author: charles baudelaire

Leaves of Grass, Siddhartha, Middlemarch, The Jungle, Macbeth, Moby-Dick, A Study in Scarlet... Jules Verne, Lewis ... Tabaqui , the Dish - licker - and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about making mischief , and ...

... Savathi, every child knew the name of the exalted Buddha, and every house was prepared to fill the alms-dish of Gotama's disciples, the silently begging ones. Near the town was Gotama's favourite place to stay, the grove of Jetavana ...

... gold and plate with her into the house . The cellars were full of wine ... chords of the guitar , and sing to the music , not always Danish melodies ... house of Borreby , where the splendid forest of oaks still flourished . The young men ...

... sea- monsters. But the boy understood that it was the sea-trolls, who had gathered around the island and intended to crawl up on it, to fight with the land-trolls who lived there. And those on the land were probably afraid, for he saw ...

... light as a feather right off . All my troubles was gone . I went to looking out sharp for a light , and sort of singing to myself . By and by one showed . Jim sings out : " We's safe , Huck , we's safe ! Jump up and crack yo ' heels ...

... Lead the way ! " They went in from the yard and up to the fourth storey . The staircase got darker and darker as they went up . It was nearly eleven o'clock and although in summer ... sheet . Behind it probably was the bed . There was nothing ...

... gold and plate with her into the house . The cellars were full of wine ... chords of the guitar , and sing to the music , not always Danish melodies ... house of Borreby , where the splendid forest of oaks still flourished . The young men ...

... Montgomery, C. S. Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, H. P. Lovecraft ... chords left as by vast composers — you choruses, You formless, free ... midnight late, bending me powerless, Entering my lonesome slumber-chamber, why have you ...

... transient masters since he had come into the Northland had bred in him a fear that no master could be permanent . He was afraid that Thornton would pass out of his life as Perrault and Francois and the Scotch half - breed had passed out ...

Les Misérables, Hamlet, Jane Eyre, Ulysses, War and Peace, Art of War, Faust ... red squirrel, coursing down the nearest bough, was particularly familiar and ... black, fiercely contending with one another. Having once got hold they never ...

... Jane Austen, Herman Melville, George Eliot, Laurence Sterne, Thomas Hardy, Jonathan Swift, Edith Wharton, Benito Pérez Galdós, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Alexandre Dumas, Kalidasa, Kenneth Grahame, Marcel Proust, Willa Cather ...

... gold and plate with her into the house . The cellars were full of wine ... chords of the guitar , and sing to the music , not always Danish melodies ... house of Borreby , where the splendid forest of oaks still flourished . The young men ...

... dance , will come The sound of tabour and of drum . Again to spouse and realm restored , Girt by his friends , the ... stolen wife Dearer to Ráma than his life , Chief when he saw the Lord of Night Rise slowly o'er the eastern height ...

Leaves of Grass, Siddhartha, Middlemarch, The Jungle, Macbeth, Moby-Dick, A Study in ... ham with pickle in a few seconds. And yet, in spite of this, there would be ... boneless hams,” which were all the odds and ends of pork stuffed into ...

... Montgomery, C. S. Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, H. P. Lovecraft ... chords left as by vast composers — you choruses, You formless, free ... midnight late, bending me powerless, Entering my lonesome slumber-chamber, why have you ...

... Montgomery, C. S. Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, H. P. Lovecraft ... chords left as by vast composers — you choruses, You formless, free ... midnight late, bending me powerless, Entering my lonesome slumber-chamber, why have you ...

... Jefferson Hope, speaking in a low but resolute voice, like one who realises the greatness of the peril, but has steeled his heart to meet it. "The front and back entrances are watched, but with caution we may get away through the side ...

Les Misérables, Hamlet, Jane ... long series of colds and coughs, and had been too busy to get rid of them ... Helen was telegraphed for, and that spring party that after all gathered in that hospitable house had all the pathos of fair memories ...

... my hand took a wider range . The symphony grew more intense ; overpowered , I ceased , and heard tremendous echoes coming back from the infinitudes . Again I smote the chords ... burden of my suffering . Upon my head , in a tremendous and ...

... dungeon stair. The bolts screamed as they were withdrawn — the hinges creaked as the wicket opened, and Reginald Front-de-Boeuf, followed by the two Saracen slaves of the Templar, entered the prison. Front-de-Boeuf, a tall and strong ...

... force, or power, without the concurring aid and favour of his assisting ... cuckold, if it please God, nor shall we need to despair of the knowledge of ... cuckold, that is to say, your wife shall never be a strumpet, if you make choice ...

... definition would be wonderfully convenient to all makers of systems. Thus the word wisdom is often taken for folly, and wit for nonsense. Humanly speaking, let us define truth, to better understand that which is declared— such as it is ...

... love little songs, airs, in a word. It is an amusement similar to that in ... real lovers of literature care only for the artistic books which are ... chords madden me, cause a flood of inexpressible happiness to penetrate all my flesh. I ...

... bullet destined to go to the moon . ” " Do not let us exaggerate , my ... stability , I propose to give it a weight of 20,000 lbs . " " What will be ... calculator , Mr. Maston , will tell us at once . ” " Nothing is easier , " replied ...

... love little songs , airs , in a word . It is an amusement similar to that in ... real lovers of literature care only for the artistic books which are ... chords madden me , cause a flood of inexpressible happiness to penetrate all my ...

The Complete Text of The Flowers of Evil Charles Baudelaire. Goddess brightening the air we breathe , flame in the ... like a winding - sheet- listen , my dear - how softly Night arrives . 16 The Abyss Pascal had his abyss , it followed ...

... AN INHABITANT OF CARCOSA AMBROSE BIERCE 66 For there be diverse sorts of death — some wherein the body remaineth ; and in some it vanisheth quite away with the spirit . This commonly occurreth only ... An Inhabitant of Carcosa Ambrose Bierce.

"Charles Baudelaire, the nineteenth-century French poet and writer, has also been called 'the father of modern criticism'. This stimulating volume gathers together some of his most celebrated critical writings."--Amazon.

A selection of the 19th-century French poet's most celebrated critical writings. This last article, for all its brevity and incompleteness, develops views hardly more than touched on in Baudelaire's other writings.

Explores beauty, fashion, dandyism, the purpose of art and the role of the artist. This book describes the painter who expresses most fully the drama of modern life.

... Saint Francois de Sales , is that he cheated at play . And then , religion ... Leo II . wrote two special letters , one to Pierre Notaire , the other to ... Saint Benoit himself in France , in the abbey of Fleury , called Saint Benoit ...

... can see it in such poems as "Cynara," which Mr. Arthur Symons says (and I thoroughly agree with him) is one of the imperishable lyrics ... once more and nothing more to see. "'For, Lord, I was free of all Thy flowers, but I chose the world's ...