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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... ...during life, until the best of all ad- vocates can plead before our fellow Englishmen that we are out of their way, it is prudent to avoid the process... ...terest in him, and no one but a foreigner could feel it at present for the Englishman who is bursting merely to do like the rest of his 5 George Mere... ...m help- less. The breadth of our shoulders is apparently presented for our critics to write on. Poor duty is done by the simple sense of moral worth, ... ...ture, the condition of which, with a condensed brevity of humour worthy of literary ad- miration, he displayed by mutely turning himself about as he e...

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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... ...at the power of reflecting and comparing, we look for something nobler. We English estimate Waterloo, not by its amount of killed and wounded, but as ... ...rst such an apology must wear a very suspicious aspect of paradox. 3. “The English Mail-Coach.”* —This little paper, accord- ing to my original intent... ...ated from its place in a larger whole. To my surprise, however, one or two critics, not carelessly in conversation, but deliberately in print, pro- fe... ... where the dif- ficulty lies, or to detect any lurking obscurity, as those critics found themselves to unravel my logic. Possibly I may not be an indi... ... publication of Kate’s memoirs, in what you may call an early stage of her literary career, though two centuries after her personal career had closed,... ...solutely mobbed and hustled by a gang of misbelieving (that is, miscreant) critics. And this fact is most remarkable, that the person who origi- nally... ...isposable for general purposes; amongst which purposes ranked foremost his literary pursuits. And, however much he transcended the prevailing concepti... ...(somewhere in Fountain-street), and, though a plain, unpretending man, was literary to the extent of having written a book, all things were so arrange...

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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... ...s of Normandy. This latter was Wace’s last production, and beside having a literary and historic importance, it has a rather pathetic inter est. He h... ...s who died at Roncesval. When they had ridden until they came close to the English, ‘Sire,’ said Taillefer, ‘a grace! I have served you long; for all ... ...icked on at full gallop, on before all the others he pressed. He struck an Englishman and killed him; beneath the breast, clean through the body he th... ...d to become important elements in later romance; for he gives us the first literary record of the famous Round Table, 9 and the first definite menti... ...ne Welsh tradition about Arthur, and makes untenable the position of those critics who maintain that the Arthurian legend had an independent developme... ...d little effect upon the cycle; but it remains one of the most truly great literary achieve ments in the field of both Arthurian chronicle and romanc...

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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... ...ch he prodigally seasoned the character of the party-coloured jester. Some critics, whose good-will towards a favourite performer was stronger than th... ..., than may be the case with others, who feel more strongly the passion for literary fame, probably because they are justly conscious of a better title... ...ul occupation, I could also give pleasure to others, and became aware that literary pursuits were likely to engage in future a considerable por- tion ... ...31.)] and as much as possible to avoid resting my thoughts and wishes upon literary suc- cess, lest I should endanger my own peace of mind and tran- q... ...ere united in the person of the late Lord Sommerville, on the death of his English kinsman, the well- known author of “The Chase.”] Her husband, Gilbe... ...more enlarged than one of your coach-horses. They knows the road, like the English postilion, and they know nothing besides. They date, like the carri...

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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... ...ow that there’s nothing personal, you know, in the matter. Considering her literary reputation (she was always speaking of herself as one I martyred f... ...was always speaking of herself as one I martyred for truth,’ be- cause the critics advertised her written indecorums in col- umn long ‘slates’),—consi... ...ertised her written indecorums in col- umn long ‘slates’),—considering her literary reputation, I say, she was one of the most respectable women it is... ...oolgirl (as you have seen her) and quite in the back- ground of the little literary circle of unimportant celebrities which ‘Thomas Plantagenet’ adorn... ... phrase he seemed to regard as a very good light table joke in itself. His English was uncer- 96 The Wheels of Chance tain, but not such as books inf... ...” “Don’t say that,” said the lady. “Not deliberately. I try and think that critics are honest. After their lights. I was not thinking of critics. But ... ...ently delivered. He would rate them as a nobleman should: “Call themselves Englishmen, indeed, and insult a woman!” he would say; take the names and a...

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...r, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literatu... ...nd I, in my turn, intend to feed my reader, with one or two little lunches from the same larder. I shall not mar Garnharn’s translation by meddling wi... ...all not mar Garnharn’s translation by meddling with its English; for the most tooth- 5 A Tramp Abroad some thing about it is its quaint fashion of bu... ... in that way might occur to him; but no, the child was saved and he was glad, that was sufficient—he cared not a straw for MY feelings, or my loss of ... ...n one hand and a florin in the other, intending to give him the former if he survived and the latter if he killed himself—for his loss would be my gai... ...as already beginning to be felt in the art of the Republic. The Trunk is bound or bor- dered with leather all around where the lid joins the main body... ... the canvas every day and publicly exhibited—without a growl from anybody—for they are in- nocent, they are inoffensive, being works of art. But sup- ... ...The doll-faces of other painted babes may mean one thing, they may mean another, but with the “Moses” the case is different. The most famous of all th...

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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... ...gnorance, not knowing that I have taken counsel of one of our best musical critics, and had the benefit of your conscientious help. I have, perhaps, b... ...lue or russet fishes swam. Whatever may be said in favor of the natural or English garden, these trees, pruned into parasols, and yews fantastically c... ...upiter alone could hold his own with his divine better- half, on whom many English ladies model themselves. Emilio set his mistress far too high ever ... ...e, where we won- der at them, to the imaginary existence of a more or less literary description. The dress of this stranger, like that of all Neapolit... ...s in the in- troduction to Mose, was I not fully as much justified as your critics are when they speak of the ‘color’ in a writer’s lan- guage? Do you...

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...ous “serialisation” in the two countries that the chang- ing conditions of literary intercourse between England and the United States had up to then l... ...these reminiscences; though on the whole, no doubt, one’s book, and one’s “literary effort” at large, were to be the better for them. Strangely fertil... ...r and ungenerous one. Here we get exactly the high price of the novel as a literary form— its power not only, while preserving that form with close- n... ...e implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English country-house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a splend... ...uch consideration and was the most characteristic object in the peculiarly English picture I have attempted to sketch. It stood upon a low hill, above... ...f these was a remarkably well-made man of five- and-thirty, with a face as English as that of the old gentle- man I have just sketched was something e... ...eplorably convivial, he was known to have gambled freely. A few very harsh critics went so far as to say that he had not even brought up his daughters... ...he played in a much smaller degree than would have seemed probable to many critics. It came from a certain fear. 96 The Portrait of a Lady CHAPTER X ... ...” “Of course you’re always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however,” Ralph added, “and you’ll condemn them all!” “I shall see...

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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... ... Time. 21 Shelley LINES. LINES. LINES. LINES. LINES. Published in Hunt’s “Literary Pocket-Book”, 1823, where it is headed “November, 1815”. Reprinted... ...of the works of Cicero, a large proportion of those of Seneca and Livy. In English, Milton’s poems, Wordsworth’s “Excursion”, Southey’s “Madoc” and “T... ...n the “Posthumous Poems”, 1824. Lines 9-20, and 28-42, appeared in Hunt’s “Literary Pocket-Book”, 1823, under the titles, re- spectively, of “Sunset. ... ... most delightful and instructive books in the world. The list is scanty in English works: Locke’s Essay, Political Justice, and Coleridge’s Lay Sermo... ...’S DREAM. MARIANNE’S DREAM. Composed at Marlow, 1817. Published in Hunt’s “Literary Pocket-Book”, 1819, and reprinted in “Posthumous Poems”, 1824. 1. ... ... destiny when received among im- mortal names, and the poisonous breath of critics has van- ished into emptiness before the fame he inherits. Shelley’...

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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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...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... ... set his cloak for the Virgin Queen to walk on than because he carried the English name to undiscovered countries. Charles Strickland lived obscurely.... ...ach week to a more severe mortifica- tion. I have never failed to read the Literary Supplement of The Times. It is a salutary disci- pline to consider... ...ation, and I recall long excursions by bus to the hospitable houses of the literary . In my timidity I wandered up and down the street while I screwed... ... Per- haps her naivete was her greatest charm. “ You know, he’s not at all literary ,” she said. “He’s a perfect philistine.” She said this not dispar... ...t would be more comprehensible to him, and she had half a dozen phrases of English. She made me trans- late what she could only express in her own ton... ...dividual?” “ We’re not all reasonable beings,” I laughed. “Who makes fame? Critics, writers, stockbro- 85 Somerset Maugham kers, women.” “ Wouldn’t i...

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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... ...tists should be translated into Italian for the clearer un- derstanding of English-speaking audiences. This seemed as natural to Newland Archer as all... ... married two of her daughters to “foreigners” (an Italian mar- quis and an English banker), and put the crowning touch to her audacities by building a... ... that Mrs. Welland and her sister-in-law were facing their semi- circle of critics with the Mingottian aplomb which old Catherine had inculcated in al... ...p to themselves. Medora Manson, in her prosperous days, had inaugurated a “literary salon”; but it had soon died out owing to the reluctance of the li... ...ian actor George Rignold, and some of the magazine editors and musical and literary critics. Mrs. Archer and her group felt a certain timidity concern... ... George Rignold, and some of the magazine editors and musical and literary critics. Mrs. Archer and her group felt a certain timidity concerning these... ...no need of letters; but after publishing one volume of brief and exquisite literary appreciations, of which one hundred and twenty copies were sold, t...

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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... ...y of American authors whose births made the year 1819 a notable one in our literary history,—Lowell, Whitman, and Melville,—it is interesting to obser... ...tor, was then in charge of the school, and remembers the lad’s deftness in English composition, and his struggles with mathematics. The following year... ...ventures in the South Seas with a determination to make them available for literary purposes, may never be certainly known. There was no such elaborat... ...ce prepara- tion as in some later cases. I am inclined to believe that the literary prospect was an after-thought, and that this insured a freshness a... ...the Continent, and the Holy Land, partly to superintend the publication of English editions of his works, and partly for recreation. A pronounced feat... ...r’s name and the reality of the events portrayed, but English and American critics alike recognised the book’s importance as a contribution to literat... ... an inventor of char- acters and situations, were early pointed out by his critics. More recently Mr. Henry S. Salt has drawn the same dis- tinction v...

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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... ...ent out to a thousand “prospects.” It was diligently imitative of the best literary models of the day; of heart-to-heart- talk advertisements, “sales-... ...y Business College 50 Babbitt and instructor in Public Speaking, Business English, Sce- nario Writing, and Commercial Law. Though Babbitt ad- mired t... ...at morning he had advocated lighter lunches and now he ordered nothing but English mutton chop, radishes, peas, deep-dish apple pie, a bit of cheese, ... ...nd a distinguished advertising-agent; that behind his easiness were sultry literary mysteries which they could not penetrate. But to-night, in the gin... ...the gin-evolved confi- dence, he admitted them to the arcanum: “I’ve got a literary problem that’s worrying me to death. I’m doing a series of ads for... ...ome highbrow hired-man when it’s neces- sary for him to answer the crooked critics of the sane and efficient life. He’s not dumb, like the old-fashion... ...Royal Good Fellows, who plays hard and works hard, and whose answer to his critics is a square- toed boot that’ll teach the grouches and smart alecks ... ... the daintiest you could imagine and the music is indescribably beautiful. Critics are agreed that it will sweep the country. May be made into a charm...

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...g student publication project to bring classi- cal works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ..., “I know some men of talent who think highly of the judgments of Parisian critics. I myself have a pretty reputa- tion as a musician,” he went on, wi... ... theo- ries, while those musicians who write grammars of harmony may, like literary critics, be atrocious composers.” “Then you do not like my music?”... ...es, while those musicians who write grammars of harmony may, like literary critics, be atrocious composers.” “Then you do not like my music?” “I do no...

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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... ... being wept over and caressed on the mournful return, she decided that the English had no feeling, and acquiesced in the routine of lessons and expedi... ...ldren had the same birthplace. She had been able to see very little of her English relations, being much tied by the number of her children while all ... ...home to him. And she insisted on making it up to me by degrees— out of her literary work, I fancy—for I don’t think Maurice knew the extent of the pec... ...he did greatly esteem that with the world of letters. ‘You know we are all literary.’ ‘Oh yes, I know! But what kind of criticisms do you mean? I supp... ...t it is, my poor sweet! I thought whether he could come to me for a merely literary consultation without Mary’s knowing anything further about it, and... ...ined her again, and Mr. Flinders discoursed about the envy and jealousy of critics, and success being only attained by getting into a certain clique, ... ...s I can, and try to make them useful.’ ‘Useful, but that’s so dull—and the critics always laugh at things with a purpose.’ ‘But I don’t think that is ...

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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... ...i, and it seems to me, now that I have released myself altogether from his literary precedent, that he still has his use for me. In spite of his vast ... ...nd I think of lank and coaly steamships heaving on the grey rollers of the English Channel and darkling streets wet with rain, I recall as if I were b... ...d Wood’s Natural History, a brand-new illustrated Green’s His- tory of the English People, Irving’s Companions of Columbus, a great number of unbound ... ...one of the odd social developments of the great suburban growths— unkindly critics, blind to the inner meanings of things, call them, I believe, Monke... ...irst experience of writing is like a tiger’s first taste of blood, and our literary flowerings led very directly to the revival of the school magazine... ...That gives us three features,” touching them off on his fingers, “Epigram, Literary Section, Sports. Then we want a section to shove anything into, a ...

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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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...’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... ...more scarce among Parisian women than a staunch and loyal critic among the literary tribe. The flutter of curiosity in the house was too marked to be ... ...costume has only to walk in the Tuileries,” he said, “and he will marry an English heiress within a fortnight.” Lucien brightened a little under the i... ...a spirit which you breathe in the air; it infuses the least details, every literary creation bears traces of its influence. You learn more by talk in ... ...ree hundred francs for a romance; I give two hun- dred for translations of English books. Such prices would have been exorbitant in the old days.” “Si... ...try which nothing can disturb nor distract, the sign by which your genuine literary worker is known. Evidently the young man had been reading there fo... ...ook, and such another paper made a vigorous reply.’ Then you criticise the critics ‘C’ and ‘L’; pay me a passing compliment on the first article in th...