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...ay A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publica- t... ...r the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Penn- sylv... ...ersity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Thackeray Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray DEDICATION TO C... ...at all, and wrote the following pages, out of pure fancy, in retirement at Putney; but mainly, to give him an opportunity of thanking the Directors of... ...ge; and, having their book-learn- ing fresh in their minds, see the living people and their cities, and the actual aspect of Nature, along the famous ... ...s shores of the Mediterranean. CHAPTER I:VIGO THE SUN BROUGHT ALL the sick people out of their berths this morning, and the indescribable moans and no... ...n smiled peacefully round about, and the ship went rolling over it, as the people within were praising the Maker of all. In honour of the day, it was ... ... hobby-horse is a quiet beast, suited for Park riding, or a gentle trot to Putney and back to a snug stable, and plenty of feeds of corn:- it can’t 2... ...of the Dardanelles. The weather was not too hot, the water as smooth as at Putney, and every- body happy and excited at the thought of seeing Constant...

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...Excerpt: Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right. In the general experience, everybody has been wrong so often, and it has taken, in most instances, such a weary whi...

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...arles Dickens CHAPTER I The Gift Bestowed EVERYBODY SAID SO. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, ofte... ... and even to the observation of eyes, except when a stray face looked down from the upper world, wondering what nook it was; its sun dial in a little ... ... figures, mountains and abysses, ambuscades and armies, in the coals. When people in the streets bent down their heads and ran before the weather. Whe... ...o bed. When, in rustic places, the last glimmering of day light died away from the ends of avenues; and the trees, arching overhead, were sullen and ... ... a kimbo, evidently smelling the blood of Englishmen, and wanting to grind people’s bones to make his bread. When these shadows brought into the minds... ...ones to make his bread. When these shadows brought into the minds of older people, other thoughts, and showed them different im ages. When they stole... ...all her Swidge, Widge, Bridge — Lord! London Bridge, Blackfriars, Chelsea, Putney, Waterloo, or Hammersmith Suspension — if they like.” The close of t...

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... used to sport at the Lord Lieutenant?s balls and elsewhere. He wore it, he said, at the battle of Vinegar Hill, when his club pigtail saved his head from being taken off,--but that is neither here nor there....

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... said, at the battle of Vinegar Hill, when his club pigtail saved his head from being taken off,—but that is neither here nor there. In the middle of ... ...Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond a plate of blue enamel, and it was from the Great Hoggarty Diamond (as we called it in the family) that the co... ...ought I. “Samuel, my dear nephew,” said she, “your first name you received from your sainted uncle, my blessed husband; and of all my nephews and niec... ...- tary indeed: I’m unworthy of it—indeed I am.” “As for those odious Irish people,” says my aunt, rather sharply, “don’t speak of them, I hate them, a... ...air, and his love for the fine arts. As for the poor artist, my dear, some people said it was the profuse use of spirit that brought on delirium treme... ... the City of London for establishing companies of all sorts; by which many people made pretty fortunes. I was at this period, as the truth must be kno... ...had told us how Mrs. R. and he were going to pass Satur- day and Sunday at Putney; and we who knew what a life the poor fellow led, were sure that the... ...ugh to lend me his arm, and ’tis sweet with such a guide to wander both to Putney and Wandsworth, and igsamin the wonderful works of nature. I have sp...

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...ing committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world seem more inconsiderable than, in those last solemn days, it did to him. He had burnt much; found much unworthy; looking steadfastly into ...

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...o friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in... ...d by his position as a Churchman, had been led, in editing a Work not free from ecclesiastical heresies, and especially in writing a Life very full of... ...Hebrew Old- clothes;’ wrestling, with impotent impetuosity, to free itself from the baleful imbroglio, as if that had been its one function in life: w... ...it.—Simple peasant laborers, ploughers, house- servants, occasional fisher-people too; and the sight of ships, and crops, and Nature’s doings where Ar... ...dism when they have any character;—for the rest, an innocent good- humored people, who all drink home-brewed beer, and have brown loaves of the most e... ...ing. This is the ordinary Welsh village; but there are excep- tions, where people of more cultivated tastes have been led to settle, and Llanblethian ... ...ed with us to Chelsea that day;—and in the afternoon we went on the Thames Putney- ward together, we two with my Wife; under the sunny skies, on the q...

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...t a mean distance of 140,000,000 miles, and the light and heat it receives from the sun is barely half of that received by this world. It must be, if ... ...han our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficial area and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is not only more distant from ... ...inferior animals. To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only es- cape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps upon them. A... ...ons of miles it was from us—more than forty millions of miles of void. Few people realise the im- mensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material... ...elow in the darkness were Ottershaw and Chertsey and all their hundreds of people, sleeping in peace. He was full of speculation that night about the ... ...hotograph of the planet for the illustrated paper he edited in those days. People in these latter times scarcely realise the abundance and enterprise ... .... “It wants showing up,” he said. One or two trains came in from Richmond, Putney, and Kingston, containing people who had gone out for a day’s boatin... ...tly growing and Titanic water fronds speedily choked both those rivers. At Putney, as I afterwards saw, the bridge was almost lost in a tangle of this... ... and made my way to the hill going up to- wards Roehampton and came out on Putney Common. Here the scenery changed from the strange and unfamiliar to ...

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...shop—of Messrs. Antrobus & Co.—a perfectly fictitious “Co.,” by the bye—of Putney, on the 14th of August, 1895, had turned to the right-hand side, whe... ... 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. ... ...and a machine in a dark road,—the road, to be explicit, from Roehampton to Putney Hill,—and with this vision is the sound of a heel spurning the grave... ...the very high collar. (He had wit- nessed one of the lessons at the top of Putney Hill.) “You stow it,” said Mr. Hoopdriver, looking hard and threaten... ...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...

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.......................................................................... 43 FROM THE ORIGINAL DRAFT OF THE POEM TO WILLIAM SHELLEY. ...................... ........................................... 48 FRAGMENT: TO A FRIEND RELEASED FROM PRISON................................................................... .................................................................... 58 SCENE FROM ‘TASSO’. ................................................................ ......................................................... 85 FRAGMENT: TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. ........................................................... ...e? Who painteth the shadows that are beneath The wide-winding caves of the peopled tomb? Or uniteth the hopes of what shall be With the fears and the ... ...itical doctrines, and attempted so to do by appeals in prose essays to the people, exhorting them to claim their rights; but he had now begun to feel ... ...f Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.’ Putney, May 1, 1839. 243 Shelley Index of First Lines Symbols (With what t...

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... was chiefly for the pleasure of mischief—at least so it was conjec- tured from her always preferring those which she was forbid- den to take. Such we... ...was not superior; though whenever she could obtain the outside of a letter from her mother or seize upon any other odd piece of paper, she did what sh... ...o has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. Mrs. Morland was a very good woman, and w... ...ude on the pianoforte, of her own com- position, she could listen to other people’s performance with very little fatigue. Her greatest deficiency was ... ...ng of disappointment—she was tired of being continually pressed against by people, the gener- ality of whose faces possessed nothing to interest, and ... ...Mrs. Allen, are you sure there is nobody you know in all this multitude of people? I think you must know somebody.” “I don’t, upon my word—I wish I di... ...very new acquaintance at Fullerton, the envy of every valued old friend in Putney, with a carriage at her command, a new name on her tickets, and a br... ...herine’s answer. “What was her father?” “A lawyer, I believe. They live at Putney.” “Are they a wealthy family?” “No, not very. I do not believe Isabe... ...r, if he still harbours any doubt, a line from himself to me, or a call at Putney when next in town, mightset all to rights. I have not been to the ro...

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...llation of the early editions; and in every material instance of departure from the wording of those originals the rejected reading has been subjoined... ...es capriciously. In the very act of transcribing his mind was apt to stray from the work in hand to higher things; he would lose himself in contemplat... ...the spelling of the manuscripts would only have served to divert attention from Shelley’s poetry to my own ingenuity in disgusting the reader accordin... ... I do not foresee that I can hereafter add to or take away a word or line. Putney, November 6, 1839. PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE BY MRS. SHELL... ... my heart, and bore my steps along. 44 44 44 44 44. ‘How, to that vast and peopled city led, Which was a field of holy warfare then, ... ...ts utmost spring! 30 30 30 30 30. For, before Cythna loved it, had my song Peopled with thoughts the boundless universe, A mighty congregation, which ... ...ible thought, As from the tranquil strength which cradled lay In her smile-peopled rest, my spirit sought _970 Why the deceiv...

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...ea was not alive, then, with great ships and brave sailors, sailing to and from all parts of the world. It was very lonely. The Is lands lay solitary... ... nothing of them. It is supposed that the Phoenicians, who were an ancient people, famous for carrying on trade, came A Child’s Histroy of England 8... ...iling over to the opposite coasts of France and Belgium, and saying to the people there, ‘We have been to those white cliffs across the water, which y... ...hose white cliffs across the water, which you can see in fine weather, and from that country, which is called Britain, we bring this tin and lead,’ te... ...nd lead,’ tempted some of the French and Belgians to come over also. These people settled themselves on the south coast of England, which is now calle... ...ved that part of the Is lands. It is probable that other people came over from Spain to Ireland, and settled there. Thus, by little and little, stran... ...ce (now Whitehall), and he went sorrowfully up the river, in his barge, to Putney. An abject man he was, in spite of his pride; for being overtaken, r...

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...s gaunt black eyes and searching brow, intent on mine; or passing suddenly from mine to Steerforth s; or compre- hending both of us at once. In this l... ...pre- hending both of us at once. In this lynx-like scrutiny she was so far from faltering when she saw I observed it, that at such a time she only fix... ...ome of our old exercises on the lawn behind the house, I saw her face pass from window to window, like a wandering light, until it fixed itself in one... ...ied about? she replied, with provoking coldness. Oh! It was only whether people, who are like each other in their moral constitution is that the phr... ... It s as good a phrase as another, said Steerforth. Thank you: whether people, who are like each other in their moral constitution, are in greater... ...re like each other in their moral constitution, are in greater danger than people not so circum- stanced, supposing any serious cause of vari- ance to... ...er re- lations than two aunts, maiden sisters of Mr. Spenlow, who lived at Putney, and who had not held any other than chance communication with their... ... now emerged from their re- tirement, and proposed to take Dora to live at Putney. Dora, clinging to them both, and weep- ing, exclaimed, O yes, aunt... ...- ing, exclaimed, O yes, aunts! Please take Julia Mills and me and Jip to Putney! So they went, very soon after the funeral. How I found time to hau...

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...? I have 4 V anity Fair – V olume Three dined in it—moi qui vous parle, I peopled the chamber with ghosts of the mighty dead. As we sat soberly drink... ..., and would not be behindhand when the noiseless bottle went round; Scott, from under bushy eyebrows, winked at the apparition of a beeswing; Wilberfo... ...Levant House, then occupied by His Highness dur- ing the temporary absence from England of its noble propri- etor. She sang after dinner to a very lit... ... Europe has produced—the Duc de la 5 Thackeray Jabotiere, then Ambassador from the Most Christian King, and subsequently Minister to that monarch. I ... ...is in our noble and admirable society slang), but some of the best English people too. I don’t mean the most virtuous, or indeed the least virtuous, o... ...he stupidest, or the richest, or the best born, but “the best,”—in a word, people about whom there is no question— such as the great Lady Fitz-Willis,... ...geddon,” cried the other, and the carriage rolled 125 Thackeray away over Putney Bridge. But this sort of society was too cruelly genteel for Emmy, a...

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...sity. Master Humphrey’s Clock By Charles Dickens CHAPTER I—MASTER HUMPHREY, FROM HIS CLOCK SIDE IN THE CHIMNEY CORNER THE READER MUST NOT EXPECT to k... ...of brilliant rooms and gor geous furniture would derive but little pleasure from a minute description of my simple dwelling. It is dear to me for the... ... how many butterflies have sprung for the first time into light and sunshine from some dark corner of these old walls. When I first came to live here,... ...ared when I patted their heads and bade them be good at school. These little people soon grew more familiar. From exchanging mere words of course with... ...o explain why I have all my life been attached to the inanimate objects that people my cham ber, and how I have come to look upon them rather in the ... ...s through our crucible. Spirits of past times, creatures of imagination, and people of to day are alike the objects of our seek ing, and, unlike the ... ...t behind. They made no halt nor slackened their pace until they arrived near Putney. At a large wooden house which stood apart from any other they ali...

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...ery noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before h... ...bition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kind- ness touches and amuses h... ...n this to tag to the present story of 4 V anity Fair “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their serva... ...Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign. Only when her pupils quitted the establishment, or when t... ... work which she invariably pre- sented to her scholars, on their departure from the Mall. On the cover was inserted a copy of “Lines addressed to a yo... ...the wide world who would take the trouble off her hands. What causes young people to “come out,” but the noble ambition of matrimony? What sends them ... ... Battle of Armageddon,” cried the other, and the carriage rolled away over Putney Bridge. But this sort of society was too cruelly genteel for Emmy, a...

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...rsary at chess, a game in which I was extremely proficient, and would re- ward me for my gambits with excellent cigars. The major 4 St. Ives of the b... ... any skill with his fingers passed the hours of his captivity in the making of little toys and Articles of Paris; and the prison was daily visited at ... ...s almost as bad, was the great day for visitors. Those who came to our market were of all qualities, men and women, the lean and the stout, the plain ... ...d my hands in applause, and was ready to acclaim her a genuine daughter of the winds. What put it in my 8 St. Ives head, I know not: perhaps because ... ... determined to engage her attention no later than that day. She was approaching that part of the court in which I sat with my merchandise, when I obse... ... of his village!’ I continued. ‘The circumstance is quaint enough. It seems to bind up into one the whole bundle of those human 11 Stevenson instinct... ...ht me in the mirror and smiled to me again. ‘I’d say it again, Mr. Hanne,’ he said. ‘I know which side my bread’s buttered. I know when a gen’leman’s ...

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...,” he wrote; by which avowal it may be seen that youth had manifestly gone from him, since he had ceased to be jealous of the ancients. There was a ha... ...e heart, and his friend all his confidence. When he selected Denzil Somers from among his college chums, it was not on account of any similarity of di... ..., it was not on account of any similarity of disposition between them, but from his intense worship of genius, which made him overlook the absence of ... ...iven two or three blazing dinners in the great hall he would have deceived people generally, as he did his relatives and intimates. He was too sick fo... ...ose troublesome appendages of success. He caused himself to be required by people who could serve him; feared by such as could injure. Not that he wen... ... cousin’s birthday with anyone but him. What are we to do to enliven these people?” “Alas, madam! you cannot do for all what you do for one,” the cura... ... betweenwhiles. Past Kew and Hammersmith, on the cool smooth water; across Putney reach; through Battersea bridge; and the City grew around them, and ...

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...ry Walker the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney of Silverbridge. Walker and Winthrop was the name of the firm, and they were respectable people, who did all the solicitors? business that had to be done in that part of Barsetshire on behalf of the Crown, were employed on the local business of the Duke of Omnium, who is great in those parts, and altogether held ...

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.... W alker and Winthrop was the name of the firm, and they were respectable people, who did all the solicitors’ business that had to be done in that pa... ...ave to bring yourself to believe it,’ said John, with- out taking his eyes from his book. ‘A clergyman—and such a clergyman too!’ ‘I don’t see that th... ...se he’s a clergyman. I hate all that kind of clap-trap. There are a lot of people here in Silverbridge who think the matter shouldn’t be followed up, ... ...ng of it,’ said Mary. ‘I daresay it is, my dear.’ ‘ And when one knows the people it does make it so dread- ful.’ ‘But do you know them? I never spoke... ...than she was with her son. While they were thus talking the father came in from his office, and then the sub- ject was dropped. He was a man between f... ...er husband guilty?’ ‘No, indeed. She think him guilty! Nothing on earth—or from heaven either, as I take it, would make her suppose it to be possible.... ...eless, as he sat looking out of the omnibus window, on his journey home to Putney, he was not altogether comfortable in his mind. Mrs Butterwell was a...

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............................................................. 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI............................................... ............................................................. 303 CHAPTER XX: FROM BOSTON TO WASHINGTON .................................................... ...en the North and South; but I have not allowed that disruption to deter me from an object which, if it were delayed, might probably never be carried o... ...e those against whom a writer does not intend to give a favorable verdict; people and places whom he desires to describe, on the peril of his own judg... ...general feelings of England to have been be- fore I found myself among the people by whom it was being waged. It is very difficult for the people of a... ... high ground, and to say that we, the older and therefore more experienced people as regards the United States, and the better gov- erned as regards F... ...h, soon becomes more false as including too little. Ealing, Acton, Fulham, Putney, Norwood, Sydenham, Blackheath, Woolwich, Greenwich, Stratford, High...

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............................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........................................................................................................................

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..................................................................77 A LETTER FROM “JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.” ............................................ ...ss One, and the Poet Priest who ministers at thy Shrine draws his auguries from the bleeding hearts of men! While Love hath no end, Can the Bard ever ... ...n these, our times, the Artisan hath his voice as well as the Monarch. The people To-Day is King, and we 5 Burlesques chronicle his woes, as They of ... ...the gilded equipage of the Millionary; the humbler, but yet larger vehicle from the green metropolitan suburbs (the Hang- ing Gardens of our Babylon),... ..., not inglo- riously, in many wars, against mighty odds; but ’twas a small people, and on one dark night the Lion of Judah went down before Vespasian’... ...so, could compete with any that ever was wrought by Cambridge artificer or Putney workman. That boat—slim, shining, and shooting through the water lik... ...with us. As for the Rafael, I suppose you are aware that he was one of our people. But what are you gazing at? Oh! my sister—I forgot. Miriam! this is...

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...of his enthusiasm, and kindled at his example. But ev ery word which fell from his lips, and every demonstration of sympathy and approbation with whi... ...d together in inseparable connexion, and that I had never known them apart from you. Speeches: Literary and Social 7 It is a difficult thing for a ma... ...clusion of the story, I daily received letters of remonstrance, especially from the ladies. God bless them for their tender mercies! The Profes sor w... ...out a thrill of gratitude and pleasure. I shall love while I have life her people, her hills, and her houses, and even the very stones of her streets.... ...—to ap peal as a stranger to your generosity and kindness as the fre est people on the earth—I could, putting some restraint upon myself, stand amon... ...—have come with all my sympathies clustering as richly about this land and people—with all my sense of jus tice as keenly alive to their high claims ... ... purpose of arranging a great amateur regatta, which was to take place off Putney in the course of the season that was just begun. He could not abstai...

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...hope you will find your house at Mentone nice. I have been obliged to stop from writing by the want of a pen, but now I have one, so I will con- tinue... ...se of justice forbids the receipt of less – than half-a- crown. – Greeting from, Sir, your most affectionate and needy son, R. STEVENSON. Letter: TO M... ...enness of a tree. The southerly heights, when I came here, were black with people, fishers waiting on wind and night. Now all the S.Y .S. (Stornoway b... ... tribe of gipsies. The men are always drunk, simply and truthfully always. From morning to evening the great villainous-looking fellows are either sle... ...ny drunk men, and a double supply of po- lice. I saw them sent for by some people and enter an inn, in a pretty good hurry: what it was for I do not k... ...s a word could I understand of his answer. What is still worse, I find the people here-about – that is to say, 6 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol... ...llow up the ‘Sea Cook’ at proper inter- vals by ‘Jerry Abershaw: A Tale of Putney Heath’ (which or its site I must visit), ‘The Leading Light: A Tale ... ...e inn. Jerry Abershaw. ‘It was a clear, frosty evening, not 100 miles from Putney,’ etc. Jerry Abershaw. Jerry Abershaw. Jerry Abershaw. The ‘Sea Cook...

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...of growing enlightenment and happy compan- ionship, and an innocent refuge from the cares and perturbations of life. Princeton, June 28, 1917. INTRODU... ...ect and setting are so closely allied that each borrows charm and emphasis from the other. Let the devoted reader of Boswell ask himself what glamor w... ...ther. Let the devoted reader of Boswell ask himself what glamor would fade from the church of St. Clement Danes, from the Mitre, from Fleet Street, th... ..., such as ‘love’ and ‘hate,’ and vast is the number, range, and variety of people who at one time or another had been in some degree personally relate... ...godchild Jane Langton. ‘Sir,’ said he, ‘I love the acquain- tance of young people, . . . young men have more virtue than old men; they have more gen- ... ... into a spacious and genial world. The reader there meets a vast number of people, men, women, children, nay even ani- mals, from George the Third dow... ... and said he was ashamed of having been bred at Oxford. He had a living at Putney, and got under the eye of some retain- ers to the court at that time...

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...e walls, staring white streets, staring tracts of arid road, staring hills from which verdure was burnt away. The only things to be seen not fixedly s... ... Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolitans, V e- netians, Greeks, Turks, descendants from all the builders of Babel, come to trade at Marseilles, sought the sha... ...e at Marseilles, sought the shade alike— taking refuge in any hiding-place from a sea too intensely blue to be looked at, and a sky of purple, set wit... ...ilight of pillars and arches— dreamily dotted with winking lamps, dreamily peopled with ugly old shadows piously dozing, spitting, and begging—was to ... ...o a fiery river, and swim for life to the nearest strip of shade. So, with people lounging and lying wherever shade was, with but little hum of tongue... ...a means of getting beyond the frontier) at the disposition of other little people whose papers are wrong; and he instinctively recognises my position,... ...d one that had rarely diversified his life afar off. He went by Fulham and Putney, for the pleasure of strolling 187 Little Dorrit over the heath. It...

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...e walls, staring white streets, staring tracts of arid road, staring hills from which verdure was burnt away. The only things to be seen not fixedly s... ... Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolitans, V e- netians, Greeks, Turks, descendants from all the builders of Babel, come to trade at Marseilles, sought the sha... ...e at Marseilles, sought the shade alike— taking refuge in any hiding-place from a sea too intensely blue to be looked at, and a sky of purple, set wit... ...ilight of pillars and arches— dreamily dotted with winking lamps, dreamily peopled with ugly old shadows piously dozing, spitting, and begging—was to ... ...o a fiery river, and swim for life to the nearest strip of shade. So, with people lounging and lying wherever shade was, with but little hum of tongue... ...a means of getting beyond the frontier) at the disposition of other little people whose papers are wrong; and he instinctively recognises my position,... ...d one that had rarely diversified his life afar off. He went by Fulham and Putney, for the pleasure of strolling 187 Little Dorrit – Book One over th...