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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...n or change than their opinions on matters religious, political, moral, or literary. If a stranger is admitted to the cenacle, every member of it in t... ...heart beat violently when he had crossed the great court, laid out like an English garden, and the man- servant, who had taken his name to the Vicomte... ...ows either of us, in preference to France, where she would find censorious critics.” An impassioned lover of a certain stamp would not feel at- tracte...

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...’west,” he answered, slowly and me thodically, as though groping for his best English, and rigidly observing the order of my queries. “The schooner G... ...ng like it in my life, nor could I have conceived it possible. With a turn for literary expression myself, and a penchant for forcible figures and phra... ... world for I knew not how many weeks or months. The sailors, in the main, were English and Scandinavian, and their faces seemed of the heavy, stolid o... ... nodded my head with the customary “Yes, sir.” “I suppose you know a bit about literary things? Eh? Good. I’ll have some talks with you sometime.” And... ... Van Weyden, a scholar and a dilettante, if you please, in things artistic and literary, should be lying here on a Bering Sea seal hunting schooner. C... ... were represented, and I remarked Bulfinch’s “Age of Fable,” Shaw’s “History of English and American Literature,” and Johnson’s “Natural History” in tw... ... my sober judgment and make my canons of little worth. Besides, all my brother critics were with me. Didn’t Lang include your ‘Kiss Endured’ among the... ...e. The time is not far distant when some unknown will arise in England and the critics will name her the English Maud Brewster.” “You are very kind, I... ... never seen body and spirit in such perfect accord. Describe her verse, as the critics have described it, as sublimated and spiritual, and you have de...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...apples from New Zealand, “pretty lookin’ fruit, but not what I should call English apples,” said T om—bananas, unfamiliar nuts, grape fruits, mangoes.... ...a life of pleasure and enlightenment. All of this without hindrance to his literary studies, which carried him up to the seventh standard at an except... ...ual summer lightning and thun- derstorm in the street below. Presently the English Channel was bridged—a series of great iron Eiffel T ower pillars ca... ...er banged and crackled. The crowd di- vided itself into an outer circle of critics, advisers, and sec- ondary characters, who had played undistinguish... ...the long-dis- puted Bill for universal military service in New York State. Critics of the American character are disposed to consider— that up to the ...

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...on to crucial pillars of the international order. Naturally, America's enemies and critics are envious of its might and wealth. They would have pro... ...with Turkey is, plausibly, anti-Arab. Turkish security officials confirmed to the English- language daily, Turkish Daily News, in March last year, ... ...e different: the operations and processes of universal necessity" (Guide to Modern Literary and Cultural Theorists, ed. Stuart Sim, Prentice-Hall, ... ...ench. Certified Financial Analyst by Brainbench. Full proficiency in Hebrew and in English. Business Experience 1980 to 1983 Founder and co-own... ...onot, Tel-Aviv, 1997 "The Suffering of Being Kafka" (electronic book of Hebrew and English Short Fiction), Prague and Skopje, 1998-2004 "The Maced...

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...ut, think of us! He sat down to write them a challenge. He is not the only Englishman who has been impelled by a youthful chivalry to do that. He is p... ...supposing he addressed a body of midshipmen just a little loftily. But the English, when translated, was bald and blunt to the verge of offensiveness.... ...emen of the French Guard, ‘I take up the glove you have tossed us. I am an English- man. That will do for a reason.’ This might possibly pass with th... ...y sent undis- tinguished able men to army and navy—lieutenants given to be critics of their captains, but trustworthy for their work. In the later lif... ... to be the old gentleman’s until some of the apparatus of an Institute for literary and scientific instruction revealed itself to him, and he heard Mr... ...osition of the reply against Lydiard, yielding to him on a point or two of literary judge- ment, only the more vehemently to maintain his ideas of dis... ...ekly, however, is a poor thing, out of the tide, behind the date, mainly a literary periodical, no foremost combatant in politics, no champion in the ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... It seems to me this outburst of short stories came not only as a phase in literary development, but also as a phase in the development of the individ... ... It is now quite unusual to see any adequate criticism of short stories in English. I do not know how far the decline in short- story writing may not ... ... something, but the messenger could make nothing of the black’s incoherent English, and hurried on to the shed. The machines were all noisily at work,... ...irst- night audience with a kind of wonder, discovered—as all new Dramatic Critics do—that it rested with me to reform the Drama, and, after a supper ... ...of her return. Fanny an- swered, very disappointingly. Fanny indeed had no literary gift, but it was new to Miss Winchelsea to find herself de- plorin...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... by Anthony Trollope CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION It has been the ambition of my literary life to write a book about the United States, and I had made up my... ... his age. But I may perhaps be able to add something to the familiarity of Englishmen with Americans. The writings which have been most popular in Eng... ...eat such incidents; but I can tell stories which are quite as good against Englishmen. As, for instance, when I was tapped on the back in one of the g... ... will be to see those buildings when completed. And now, like all friendly critics, having bestowed my modicum of praise, I must proceed to find fault... ...ipline were such as did at that time recommend themselves to most military critics. Early in September the Northern party obtained a considerable adva... ..., and Washington in its Congressional and State politics. New York has its literary aspirations, its 213 Trollope commercial grandeur, and, Heaven kn... ...en and women may be rescued from idleness. The subjects chosen are social, literary, phil- anthropic, romantic, geographical, scientific, religious— a... ...d it so. My position for seeing was not good, but my ear was not offended. Critics also should bear in mind that an orator does not speak chiefly to t...

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... was the pair of them, as to that, and so was Chillon John, the son. Those critics quoting Nymney should look at the portrait of her in the Long Saloo... ...to shore swimming and floating alternately, and was called Old Sky-high by English sailors, any number of whom could 8 The Amazing Marriage always be... ... told that he never forgave the Admiralty for striking him off the list of English naval captains: which is no doubt why in his old age he nursed a gr... ... in favour of Kirby; for though, Lord Cressett was quite the popular young English nobleman, being a capital whip and free of his coin, in those days ... .... Girls are to read; and the study of a boy starts from the monkey. But no literary surgeon or chemist shall explain positively the cause of the behav... ...inds. As I was dealing with a scholarly one, I made use of such ornamental literary skill as I possessed, to prove urgency. He supplied me with bread,... ...ed agony scenes in a play: they bring down the curtain, they don’t win the critics. I heard her “my husband” and saw his face.’ ‘You didn’t hear a whi... ...hope to have a true portrait of your mistress. Does Madge understand?’ The literary dose was a strong one for her; but she saw the index, and got a li...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...iously arranged a heap of gold coins, amounting in value to twelve hundred English guineas: this being the entire sum which circumstances allowed us t... ...owever, I had made this change in the articles: a sum equal to two hundred English guineas, or one-sixth part of the whole money, he was to receive be... ...er, they might do that if they could. Upon these principles, which hostile critics will in vain endeavor to undermine, she laid her hand upon what see... ...he trans- lator of Wieland’s Oberon. Several of the great guns amongst the literary body were present; in particular, Sir W alter Scott; and he, we be... ...s singular that only one blem- ish is suggested by any of the contemporary critics in Dr. Cook’s verses, viz., in the word xunon, for which this criti... ... which has since been as good as a life-an- nuity to the venerable knave’s literary fame. 321 Thomas de Quincey tion, that under any system of chrono... ...chmann’s Letters, p. 163,) with no bread, or eatable of any kind. Now, his critics, by general confession, ate their way, from ‘morn to dewy eve,’ thr...

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...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Co... ... Conquerors...............................535 The United States to Old World Critics ....................................................535 The Calmi... ...me. Our foe was no sulk in his ship I tell you, (said he,) His was the surly English pluck, and there is no tougher or truer, and never was, and never... ...ospital or library, Nor reminiscence of any deed of courage for America, Nor literary success nor intellect; nor book for the book shelf, But a few ca... ...tter what the nation, that he might find his brothers and sisters there. The English believe he comes of their English stock, A Jew to the Jew he seem...

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...Alexander Pope (1688-1744) is widely considered to be the best poet of the Augustan age, and perhaps English verse’s best satirist ever. Pope was mostly self-taught having been denied a formal protestant education because of his family’s Roman Catholic beliefs; he also suffered from the effects of Pott’s disease his entire l...

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...e. Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well; Authors are partial to their wit, ’tis true, But are not Critics to their judgment too? “    Yet if we look more closely, we shall find Most have the seeds of judgment in their mind: Nature affords at least a glimm’ring light; The lines, tho’ touch’d but faintly, are drawn righ...

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...mas Southern Epigram (“My Lord complains...”) Epigram (“Yes! ’tis the time...”) 1740: A Poem Lines Sung by Durastanti, When She Took Leave of the English Stage To Erinna Lines Written in Windsor Forest Verbatim from Boileau Lines on Swift’s Ancestors On Seeing the Ladies at Crux Easton Walk in the Woods by the Grotto Inscription on a Grotto, the Work of Nine Ladi...

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...nd passes China’s wasp secret to the West. -- 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe-The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcuin and his literary arts and sciences school system to France to create the Carolingian renaissance. By changing the structure of words and sentences, the monk from York makes writing forever easier to read. -- 9. Largest Land Empire Ev...

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...rope The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcuin and his literary arts and sciences school system to France to create the Carolingi... ...but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. ... ...lism‖ simply because they were capitalists themselves. 16. Shaping the English Language William Caxton’s print shop helps standardize The Treasu... ... Henry VIII’s first act as ―pope‖ orders and then funds the first printed English Bible. 17. Ottmar Mergenthaler Does It Again Inventors strived ... ...a wide variety of British dialects, grammars, and spellings into a single literary language—still flexible but widely recognized as English througho... ...nor indoctrinate—rather to foster curiosity about past InfoTech. Early critics of the Internet and social media raised visions of Web users sittin...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...in array (for such a stretch of time) of really innocent attitudes: Conrad literary, Conrad political, Conrad reminiscent, Conrad controversial. Well,... ... to cope with his task. He imagines it more gigan- tic than it is. And yet literary creation being only one of the legitimate forms of human activity ... ...th is that more than one kind of intellec- tual cowardice hides behind the literary formulas. And Stendhal was pre-eminently courageous. He wrote his ... ... slightest consequence. GUY DE MAUPASSANT—1904* TO INTRODUCE Maupassant to English readers with apologetic explanations as though his art were re- con... ...at greater luck an artist like Turgenev could wish for than to find in the English-speaking world a translator who has missed none of the most delicat... ...doubt,—and it may be a consolation to Mr. Bourne to know it—fully informed critics will point out that Mr. Davies’s poem on a dark woman combing her h...

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...islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish mountains still cling, in part, to their old Gaelic speech. It was but the other day that English triumphed in Cornwall, and they still show in Mousehole, on St. Michael?s Bay, the house of the last Cornish-speaking woman. English itself, which will now frank the traveller through the most of North America, throug...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...e, some have ap- peared already in The Cornhill, Longman ’s, Scribner, The english Illustrated, The Magazine of Art, The contemporary Review; three ar... ... cling, in part, to their old Gaelic speech. It was but the other day that English triumphed in Cornwall, and they still show in Mousehole, on St. Mic... ...ose and preserve a fitting key of words, he should long have practised the literary scales; and it is only after years of such gymnastic that he can s... ...way platforms, as they did the other day to General Boulanger; and buy his literary works, as I hope you have just done for me. Our fathers, when they... ... his station the Bible, and perhaps Burns, are the only books of any vital literary merit that they read, feeding themselves, for the rest, on the dra... ...h as we love to prefigure for our- selves; and in the end, in spite of the critics, we may hesitate to give the preference to either. The one may ask ...