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Updated: June 29, 2025
What more inspiring or pleasing reading than some of Longfellow's poems, or the Vicar of Wakefield, or Milton's L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, or Saintine's Picciola, or selections from the poems of Holmes, Whittier, Kipling, or Lowell? For all these and similar wants, the library has an unfailing supply.
His points will be so much better understood later on, when some of the problems connected with our matrimonial laws have been solved, that it would be a pity to publish them prematurely. Suffice it to show how Félix and Georges produced the portrait of Picciola.
EMERGENCY There is only one rule of the road in air, earth, and water. Do you want the firmament to yourself? PICCIOLA Both Poles have been overdone in Art and Literature. Leave them to Science for the next twenty years. You did not send a stamp with your verses. NORTH NIGERIA The Mark Boat was within her right in warning you off the Reserve. The shadow of a low-flying dirigible scares the game.
We studied what we called Mental Philosophy, to my unmitigated delight; and Butler's Analogy, which I considered a luxury; and Shakespeare, whom I distantly but never intimately adored; Latin, to which dead language we gave seven years apiece, out of our live girlhood; Picciola and Undine we dreamed over, in the grove and the orchard; English literature is associated with the summer-house and the grape arbor, with flecks of shade and glints of light, and a sense of unmistakable privilege.
After all this careful experimental work the subject may be studied in the text-book and recited, the recitation constituting a thorough review of the whole. A charming description of the germination of a seed will be found in the Reader. V. The Birth of Picciola. Gray's Lessons. Sect. III. How Plants Grow. Sect.
'If you have killed her began Hartfield. 'Killed her! No. Some small bloodvessel burst in the agitation of that terrible scene. She will be well in a week, and she will forget me. But I shall not forget her. She is the one flower that has sprung on the barren plain of my life. She was my Picciola. He turned his back on Lord Hartfield and walked to the other end of the deck.
Such a policy, reminds one of the Amherst agricultural experiment in which bands of iron were strapped around a much-afflicted squash, in order to test vital potency. It recalls the pretty little story of Picciola, in which a tender plant must grow between the interstices of the bricks in a prison yard.
With the assistance of a dictionary, I read it, nightly, in about a week. Except Picciola, it was the first French novel I had ever read. It held me throughout; it revealed something on nearly every page. But the climax dazzled and blinded me. It was exquisite, so high and pure, so startling, so bold, that it made me ill.
I arose, walked to the front, and made my best bow. Then I said: 'I waited until yesterday because I knew absolutely nothing about my subject' the audience laughed 'and I could find nothing either here or in the library at home, so last night I reviewed Saintine's masterpiece, "Picciola." "Then instantly I began to read.
"Félix put all his talent and Georges all his good will into it, for, once completed, Picciola was to select a husband from the two suitors.
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