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...Excerpt: He had been told the ladies were at church, but this was corrected by what he saw from the top of the steps--they descended from a great height in two arms, with a circular sweep of the most charming effect--at the threshold of the door which, from the long bright gallery, overlooked the immense lawn. Thre...

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...been told the ladies were at church, but this was corrected by what he saw from the top of the steps—they descended from a great height in two arms, w... ...ular sweep of the most charming effect—at the threshold of the door which, from the long bright gallery, overlooked the immense lawn. Three gentle- me... ...s room. The young man declined that privi- lege, conscious of no disrepair from so short and easy a journey and always liking to take at once a genera... ...h a rare complexion disdains a veil. When Paul Overt became aware that the people under the trees had no- ticed him he turned back through the open do... ...like it,” said Overt, looking at Mrs. St. George. “Well, a little house in Manchester Square—there’s a limit to the enthusiasm that inspires.” “Oh I m... ...funded the money. Paul Overt suspected her of a ten- dency to figure great people as larger than life, until he noticed the manner in which she handle... ...e than once, on returning to his own country, he had said to himself about people met in society: “One sees them in this place and that, and one even ... ... laughing, to their companion. “Yes, but not yours only. You shall meet in Manchester Square; you shall talk—you shall be wonderful!” “We don’t meet o... ...k at “types” with St. George! The next Sunday at four o’clock he called in Manchester Square, where his secret wish was gratified by his finding Miss ...

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... IV. THE PANTOMIME OF LIFE V. SOME PARTICULARS CONCERNING A LION VI.MR. ROBERT BOLTON: THE ?GENTLEMAN CONNECTED WITH THE PRESS? VII. FAMILIAR EPISTLE FROM A PARENT TO A CHILD AGED TWO YEARS AND TWO MONTHS...

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...BERT BOLTON: THE ‘GENTLEMAN CONNECTED WITH THE PRESS’ VII. FAMILIAR EPISTLE FROM A PARENT TO A CHILD AGED TWO YEARS AND TWO MONTHS PUBLIC LIFE OF MR.... ...ably pleasant town situated in a charming hollow by the side of a river, from which river, Mudfog derives an agree able scent of pitch, tar, coal... ...s of Mudfog are unanimous in asserting that there exists not a finer race of people on the face of the earth; here we have an indisputable and vera c... ...e morn ing they shall be permitted to open, how soon it shall be lawful for people to eat their dinner on church days, and other great political ques... ...sometimes, long after silence has fallen on the town, and the distant lights from the shops and houses have ceased to twinkle, like far off stars, to ... ...abit of indulg ing abroad in distant and mysterious allusions to ‘masses of people,’ and ‘the property of the country,’ and ‘productive power,’ and ‘... ... plan tations, while they could discern nothing whatever in the interior of Manchester cotton mills. He must know, too, with what quickness of percep... ...a melancholy instance of this only a week or two since. I was returning from Manchester to London by the Mail Train, when I suddenly fell into an oth... ...rally ‘Bentley’s’ Miscel lany, and never mine. Unlike the driver of the old Manchester mail, I regard this altered state of things with feelings of u...

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...to Vettori, 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 ... ...red, happier, finer, securer. They imagined cities grown more powerful and peoples made rich and mul- titudinous by their efforts, they thought in ter... ...s unfair. The old sort of Prince, the old little principality has vanished from the world. The commonweal is one man’s absolute es- tate and responsib... ...the interest of womanhood was in a region of life almost infinitely remote from his statecraft. They were the vehicle of children, but only Imperial R... ... Natural History, a brand-new illustrated Green’s His- tory of the English People, Irving’s Companions of Columbus, a great number of unbound parts of... ...The Science and Art Department has vanished altogether from the world, and people are forgetting it now with the utmost readiness and generosity. Part... ...d off by his passions for a “bit of a spree” to Birmingham or Liverpool or Manchester. The in- dulgences of these occasions were usually followed by a... ...ies would prevent it. If Messrs. Perowne or Cook organised a cheap tour of Manchester op- eratives, it would be stopped. No one dare bring the average...

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...w me to bear you. If I am reproached for impotence in this attempt to draw from the depths of mysticism a book which seeks to give, in the lucid trans... ... this book could belong exclusively to noble spirits, preserved like yours from worldly pettiness by solitude! They would know how to give to it the m... ...t, in the hands of a poet, the glorious epic that France still awaits. But from me they must accept it as one of those sculptured balustrades, carved ... ...eze between the prison-walls of rock against which it surges, the country- people call the little bay a “fiord,”—a word which geogra- phers of every n... ...illed soil yielded rye and hemp and vegetables, which necessity taught the people to protect against the severity of the cold and the fleeting but ter... ...ough the maritime defiles that guard the entrance to the bay, hinder these people from growing rich by the sale of their timber. It would cost enormou... ...s in England, where there are seven thousand Swedenborgians in the city of Manchester alone. Many men of high rank in knowledge and in social position...

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.... He suffered no doubt;—but with Spartan consistency he so hid his trouble from the world that no one knew that he suffered. Those with whom he lived,... ... could be marked with the finger of the observer, did he glaringly abstain from any statement which at the moment might be natural. He never hesitated... ...om- ach, his stable, and his debts, could not with any amount of care keep from us the fact that his father was an attorney’s clerk, and made his firs... .... It assists a man in getting a seat as the director of certain companies. People are still such asses that they trust a Board of Directors made up of... ...er. Indeed it had been perhaps a misfortune with Everett Wharton that some people had believed in him,—and a fur- ther misfortune that some others had... ...knew all about when he said that “The proper study of mankind is man.” But people don’t read Pope now, or if they do they don’t take the trouble to un... ...ill with him.’ ‘You have dined three times within the last three months in Manchester Square, and I don’t know any other man,— certainly no other youn... ...e whist-table at the Eldon. He ate and drank and slept in his own house in Manchester Square, but he could hardly be said to live there. It was not th... ...hat which he now intended to declare. He had been intimate at the house at Manchester Square, and had certainly ingratiated himself very closely with ...

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...with which his friends have 5 Yo n g e kindly supplied me, portraying him from their point of view; so that I could really trust that little more was... ...ary judgment in connecting and selecting. Nor until the work is less fresh from my hand will it be possible to judge whether I have in any way been al... ... does not look back at least as far as the lives of the father and mother, from whom the disposition is sure to be in part inherited, and by whom it m... ...arnest wish to be a clergyman, because he thought saying the Absolution to people must make them so happy, ‘a belief he must have gleaned from his Pra... ...ng out to found a church, and then to die neglected and forgotten. All the people burst out crying, he was so very much beloved by his parishioners. H... ...s of the ceremony. After all the boys had been confirmed about seven other people were confirmed, of whom two were quite as much as thirty, I should t... ... England during his father’s lifetime, and perhaps transferring himself to Manchester, Liverpool, London, or some large city, where there was need of ...

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...er; and, to the raging, struggling multitude here and elsewhere, solemnly, from hour to hour, with preparatory blast of cow-horn, emit his Horet ihr H... ...ult and gold ornaments; also many a scene that looks desert and rock-bound from the distance, will unfold itself, when visited, into rare valleys. Nay... ...then, by quite foreign sugges- tion. By the arrival, namely, of a new Book from Professor Teufelsdrockh of Weissnichtwo; treating expressly of this su... ...r natural grotto: but for Decoration he must have Clothes. Nay, among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to Clothes. The first spi... ...er wohl mit schweren Zinsen, wird’s einst zuruckgefordert. ‘Good Christian people, here lies for you an invaluable Loan; take all heed thereof, in all... ...nal satisfying, they resolved, as in such circumstances charitable prudent people needs must, on nursing it, though with spoon- meat, into whiteness, ... ...-gowns, for a second skin of tanned hide? By which change Huddersfield and Manchester, and Coventry and Paisley, and the Fancy-Bazaar, were reduced to...

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...Virgin Soil by Ivan S. T urgenev T ranslated from the Russian by R. S. T ownsend A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ...unity university. 3 Turgenev Virgin Soil by Ivan S. T urgenev T ranslated from the Russian by R. S. Townsend INTRODUCTION T urgenev was the first wri... ...ich belonged to his temperament. He suffered in youth, and suffered badly, from the romantic malady of his century, and that other malady of Russia, b... ...of the charac- ters. But Russ as he is, he never lets his scenery hide his people: he only uses it to enhance them. He is too great an artist to lose ... ... everything.” Paklin turned round on his heels. “That is the usual mistake people make about me, my dear Pemien! In the first place, I am not always l... ...ight years old. He had a great many acquaintances among students and young people, who liked him for his cynical wit, his harm- less, though biting, s... ...ove him like his own son. This man supplied him with the means of going to Manchester, where he stayed for two years, acquiring an ex- cellent knowled...

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... brief. The poems printed in this book need no preliminary com- mendations from me or anyone else. The author has left us his own fragmentary but impr... ...nt French poet, Laurent T ailhade, to whom he showed his early verses, and from whom he received considerable encouragement. In 1915, in spite of deli... ...delicate health, he joined the Artists’ Rifles O.T.C., was gazetted to the Manchester Regiment, and served with their 2nd Battalion in France from Dec... ... to the Manchester Regiment, and served with their 2nd Battalion in France from December 1916 to June 1917, when he was invalided home. Fourteen month... ...rs who’d run amok. He’d seen men shoot their hands, on night patrol, Their people never knew. Yet they were vile. “Death sooner than dishonour, that’... ...w save under France). Pictures of these broad smiles appear each week, And people in whose voice real feeling rings Say: How they smile! They’re hap...

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...ing the garden-plot, shrank back alarmed. The Irish servant-lass rushed up from the kitchen and smiled a “God bless you.” Amelia could hardly walk alo... ... war; until the Irish maid-servant came with a plate and a bottle of wine, from which the old gentleman insisted upon helping the valet. He gave him a... ... What a gulf lay between her and that past life. She could look back to it from her present stand- ing-place, and contemplate, almost as another being... ... to take measures for the preparing of a mag- nificent ornamented tea. All people have their ways of express- ing kindness, and it seemed to Mrs. Sedl... ...ith men of fashion and ladies of note, on their way to Brussels and Ghent. People were going not so much to a war as to a fash- ionable tour. The news... ...to be said that this soft and gentle creature took her opinions from those people who surrounded her, such fidelity being much too humble-minded to th... ...tuous dark green carriage, a prospect of speedy knighthood, and a house in Manchester Square) that her grief at weaning the child was a sight that wou...

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... where the blocks of white linen and piles of blankets rise up to the rail from which the pink and blue prints depend, you might have been served by t... ...the lappel of his coat. His remarks, you would observe, were entirely what people used to call cliche, for- mulae not organic to the occasion, but ste... ...u selected, extracted a little book with a carbon leaf and a tinfoil sheet from a fixture, made you out a little bill in that weak flourishing hand pe... ...the interview would have terminated. But real literature, as distinguished from anecdote, does not concern itself with superficial appearances alone. ... ...eriority had been so evident that even a man like that noticed it. No more Manchester Department for ten days! Out of Manchester, a Man. The draper Ho... ...d a persuasion the cult had been maligned. Anyhow she was a Lady. And rich people, too! Her machine couldn’t have cost much under twenty pounds. His m... ...ing, very pleasant to see, and in the afternoon the shops are busy and the people going to and fro make the pavements look bright and pros- perous. It... ...n the shop, a sudden radiance in the doorway, and she is bowed towards the Manchester counter. And then to lean over that counter and murmur, seemingl...

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...ine by line, with the Edinburgh edi- 4 The Lady of the Lake tion of 1821 (from the Harvard Library), with Lockhart’s first edition, the “ Globe “ edi... ...izabethan words and constructions, and I have quoted many “ parallelisms “ from Shakespeare and his contemporaries. I believe I have referred to my ed... ...deep-mouthed bloodhound’s heavy bay Resounded up the rocky way, And faint, from farther distance borne, Were heard the clanging hoof and horn. 7 Sir ... .... XXII. Lament. ‘And art thou cold and lowly laid, Thy foeman’s dread, thy people’s aid, Breadalbane’s boast, Clan-Alpine’s shade! For thee shall none... ...eath. Another writer, in 1843, says that the pool is still visited, not by people of the vicinity, who have no faith in its virtue, but by those from ... ...boggy or peaty dis- trict, like the famous Chat Moss between Liverpool and Manchester. 93. Lochard. Loch Ard is a beautiful lakelet, about five miles ... ...rrow and winding streets of a suburb, inhabited by the lowest order of the people, and an approaching thunder-shower de- termined him to ask a short r...

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...ng to have broken them. My plain story is of two Kentish damsels, and runs from a home of flowers into regions where flowers are few and sickly, on to... ...d Kentish extraction, albeit varieties of the breed. The farm had its name from a tradition, common to many other farmhouses within a circuit of the m... ...s. T ufts of pale grass, and gilliflowers, and travelling stone-crop, hung from the wall, and driblets of ivy ran broad- ening to the outer ground. Th... ...ective reading of her Bible, and to thoughts upon flowers eternal. Country people are not inclined to tolerate the dis- play of a passion for anything... ...ng to build up her children to stoutness, and but for the blindness of all people, save artists, poets, novelists, to the grandeur of their own creati... ...rees they adopted the phrases and manner of speech of highly gram- matical people, such as the rector and his lady, and of people in story-books, espe... ...d assertions; now implicating the jockey, now the owner of Templemore. The Manchester party, and the Yorkshire party, and their diverse villanous tric...

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...t whom little was known, except that he was a pol- ished man of the world. People said that he resembled Byron—at least that his head was Byronic; but... ...act, to none of the numerous societies which swarm in the English capital, from the Harmonic to that of 4 Around the World in 80 Days the Entomologis... ... with whom he had an open credit. His cheques were regularly paid at sight from his account current, which was always flush. Was Phileas Fogg rich? Un... ...spirit. It was at least certain that Phileas Fogg had not absented himself from London for many years. Those who were honoured by a better acquaintanc... ...her wife or chil- 5 Jules Verne dren, which may happen to the most honest people; either relatives or near friends, which is certainly more unusual. ... ...ND HIS IDEAL “Faith,” muttered Passepartout, somewhat flurried, “I’ve seen people at Madame T ussaud’s as lively as my new master!” Madame T ussaud’s ... ...t of India; or Monghir, a more than European town, for it is as English as Manchester or Bir- mingham, with its iron foundries, edgetool factories, an...

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...e Professor,” shortly after the appear- ance of “Shirley.” Being dissuaded from her intention, the authoress made some use of the materials in a subse... ...it has been represented to me that I ought not to withhold “The Professor” from the public. I have there- fore consented to its publication. A. B. Nic... ...ou, and I have reason to believe that you, on your part, were equally free from all romantic regard to me. Still, out of school hours we walked and ta... ...of respect to the peerage, oppose at every step the advancing power of the people, support your rotten order, and be ready for its sake to wade knee-d... ...y it if you dare.” “Oh, I shall not deny it! And if Hunsden hounded on the people to hiss you, he did quite right. You deserve popular execration; for... ... stillness near and far; the time of the day favoured tranquillity, as the people were all employed within-doors, the hour of evening release from the... ...than in other countries.” “Come to England and see. Come to Birmingham and Manchester; come to St. Giles’ in London, and get a practical notion of how... ...Hunsden invites, are all either men of 215 Charlotte Brontë Birmingham or Manchester—hard men, seemingly knit up in one thought, whose talk is of fre...

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...y was full of such grotesqueries, but the clean towers were thrusting them from the business center, and on the farther hills were shining new houses,... ...ete bridge fled a limousine of long sleek hood and noiseless engine. These people in evening clothes were returning from an all-night rehearsal of a L... ... hood and noiseless engine. These people in evening clothes were returning from an all-night rehearsal of a Little Theater play, an artistic adventure... ...r poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay. His large head was pink, his brown hair thin an... ... in the darkness beyond mysterious groves. When at last he could slip away from the crowded house he darted to her. His wife, his clamoring friends, s... ...that’s 8 Babbitt got the slightest doggone bit of consideration for other people and thoughtfulness and consider there may be others that may want to... ...g—Sneakingly I have a notion that Zenith is a better place to live in than Manchester or Glasgow or Lyons or Berlin or Turin—” “It is not, and I have ...

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...e met the call of that particular transient occasion in which they arose; and others, it may be thought on review, might as well have been suppressed from the very first....

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION ..............

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... S K E T C H E S AUTOBIOGRAPHIC S K E T C H E S Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE E... ...nia State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORK... ...ey AUTOBIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRACT FR ... ...shed in a journal dedicated to purposes of politi- cal change such as many people thought revolutionary. I thought so myself, and did not go along wit... ...ular—but many of my readers will know it for a truth— that vast numbers of people, though liberated from all rea- sonable motives to self-restraint, c... ... power to lay aside reserve; and many, again, cannot be so with particular people. I have witnessed more than once the case, that a young female danc... ...s in a world of evil and strife. Though born in a large town, (the town of Manchester, even then amongst the largest of the island,) I had passed the ... ...ly built by my father, at that time was a clear mile from the outskirts of Manchester; but in after years Manchester, throwing out the tentacula of it... ...tween Greenhay and Princess Street, then the termination, on that side, of Manchester. But so it was. Oxford Street, like its name- sake in London, wa...

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...Excerpt: Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenaeum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lane Cooper, of Cornell University. I wi...

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...A A A A ACE CE CE CE CE Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenæum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have ... ...s Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Select... ...TION I. LIFE I. LIFE I. LIFE I. LIFE I. LIFE THOMAS DE QUINCEY was born in Manchester on the 15th of August, 1785. His father was a man of high charac... ...ly removed to The Farm, and later to Greenhay, a larger country place near Manchester. In 1796 De Quincey’s mother, now for some years a widow, remove... ...ian mob better than you or I could address an English one.” He was sent to Manchester Grammar School, however, in order that after three years’ stay h... ...a a week to carry out his later project of a solitary tramp through Wales. From July to No- vember, 1802, De Quincey then led a wayfarer’s life.* He s... ... our little planet, the Earth, however cheap they may be held by eccentric people in comets: he had invented mail-coaches, and he had mar- ried the da... ...ne single college; in Oxford there were five-and-twenty, all of which were peopled by young men, the élite of their own generation; not boys, but men:... ...he year of Trafalgar), it had been the fixed assumption of the four inside people (as an old tradition of all public car- riages derived from the reig...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. ?KASPAR! MAKAN!? The well-known shrill voice startled Almayer from his dream of splendid future into the unpleasant realities of the present hour. An unpleasant voice too. He had heard it for many years, and with every year he liked it less. No matter; there would be an end to all this ...

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...ad CHAPTER I “KASPAR! MAKAN!” The well-known shrill voice startled Almayer from his dream of splendid future into the unpleasant realities of the pres... ...imself and Nina. He absorbed himself in his dream of wealth and power away from this coast where he had dwelt for so many years, forgetting the bitter... ...aw a young and slim Almayer, clad all in white and modest-looking, landing from the Dutch mail-boat on the dusty jetty of Macassar, coming to woo fort... ... warehouses with their long and straight avenues of gin cases and bales of Manchester goods; the big door swinging noiselessly; the dim light of the p... ...se entrances himself only knew, Lingard used to take his assorted cargo of Manchester goods, brass gongs, rifles and gunpowder. His brig Flash, which ... ...shape- less heap, slept a Malay, one of Almayer’s domestic slaves— ”my own people,” he used to call them. A numerous and rep- resentative assembly of ... ...known; otherwise she accepted her position calmly, after the manner of her people, and even considered it quite natural; for was she not a daugh- ter ... ...ise. “He was coming back soon. There would be no difficulties,” he wrote; “people would rush in with their money.” Evidently they did not, for there w... ...rass guns covered with verdigris and only a few broken cases of mouldering Manchester goods reminded him of the good early times when all this was ful...

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...ool and St. Bartholomew?s Hospital bound it on the west; Smithfield and Long Lane on the north; Aldersgate Street, like an arm of the sea, divides it from the eastern part of the city; whilst the yawning gulf of Bull-and-Mouth Street separates it from Butcher Lane, and the regions of Newgate. Over this little territory, thus bounded and designated, the great dome of St. Pa...

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...ong Lane on the north; Aldersgate Street, like an arm of the sea, divides it from the eastern part of the city; whilst the yawning gulf of Bull and Mo... ...t of the city; whilst the yawning gulf of Bull and Mouth Street separates it from Butcher Lane, and the regions of Newgate. Over this little territory... ...n with an air of motherly protection. This quarter de rives its appellation from having been, in ancient times, the residence of the Dukes of Brittan... ...des. For some time Little Britain became the great mart of learning, and was peopled by the busy and prolific race of booksellers; these also graduall... ... had been radical meetings in all parts of the kingdom; the bloody scenes at Manchester; the great plot of Cato Street; and above all, the queen had r... ...e page of tribulation, they have spread great gloom through the minds of the people of Little Brit “Little Britain” Washington Irving 6 ain. They ... ...of late; but they were for a long time prevailing themes of controversy, the people of Little Britain being extremely solicitous of fu nereal honors ...