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... Hedda Gabler (1890) On the Heroic Ballad (1857) and Other Writings Olaf Liljekrans (1857) The Lady from the Sea (1888) Love's Comedy (1862) The Pretenders (1863) Brand (1867) Peer Gynt (1867) Ibsen as the Creator of Myths Endnotes Works Cited...

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...mongst the new kings, knocking down of heads and crowns together, whereby the number of pretenders was reduced to four, to wit, Antigonus, Seleucus, ...

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...me, uncle? HOMEWARE: My sister is an unsuspicious potentate, as you know. Pretenders to the hand of an inviolate widow bite like waves at a rock. LYR...

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...n is but a trifle, yet I will mention it, to show how ignorant those sottish pretenders to astrology are in their own concerns: It relates to Partridg...

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... by him. Against dandy footmen he is particularly severe. He hates idlers, pretenders, boasters, and punishes these fellows as best he may. Who does n...

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...oth to dishearten heartily and discontent, not the mercenary crew of false pretenders to learning, but the free and ingenuous sort of such as evid...

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...is but a trifle, yet I will mention it, to show how ignorant those sottish pretenders to astrology are in their own concerns. It relates to Partridge,...

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...; and this folly presently made the town swarm with a wicked generation of pretenders to magic, to the black art, as they called it, and I know not wh... ...he people, whose confusions fitted them to be imposed upon by all sorts of pretenders and by every mountebank. There is no doubt but these quacking so...

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...s, no doubt, must have had many queer friends (it is the common lot of all Pretenders), but amongst them none more extravagantly fantastic than the Tr...

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...livered of a Mouse,’ produces the moral of his fable in ridicule of pompous pretenders; and his Crow, when she drops her cheese, lets fall, as it wer...

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..., his own safety was but too deeply involved in the extermination of rival pretenders to the crown. Such, amidst the sacred security and inviolability...

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...t is still undiscovered. The suspicions of posterity have settled upon two pretenders—a baker and a chimney-sweeper. But posterity is wrong; no unprac...

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...have none but a tip-top college man to educate him—none of your quacks and pretenders— no, no. A few years before, he used to be savage, and inveigh a...

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...Would you usurp the lover’s dear-bought praise? T o just contempt, ye vain pretenders, fall, 400 The people’s fable and the scorn...

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...idavits of my experience. My Perigordin patois very pleasantly calls these pretenders to learning, ‘lettre-ferits’, as a man should say, letter-marked... ...sieur de Licques, lieutenant in the company of the Duc d’Ascot, being both pretenders to the Sieur de Fougueselles’ sister, though of several parties ...

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...! They made a regular clown and pantaloon o’ the pair, I’m told. Couple o’ pretenders to Thrones invited to dine to- gether and talk over their chance... ...ous. I am bound to add he is a bold boy. It requires courage in one of the pretenders to the hand of the princess to undertake the office of inter- ce...

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...ng stage; untired Both inner foe and outer to cut short, And blow to chaff pretenders void of grist: Showing old tiger’s claws, old crocodile’s Yard-g...

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...e high table, the kings are not enthroned, those who are enthroned are but pretenders and simulacra, kings of the vulgar; the real king and ruler is e...

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...such an absolute grub should dream of ranking as one in a bright pleiad of pretenders to the Garter. I had not particularly thought of that; but now, ...

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... itself be snuff’d out by an article. The list grows long of live and dead pretenders To that which none will gain—or none will know The conqu...

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...not disposed to cumber my pocket with it. I had a positive aversion to all pretenders to “divina- tion.” It was beneath one of my intelligence to coun...

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...xclaimed Crevel, with the diabolical rage that embitters the face of these pretenders when they fail for the second time in such an attempt. “You do n...

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...efore, desiring to decide the quarrel by lot, took a ring from each of the pretenders, which he cast into his own cloak, and, after he had shaken all ... ... single colleague, also, was preferred before seven most noble and eminent pretenders to be censor. But Aristides was never principal in any action; f...

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...sh-water sailors, that you had begun to look upon us as little better than pretenders?” “Give yourself no uneasiness on that account, Jasper; for I kn...

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..., the alchemist, and the astrologer in the same person was familiar to the pretenders to the mystic sciences. * Note 8. Ch. XXXII.—Furniture of Kenilw...

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...e score of her great strength of mind), no one is so hostile to lowly born pretenders to high station as the pure Whig. The bishop thought it necessar...

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...en so often betrayed myself! Not if they were a hundred Popes, Devils, and Pretenders. I will back and tell them their dan- ger—they are part of cargo...

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...mpudent face. My lady! says I, you saucy scoundrel; my lady is meat for no pretenders. She is a young lady of as good fashion, and family, and fortune...

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...e said, could ever happen in bleeding, but from the monstrous ignorance of pretenders to surgery, which he pretty plainly insinuated was not at presen...

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...es, balsams, pretended to secrets, and prepared magestry; while quacks and pretenders, profiting by her weakness, de- stroyed her property among furna...

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...have none but a tip-top college man to educate him—none of your quacks and pretenders— no, no. A few years before, he used to be savage, and inveigh a...

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...e over another.” This piece of raillery irritated Anaxarchus and the other pretenders to learning, and the crowd of flatterers in general could not en...

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..., neglect it. His own experience in actual service has taught him that these pretenders are useless and ridiculous. This man Stesilaus has been seen b... ... the watch, and he will be greatly traduced; for there is a jealousy of such pretenders; and unless a man be pre eminent in valour, he cannot help bei...

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...ave not much to do, come about me of their own accord; they like to hear the pretenders examined, and they often imitate me, and examine others themse... ...the whole truth about this: they like to hear the cross ex amination of the pretenders to wisdom; there is amusement in this. And this is a duty whic...

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...gs of loyalty towards his house and person. It was against the above-named pretenders that Louis Philippe (now nearly a hundred years old), a prince a... ...nfortunate young man. His attempt will only serve to show the folly of the pretenders, and the love, respect, regard, fidel- ity, admiration, reverenc... ...ents of the Rhine and Loire, and it is arranged that on the capture of the pretenders, they shall be lodged in separate cells in the prison of the Lux... ... palace of the Tuileries.” 323 Burlesques CHAPTER III. THE ADVANCE OF THE PRETENDERS.— HISTORICAL REVIEW. WE WILL NOW RESUME THE NARRATIVE, and endea... ...ments were of a serious nature, and that the forces gathered round the two pretenders to the crown were considerable. They had their sup- porters too ... ...The funds did not fluctuate in the least. The proclamations of the several pretenders had had their effect. The young men of the schools and the estam... ...s usual within the walls. The Journal des Debats stated every day that the pretenders were taken; the Chambers sat—such as remained—and talked immense... ... his Gazette, and was allowed to be very witty at the expense of the three pretenders. As the country had been ravaged for a hundred miles round, the ...

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...plaisance to a few who are. Accordingly we find that in all ages, all vain pretenders, were they ever so poor or ever so dull, have been constantly th... ...holds in nothing more than in their be- ing equally abused by the ignorant pretenders to poetry of their times, of which not the least memory will rem... ...the town, and their fautors, that it is an ill-natured thing to expose the pretenders to wit and poetry. The judges and magistrates may, with full as ... ..., or discouragement of Arts; such as half-wits, taste- less admirers, vain pretenders, the flatterers of Dunces, or the patrons of them. All these cro...

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... loath to dishearten utterly and discontent, not the mercenary crew of false pretenders to learning, but the free and ingenuous sort of such as eviden...

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...this ap- pointment only with a view to keep out other and more un- welcome pretenders, who would not have had the same motives of consanguinity or fri... ...e in his prejudices, who treated the whole body of medical men as ignorant pretenders, knowing absolutely nothing of the system which they professed t...

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... good of fashion we can, it rests on reality, and hates nothing so much as pretenders; to exclude and mystify pretenders and send them into everlastin...

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... King Pronounced a dismal sentence, meaning by it To keep the list low and pretenders back, Or like a king, not to be trifled with— Their heads should...

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...arsh feeling which the many entertain towards philosophy originates in the pretenders, who rush in uninvited, and are always abus ing them, and findi...

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...d, she had been aided in those arts by Beelzebub himself. The worst of the pretenders to these sciences was, that they were generally persons who, fee...

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...t scorched creature gave up the ghost, and uttered not a groan: These vain pretenders are ignorant of him they seek after; for of him that knew him we...

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...ers whereby the genu- ine innate principles may be distinguished from others: that so, amidst the great variety of pretenders, I may be kept from mist... ...y knew they had no ideas. And indeed it was only the doctrine of substantial forms, and the confidence of mistaken pretenders to a knowledge that they...