THEOPHILE GAUTIER

CASTLE MISERY Upon the southern slope of one of those barren hills that rise abruptly here and there in the desolate expanse of the Landes, in South-western France, stood, in the reign of Louis XIII, a gentleman's residence, such as abound in Gascony, and which the country people dignify by the name of chateau. Two tall towers, with extinguisher...

AFFINITY A PANTHEISTIC MADRIGAL On an ancient temple gleaming, Two great blocks of marble high Thrice a thousand years lay dreaming Dreams against an Attic sky. Set within one silver whiteness, Two wave-tears for Venus shed, Two fair pearls of orient brightness, Through the waste of water sped. In the Generalife's fresh closes, By a Moorish ligh...

I have a presentiment that we shall find in the valley of Biban el Molûk a tomb intact, said to a high-bred-looking young Englishman a much more humble personage who was wiping, with a big, blue-checked handkerchief, his bald head, on which stood drops of perspiration, just as if it had been made of porous clay and filled with water like a Theba...

Pendant les guerres de l'empire, Gothe, au bruit du canon brutal, Fit le Divan occidental, Fraîche oasis où l'art respire. Pour Nisami quittant Shakspeare, Il se parfuma de çantal, Et sur un mètre oriental Nota le chant qu'Hudhud soupire

As soon as Phoebus-Apollo, standing in his quadriga, had gilded to saffron the summits of fertile Mount Tmolus with his rays, the good people of Sardes were all astir, going and coming, mounting or descending the marble stairways leading from the city to the waters of the Pactolus, that opulent river whose sands Midas filled with tiny sparks of ...

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Table Of Contents CAPTAIN FRACASSE CLARIMONDE THE CROSS OF BERNY KING CANDAULES THE MUMMY'S FOOT The Romance of a Mummy _EGYPT_ ENAMELS AND CAMEOS