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...a successful flight, and, there- fore, for the following revolution in the romance of his own abominable life. He had in his pockets above a hundred p... ...s of years. 5 Let the reader, who is disposed to regard as exaggerated or romantic the pure fiendishness imputed to Williams, recol- lect that, excep... ...ar more playful and genial than Swift’s; something of this is shown in his romance of ‘Idris,’ and oftentimes in his prose. But what the world knows W... ... executors had offered him (the river) a huge travelling trunk, perhaps an Imperial or a Salisbury boot (equal to the wardrobe of a family), filled wi... ...‘Hyperion,’ run before and accompany the passing away of divine immemorial dynasties. Nothing can be more impressive than the picture of Saturn in his...

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...ows what nameless innumerable multitude of ready Writers, profane Singers, Romancers, Players, Disputators, and Pamphleteers, that now form the Spirit... ..., and salute the Young Spring. (Mercier, Tableau de Paris, ii. 51. Louvet, Roman de Faublas, &c.) Manifold, bright-tinted, glittering with gold; all t... ...for him! For as to this of Sentimentalism, so useful for weeping with over romances and on pathetic occasions, it otherwise verily will avail nothing;... ...ower; and with the shakings of thy horse-hair wig shake principalities and dynasties, like a very Jove with his ambrosial curls! Light old M. de Maure... ...itterest wailings, soft womanly meltings, though thou hast the heart of an imperial Theresa’s Daughter. Thou doomed one, shut thy eyes on the future!—... ...e, with arched neck, composedly champing his bit; as if no world, with its Dynasties and Eras, were now rushing down. The drizzly day tends westward; ... ...ment, in the King’s arms; she clasps her children amid a faithful few. The Imperial-hearted bursts into mother’s tears: “O my friends, save me and my ...

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...s what nameless innumerable multitude of ready Writers, profane Sing- ers, Romancers, Players, Disputators, and Pamphleteers, that now form the Spirit... ..., and salute the Young Spring. (Mercier, Tableau de Paris, ii. 51. Louvet, Roman de Faublas, &c.) Manifold, bright-tinted, glittering with gold; all t... ...r him! For as to this of Sentimentalism, so use- ful for weeping with over romances and on pathetic occasions, it otherwise verily will avail nothing;... ...itterest wailings, soft womanly meltings, though thou hast the heart of an imperial Theresa’s Daughter. Thou doomed one, shut thy eyes on the future!—... ...o work towards their object as sane regulated ones. For as Hierarchies and Dynasties of all kinds, Theocracies, Aristocracies, Autocra- cies, Strumpet... ... with arched neck, compos- edly champing his bit; as if no world, with its Dynasties and Eras, were now rushing down. The drizzly day tends westward; ... ...ment, in the King’s arms; she clasps her children amid a faithful few. The Imperial-hearted bursts into mother’s tears: “O my friends, save me and my ... ...to no purpose. For, in far lands, with scarlet Nassau-Siegens, with sinful Imperial Catherines, is not the heart-broken, even as at home with the mean...

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...47 -- BOOK II 55 -- CHAPTER I ?GENESIS, 55 -- CHAPTER II ?IDYLLIC, 61 -- CHAPTER III ?PEDAGOGY, 68 -- CHAPTER IV? GETTING UNDER WAY, 79 -- CHAPTER V? ROMANCE, 88 -- CHAPTER VI? SORROWS OF TEUFELSDRO? CKH, 97 -- CHAPTER VII? THE EVERLASTING NO, 104 -- CHAPTER VIII? CENTRE OF INDIFFERENCE, 110 -- CHAPTER IX? THE EVERLASTING YEA, 118 -- CHAPTER X? PAUSE, 126 -- BOOK III 133 -...

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... CHAPTER IV — GETTING UNDER WAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 CHAPTER V — ROMANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 CHAPTER VI — SOR... ...rgy: henceforth Historians, unless they are fools, must write not of Bourbon Dynasties, and Tudors and Hapsburgs; but of Stamped Broad sheet Dynasties... ...churn boots, and other riding and fighting gear have been bepainted in modern Romance, till the whole has acquired somewhat of a sign post character,—I... ...h which picture of a State of Nature, affecting by its singularity, and Old Roman contempt of the superfluous, we shall quit this part of our subject.... ... more than a common meaning, but has two meanings: thus, if in the high est Imperial Sceptre and Charlemagne Mantle, as well as in the poorest Ox goa... ... Sensation grows Thought, grows Fantasy and Force, and we have Philosophies, Dynasties, nay Poetries and Religions! “Young Diogenes, or rather young G... ...twilights,” cries Teufelsdr¨ ockh, “when the Sun, like a proud Conqueror and Imperial Taskmaster, turned his back, with his gold purple emblazonry, an... ...Phantasms enough he has had to struggle with; “Cloth webs and Cob webs,” of Imperial Mantles, Superannuated Symbols, and what not: yet still did he c...

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... a novelist. To try voluntarily to dis- cover the fettering dogmas of some romantic, realis- tic, or naturalistic creed in the free work of its own in... ...contest, and the feelings of the combatants. The fiercest excitements of a romance de cape et d’epee, the romance of yard-arm and boarding pike so dea... ...mes. He has mastered the country, his domain, not wild indeed, but full of romantic glimpses, of deep shadows and sunny places. There are no secrets l... ...e thrones still remain, and what is more significant, perhaps, some of the dynasties, too, have survived. The revolutions of European States have neve... ...s, indeed, no Europe. The idea of a Europe united in the solidarity of her dynasties, which for a mo- ment seemed to dawn on the horizon of the Vienna... ...to the welt-politik. According to the national tendency this assumption of Imperial im- pulses would run into the grotesque were it not for the spikes... ...n- turies. The Phoenicians, its first discoverers, the Ro- mans, the first imperial rulers of that sea, had expe- rienced days like this, so different...