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...e are and what approaches to life we need to take to be happy. Philosophers have added to the mix. As have playwrights, poets, witch doctors, noveli... ...ng situation. A driver may buckle the shoulder strap because there is always the possibility of an auto accident. I have heardthat 80% of Italia... ... If that doesn‘t happen they must find a new identity by identifying with the roots of their ancestors. Americans find comfort in their Irish, Italia... ...alth, the Norwegians and Americans had more money. It wasn‘t low taxes. Middle income Danes are in the 50% tax bracket. It isn‘t sunshine, the Italia...

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...hantom Vessel is the best known and most poetical of all the nautical legends. Novelists have used it, poets have embellished it, dramatists have put ... ...e continent. The statement was true. There were Portuguese, and Spaniards, and Italians, a few Frenchmen from Marseilles and Lyons, a few Dutchmen fro... ...y personal jealousy; second, that the sailors, most of whom were Portuguese or Italians, were warmly devoted to himself and would show the fact were a... ...unteers for desperate service. The Spaniards hung back, but the Portuguese and Italian sailors came forward with alacrity and volunteered for any duty... ...dred pairs of ears without once touching the victims' shoulders; and Matt, the Italian, who made a collection of nearly a thousand great toes, of whi...

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...ed by the police close to the purified purlieus of the Palais-Royal, as an Italian major-domo allows a careless servant to leave the sweepings of the ... ... miei tiranni in a dozen or so of sonnets, and maintaining as many hapless Italian 6 Gambara refugees out of his own purse, Count Andrea, who was so ... ...n his hip and replied in a single word: “Scoundrel!” But on looking at the Italian, who stood in the light of a street-lamp, he assumed a servile expr... ...ur is in search of the place, perhaps, for it is easy to see that he is an Italian—Italians are fond of velvet and of cheese. But if monsieur would li... ...he not on the verge of some false move? At this juncture he remembered the Italian table d’hote, and at once jumped at the middle course, which would ... ...cting to see one of the grotesque figures so often set before us by German novelists and writers of /libretti/, he beheld a simple, unpretentious man,...

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...it becomes impossible for the British, the French, the Belgians, Russians, Italians or Japanese to think any longer of settling their differences by w... ... for the restoration of Serbia by the prospect of future conflicts between Italian and Jugoslav that will let him in again to the Adriatic. His attent... ...end, a fraction of his debt, and gets his discharge. “B’s” feelings, as we novelists used to say, are “better imagined than described”; he does his be... ...m welcome back to the comity of nations. The French, British, Belgians and Italians, and every civilised force in Russia would tumble over one another... ...oining hands through an allied and friendly Serbia must be very present in Italian thought. The allied conception of the land route from the West and ... ...ments and readjustments that lie already before the French and British and Italians. Directly we discuss the problem of the absolutely neces- sary per...

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...jected edition de luxe of one of the writers of our day— the rarest of the novelists—who, long neglected by the multitudinous vulgar and dearly prized... ...ng man whom I easily perceived to be a foreigner and who proved in fact an Italian acquainted with no English word but my name, which he uttered in a ... ...s I proficient in his tongue; but as he was not so meanly constituted—what Italian is?—as to depend only on that member for expression he conveyed to ... ...hman. He was as good as Miss Churm, who could look, when required, like an Italian. CHAPTER IV I thought Mrs. Monarch’s face slightly convulsed when, ... ...hey think of the representation by a person so little the real thing as an Italian street-vendor of a protagonist formed by a public school? If I went... ...y with the highest circles. They had dipped into the most brilliant of our novelists without deciphering many passages. I still took an hour from them... ...I wished the two figures to “com- pose” together, intensely, and my little Italian had en- tered perfectly into my conception. The pair were vividly b...

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...ion: English—Protestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Moham... ... her tongue took to languages with an easy facility. She never allowed her Italian, French, and German to get rusty through neglect. The telegrams of ... ...in five minutes’ time, at no cost of brain, or labor, or genius this mangy Italian tramp has beaten them all, transcended them all, outstripped them a... ...ing little suns distributed over it. Think of it—it was by command of that Italian loafer yon der on his imperial throne in the Geneva prison that th... ...day night the life of the President of the French Republic was taken by an Italian assassin. Last night a mob surrounded our hotel, shouting, howling,... ...ter Scott Charles Bronte Alfred the Great and Johnson were the first great novelists. Thomas Babington Makorlay graduated at Harvard and then studied ... ...toms of members of the Inns of Court and with legal life generally. “While novelists and dramatists are constantly making mistakes as to the laws of m...

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...t at each other’s rooms, and spent many of our evening hours in discussing Italian politics. We were, most of us, paint- ers, poets, novelists, or scu... ...rs in discussing Italian politics. We were, most of us, paint- ers, poets, novelists, or sculptors;—perhaps I should say would-be painters, poets, nov...

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...rtune estimated at several mil- lions. All the members of the family spoke Italian, French, *Macedoine, in the sense in which it is here used, is a ga... ...see in the stranger some great criminal, the possessor of enormous wealth. Novelists described the old man’s life and gave some really interesting det... ...armonious strains. The languorous peculiarities of those skilfully blended Italian voices plunged him in an ecstasy of delight. He sat there, mute and... ...rasine, who was too passionately in love to make fine speeches to the fair Italian, was, like all lovers, grave, jovial, meditative, by turns. Althoug... ... was a sudden overflow of bewitching vivacity, of cordial unconstraint, of Italian good nature, of which no words can convey an idea to those who know... ...rom the salon, and toward which he had more than once turned his eyes. The Italian was armed with a dagger. “‘If you come hear me,’ she said, ‘I shall...

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...y long suite of apartments rather poorly furnished,— which is customary in Italian palaces, all their luxury being put into ceilings, statues, paintin... ...repre- sentative. You understand me, of course. I refer to that hand- some Italian woman whom you have in your house. Take care; some puritanical elec... ...inter- minable story, I would tell you the facts relating to my hand- some Italian, and you would see, Monsieur le comte, that her presence in my hous... ...ect for proprieties, you spoke to Monsieur Dorlange in my presence of that Italian woman whom people think his mistress; that was a nice little perfid... ...e honored and honorable Monsieur Bixiou. The scandal concerns a hand- some Italian woman whom I brought back from Italy and with whom I am said to be ... ...le; there is no such fertile source for com- pilers of causes celebres and novelists. In the eyes of the law, you must remember, the counterfeiting of...

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... baffling shades of the mental life, which in the hands of many latter-day novelists build up characters far too thin and too unconvincing, in the han... ...uaintance with all sorts of people, young and old, of high and low degree, Italian models and Russian artists. He would not hear of the Academy, and r... ...or else he spent days in Moscow where he had a studio, to which models and Italian sculp- tors, his friends and teachers, used to come to see him. Ele... ...ang with that passion of expression and rhythm which is only vouchsafed to Italians. Elena and Insarov were sitting alone together in a dark box close... ...ed the Austrians. ‘How long must you remain at Venice?’ Elena asked him in Italian. And her voice was as lifeless as her face. ‘One day for freighting...

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...of taking it. There are methods of so-called presentation, I believe among novelists who have appeared to flourish—that offer the situation as indiffe... ...interrupted her journey to pay a visit to her son, who at San Remo, on the Italian shore of the Mediterranean, had been spending a dull, bright winter... ... overhung the slope of its hill and the long valley of the Arno, hazy with Italian colour. It had a narrow garden, in the manner of a terrace, product... ...d; and the tall iron lattices admitted on occasion more than enough of the Italian sunshine. It was moreover a seat of ease, indeed of luxury, telling... ... he had English blood in his veins it had probably received some French or Italian commixture; but he suggested, fine gold coin as he was, no stamp no... ...my dear, what do you think of it?” he asked of the young girl. He used the Italian tongue, and used it with perfect ease; but this would not have conv...

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...d back to M. Pelet’s. “Look at this little woman; is she like the women of novelists and romancers? To read of female character as de- picted in Poetr... ...arger than a broad green leaf, to lead in a ribbon her Blenheim spaniel or Italian greyhound. No: he finds her in the schoolroom, plainly dressed, wit... ...ot like her thus, so I cut short the tete-a-tete and departed. CHAPTER XIX NOVELISTS SHOULD NEVER allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.... ...ustom, to opinion, to the desire to keep up a certain appearance, than the Italians are to priestcraft, the French to vain-glory, the Russians to thei... ..., sometimes a French savant; he had once a dissatisfied and savage-looking Italian, who neither sang nor played, and of whom Frances affirmed that he ... ...lessly, as if such beauty dispensed with, nay, despised arrange- ment. The Italian eye looked straight into you, and an inde- pendent, determined eye ...

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...commonly read than any other. It deals with a disguised duke, a villainous Italian, bigamy, a surpris- ing offer of the angelic first wife to submit t... ...almost of his success as a novelist he was given, like too many successful novelists (not like Scott), to rather undignified and foolish attacks on cr...

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...jected edition de luxe of one of the writers of our day— the rarest of the novelists—who, long neglected by the multitudinous vulgar, and dearly prize... ...a young man whom I at once saw to be a foreigner and who proved in fact an Italian acquainted with no English word but my name, which he uttered in a ... ... I proficient in his tongue; but as he was not so meanly constituted— what Italian is?—as to depend only on that member for expression he conveyed to ... ...man. He was as good as Miss Churm, who could look, when requested, like an Italian. CHAPTER IV I thought Mrs. Monarch’s face slightly convulsed when, ... ...hey think of the representation by a person so little the real thing as an Italian street-vendor of a protagonist formed by a public school? If I went... ...y with the highest circles. They had dipped into the most brilliant of our novelists with- out deciphering many passages. I still took an hour from th... ...shed the two figures to “com- pose” together with intensity, and my little Italian had entered perfectly into my conception. The pair were viv- idly b...

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... text of French operas sung by Swed- ish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer un- derstanding of English-speaking audiences. This... ...er rev- erence for her abysmal purity. “We’ll read Faust together … by the Italian lakes …” he thought, somewhat hazily confusing the scene of his pro... ...the wealthy Mingott line, married two of her daughters to “foreigners” (an Italian mar- quis and an English banker), and put the crowning touch to her... ...e, subscribed to “Good Words,” and read Ouida’s novels for the sake of the Italian atmosphere. (They preferred those about peasant life, because of th... ...retch of red damask nailed on the discoloured wallpaper behind a couple of Italian-looking pictures in old frames. Newland Archer prided himself on hi... ...w that there were societies 73 Edith Wharton where painters and poets and novelists and men of science, and even great actors, were as sought after a...

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...rom one to twenty-four: The day Mac landed at Naples his repeater rung the Italian hours, from one to twenty-four; as soon as he crossed the Alps it o... ...his Indian characters. Bismillah, Barikallah, and so on, according to the novelists, form the very essence of East- ern conversation. 46 Major Gahag...

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...pted into our grave political faith the rash and malicious sketches of our novelists. With Fielding commenced the practice of systematically traducing... ...fty years back (though manifestly at utter war, in the portraitures of our novelists, with the realities handed down to us by our Parliamentary annals... ...vailing conception of his order, as sketched by satiric and often ignorant novelists, he might be regarded, in all that concerned the liberalization o... ...m in- sensible to all the deep sanctities of beauty that sleep amongst the Italian varieties of the Madonna face), is not without its appropriate trut... ...f the philosophy may be stated. It has been computed (see Duclos) that the Italian opera has not above six hundred words in its whole vocabulary: so n... ...ves, as a private slanderer (diabolos), proceeds, through the intermediate Italian diavolo, our own grotesque vulgar- ism of the devil;* an idea whic... ...solute mastery over certain modern lan- guages, especially the French, the Italian, the modern Greek, and the T urkish.* Not content, however, with th... ..., and printed at Venice in 1815. This work was immediately translated into Italian, by Gherardini, an Italian officer of Milan; and, ten years ago, wi...

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...y saw the black shape of a man. ‘Any one here?’ he asked, speaking with an Italian accent. The king broke into a cold perspiration. Then Pestovitch an... ...cutely aware of secu- lar change than their predecessors were. The earlier novelists tried to show ‘life as it is,’ the latter showed life as it chang... ... of the world coming about like a ship that sails into the wind. Our later novelists give a vast gallery of individual conflicts in which old habits a...

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...was explaining to Godefroid how Mon- sieur Barbet, having lent money to an Italian named Fresconi, the manager of the business, could recover his mone... ... a kind of a Jew, with a score of trades; he was even a part- ner with the Italian who built this barrack to lodge silk- worms.” “So this house is a r... ... but creased like a bit of crumpled paper, resembled that given by the old Italian masters to Saint Joseph. The eyes, of a sea- green, and circled, li... ...so scenes of a sublimity which surpasses all the inven- tions of our great novelists.” “Nature, especially moral nature, is always greater than art, j...

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...t in obscurity, but transparency, which, indeed, is the practice with most novelists, and is, perhaps, in certain cases, someway felt to be a kind of ... ...made. At least, something like this is claimed for certain psycho- logical novelists; nor will the claim be here disputed. Yet, as touching this point... ...hoary captive in your chamber, then will you, something like the dungeoned Italian we read of, gladly seek the breast of that confidence begot in the ... ... that of a shriveled berry. Nothing could exceed his look of pictur- esque Italian ruin and dethronement, heightened by what seemed just one glimmerin...