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...ow, the Venetian aristocracy is the first in Europe. Its Libro d’Oro dates from before the Crusades, from a time when Venice, a survivor of Imperial a... ...and a similar title was in use at Venice, justified by ancient inheritance from Facino Cane, Prince of Varese. The Grimaldi, who assumed sover- eignty... ...sion of Monaco till much later. The last Cane of the elder branch vanished from Venice thirty years before the fall of the Republic, condemned for var... ...etter than what we have in our hearts? Italy is mad.” “I cannot see that a people is mad because it wishes to be its own master,” said the physician. ... ...e can sail in the galleys of the Republic, and conquer the gilded domes of Constantinople. Then he can lounge on the divans in the Seraglio among the ... ...narrow streets of the Merceria they did not speak, for there were too many people; but as they turned into the Piazzi di San Marco, the Prince said: ... ... was evidently depressed. The Duke, uncomfortable enough between two sulky people, took advantage of the French doctor’s entrance to slip away. “Monsi...

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...ty’s Electronic Classics Series. Cover design: Jim Manis; portrait of Byron from a painting by Thomas Philips, 1814 Copyright © 1999 The Pennsylvania... ...sion (I think the quarto holds five hundred pages), Has given a sample from the vasty version Of his new system to perplex the sages; ‘T i... ... Don Juan “Dedication” 3 You — Gentlemen! by dint of long seclusion From better company, have kept your own At Keswick, and, through still ... ...au, Petion, Clootz, Danton, Marat, La Fayette, Were French, and famous people, as we know: And there were others, scarce forgotten yet, Jo... ...ly inurn’d; Because the army ‘s grown more popular, At which the naval people are concern’d; Besides, the prince is all for the land service, ... ... named, With virtues equall’d by her wit alone, She made the cleverest people quite ashamed, And even the good with inward envy groan, Fin... ...n, Were to be chain’d and lotted out per couple, For the slave market of Constantinople. It seems when this allotment was made out, There ch... ...st Upon them his slow brow and piercing eye:— ‘Whence come ye?’— ‘From Constantinople last, Captives just now escaped, ’ was the reply. ‘W... ...s, And look’d down over Attica; or he Who has sail’d where picturesque Constantinople is, Or seen Timbuctoo, or hath taken tea In small ey...

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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... ...ther children,” said Albert de Gondi. “Do, then, as the great si- gnors of Constantinople do,—divert the anger and amuse the caprices of the present k...

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... was the last man on the little black railway- line climbing the hill home from work. He was late because he had attended a meeting of the men on the ... ...h.” “Put something on, you two!” came the woman’s high im- perative voice, from the kitchen. “We aren’t cold,” protested the girls from the yard. “Com... ...’s frock. She put this aside, rose, and began to take her husband’s dinner from the oven. “You stopped confabbing long enough tonight,” she said. “Yes... ... himself, measured and insistent. In the frosty evening the sound carried. People passing down the street hesitated, listening. The neighbours knew it... ...son was greeted with Good- night—Good-night, Aaron—Good-night, Mr. Sisson. People carrying parcels, children, women, thronged home on the dark paths. ... ...ut quiet contest, a subdued fight, going on all the afternoon and evening: people struggling to buy things, to get things. Money was spent like water,... ...“No, never America. I came when I was quite a little girl to Europe—Madrid—Constantinople—Paris. I hardly knew America at all.” Aaron remembered that ...

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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... ...em to be an artist here? Constantine, son of Helena, founded the empire of Constantinople, and so many ages after, Constantine, the son of Helen, put ... ...pe’s tricks, which he got his living by. There has been seen in my time at Constantinople two men upon one horse, who, in the height of its speed, wou...

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...d diffidence contrasted with Ursula’s sensitive expectancy. The provincial people, intimidated by Gudrun’s perfect sang-froid and exclusive bareness o... ...ess of manner, said of her: ‘She is a smart woman.’ She had just come back from London, where she had spent several years, working at an art-school, a... ...he said. ‘Do you feel like that?’ asked Gudrun. ‘I get no feeling whatever from the thought of bearing children.’ Gudrun looked at Ursula with a maskl... ...run’s face. She did not want to be too definite. ‘When one thinks of other people’s children—’ said Ursula. Again Gudrun looked at her sister, almost ... ...ravened. She lived a good deal by herself, to herself, working, passing on from day to day, and always thinking, trying to lay hold on life, to grasp ... ... submit herself to it, the insufferable torture of these ugly, meaningless people, this defaced coun- tryside? She felt like a beetle toiling in the d... ... here—different sort from our sort altogether. They say as he got her from Constantinople.’ ‘He would!’ said Ursula. ‘He’ d better have left her to th...

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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... ... the pictures of mosques and rich palaces; but there was one, in a book on Constantinople, which peculiarly stirred his imagination. It was called the...

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...American wheat. When complete, they will form the story of a crop of wheat from the time of its sowing as seed in California to the time of its consum... ..., slow-moving press of men and women in evening dress filled the vestibule from one wall to an- other. A confused murmur of talk and the shuffling of ... ...ed murmur of talk and the shuffling of many feet arose on all sides, while from time to time, when the outside and inside doors of the entrance chance... ...tion and, while waiting, found a vague amusement in counting the number of people who filtered in single file through the wicket where the tickets wer... ...f. And such toi- lettes!” 7 Frank Norris With every instant the number of people increased; progress became impossible, except an inch at a time. The... ...ess was thinning out. It was understood that the overture had begun. Other people who were waiting like Laura and her sister had been joined by their ... .... He was all over the shop, this friend of mine; spent most of his time in Constantinople; had some kind of newspaper business there. It seems that it... ...ish agent put it pretty straight to the Sultan’s secretary. My friend said Constantinople put him in mind of a lot of opera bouffe scenery that had go... ...ber that row between England and Turkey. They tell me the British agent in Constantinople put it pretty straight to the Sultan the other day.” The oth...

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...er; and, to the raging, struggling multitude here and elsewhere, solemnly, from hour to hour, with preparatory blast of cow-horn, emit his Horet ihr H... ...ult and gold ornaments; also many a scene that looks desert and rock-bound from the distance, will unfold itself, when visited, into rare valleys. Nay... ...then, by quite foreign sugges- tion. By the arrival, namely, of a new Book from Professor Teufelsdrockh of Weissnichtwo; treating expressly of this su... ...r natural grotto: but for Decoration he must have Clothes. Nay, among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to Clothes. The first spi... ...er wohl mit schweren Zinsen, wird’s einst zuruckgefordert. ‘Good Christian people, here lies for you an invaluable Loan; take all heed thereof, in all... ...nal satisfying, they resolved, as in such circumstances charitable prudent people needs must, on nursing it, though with spoon- meat, into whiteness, ... ...re! “I have read in most Public Libraries,” says he, “includ- ing those of Constantinople and Samarcand: in most Col- leges, except the Chinese Mandar...

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...Woolf The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf Chapter I A s the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk... ...backs. The small, agitated figures—for in comparison with this couple most people looked small— decorated with fountain pens, and burdened with des- p... ... beyond the reach of malice and unpopularity. In his guess one might guess from the moving lips that it was thought; and in hers from the eyes fixed s... ...it was sorrow. It was only by scorn- ing all she met that she kept herself from tears, and the friction of people brushing past her was evidently pain... ...orn- ing all she met that she kept herself from tears, and the friction of people brushing past her was evidently pain- ful. After watching the traffi... ...couple will stand there talking for half an hour on a fine afternoon; most people, walking for pleasure, contem- plate for three minutes; when, having... ... the flats and churches and hotels of Westminster are like the outlines of Constantinople in a mist; sometimes the river is an opulent purple, some- t...

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...llation of the early editions; and in every material instance of departure from the wording of those originals the rejected reading has been subjoined... ...es capriciously. In the very act of transcribing his mind was apt to stray from the work in hand to higher things; he would lose himself in contemplat... ...the spelling of the manuscripts would only have served to divert attention from Shelley’s poetry to my own ingenuity in disgusting the reader accordin... ... my heart, and bore my steps along. 44 44 44 44 44. ‘How, to that vast and peopled city led, Which was a field of holy warfare then, ... ...ts utmost spring! 30 30 30 30 30. For, before Cythna loved it, had my song Peopled with thoughts the boundless universe, A mighty congregation, which ... ...ible thought, As from the tranquil strength which cradled lay In her smile-peopled rest, my spirit sought _970 Why the deceiv... ....)] Messengers, slaves, and attendants. SCENE: SCENE: SCENE: SCENE: SCENE: Constantinople. TIME: SUNSET TIME: SUNSET TIME: SUNSET TIME: SUNSET TIME: S... ...AN IMPE- RIAL CITY [LL. 814-15]. For the vision of Mahmud of the taking of Constantinople in 1453, see Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of the Roman Em- pir...

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...home and bought a house about a mile out of town, and built up a high room from which to look at the stars with his telescope, and to try his experime... ... in the fashion of different countries! such funny pre- 5 Yo n g e serves from all parts of the world! And still more delightful, such cupboards and ... ...so that she did not much like reading them. The notes that every one wrote from home were quite enough for her. What she liked best—that is, when Mrs.... ...xplaining the things to the dolls: “That is a crocodile, Lonicera; it eats people up, and has a little bird to pick its teeth. Look, Clare, 7 Yo n g ... ...ar; mustn’t touch. That’s amber, just like barley sugar, only not so nice; people make necklaces of it. There’s a poor little dead fly inside. Those a... ...ir crests, just like Mamma’s jewels. See the shells; aren’t they beauties? People get pearls out of those great flat ones, and dive all down to the bo... ...e,” said Lucy; “here are our maps. I will show you where you live. This is Constantinople.” 28 Little Lucy’s Wonderful Globe “I live at Stamboul,” sa...

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... 4 Mugby Junction Lamp waved. Signal lights ahead already changing. Shriek from engine. Train gone. “Mugby Junction!” said the traveller, pulling up t... ...nd gliding on like vast weird funerals, conveying themselves guiltily away from the presence of the few lighted lamps, as if their freight had come to... ... and mouths too: at least they have long icicles (or what seem so) hanging from their lips. Unknown languages in the air, conspiring in red, green, an... ... “That was an impertinent observation on my part. Be what you like.” “Some people, sir,” remarked Lamps in a tone of apol- ogy, “are sometimes what th... ...name on two portmanteaus. “For one must have some name in going about, for people to pick up,” he explained to Mugby High Street, through the Inn wind... ...again next night and morning: going down to the station, mingling with the people there, looking about him down all the avenues of railway, and beginn... ...out her name, as she set it forth—except one chamber-maid, who said it was Constantinople—which it wasn’t. “I will dine with my young friend in a priv...

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...City, and remaining only long enough to refresh my horse and wipe the dust from my hands and feet, I would start again for Jaffa, and there catch a ce... ...his way?” and I proposed to hand the bottle to him. “As far as I can judge from a short stay, you won’t find much like that in Jerusalem.” He declined... ... pressed a hope that I would not hesitate to say so if his suggestion were from any cause disagreeable to me. 6 A Ride Across Palestine As a rule I a... ...n to remain here long I would advise you to get one. These Orientals are a people with whom appearances go a long way, and, as a rule, fear and respec... ...give me no pleasure to see.” “Then,” said I, “if I were you, I would go to Constantinople instead;—indeed, anywhere rather than fall among friends who... ...the wayside, we could see not only the garments and faces of these strange people, but we could watch their gestures and form some opinion of what was... ... the journey had been made at terrible cost and ter- rible risk; for these people had come from afar, and were from their habits but little capable of... ...a in crowds by the French and Austrian steamers from Smyrna, Damascus, and Constantinople. As their number confers security in that somewhat insecure ... ... foolish, and that was all. I take it that she had first left her uncle at Constantinople, but on this point I never got certain information. Afterwar...

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...dad or Grand Cairo, and then say if this was not so. It was probably taken from the “Arabian Nights,” and the picture produced was one of strange, fan... ...rand Cairo. But the route to India and Australia has changed all this. Men from all countries going to the East, now pass through Cairo, and its stree... ...t to us as when it was half unknown. It is not much that we deign to learn from these Orien- tals,—we who glory in our civilisation. We do not copy th... ...ish tongue in Egypt finds its centre at Shepheard’s Hotel. It is here that people congregate who are looking out for parties to visit with them the Up... ...evertheless she had a strong inclination to use the arms and legs of other people when she could make them serviceable. In person Miss Dawkins was not... ...ood- humoured, as a rule, and could on occasions be very soft and winning. People who had known her long would some- times say that she was selfish; b... ...in moving the hard heart of M. Delabordeau—and with these she proceeded to Constantinople. They consisted of two brothers and a sister, and were, ther...

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...KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK And Other Stories By Ivan T urgenev Translated from the Russian By Constance Garnett A Penn State Electronic Classics Seri... ...tories KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK And Other Stories By Ivan T urgenev T ranslated From The Russian By Constance Garnett KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK A STUDY I WE ALL ... ...he ‘thirties his fame was above everyone’s—and in the opinion of the young people of the day Pushkin could not hold candle to him. He not only enjoyed... ...lligence and education—but because the stamp which dis- tinguishes “fatal” people was discerned in him. No one of his fellow officers expected that T ... ...ng ... suddenly one of them stopped: he saw a little dog some twenty paces from the bank on the slowly moving surface of the river. Perched on a proje... ...made her her heiress. On her return to her own relations, poor and drunken people, Masha’s lot was a bitter one. Tyeglev had promised to marry her and... ... petal and gave him the whole sprig. “Will you have jam? Nice jam ... from Constantinople ... sorbet?” Colibri took from the small chest of drawers a ... ... changed his mind and pre- ferred ... preferred to set off with Colibri to Constantinople at once for their forthcoming wedding, as she was a Turk and... ... the boat, floated on the big river, which, as the River of Time, flows to Constantinople in the map on the walls of the Nikolaevsky High School. With...

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...he collection has been made. It is rather intended as a treasury for young people, where they may find minuter particulars than their abridged histori... ...ew’s Germany. The Escape of Attalus is narrated 4 A Book of Golden Deeds (from Gregory of T ours) in Thierry’s ‘Lettres sur l’Histoire de France;’ th... ...dventures, and those of Prascovia Lopouloff true Elisabeth of Siberia, are from M. le Maistre; the shipwrecks chiefly from Gilly’s ‘Shipwrecks of the ... ... from Gilly’s ‘Shipwrecks of the British Navy;’ the Jersey Powder Magazine from the Annual Registrer, and that at Ciudad Rodrigo, from the tra- dition... ...er and thicker from the volcano, and the liquid mud streamed down, and the people fled and struggled on, and still the sentry stood at his post, unfli... ...s in that army with which David was to fulfill the ancient promises to his people. There were his three nephews, Joab, the fero- cious and imperious, ... ...ject to looking on at a death scene; the Emperors were generally absent at Constantinople, and no one could get elected to any office unless he treate...

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... sense of honour and independence, and an obstinate refusal to take advice from those who really wished to befriend him; nor should it be forgotten th... ...The apostle of affliction, he who threw Enchantment over passion, and from woe Wrung overwhelming eloquence, first drew 5 Rousseau The... ...n its shadows and blemishes; let us not, then, seek to “draw his frailties from their dread abode.” His greatest fault was his renunciation of a fathe... ...ains, lakes and islands, formerly regarded with aversion, into a fairyland peopled with crea- tures whose joys and sorrows appealed irresistibly to ev... ...her, after the birth of my only brother, set off, on recom- mendation, for Constantinople, and was appointed watch- maker to the Seraglio. During his ... ... my eyes only examples of mildness, and was surrounded by some of the best people in the world? My father, my aunt, my nurse, my relations, our friend... ...y Latin, history, and antiquities; I could hardly recol- lect whether such people as Romans ever existed. When I visited my father, he no longer behel... ...sary to act in the same manner with the Count de Castellane, ambassador at Constantinople, as I had done with the Marquis de l’Hopital, although in th... ...although in things of less importance. As there was no other conveyance to Constantinople than by couriers, sent from time to time by the senate to it...

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..., etc. Here, my dear Nodier, is a book filled with deeds that are screened from the action of the laws by the closed doors of domestic life; but as to... ... how fatal the results of feminine weakness, how great the dangers arising from selfish interests when indulged without restraint. May a society which... ... means of an education other than that of a lay university. In the “Scenes from Military Life” so many fine natures, so many high and noble self-devot... ...in point of fact, he was only following out the evil tendencies which many people shelter under the terrible axiom that “men should have strength of c... ...ocer depended; on the contrary, he endeavored to enlighten them. Enlighten people in those days! As well might he have begged them to bring back the B... ...tre Gonin”; words cost him nothing, and he said as many as he could to get people to believe. If, unfortunately, some one refused to accept the ex- pl... ...oner has ever been able to reproduce. Monsieur de Riviere, ambassa- dor at Constantinople, ordered enormous quantities every year for the Seraglio. Ad...

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...tly combined tea-deal- ing with literature. It is described as “translated from the original by several hands,” but if so all Spanish flavour has enti... ...have little doubt that it 5 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. is a concoction from Shelton and the French of Filleau de Saint Martin, eked out by borrowi... ... Shelton and the French of Filleau de Saint Martin, eked out by borrowings from Phillips, whose mode of treat- ment it adopts. It is, to be sure, more... ... translations of “Don Quixote,” it will be seen that there are a good many people who, provided they get the mere narrative with its full complement o... ...him who makes so. The method by which Cervantes won the ear of the Spanish people ought, mutatis mutandis, to be equally effective with the great majo... ...brothers contrived to inform their family of their condition, and the poor people at Alcala at once strove to raise the ransom money, the father dispo... ...ffered, and as his term of office had expired and he was about to sail for Constantinople, taking all his slaves with him, the case of Cervantes was c... ...fleet, that regained their longed-for liberty that day. They carried me to Constantinople, where the Grand Turk, Selim, made my master general at sea ... ... he treated them, and the hatred with which they hated him. We returned to Constantinople, and the following year, seventy- three, it became known tha...