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...FAMILIAR STUDIES OF MEN & BOOKS by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pub... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...ile as an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ...ived there in the very best society, and under the eye of the very best of editors; and second, that the proprietors have allowed me to repub- lish so... ...ed at making a popular – or shall we say vulgar? – sort of society verses, comical and prosaic, written, you would say, in taverns while a supper part... ...oks with which Whitman had bedecked his pages. The book teems with similar comicalities; and, to a reader who is de- termined to take it from that sid... ...ld get evil from so healthy a book as the Leaves of Grass, which is simply comical wherever it falls short of nobility; but if there be any such, who ... ...s so different; and while the big drums are beaten every day by perspiring editors over the loss of a cock-boat or the rejection of a clause, and noth...

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...t Wormeley Dedication To Constance-Victoire. Here, madame, is one of those books which come into the mind, whence no one knows, giving pleasure to the... ...it. Feeling almost certain of your sympathy in my pleasure, I dedicate the book to you. Ought it not to belong to you as the tithe formerly belonged t... ... daring than able; but, at whatever distance I may be from the greatest of comic writers, I shall still be glad to have used these crumbs in showing t... ...matters of religion.” May the double signification of your names be for my book a prophecy! Deign to find here the respectful grati- tude of him who v... ...his two accomplices. Dutocq was a great knave, and Cerizet had once been a comic actor; they were both experts in humbug. A motionless face like Talle... ...e care of that,” said Barbet. “I am on the best of terms with the managing editors; they say the devil is in me, and that I remind them of Ladvocat in... ...anager, editorial staff, and so forth.” “A name, we have one made to hand; editors, they are you and I and a few young fellows who grow on every bush ... ...vre,” where a heated discussion was going on. The article by which the new editors of every newspaper lay before the public their “profession of faith... ...” “He’ll rate you finely,” said Minard, laughing. “I never saw anything so comical as his wrath last night.” Felix, as he read the letter, smiled to h...

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Excerpt: The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume Two, Containing Books IX through XVIII.

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...istory of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume Two, Containing Books IX through XVIII is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...istory of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume Two, Containing Books IX through XVIII , the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Facu... ...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. BOOK IX CONTAINING TWELVE HOURS Chapter 1 Of those who lawfully may, and... ...promoter of those harmless quarrels which tend rather to the production of comical than tragical incidents. The serjeant asked Partridge whither he ... ...espear himself was, and, perhaps, thou may’st be no wiser than some of his editors. Now, lest this latter should be the case, we think proper, before ... ...st not as grossly misunderstand and misrep resent us, as some of the said editors have misunderstood and misrepresented their author. First, then, ... ... young lady’s delicacy. Accidents of this kind we have never regarded in a comical light; nor will we scruple to say, that he must have a very inadequ... ...scribe his barbarity? To my fondness he was cold and insensible. My little comical ways, which you, my Sophy, and which others, have called so agreeab...

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...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and ten...

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...IRST CHEAP EDITION OF “AMERICAN NOTES” It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; an... ...ING AWAY I SHALL NEVER FORGET the one fourth serious and three fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the morn ing of the third of January ... ...ity as I have now, and could no more help laughing than I can at any other comical incident, happening under circumstances the most favourable to its ... ...out the necks of some, and the broad sheets in the hands of all, they were Editors, who boarded ships in person (as one gentleman in a worsted comfort... ...ss and simplicity; the work she had knit ted, lay beside her; her writing book was on the desk American Notes – Dickens 35 she leaned upon. — From ... ... exercise was that of imitation and memory. She recollected that the label book was placed upon a book, and she repeated the process first from imitat... ...illes and burlesques. It is singularly well con ducted by Mr. Mitchell, a comic actor of great quiet American Notes – Dickens 102 humour and origin...

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...over of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of linked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called Tales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the slightest merit is excluded from this volume....

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...Except for the two series of linked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called T ales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the slight-... ...as to myself, and in spite of the kindliest encouragement to continue from editors and read- ers. There was a time when life bubbled with short storie... ... Kipling had made his astonishing advent with a series of little blue-grey books, whose covers opened like window-shutters to reveal the dusty sun-gla... ... that is now scattered. Then came the generous opportunities of the Yellow Book, and the National Observer died only to give birth to the New Review. ... ...m a book. “‘Smiles’ ‘Elp Yourself,’ it’s called,” said Jane; “but it ain’t comic. It tells you how to get on in the world, and some what William read ... ..., always having her relations and girls from business in, and their chaps. Comic songs a’ Sunday, it was getting to, and driving trade away. And she w... ...y. A rather “touristy” friend of his took him away at times. He complained comically to Miss Winchelsea. “I have only two short weeks in Rome,” he sai...

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...work in his teacher’s way, he over- worked himself in his own by devouring books; and was sent home at fourteen in such a state of health that his gra... ...ing his probation—indeed he is said, and we can easily believe it from his books, to have acquired a very solid knowledge of law, especially in bankru... ...lzac’s cool use in his acknowledged work of the title “Lord Dudley”). This book begins so well that one ex- pects it to go on better; but the inevitab... ...h which he seems always to have regarded it; and in writing to publishers, editors, creditors, and even his own family, it was too obviously his inter... ...never entirely , those miscellaneous writ- ings—reviews (including puffs), comic or general sketches, political diatribes, “physiologies” and the like...

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...gouleme. Following this trilogy Lucien’s story is continued in yet another book, Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life. A DISTINGUISHED PROVINCIAL AT PARIS P... ...willingly,” replied the Baron, “but we live with human beings and not with books. There, dear Nais! I see how it is, there is nothing between you yet,... ...he vicissitudes which depress but cannot overwhelm me. “Plautus, the great comic Latin poet, was once a miller’s lad. Machiavelli wrote The Prince at ... ...oliere would have celebrated it if it had been in existence in his day, so comically appropriate is the name. Flicoteaux still subsists; so long as st... ...uture friend was on the staff of a small newspa- per, and wrote reviews of books and dramatic criticism of pieces played at the Ambigu-Comique, the Ga... ...stant,” burst out Michel Chrestien, looking at Lucien’s head, and sniffing comically. “Y ou were seen driving about in a very smart turn- out with a p... ... my opinions will necessarily undergo a transfor- mation when I accept the editorship of a review of which the politics are known to you, my convictio... ...lutely obliged to speak of a man whom you do not like, for proprietors and editors are sometimes under compulsion, you bring out a neutral spe- cial a... ...d to say—to transact business which could not be ar- ranged elsewhere. The editorship had been promised to Hec- tor Merlin. Lucien, Merlin’s intimate,...

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...edition of Shelton’s “Don Quixote,” which has now become a somewhat scarce book. There are some—and I confess myself to be one—for whom Shelton’s racy... ... into the English of Shakespeare. Shakespeare himself most likely knew the book; he may have carried it home with him in his saddle-bags to Stratford ... ...dant, but rather that the sententious terseness to which the humour of the book owes its flavour is pecu- liar to Spanish, and can at best be only dis... ... decent and decorous, but it treats “Don Quixote” in the same fashion as a comic book that cannot be made too comic. To attempt to improve the humour ... ... it also aimed at correctness of text, a matter to which nobody except the editors of the Valencia and Brussels editions had given even a passing thou... ... are inadmissible, a good many of them have been adopted by all subsequent editors. The zeal of publishers, editors, and annotators brought about a re... ...ond time, would very likely have tried to im- prove him by making him more comical, clever, amiable, or virtu- ous. But Cervantes was too true an arti... ...these books enables the author to show his powers, epic, lyric, tragic, or comic, and all the moods the sweet and winning arts of poesy and oratory ar...

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...premacies, became a Liberal, and attempted to reach celebrity by writing a book; but he learned, to his cost, to regard talent as he did nobility. Hav... ... by the fortunes of ambitious capitalists, or by the wit and shrewdness of editors. Meantime he was drawn into all the dissipations that arise from li... ...ver. From time to time Monsieur Alain and Monsieur Joseph consulted a note-book, turning over its leaves. “See the faubourg,” said Madame de la Chante... ...ted. His per- plexity did not last long, for she presently returned with a book in her hand. “Here, my dear child,” she said, “are the prescriptions o... ... end of six months. His hopes, he said, were now fixed on the success of a comic opera called ‘Les Peruviens.’ When he said that I began to tremble. M...

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...I had come with a grievance upon me—the grievance of the pirated En- glish books. Then a reporter leaped aboard, and ere I could gasp held me in his t... ...ven-storied warren of humanity with a thousand rooms in it. All the travel books will tell you about hotel arrangements in this country. They should b... ...s, their ancestors. It grieves me now that I cursed them (in the matter of book piracy), because I perceived that my curse is working and that their s... ...to the gentlemen who run the grimy reality. I’m sick of interviewing night editors who lean their chair against the wall, and, in response to my deman... ...ot appear in the invoice. The type- writer is an in-stitution of which the comic papers make much capital, but she is vastly convenient. She and a com... ...n cloth tops! Not till I wandered about this land did I understand why the comic papers belabor the Anglomaniac. Certain young men of the more idiotic...

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...RTUS: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh By Thomas Carlyle [1831] BOOK I CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY C onsidering our present advanced state of cul... ...t have been made on any other scheme. Whereby, at least, our nautical Log- books can be better kept; and water-transport of all kinds has grown more c... ... and then, by quite foreign sugges- tion. By the arrival, namely, of a new Book from Professor Teufelsdrockh of Weissnichtwo; treating expressly of th... ...ave reached a height unexampled in the annals of mankind, and even English Editors, like Chinese Shopkeep- ers, must write on their door-lintels No ch... ...cation, “at present the glory of British Lit- erature”? If so, the Library Editors are welcome to dig in it for their own behoof. To the First Chapter... ...there is a good deal of remark throughout the work in a half-serious, half-comic style upon dress, it seems to be in reality a treatise upon the great... ...erican Review, No. 89, October, 1835. 216 Sartor Resartus IV. NEW ENGLAND EDITORS. “The Editors have been induced, by the expressed desire of many pe...

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...of Diana of the Crossways is to be read as fiction. DIANA OF THE CROSSWAYS BOOK 1 CHAPTER I OF DIARIES AND DIARISTS TOUCHING THE HEROINE AMONG THE DIA... ...perceptions and imaginative avenues, her rapid summaries, her sense of the comic, demanded this aerial freedom. We have it from Perry Wilkinson that t... ...its first slough. Idea is there. The funny part of it is our finding it in books of fiction composed for payment. Manifestly this lady did not ‘chamel... ... island of chills and fogs, coelum crebris imbribus ac nebulis foedum, the comic and other percep- tions are dependent on the stirring of the gastric ... ...mps below. They kick it for pastime; they are intelligences perverted. The comic of it, the adventurous, the tragic, they make devilish, to kindle the... ...ed Lon- don. Her friend bore such reminders meekly. They were read- ers of books of all sorts, political, philosophical, economical, romantic; and the... ...ours of veiled loveliness; whispers, of a gen- eral anticipation; and also Editors can jog them. Redworth was rising to be a Railway King of a period ... ...ed the astonished pub- lishers before the book was advertized. Speaking to editors, Redworth complimented them with friendly intimations of the real a... ...of such a book. ‘Mrs. Warwick? Mrs. Warwick?’ said the most influential of editors, Mr. Marcus T onans; ‘what! that singularly handsome woman? . . The...

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...g and gibber- ing what they call their judgment on him! “The sin of Hare’s Book,” says one of my Correspondents in those years, “is easily defined, an... ...rvation of what it was, is it successfully delineated or summed up in this Book. The truth is, nobody that had known Sterling would recognize a featur... ...ing would recognize a feature of him here; you would never dream that this Book treated of him at all. A pale sickly shadow in torn surplice is presen... ... can remember the name Vetus, as a kind of editorial hacklog on which able-editors were wont to chop straw now and then. Nay the Letters were collecte... ...with all its miscellaneous contents. I suppose we are to thank you for the Comic Almanac, which, as usual, is very amus- ing; and for the Book on Watt... ...sts. Coeur-de-Lion, a new and more elaborate attempt in the mock-heroic or comico- 200 The Life of John Sterling didactic vein, had been on hand for ...

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...their stiff wooden pillows—then on through the wood path—and here I find the mysterious white man (poor devil!) with his twenty years’ certificate of ... ...and news. That is a 5 V ailima Letters picture of a letter. I have been hard at work since I came; three chapters of The Wrecker, and since that, eig... ...nd about and in between, a hatful of verses. Some day I’ll send the verse to you, and you’ll say if any of it is any good. I have got in a better vein... ...n) of V ailima; he was also, in his character I suppose of overseer, compared to a po- 138 Robert Louis Stevenson liceman—Belle had that day been the... ...n, beginning with Simele, every one came up to the table, laid his hand on the Bible, and repeated clause by clause after me the following oath— I fea... ...iendly with them, and intensely friendly of course with our own Curacoas. But it is other guess work on the beach. Some one has employed, or subsidise...

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...edition of Shelton’s “Don Quixote,” which has now become a somewhat scarce book. There are some—and I confess myself to be one—for whom Shelton’s racy... ... into the English of Shakespeare. Shakespeare himself most likely knew the book; he may have carried it home with him in his saddle-bags to Stratford ... ...dant, but rather that the sententious terseness to which the humour of the book owes its flavour is pecu- liar to Spanish, and can at best be only dis... ... decent and decorous, but it treats “Don Quixote” in the same fashion as a comic book that cannot be made too comic. To attempt to improve the humour ... ... it also aimed at correctness of text, a matter to which nobody except the editors of the Valencia and Brussels editions had given even a passing thou... ... are inadmissible, a good many of them have been adopted by all subsequent editors. The zeal of publishers, editors, and annotators brought about a re... ...ond time, would very likely have tried to im- prove him by making him more comical, clever, amiable, or virtu- ous. But Cervantes was too true an arti... ...these books enables the author to show his powers, epic, lyric, tragic, or comic, and all the moods the sweet and winning arts of poesy and oratory ar...

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...al inter- est in seeing men whose names had been long before the public in books and periodical journals. The first measure of the Seceders was to for... ... mirrors are alluded to by Job, xxxvii. 18. But it appears from the Second Book of Moses, xxxviii. 8, that in that age, copper must have been the meta... ...sure to rise up more or less to view, just as fans or the colored edges of books with us are made to exhibit landscapes, &c. capable of great varietie... ...ult of his act an emotion of curiosity. But all curiosity is allied to the comic, and is not an ennobling emotion, ei- ther for him who feels it or fo... ... with that which rightfully belongs to a faithful study of the author. The editors of Pope are not all equally careless, but all are careless; and, un... ... have even dimly guessed at the meaning of a situation in comedy where the comic rested upon arbitrary rules and conventional propri- eties. In all sa... ...ut in that one of her many shapes which to Pope had always seemed the most comic as well as the most hate- ful. Instantly Pope’s ancient malice is rek... ...reader. On this account it is that the late Mr. Roscoe figures amongst all editors of Pope as by far the most agreeable. He has a just tenderness for ...

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...never get their moneys in, and had an immense number of bad debts in their books. As is usual, there was a great deal of truth and a great deal of mal... ...up and brushed, spick-and-span, at seven o’clock; and had gone through his books, and given out the work for the journeymen, and eaten a hearty breakf... ...er, Mrs. Captain Walker, to the box-opener; and Melvil Delamere (the first comic), Canterfield (the tyrant), and Jonesini (the celebrated Fontarabian ... ...nd upon it: it is a sad life, a poor pastime. Mr. Dickens, in his American book, tells of the prisoners at the silent prison, how they had ornamented ... ...r-cellars afterwards, neither the liquor, nor the play, nor the delightful comic songs at the cel- lars, could drive Mrs. Walker out of his head, and ... ...e whole green-room. “They had me up one day,” said Montmorency, “to sing a comic song, and give my recitations; and we had champagne and lobster-salad... ...e may have invited to give their opinion regarding his prodigy, what other editors of papers he may have pacified or rendered favourable, who knows? O... ...he Courier, to propitiate the favour of the critic of the day, and get the editors of the me- tropolis into a good humour,—above all, to have the name... ...is curious to see what a prodigious number of Irishmen exist among the sub-editors of London. When the Liberator enumerates the services of his countr...

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...ty. 3 George Meredith THE ADVENTURES OF HARRY RICHMOND By George Meredith BOOK 1 CHAPTER I I AM A SUBJECT OF CONTENTION ONE MIDNIGHT of a winter mont... ...dventures of Harry Richmond was of enormous size, like the giants of fairy books: for as he stood a little out of the doorway there was a peep of nigh... ...nstruc- tions on the piano, and exercises in early English history and the book of the Peerage, I became the wonder of the house. I was put up on a st... ...id the old gentleman; he had frowning eyebrows and a merry mouth ‘you’re a comical character.’ I felt interested in him, and asked him what he was. He... ...uth. Dumpy children, bulky men, compressed old women with baked faces, and comical squat dogs, kept the villages partly alive. We observed one young u... ... of fourteen or fifteen—ay, Richie, have your fun out. A youngster saw the comic side of her. Do you know, that child has a remarkable character? Her ... ...ion, you attributed to me a design to corrupt you. Protest nothing, I beg. Editors are human, after all. Now, my object is, that as you write of me, y...

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... would not have been very much The Pickwick Papers 26 improved if he had. Books of practice, heaps of papers, and opened letters, were scattered over... ...rangement; the furniture of the room was old and rickety; the doors of the book case were rotting in their hinges; the dust flew out from the carpet i... ...py retreat are colonised a few clear starchers, a sprinkling of journeymen bookbinders, one or two prison agents for the Insolvent Court, several smal... ...sitting up between the sheets, warbling as much as he could recollect of a comic song, with the most intensely sentimental feeling and expression; whi... ...t he was delight ing a numerous assembly, continued to hammer away at the comic song in the most melancholy strains imaginable. Taking a man’s nightc... ...e had a faint perception of the drunken man burst ing out afresh with the comic song, and receiving from Mr. Smangle a gentle intimation, through the... ... one moiety or half part of the annual income and profits arising from the editorship and sale of the Eatanswill Gazette. While the great Mr. Pott wa... ...errible emphasis was laid upon ‘thing’ and ‘fellow’; and the faces of both editors began to glow with defiance. ‘The ribaldry of this miserable man is... ...sing his master, Sam took him by the arm, and led him off, while the rival editors were severally re moved to their beds by the landlord, under the i...

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...esting correspondence and papers which had not be- fore come into print in book form. Information concern- ing some of these papers had reached him to... ...d none of uncommon intelli- gence or education; but some of them had a few books, which he borrowed eagerly. Thus he read and reread, AEsop’s Fables, ... ...ouched in a corner of the log cabin or outside under a tree, absorbed in a book while munching his supper of corn bread. In this manner he began to ga... ...g all the noted men—all the learned and cultured of his party in New Y ork editors, clergymen, statesmen, lawyers, merchants, crit- ics. They were all... ...ravage and rob provision-stores, throw printing presses into rivers, shoot editors, and hang and burn obnoxious persons at pleasure and with impunity,... ...und-headed and honest-hearted creatures very much like the cork leg in the comic song did on its owner: which, when he had once got started on it, the... ...e: he seemed the “victim of unre- quited affection,” as represented in the comic almanacs we used to laugh over; and Hart, the little drayman that hau...

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...oat of one suit and the pants of another? What do you think I am? A busted bookkeeper?” “Well, why don’t you put on the dark gray suit to-day, and sto... ...ve Order of Elks. Most signifi- cant of all was his loose-leaf pocket note-book, that mod- ern and efficient note-book which contained the addresses o... ... standard electric bedside lamp, a glass for water, and a standard bedside book with colored illustrations—what particular book it was cannot be as- c... ...kled at the hysteric rob- ins as he would have chuckled at kittens or at a comic movie. He was, to the eye, the perfect office-going ex- ecutive—a wel... ...t, really, they weren’t at all nice.” Babbitt looked up irritably from the comic strips in the Evening Advocate. They composed his favorite literature... ...s anything like our number of phonographs, with not only dance records and comic but also the best operas, such as Verdi, rendered by the world’s high... ...s and explained that no ex-soldier could possibly do such a thing, and the editors saw the light, and retained their advertising. When Zenith’s lone C...

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...oward highest rank among living Americans, are abundantly laid bare in the book before us. Like the autobiography of Hugh Miller, it carries us so far... ...ciety. As a successful editor, in our land, he occupies this position. Our editors rule the land, and he is one of them. As an orator and thinker, his... ...ost marvelous feats of recollection of forms and outlines recorded in this book, this testimony may be admitted. These facts show that for his energy,... ... not without a feeling of pride, dear reader, that I present you with this book. The son of a self-emancipated bond- woman, I feel joy in introducing ... ...UT THE BURIAL GROUND— GREAT IDEAS OF COL. LLOYD—ETIQUETTE AMONG SLAVES—THE COMIC SLAVE DOCTOR— PRAYING AND FLOGGING—OLD MASTER LOSING ITS TERRORS—HIS ... ...g hand. Our devotions at Uncle Isaac’s combined too much of the tragic and comic, to make them very salu- tary in a spiritual point of view; and it is... ...g me, Covey called upon Bill for assistance. The scene here, had something comic about it. “Bill,” who knew precisely what Covey wished him to do, aff... ... secretaries, having among us lawyers, doctors, ministers, poets, authors, editors, orators, and teach- ers; that, while we are engaged in all manner ...

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...f Williams, he also committed suicide in his cell. *Published in the “Note Book.” **Published in “Narrative and Miscellaneous Essays.” 7 Thomas de Qu... ...erself as one who had been hoaxed and swindled; begged me to take back the book; and never again, to the end of her life, could endure to look into th... ...ok; and never again, to the end of her life, could endure to look into the book, or to be reminded of that criminal imposture which Dr. Oliver Goldsmi... ...m, by pure physi- cal superiority, into working. We furnished a joyous and comic spectacle to every town and village through which we passed. The whol... ...mply to have commenced his answer in Greek would have sufficiently met the comic expectation then thrilling the house; but, when it happened that this... ...bery had, at first, directed to- wards me occasional glances, expressing a comic sympathy with the thoughts which she supposed to be occupying my mind... ...c., were at such a point of time thrown open. But most of the pro- vincial editors, not at all comprehending that the reference was to an individual c...

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... her faculties in a sordid struggle, fighting hand to hand with an account-book. Already, terrible sacrifice of pride! she had dismissed her man-serva... ... 30 Bureaucracy ‘Constitutionel’ to-day.” Sometimes, in return, he helped editors, or got rid of ob- stacles to the performances of some play; gave g... ... obtain, as they said in the monasteries, a voice in the chapter. Formerly book-keeper at the Treasury, when that estab- lishment kept its books by do... ...shier of a ministry. He was a bulky, fat man, very strong in the matter of book-keeping, and very weak in ev- erything else; round as a round O, simpl... ...y in the or- chestra of a theatre; others like du Bruel, write vaudeville, comic operas, melodramas, or act as prompters behind the scenes. We may men... ...out of bed, and yet at heart gloomy and melancholy, like most of the great comic players. Launched into the world of actors and actresses, writers, ar...

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...iversity. 3 George Meredith LORD ORMONT AND HIS AMINTA By George Meredith BOOK 1 CHAPTER I LOVE AT A SCHOOL A PROCESSION of schoolboys having to meet... ...he school on thoughts of what love really is, when it is not fished out of books and poetry. For though she was pale, starved and pale, they could see... ...ell have said crown), “we are bound to sheathe the sword and govern by the Book of the Law.” “But if they won’t have the Book of the Law!” “They knew ... ...ibited by his attack on the Press in the columns of the Press. It wore the comical face to the friends deploring it, which belongs to things we do tha... ...rinted one, why not the others? Lady Charlotte put it on the quaintness of editors. He had found in London, perhaps, reason for saying that he should ... ...nd her hearer, and the more she was brief, oblique, far-shooting, the more comically intelligible she was to her niece. She bent her head to signify t... ...frowzy, scrubby pamphleteers and publishers, Lord Ormont thought amazingly comical. English nobles heading the weavers, cob- blers, and barbers of Eng...

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... university. 3 George Meredith BEAUCHAMP’S CAREER By George Meredith 1897 BOOK 1 CHAPTER I THE CHAMPION OF HIS COUNTRY WHEN YOUNG Nevil Beauchamp was... ...lieved him of his tyrant, and he is entreated notwithstanding to go to his books. Will you not own that the working of the system for scar- ing him an... ...ense of touch at wrong corners. His bewilderment and speechlessness were a comic display, tragic to him. Just as his uncle Everard predicted, he came ... ...h dien’ was the best motto afloat. Rosamund noticed the peculiarity of the books he selected for his private reading. They were not boys’ books, books... ...pping his fellow-man and so posturing him as to make every movement of the comical wretch puppet-like, constrained, stiff, and foolish. He could prese... ...ne. He shall not grind the faces of the poor and helpless—that’s all.’ The comicality of her having such remarks addressed to her provoked a smile on ... ...urbot assisted in that vast effort. It should have elevated him beyond the editorship of a country newspaper. Why it did not do so his antagonists pre... ...attling against the Press, with Stukely Culbrett to prime him: and he said editors of papers were growing to be like priests, and as timid as priests,...

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...er, from the moment I had comfortably laid the ground provided in my first Book, ground from which Milly is superficially so absent. I scarce remember... ... not otherwise than a little bewilderedly, into a world of periodicals and editors, of roaring “successes” in fine, amid which it was well-nigh unnote... ...or them that I really think any further account of the constitution of the book reduces itself to a just notation of the law they followed. There was ... ...I scarce leave myself room to glance at them. The clearness is obtained in Book First—or otherwise, as I have said, in the first “piece,” each Book ha... ...eft. The difficulty was not less that he breathed in the same way upon the comic: she almost believed that with this latter she might still have found... ...appear to cover the page. She still had reserves of spontaneity, if not of comicality; so that all this cash in hand could now find employment. She be... ...ppeared, was most in his element at the piano; so that they had coffee and comic songs upstairs—the gentlemen, tempo- rarily relinquished, submitting ...

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...lieve that my confidence in that great nation was not misplaced. When this book was first published, I was given to understand, by some authorities, t... ...y, 1843—at about the time when I was engaged in writing those parts of the book; and which remain on the file of the Times Newspaper, of course. In al... ...me months past been collecting materials for, and hammering away at, a new book on America has much astonished me; seeing that all that time my declar... ...evails in melo- dramas, and in virtue of which the elderly farmer with the comic son always knows what the dumb girl means when she takes refuge in hi... ...at the Dragon! Skittles, cricket, quoits, 68 Martin Chuzzlewit nine-pins, comic songs, choruses, company round the chimney corner every winter’s even... ...me to nod to Mr Pinch, and looking one of the most careless, good-humoured comical fellows in life. His late companion, with a thoughtful face pursued... ...man of a sporting turn, who propounded questions on jockey subjects to the editors of Sunday papers, which were regarded by his friends as rather stif...

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...10) in Cambridge and Boston, but succeeded in getting one through a London book- seller. This I compared, line by line, with the Edinburgh edi- 4 The... ... passages cited. 5 Sir Walter Scott While correcting the errors of former editors, I may have overlooked some of my own. I am already indebted to the... ...mous as a saint. He had two springs, which appear to be confounded by some editors of the poem. One was at the eastern end of Loch Earn, where the pre... ...m, and kill him with the sword. See many directions to this purpose in the Booke of Hunting, chap. 41. Wilson, the historian, has re- corded a provide... ... joy supplied; The woods, the mountains, and the warbling maze Of the wild books!” The Critical Review says of the following stanza (xxxiv): “Such a s... ... word in this and similar passages is generally printed “‘point” by modern editors, but it is not a contraction of appoint. 860. Then plunged, etc. Th... ...he vicinage of his several palaces in various disguises. The two excellent comic songs entitled The Gaberlunzie Man and We’ll gae nae mair a roving ar... ...hen travelling in the disguise of a beggar. The latter is perhaps the best comic ballad in any lan- guage. “Another adventure, which had nearly cost J...

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...to the city or coming out of it, on horseback or on foot, at home over his book or after the mazes of the dance,—was he dressed oth- erwise than with ... ... up the bill in a leisurely way, folding it and putting it into his pocket-book. ‘Have our names never been together on a bit of paper before?’ ‘When ... ... has a cold way of looking at me which makes me think I am not in his good books.’ ‘He is like that to everybody.’ ‘I never seem to get beyond the ski... ...ny answer. ‘Of course,’ said the Duchess, ‘you should keep the secret. The editors of the evening papers haven’t known it for above an hour.’ At anoth... ...ist or to oppose the scheme. There was no doubt, in the minds of all these editors and contributors, the teaching of a tradition that coalitions of th... ...ree. Paragraphs in news- papers go for much, and therefore the writers and editors of such paragraphs were there,—sometimes with their wives. Mr Broun... ...ut I’ll open it if you like.’ Then he tore off the envelope with an air of comic importance, and stood for a few min- utes while he read it. ‘What I f...

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...reets on the clean and elegant flagstones of Porta-Renza. When I have some book to publish which may be dedicated to a Milanese lady, I shall have the... ...age of your paper!—We must advertise the ap- pearance of one of the finest books of the age, l’Archer de Charles IX.! We will appeal to Dauriat to bri... ...at last perfect disregard of the formu- las of art; they have read so many books, they see so many 29 Balzac pass away, they are so much accustomed t... ...” said Europe, cocking her crafty little nose and giving the Baron a serio-comic leer. “Your conscience shall not be pait for so much as your place; b... ...onal corruption of the inferior classes, of which certain de- tails lend a comic element—terrible, if you will—to this drama. The Government, always a... ... to give him in- structions as to what he was to say to Massol, one of the editors of the Gazette des T ribunaux. While beauties, ministers, and magis...

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...es Nodier, member of the French Acad- emy, etc. Here, my dear Nodier, is a book filled with deeds that are screened from the action of the laws by the... ...powder, and talk takes the place of shot. After all, these little toads of editors are pretty good fellows, and very clever. Come and see me to-morrow... ...d his friend Giroudeau lived among a circle of journalists, actresses, and booksellers, where they were re- garded in the light of cashiers. Philippe,... ...orant, and loving to an- noy others, which now related tales, more or less comic, about the relations of Jean-Jacques Rouget with his servant-woman. T... ... strangest collo- quies, and exhibiting the queerest faces. A certain poor bookbinder, who was very old, believed in hobgoblins. Like most provincial ... ...ness of this officer had much to do with firmly establishing the weird and comic authority of the Knights of Idleness. Beyond the rue des Minimes and ... ...said Max, taking up his glass and swallowing the contents at a gulp with a comic gesture. Max was then thirty-four years old. A candle standing near h...

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...E I.?THE BASTILLE ................................................................................................................................ 12 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. ........................................................................................................................... 12 Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. .................................

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.......................................................................... 12 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV . ................................................ .......................................................................... 22 BOOK 1.II. THE PAPER AGE ..................................................... .......................................................................... 44 BOOK 1.III. THE PARLEMENT OF PARIS............................................ ... from his Annales, they looked eager through the London fog, and became Ex-Editors,—that they might feed the guillotine, and have their due. Does Louv... ...vese ‘have created the Moniteur Newspaper,’ or are about creating it. Able Editors must give account of such a day. Or seest thou with any distinctnes... ...path, Bastille-papers and curiosities into his carriage, with vivats. Able Editors compile Books from the Bastille Archives; from what of them remain ... ...ree long-contending elements of French Society, dashed forth into singular comico- tragical collision; acting and reacting openly to the eye. Con- sti... ...or-mania and royal blazonry of Cordwainery. Except indeed that this is not comic; ah no, it is comico-tragic; with bound Couriers, and a Doom hanging ...

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...................................................................................................................................................... 8 BOOKS?1905 ............................................................................................................................................................. 8 HENRY JAMES?AN APPRECIATION?1905 ........................

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........................................................................... 8 BOOKS—1905 ................................................................... ...”; but I may say that whenever the various peri- odicals mentioned in this book called on me to come out and blow the trumpet of personal opinions or ... ... tried to pull on my boots first. I didn’t want to do it, God knows! Their Editors, to whom I beg to offer my thanks here, made me perform mainly by k... ...ch all sinners against themselves are entitled. J. C. 1920. PART I—LETTERS BOOKS—1905 I “I HAVE NOT READ this author’s books, and if I have read them ... ... truth of human delicacy can be found in Mr. Henry James’s novels; and the comical, appall- ing truth of human rapacity let loose amongst the spoils o... ...e efforts of mankind to work its own salvation present a sight of alarming comicality. Af- ter clinging for ages to the steps of the heavenly throne, ... ...nd’s resurrection. When the war broke out there was something grue- somely comic in the proclamations of emperors and archdukes appealing to that invi...

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...Table of Contents: BOOK I 3 -- CHAPTER I ?PRELIMINARY, 3 -- CHAPTER II ?EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES, 7 -- CHAPTER III ?REMINISCENCES, 11 -- CHAPTER IV? CHARACTERISTICS, 19 -- CHAPTER V? THE WORLD IN CLOTHES, 24 -- CHAPTER VI? APRONS, 29 -- CHAPTER V...

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...t c 2001 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Contents BOOK I 3 CHAPTER I — PRELIMINARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... .... . . 43 CHAPTER XI — PROSPECTIVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 BOOK II 55 CHAPTER I — GENESIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... 118 CHAPTER X — PAUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 BOOK III 133 CHAPTER I — INCIDENT IN MODERN HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . 1... ... have reached a height unexampled in the annals of mankind, and even English Editors, like Chinese Shopkeepers, must write on their door lintels No ch... ...ublication, “at present the glory of British Literature”? If so, the Library Editors are welcome to dig in it for their own behoof. To the First Chapt... ... Names, according as this or the other Able Editor, or Com bination of Able Editors, gains the world’s ear. Of the British Newspaper Press, perhaps t... ...h there is a good deal of remark throughout the work in a half serious, half comic style upon dress, it seems to be in reality a treatise upon the gre...

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...a thesis, refer to “the author of the T atler” contemporary with all these editors. The truth is, Addison was well aware of Shakspeare’s hold on the p... ... essential condition of attraction. Moreover, in some de- partments of the comic, Beaumont and Fletcher, when writ- ing in combination, really had a f... ...out reviews, or newspapers, or advertisements, to diffuse the knowledge of books, the progress of literature was necessar- ily slow, and its expansion... ...ctor in plays and to their author. The contemp- tuous appellation of “play-book,” served as readily to degrade the mighty volume which contained Lear ... ...ted with the London stage. The conversation of comedians ac- quainted with books, fresh from the keen and sparkling circles of the metropolis, and fil... ...h- ing, most emphatically drew forth the sexual distinctions, viz., in the comic aspects of social intercourse, the reason that we see no women on the... ... a graduated scale of merit, as distributed amongst the long succession of editors through that century, Pope holds a rank proportionable to his age. ... ...and acknowledged edition was published in London early in “1728-9,” as the editors choose to write it, that is, (without perplexing the reader,) in 17...

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... for the sculptured horrors which disgrace the tomb. If I have put into my book anything which can fill the young mind with better thoughts of death, ... ...ish life was all light and no shadows, and I began to doubt that beautiful book to which I have turned again and again, always to find new beauties an... ...tage hearth a graceful thing—of whom it might truly be said that he found “books in the running brooks,” and who has left in all he did some breathing... ...Her Majesty’s servants, I think I should know where to put my hand on “the comic old gentleman;” nor, that if I wanted to get up a pantomime, I fancy ... ...ch an offence would have no chance against the acute sagacity of newspaper editors. But I will go further, and submit to you that its commission, if i... ... whole King’s army. He may do the “light business,” or the “heavy,” or the comic, or the eccentric. He may be the cap tain who courts the young lady,...

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...nt in her presence, and her pleasures had been in the kitchen and in a few books, probably ‘Don Quixote’ and ‘Evelina,’ so far as could be gathered fr... ...she said. And in the same way it was a feast to her to get hold of “a real book,” as she called it, not only the beginnings of every- thing, and selec... ...on’t be of any use to you.’ I hate use—” “Like Ridley, who says he reads a book with double plea- sure if he is not going to review it.” “That Mr. Rid... ... in such bewildered amazement, that struck the mother and daugh- ter as so comical that the one hid her face in her hands with a sort of hysterical he... ... I wanted to make Aunt Ellen laugh. Did she laugh, mother?” he asked in so comical and innocent a manner that, in spite of her full con- sciousness of... ...to me,” she said, with a cowering, shuddering sort of action, irresistibly comic. “And he ate up half our day,” bemoaned more than one of the boys. Mi... ...as tried all the periodi- cals round, and they won’t have it, not even the editors that know mother!” “Poor fellow! And you have no pity!” “Don’t you ...

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.... This alone of the “Translations” is included in the Harvard manu- script book. ‘Fragments of the drafts of this and the other Hymns of Homer exist a... ...cky dwelling; _490 Let us with some comic spell Teach the yet unteachable. By all means he must be blinded, If ... ...er Cyprian, dressed as a student; Clarin and Moscon as poor scholars, with books. CYPRIAN: CYPRIAN: CYPRIAN: CYPRIAN: CYPRIAN: In the sweet solitude o... ...ness of trees And flowers and undergrowth of odorous plants, Leave me; the books you brought out of the house To me are ever best society. ... ...ters of Charles Lamb”, has through five successive editions and under many editors—including Fitzgerald, Ainger, and Macdonald—held its ground even to... ... land; (10 5 6.) Edi- tions 1818, 1839 read home for land here. All modern editors adopt Fleay’s cj., land [rhyming with band (8), sand (9)]. 30. 30. ... ...spended, etc. (12 40 5.) Here on a line is Rossetti’s cj. (accepted by all editors) for one line (editions 1818, 1839). See also list of punctual vari...

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...TER 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 mind to visit the countr... ...ntention; but I should not purposely have chosen this period either for my book or for my visit. I say so much, in order that it may not be supposed t... ...o so, and is not now my primary object. Thirty years ago my mother wrote a book about the Americans, to which I believe I may allude as a well- known ... ...that all this is paid for by the advertisements, for I must trust that the editors do not receive less than the moderate sum above named. At Sherbrook... ...t; but on the night of my attendance it seemed to lack an audience. A good comic actor it did not lack, and I never laughed more heartily in my life. ... ...3th of Septem- ber thirteen of its members were arrested, as were also two editors of newspapers presumed to be secessionists. A member of Congress wa...

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...es The Aspern Papers by Henry James The text is that of the first American book edition, Macmillan and Co., 1888. I I had taken Mrs. Prest into my con... ...possible to live, but none the less she has probably heard of Mr. Aspern’s editors; she perhaps possesses what you have published.” “I have thought of... ... and with an effect of irresponsible, incom- petent youth which was almost comically at variance with the faded facts of her person. She was not infir... ...y, during the hours that I sat in the garden looking up over the top of my book at the closed win- dows of my hostess. In these windows no sign of lif... ...or arranged and a low table and an armchair put into it; and I carried out books and portfo- lios (I had always some business of writing in hand), and... ...me so little amusing. It would have been better perhaps for me to feel the comic side of it. At any rate, whether I had given cause or not it went wit...

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...or Coleridge by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 1787-1833 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Coleridge: Poems Table of ... .... . . . . . . . 442 Love’s Burial-place . . . . . . . . . . 443 Lines: To a Comic Author, on an Abusive Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ... . . . 450 To Miss A. T. . . . . . . . . . 451 Lines written in Commonplace Book of Miss Barbour, . . . . . . 452 Song, ex improviso, on hearing a... ...leridge: Poems Nil Pejus est Caelibe Vitæ 1787 in Christ’s Hospital book What pleasures shall he ever find? What joys shall ever glad his he... ... o . — I am, with more respect and gratitude than I ordinarily feel for Editors of Papers, your obliged, &c.,Cantab. — S.T.C. [Composed during a... ...h of a Decline.’’ - 442 - Love’s Burial-place Coleridge: Poems Lines: To a Comic Author, on an Abusive Review ?1825 What though the chilly wid... ...glee, ‘‘I hate the quacking tribe, and they hate me!’’ - 443 - Lines: To a Comic Author, on an Abusive Review Coleridge: Poems Cologne 1828 I...

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... candle was brought in. The familiar details came out: the stag’s horns, the bookshelves, the looking glass, the stove with its ventilator, which had ... ... long wanted mending, his father’s sofa, a large table, on the table an open book, a broken ash tray, a manuscript book with his handwriting. As he sa... ...oom, where he always had tea, and had settled himself in his armchair with a book , and Agafea Mihalovna had brought him tea, and with her usual, “Wel... ...g Li eschen, the servant girl, and the landlord, with whom he jested in his comically bad German, assuring him that it was not the water had cured Ki... ...rance to this answer, and listened, not without pleasure, to the landowner’s comic speeches. The gentleman with the gray whiskers was obviously an inv... ...ged with Pestsov. Slapping Turovtsin on the shoulder, he whispered something comic in his ear, and set him down by his wife and the old prince. Then h... ...e front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!”’ “A nice lot the editors would make!” said Katavasov, with a loud roar, as he pictured the...