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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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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... 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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...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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...ting of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book. Epigraph Neither to persuade nor indoctrinate but rather to ... ...sure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. 13. He Unchained Books The German goldsmith’s invention frees access to library books and b... ...n John 1 with the simple phrase: ―In the beginning was the word—‖ This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then ... ...ctive new decisions print shop owners faced was how to reward authors and editors for their time and skills. Printers became ―carriers of a spirit o... ... room. From its center the managing editor supervises local and wire news editors stationed inside and outside the rim. Wearing dress shirts but with... ...ef sentence or two. Copyboys fill paste pots on the desks of reporter and editors and run errands when not hustling reporters’ typewritten pages to ... ... HarperCollins, 2006. Hogben, Lancelot Thomas. From Cave Painting to Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope of Human Communication. New York: Chanticleer ...

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...dian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in ... ...two complimentary, simultaneous conditions: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. ... ... this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. Is this book true, or not? Preface ... ...less of who the author was. Regardless if they were the equivalent of a Greek comic book, or a recipe THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Chapter Six A: Civiliz... ...r you for almost ‘xx’ years now. We are professionals. We have professional editors. Who work for professional corporations who are not slanting ... ... So the media and all of its employees such as journalists and reporters and editors: carefully whitewash every story of most of the pertinent fact... ...til the ten- twenty years of government censorship brainwashed the bigwigs and editors enough so they began to censor themselves. After 30 years exp... ...t integrate it with facial expressions-body gestures... Why not make language comical instead of serious? To try to squeeze all self-expression int...