Could any thing afford a stronger contrast to the grave and certainly severe study to which Elizabeth had habituated herself, than the vain and fantastic puerility of many of her recreations and habits, the unintellectual brutality of the bearbaits which she admired, or the gaudy and glittering pageants in which she delighted?

The Etruscan people of historical times—the Rasenna—were very likely the result of a gradual fusion of native and immigrant populations.

Tension erupted as well, of course, between Dina and her parents, odd attacklike conflicts, suddenly, for no reason.

Today in the West, Europessimism is back in fashion where Eastern Europe is concerned.