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Louis XIV often appeared as a Roman emperor, adorned with other symbols...
The quality, number, value, and length of fabric, plumes, jewelry, and trains were all calibrated to status.
In Town VIII. Monseigneur in the Country IX. The Gorgon's Head X. Two Promises XI. A Companion Picture
304. Our service has to be first and foremost to God
I am no lover of pompous title, but only desire that my name may be recorded in a line or two, which shall briefly express my name, my virginity, the years of my reign, the reformation of religion under it, and my preservation of peace.
Nineteen-eighty-two is a vintage of legendary proportions for all levels of the Bordeaux hierarchy. In short, it is a vintage which has produced the most perfect wines in the post-World War II era.
I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
(Letter 16, 1657)
[THE END OF VOLUME II. "COSETTE"]
We are the heirs of the ages
It is the lineaments of the years which form the countenance of the century.
CHAPTER LXX AT LAST
Do Roman paramedics refer to IV's as '4's'?
II
I'm no longer myself in here
I know
I'm number fifteen in the eleventh
Row
embroidered Louis XV chair, legs crossed at the
This book bore the label R>3214 VIII/2. And this painful truth was suddenly borne in upon the mind of Monsieur Sariette: to wit, that the most scientific system of numbering will not help to find a book if the book is no longer in its place.
Hic jacet Arthurus Rex quandam Rexque futurus - the once and future king.
I am 1952. I masticate. I am like a big stomach.
219Take up and read, take up and read.
THE OLD COUNTRY, 1731 F
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
221. "Great is the man who has not lost his childlike heart."~
Chapter thirty-four
24 v Before they call I will answer; w while they are yet speaking I will hear.
A sixty - eight, he wants you to go down on him but he won't return the favor. It would be sixty-nine but he owes you one.
Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
158. - Flattery is base coin to which only our vanity gives currency.
An ancestor from the 1530s would find little different in the 1930s. [Basilicata, Italy]
I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
The present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the
When the venerable pontiff's hour has come, a Roman of good age shall be elected, of whom it will be said that he dishonored his throne though he held it long, with virtuous acts.
101. I may find peace with in the emptiness, how pitiful.
40. "Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery."~
Sex - the poor man's polo.
His name is Rufus II-but the II is silent.
wooden X is on theWooden-- E.l. James
95. But please don't write again to tell me how you have woken up weeping. I already know how you are in love with your weeping.
cards. Twenty-four
One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century, and a large slice, of course, of the 20th century; and another, curious layer which may possibly have been the 21st.
X-sacred, X-love.
'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.
X. IT WAS EIGHT-THIRTY IN the morning by the time I got to storage, with a sore jaw from grinding
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.
(What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.)
How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII
[The] emperor of the West, the feeble and dissolute Valentinian, [had] reached his thirty-fifth year without attaining the age of reason or courage.
I was x years old in the year x2.
It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive thee of the stage.
[Lat., Tempus abire tibi est, ne ...
Rideat et pulset lasciva decentius aetas.]
14. Sensuality Sensuality
Second - the Golden Thread I. Five Years Later II. A Sight III. A Disappointment IV. Congratulatory V. The Jackal
On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century Latin edition of a work written in Latin by a German Monk toward the end of the fourteenth century ... First of all, what style should I employ?
One wrong guess left! x m t r f o a n e i
Rest, v. and n.
Rest with me for the rest of this.
That's it. Come closer.
We're here.
1052The power of one hundred proud men cannot influence the world as much as of one humble servant of God. Tom Krause
156. By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.
Years Later II. A Sight III. A Disappointment IV. Congratulatory V. The Jackal VI. Hundreds of People
CHAPTER LXXII 'BID HIM BE A MAN
At nineteen, one lives in the utter idolatry, therefore the extreme superstition, of sex. Monstrously exaggerated tales about sexual feats, which we listen to greedily, determine our expectations. The disappointments are correspondingly great.
Chapter Twenty-Nine Chapter Thirty Chapter Thirty-One
Sir Doctor, we esteem very much the Hexenmeister of the Great Vellinton.
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26My son, give me your heart and let your eyes delight in my ways,
CHAPTER XXI THE EXPEDITION
Here is your future ruler, King Evardo Fifteenth. He is fifteen years of age, has fifteen silver buckles on his jacket and is the fifteenth Evardo to rule the land of Ev. The people shouted their approval fifteen times,
Comte de la Fere, Touching Some Events Which Passed in France Toward the End of the Reign of King Louis XIII and the Commencement of the Reign
Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art.
246. Become yourself
CHAPTER XXV WHEREIN THIS HISTORY REVERTS TO MR. FAGIN AND COMPANY
VI VERI VENIVERSUM VIVUS VICI.
By the Power of Truth, I, while living, have Conquered the Universe.
In an epoch of criticism ideals are lowered; other feelings take the place of veneration, respect, adoration, and wonder. Our own age thrusts these feelings further and further into the background, so that they can only be conveyed to man through his every-day life in a very small degree.
Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.)
Ave Atque Vale
Hail and farewell
64. I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky.
Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE
209. He who gives himself to vanity, and does not give himself to meditation, forgetting the real aim (of life) and grasping at pleasure, will in time envy him who has exerted himself in meditation.
Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity.
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Turn to page three hundred and ninety-four.
Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured
In response to the extraordinary
The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all endangered today not by the dead hand of tradition but by modernity itself, and they can be salvaged only by moving beyond it.
A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance.
VI. If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.
I. The Period It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair,
24. O sancta simplicitas! In what strange simplification and falsification man lives! One can never cease wondering when once one has got eyes for beholding this marvel! How we have made everything around us clear and free and easy and simple!
The pages turned by themselves as the fan moved through its arc and then stopped to reveal the crossword puzzle page. The answer to four across - '7 letters. Caesar's crossing caused certain war?' - had been neatly completed in blue ink. 'Rubicon.
I've been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals.
Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.
Your Royal Grace,
Forgive my boldness. If I might inquire: How old are you?
- Kimber
The Antichrist, Section 7
Pope John XXIII's motto might be heard here: "In essentials unity, in nonessentials liberty, and in all things, charity." That is second-half-of-life, hardwon wisdom.
In times gone by there lived a Count of Ponthieu, who loved chivalry and the pleasures of the world beyond measure, and moreover was a stout knight and a gallant gentleman
grotesque countenance
Volumes of history written in the ancient alphabet of G and C, A and T.
Drink from me and live forever.
Lestat de Lioncourt
for the French clergy,
Throughout my life, there has always been a number that sounded old. When I was sixteen, it was twenty-seven; at twenty-nine, it was forty-two; at thirty-eight, it was fifty-two. At sixty-five, however, it was sixty-five.
I am Caesar not Rex
The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.
CHAPTER XXXI INVOLVES A CRITICAL POSITION