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friendships with men, in his supreme mystical adoration of God. To turn from La Bonne Chanson, for a written wedding present to a young wife, to Chansons pour Elle, written more than twenty years later, in dubious honour of a middle-aged mistress, is to travel a long road, the hard, long road which Verlaine had His life was travelled during those years. disaster, more sordid perhaps than ruinous, a the life of any other poet; and he could 92 THE SYMBOLIST MOVEMENT of it, write

the possibility that one would dominate and destroy the other. In “Reply to Renan,” Afghānī wrote, Whenever religion will have the upper hand, it will eliminate philosophy; and the contrary happens when it is philosophy that reigns as sovereign mistress. So long as humanity exists, the struggle will not cease between dogma and free investigation, between religion and philosophy; a desperate struggle in which, I fear, the triumph will not be for free thought, because the masses dislike reason, and

longest hours, the same as in the shortest time. What do you mean by quartering? A quarter [of a day’s pay] was taken off. If they had been how much too late? Five minutes. […] 8 What time did you get them up in the morning? In general me or my mistress [wife] got up at 2 o’clock to dress them. So that they had not above 4 hours sleep at this time? No, they had not. […]. Were the children excessively fatigued by this labour? Many times; we have cried often when we have given them the little victualling

This child of tears proves Guy de Maupassant as weak and reckless as his father, being extravagant besides. The book ends leaving Jeanne, the much- tried heroine, realizing an afterglow of tenderness in the care of his child by a dead mistress who has robbed her of his love and helped him to ruin the old home. It would be difficult to name a more depressing book, but the whole workmanship is admirable, the local colour is faultless, and the characters are alive. The only blot

Coal : the simplest. Its chief market, electricity generation had been privatized in 1990. In 1992, time to put coal into market place. An pre-privatization closure plan involved shutting 31 pits and losing 30,000 jobs. Major had dared what his mistress dared not do. The Post office : the telecommunication arm of the General Post Office had been sold as British Telecom in 1984. Thatcher had baulked at going further. Whereas the miners had lost public support after the 1985 coal strike, Post

la rendre invincible. Si dans le siècle et à la cour de Louis XV l'on a vu une grande dame (Mme de Choiseul) adorer son mari 111, c'est qu'il paraissait avoir un intérêt vif pour sa sœur la 110 Voir les confessions d'un homme singulier (conte de mistress Opie). 111 Lettres de Mme du Deffant, Mémoires de Lauzun. 298 DE L'AMOUR duchesse de Grammont. La maîtresse la plus négligée, dès qu'elle nous fait voir qu'elle préfère un autre homme, nous ôte le repos, et jette dans notre cœur toutes les

souvent dans la montagne. En tout cas, il n’y avait pas encore de temps de perdu : il n’était pas plus de huit heures, et l’on était sûr de trouver à dix minutes de marche une maison habitée et un déjeuner tout prêt. – Quelle maison ? demanda Mistress Simons. – La ferme du couvent. Les moines du Pentélique ont de vastes terrains au-dessus de Castia. Ils y élèvent des abeilles. Le bon vieillard qui exploite la ferme a toujours du vin, du pain, du miel et des poules : il nous donnera à déjeuner

with religion. It is no excuse for the poet, that the customs of his country had burthened life with so many religious ceremonies and observances, that no part of it was exempt from that yoke. It must for ever be ridiculous in Petrach to compare his mistress, Laura, to Jesus Christ. Nor is it less ridiculous in that agreeable libertine, Boccace, very seriously to give thanks to God Amighty and the ladies, for their assistance in defending him against his enemies. (231) THE great variety of Taste

d'un mot qui, au mouvement de ses lèvres, me parut être : «Boudé...» Je regardai naturellement Mrs Joe et dis : «Elle ?» Mais Joe ne parut rien entendre du tout, et il répéta le mouvement avec plus d'énergie encore ; je ne compris pas davantage. Mistress Joe, dis-je comme dernière ressource, je voudrais bien savoir... si cela ne te fait rien... où l'on tire le canon ? -Que Dieu bénisse cet enfant ! s'écria ma soeur d'un ton qui faisait croire qu'elle pensait tout le contraire de ce qu'elle disait

n’apparaissent plus. Les noms de métiers féminisés, qui étaient la norme au Moyen-Âge, disparaissent peu à peu. Griselda Pollock et Roszika Parker l’énoncent en mettant en avant la différence sémantique qui réside entre les « old masters » et les « old mistresses »5. Dès lors, parler des peintres revient à parler des hommes peintres, ce qui facilite l’oubli des rares peintresses et sculptrices. 1 2 FONTANA Lavinia, 1552, Bologne. Fille du peintre Lavinio Fontana GENTILESCHI Artemisia, 1593, Rome. Fille