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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... birth, Scotch by extraction; and became, as he himself did, es- sentially English by long residence and habit. Of John him- self Scotland has little ... ... Bristol Channel, and far off, the Hills of Devonshire, for boundary,—the “English Hills,” as the natives call them, visible from every eminence in th... ...s eyes, and of all his ways and movements. I have a Picture of him at this stage; a little portrait, which carries its verification with it. In manhoo... ...n his way homeward. CHAPTER IV UNIVERSITIES: GLASGOW; CAMBRIDGE At a later stage, John had some instruction from a Dr. Waite at Blackheath; and lastly... ... those years in those localities! I do not find that Sterling had, at that stage, adopted the then prevalent Utilitarian theory of human things. But n... ...er-in-law; wed- ded Mrs. Sterling’s younger sister,—a gentle excellent fe- male soul; by whom the relation was, in many ways, strengthened and beautif... ...t kinds; and three or four hundred English ladies, and not so many foreign male spectators; so that the place looked empty. The Cardinals in scarlet, ... .... ’—The favorite device on the walls at Naples is a vermilion Picture of a Male and Female Soul respec- tively up to the waist (the waist of a soul) i...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...me hours after the last murder, a man was apprehended at Barnet (the first stage from London on a principal north road), encum- bered with a quantity ... ...at the power of reflecting and comparing, we look for something nobler. We English estimate Waterloo, not by its amount of killed and wounded, but as ... ...rst such an apology must wear a very suspicious aspect of paradox. 3. “The English Mail-Coach.”* —This little paper, accord- ing to my original intent... ...ment) with respect to the fictitious character of the incidents and of the actors in that famous tale. Mere accident it was that had intercepted those... ...oon after the publication of Kate’s memoirs, in what you may call an early stage of her literary career, though two centuries after her personal caree... ...carried through to its natural crisis in the Liverpool Mail. It was on the stage leading into Lichfield; there was no con- spiracy, as in our Irish ca... ...r with the numerous chapels erected in it to different saints by devotees, male or female, in the families of forgotten Landgraves through four centur... ...h a marriage went to incapacitate the children who might be born under it, male or female, from succeeding. On that account, as well as because curren...

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...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Co... ...l behaviour of captains and colonels and other gentlemen in red coats on the stage, where they are invariably represented as fine swaggering fellows, ... ... out, and are ready for anything. And what a contrast between them, and that stage box full of grey headed officers with tokens of many battles about ... ...ere they all three laugh, and Mrs. Nixon says they are giddy girls; in which stage of the proceedings, Felix, who has by this time refreshened himself... ..., and so on. In the same manner he prefixes Christian names when he mentions actors, as Charley Young, Jemmy Buckstone, Fred. Yates, Paul Bedford. Whe... ...r known; and thinks that to be a member of the Garrick Club, and see so many actors in their plain clothes, must be one of the high est gratification... ...us ac counts to communicate of the private manners and customs of different actors, which, during the pauses of a quadrille, he usually communicates ... ...confidence, and to banish, in our case, all that reserve and distrust of the male sex which, as a point of general behaviour, they cannot do better th...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... INTRODUCTION All who are acquainted with the early history of the Italian stage are aware that Arlecchino is not, in his original concep- tion, a mer... ...ll appear from the following theatrical anecdote:— An actor on the Italian stage permitted at the Foire du St. Germain, in Paris, was renowned for the... ...ed with it. The author, so long and loudly called for, has appeared on the stage, and made his obeisance to the audi- ence. Thus far his conduct is a ... ...ere united in the person of the late Lord Sommerville, on the death of his English kinsman, the well- known author of “The Chase.”] Her husband, Gilbe... ...more enlarged than one of your coach-horses. They knows the road, like the English postilion, and they know nothing besides. They date, like the carri... ...y incline to the account of my previous life, and bestowed some High- land maledictions, more emphatic than courteous, on Christie Steele’s reception ... ...et terrible in their tenor, used frequently to extort, through fear of her maledictions, the relief which was denied to her necessities; and the tremb... ... his mother, in the first burst of her impatience, showering after him her maledictions, and in the next invoking them on her own head, so that they m...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...using this discretion, served a summons upon Lucien. Behold the successive stages of the proceedings, all of them perfectly futile. Metivier, with the... ...r—too late. An actress sees so much of bailiffs, duns, and writs, upon the stage, that she looks on all stamped paper as a farce. T ears filled Lucien... ...ame legal formalities? These bare out- lines of the history of the various stages of procedure should open the eyes of Frenchmen to the meaning of the... ...and fondled the child, who held out both little arms to him. No heir to an English peerage could be more tenderly cared for than this little one in th... ...of those days were sown with notes 99 Balzac of admiration, as reports of English election speeches are stud- ded with “cheers” in brackets.) “In spi... ...gem. Then he went up to his room and locked himself in, struck dumb by the male- diction in his mother’s eyes. In the dead of night he wrote one more ... ...e contracted a bad habit, a trick—he took to chewing paper. The late M. de Malesherbes use to rap people over the knuckles; and he did this once, by t... ...s. A prisoner detained on arrest used to be subjected to rules devised for malefactors, unless he brought a special exemp- tion signed by the public p...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...wner of the V oice as sitting, a little nervously, a little modestly, on a stage, with table, glass of water and all complete, and myself as the intru... ...t static but kinetic, must shape not as a permanent state but as a hopeful stage, leading to a long ascent of stages. Nowadays we do not resist and ov... ...it will be a coalesced language, a synthesis of many. Such a lan- guage as English is a coalesced language; it is a coalescence of Anglo-Saxon and Nor... ...nd hold in the frame of such an uninflected or slightly inflected idiom as English already pre- sents, a profuse vocabulary into which have been cast ... ... see the whole little drama, rather clearer than his words gave it me, the actors all absurdly in Hampstead middle-class raiment, meetings of a Sunday... ...ur premises—they, too, will only be in 41 H G Wells the same experimental stage as ourselves. In Utopia, how- ever, they will conduct research by the... ...ar more from a white man than a negress or pigmy woman from her equivalent male. The education, the mental disposition, of a white or Asiatic woman, r... ...e, perhaps, no more than the jealous and tyr- annous will of the strongest male in the herd, the instru- ment of justice and equality. The State inter...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...hatred to move you to such an act; but he employs you as they do condemned malefactors in execu- tions of justice, an office as necessary as dishonour... ... vate. Every one may juggle his part, and represent an honest man upon the stage: but within, and in his own bosom, where all may do as they list, whe... ...icacy of humour, as much as the plague. I should commend a soul of several stages, that knows both how to stretch and to slacken itself; that finds it... ...to justify him- self, went about boldly swearing that he had ridden twenty stages the night before: an oath that was afterwards made use of to convict... ...edge: “Obsterix, virginis cujusdam integritatem manu velut explorans, sive malevolentia, sive inscitia, sive casu, dum inspicit, perdidit.” [“By malev... ...r eyes, a conscious blush covers her face.”—Catullus, lxv. 19.] I say that males and females are cast in the same mould, and that, education and usage... ... succeeded with him better than he expected, to extend his farce with more actors he associated with him a stupid silly country girl, and at last ther...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... to—to keep my subject to a decent compactness. For already, from an early stage, it had be- gun richly to people itself: the difficulty was to see wh... ...le, for developments. What one had discerned, at all events, from an early stage, was that a young person so devoted and exposed, a creature with her ... ...tended and above all an animated reflexion of Milly Theale’s experience of English society; just as the strength and sense of the situation in Venice,... ...e would be a great deal to say). It is in Kate’s consciousness that at the stage in question the drama is brought to a head, and the occasion on which... ...mpossible to name his profession. He was a longish, leanish, fairish young Englishman, not unamenable, on certain sides, to classification—as for inst... ...dmiring eye of friendship, under the clear shadow of some probably eminent male interest. The clear shadow, from whatever source projected, hung at an... ... girl, so easily might have been, like herself, only vague and cruelly fe- male. She was by no means sure of liking Aunt Maud as much as she deserved,... ...an themselves, supernumeraries mostly a little battered, whether as jaunty males or as ostensibly elegant women. They might have been moving a good de...

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...te history of the business—of retrac- ing and reconstructing its steps and stages. I have al- ways fondly remembered a remark that I heard fall years ... ...n short, on the consciousness of your heroine’s satellites, especially the male; make it an interest contributive only to the greater one. See, at all... ...e implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English country-house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a splend... ...uch consideration and was the most characteristic object in the peculiarly English picture I have attempted to sketch. It stood upon a low hill, above... ...f these was a remarkably well-made man of five- and-thirty, with a face as English as that of the old gentle- man I have just sketched was something e... ...ceive nothing irregular in the situation. It had become clear, at an early stage of their community, that they should never desire the same thing at t... ... had better not marry their cousins. Another is that people in an advanced stage of pulmonary disorder had better not marry at all.” The old man raise... ...ained for some days a mystery. Isabel remembered perfectly the neat little male child whose hair smelt of a delicious cos- metic and who had a bonne a... ... deplorable degree the quality known and esteemed in the appearance of fe- males as style; and that if she is dressed with great fresh- ness she wears...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...eputation was great among the virtuous, who form the larger portion of the English book- buying public. Election-seasons called him to ballad-poetry o... ...was no game-preserver, and could be popu- lar whenever he chose, which Sir Males Papworth, on the other side of the river, a fast-handed Whig and terr... ... Mind if I come across you when I’m loaded, you coward, I’ll fire!” The un-English nature of this threat exasperated Farmer Blaize, and he pressed the... ...d his first scraggy morsel of life today, and already he talks like an old stager, and has, if I mistake not, been acting too. My respected chief,” he... ...themselves look as much like the public as it was pos- sible for two young malefactors to look, one of whom al- 35 George Meredith ready felt Adrian’... ... of yellow lights and mouthing masks. Why? Because all’s dark at home. The stage is the pastime of great minds. That’s how it comes that the stage is ... ...of the apparition that had frightened little Clare was never solved on the stage of events at Raynham, where dread walked the Abbey, let us go behind ... ...e defied. A summer-shower of cards fell on the baronet’s table. He had few male friends. He shunned the Clubs as nests of scandal. The cards he contem...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...oumois for the rest of his days. Has he discovered some secret to ruin the English?” “He has done what you will not do in a hurry,” retorted Rastignac... ...the herd of mankind the observation recently made on flocks of Spanish and English sheep which, in low meadows where pasture is abundant, feed side by... ...nd Asie you can live here for a thousand-franc note a month like a queen—a stage queen. Europe has been a dressmaker, a milliner, and a stage super; A... ...ius could invent the tale of Othello; English ge- nius could put it on the stage; but Nature alone reserves the power of throwing into a single glance... ... est waiting-maid that Monrose could have hoped to see as her rival on the stage. Slight, with a scatter-brain manner, a face like a weasel, and a sha... ... rose in life, require an answer, but even benevolent curiosity—as much as malevolent curiosity—went on from one inquiry to another, and found more th... ... than that he had hitherto pursued—to give a sum of money to some Frontin, male or female, to act and think for him. Madame de Saint-Esteve alone coul... ...ical feeling—the Marechale d’Ancre and the Queen of France, Semblancay and Malesherbes, Damien and Danton, Desrues and Castaing. Fouquier-Tinville’s p...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...n a cave (like the Baron of Bradwardine), he lay for many days so near the English sentinels, that he could hear their muster-roll called, His food wa... ...sors, I had only to seize upon the most sounding and euphonic surname that English history or topography affords, and elect it at once as the title of... ...characters and passions of the actors;—those passions common to men in all stages of society, and which have alike agitated the human heart, whether i... ...her it was by the ‘merest accident in the world,’ a phrase which, from fe- male lips, does not always exclude Malice Prepense, or whether it was from ... ... next halt, and wait for the con- veyance of Prince Hussein’s tapestry, or Malek the Weaver’s flying sentry-box. Those who are contented to remain wit... ..., if my passen- gers incline to have some patience with me during my first stages. [These Introductory Chapters have been a good deal censured as tedi... ...cer, as a pledge of her regard, a valuable diamond ring (often worn by the male sex at that time), and a purse of broad gold pieces, which also were m... ...mlet to another, till their annoying convoy drove them to the end of their stage. The evil and remedy (such as it is) still exist: but this is remote ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ed tough fellow-mortal our farewell. His Figaro has returned to the French stage; nay is, at this day, sometimes named the best piece there. And indee... ... heights, are peaceable masters of Verdun. And so Brunswick advances, from stage to stage: who shall now stay him,—covering forty miles of country? Fo... ...ursed be of God whoso shall have pity on these false traitorous Armagnacs, English; dogs they are; they have destroyed us, wasted this realm of France... ...e; they have destroyed us, wasted this realm of France, and sold it to the English.” (Dulaure, iii. 494.) And so they slay, and fling aside the slain,... ...of Orleans; was the good Duke de la Rochefoucault. He journeying, by quick stages, with his Mother and Wife, towards the Waters of Forges, or some qui... ...ate Tronchet, some ten years older, does not decline. Nay behold, good old Malesherbes steps forward voluntarily; to the last of his fields, the good ... ...le. For this do Deseze and Tronchet plead, with brief eloquence: brave old Malesherbes pleads for it with eloquent want of eloquence, in broken senten... ... tears. (Moniteur (in Hist. Parl. xxiii. 210). See Boissy d’Anglas, Vie de Malesherbes, ii. 139.)—They reject the Appeal to the People; that having be...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... times, an almost unprecedented number. In fact he was entering on a fresh stage of life, from the little boy to the lad, and the period was marked by... ...han leading University men, for the impress they leave is on the flower of English youth, at the very time of life when thought has come, but action i... ...e at the same time with the cham- 36 Life of John Coleridge Patteson pion English eleven, one of the most noted professional crick- eters, meeting hi... ...ow, as well as travelling companion. This year seems to have been a marked stage of develop- ment. He was now twenty-five, and the boyish distaste for... ... long since I have been so excited in a theatre. I was three rows from the stage, heard and understood everything, and was so completely carried away ... ...it to-day, and had a long talk with the physician and surgeon, and saw the male pa- tients, two of them natives. One of them is dying, and so I am to ... ...haps: two or three faint female voices, two or three rough most discordant male voices, all the attempt at singing. No instrument of any kind. The bur... ... it is for all who wish to belong to it. He recognises no dis- tinction of male or female, bond or free.” 477 Yo n g e ‘Some of the elder men are bec...

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...g stu- dent publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...tain wandering eastern mechanic, who, by exhibiting a few soiled plates of English architecture, and talking learnedly of friezes, entablatures, and p... ...ted the Judge with the character of those in the sleigh. It contained four male figures. On one of those stools that are used at writing desks, lashed... ...hen the law provided that all born after a certain day should be free, the males at twenty— eight and the females at twenty-five. After this the owner... ...from the manner in which the Indians of New En- gland pronounced the word “English,” or “Yengeese.” New York being originally a Dutch province, the te... ...which opened into the porch emerged two or three female domestics, and one male. The latter was bareheaded, but evidently more dressed than usual, and... ...serious, for I have fifty , at this moment, shut up in the coops, in every stage of fat, so that you might choose any quality you pleased. There are s... ...d temperature. Once, just as her eyes had opened, appar- ently in the last stage of drowsiness, the roaring winds brought with them a long and plainti... ...carried the mail or “the post,” as he was called, talked much of running a stage, and, once or twice during the winter, he was seen taking a single pa...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...he original settlers had been incorpo rated with the soil; those stalwart Englishmen of the Puritan epoch, whose immediate ancestors had been planted... ...d ing the bones and dust of the primeval ancestor—the cem etery was more English than anything else in the neighbor hood, and might probably have n... ...inly were not so cautiously whispered but they occasionally did do so. The male remarks, indeed, generally died away in the throats that uttered them;... ..., that, had they been younger and prettier, they would have fared worse. A male emissary, who was ad mitted on the supposition of his being a patient... ...s which we are apt to associate with a noiseless tread and movement in the male sex. The sunshine came through the ivy and glim mered upon his great ... ...s singularly delicate) ought to have borne. Once in a long while the weary actors in the headlong drama of life must have such repose or else go mad o... ...ut a by inci dent, a slight refreshment, to enable him to pass the midway stage of life. It is an excellent thing to see the faith of a hearty Englis... ...id Redclyffe; “but it is none the less cer tain to me, that the efficient actors—those who mould the world—are the persons in whom something else is ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...gh to endure the search for a B.V.D. undershirt which had, he pointed out, malevolently been concealed among his clean pajamas. He was fairly amiable ... ...y Business College 50 Babbitt and instructor in Public Speaking, Business English, Sce- nario Writing, and Commercial Law. Though Babbitt ad- mired t... ...at morning he had advocated lighter lunches and now he ordered nothing but English mutton chop, radishes, peas, deep-dish apple pie, a bit of cheese, ... ...ces between Thompson, the old-fashioned, lean Yankee, rugged, traditional, stage type of American business man, and Babbitt, the plump, smooth, effici... ...ed into a raging hostess, she took care of the house and didn’t bother the males by thinking. She went on firmly: “It sounds awful to me, the way they... ... gained nothing but his crooked nose, his cel- ebrated vocabulary, and his stage-presence. The service of the Lord had been more profitable. He was ab... ...his wife was too busy to be impressed by that moral indignation with which males rule the world, and he went humbly up-stairs to dress. He had an impr... ... or two people. “Gosh, I’m not doing so bad; hittin’ ‘em up like a regular stage dancer!” he gloated; and she answered busily, “Yes—yes—I told you I c...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ot turned to the advantage of equality. The Cru- sades and the wars of the English decimated the nobles and divided their possessions; the erection of... ...es of the Revolutions of the Globe – Shore of the Atlantic Ocean where the English Colonies were founded -Difference in the appearance of North and of... ...f them had a physiognomy of its own; and as they had already attained that stage of civilization at which men are led to study themselves, they have t... ...hts must be granted to no one. For na- tions which are arrived at the same stage of social existence as the Anglo-Americans, it is therefore very diff... ...well as everywhere else, the people is the only source of power; but in no stage of government does the body of citizens exercise a more immediate inf... ...hreatened by the frenzy of the mob was to throw them into prison as common malefactors. But even this precaution was ineffectual; the mob collected ag... ...sewhere. Hence, whilst these nations are de- sirous of enrolling the whole male population in the ranks of the army, they have the power of effecting ... ...f the United States, with the exception of the State of Vermont, where the male heir in- herits a double portion. (Kent’s “Commentaries,” vol. iv. p. ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...st be added, entirely indiffer- ent about his birthplace; but speaking the English language, and having been during the course of his life pretty gene... ...ke the trouble to inquire. He was a Bavarian by birth (his mother being an English lady), and enjoyed along with a dozen other brothers the title of c... ...he village maidens, who love soldiers as flies love treacle; presently the males began to arrive, and lo! the parson of the parish, taking his evening... ...ral sur- rendered to him: Mr. Bullock, namely, who gave in at a very early stage of the evening, and ignominiously laid down his arms under the table,... ...er on certain days;—all which circumstances commonly are expunged from the male brain immediately after they have occurred, but remain fixed with the ... ...and our commission is to apprehend all able- 60 Catherine: A Story bodied male persons who can give no good account of them- selves, and enrol them i... ... under his arm. He was, the reader will therefore understand, in the moral stage of liquor; and when he issued out, it was not merely with the intenti... ...arning ever since this history commenced. W e are now come, O critic, to a stage of the work when this tale begins to assume an appearance so interest...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...tation as to the issue, but rather that she seemed to wish not to miss any stage in the gradual reflowering of their intimacy. Darrow, for his part, w... ... was false from head to foot!” “False—?” In spite of time and satiety, the male instinct of ownership rose up and repudiated the charge. Miss Viner ca... ...lids; then, with a touch of hauteur: “I’m going to Paris: to study for the stage.” “The stage?” Darrow stared at her, dismayed. All his con- fused con... ...class uninteresting. Such generalisations belonged, however, to an earlier stage of his experience. The more he saw of life the more incalcu- lable he... ... gentleman who, on the strength of a week’s stay at Folkestone, translated English fiction for the provincial press, a lady from Wichita, Kansas, who ... ...lition of the corset, a clergyman’s widow from Torquay who had written an “English Ladies’ Guide to Foreign Galleries” and a Russian sculptor who live... ...ace, at the same moment, underwent the same change, shrinking into a small malevolent white mask in which the eyes burned black. “Thank you—thank you ... ..., as though the russet covert through which he trudged were the heart of a maleficent jungle... Snatches of his companion’s talk drifted to him interm...