phrase. ‘Only, the moment old Colney moral- izes, he’s what the critics call sententious. We’ve all a parlous lot too much pulpit in us.’ ‘... ...assed now and then with a shudder, where the funereal square bricks-up the Church, that Arctic hen-mother sits on the square, and the moving dead are ... ...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 ...

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...BEAUCHAMP’S CAREER By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Beauchamp’s C... ...Series Publication Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ies Publication Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...y sent undis- tinguished able men to army and navy—lieutenants given to be critics of their captains, but trustworthy for their work. In the later lif... ..., and spied for the Bianchina behind the window-bars. The count was in the churches or the Galleries. Renee thought she began to comprehend the spirit... ...cantly: ‘Marquise, you did me the honour to consent to accompany me to the Church of the Frari this afternoon?’ she felt her self-accusation of coquet... ...ughed scornfully. ‘Why Trieste? I ask you, why T rieste? Y ou can’t have a Catholic priest at your bidding, with- out her father’s sanction.’ ‘We leav...

...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some cr...

...GE By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ries Publication The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... was the pair of them, as to that, and so was Chillon John, the son. Those critics quoting Nymney should look at the portrait of her in the Long Saloo... ...ddi- tion to being a great seaman, he was a very religious man and a stout churchman. Well, now, the Curtis Fakenham of Captain Kirby’s day had a good... ...e to behold her; she begged a visit at her grave, though it was to be in a Catholic burial-place and the priests had used her dear master and mistress... ...ness of Protestant pew and pulpit for him. Another fit of it, in the Roman Catholic direction, had proposed, during his latest dilemma, to relieve him... ...ed agony scenes in a play: they bring down the curtain, they don’t win the critics. I heard her “my husband” and saw his face.’ ‘You didn’t hear a whi...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Enter Dame Gossip As Chorus. Everybody has heard of the beautiful Countess of Cressett, who was one of the lights of this country at the time when crowned heads were running over Europe, crying out for charity?s sake to be amused after their tiresome work of slaughter: and ...

...ics Series Publication Celt and Saxon by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... Series Publication Celt and Saxon by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...e eyes of his host dwelt on him with their full repellent stare. The young Catholic gentleman expected he might hear a frenetic zealot roar out: Be of... ...‘A Protestant, of course,’ Patrick spoke as he thought. ‘Madame Dugue is a Catholic of Catholics, and the most honourable of women.’ ‘That I’ll believ... ...ed, accepting the mental alertness he fastened on her. We must perforce be critics of these tear-away wits; which are, moreover, so threadbare to conc... ...d throw herself away on that branded villain called a prince, abjuring her Church for a little fouler than hangman to me and every gentleman alive. I ... ...eakfast-room, it marks that fatal period of de- generacy for us, which our critics of Literature as well as Art are one voice in denouncing, when the ...

...Excerpt: A young Irish gentleman of the numerous clan O?Donnells, and a Patrick, hardly a distinction of him until we know him, had bound himself, by purchase of a railway-ticket, to travel direct to the borders of North Wales, on a visit to a notable landow...

...cs Series Publication Evan Harrington by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...Series Publication Evan Harrington by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ..., and en- gaged that her children should be brought up in the faith of the Catholic Church: which Lymport gossips called, paying the Devil for her pri... ... gaged that her children should be brought up in the faith of the Catholic Church: which Lymport gossips called, paying the Devil for her pride. The t... ...Nick. As usual, the men took a middle position. Theirs was the pleasure of critics, which, 127 George Meredith being founded on the judgement, lasts ... ... He lashed out at every ball, and far flew every ball that was bowled. The critics saw, in this return to his old practices, promise of Nick’s approac... ...Bonner’s apartments, alone with the old lady. ‘To make up for lost time in Catholic Portugal!’ she explained it to the household. On the morning after...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Above Buttons. Long after the hours when tradesmen are in the habit of commencing business, the shutters of a certain shop in the town of Lymport-on-the-Sea remained significantly closed, and it became known that death had taken Mr. Melchisedec Harrin...