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...E I.?THE BASTILLE ................................................................................................................................ 12 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. ........................................................................................................................... 12 Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. .................................

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.......................................................................... 12 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV . ................................................ .......................................................................... 22 BOOK 1.II. THE PAPER AGE ..................................................... .......................................................................... 44 BOOK 1.III. THE PARLEMENT OF PARIS............................................ ... from his Annales, they looked eager through the London fog, and became Ex-Editors,—that they might feed the guillotine, and have their due. Does Louv... ...vese ‘have created the Moniteur Newspaper,’ or are about creating it. Able Editors must give account of such a day. Or seest thou with any distinctnes... ...path, Bastille-papers and curiosities into his carriage, with vivats. Able Editors compile Books from the Bastille Archives; from what of them remain ... ...ree long-contending elements of French Society, dashed forth into singular comico- tragical collision; acting and reacting openly to the eye. Con- sti... ...or-mania and royal blazonry of Cordwainery. Except indeed that this is not comic; ah no, it is comico-tragic; with bound Couriers, and a Doom hanging ...

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...................................................................................................................................................... 8 BOOKS?1905 ............................................................................................................................................................. 8 HENRY JAMES?AN APPRECIATION?1905 ........................

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........................................................................... 8 BOOKS—1905 ................................................................... ...”; but I may say that whenever the various peri- odicals mentioned in this book called on me to come out and blow the trumpet of personal opinions or ... ... tried to pull on my boots first. I didn’t want to do it, God knows! Their Editors, to whom I beg to offer my thanks here, made me perform mainly by k... ...ch all sinners against themselves are entitled. J. C. 1920. PART I—LETTERS BOOKS—1905 I “I HAVE NOT READ this author’s books, and if I have read them ... ... truth of human delicacy can be found in Mr. Henry James’s novels; and the comical, appall- ing truth of human rapacity let loose amongst the spoils o... ...e efforts of mankind to work its own salvation present a sight of alarming comicality. Af- ter clinging for ages to the steps of the heavenly throne, ... ...nd’s resurrection. When the war broke out there was something grue- somely comic in the proclamations of emperors and archdukes appealing to that invi...

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...Ivanovitch was only just preparing to leave Moscow. Sergey Ivanovitch?s life had not been uneventful during this time. A year ago he had finished his book, the fruit of six years? labor, ?Sketch of a Survey of the Principles and Forms of Government in Europe and Russia.?...

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...had not been uneventful dur- ing this time. A year ago he had finished his book, the fruit of six years’ labor, “Sketch of a Survey of the Prin- ciple... ...es and Forms of Government in Europe and Russia.” Several sections of this book and its introduction had appeared in periodical publications, and othe... ...ublic. But still Sergey Ivanovitch had expected that on its appearance his book would be sure to make a serious impression on society, and if it did n... ...d a second, and still there was silence. Only in the Northern Beetle, in a comic article on the singer Drabanti, who had lost his voice, there was a c... ...front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!’” “A nice lot the editors would make!” said Katavasov, with a loud roar, as he pictured the e...

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............. 62 VERTUMNUS AND POMONA. .................................................................................................... 65 THE FIRST BOOK OF STATIUS?S THEBAIS. .......................................................................... 67 JANUARY AND MAY. ..........................................................................................................

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................................................................ 65 THE FIRST BOOK OF STATIUS’S THEBAIS. ................................................... ......................................... 155 THE FOURTH EPISTLE OF THE FIRST BOOK OF HORACE.128 ........................................................... ......................................................................... 201 BOOK THE FIRST. .............................................................. ... gallants are undone. Though Tom the poet writ with ease and pleasure, The comic T om abounds in other treasure. 115 The Poetical Works of Alexander ... ...saria on modern authors) we shall here, according to the laudable usage of editors, collect the various judgments of the learned concerning our Poet: ... ...pelling the name of his beloved author, and not like his common care- less editors, with the omission of one, nay, sometimes of two e’s (as Shakspear)...

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...Table of Contents: BOOK I 3 -- CHAPTER I ?PRELIMINARY, 3 -- CHAPTER II ?EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES, 7 -- CHAPTER III ?REMINISCENCES, 11 -- CHAPTER IV? CHARACTERISTICS, 19 -- CHAPTER V? THE WORLD IN CLOTHES, 24 -- CHAPTER VI? APRONS, 29 -- CHAPTER V...

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...t c 2001 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Contents BOOK I 3 CHAPTER I — PRELIMINARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... .... . . 43 CHAPTER XI — PROSPECTIVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 BOOK II 55 CHAPTER I — GENESIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... 118 CHAPTER X — PAUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 BOOK III 133 CHAPTER I — INCIDENT IN MODERN HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . 1... ... have reached a height unexampled in the annals of mankind, and even English Editors, like Chinese Shopkeepers, must write on their door lintels No ch... ...ublication, “at present the glory of British Literature”? If so, the Library Editors are welcome to dig in it for their own behoof. To the First Chapt... ... Names, according as this or the other Able Editor, or Com bination of Able Editors, gains the world’s ear. Of the British Newspaper Press, perhaps t... ...h there is a good deal of remark throughout the work in a half serious, half comic style upon dress, it seems to be in reality a treatise upon the gre...

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...a thesis, refer to “the author of the T atler” contemporary with all these editors. The truth is, Addison was well aware of Shakspeare’s hold on the p... ... essential condition of attraction. Moreover, in some de- partments of the comic, Beaumont and Fletcher, when writ- ing in combination, really had a f... ...out reviews, or newspapers, or advertisements, to diffuse the knowledge of books, the progress of literature was necessar- ily slow, and its expansion... ...ctor in plays and to their author. The contemp- tuous appellation of “play-book,” served as readily to degrade the mighty volume which contained Lear ... ...ted with the London stage. The conversation of comedians ac- quainted with books, fresh from the keen and sparkling circles of the metropolis, and fil... ...h- ing, most emphatically drew forth the sexual distinctions, viz., in the comic aspects of social intercourse, the reason that we see no women on the... ... a graduated scale of merit, as distributed amongst the long succession of editors through that century, Pope holds a rank proportionable to his age. ... ...and acknowledged edition was published in London early in “1728-9,” as the editors choose to write it, that is, (without perplexing the reader,) in 17...

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...s, the longer one is able to laugh in it the better.” Bedmakers have to be comic and dishonest. It is expected of them. In a picture of university lif... ...nd slipped him back into his coat-pocket. Scarcely ever was he with- out a book. “He’s trying to like people.” “Then he’s done for,” said Widdrington.... ...my birth and parentage and education.” “Talk away. If you bore us, we have books.” With this invitation Rickie began to relate his his- tory. The read... ...his invitation Rickie began to relate his his- tory. The reader who has no book will be obliged to listen to it. Some people spend their lives in a su... ... glanced at the pile. Reran, minus the style. Darwin, minus the modesty. A comic edition of the book of Job, by “Excelsior,” Pittsburgh, Pa. “The Begi... ...l person—so alone, declared he, could things be kept together. Perhaps the Comic Muse, to whom so much is now attributed, had caused his estate to be ... ...and Agnes still hoped for the intro- ductions—the introductions to certain editors and publishers—on which her whole diplomacy was bent. Rickie would ... ...ubmit these ten stories to the magazines, and make your own terms with the editors. Then—I have your word for it—you will join forces with me; and the...

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... for the sculptured horrors which disgrace the tomb. If I have put into my book anything which can fill the young mind with better thoughts of death, ... ...ish life was all light and no shadows, and I began to doubt that beautiful book to which I have turned again and again, always to find new beauties an... ...tage hearth a graceful thing—of whom it might truly be said that he found “books in the running brooks,” and who has left in all he did some breathing... ...Her Majesty’s servants, I think I should know where to put my hand on “the comic old gentleman;” nor, that if I wanted to get up a pantomime, I fancy ... ...ch an offence would have no chance against the acute sagacity of newspaper editors. But I will go further, and submit to you that its commission, if i... ... whole King’s army. He may do the “light business,” or the “heavy,” or the comic, or the eccentric. He may be the cap tain who courts the young lady,...

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...en it goes to the theatre, instead of leaving them at home with its prayer-book as it does at present. Consequently, I am the last man in the world to... ...he first wollume of the Decline and Fall off —” here he looked hard at the book, and stopped. “What’s the matter, Wegg?” “Why, it comes into my mind, ... ...ith an air of insinuating frankness (having first again looked hard at the book), that you made a little mistake this morning, which I had meant to se... ... could not possibly demoralize the public by describing such a play, their editors cruelly devoted the space saved by their delicacy to an elaborate a... ... nature. The result of this con- flict is tragic in Mrs Warren’s case, and comic in the clergyman’s case (at least we are savage enough to laugh at it...

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...nt in her presence, and her pleasures had been in the kitchen and in a few books, probably ‘Don Quixote’ and ‘Evelina,’ so far as could be gathered fr... ...she said. And in the same way it was a feast to her to get hold of “a real book,” as she called it, not only the beginnings of every- thing, and selec... ...on’t be of any use to you.’ I hate use—” “Like Ridley, who says he reads a book with double plea- sure if he is not going to review it.” “That Mr. Rid... ... in such bewildered amazement, that struck the mother and daugh- ter as so comical that the one hid her face in her hands with a sort of hysterical he... ... I wanted to make Aunt Ellen laugh. Did she laugh, mother?” he asked in so comical and innocent a manner that, in spite of her full con- sciousness of... ...to me,” she said, with a cowering, shuddering sort of action, irresistibly comic. “And he ate up half our day,” bemoaned more than one of the boys. Mi... ...as tried all the periodi- cals round, and they won’t have it, not even the editors that know mother!” “Poor fellow! And you have no pity!” “Don’t you ...

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.... This alone of the “Translations” is included in the Harvard manu- script book. ‘Fragments of the drafts of this and the other Hymns of Homer exist a... ...cky dwelling; _490 Let us with some comic spell Teach the yet unteachable. By all means he must be blinded, If ... ...er Cyprian, dressed as a student; Clarin and Moscon as poor scholars, with books. CYPRIAN: CYPRIAN: CYPRIAN: CYPRIAN: CYPRIAN: In the sweet solitude o... ...ness of trees And flowers and undergrowth of odorous plants, Leave me; the books you brought out of the house To me are ever best society. ... ...ters of Charles Lamb”, has through five successive editions and under many editors—including Fitzgerald, Ainger, and Macdonald—held its ground even to... ... land; (10 5 6.) Edi- tions 1818, 1839 read home for land here. All modern editors adopt Fleay’s cj., land [rhyming with band (8), sand (9)]. 30. 30. ... ...spended, etc. (12 40 5.) Here on a line is Rossetti’s cj. (accepted by all editors) for one line (editions 1818, 1839). See also list of punctual vari...

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...TER I INTRODUCTION It has been the ambition of my literary life to write a book about the United States, and I had made up my mind to visit the countr... ...ntention; but I should not purposely have chosen this period either for my book or for my visit. I say so much, in order that it may not be supposed t... ...o so, and is not now my primary object. Thirty years ago my mother wrote a book about the Americans, to which I believe I may allude as a well- known ... ...that all this is paid for by the advertisements, for I must trust that the editors do not receive less than the moderate sum above named. At Sherbrook... ...t; but on the night of my attendance it seemed to lack an audience. A good comic actor it did not lack, and I never laughed more heartily in my life. ... ...3th of Septem- ber thirteen of its members were arrested, as were also two editors of newspapers presumed to be secessionists. A member of Congress wa...

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...es The Aspern Papers by Henry James The text is that of the first American book edition, Macmillan and Co., 1888. I I had taken Mrs. Prest into my con... ...possible to live, but none the less she has probably heard of Mr. Aspern’s editors; she perhaps possesses what you have published.” “I have thought of... ... and with an effect of irresponsible, incom- petent youth which was almost comically at variance with the faded facts of her person. She was not infir... ...y, during the hours that I sat in the garden looking up over the top of my book at the closed win- dows of my hostess. In these windows no sign of lif... ...or arranged and a low table and an armchair put into it; and I carried out books and portfo- lios (I had always some business of writing in hand), and... ...me so little amusing. It would have been better perhaps for me to feel the comic side of it. At any rate, whether I had given cause or not it went wit...

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...peechless curiosity watched the two opponents. The scene was becoming very comical, but the magnetism of the little red-faced gentleman’ s defiant eye... ...nd he was a mechanical engi- neer, seventy-eight years old. There were two books lying on the table, a short geography and the New T estament in the R... ...nslation, pencil-marked in the margin and scored by the finger-nail. These books I took for myself. The land- lord and the other tenants were question... ... (God knows why) they take a fancy, and at times carry their devotion to a comical pitch. Many years passed. Prince V alkovsky’ s estate flourished. T... ... concluded with a certain air of patronage, when at last I had brought the book and we were all sitting at the round table after tea, “read us what yo... ...es and send them to the magazines just as you do. Y ou’ll help me with the editors, won’t you? I’ve been reckoning upon you, and I lay awake all 48 T... ...for us; as though you look upon it all as a joke, as an absurd fancy, as a comic farce. I don’t think so only from what you’ve said to-day . That very...

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...or Coleridge by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 1787-1833 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Coleridge: Poems Table of ... .... . . . . . . . 442 Love’s Burial-place . . . . . . . . . . 443 Lines: To a Comic Author, on an Abusive Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ... . . . 450 To Miss A. T. . . . . . . . . . 451 Lines written in Commonplace Book of Miss Barbour, . . . . . . 452 Song, ex improviso, on hearing a... ...leridge: Poems Nil Pejus est Caelibe Vitæ 1787 in Christ’s Hospital book What pleasures shall he ever find? What joys shall ever glad his he... ... o . — I am, with more respect and gratitude than I ordinarily feel for Editors of Papers, your obliged, &c.,Cantab. — S.T.C. [Composed during a... ...h of a Decline.’’ - 442 - Love’s Burial-place Coleridge: Poems Lines: To a Comic Author, on an Abusive Review ?1825 What though the chilly wid... ...glee, ‘‘I hate the quacking tribe, and they hate me!’’ - 443 - Lines: To a Comic Author, on an Abusive Review Coleridge: Poems Cologne 1828 I...

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... candle was brought in. The familiar details came out: the stag’s horns, the bookshelves, the looking glass, the stove with its ventilator, which had ... ... long wanted mending, his father’s sofa, a large table, on the table an open book, a broken ash tray, a manuscript book with his handwriting. As he sa... ...oom, where he always had tea, and had settled himself in his armchair with a book , and Agafea Mihalovna had brought him tea, and with her usual, “Wel... ...g Li eschen, the servant girl, and the landlord, with whom he jested in his comically bad German, assuring him that it was not the water had cured Ki... ...rance to this answer, and listened, not without pleasure, to the landowner’s comic speeches. The gentleman with the gray whiskers was obviously an inv... ...ged with Pestsov. Slapping Turovtsin on the shoulder, he whispered something comic in his ear, and set him down by his wife and the old prince. Then h... ...e front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!”’ “A nice lot the editors would make!” said Katavasov, with a loud roar, as he pictured the...

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...V by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky translated by Constance Garnett PART I Book I The History of a Family Chapter 1 Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov ALEXY ... ...sorrow,” scoff- ers said to him. Many even added that he was glad of a new comic part in which to play the buffoon, and that it was simply to make it ... ...ying and translations from the French. Having once got into touch with the editors Ivan Fyodorovitch always kept up his connection with them, and in h... ... in his latter years at the university he published brilliant re- views of books upon various special subjects, so that he be- came well known in lite... ...y,” he wrote in conclusion. Alyosha was not greatly cheered by the letter. Book II An Unfortunate Gathering Chapter 1 They Arrive at the Monastery IT ...

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...V by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky translated by Constance Garnett PART I Book I The History of a Family Chapter 1 Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov ALEXY ... ...orrow ,” scoff- ers said to him. Many even added that he was glad of a new comic part in which to play the buffoon, and that it was simply to make it ... ...ying and translations from the French. Having once got into touch with the editors Ivan Fyodorovitch always kept up his connection with them, and in h... ... in his latter years at the university he published brilliant re- views of books upon various special subjects, so that he be- came well known in lite... ...y,” he wrote in conclusion. Alyosha was not greatly cheered by the letter. Book II An Unfortunate Gathering Chapter 1 They Arrive at the Monastery IT ... ...nd some of these suitors had been forced to beat an undigni- fied and even comic retreat, owing to the firm and ironical resistance they met from the ... ...ng no trace. The terrible phan- tom had turned into something so small, so comic; it had been carried into the bedroom and locked in. It would never r...