...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclai... ...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexande... ...COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett acco... ...independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for t... ...s, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time int... ...ings, illustrations, and drawings have been exhibited in more than 40 one-man shows in leading museums in the U.S. and Mexico. Archives of his work ... ...n anchor plunge slowly and saw the sail topple into the water and heard a man cry some name. Shouts went up. A chorus began. Voices caught our son... ...ls by the author—interpretations of work by da Vinci. Leonardo’s self-portrait ............................... 225 Rendering of Leonardo’s signa... ...er for fifteen years, he handles chiaroscuro like a master: he is best as portraitist. No woman-chaser, he is dedicated to Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Fre...

...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the pri...

...PREFACE by Steven James Bartlett xiii SAPPHO’S JOURNAL FOREWORD by Willis Barnstone 3 SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 5 CHRIST’S JOURNAL 155 LEONARDO DA VINCI’S JOURNAL 221 SHAKESPEARE’S JOURNAL 343 LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 511 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 621 COLOPHON 625...

...es Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...t Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ...ventor and Project Gutenberg co-founder Preface ―Knowledge is power,‖ a quote by Francis Bacon. . CHAPTERS 1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before W... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ...efinement of crafts. 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues? Did a freshwater lake community flee a saltwater surge that filled the Black Se... ...Pacific? 4. Scripting Symbols of Shape Scripting symbolic images lets man communicate over space and time. Balance of power shifts from tribal c... ...lization. —brad bradford Preface Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Johann Gutenberg invented the ―printing press.‖ More than 400 ye... ...he had no interest in hearing elaborate praise of his own prowess, and no portraits of him exist. Nevertheless, eight centuries after his empire te...

...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books. This boo...

...Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Johann Gutenberg invented the ?printing press. More than 400 years passed before Ottmar Mergenthaler found a way in the late 1880s to mechanize that historic invention. Then, less than a ...

...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ...ventor and Project Gutenberg co-founder Preface ―Knowledge is power,‖ a quote by Francis Bacon. . CHAPTERS 1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before W... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ...efinement of crafts. 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues? Did a freshwater lake community flee a saltwater surge that filled the Black Se... ...Pacific? 4. Scripting Symbols of Shape Scripting symbolic images lets man communicate over space and time. Balance of power shifts from tribal c... ...ization.‖ —Brad Bradford Preface Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Johann Gutenberg invented the ―printing press.‖ More than 400 ye... ...he had no interest in hearing elaborate praise of his own prowess, and no portraits of him exist. Nevertheless, eight centuries after his empire ...

...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name ev...

...From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of cra...

...An Apostate: Nawin of Thais By Steven Sills 1 He assumed that in being exhausted from sporadic fits of sleep and wakeful spans of dull, h... ...is By Steven Sills 1 He assumed that in being exhausted from sporadic fits of sleep and wakeful spans of dull, hypnagogic thoughts matching the inerti... ... sleep and wakeful spans of dull, hypnagogic thoughts matching the inertia of his confinement he would finally become ensconced there, in this train j... ... and at last fall asleep. This was his hope; but in the meantime there was a languid battle with insomnia and inordinate time that he, from his "exalt... ...d inordinate time that he, from his "exalted tomb," disdainfully sullied. A god watching the cookie wrappers that he was emptying into his mouth from... ...mpt seemed judiciously appropriate. To eat and to sully was the quest of a man when caught on moving earth. He, Nawin Biadklang, ate slowly and pensiv... ...lied him or he sullied himself with her. As a pig wallowed in mud so did a man in a personal life. The physical aspect of intimacy was rapturous and e... ...to which he knew no variation; and whether or not those guilt- ridden self-portraits of himself engaging with his whores as stiffly as a Buddha were a... ...ty youth was the breeze that set his dog scampering. Then he recalled that portrait of King Rama V, Chulalongkorn, hanging in the National Gallery. Th...

...This is the continuation of Nawin's story. Now a famous prostitute painter suffering a midlife crisis, he abandons supercilious makings of wealth for a train trip ride to Laos where he repudiates and ventures onto something new...

...The Madonna of the Future by Henry James A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Madonna of the Fut... ...nry James A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Madonna of the Future by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...c Classics Series Publication The Madonna of the Future by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document ... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...that. He made his bid for fame and missed it.” We all knew H- for a clever man who had seen much of men and manners, and had a great stock of reminisc... ...me irrepressible commonplace of praise, for, as if provoked by my voice, a man rose from the steps of the loggia, where he had been sitting in the sha... ... He knows what a fact may hold (whether Raphael knew, you may judge by his portrait, behind us there, of Tommaso Inghirami); bad his fancy hovers abov... ...genius on the house-tops. The women were all dying to sit to him for their portraits and be made immortal, like Leonardo’s Joconde. We decided that hi...

...Excerpt: We had been talking about the masters who had achieved but a single masterpiece--the artists and poets who but once in their lives had known the divine afflatus and touched the high level of perfection. Our host had been showing us a charming little cabinet picture by a painter whose...

... wo Brothers by Honore de Balzac T ranlated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Two Brothers by Ho... ...he Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document ... ...s by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...n enjoyed the services of a physician named Rouget, whom they held to be a man of consummate malignity. Were we to believe certain bold tongues, he ma... ...eeded in laying bare the interior of that house- hold. Doctor Rouget was a man of whom we say in com- mon parlance, “He is not pleasant to deal with.”... ...rd, to 10 The Two Brothers continue ever virgin, even after marriage. Her portrait, still to be seen in the atelier of Bridau, shows a perfect oval a... ... a design of white geometric circles. Above this piece of furniture hung a portrait of Bridau, done in pastel by the hand of an amateur, which at once...

... The Uncommercial Travelle... ... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles D... ... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free... ... Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document fil... ... any way. The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Haz... ...ure in the bill; when I come home from my journeys, I never get any commis- sion. I know nothing about prices, and should have no idea, if I were put ... ...these objects did no violence to the prevail- ing air the whole scene wore, of having been exactly the same for years and years. Yet, only two short m... ...y never heard in my uncommercial travels, and with a coarse swing of voice and manner anything but agreeable to his feelings, I should conceive, consi... ...ill more remarkable discretion. Jack had knocked off work in the docks some hours, and I had taken, for purposes of identification, a photograph- like...

...ghter of Eve by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Daughter of Eve by H... ...t Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Daughter of Eve by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publica... ...Daughter of Eve by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document ... ...e by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... Comte de Granville, one of the greatest names in the French magistracy,—a man who be- came peer of France after the revolution of July. This mar- ria... ...rdinand DU Tillet, so-called, he might not have married his wife; but what man of rank in 1828 foresaw the strange upheavals which the year 1830 was d... ...hands habitually in the bosom of his waistcoat in the pose which Girodet’s portrait of Monsieur de Chateaubriand has rendered famous; but less to imit... ... in his epigrams going up like rockets (in the midst of which were flaming portraits drawn in lines of fire) to notice the naive admiration of one lit...

...Excerpt: If you remember, madame, the pleasure your conversation gave to a traveler by recalling Paris to his memory in Milan, you will not be surprised to find him testifying his gratitude for many pleasant evenings passed beside you by laying one of his works at your feet, and begging you to pro...

...The Village Rector by Honoré de Balzac Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Village Rector by ... ... Village Rector by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document ... ...r by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...s iron bars, 5 Balzac while the doors were closed and secured in the same man- ner; so that these merchants and artificers could bar them- selves int... ...hop. This house, hired in the first instance, was subsequently bought by a man named Sauviat, a hawker or peddler who, from 1786 to 1793, travelled th... ...uaint old house possessed therefore something more quaint than itself,—the portrait of a young girl worthy of Mieris, or Van Ostade, or T erburg, or G... ...riminal. Judging by the parsonage, Gabriel de Rastignac had made himself a portrait of Monsieur Bonnet as a stout, short man with a strong and red fac...

...The World Set Free by H.G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free by ... ...ECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document ... ...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The World Set Free by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...and stead- fastness of will as an effectual effort to turn the rush of hu- man affairs demands. The inertia of dead ideas and old insti- tutions carri... ...E HISTORY OF MANKIND is the history of the attain- ment of external power. Man is the tool-using, fire- making animal. From the outset of his terrestr... ...n, but he had a trick of circumstantial writ- ing; and though no authentic portrait was to survive for the information of posterity, he betrays by a s...

...es from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Scenes from a Courtesa... ...Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document ... ...Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...youth who was wandering about the passages and greenroom with the air of a man in search of a woman kept at home by unexpected circum- stances. The se... ...the Grand livre. With a few rare exceptions, men wear no masks in Paris; a man in a domino is thought ridiculous. In this the spirit of the nation bet... ...modest enough to renounce the display of fame; in short, to com- plete her portrait, it is enough to say that in her whole exist- ence she had never f... ...en I have endured so much misery in this. “I have before me your beautiful portrait, painted by Ma- dame de Mirbel. That sheet of ivory used to comfor...

Excerpt: Scenes from a Courtesan?s Life by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

...Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Cousin Pons by Honoré ... ...ies Publication Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document ... ...n Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ARDS THREE O’CLOCK in the afternoon of one October day in the year 1844, a man of sixty or thereabouts, whom anybody might have credited with more tha... ... preciated, demands the critical attention of an expert flaneur; while the man in the street who raises a laugh as soon as he comes in sight is bound ... ...uarter dubbed them “the pair of nut- crackers,” a nickname which makes any portrait of Schmucke quite superfluous, for he was to Pons as the famous st... ...ut of their double existence, that it will be more appropriate to give her portrait on her first ap- pearance in this Scene of Parisian Life. One thin...

...Excerpt: Towards three o?clock in the afternoon of one October day in the year 1844, a man of sixty or thereabouts, whom anybody might have credited with more than his actual age, was walking along the Boulevard des Italians with his head bent down, as if ...

...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume Four A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume Four A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar All... ...Volume Four A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Four is a publication of the Pen... ... Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Four is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Docume... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ..................................................................... 120 THE MAN THAT W AS USED UP ........................................................ ............................................................ 132 THE BUSINESS MAN .......................................................................... ...to the shop of an artist. The Duchess of Bless-my-Soul was sitting for her portrait; the Marquis of So-and-So was holding the Duchess’ poodle; the Ear... ...t, and sent her Majesty the ninety-ninth edition of the “Nosology,” with a portrait of the proboscis. —That sad little rake, the Prince of Wales, in- ...

Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Four.

...Contents THE DEVIL IN THE BELFRY ................................................................................................................................... 4 LIONIZING ......................................................................

...Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memoir of Fleeming Jen... ...ouis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsy... ...Series Publication Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...h was at once its occasion and its justification, so large an account of a man so little known may seem to a stranger out of all proportion. But Jenki... ...ittle known may seem to a stranger out of all proportion. But Jenkin was a man much more remarkable than the mere bulk or merit of his work approves h... ...nting for its own sake. If the sitter shall not seem to have justified the portrait, if Jenkin, after his death, shall not continue to make new friend... ...yish correspondence. It gives us at once a picture of the Revolution and a portrait of Jenkin at fifteen; not so different (his friends will think) fr...

...Excerpt: Preface To The American Edition. On the death of Fleeming Jenkin, his family and friends determined to publish a selection of his various papers; by way of introduction, the following pages were drawn up; and the whole, forming two considerable volumes, has been issued i...

...BURLESQUES by William Makepeace Thackeray A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Burlesques by William ... ... Classics Series Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Documen... ...es Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...iver City!— its banks wellnigh overflowing with the myriad-waved Stream of Man! The toppling wains, bearing the produce of a thousand marts; the gilde... ... just reached that happy period of life when the Boy is expanding into the Man. O Y outh, Y outh! Happy and Beautiful! O fresh and roseate dawn of lif... ...nd poits, wrote the follering stanzys about her:— “Lines upon My Sister’ s Portrait. “By The Lord Southdown. “The castle towers of Bareacres are fair ... ... and passing through chambers of great extent. As they came along, all the portraits on the wall stepped out of their frames to follow them. One ances...

...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and gl...

...Contents NOVELS BY EMINENT HANDS ...................................................................................................... 4 NOONDAY IN CHEPE ....................................................................................................................... 5 BUTTON?S IN PALL MALL............................................................................

...The Magician A NOVEL By SOMERSET MAUGHAM TOGETHER WITH A FRAGMENT OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1908 A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERI... ...The Magician A NOVEL By SOMERSET MAUGHAM TOGETHER WITH A FRAGMENT OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1908 A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICA... ...RONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION The Magician by Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document ... ...S S ERIES P UBLICATION The Magician by Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...r to take my plays. At last, in desperation, I sent one, which I called A Man of Honour, to the Stage Society, which gave two performances, one on Su... ...y that produced the early plays of Bernard Shaw. The committee accepted A Man of Honour, and W.L. Courtney, who was a member of it, thought well enou... ...served, as I have said, as the model for Oliver Haddo, it is by no means a portrait of him. I made my character more striking in appearance, more sini... ...character as much as for his loving tender ness to Margaret. She had seen portraits of him, but Marga ret said he did not photograph well. She had a...

...Excerpt: A Fragment of Autobiography. IN 1897, after spending five years at St Thomas?s Hospital I passed the examinations which enabled me to practise medicine. While still a medical student I had published a novel called Liza of Lam...

...A Room with a View by E. M. Forster A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Room with a View by ... ...ctronic Classics Series Publication A Room with a View by E.M. Forster is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document ... ...cs Series Publication A Room with a View by E.M. Forster is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ... water and red bottles of wine that ran between the English people; at the portraits of the late Queen and the late Poet Laure- ate that hung behind t... ...t the intruder was ill-bred, even before she glanced at him. He was an old man, of heavy build, with a fair, shaven face and large eyes. There was som... ...iew? Oh, a view! How delightful a view is!” “This is my son,” said the old man; “his name’s George. He has a view too.” “Ah,” said Miss Bartlett, repr...

Excerpt: A Room with a View by E.M. Forster.

...The Egoist A Comedy in Narrative by George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Egoist by George M... ...e Electronic Classics Series Publication The Egoist by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Documen... ...lassics Series Publication The Egoist by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... the ludicrous to come. So confident that their grip of an English gentle- man, in whom they have spied their game, never relaxes until he begins inse... ...from Simon Patterne, of Patterne Hall, premier of this family, a lawyer, a man of solid acquirements and stout ambition, who well understood the found... ...etitia Dale: “Here she comes with a romantic tale on her eyelashes,” was a portrait of Laetitia. And that of Vernon Whitford: “He is a Phoebus Apollo ... ...isite unlikeness. She completed him, added the softer lines wanting to his portrait before the world. He had wooed her rageingly; he courted her becom...

...Excerpt: A chapter of which the last page only is of any importance comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of...