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...SHER SHER SHER SHER SHERW W W W WOOD ANDERSON OOD ANDERSON OOD ANDERSON OOD ANDERSON OOD ANDERSON W W W W W... .................... 209 4 Sherwood Anderson SHER SHER SHER SHER SHERW W W W WOOD ANDERSON OOD ANDERSON OOD ANDERSON OOD ANDERSON OOD ANDERSON W W W W W... .... Somehow, except for an oc-casional story like the haunting “Death in the Woods,” he was unable to repeat or surpass his early success. Still, about ... ...ouches of his approach, echoes of his voice. Writing about the Elizabethan playwright John Ford, the poet Algernon Swinburne once said: “If he touches... ...matter what subject came into her mind. Once she talked to the children of Charles Lamb and made up strange, inti-mate little stories concerning the l... ...r. The stories were told with the air of one who had lived in a house with Charles Lamb and knew all the secrets of his private life. The children wer... ...secrets of his private life. The children were somewhat confused, thinking Charles Lamb must be someone who had once lived in Winesburg. On another oc...

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...r band-boxes and rouge-pots, at his side; so that, at every new station, a wooden gallery must be run up between their lodgings. He has not only his M... ...lzburg, with truncheon grounded; only Fable expecting that he will awaken. Charles the Hammer, Pepin Bow-legged, where now is their eye of menace, the... ...all royally caparisoned for hunting, he met, at some sudden turning in the Wood of Senart, a ragged Peasant with a coffin: “For whom?”—It was for a po... ...ly, in the forest, a thousand years; only in the thousandth year, when the woodman arrives with his axe, is there heard an echoing through the solitud... ...rd: but now shall men be borne. (October and November, 1783.) Nay, Chemist Charles thinks of hydrogen and glazed silk. Chemist Charles will himself as... ...bespierre. The son of an Advocate; his father founded ma- son-lodges under Charles Edward, the English Prince or Pre- tender. Maximilien the first-bor... ...ly; some count as many as Sixty Places of Dancing. (Mercier. ii. 124.) The Playwright manufactures: pieces of a strictly Republican character. Ever fr... ...in Cities of the South! Revolutionary Army is gone forth, under Ronsin the Playwright; six thousand strong; in ‘red nightcap, in tricolor waistcoat, i... ... said, some time ago. It is an Army with portable guillotine: commanded by Playwright Ronsin in terrible moustachioes; and even by some uncertain shad...

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...traditions spring up in which the libertine and profli- gate—Tom Jones and Charles Surface are the heroes, and decorous, law-abiding persons—Blifil an... ... who confines himself to popular legislation—or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popu- lar plays—is like a blind man’s do... ...nvesting her trade with every allurement that the art of the novelist, the playwright, the dancer, the milli- ner, the painter, the limelight man, and... ...beasts of burden, it is no use requiring much more from them but hewing of wood and drawing of water: what- ever is to be done must be done FOR them m... ...bt the strain on the attention of the audience and on the ingenuity of the playwright is much less; but I find in practice that the Greek form is inev... ...f thick fibre matting. The only other piece of furniture is a clock with a wooden dial about as large as the bottom of a washtub, the weights, chains,... ...he’s like a bird born in a cage, that would die if you let it loose in the woods. When I thought how little it was to a man of my easy temper to put u...

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...ace behind the hearth. Agnes Sorel, in all simplicity, took her fortune to Charles VII., and the King accepted it. Jacques Coeur kept the crown for Fr... ...osses- sion, you find the remains of floral relics hoarded in dainty cedar-wood boxes. They cannot distinguish themselves one from the other; for them... ... a noble house, a dynasty; like the Fuggers of Antwerp, that lent money to Charles V. and were created Princes of Babenhausen, a family that exists at... ...arissa is a master- piece, there are fourteen volumes of her, and the most wooden-headed playwright would give you the whole of Clarissa in a single a... ...ster- piece, there are fourteen volumes of her, and the most wooden-headed playwright would give you the whole of Clarissa in a single act. So long as... ...thousand, d’Aiglemont with a million, Matifat with three hundred thousand, Charles Grandet (who married Mlle. d’Aubrion) with half a million, and so f...

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... the drama went very far for a time, and the comic authors of the reign of Charles II., evi- dently from a reaction, and to shake off the excess and t... ...untries he had visited. On his return to England he entered the service of Charles I., who knighted him in 1641. Next year, after the death of his fat... ...f a contemporary of Rabelais, the Legende de Pierre Faifeu by the Angevin, Charles de Bourdigne, the first edition of which dates from 1526 and the se... ...dalgos borrachos maranisados como diablos: but he had a fair sword made of wood, and the dagger of boiled leather, as well painted and gilded as any m... ... of the windmill of Myrebalais. 65 Rabelais Chapter 1.XII. Of Gargantua’s wooden horses. Afterwards, that he might be all his lifetime a good rider, ... ...t be all his lifetime a good rider, they made to him a fair great horse of wood, which he did make leap, curvet, jerk out behind, and skip forward, al... ...r of these two ways will work upon you, of which doleful truth some of our playwrights stand so many living monuments? Why, then, truly I think on no ...

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... character of a rabid collector, loaded with pictures, statuettes, frames, wood-carving, ivories, enamels, porcelains, and the like. He had sunk the g... ... daughter of the Sieur Thirion, usher of the cabi- net to Louis XVIII. and Charles X., had never taken very kindly to her husband’s first cousin, once... ...them excruci- ating annoyance. As he spoke, he draw a long, narrow cherry- wood box, marvelously carved, from his coat-pocket. “Oh, did I?—I had forgo... ... part of her time there before she built Menars. Some of the most splendid wood-carving ever known has been saved from destruction; Lienard (our most ... ...ose exquisite masterpieces. Frankenthal ware is marked with a C and T (for Charles Theodore) interlaced and crowned. On old Dresden china there are tw... ...e rich, and—” “What would it have been if Heaven had spared my poor little Charles!—” cried the lady. “Oh, with two children you would be poor,” retur... ...glect on this head, perhaps because Provi- dence has been so overworked by playwrights of late. Pardon the transcriber’s errors. 277 Balzac Addendum ...

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...s article could be written by Samuel Warren. And failing that, I wish that Charles Dickens, who wrote in his “American Notes” with such passionate dis... ...or the fooleries of Parliament, and to see what the Censor has left of our playwrights and Sir Jesse Boot of our writers, and to dine in restaurants a... ...ework in substantial fabrics by steel frames, replace the skilled maker of woodcuts by a photographer, and so on through the whole range of our activi... ...- centration of intensive culture. There may be an adjacent Wild supplying wood, and perhaps controlled by a simple forestry. The law that holds this ... ...e greatly loves and admires his Card, as that Richardson ad- mired his Sir Charles Grandison, or that Mrs. Humphry Ward considers her Marcella a very ... ...ayed in action fascinates me. It is like watching a game of billiards with wooden cushes and beechwood balls. S S S S Sec. 2 ec. 2 ec. 2 ec. 2 ec. 2 B...