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...iversity. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ............................................... ...secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicita- tion or the shadow of any expectation o... ...rty years ago, which papers have been reprinted in a collective form by an American house of high character in Boston; but in part they are to be view... ...ered to remain too long upon the eye, and that connect themselves at every stage with in- tellectual objects. But, even here, I do not scruple to clai... ...o the future, nor successes, fixing his eye on the present; nothing on the stage but a solitary infant, and its solitary combat with grief—a mighty da... ...y in the most dreadful and comprehensive of her convulsions, in that final stage of her transmutations to which Cicero was himself a party—and, as I m... ...f a real uncounterfeit sympathy. I have mentioned already that we had four male guard- ians, (a fifth being my mother.) These four were B., E., G., an... ...better sung; but at that time I needed nothing better. It was sung by four male voices, and rose into a region of thrilling pas- sion, such as my hear... ...ell away from her, and for- sook her house. T o them succeeded a clique of male visitors, some of whom were doubtfully respectable, and others (like M...

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...onal trips of chance passengers riding for short distances of two or three stages. In Scotland this chance counted for much less. And therefore, to ma... ... the vic- tory itself, by multiplying to the imagination into infinity the stages of its progressive diffusion. A fiery arrow seems to be let loose, w... ...d* miles— *“Three hundred”:—Of necessity, this scale of measurement, to an American, if he happens to be a thoughtless man, must sound ludicrous. Acco... ...less man, must sound ludicrous. Accordingly, I remember a case in which an American writer indulges himself in the luxury of a little fibbing, by ascr... ...o an Englishman a pompous account of the Thames, constructed entirely upon American ideas of grandeur, and concluding in something like these terms:— ... ...ather being so warm, the glasses are all down; and one may read, as on the stage of a theatre, everything that goes on within. It contains three ladie... ...revailed of giving a boy his mother’s name— preceded and strengthened by a male name, as Charles Anne, Victor Victoire. In cases where a mother’s memo... ...ting the early MSS. for 88 The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc English males in another. None of us men could have writ- ten the Opera Omnia of Mr... ...e Opera Omnia of Mr. à Kempis; neither could any of our girls have assumed male attire like La Pucelle. But why? Because, says Michelet, English girls...

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...tom and precedent of our family have always transmitted the estates to the male heir. But when Charles II. granted the patent of nobility to the first... ...f nobility to the first Baron Delavie, the barony was limited to the heirs male of his body, and out grandfather 16 Love and Life was only his brothe... ...rt of his estates by will, yet that some of the land was en- tailed in the male line, so that there need not be many years of campaigning or poverty f... ...lia at the Bear Inn, at Read- ing. Her journey had been made by very short stages, one before breakfast, another lasting till noon, when there was a l... ...had been spent at Marlborough that “Miss” might see a strolling company of actors perform in a barn; but as the piece was the Yorksire Tragedy, the gh... ...observed, he did not succeed. So much time was spent on thus creeping from stage to stage that Aurelia had begun to feel as if the journey had 52 Lov... ...y came safely to the broad archway of the inn at Knightsbridge, their last stage. Mrs. Dove took her charge up stairs at once to refresh her toilette,... ...Their father will provide 270 Love and Life for them, and they will marry American settlers in the for- ests. What should they do with court jewels? ...

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.... MONDAY , 31ST? NOVEMBER. Near a week elapsed, and no journal. On Monday after- noon, Moors rode up and I rode down with him, dined, and went over in... ... up and I rode down with him, dined, and went over in the evening to the American Consulate; present, Consul-General Sewall, Lieut. Parker and Mrs. ... ...as all forenoon in the Mission House, lunched at the German Consulate, went on board the Sperber (German war ship) in the afternoon, called on my lawy... ...warships, to which society she probably owes her end, having fallen off a cliff, or been thrust off it —inter pocula. Henry is the same, our stand-by.... ...st not stand and slouch, but do my best as best I can. But you may conceive the difficulty of a history extending to the present week, at least, and w... ...aces were all arranged with much care; the native ladies of the house facing our party; the sides filled up by the men; the guests, please observe: th... .... The house, you must understand, is one-half floored, and one-half bare earth, and the dais stands a little over knee high above the level of the soi...

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...ad of his brother of the steerage is one altogether of sentiment. In the steerage there are males and females; in the second cabin ladies and gentleme... ...second cabin ladies and gentlemen. For some time after I came aboard I thought I was only a male; but in the course of a voyage of discovery between d... ...learned that I was still a gentleman. Nobody knew it, of course. I was lost in the crowd of males and females, and rigorously confined to the same qua... ... who deserve a special word of condemnation. One of them was Scots; the other claimed to be American; admitted, after some fencing, that he was born i... ...ne, for instance, the composition of which he had bought years ago for five dollars from an American pedlar, and sold the other day for a hundred poun... ...ead break in the course of our enjoyment. STEERAGE TYPES WE HAD A FELLOW on board, an Irish-American, for all the world like a beggar in a print by Ca... ...d the lower; and I wish some one would continue my experiment, and find out exactly at what stage of toilette a man becomes invisible to the well-regu... ...seemed to lose all interest in the result. 80 Essays of Travel Wendover (which was my next stage) lies in the same val- ley with Great Missenden, but... ...l clock, as marking the advance of the abstraction, time, makes a more humorous business of stage-coaching than we are used to see it. As far as the e...

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...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... ...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... ...) ‘It is the Explosion and New-creation of a World,’ says Foster; ‘and the actors in it, such small mean objects, buzzing round one like a handful of ... ...uses broken into (by a tumult of Patri- ots, among whom red-capped Varlet, American Fournier loom forth, in the darkness of the rain and riot); had th... ...in, yet destroyed and engulphed. Terror has long been terrible: but to the actors themselves it has now become manifest that their appointed course is...

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...au, are flung wide open to King Mirabeau, the cynosure of Europe, whom fe- male France flutters to behold,—though the Man Mirabeau is one and the same... ... sea cockfight it is, and of the hottest; where British Serapis and French-American Bon Homme Richard do lash and throttle each other, in their fashio... ... working in them; and withal has quarrels enough with Dame le Jay, his Fe- male Bookseller, so ultra-compliant otherwise. (See Dumont: Souvenirs, 6.) ... ...s of Federates, of this Fed- eration, will have enough to do! Harangue of ‘American Committee, ’ among whom is that faint figure of Paul Jones ‘as wit... ...eaded in vain? Such visual spectra flit across this Earth, if the Thespian Stage be rudely interfered with: but much more, when, as was said, Pit jump... ... be rudely interfered with: but much more, when, as was said, Pit jumps on Stage, then is it verily, as in Herr Tieck’s Drama, a Verkehrte Welt, of Wo... ...iclers are trustworthy, as was not witnessed since the Age of Gold. Paris, male and female, precipitates itself towards its South-west extremity, spad... ...ranc etrier, on that old Herb- merchant’s route, quickened during the last stages, has got to Varennes; where the Ten thousand now furiously demand, w... ...ournalist Carra, Camille Desmoulins, Alsatian Westermann friend of Danton, American Fournier of Martinique;—a Committee not unknown to Mayor Petion, w...

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...ne another. Father, sister, son, and brother,” opens to receive the vilest malefactor; by which the church symbolically expresses her maternal willing... ...pens that Lear was one of the few Shakspearian dra- mas which had kept the stage unaltered. But it is easy to see a mercenary motive in such an artifi... ...han to quote from the common form of the play as then in possession of the stage. It was there, be- yond a doubt, that a fine gentleman living upon to... ...o speaks of him in his Il Penseroso, as the tutelary genius of the English stage. In this transmission of the torch (greek: lampadophoria) Dryden succ... ... dignity, brought into stronger relief by the mercenary employments of her male connections, and the feminine gentleness of her voice and manners, exh... ...ng Shakspeare’s childhood. One or two of the most respectable metropolitan actors were natives of Stratford. These would be well known to the elder Sh... ...otorious that mere legal necessity and usage would compel all companies of actors, upon coming into any town, to seek, in the first place, from the ch... ...e, and the Mahommedan consecration of its threshold against the ingress of males, had been trans- planted from Asia into Greece thousands of years per... ...he whole weight of his name and personal responsibility, (M Simond, now an American citizen,) records the following abominable scene as one of no unco...

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.......................................................................................... 87 THE ANTIGONE OF SOPHOCLES, AS REPRESENTED ON THE EDINBURGH STAGE . 98 THE MARQUESS WELLESLEY 1 ............................................................................................ 125 MILTON VERSUS SOUTHEY AND LANDOR ..............................................................

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............... 87 THE ANTIGONE OF SOPHOCLES, AS REPRESENTED ON THE EDINBURGH STAGE . 98 THE MARQUESS WELLESLEY 1 .......................................... ...alamity, inevitably, and with- out restraint, we go on to consider it as a stage spectacle. Exclamations of—How grand! How magnificent! arise in a sor... ...nd then would come the rush up-stairs. Against this, as the only dangerous stage in the transaction, the murderer would have specially prepared. Mrs. ... ...ge line of sea-board (stretching through twenty-four hundred miles) of the American United States; may enjoy fifty years for lei- surely repentance; a... ... that, as the chorus sometimes intermingles too much in the action, so the actors sometimes intermingle in the business of the chorus. Now, when you a... ...e maternal ancestors of the present Wellesleys. Garret Wellesley, the last male heir of the direct line, in the year 1745, left his whole estate to on... ... well known upon that coast; and ‘faults’ may be a flash term for what the Americans call ‘notions.’ A part of the cargo it clearly is; and one is not... ... by persons who were not merely contemporary with the great civil war, but actors and even leaders in its principal scenes—there is hardly one which d... ...informer? A French- man, reader, —M. Simond; and though now by adoption an American citizen, yet still French in his heart and in all his prejudices. ...

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...ble me to solve it. At length, in 1812, Mr. Williams made his début on the stage of Ratcliffe High- way, and executed those unparalleled murders which... ...nic ulcer, superbly defined, and running regularly through all its natural stages, may no less justly be regarded as ideals after their kind, than the... ...onged to quite another cen- tury, would have frightened out of their wits. Malebranche, it will give you pleasure to hear, was mur- dered. The man who... ...proper light. Berkeley, when a young man, went to Paris and called on Père Malebranche. He found him in his cell cooking. Cooks have ever been a genus... ...l cooking. Cooks have ever been a genus irritabile; authors still more so: Malebranche was both: a dispute arose; the old father, warm already, became... ...time to review, to ponder, to compare. There have been great actors on the stage of tragic humanity that might, with the same depth of confidence, hav... ...he sun, 10 “Three hundred.” Of necessity this scale of measurement, to an American, if he happens to be a thoughtless man, must sound ludicrous. Acco... ...less man, must sound ludicrous. Accordingly, I remember a case in which an American writer indulges himself in the luxury of a little lying, by ascrib... ...o an Englishman a pompous account of the Thames, constructed entirely upon American ideas of grandeur, and concluding in something like these terms:— ...

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...s of self was cast away. Among these we cannot forbear mentioning the poor American soldier, who, grievously wounded, had just been laid in the middle... ...l bear hoisting better than he will’. And, even as we write, we hear of an American Railway collision that befell a train on the way to Elmira with pr... ...rone, he decreed that a pension should be given to the family as long as a male representative remained to bear the name of D’Assas. Poor Louis XVI ha... ...own; but as fast as they worked, the higher did the Gauls within raise the stages of their rampart, and for twenty-five days there was a most brave de... ...e citizens were wont to assemble for these diversions. Sometimes these are stages of circular galleries of seats hewn out of the hillside, where rows ... ...nced fearlessly within his grasp. Then in would come twelve elephants, six males in togas, six females with the veil and pallium; they took their plac... ... this slavish mimic warfare—sport to the beholders, but sad earnest to the actors. Christianity worked its way upwards, and at least was pro- fessed b... ....’ When day began to break, the guard returned, and Gertrude took down her stage of wood and continued kneel- ing at the foot of the pole. Crowds of p... ...ntrast to Mr. Mompesson’s moral influence! Horrible crimes were committed. Malefactors were released from the prisons and convicts from the galleys, a...

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... is usually a drawn game. After that, the performer instantly departs with male dictory expressions, and is never heard of more. But the most wonderf... ...ose that between the T orrid Zone and the North Pole there are to be found male dancers with such astonishingly loose legs, fur nished with so many j... ..., git along with you, Sir, if you please; me and Mrs. Bigby don’t want no male parties here!’ That female was Mrs. Prodgit. I immediately withdrew, o... ... ashington Irv ing and Benjamin Franklin may have put it in my head by an American association of ideas; but there I was, and the Horse shoe Fall was... ...ast—unless it were always the same beast, in which case it would be a mere stage show, which the same public would go in the same state of mind to see... ...iled or sat upon, would be at all diverted by such an oc currence off the stage. Nor is the decent workman in the gallery, who is transported beyond ... ...ry vulnerable baby at home, greatly relishing the invulnerable baby on the stage, so in the Cremorne reality I can understand the mason who is always ... ...gateway in their uniforms, as if they had locked up all the balance (as my American friends would say) of the inhabitants, and could now rest a little... ...nces are obvious. The leather trade will be ruined, by the introduction of American timber, to be manufactured into shoes for the fallen English; the ...

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... are not conscious of it; but if the artist brings it into his art, on the stage say, we shall roll about with laughter and only wonder we did not not... ...v himself is now gener- ally regarded as a universal character. We find an American professor, William Lyon Phelps*, of Yale, holding the opinion that... ...ut meeting scores of Chichikovs; indeed, he is an accurate portrait of the American promoter, of the successful commercial trav- eller whose success d... ... play- ers—the latter clad in frockcoats of the kind usually af- fected by actors whose part it is to enter the stage during the closing act of a piec... ...ats of the kind usually af- fected by actors whose part it is to enter the stage during the closing act of a piece, even though, with arms sharply cro... ...on of intense satisfaction. Yet never did these projects pass be- yond the stage of debate. Likewise there lay in his study a book with the fourteenth... ... split within a fortnight, and brought down upon your head dire showers of male- dictions; with the result that gradually your shop grew empty of cust... ...ir business with the Governor’s wife, the ladies’ party descended upon the male section, with a view to influencing it to their own side by asserting ... ...women,” “pet- ticoats,” and others of a nature peculiarly offensive to the male sex. Also, however much they might arm themselves and take the field, ...

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... enormous compli- ment to a woman, and some outrageous panegyric about fe- male virtue, I always feel sure that the Captain and his better half have f... ...and in a land that is independent in all but the name, (for that the North American colonies shall remain dependants on yon- der little island for twe... ...e fourth year of his reign, upon Thomas Viscount Castlewood and the heirs- male of his body, in default of which issue the ranks and digni- ties were ... ...Beatrix, you should retire off the scene awhile, and leave it to the other actors of the play.” As the Colonel spoke with a perfect calmness and polit... ...eath on the next day. And these two forming the whole of Lady Castlewood’s male domestics, Mr. Esmond’s faithful John Lockwood came to wait on his mis... ...e had done; he was seven hours a-head of us still when we reached the last stage. We rode over Castlewood Downs before the breaking of dawn. We passed...

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...e o’er each scene’ with him, as he actually ad- vanced through the several stages of his life. Had his other friends been as diligent and ar- dent as ... ..., Mr. Levett, Captain Garrick, father of the great ornament of the British stage; but above all, Mr. Gilbert Walmsley, Register of the Prerogative Cou... ...ceived my notions with contempt. He was a whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. ... ...the law, from which he was soon diverted by his decided preference for the stage. They were recommended to Mr. Colson, an eminent mathematician and ma... ...hter from the motley assem- bly of philosophers, printers, and dependents, male and female. I know not how so whimsical a thought came into my mind, b... ...iga- tion, by transmitting to me copies of two letters from Dr. Johnson to American gentlemen. On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in Londo... ...ll who was my grand- father.’ He maintained the dignity and propri- ety of male succession, in opposition to the opin- ion of one of our friends, who ... ...as to the justice and wisdom of the conduct of Great-Britain to- wards the American colonies, while I at the same time requested that he would enable ... ...tled, Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress. He had long before indulged most unfavourable sentiments...

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... with their pasteboard coulisses, thunder-barrels, their kettles, fiddles, stage-wardrobes, portable larders (and chaffering and quarrelling enough); ... ...ndemn to death for preaching, ‘put in execution.’ (Boissy d’Anglas, Vie de Malesherbes, i. 15-22.) And, alas, now not so much as Baron Holbach’s Athei... ...ons, it is said, What a spectacle! Now too behold our Deane, our Franklin, American Plenipotentiaries, here in position soliciting; (1777; Deane somew... ...de Figaro; which now (in 1784), after difficulty enough, has issued on the stage; and ‘runs its hundred nights, ’ to the admiration of all men. By wha... ... Darkness? Among the Paris Long-robes there may be more than one patriotic Malesherbes, whose rule is conscience and the public good; there are clearl... ...he heavier; for did it not employ the working- classes too,—manufacturers, male and female, of laces, es- sences; of Pleasure generally, whosoever cou... ... His- torical Scene; and so singular a man as Lomenie de Brienne still the Stage-manager there. Behold, accordingly, a Home-Secretary Breteuil ‘beauti... ...ant glances on the Bust of Lafayette, which has stood there ever since the American War of Liberty. Whereupon, by acclamation, Lafayette is nominated.... ...as Carlyle perpetual pamphlets: and no man to gag them! Neither, as in the American Congress, do the arrangements seem per- fect. A Senator has not hi...

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...they betray. Cry, False! on them, and there is an instant echo of bleeding males in many circles, like the poor quavering flute-howl of transformed be... ...nt chilled the prospect, considered in its genial appearance as a feast of stages; having luminous extension; so, to ease his client’s mind, he ventur... ...acific Islands, but they will soon be snapped up by the European and North American Govern- ments, and a single one of them does not offer space. It w... ...d to the outer world by the opening of her mouth; chiefly then, though not malevo- lently to command: as the portal of some snow-bound mon- astery ope... ...ere ‘s your music?’ said the captain, twinkling for an adversary among the males, too distant or too dull to distinguish a note of challenge. ‘You’d b... ...time.’ ‘I have been in America.’ ‘We are not exactly on the pattern of the Americans.’ Philip hinted a bow. He praised the Republican people. ‘Yes, bu... ...ived from the Mattock family. It is a love resembling the affection of the stage-box for a set of favourite performers, and Patrick, a Celt who had sc... ...nds of English performances, lends ear to foreign airs, patronises foreign actors, browses on reports from camps of foreign armies. He drops his head ... ...e laden emotions of her nature brought her round by another channel to the stage neighbouring sight, where facts, dimly recognised for such—as they ma...

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... with their pasteboard coulisses, thunder-barrels, their kettles, fiddles, stage-wardrobes, portable larders (and chaffering and quarrelling enough); ... ...ndemn to death for preaching, ‘put in execution.’ (Boissy d’Anglas, Vie de Malesherbes, i. 15-22.) And, alas, now not so much as Baron Holbach’s Athei... ...s, it is said, What a spec- tacle! Now too behold our Deane, our Franklin, American Pleni- potentiaries, here in position soliciting; (1777; Deane som... ... Figaro; which now (in 1784), after difficulty enough, has is- sued on the stage; and ‘runs its hundred nights, ’ to the admira- tion of all men. By w... ... Darkness? Among the Paris Long-robes there may be more than one patriotic Malesherbes, whose rule is conscience and the public good; there are clearl... ...he heavier; for did it not employ the working-classes too,— manufacturers, male and female, of laces, essences; of Pleasure generally, whosoever could... ...er Historical Scene; and so singular a man as Lomenie de Brienne still the Stage-manager there. Behold, accordingly, a Home-Secretary Breteuil ‘beauti... ...ant glances on the Bust of Lafayette, which has stood there ever since the American War of Liberty. Whereupon, by acclamation, Lafayette is nominated.... ...ning forth perpetual pamphlets: and no man to gag them! Neither, as in the American Con- gress, do the arrangements seem perfect. A Senator has not hi...

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...in which not one of that hero’s mille e tre adventures is brought upon the stage? To propitiate you, let me explain myself. You will retort that I nev... ...end. Why are our occa- sional attempts to deal with the sex problem on the stage so repulsive and dreary that even those who are most deter- mined tha... ...Hogarth or the XVII Bunyan, had got past the Dickens-Macaulay Dumas-Guizot stage and the Stendhal-Meredith-T urgenieff stage, and were confronted with... ... and then disparage it as unworthy and indelicate. We laugh at the haughty American nation be- cause it makes the negro clean its boots and then prove... ...licacy would initiate any effort in that direction. There are no limits to male hypocrisy in this mat- ter. No doubt there are moments when man’s sexu... ...ng about our imperial destiny; but our eyes and hearts turn eagerly to the American millionaire. As his hand goes down to his pocket, our fingers go u... ...ighton and the south coast with the Riviera, for the spending money of the American T rusts. What is all this growing love of pag- eantry, this effusi... ... premier; for it is not in reason to suppose that a second such attractive male figure should appear in one story. The slim shapely frame, the elegant... ...N. I thought so, sir. Morality sent to the devil to please our libertines, male and female. That is to be the fu- ture of England, is it? TANNER. Oh, ...

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...e dark and grimy counter, strewed with old feathers, old yellow hoots, old stage mantles, painted masks, blind and yet gazing at you with a look of sa... ...f Illyria. “I have already drawn it,” says I, “with my spurs.” “Malheur et malediction!” roared the Marshal. “Hadn’t you better settle your wig?” says... ...f my whiskers gone; whereas at the same moment, and shriek- ing a horrible malediction, my adversary reeled and fell. “Mon Dieu, il est mort!” cried N... ...ving heart had nothing to cling to. Her splendid mansion was a convent; no male person even entered it, except Franklin Fox, (who counted for nothing,... .... I have seen no grandee of V ersailles that has the noble bearing of this American envoy and his suite. They have the refinement of the Old W orld, w... ...ne good service elsewhere than at Quebec,” the King said, appealing to the American Envoy: “at Bunker’s Hill, at Brandywine, at Y ork Island? Now that... ...ely Antoinette flashed fire, but it played round the head of the dauntless American Envoy harmless as the lightning which he knew how to conjure away.... ...w the youth did his foes engage; and at length they went off in the Gretna stage, the high-born dame and the peasant page. W olfgang beat time, waggle... ...(Have you not remarked, dear friend, how often in novel- books, and on the stage, joy is announced by the above burst of insensate monosyllables?) “To...

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...SMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRIN- ITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE. T HE ACTORS IN THE OLD TRAGEDIES, as we read, piped their iambics to a tune, spe... ...Castlewood (the second Viscount), of King Charles the First’s time, had no male issue save his one son, Eustace Esmond, who was killed, with half of t... ...ferring the title of Marquis of Esmond on my Lord Castlewood and the heirs-male of his body; his appointment as Lord-Lieutenant of the County, and Maj... ...and tearful eyes conveyed them. Then, perhaps, the pair reached that other stage which is not uncommon in married life, when the woman perceives that ... ...not to be imagined that Harry Esmond had all this experience at this early stage of his life, whereof he is now writing the history—many things here n... ...ordingly, he took leave of Castlewood, proposing to ride to London by easy stages, and lie two nights upon the road. His host treated him with a stud-... ...fiddlers, laced clothes, fine furniture, and parasites, Jew and Christian, male and female, who clung to him. As, according to the famous maxim of Mon... ...he lobby: and as he sat on the stage more people looked at him than at the actors, and watched him; and I remember at Ramillies, when he was hit and f... ... is independent in all but the name, (for that 350 Henry Esmond the North American colonies shall remain dependants on yon- der little island for twe...

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...n India, along much of the coast of Africa, and in the ports of China and Japan, is still to be heard, in its home country, in half a hundred varying stages of transition. You may go all over the States, and -- setting aside the actual intrusion and influence of foreigners, negro, French, or Chinese -- you shall scarce meet with so marked a difference of accent as in the f...

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...an, is still to be heard, in its home country, in half a hundred vary- ing stages of transition. You may go all over the States, and – setting aside t... ...ll we eager him to eat of it himself. The same spirit inspired Miss Bird’s American missionaries, who had come thousands of miles to change the faith ... ... their ignorance of the religions they were trying to supplant. I quote an American in this connection without scruple. Uncle Sam is better than John ... ...the largest, to a clique of states; and the whole scope and atmosphere not American, but merely Yankee. I will go far beyond him in reprobating the as... ...h English children begin to grow up and come to themselves in life. As the stage of the Uni- versity approaches, the contrast becomes more express. Th... ...ci- plined and drilled by proctors. Nor is this to be regarded merely as a stage of education; it is a piece of privilege be- sides, and a step that s... ...- tered by another hand, came on the stage itself and was played by bodily actors; the other, originally known as Semiramis: A Tragedy, I have observe... ...tely stem. In boyhood, as he told me once, speaking in that tone that only actors and the old-fashioned common folk can use nowadays, his 38 Robert L... ...ir, an abstraction, an excuse for talk, a logical Aunt Sally, then may the male debater instantly abandon hope; he may employ reason, adduce facts, be...