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...ally, when he was ask’d to sing, He gave the different nations something national; ‘T was all the same to him—’God save the king,’ Or ‘Ca ir... ...e gift Of closing ‘gainst the light their orbs of vision; While gentle writers also love to lift Their voices ‘gainst each other, which is nat... ...ic Of Dido’s alphabet; and this is rational As any other notion, and not national);— Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Eight” 187 But Juan was quite ‘a... ... lie. Good people all, of every degree, Ye gentle readers and ungentle writers, In this twelfth Canto ‘t is my wish to be As serious as if... ...ularity, Reserve it) will be very sure to take. Meantime, read all the national debt sinkers, And tell me what you think of your great thinker... ...inter, The gale sweeps through its fretwork, and oft sings The owl his anthem, where the silenced quire Lie with their hallelujahs quench’d li... ...le, filter’d through her woman. But this can’t well be true, just now; for writers Are grown of the beau monde a part potential: I ‘ve seen th...

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...of the irksomeness of the long services which he was forced to attend. The anthem was interminable, and you had to stand drearily while it was being s... ...her condescending attitude towards patrio- tism he had been adopted as the national poet, and seemed since the war of seventy to be one of the most si... ...emed since the war of seventy to be one of the most significant glories of national unity. The enthusiastic seemed in the wildness of the Walpurgisnac... ...ng theology in Heidelberg, but the other theologi- cal students of his own nationality looked upon him with suspicion. He was very unorthodox, which f... ...t them out and ar- range them alphabetically according to the names of the writers. “I’ll take you to the room in which the articled clerk generally s... ... came out in The Y ellow Book.” They looked upon him, as painters often do writers, with contempt because he was a layman, with tolerance because he p... ...o oc- cupy themselves with the entertainment which is provided for them by writers, painters, and poets.” Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He h...

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...et- mirror in his hand. I thank him from my soul for not culti- vating the national cat’s whisker. None can imagine what I suffer from the oppressive ... ...tingly. The situation was exactly of a sort for one of his German phantasy-writers to image the forest jeering at him as he flew, blind, deaf, and unr... ...ncesses in England. ‘Oh! but,’ said she, ‘you are having a—shall I call it—national revenge on them? “I will take one of your princesses,” says you; a... ...ring,’ the squire bawled. ‘La! squire,’ said she, ‘why, don’t you know the National Anthem?’ ‘National Anthem, ma’am! and a fellow, a velvet-tongued— ... ...e squire bawled. ‘La! squire,’ said she, ‘why, don’t you know the National Anthem?’ ‘National Anthem, ma’am! and a fellow, a velvet-tongued— confound ...

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...n’s feet she went on turning the pages and reading biographies of bankers, writers, clergymen, sailors, surgeons, judges, professors, states- men, edi... ...she could not widen her point of view to believe that there could be great writers in existence at the present day, or if there were, that any one she... ...ked that she was still in the habit of saying Queen instead of King in the National Anthem. There was another pause. Then Miss Allan observed reflecti... ...she was still in the habit of saying Queen instead of King in the National Anthem. There was another pause. Then Miss Allan observed reflectively that...

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...ause in hand), which was squeezed dry years upon years ago. The short hand writers, the reporters of the court, and the reporters of the newspapers in... ...tely liking for the legal repetitions and prolixities as ranging among the national bulwarks. It happens that the fire is hot where my Lady sits and t... ...and a half ), is the child who contributed two and nine pence to the Great National Smithers T estimonial. Francis, my third (nine), one and sixpence ... ...of man) is a choice collection of copper plate impressions from that truly national work The Divinities of Albion, or Galaxy Gallery of British Beauty... ...y writ ers, and then that you should come and live here, and be one of my writers too. Which there is nothing derogatory, but far from it in the appe... ...ely asserted a kind of proprietorship in Mr. Weevle, “because I have known writers that have gone into brewers’ houses and done really very respectabl... ...hirt sleeve. Even while he whistles his impetuosity away with the national anthem, some invol untary shakings of his head and heavings of his chest s...

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...e first clerk to the articled gents, from the articled gents to the ragged writers and white- faced runners, in clothes too tight for them, as he sate... ... But as for paying your creditors in full, I might as well hope to pay the National Debt. It is madness, sheer madness, to think of such a thing. Y ou... ... any time since the conclusion of the war, and 636 V anity Fair carry the national Goddem into every city of the Continent. The congregation of hat-b... ...n the street were already surrounded by per- sons smoking and drinking the national small-beer, the public rooms were in a cloud of smoke, and Mr. Jos... ...homson; Ensigns Hicks and Grady; the band on the pier playing the national anthem, and the crowd loudly cheering the gallant veterans as they went int...

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...and contributes toward placing their author in the foremost rank of French writers.” Louis de Rouvroy, who later became the Duc de Saint- 4 Saint-Sim... ...idant. M. de Noyon had furnished on my return another subject for the song-writers, and felt it the more sensibly because everybody was diverted at hi... ...e was only one remedy by which improvement could be effected; and this was National Bank- ruptcy. Had I occupied the office, I should have been too st... ...inuance of imposts, who of two evils, viz., vastly increased taxation, and national failure, would not prefer the latter. We were in the condition of ... ...by the bedsides. The King went to mass, where his musicians always sang an anthem. He did not go below—except on grand fetes or at ceremonies. Whilst ... ...y, business, no mat- ter of, what importance, no matter whether private or national, was entirely banished from view. Until the next morning ev- erybo...

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...s, Philosophie, and who knows what nameless innumerable multitude of ready Writers, profane Singers, Romancers, Players, Disputators, and Pamphleteers... ...iancourt, de la Rochefoucault admire the English Constitution, the English National Character; would import what of it they can. Of what is lighter, e... ...st there used to be, some communi- cation with the interior deep; they are national Institu- tions in virtue of that. Had they even become personal In... ...ess, en- velop us: are we breaking down, then, into the black hor- rors of national bankruptcy? Great is Bankruptcy: the great bottomless gulf into wh... ...s Majesty’s, which last the livelong day;— whereby, as in a kind of choral anthem, or bravura peal, of thanks, praises, promises, the Notables are, so... ...hures);’ flooded and eddying again. Hot deluge,—from so many Patriot ready-writers, all at the fervid or boiling point; each ready-writer, now in the ...

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...tic knowledge of literature, (a light in which we are always to regard the writers of the Spectator, Guardian, &c.,) would be likely to have learned a... ...have learned anything he quoted from Macbeth. This we say generally of the writers in those periodical papers; but, with reference to Addison in parti... ... sought popularity himself, he durst not shock what perhaps he viewed as a national prejudice. Those who have happened, like ourselves, to see the eff... ...r taste for reading in the public, his fame never ceased to be viewed as a national trophy of honor; and the most illustrious men of the seventeenth c... .... T wo channels especially lay open between the great central organ of the national mind, and the remotest provinces. Parliaments were occasionally su... ...es; a verdict, in short, sustained and countersigned by a longer series of writers, many of them eminent for wit or learning, than were ever before co... ... secret assassination in the Jewish quarter rather than suppress his daily anthems to the Virgin, as a true his- torical personage on the rolls of mar... ..., on the other side, seemed to hear ascending, as with the solemnity of an anthem—“This man, that thought himself to be nobody, is dead—is buried; his...

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... learned men re puted in this land, Mr. Selden; whose volume of natural and national laws proves, not only by great authorities Areopagitica Milto... ...ich is the truer opinion? Nor boots it to say for these, and all the heathen writers of greatest infection, if it must be thought so, with whom is bou... ...r these are the countryman’s Arcadias, and his Monte Mayors. Next, what more national corruption, for which En gland hears ill abroad, than household... ...is yet under the press, which not seldom happens to the best and diligentest writers; and that perhaps a dozen times in one book? The printer dares no... ...g in her deepest sciences have been so ancient and so eminent among us, that writers of good antiquity and ablest judgment have been per suaded that ... ... the pealing organ blow, To the full voiced quire below, In service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, 57 Dissolve me i...

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... the men of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who, rec- ognizing no national frontiers in the great realm of the hu- man mind, kept the Europea... ...rocities, its panics, and its end- less and intolerable blarings of Allied national anthems in season and out. The esoteric England was proceeding irr... ... its panics, and its end- less and intolerable blarings of Allied national anthems in season and out. The esoteric England was proceeding irre- sistib... ...he great men of action are always inveterate talkers and often very clever writers, and therefore cannot have their minds formed for them by others, t... ...aiser’s. Successful as that resistance has been, it has piled up a sort of National Debt that is not the less oppressive because we have no figures fo... ...ombed the Little Theatre in the Adelphi, and narrowly missed bomb- ing two writers of plays who lived within a few yards of it, the fact was not even ...

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...English feeling on the American question was as follows: “This wide-spread nationality of the United States, with its enormous territorial possessions... ...the time when Englishmen were saying how impossible it was that so great a national power should ignore its own greatness and destroy its own power by... ...es. Such license would have been de- structive to the very idea of a great nationality. Where would New England have been, as a part of the United Sta... ...kily for us, our national conduct has not squared itself with our national anthem. Any patriotism must be poor which desires glory, or even profit, fo... ...so that it would be found that many more of the Americans were readers and writers by habit. In any large town in England it is probable that a higher... ...id, to an elderly female at New York, who had quoted to me some half dozen writers on international law, thinking thereby that I should trump her last...

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...iltshire, and did we con- descend to worship her, here we should erect our national shrine. People at that time were trying to think imperi- ally, Ric... ...den. The proceeding terminated with the broader pa- triotism of the school anthem, recently composed by the organist. Words and tune were still a matt... ...he style of Richard Strauss. “This will never do. We must grapple with the anthem this term—you’re as tuneful as—as day-boys!” Hearty laughter, and th... ...o with boys of his own age. There was Lloyd: he would not learn the school anthem, say- ing that it hurt his throat. And above all there was Varden, w... ...come of Toddie?’ I must say I was touched. Fam- ily life is more real than national life—at least I’ve 172 The Longest Journey ordered all these book... ...ten. Varden, because he was ill at the time, had been taken seriously. The writers declared that his illness was fulfilling some mysterious purpose: s...

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...t of these men re-created Scotland, and the second is its most essentially national production. T o treat fitly of Hugo and Villon would involve yet w... ...; it will take longer to appreciate the moral bias of Carlyle. So with all writers who insist on forc- ing some significance from all that comes befor... ...- ciple of growth that carried his first book beyond the books of previous writers, carries his last book beyond his first. And just as the most imbec... ...foreshadowed on the horizon; the fatality of distant events, the stream of national tendency, the salient framework of causation. And all this thrown ... ... done in a play-book: Tom and Molly retire into a practicable wood. As for nationality and public sentiment, it is curious enough to think that T om J... ...bilations; out of all this ringing of English bells and singing of English anthems, from among all these shouting citizens in scarlet cloaks, and beau... ... of them are drawing-room exercises and the rest seem made by habit. Great writers are struck with something in nature or society, with which they bec...

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... he had been an inferior sort of attorney’s clerk, or else the master of a national school—whatever he was, it is clear his present position is a chan... ...a grand public examination of the pupils; and the large school-room of the national seminary was, by and with the consent of the parish authorities, d... ... interspersed with announcements of day- schools, penny theatres, petition-writers, mangles, and music for balls or routs, complete the ‘still life’ o... ...y hat, ’ which was then just beginning to form a recognised portion of our national music. We started.—’What voice is that?’ said we. The Gover- nor s... ...n- professional gentlemen joining in the chorus, and giv- ing the national anthem an effect which the newspa- pers, with great justice, describe as ‘p... ...s own personal grati- fication. And then all the company sang the national anthem with national independence—each for himself, without reference to th...

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...on what great bodies of men have done, and the crises of his life refer to national crises. Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind, an... ...nt of what manner of persons they were and what they did. We have the same national mind expressed for us again in their literature, in epic and lyric... ...age was enjoined, or stringent laws and customs, tending to invigorate the national bond, were the check on the old rovers; and the cumulative values ... ...ow. This agrees well with that high philosophy of Beauty which the ancient writers delighted in; for they said that the soul of man, embodied here on ... ...luminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers. Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing ... ...iced with the frantic passion and violent coloring of inferior but popular writers. For they are poets by the free course which they allow to the info... ...e Hamlet, the Doric column, the Roman arch, the Gothic minster, the German anthem, when they are ended, the master casts behind him. How sinks the son...

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... he had been an inferior sort of attorney’s clerk, or else the master of a national school—whatever he was, it is clear his present position is a chan... ...a grand public examination of the pupils; and the large school-room of the national seminary was, by and with the consent of the parish authorities, d... ... interspersed with announcements of day- schools, penny theatres, petition-writers, mangles, and music for balls or routs, complete the ‘still life’ o... ...y hat, ’ which was then just beginning to form a recognised portion of our national music. We started.—’What voice is that?’ said we. The Gover- nor s... ...n- professional gentlemen joining in the chorus, and giv- ing the national anthem an effect which the newspa- pers, with great justice, describe as ‘p... ...s own personal grati- fication. And then all the company sang the national anthem with national independence—each for himself, without reference to th... ...e at supper-time. * * * * * WE ARE NOT ABOUT TO ADOPT the licence of novel-writers, and to let ‘years roll on;’ but we will take the liberty of reques... ...sed her head, and beheld—Horatio Sparkins! ‘We will draw a veil,’ as novel-writers say, over the scene that ensued. The mysterious, philosophical, ro-...

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...hese heaped up papers had, and — saddest of all — without purchasing for their writers the comfortable livelihood which the clerks of the Custom House... ...ing various walks with the splash and murmur of the waves, and the solemn wind anthem among the tree tops. Often, likewise, one was the guest of the o... ...hich the Protestant divines, even while they vilified and decried that class of writers, were yet constrained often to avail themselves. On the other s... ...he early emigrants, wore the blackest shade of Puritanism, and so darkened the national visage with it, that all the subsequent years have not sufficed...

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...till though the one I sing, (One, yet of contradictions made,) I dedicate to Nationality, I leave in him revolt, (O latent right of insurrection! O qu... ...ly shape and mould the New World, adjusting it to Time and Space, You hidden national will lying in your abysms, conceal’d but ever alert, You past an... ... The named and unnamed heroes pass to other spheres, The great speakers and writers are exiled, they lie sick in distant lands, The cause is asleep, ... ... through the air and sky, And on the distant waves sail countless ships, And anthems in new tongues I hear saluting me. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 437 ... ... o’er all the rest, For thee, the future. I’d sow a seed for thee of endless Nationality, I’d fashion thy ensemble including body and soul, I’d show a...

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...s are shrewd and intelligent enough—but just senselessness, and a peculiar national form of it. He was married twice, and had three sons, the eldest, ... ...t he is responsible to all men for all and everything, for all human sins, national and individual, only then the aim of our seclusion is attained. Fo... ...r than the T urks. You know we prefer beating—rods and scourges—that’s our national institution. Nailing ears is un- thinkable for us, for we are, aft... ... “To-morrow they will sing over him ‘Our Helper and Defender’—a splendid anthem—and over me when I die all they’ll sing will be ‘What Earthly Joy’—a... ... Leo Tolstoy has never invented. Yet such dreams are sometimes seen not by writers, but by the most ordinary people, officials, journalists, priests…....