... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document... ... the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document... ... Human Interest Brothers, and have rather a large connection in the fancy goods way. Literally speaking, I am always wandering here and there from my ... ...I was holding such discourse on the beach, that no more bodies had come ashore since last night. It began to be very doubtful whether many more would ... ...e churchyard with its open grave, which was the type of Death, to the Christian dwelling side by side with it, which was the type of Resurrection. I n... ...Moelfra, Anglesey. His brother is the Reverend Hugh Robert Hughes, of Penrhos, Alligwy. CHAPTER III W APPING WORKHOUSE M Y DAY’S NO-BUSINESS BECKONING... ...the brisk matron up another barbarous stair- case, into a better kind of loft devoted to the idiotic and imbecile. There was at least Light in it, whe... ...than I have space to suggest in these notes of a single uncommercial journey; but, the wise men of the East, before they can reasonably hold forth abo... ... mysteriously inquired whether I should be much sur- prised and disappointed if among the treasures in the com- ing hamper I discovered potted game, a...

...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...his second book even less satisfactory from a literary standpoint than the former (and this is my opinion), I blundered, I think, more edifyingly—at l... ...based upon modern conceptions and all the Utopias that were written in the former time. Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and cred- ib... ...iation towards it, to face it in no ascetic spirit, but in the mood of the Western peoples, whose pur- pose is to survive and overcome. So much we ado... ...d in his little scrap of reserved open country. Such is al- ready the poor Londoner’s miserable fate…. Our Utopia will have, of course, faultless road... ... and flowers and beasts, to climb mountains, to see the snowy night of the North and the blaze of the tropical midday, to follow great rivers, to tast... ... that? How could we live and where could we live? We might have a house in London, but who would call upon us? … Besides, you don’t know her. She is n... ...mwell Road. Such an index could be housed quite comfortably on one side of Northumberland Avenue, for example. It is only a reasonable tribute to the ...

...ylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ice to a camp in the Adirondacks. For the present, they had decided on the former. Other considerations apart, they dared not risk the expense of a jo... ...hat these were less happy, but that she now beheld them, as she had always formerly beheld such joys, as an unstable islet in a sea of storms. Her pre... ...bably thought of, least often, was a great dull English country-house in a northern county, where a life as monotonous and self-contained as his own w... ...the guise of fiction he could develop his theory of Oriental influences in Western art at the expense of less learning than if he had tried to put his... ...or three years since Nick Lansing had seen Mr. V anderlyn, who was now the London representative of the big New Y ork bank of V anderlyn & Co., and ha... ...his moor, Strefford to stay with friends in Capri till his annual visit to Northumberland in September. One by one the others would follow, and Lansin... ...cket of newspapers lay on the deck- house table. Nick picked up one of the London journals, and his eye ran absently down the list of social events. H...

...l lack of humour, or as great a gift for it as ours, to risk the experiment,? Susy Lansing opined, as they hung over the inevitable marble balustrade and watched their tutelary orb roll its magic carpet across the waters to their feet....

...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ... widely spoken of as some of its manu- facturing leviathan brethren in the north, but which is, nevertheless, very dear to those who know it well. Its... ...sts. The eastern moiety of the county is more purely Conservative than the western; there is, or was, a taint of Peelism in the latter; and then, too,... ...ed such results. As it was, her poor weak darlings were carried about from London to Brighton, from Brighton to some German baths, from the German bat... ...keen. The case with young Frank Gresham may be supposed to much nearer the former than the latter; but yet the cer- emony of his coming of age was by ... ...fication would beto- ken strength—so said the holders of the doctrine; the former weakness. Now the Greshams were ever a strong people, and never addi... ...ember of Parliament with a young wife and two or three children to live in London and keep up their country family mansion; but then the De Courcys we... ...e might to relieve it. There, in one big, best bedroom, looking out to the north, lay Sir Louis Scatcherd, dying wretchedly. There, in the other big, ...

...to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbors among whom, our doctor followed his profession....

...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...d, for ex- ample, a special motor track apart from the high road be- tween London and Brighton before 1910, which is still a dream, but he doubted if ... ...think war good for the soul, 8 What Is Coming? and the dear ladies of the London Morning Post who think war so good for the manners of the working cl... ...he Allies retreated out of the west of Bel- 19 H G Wells gium, out of the north of France, and for rather over a month there was a loose mobile war—a... ...it to the power for treason of these suppositi- tious German monarchs that Western folly has permitted to possess these Balkan thrones—thrones which n... ... far they will prove able to get out of the habits and traditions of their former social state, how far they will be able to take generous views and m... ... and he is aware of a vigour of public criticism that did not exist in the former time…. How far will these men get out of the tradition of their birt... ... is struck by the fact that the south side is considerably higher than the north, that storm water must run from the south side to the north and lie t...

...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...nto the taproom. That sobered him a little; and when he saw Henderson, the London jour- nalist, in his garden, he called over the palings and made him... ...n went into the railway station at once, in order to telegraph the news to London. The newspaper ar- ticles had prepared men’s minds for the reception... ...an who had fallen in, but showing as a little black object against the hot western sun. Now he got his shoulder and knee up, and again he seemed to sl... ... cor- don. Later a second company marched through Chobham to deploy on the north side of the common. Several officers from the Inkerman barracks had b... ...rtsey road, Woking, saw a star fall from heaven into the pine woods to the northwest. It had a greenish colour, and caused a si- lent brightness like ... ...rst, but as I went on the interest dawning in his eyes gave place to their former stare, and his regard wandered from me. “This must be the beginning ... ...ed even that night at Street Cobham and Ditton. The man who escaped at the former place tells a wonder- ful story of the strangeness of its coiling fl...

...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania S... ...at sort would never think of retreating. Their spectral advance on quaking London through Kentish hopgardens, Sussex corn-fields, or by the pleasant h... ...EY came of a race of fight- ing earls, toughest of men, whose high, stout, Western castle had weathered our cyclone periods of history without changei... ...has not been told. We will not discuss the con- jectures here. A savour of North Sea foam and ballad pirates hangs about the early chronicles of the f... ...dsome to feminine eyes, resembling one another in build, and mostly of the Northern colour, or betwixt the tints, with an heredi- tary nose and mouth ... ...o him like a second nature, from his habit of doing as others bid him: the former smacks a voluntarily sweating forehead and throbbing wounds for witn... ...his uncle was perpetually lamenting the cowed spirit of the common English-formerly such fresh and merry men! He touched Rosamund Culling’s heart with... ... beauty, which they visited by coach and rail, looking back on unfortified London with particular melancholy. Rosamund’s word may be trusted that she ...

...el a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observations of ours upon their sovereign, threatening Africa?s fires and savagery....

... DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...ine Arts”* seemed to exact from me some account of Williams, the dreadful London murderer of the last generation; not only because the amateurs had s... ...ter the last murder, a man was apprehended at Barnet (the first stage from London on a principal north road), encum- bered with a quantity of plate. H... ... man was apprehended at Barnet (the first stage from London on a principal north road), encum- bered with a quantity of plate. How he came by it, or w... ...if severed from the documents which attest their fidelity to facts. In the former class stand the admirable novels of De Foe; and, on a lower range, w... ...entioned in the “Autobiographic Sketches,” through Stamford to Laxton, the Northamptonshire seat of Lord Carbery. From Stamford, which I had reached b... ...ematically traducing our order of country gentlemen. His picture of Squire Western is not only a malicious, but also an incongruous libel. The squire’... ...ds of liberal knowledge and of severe science shall never grow dry. By the former it is secured that this unfailing foun- 103 Thomas de Quincey tain ...

...Excerpt: These papers I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought together so wid...

...Contents MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ..........................................

.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Book II — Old and Young. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Chapter XIII.... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418 Book VI — The Widow and the Wife. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429 Chapter LIV . . . . .... ...e Rector’s wife, and the small group of gentry with whom he visited in the northeast corner of Loamshire. So Miss Brooke presided in her uncle’s house... ...e in town, and asked whether Miss Brooke 16 Book I — Miss Brooke disliked London. Away from her sister, Celia talked quite easily, and Sir James said... ...mphrey. He talks well.” “Yes. Mr. Brooke says he is one of the Lydgates of Northumberland, really well connected. One does not expect it in a practiti... ... resist the rush of everything that is a little better than common towards London. Any valid professional aims may often find a freer, if not a richer ... ...ht, as of oxy hydrogen, showing the very grain of things, and revising ail former explanations. Of this sequence to Bichat’s work, already vibrating a... ...dragged him away from it. But she was gradually ceasing to expect with her former delightful confidence that she should see any wide opening where she ... ...wardly altered there; but while the summer had gradually advanced over the western fields beyond the avenue of elms, the bare room had gathered within ...

...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 at the thought of the little girl walking forth ...

... Chapter VI., 38 -- Chapter VII., 47 -- Chapter VIII., 51 -- Chapter IX., 55 -- Chapter X., 65 -- Chapter XI., 74 -- Chapter XII., 82 -- Book II ?Old and Young., 97 -- Chapter XIII., 97 -- Chapter XIV., 104 -- Chapter XV., 113 -- Chapter XVI., 124 -- Chapter XVII., 135 -- Chapter XVIII., 142 -- Chapter XIX., 151 -- Chapter XX., 154 -- Chapter XXI., 164 -- Chapter XXII., 17...