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...nd of the day after the feast. It is not common now-a-days to meet anybody who thinks Tommy Moore a great poet; one has to encounter either a suspicio... ...ere is indeed not much good to be said. The peer of the eighteenth-century writers (even when, as in Fielding’s case, there was no reason why they sho... ...erdict? Had Amelia come between Joseph and To m, how many of us might have committed ourselves to some such sentence as this: “In Amelia we see the yo... ... group of personages about whom indeed there has been little question, but who are among the triumphs of Fielding’s art—the two Colonels and their con... ...p: he is some- thing too much d’une piece. But as a study of the brave man who is almost more braggart than brave, of the generous man who will sacrif... ...go of honour,” he is admirable, and up to his time almost unique. Ordinary writers and ordinary readers have never been quite content to admit that br... ...he had known a man in gaol for it too; and how came he there if he was not committed thither?” “Why , that is true, sir,” answered the clerk; “and yet... ...erk; “and yet I have been told by a very great lawyer that a man cannot be committed for perjury before he is indicted; and the reason is, I believe, ... ...s have generally consulted the Latin only; which, in some of the few Greek writers I have read, is intolerably bad. And as the English translators, fo...

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... and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is always the writer who colors highly, or whether it is now and then the reader whose eye for color is a little dull?...

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...f whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is always the writer who colours highl... ...ind between some writers and some readers; whether it is always the writer who colours highly, or whether it is now and then the reader whose eye for ... ... I grieve to add, of many workhouses, and judge whether those are monsters who disgrace our streets, people our hulks and penitentiaries, and overcrow... ...solutely confirmed, by a fact which cannot fail to be interesting to those who are curious in tracing the progress of he- 8 Martin Chuzzlewit reditar... ..., that Tom cast down his eyes involuntarily, and felt as if he himself had committed some horrible deed and heinous breach of Mr Pecksniff’s confidenc... ...e mysteri- ously, too, of splendid women, and was suspected of having once committed himself with a Countess. Mr Gander was of a witty turn being inde... ...on Gang, and the Sewer’s exclusive account of a flagrant act of dishonesty committed by the Secretary of State when he was eight years old; now commun... ... wall; which had very much the appearance of two curates who had committed suicide by hanging themselves. Remembering that he had seen in the first cu... ... Miss Pecksniff, ‘what my feelings would have been, if I had goaded him to suicide, and it had got into the papers!’ Ruth observed that she would have...

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...e generally begins with a truism; and I may set out with the admission that it is not always expedient to bring to light the posthumous work of great writers. A man generally contrives to publish, during his lifetime, quite as much as the public has time or inclination to read; and his surviving friends are apt to show more zeal than discretion in dragging forth from his c...

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... it is not always expedient to bring to light the posthumous work of great writers. A man generally contrives to publish, during his lifetime, quite a... ...self had left to silence. Literature has never been redundant with authors who sincerely undervalue their own productions; and the sagacious critics w... ...afford entertaining and even profitable reading to the later generation of writers whose pleasant fortune it is to charm one another and the public. I... ...st, has ventured in some manner to disregard the modern canons which debar writers from betraying towards their cre ations any warmer feeling than a ... ...t it may still be worth while to consider the methods and materials of one who also, in his own fashion, won and wore the laurel of those who know and... ...grave had been hidden from sight many a broad, bluff visage of husbandman, who had been taught to plough among the hereditary furrows that had been am... ...ich are kept certain poisons. It would seem as if some one had medi tated suicide; or else that the foul fiend had put all sorts of implements of sel... ...s life, and so fearfully avenged, from youth to age, the crime that he had committed. The effect, the passion, was too much,—the terror with which it ... ...r’s note .— “Compare it with Spenser’s Cave of Despair. Put instruments of suicide there.” Note 2. Author’s note .— “Once, in looking at the mansion, ...

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...e, tormented, and complex; and it is this surely which prevents even those who do not like his pictures from being indifferent to them; it is this whi... ... the un- known painter from oblivion and blazed the trail which succeeding writers, with more or less do- cility , have followed. For a long time no c... ...far as it touches upon his char - acter . I cannot agree with the painters who claim superciliously that the layman can understand nothing of painting... ...all may understand. But I will al- 5 Somerset Maugham low that the critic who has not a practical knowl- edge of technique is seldom able to say anyt... ...purpose. And when such as had come in contact with Strickland in the past, writers who had known him in Lon- don, painters who had met him in the cafe... ...y the reader is safer of entertainment in their hands than in those of the writers who take a malicious pleasure in rep- resenting the great figures o... ...n speaking to her. He spluttered out words of apology for any wrong he had committed towards her; he told her he loved her devotedly and begged her to... ...that she will get off with a fright. Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed. It’s general... ... “It was a great, a wonderful picture. I was seized with awe. I had nearly committed a dread- ful crime. I moved a little to see it better , and my fo...

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...nd looked, without any expression of countenance whatever, at some friends who had come on board with us, and who were crushing their faces into all m... ...ich has since gratified me so much, but I observed that one of our friends who had made the arrangements for our voyage, turned pale on entering, re... ...This is the saloon, sir’ — he actually reeled beneath the blow. In persons who were so soon to part, and interpose between their else daily communicat... ...Boylston school, and is an asylum for neglected and indigent boys who have committed no crime, but who in the ordinary course of things would very soo... ...e magistrate on a charge of theft, was a boy. This lad, in stead of being committed to a common jail, would be sent to the asylum at South Boston, an... ...rong feeling for the beauties of nature, as displayed in the solitudes the writers have left at home, breathes through its pages like wholesome villag... ...s place The Tombs?’ ‘Well, it’s the cant name.’ ‘I know it is. Why?’ ‘Some suicides happened here, when it was first built. I expect it come about fro... ...‘Ran away, a negro boy named James. Said boy was ironed when he left me.’ ‘Committed to jail, a man who calls his name John. He has a clog of iron on ... ...en in his time, and did his utmost to correct it. I cannot hold with other writers on these subjects that the prevalence of various forms of dissent i...

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...t learn to address readers from the uttermost parts of the sea. That I should thus have reversed the verdict of Lord Tennyson’s hero is less eccentric... ...erchief imperfectly adjusted; some, and these the more considerable, tattooed from head to foot in awful patterns; 7 Robert Louis Stevenson some barb... ...oe, suck- ing an orange and spitting it out again to alternate sides with ape-like vivacity—all talking, and we could not un- derstand one word; all t... ...ounted on his fingers eight residual natives. Or take the valley of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Ha... ...e fashion. I heard of three who had hanged themselves in the west end of Hiva- 24 In The South Seas oa during the first half of 1888; but though this... ...ink it will continue popular in the Marquesas. Far more suitable to Marquesan sentiment is the old form of poisoning with the fruit of the eva, which ... ...th the passers-by, talking mostly of his end, and equally unconcerned for himself and careless of the friends whom he infected. 25 Robert Louis Steve... ...ave not enraptured me again. Before we could raise our eyes from that engaging spec- tacle the schooner had slipped betwixt the pierheads of the reef,...

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...e’d be better out of the way . ” “Miss Watkin said she’d take him, sir. ” “Who’s she?” “She’s his godmother, sir. D’you think Mrs. Carey will get over... ...made an elaborate cave in which he could hide himself from the Red Indians who were lurking behind the curtains. He put his ear to the floor and liste... ... home when his godmother’s changed colour. She lived with an elder sister, who had resigned herself content- edly to old age. T wo ladies, whom Philip... ... in the reading passed through his mind without comment, because they were committed under the direct inspiration of God. The method of the League was... ...inson. “I was thinking about you,” he answered boldly . That at all events committed him to nothing. “What were you thinking?” “Ah, now you want to kn... ...t them out and ar- range them alphabetically according to the names of the writers. “I’ll take you to the room in which the articled clerk generally s... ... came out in The Y ellow Book.” They looked upon him, as painters often do writers, with contempt because he was a layman, with tolerance because he p... ...o oc- cupy themselves with the entertainment which is provided for them by writers, painters, and poets.” Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He h... ... tue and goodness and decency and everything,” said Philip. “Have you ever committed a sin?” “I don’t know , I suppose so,” answered Philip. 264 Of H...

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...................................................... 156 VI. ON MRS CORBET, WHO DIED OF A CANCER IN HER BREAST. .......................................... ..................... 160 XIII. ON DR FRANCIS ATTERBURY, BISHOP OF ROCHESTER, WHO DIED IN EXILE AT PARIS, 1732. 161 XIV . ON EDMUND DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM, W... ...INGHAM, WHO DIED IN THE NINETEENTH YEAR OF HIS AGE, 1735. 161 XV . FOR ONE WHO WOULD NOT BE BURIED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. ................................ ..., and four books of an Epic called “Alexander,” all of which afterwards he committed to the flames. He translated also a portion of Statius, and Cicer... ...nst that “Es- say” and “The Rape of the Lock.” Pope waited till Dennis had committed himself by a powerful but furious assault on 12 The Poetical Wor... ...EF PREF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE CE CE 2 I am inclined to think that both the writers of books, and the readers of them, are generally not a little unrea... ...ld be sacrificed to its entertainment. Therefore I cannot but believe that writers and readers are under equal obligations for as much fame, or pleasu... ...nd our Spenser. Tasso in his ‘Aminta’ has as far excelled all the pastoral writers, as in his ‘Gierusalemme’ he has outdone the epic poets of his coun... ...er, the author of many powerful ser- mons, and of a strange book defending suicide; altogether a strong, eccentric, extravagant genius. 255 The Poeti...

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...should be writ- ten to the credit of Rev. Gerhardt Mahler of Geneva, N.Y., who came to my assistance in a very busy season by making a rough draft of ... ...ican public were delivered in 1531. They were taken down by George Roerer, who held something of a deanship at Wittenberg University and who was one o... ...ains also additions by Veit Dietrich and by Cruciger, friends of Roerer’s, who with him attended Luther’s lectures. 5 Martin Luther In other words, t... ...d murder, adultery, theft, and similar sins in deed, nev- ertheless I have committed them in the heart, and therefore I am a transgressor of all the c... ...VERSE 16. T o reveal his Son to me. W e now hear what kind of doctrine was committed to Paul: The doctrine of the Gospel, the doctrine of the revelati... ...ut contrariwise, when they saw that the gos- pel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter; [For h... ...Paul is not going to be inferior to the rest of the apostles. Some secular writers put Paul’s boasting down as carnal pride. But Paul had no personal ... ... stand the thought of the wrath and judgment of God, many a person commits suicide. VERSE 17. God forbid. Christ is not the minister of sin, but the ...

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... with their servants and families: very likely they are right. But persons who think otherwise, and are of a lazy, or a benevolent, or a sarcastic moo... ...-cornered hat and wig, at the rate of four miles an hour. A black servant, who 5 Thackeray reposed on the box beside the fat coachman, uncurled his b... ...he hearts of her companions, and the affectionate regards of her mistress, who has the honour to subscribe herself, Madam, Your most obliged humble se... ...on her friend’s part; and indeed in later days Miss Sharp would never have committed herself so far as to advance opinions, the untruth of which would... ...r feelings better than this poor little creature. Miss B. would never have committed herself as that imprudent Amelia had done; pledged her love irret... ... have served to condemn a whole regi- ment of young officers. If a man has committed wrong in life, I don’t know any moralist more anxious to point hi... ...ertheless gone through one or two affairs of the heart without any idea of suicide. “And there are others,” Dobbin continued, “as true and as kind-hea... ...e first clerk to the articled gents, from the articled gents to the ragged writers and white- faced runners, in clothes too tight for them, as he sate...

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...er opportunity of speculating on the characters and occu pations of those who fill the streets. The glare and hurry of broad noon are not adapted to ... ...r read in old time that drowning was not a hard death, but of all means of suicide the easiest and best. Covent Garden Market at sunrise too, in the s... ...watered and freshened up to please more sober company, and make old clerks who pass them on their road to business, wonder what has filled their breas... ...santly. I turned hastily round and found at my elbow a pretty little girl, who begged to be directed to a certain street at a con siderable distance,... ... called up all the strange tales I had ever heard of dark and secret deeds committed in great towns and escaping detection for a long series of years;... ...d Dick. ‘There can be no action for breach, that’s one comfort. I’ve never committed myself in writing, Fred.’ ‘And what’s in the letter, pray?’ ‘A re... ... terrible temptations. Then, she re membered that the crime was not to be committed un til next night, and there was the intermediate time for think... ...ng for a certificate. I am not one of your players of music, stage actors, writers of books, or painters of pic tures, who assume a station that the ... ...ad been washed ashore. The general sup position was that he had committed suicide, and, this appearing to be favoured by all the circumstances of his...

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...ion of their meaning. When I hint a dislike of nunner ies for young girls who abjure the world before they have ever proved or known it; or doubt the... ..., 5 Charles Dickens to compare impressions with some among the multitudes who will hereafter visit the scenes described with interest and delight. An... ...hief; and not the radiant embodiment of good 6 Pictures from Italy humour who sat beside me in the person of a French Cou rier—best of servants and ... ... portion of the great scheme of Retribution, that the cruel deed should be committed in this place! That a part of the atrocities and monstrous instit... ... must shut up all the windows, or the mosquitoes would tempt you to commit suicide. So at this time of the year, you don’t see much of the prospect wi... ...arriages on the Chiaji, or walking in the Public Gardens; and quiet letter writers, perched behind their little desks and inkstands under the Portico ...

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...red from one of actual occurrence, made public by a dis interested person who was professionally acquainted with the whole of the monstrous wrong fro... ...e Bianchini, a prebendary of Verona, otherwise dis tinguished in letters, who published an account of it at V erona in 1731, which he afterwards repu... ...n the United States of America, quite recently. The sub ject was a German who kept a liquor shop aud was an inveterate drunk ard. 5 Bleak House – ... ...ause in hand), which was squeezed dry years upon years ago. The short hand writers, the reporters of the court, and the reporters of the newspapers in... ...h her documents; the empty court is locked up. If all the injustice it has committed and all the misery it has caused could only be locked up with it,... ...a miserable condition that they would be sufficiently punished if they had committed an enormous crime in having money left them, and the will itself ... .... If you think you have any evidence to lead you to the conclusion that he committed suicide, you will come to that conclu sion. If you think it is a... ...y writ ers, and then that you should come and live here, and be one of my writers too. Which there is nothing derogatory, but far from it in the appe... ...ely asserted a kind of proprietorship in Mr. Weevle, “because I have known writers that have gone into brewers’ houses and done really very respectabl...

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...ular mind has decided that of all these thousands, one man, and that a man who never flew, should be chosen as the discoverer, just as it has chosen t... ...and tragically honoured as poor Filmer’s, the timid, intellectual creature who solved the prob- lem over which the world had hung perplexed and a litt... ...had hung perplexed and a little fear- ful for so many generations, the man who pressed the button that has changed peace and warfare and well-nigh eve... ...equate advertisement may be obtained—had paid. The latter was one of those writers who can throw a convincing air of unreality over the most credible ... ...Pa- per, proclaimed the “Entire Failure of the New Flying Ma- chine,” and “Suicide of the Impostor.” But in the district of North Surrey the reception... ..., so I desisted from this as- pect of his lesson. “And then,” said I, “you committed the sin of euphuism. You called it not Fat, which is just and ing... ...thought, he was composing a lucid apology for “this technical crime I have committed,” to be delivered be- fore sentence in the dock, when the stout g... ...stead Road, and an atrocious assault upon a woman. All these outrages were committed between half-past twelve and a quarter to two in the morning, and...

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...ned violence of the knocks and repeated bell-peals which assured all those who had ever listened in the servants’ hall to prognostications of a possib... ...‘A quarter to two? Gentleman downstairs? Can’t be that infernal apothecary who broke ‘s engagement to dine with me last night? By George, if it is I’l... ...cking at the bell going on without intermission. He wore the aspect of one who assumes a forced composure under the infliction of outrages on his char... ...ires she had seen; she had also seen accidental-death corpses, but never a suicide in the act; and here she regretted the failure of her experiences. ... ...tingly. The situation was exactly of a sort for one of his German phantasy-writers to image the forest jeering at him as he flew, blind, deaf, and unr... ...I said we would see that her money was fastened to her securely before she committed herself to the deeps. The money to be advanced to me would lie at... ...spiteful altercation, and each saddled the other with the mistake they had committed. Eveleen snatched the last word. What she said I did not com- pre... ...endure him, as the ladies say, for the very purpose … but the error stands committed! For the future, friend Disher will infallibly expect payments wi...

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.... I use the term: Actual, to separate my use of the word Infinity from those who think that Infinity is merely an idea, and not an actual fact. Ac... ...pecies of mammals living upon one planet, in one solar system, in one galaxy: who evolved a limited, sensory range designed only to survive success... ...nction in…. That is; in Africa, where we originally came from, as naked apes who stood up and began wondering about things. Human animals were nev... ...the African Veldt, the velvet soft land of Paradise where they discovered and committed the first sin of human knowledge: how to split things apart ... ...efore they learned to use fire? One of the most common ways Stone Age tribes committed mass murder was to set fires to entire areas of grass or bus... ...s have a saying of how things which they create, take on a life of their own. Writers speak of how a character they create takes on a life of its ow... ...ce. And it delivers what it promises in this temporal World. How many crimes committed by people in power have ever been properly punished? When i... ...hey just know it happens. Throughout the Ages: religious fanatics, leaders, writers, people in all walks of life have noticed this worsening of af... ...whether a plan to steal it back was being hatched. Do you think the sport writers might love this? For once; all their sports connections would ...

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...s of millions of years later) superbly adapted to their environment. It was Bergson who posed the question: why did nature prefer the risk of unstab... ...r sentience? Thus, ultimately, complexity touches upon very essential questions of who we, what are we for, how we create, and how we evolve. It is... ...elsewhere and at other times even when they are conducted with the SAM E subjects (who are no longer the same owing to the effects of their partici... ...(Axiom 3's veracity depends on the existence of a God-like creature). Plantinga has committed the very same error a decade earlier (1974). His ontol... ...s (angels, prophets, etc.) Acts that transgress against the laws of nature but are committed by other "invisible agents" are not miracles, but magi... ...d around Western civilization and its standards (example: the ethical objection to suicide). Neurosis, a historically fundamental "condition" vanis... ... it as a road to the same kind of broad and deep understanding of human nature that writers possess. " Anna F reud Towards the end of the 19th...

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...w this tribute upon an earlier work by the same author, a short story entitled The Cloak; this idea has been wittily expressed by another compatriot, who says: ?We have all issued out of Gogol?s Cloak.?...

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...led The Cloak; this idea has been wittily expressed by another compatriot, who says: “We have all issued out of Gogol’s Cloak.” Dead Souls, which bear... ... destroyed the manuscript with the others inadvertently. The poet Pushkin, who said of Gogol that “behind his laughter you feel the unseen tears,” was... ...r you feel the unseen tears,” was his chief friend and inspirer. It was he who suggested the plot of Dead Souls as well as the plot of the earlier wor... ...e proved of the greatest use both to my head and to my heart—I beg of such writers again to favour me with their reviews. For in all sincerity I can a... ...ry atten- tive to his business. This was invariably his custom when he had committed the fault of getting drunk. Also, the horses looked unusually wel... ...bout them I know nothing,’ you reply dog- gedly. ‘Never at any time have I committed a theft. ’ ‘Then *The names Kariakin and Volokita might, perhaps,... ...ent upon the epistle’s efflores- cent style, he refolded the document, and committed it to his dispatch-box in company with a play-bill and an 167 Go... ... of scarcity (sufficiently severe to have led any one but Khlobuev to seek suicide by hanging or shooting), the master of the house would be preserved...

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...n of a long history; it is to the learned commentator of Dante. It was you who led me to understand the marvelous framework of ideas on which the grea... ...ose of Porcia, of San-Severino, of Pareto, of di Negro, and of Belgiojoso, who will represent in this “Human Comedy” the close and constant alliance b... ...enth century—Bandello, the bishop and author of some strange tales indeed, who left us the splendid collection of romances whence Shakespeare derived ... ...lsehood, madame, will surely be enough to wipe out every sin you have ever committed, and to open to you the gates of Paradise,” replied Crevel, with ... ... have it,” said the Baron, made happy by this demand, by which his Valerie committed herself. Hector had then been compelled to reveal his plans, al- ... ...e a house-warming in the Rue Chauchat, with some artists, and players, and writers.—She took me in! But I can forgive her, for Heloise amuses me. She ... ...between them they have found the money, and I went off to pay the Turk who committed treason against genius by putting you in quod. As I had to be at ... ...ects of Socialist doctrines diffused among the lower classes by incendiary writers? In every household the plague of servants is nowadays the worst of... ...norant poverty and mis- ery driven to bay, flourish the last public letter-writers who are to be found in Paris. Wherever you see the two words “Ecriv...

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...tinct nationalities: Saxons in the South, and mixed with them the Wallachs, who are the descendants of the Dacians; Magyars in the West, and Szekelys... ... the West, and Szekelys in the East and North. I am going among the latter, who claim to be descended from Attila and the Huns. This may be so, for w... ...e were petticoats under them. The strangest figures we saw were the Slovaks, who were more barbarian than the rest, with their big cow boy hats, grea... ...cause he was acrewk’d, a regular lamiter he was, an’ he hated her so that he committed suicide in order that she mightn’t get an insurance she put on ... ...as acrewk’d, a regular lamiter he was, an’ he hated her so that he committed suicide in order that she mightn’t get an insurance she put on his life. ... ...d I cannot leave it, and now I find I must go on sitting over the grave of a suicide.” “That won’t harm ye, my pretty, an’ it may make poor Geordie ... ...en one. There is no evidence to adduce, and whether or not the man him self committed the murders there is now none to say. The folk here hold almost... ... room, I wonder what he would say if he saw her now. Some of the ‘New Women’ writers will 110 Chapter 8 some day start an idea that men and women sho... ...ell home, the place un hallowed, as we saw when he went to the grave of the suicide at Whitby, still at other time he can only change when the time c...

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...ly along- side. ‘In luck again, Gaffer?’ said a man with a squinting leer, who sculled her and who was alone, ‘I know’d you was in luck again, by your... ...out.’ He spoke in a dropped voice, and with more than one glance at Lizzie who had pulled on her hood again. Both men then looked with a weird unholy ... ...l astern. Lizzie’s father, composing himself into the easy attitude of one who had asserted the high moralities and taken an unassailable position, sl... ...n murder was all over the town, and people were specu- lating on its being suicide, I dare say those impudent wretches at the clubs and places made jo... ...?’ asked Mr Wegg, holding on. ‘Not a proper jail, wot you and me would get committed 56 Our Mutual Friend to,’ returned his escort; ‘they giv’ it the... ...d better drop it!’ turned the disadvantage on Boffin, who felt that he had committed himself in a very painful manner. Then, Mr Wegg, in a dry unflinc... ...ch a fool as to take me to so great an extent upon trust. But the folly is committed on both sides. I cannot get rid of you; you cannot get rid of me.... ...g my ear quite close.’ ‘Will you send it, my dear?’ ‘Will I send it to the writers? Is that your wish? Yes, cer- tainly.’ 510 Our Mutual Friend ‘You’... ...ad begun undressing on the grass. For a moment it had a suspicious look of suicide, arranged to counterfeit accident. ‘But you wouldn’ t have fetched ...

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..................................................................213 THE MAN WHO COULD WORK MIRACLES.........................................224 A VISIO... ...exacting forms. It was my friend Mr. 6 The Country of the Blind C.L. Hind who set that spring going. He urged me to write short stories for the Pall ... ...e, Grant Allen, George Egerton, Henry Harland, Pett Ridge, W . W . Jacobs (who alone seems inexhaustible). I dare say I could recall as many more name... ...rary development, but also as a phase in the development of the individual writers concerned. It is now quite unusual to see any adequate criticism of... ...ager who speedily arrived on the scene jumped at the obvious conclusion of suicide. This ex- pert scarcely noticed Azuma-zi, except to ask a few ques-... ...rty was bequeathed to the young man. But he never inherited. When Elvesham committed suicide, Eden was, strangely enough, already dead. Twenty-four ho... ...word. I do not wish to dis- credit that, but I must point out—what so many writers upon obscure psychic phenomena fail to do—that we are passing here ... ...t this strange new planet would probably collide with Neptune. The leader- writers enlarged upon the topic. So that in most of the capi- tals of the w... ..., so I desisted from this as- pect of his lesson. “And then,” said I, “you committed the sin of euphuism. You called it, not Fat, which is just and in...

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...gs of men of the most diverse creeds and na tionalities. Apart from those who, like Buddha and Mahomet, have been raised to the height of demi gods b... ...iritual aspiration. To this high priest hood of the quick among the dead, who can doubt that time will admit Leo Tolstoy – a genius whose greatness h... ...s has been obscured from us rather than enhanced by his duality; a realist who strove to demolish the mysticism of Christianity, and became himself a ... ...esh. Tolstoy the realist steps without cavil into the front rank of modern writers; Tolstoy the idealist has been constantly derided and scorned by me... ...he literary world throbbed with new life, and a brilliant company of young writers came to the surface, counting among them names of European celebrit... ...le and subject matter. When Andreev, the most modern of all modern Russian writers, came to pay his respects to Tolstoy some months before his death, ... ...ad cer tainly forgotten how he felt when he was young! “What crime have I committed, I wonder? I wanted to go to the theatre, and having no money bor... ...“but to deny the crime is still worse. If it is true that the sin has been committed by one of you, let the guilty one confess.” In saying this, Fathe... ...use. He thought this murder would not matter to him more than those he had committed before; but before he got a night’s lodging, he felt suddenly so ...

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...e man about whom the book is written. The most privi- leged is the reader, who is thus allowed to live familiarly with an eminent man. Least regarded ... ...f this process, not to mention the difficulty, can be measured only by one who attempts a similar feat. Let him try to report the best con- versation ... ...late with wonder.’ He was indefatigable in hunting up and con- sulting all who had known parts or aspects of Johnson’s life which to him were inaccess... ...ever exhibited. But although he at different times, in a desultory manner, committed to writing many particulars of the progress of his mind and fortu... ...talk and other anecdotes of our cel- 20 Boswell’s Life of Johnson ebrated writers is valued, and how earnestly it is regretted that we have not more,... ... amusement, ‘not voyages and travels, but all literature, Sir, all ancient writers, all manly: though but little Greek, only some of Anacreon and Hesi... ...o approve of an execution for rebellion so long after the time when it was committed, as this had the appearance of put- ting a man to death in cold b... ...age-play- ers, after censuring some mistakes in emphasis which Garrick had committed in the course of that night’s acting, said, ‘The players, Sir, ha... ... it exhibits; and we find him men- tioning in that tract, that many of the writers whose testimonies were to be produced as au- thorities, were select...

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...dence.” And this was the tribute paid by the American public to the master who had given to it such tales of conjuring charm, of witchery and mystery ... ..., although they made him many enemies among the over-puffed minor American writers so mercilessly exposed by him; such poems of beauty and melody as “... ...is and absolute art! One might almost sympathize with Sarah Helen Whitman, who, confess- ing to a half faith in the old superstition of the significan... ...ew Y ork. He was faithful, punctual, industrious, thorough. N. P . Willis, who for some time employed Poe as critic and sub-editor on the “Evening Mir... ...t mentioned, soon after relieved him of all doubt in this re- gard, and he committed himself at once to authorship for a support. Previously to this, ... ... people went so far as to imagine that in this spot a foul murder had been committed, and that the sufferers were in all probability Hans Pfaall and h... ...here any effort at plausibility in the de- tails of the voyage itself. The writers seem, in each instance, to be utterly uninformed in respect to astr... ...re called powerfully into play. If it flag for an instant, an oversight is committed resulting in injury or defeat. The possible moves being not only ... ...ered otherwise upon idiocy, as to have attracted general observation among writers on morals. Between ingenuity and the analytic ability there exists ...

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...a veracious history. If there had been journalists in the time of Moliere, who can doubt but that they, like marquises, financiers, doctors, and lawye... ...rait Jerome-Nicolas Sechard had the luck to dis- cover a noble Marseillais who had no mind to emigrate and lose his lands, nor yet to show himself ope... ...k-of- all-trades to be compositor, reader, and foreman in one; and an Abbe who declined the oath succeeded the Comte de Maucombe as soon as the First ... ...de Chenier’s Idyll Neerc, then Le Malade, following on with the Elegy on a Suicide, another elegy in the classic taste, and the last two Iambes. “So t... ...f a man of the Imperial school, who scarcely could make out what the young writers meant. Not so Mme. de Bargeton; she waxed enthusiastic over the ren... ...rgeoisie to boot. As for you, your position is different. A foreman is not committed to anything. Y ou are busy gaining knowledge that will be indis- ... ...culture by wholesale plunder of newspaper articles and pillage of previous writers. It was believed all over the department that 75 Balzac M. Saintot... ...e faces about him through a cloudy haze. He read the som- bre Elegy on the Suicide, lines in the taste of a by-gone day, 83 Balzac pervaded by sublim...

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...earn what portion of my income I devoted to charitable purposes; and some, who have large families, how many poor children I maintained. I will theref... ... many poor children I maintained. I will therefore ask those of my readers who feel no par ticular interest in me to pardon me if I undertake to answ... ...ething, not so much concerning the Chi nese and Sandwich Islanders as you who read these pages, who are said to live in New England; something about ... ...seen fit to print the bulk of my contributions, and, as is too common with writers, I got only my labor for my pains. However, in this case my pains w... ...and wholesome to live. I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never W alden 72 shall know, a worse man than... ... live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail. Old Cato, whose “De Re Rustica” i... ...ith all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiq uity. They seem as solitary, and the letter in which they... ...s solidly done, and as beautiful almost as the morn ing itself; for later writers, say what we will of their genius, have rarely, if ever, equalled t... ...mble in the woods occasionally, it was obvious that they did not. Restless committed men, whose time was an taken up in getting a living or keep ing ...

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...Excerpt: Prelude. Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness ...

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... She found her epos in the reform of a religious order. That Spanish woman who lived three hundred years ago, was certainly not the last of her kind. ... ... ago, was certainly not the last of her kind. Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfoldin... ...ergyman; and there was even an ancestor discernible as a Puritan gentleman who served under Cromwell, but afterwards conformed, and managed to come ou... ...would be wounded. Young Mr. Ladislaw was not at all deep himself in German writers; but very little achievement is required in order to pity another m... ...llies, as Mary was. In her present matronly age at least, Mrs. Garth never committed herself by over-hasty speech; having, as she said, borne the yoke... ...lessington and L. E. L.” Rosamond herself was not without relish for these writers, but she did not readily commit herself by admiration, and was aliv... ...h I would fain leave behind me in such a state, at least, that it might be committed to the press by—others. Were I assured that this is the utmost I ... ...n’t want a man—they only want a vote.” “That is the way with you political writers, Ladislaw—cry- ing up a measure as if it were a universal cure, and... ...misdeeds were pardoned and his services accepted. Those misdeeds even when committed—had they not been half sanc- tified by the singleness of his desi...

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... The Chargers 35 79 Those Who Drag Forth 36 77 The Sent 37 ... ... The Resurrection 41 83 Those Who Stint 42 69 The Inevitable 43 ... ... Light 106 58 She Who Pleaded 107 22 The Pilgrimage 108 ... ...); Selections with introduction and explanatory notes (from Sale and other writers), by J. Murdock (Sacred Books of the East), 2nd ed., 1902; The Reli... ... possession of Abu Bekr during the remain- der of his brief caliphate, who committed it to the custody of Haphsa, one of Muhammad’s widows, and this t... ...- tary stations in the new empire, and all previously existing copies were committed to the flames. Zaid and his coadjutors, however, do not appear to... ... Ommeyads and Abbâsides. It was under the 5th Caliph, Al-Mâmûn, that three writers (mentioned below) on whom we mainly depend for all really reliable ... ...o died A.H. 124, aged 72; but his works, though abundantly quoted by later writers, are no longer extant. Much of his information was derived from Orw... ...o hewed out the rocks in the valley; And with Pharaoh the impaler; Who all committed excesses in the lands, And multiplied wickedness therein. Wherefo...

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...e is always anx- iously explanatory. You, on the contrary, feel that a man who discusses his conscience is much like a woman who discusses her modesty... ...e to think of it, though we have plenty of dramas with heroes and heroines who are in love and must accordingly marry or perish at the end of the play... ... with the sex problem on the stage so repulsive and dreary that even those who are most deter- mined that sex questions shall be held open and their d... ...not see, as the prosaic man does, that chivalry is at bottom only romantic suicide: as scallawag, he cannot see that it does not pay to spunge and beg... ... disposed of. When she is baffled, like Ophelia, she goes mad and commits suicide; and the man goes straight from her funeral to a fencing match. No ... ...Schopenhaur, W agner, Ibsen, Morris, T olstoy, and Nietzsche are among the writers whose peculiar sense of the world I recognize as more or less akin ... ... can agree with the prophet Micah as to his in- spired style without being committed to any complicity in Micah’s furiously Radical opinions. Why, eve... ...pulling long faces and looking as ashamed and disgraced as if the girl had committed the vilest of crimes. RAMSDEN. [roaring with rage] I will not hav... ...have confessed. DON JUAN. How much? THE OLD WOMAN. More sins than I really committed. I loved confession. DON JUAN. Ah, that is perhaps as bad as conf...

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... and music— Three conclusions— (1) Mystical states carry authority for him who has them— (2) But for no one else— (3) Nevertheless, they break down th... ...uggested rather than stated my own philosophic conclusions, and the reader who desires immediately to know them should turn to pages 501-509, and to t... ...iting these lectures are due to Edwin D. Starbuck, of Stanford University, who made over to me his large collection of manuscript material; to Henry W... ...r ideas and motives. These men, of course, are either comparatively modern writers, or else such earlier ones as have become religious clas- sics. The... ...the earlier church. Under just what biographic con- ditions did the sacred writers bring forth their vari- ous contributions to the holy volume? And w... ...vely recoil from seeing an object to which our emotions and affections are committed handled by the intellect as any other object is handled. The firs... ...same kind of reasoning is the fashion, quite common nowadays among certain writers, of criticizing the religious emotions by showing a con- nection be... ... but was continually vexed with these thoughts: This or that sin thou hast committed: thou art infected with envy, with impatiency, and such other sin... ...hat was no good, for I would be sure to fall again. Well, what did I do? I committed myself to him in the profoundest belief that my individuality was...

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...nearly every senior official from the current and previous administrations who had responsibility for topics covered in our mandate. We have sought to... ...ndent, impartial, thorough, and nonpartisan. From the outset, we have been committed to share as much of our investi- gation as we can with the Americ... ...urrounding 9/11 and to identify lessons learned. We learned about an enemy who is sophisticated, patient, disciplined, and lethal.The enemy rallies br... ...uced a multitude of documents for us.We thank officials, past and present, who were generous with their time and provided us with insight. The PENTTBO... ... the hijacking would take the traditional form: that is, it would not be a suicide hijacking designed to convert the aircraft into a guided missile. O... ...idels in a land with the sites most sacred to Islam, and celebrated recent suicide bombings of American military facilities in the Kingdom. It praised... ...ndisputably in charge of what remained of the MAK and al Qaeda. 27 Through writers like Qutb, and the presence of Egyptian Islamist teachers in the Sa... ...l in this core swore fealty (or bayat) to Bin Ladin. Other operatives were committed to Bin Ladin or to his goals and would take assignments for him, ... ...conflicts.After years of war in the Balkans, the United States had finally committed itself to sig- nificant military intervention in 1995–1996.Alread...

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...of meaning binds them. Memories of childhood and youth, portraits of those who have gone before us in the battle – taken together, they build up a fac... ...of it himself. The same spirit inspired Miss Bird’s American missionaries, who had come thousands of miles to change the faith of Japan, and openly pr... ...good intelligence – a University man, as the phrase goes – a man, besides, who had taken his degree in life and knew a thing or two about the age we l... ...ly from a school. It is only from a school that we can expect to have good writers; it is almost invariably from a school that great writers, these la... ... as in the other case rough habits and fist-law were the rule. Crimes were committed, sheep filched, and drovers robbed and beaten; most of which offe... ...sity of his offence; but he had fairly beaten off his better angel, fairly committed moral suicide; for almost in the same hour, throwing aside the la... ...nce; but he had fairly beaten off his better angel, fairly committed moral suicide; for almost in the same hour, throwing aside the last rags of decen...