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...............................26 APPENDIX:.................................................................................................132 EXCERPTS FROM THE POETIC EDDA.............................................................................................................. 132 PART OF THE LAY OF SIGRDRIFA (1).............................................................

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...The V olsunga Saga with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda Anonymous Old Norse and Icelandic Mythologies T ransla... .................................................................132 EXCERPTS FROM THE POETIC EDDA ......................................................... ...ard Wagner’s operatic Ring Cycle is in these. Volsunga Saga, with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda. Anonymous Old Norse and Icelandic Mythologies Origina... ...cated man, but no trouble has been taken to make him familiar with his own people or their tongue. Even that Englishman who knew Alfred, Bede, Caedmon... ..., Cicero, or Pericles, would be hard bestead were he asked about the great peoples from whom we sprang; the warring of Harold Fairhair or Saint Olaf; ... ...imes has been altered in a thousand ways by foreign influence, even as the peoples and their speech have been by the influx of foreign blood; but Icel... ...others.” “A marvellous thing,” says Sigurd, “not to love such a king; what angers thee most? For surely his love should be better to thee than gold.” ...

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...sentially pacifists, towards taking an active part in the war against German imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief content was its aspiration. People were already writing in those early days of disarmament and of the abolition of the armament industry throughout the world; they realized fully the element of industrial belligerency behind the shining armour of imperi...

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...imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief con- tent was its aspiration. People were already writing in those early days of disarmament and of the a... ...thing here which was not the possible thought of great multitudes of other people, and capable of becoming the common thought of mankind. One writes i... ...fferent sort or class of boy there, for adult students, for reference, for people expert in mathematics, for people unused to the scientific method, a... ...ve no possible interest; they will have come at these questions themselves from different angles and they will have long since got to their own conclu... ... of Mr. Fayle’s “Great Settle- ment” (1915), a frankly sceptical treatment from the British Imperialist point of view, on the other. An illuminating d... ...r Walter Phillimore’s “Three Centuries of Treaties.” Two ex- cellent books from America, that chance to be on my table, are Mr. Goldsmith’s “League to... ... At the word “God” passions bristle. The word “God” does not unite men, it angers them. But I doubt if God cares greatly whether we call Him God or no...

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...To Maria, may your name, that of one whose portrait is the noblest ornament of this work, lie on its opening pages like a branch of sacred box, taken from an unknown tree, but sanctified by religion, and kept ever fresh and green by pious hands to bless the house....

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... of this work, lie on its opening pages like a branch of sacred box, taken from an unknown tree, but sanctified by religion, and kept ever fresh and g... ... tures now scarcely discernible, seem too weak to bear the brown clay pots from which springs the heart’s-ease or the rose-bush of some poor working-w... ...odfish and salt, a few bundles of sail-cloth, cordage, copper wire hanging from the joists above, iron hoops for casks ranged along the wall, or a few... ... ries, and the nickname copieux, which was applied to the in- habitants of Angers, who excelled in such urban sarcasms. The ancient mansions of the ol... ...tly took ineffable delight in gazing upon great masses of gold. Avaricious people gathered proof of this when they looked at the eyes of the good man,... ...ssion on the matter of vines, the talk fell upon Monsieur Grandet, knowing people said: “Le Pere Grandet? le Pere Grandet must have at least five or s... ...the remark. If some Parisian mentioned Rothschild or Monsieur Lafitte, the people of Saumur asked if he were as rich as Monsieur Grandet. When the Par... ...gh a circumference of fifty miles, and even in the public conveyances from Angers to Blois, inclusively! At the beginning of 1811, the Cruchotines won... ... country. I shall be back to dinner. Drive fast, Cornoiller; I must get to Angers before nine o’clock.” The carriage drove off. Nanon bolted the great...

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...ersonal and intimate God. There is nothing in its statements that need shock or offend anyone who is prepared for the expression of a faith different from and perhaps in several particulars opposed to his own. The writer will be found to be sympathetic with all sincere religious feeling....

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...k or offend anyone who is prepared for the expression of a faith different from and perhaps in several particulars opposed to his own. The writer will... ...ted mental habits. It is well to warn him at the outset that the departure from accepted beliefs is here no vague scepticism, but a quite sharply defi... ...reventing the religious life of man- kind. After this warning such readers from among the vari- ous Christian churches and sects as are accessible to ... ...er, and falling mainly into one or other of two divergent groups; and that people slip carelessly from one to the other of these groups of ideas and s... ...atherhood and Sonship. But the trouble is that it seems impossible to most people to continue to regard the relations of the Father to the Son as bein... ...s thought and leave nothing but the essentials of the religious life. Many people, whom one would class as rather liberal Chris- tians of an Arian or ... ...r safety and happiness, the craving of their restlessness for peace, their angers against disorder and their desire for the avenger; their sexual pass...

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..., one of the narrowest and most deserted streets of the district of Saint- Jean, a single window was still alight on the third floor of an old house, from whose damaged gutters torrents of water were falling into the street. Mme Burle was sitting up before a meager fire of vine stocks, while her little grandson Charles pored over his lessons by the pale light of a lamp....

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...Jean, a single window was still alight on the third floor of an old house, from whose damaged gutters torrents of water were falling into the street. ... ...e massive style of the First Empire, dented and worn by continuous transit from one garrison town to an other, almost disappeared from view beneath t... ...er mind, and under its influence she would live her whole life over again, from the birth of her son, whom she had pictured rising amid glory to the h... ... volley of appalling oaths. Finally he resumed: “It isn’t the swindle that angers me; it is his disgusting behavior to me. He has gammoned me, Madame ... ... was a certain amount of heavy comfort, the familiar intimacy of penurious people who do not change their plates at every course but become joyously e... ...same he groped his way as gently as possible to the door and listened. Two people were talking in the room, and he stood aghast, for it was Burle and ... ...ugging his shoulders. The widow was undoubtedly a fine woman, however much people might talk. Some of those who disparaged her would, in reality, be o...

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...left vaguely unsatisfied by that epitome of civiliza- tion which stretches from the Arc de Triomphe to the Gymnase theatre. It had already been intima... ...one rainy morning in mid-September, for the charming little city of Tours, from which point it seemed possible to make a variety of fruit- ful excursi... ...of the sky. Nothing can be finer than the view of its course which you get from the battlements and terraces of Amboise. As I looked down on it from t... ...at dike which protects it, or, protects the country from it, from Blois to Angers, is an admirable road; and on the other side, as well, the highway c... ...ng in, which the French, as the vota- ries of art for art, excel all other people. The little sol- diers, weighed down by the contents of their enormo... ...le an image of the good King Louis. Good as he had been,—the father of his people, as he was called (I believe he remitted various taxes),—he was not ... ..., rising straight through the building, with two courses of steps, so that people may ascend and descend without meeting. This staircase is a truly ma... ...te-book which at that time I carried about with me, the celebrated city of Angers is denominated a “sell.” I reproduce this vulgar term with the great... ...and only because it brings me more quickly to my point. This point is that Angers be- longs to the disagreeable class of old towns that have been, as ...

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...g the last half of the twelfth century, it received its great est impulse from Crestien de T roies, the most distinguished of the trouvères. The met... ...year of his birth or of his death, but we know that he lived approximately from 1100 to 1175. Practically all our information about his life is what h... ... study of letters; afterward I studied long in France. 1 When I came back from France, I dwelt long at Caen. I busied myself with making books in Ro ... ...ything, or see everything … God distributes differ ent gifts to different people. Each man should show his worth in that which God has given him.” He... ...sed Constantine to be slain. Great was the sorrow the lords and all honest people made above their king, for the realm had now no prince, save only th... ...at him in his father’s chair, though not with the voice and welcome of the people. The archbishop who should have anointed the king with oil was dead,... ...f his house, a loyal and chivalrous knight, the king granted all Anjou and Angers. Bedevere, the king’s cupbearer and very privy counsellor, received ... ...rd was there, the Earl of Poitiers; Kay, whom the king had created Earl of Angers; and Bedevere of Neustria, that province which men now call Normandy...

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...stocratic life.” But by “aristocratic” he meant something very differ- ent from the quality of a Russian prince, let us say, or an English peer. He me... ...ur sense of humour and congratulate ourselves on a certain amiable freedom from priggishness or presumption, but for Benham that easy de- clension to ... ...lexingly just isn’t… . 2 2 2 2 2 Benham did not go about the world telling people of this con- suming research. He was not the prophet or preacher of ... ...on; in a mighty writing and stowing away of these papers he found a relief from the unpleasant urgency to confess and ex- plain himself prematurely. S... ...ke a clue to White. Benham’s erratic movements, his sud- den impulses, his angers, his unaccountable patiences, his journeys to strange places, and hi... ...ome a smash in a minute!’ Far ahead I saw the grey sheds of Eastchurch and people strolling about apparently unaware of our disaster. There was a sudd... ...nd assure him- self of his own comfort in the midst of his reading. Y oung people and unseasoned people, Benham argued, are apt to imagine that if fea...

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...ent, at the head of French historical papers, and are the one great source from which all historians derive their insight into the closing years of th... ... was a new term, or a change in the ordinary meaning of words sprang forth from has pen. With this was joined a vigour and breadth of style, very pro-... ...Saint-Simon Simon, was born in Paris, January 16, 1675. He claimed descent from Charlemagne, but the story goes that his fa- ther, as a young page of ... ...e by eight months; and if the expression be allowed in speak- ing of young people, so unequal in position, friendship had united us. I made up my mind... ...cs due to various tradesfolk. He had written out false receipts from these people, and put them in his accounts. He was a little man, gentle, affable,... ...r. The fact of these royal persons being sent for by the King at once made people think that a mar- riage was in contemplation. In a few minutes they ... ...k leave of Lauzun at Bourbon, whence he had permission to go and reside at Angers; and immediately after, this exile was en- larged, so that he had th...

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...s occupied the most of Mrs. Hawthorne’s available time during the interval from 1864 to 1870; but in the latter year, having decided to publish the un... ...mmortality had engaged his fancy quite early in his career, as we discover from “Doctor Heidegger’s Experi ment,” in the “Twice Told Tales.” In 1840,... ...ure of living forever, he would not care about his offspring.” The “Mosses from an Old Manse” supply another link in this train of reflection; for “Th... ... snow and decay,—so the pleasant air and warmth had called out three young people, who sat on a sunny hill side enjoying the warm day and one another.... ...bout such matters, perhaps thinking about them the more. These three young people were neighbors’ children, dwell ing in houses that stood by the sid... ...ide of the road—a fertile tract—had been cultivated; and these three young people were the children’s children’s children of persons of respect abili... ...nd longings, ambition that never won its object, tender dreams and throbs, angers, lusts, hates, all concentrated by life, came sprouting in it, and i...

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...ST OFIT AND HONEST OFIT AND HONEST OFIT AND HONESTY Y Y Y Y NO MAN IS FREE from speaking foolish things; but the worst on’t is, when a man labours to ... ...e.” —Terence, Heaut., act iii., s. 4.] This does not concern me; mine slip from me with as little care as they are of little value, and ’tis the bette... ... refused it in a thing of so great importance to him? He had word sent him from Germany that if he thought fit, they 5 Montaigne would rid him of Arm... ...evented their aggrandisement in those parts. He returned answer, “that the people of Rome were wont to revenge themselves of their enemies by open way... ...ful that they should nei- ther be deceived in me nor deceive others by me. People of that kind of trading are very reserved, and pretend to be the mos... ...or his heart, tore it out, and threw it to the dogs. And even to the worst people it is the sweetest thing imaginable, hav- ing once gained their end ... ... the tutors and the schools. But 42 Essays: Book III if, nevertheless, it angers them to give place to us in anything whatever, and will, out of curi...

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...urch has canonized and your devotion has doubly sanctified for me guard it from perils. De Balzac. I THE SAUVIATS IN THE LOWER TOWN of Limoges, at the... ...een seen, a generation ago, one of those shops which were scarcely changed from the period of the middle-ages. Large tiles seamed with a thousand crac... ...e a few seemed disposed to fall apart; all had a compost of earth, brought from heaven knows where, in the nooks and crannies hollowed by the rain, in... ...d the well-known brow given by all painters to Saint Peter, the man of the people, the roughest, but withal the shrewdest, of the apostles. His hands ... ...aught V eronique to read and write; she also taught her the history of the people of God, the catechism, the Old and the New Testaments, and a very li... ...of. Accustomed, of course, to the idea of eventually marrying a man of the people, she now became aware of instincts within herself which revolved fro... ...or she had no intimate friend to enlighten or advise her. Injustice, which angers little minds, brings loftier souls to question them- selves, and com...

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...n itself much less among lay writers than among those of the Church. It is from the Benedictines, one of the glories of France, that the purest light ... ...understood. A few more Abbe de Pradits, a few more newspaper articles, and from being an emperor, Napoleon would have turned into an ogre. How does er... ...dern history, no woman, unless it be Brunehaut or Fredegonde, has suffered from popular error so much as Catherine dé Medici; whereas Marie dé Medici,... ...the Abbaye; answered on the steps of Saint-Roch; answered once more by the people against the king before the Louvre in 1830, as it has since been ans... ... must defend itself when attacked; but the strange thing is that where the people are held heroic in their victory over the nobility, power is called ... ... victory over the nobility, power is called murderous in its duel with the people. If it succumbs after its appeal to force, power is then called imbe... ...f thought. III THE CHATEAU DE BLOIS THE BANKS OF THE L OIRE, from Blois to Angers, were the favorite resort of the last two branches of the royal race...

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...th you doth there remaine, Where it in siluer bowre does hidden ly From view of men, and wicked worlds disdaine. Since it at first was ... ...as by the Gods with paine Planted in earth, being deriu’d at furst From heauenly seedes of bounty soueraine, And by them long with care... ...ies misdeeme. But in the triall of true curtesie, Its now so farre from that, which then it was, That it indeed is nought but forgerie,... ... in hould, Hauing late slaine her Seneschall in fight, And all her people murdred with outragious might. The Faerie Queene: Book VI. 12 ... ...nce for ruth their rigour they releast, Ne once to breath a while their angers tempest ceast. Thus long they trac’d and trauerst to and fro,... ...pelesse slew, That with the noise, whilest he did loudly rore, The people of the house rose forth in great vprore. Who when on ground t... ...ed, Those euill tidings to their Lord to shew. Who hearing how his people badly sped, Came forth in hast: where when as with the dead ...

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... SHOULD NOT EASILY CHANGE A LAW RECEIVED 153 CHAPTER XXIII V ARIOUS EVENTS FROM THE SAME COUNSEL ........................................................ ...d, as Hallam observes, the Frenchman’s literary importance largely results from the share which his mind had in influencing other minds, coeval and su... ..., the leader of a new school in letters and morals. His book was different from all others which were at that date in the world. It diverted the ancie... ...n the practical side of it. To associ- ate closely his son Michel with the people, and attach him to those who stand in need of assistance, he caused ... ...e lofty column, which, though thus buried, was still standing upright. The people there have no recourse to other founda- tions than the vaults and ar... ...aging, and which carried off 14,000 persons at Bordeaux.]—particularly for people coming away from so fine an air as this is where I am. I will draw a... ... [“We must not trouble the gods with our affairs; they take no heed of our angers and disputes.”—Plutarch.] But we can never enough decry the disorder...

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..., darling?” she said. Her voice was so weak that it seemed to come already from a great distance. The child did not answer, but smiled comfortably. He... ...him, poor child?” The monthly nurse tried to quiet her , and pres- ently , from exhaustion, the crying ceased. The doctor walked to a table on the oth... ... body of a still-born child. He lifted the towel and looked. He was hidden from the bed by a screen, but the woman guessed what he was doing. “ Was it... ... be fortified for the evening service. V PHILIP CAME gradually to know the people he was to live with, and by fragments of conversation, some of it no... ...nd the little harbor were shabby streets in which lived fishermen and poor people; but since they went to chapel they were of no account. When Mrs. Ca... ...ften sang still when there was a tea-party at the vicarage. There were few people whom the Careys cared to ask there, and their parties consisted alwa... ...facts need not disconcert him; when feeling is the gauge you can snap your angers at logic, and when your logic is weak that is very agreeable. Haywar...

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...ed a little, and the shrinking that some- times came over her when she saw people with holiday faces made her draw back into the house and pretend to ... ...ime that she had blue eyes like Annabel Balch, the girl who sometimes came from Springfield to spend a week with old Miss Hatchard, straightened the s... ...r in a familiar place. What, she won- dered, did North Dormer look like to people from other parts of the world? She herself had lived there since the... ...familiar place. What, she won- dered, did North Dormer look like to people from other parts of the world? She herself had lived there since the age of... ...mer church, had proposed, in a fit of mission- ary zeal, to take the young people down to Nettleton to hear an illustrated lecture on the Holy Land; a... ...he would have enjoyed looking at if his explanations had not prevented her from understanding them. This initiation had shown her that North Dormer wa... ...but stirred by a deep and stern emotion totally unlike his usual transient angers. And suddenly she understood that, until then, 52 Summer she had ne...