Meredith, George
(Portsmouth 1828-1909 Flint Cottage bei Dorking) : Schriftsteller, Dichter, Journalist
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Literature : Occident : Great Britain
Chronology Entries (1)
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| 1 | 1856-1895 |
Meredith, George. Works. 1856 Meredith, George. The shaving of Shagpat. (London : Chapman and Hall, 1856). So he allowed Bhanavar greater freedom and indulgences, and Bhanavar feigned to give her soul to the pleasures women delight in, and the Vizier buried her in gems and trinkets and costly raiment, robes of exquisite silks, the choicest of Samarcand and China; and he permitted her to make purchases among certain of the warehouses of the city and the shops of the tradesmen, jewellers and others, so that she went about as she would, but for the slaves that attended her and the overseer of the harem… Round the vault were hung helm-pieces, and swords, and rich-studded housings; and there were silken dresses, and costly shawls, and tall vases and jars of China, tapestries, and gold services. And the King said, 'Take thy choice of these in exchange for the hawk.'… Then the King threatened him, saying, 'There is a virtue in each of the things thou seest: the China jar is brimmed with wine, and remaineth so though a thousand drink of it; the dress of Samarcand rendereth the wearer invisible; yet thou refusest to exchange them for thy hawk!'… And the King swore by the beard of his father he would seize perforce the hawk and shut up Shibli Bagarag in the vault, if he fell not into his bargain. Shibli Bagarag was advised by the hawk to accept the China jar and the dress of Samarcand, and handed the hawk to the King in exchange for these things… Now, when it was night, Shibli Bagarag heard a noise at his lattice, and he arose and peered through it, and lo! the hawk was fluttering without; so he let it in, and caressed it, and the hawk bade him put on his silken dress and carry forth his China jar, and go the round of the palace, and offer drink to the sentinels and the slaves. So he did as the hawk directed, and the sentinels and slaves were aware of a China jar brimmed with wine that was lifted to their lips, but him that lifted it they saw not: surely, they drank deep of the draught of astonishment… Thereupon she ran hastily from the vault, and passed between the sentinels of the palace, and saw them where they lay drowsy with intoxication: so she knew that the China jar and the dress of Samarcand had been used that night, and for no purpose friendly to her wishes… 1859 Meredith, George. The ordeal of Richard Feverel : a history of father and son. (London : Chapman and Hall, 1859). Chap. 39 Dear to their tender bosoms as old china is a bad man they are mending! 1860 Meredith, George. Evan Harrington. In : Once a week ; Feb. 11-Oct. 13 (1860). Chap. 5 'I 'm sorry I swore,' he said. 'Bad habit! The Major's here—you know that?' and he assumed the Major's voice, and strutted in imitation of the stalwart marine. 'Major—a—Strike! of the Royal Marines! returned from China! covered with glory!—a hero, Van! Chap. 8 Women, who are almost as deeply bound to habit as old gentlemen, possess more of its spiritual element, and are warned by dreams, omens, creepings of the flesh, unwonted chills, suicide of china, and other shadowing signs, when a break is to be anticipated, or, has occurred. 1871 Meredith, George. The adventures of Harry Richmond. (London : Smith, Elder, 1871). Chap. 43 She went attired as a boudoir-shepherdess or demurely-coquettish Sevres-china Ninette, such of whom Louis Quinze would chuck the chin down the deadly introductory walks of Versailles. 1874-1875 Meredith, George. Beauchamp's career. In : The fortnightly review ; August 1874-December 1875. Chap. 15 From his point of observation, and with the store of ideas and images his fiery yet reflective youth had gathered, he presented himself as it were saddled to that hard-riding force known as the logical impetus, which spying its quarry over precipices, across oceans and deserts, and through systems and webs, and into shops and cabinets of costliest china, will come at it, will not be refused, let the distances and the breakages be what they may. Chap. 36 'It's the week-day Parson of the middle-class, colonel. They have their thinking done for them as the Chinese have their dancing. Chap. 47 'Is it? Ah! There's an expedition against the hilltribes in India, and we're such a peaceful nation, eh? We look as if we were in for a complication with China.' 'Well, sir, we must sell our opium.' 'Of course we must. There's a man writing about surrendering Gibraltar!' 'I'm afraid we can't do that.' 'But where do you draw the line?' quoth Tuckham, very susceptible to a sneer at the colonel, and entirely ignorant of the circumstances attending Beauchamp's position before him. 'You defend the Chinaman; and it's questionable if his case is as good as the Spaniard's.' 'The Chinaman has a case against our traders. Gibraltar concerns our imperial policy.' 'As to the case against the English merchants, the Chinaman is for shutting up his millions of acres of productive land, and the action of commerce is merely a declaration of a universal public right, to which all States must submit.' 'Immorality brings its punishment, be sure of that. Some day we shall have enough of China. As to the Rock, I know the argument; I may be wrong. I've had the habit of regarding it as necessary to our naval supremacy.' 1879 Meredith, George. The egoist : a comedy in narrative. (London : C. Kegan Paul, 1879). Chap. 1 The country and the chief of this family were simultaneously informed of the existence of one Lieutenant Crossjay Patterne, of the corps of the famous hard fighters, through an act of heroism of the unpretending cool sort which kindles British blood, on the part of the modest young officer, in the storming of some eastern riverain stronghold, somewhere about the coast of China. Chap. 4 They saw him distinctly, as with the naked eye; a word, a turn of the pen, or a word unsaid, offered the picture of him in America, Japan, China, Australia, nay, the continent of Europe, holding an English review of his Maker's grotesques. Chap. 5 To flatter Sir Willoughby, it was the fashion to exalt her as one of the types of beauty; the one providentially selected to set off his masculine type. She was compared to those delicate flowers, the ladies of the Court of China, on rice-paper. Chap. 17 "A porcelain vase!" interpreted Sir Willoughby. "China!" Mrs. Mountstuart faintly shrieked. Chap. 25 De Craye detained him in the laboratory, first over the China cups and saucers, and then with the latest of London… Chap. 34 "The cat," said Dr. Middleton, taking breath for a sentence, "that humps her back in the figure of the letter H, or a Chinese bridge has given the dog her answer and her reasons, we may presume: but he that undertakes to translate them into human speech might likewise venture to propose an addition to the alphabet and a continuation of Homer. Chap. 36 "Your porcelain was exquisitely chosen, and I profess to be a connoisseur," he said. "I am poor in Old Saxony, as you know; I can match the country in Savres, and my inheritance of China will not easily be matched in the country." Chap. 46 "Not so bright: like a bit of china that wants dusting. 1885 Meredith, George. Diana of the crossways : a novel. (London : Chapman and Hall, 1885). Chap. 28 Mr. Hepburn, in settling himself on his chair rather too briskly, contrived the next minute to break a precious bit of China standing by his elbow; and Lady Pennon cried out, with sympathetic anguish: 'Oh, my dear, what a trial for you!' Mr. Hepburn penitentially knelt to pick up the fragments, and Westlake murmured over his head: 'As long as it is we who are the cracked.' 'Did we not start from China?' 'We were consequently precipitated to Stamboul.' He was witness of Mr. Hepburn's presentation of a costly China vase, to repair the breach in her array of ornaments, and excuse a visit. Chap. 29 It is the married woman's perpetual dread when she ventures a step. Your Law originally presumed her a China-footed animal. Chap. 40 And the drawing-room was fitted with her brackets and etageres, holding every knickknack she had possessed and scattered, small bronzes, antiques, ivory junks, quaint ivory figures Chinese and Japanese, bits of porcelain, silver incense-urns, dozens of dainty sundries. She had a shamed curiosity to spy for an omission of one of them; all were there. 1889 Meredith, George. Sandra Belloni. (London, Chapman and Hall, 1889). Chap. 8 There was never pertness in Emilia's look, which on the contrary was singularly large and calm when it reposed: perhaps her dramatic instinct prompted her half-jaunty manner of leaning against the sunny corner of the house where the Chinese honeysuckle climbed. 1891 Meredith, George. One of our conquerors. (London, Chapman and Hall, 1891). Chap. 22 We go down, then; complete the furnishing, quite leisurely; accept—listen—accept one or two invitations: impossible to refuse!—but they are accepted!—and we defy her: a crazy old creature: imagines herself the wife of the ex-Premier, widow of Prince Le Boo, engaged to the Chinese Ambassador, et caetera. Chap. 24 At first, as her letter to her mother described them, they were like a pair of pieces of costly China, with the settled smile, and cold. She saw but the outside of them, and she continued reporting the variations, which steadily determined the warmth. On the night of the third day, they kissed her tenderly; they were human figures. Chap. 28 Colney cast a weariful look backward on the 'regiments of Anglo-Chinese' represented to him by the moneyed terraces, and said: 'The face of a stopped watch!—the only meaning it has is past date.' Chap. 37 Will you credit me when I tell you he carries his infatuation so far, that he has been investing in Japanese and Chinese Loans, because they are less meat-eaters than others, and vegetarians are more stable, and outlast us all! 1894 Meredith, George. Lord Ormont and his Aminta. (London : Chapman and Hall, 1894). Chap. 25 She entertained the wish to work, not only 'for the sake of Somebody,' as her favourite poet sang, but for the sake of working and serving—proving that she was helpfuller than a Countess of Ormont, ranged with all the other countesses in china and Dresden on a drawing-room mantelpiece for show… Those pretty eyes, their cut of lids hinting at delicate affinities with the rice-paper lady of the court of China, were trying to peer seriously. 1895 Meredith, George. The amazing marriage. (Westminster : Archibald Constable and Co., 1895). Chap. 30 He went to the window looking on the chimneys she used to see, and touched an ornament over the fireplace, called grandfather's pigtail case—he was a sailor; only a ridiculous piece of china, that made my lady laugh about the story of its holding a pigtail. |
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Bibliography (3)
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| 1 | 1988 |
[Meredith, George]. Li ji zhu yi zhe. Gaozhi Meiruibaosizhu. (Changsha : Hunan ren min chu ban she, 1988). Übersetzung von Meredith, George. Meredith, George. The egoist : a comedy in narrative. (London : C. Kegan Paul, 1879). 利己主义者 |
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| 2 | 1995 |
[Meredith, George]. Li ji zhu yi zhe. Meiruidisi ; Xiang Xingyao yi. (Shanghai : Shanghai yi wen chu ban she, 1995). Übersetzung von Meredith, George. Meredith, George. The egoist : a comedy in narrative. (London : C. Kegan Paul, 1879). 利己主义者 |
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| 3 | 2013 | George Meredith : http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4420/4420-h/4420-h.htm. | Web / MerG2 |
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