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... in the villages along the road. Even in the narrow- est and poorest and most ancient quarters of Frankfort neat and clean clothes were the rule. The ... ...ves of foreign lands were very numerous. They hailed from every corner of the globe—for instruction is cheap in Heidelberg, and so is living, too. The... ... Go”ttingen, to fight with a Go”ttingen expert; if he is victorious, he will be invited to other colleges, or those colleges will send their experts t... ...only with the white corps, while we were their guests, and keep aloof from the caps of the other colors. Once I wished to examine some of the swords, ... ...dies looked sweetly up and smiled, nobody stirred, the old lady pulled her spectacles down, looked over them, and said, gently: “But you mustn’t catch... ...he water!” So the real rain was turned on and began to descend in gossamer lances to the mimic flower-beds and gravel walks of the stage. The richly d... ... for charitable terms. But the beleaguering prince was so incensed against them for their long resistance that he said he would spare none but the wom... ...above, and the illusion was not perfect, for one 285 A Tramp Abroad saw not only the strings but the brawny hand that manipu- lated them—and the acto...

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...h other again, in London, some three months previously, at a dinner at the American Embassy, and when she had caught sight of him her smile had been l... ...nized, after half a life-time, the details of a room he had played in as a child. And as, in the plumed starred crowd, she had stood out for him, slen... .... Her husband had struck him as a characteristic speci- men of the kind of American as to whom one is not quite clear whether he lives in Europe in or... ...er high sweet voice and of her quick incessant gestures.She was clearly an American, but with the loose native quality strained through a closer woof ... ...precipitate return of her parents to negotiate for the repurchase of their child. It was then—after an interval of repose with compassionate but impec... ...ry gave it an added poignancy. He felt the mystic pang of the parent for a child which has just breathed and died. Why had it happened thus, when the ... ...ine flame burns low in its possessors. The one or two really intel- ligent actresses he had known had struck him, in conversation, as either bovine or...

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...s rejoicing in an equality of happiness safe and assured to them and their children for ever, we have to plan “a flexible common com- promise, in whic... ..., and at the word terminology I should insinuate a comment on that eminent American bi- ologist, Professor Mark Baldwin, who has carried the language ... ...east in that parallel planet beyond Sirius also, but every man, woman, and child alive has a Utopian parallel. From now onward, of course, the fates o... ...hom wisdom will save there, and perhaps conversely here we shall save men; children will be born to them and not to us, to us and not to them, but thi... ...ing the obverse side, and a head thereon—of Newton, as I live! One detects American influ- ence here. Each year, as we shall find, each denomination o... ...*But see Gidding’s Principles of Sociology, a modern and richly suggestive American work, imperfectly appreciated by the Brit- ish student. See also W... ...nd momentary illusions of excellence; it is our experience that actors and actresses as a class are loud, ignoble, and insincere. If they have not suc... ... on earth, will have its temples and its priests, just as it will have its actresses and wine, but the samurai will be forbidden the religion of drama...

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... and a corrugated iron garage. Yet Babbitt was again dreaming of the fairy child, a dream more romantic than scarlet pagodas by a silver sea. For year... ...am more romantic than scarlet pagodas by a silver sea. For years the fairy child had come to him. Where others saw but Georgie Babbitt, she discerned ... ...inclair Lewis understand how I ever came to have a pair of shillyshallying children like Rone and Ted. I may not be any Rockefeller or James J. Shakes... ...lin Avenue & 3d St., N.E Zenith Omar Gribble, Esq., 376 North American Building, Zenith. Dear Mr. Gribble: Your letter of the twentieth t... ...ompson, the old-fashioned, lean Yankee, rugged, traditional, stage type of American business man, and Babbitt, the plump, smooth, efficient, up-to-the... ...uch amused by the antiquated provincialism as any proper Englishman by any American. He knew himself to be of a breeding altogether more esthetic and ... ...to grab this celebrated Thespian off his lovely aggregation of beauti- ful actresses—and I got to admit I butted right into his dressing-room and told...

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...moiselle Fischer?” said he. “You have no company?” asked Cousin Betty. “My children and yourself, no one else,” replied the visi- tor. “Very well,” re... ...-boeuf—quite tip-top!—very good.) I love Celestine as a man loves his only child—so well in- deed, that, to preserve her from having either brother or... ...ight be in this rather—what shall I say—shady?—no, delicate position. “The child, whose talent for music was striking, had mas- ters, she was educated... ... do you not leave everything for my sake?” asked the Brazilian. This South American born, being logical, as men are who 164 Cousin Betty have lived t... ... you?” “Valerie,” said the official, “my child, that cousin of yours is an American cousin—” “Oh, that is enough!” she cried, interrupting the Baron. ... ...in again. Stidmann, an artist in vogue in the world of journalists, famous actresses, and courtesans of the better class, was a young man of fashion w... ...ie. A woman seen by all is a woman wished for. Hence the terrible power of actresses. Madame Marneffe, knowing that she was watched, behaved like an a... ...who is accused.” Valerie opened her astonished eyes, gave such a shriek as actresses use to depict madness on the stage, writhed in con- vulsions on t... ...quite inexplicable. The disease is peculiar 369 Balzac to negroes and the American tribes, whose skin is differently constituted to that of the white...

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...Court, and he gave you some sugar-candy, for the doctor was always good to children. That gentleman who well-nigh smothered you by sitting down on you... ...t a heap of illuminations you have seen! For the glorious victory over the Americans at Breed’s Hill; for the peace in 1814, and the beautiful Chinese... ...the ancient world, are like Father Noah and his family out of the Ark. The children will gather round and say to us patriarchs, “Tell us, grandpapa, a... ...esay was forming a picture of those in my mind: — wife cooking the mutton; children waiting for it; Merryman in his plain clothes, and so forth; durin... ... angels, who sang, acted, and danced. When I remember the Adelphi, and the actresses there: when I think of Miss Chester, and Miss Love, and Mrs Serle...

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...aying a visit to her sister, who, of course, was the nearest thing after the child. ‘But it isn’t the same,’ she said. ‘Olive and I disagree so much.’... ...herself. There was a lithographic smoothness about her, and a mixture of the American matron and the public character. There was something public in h... ...ouse for thirty days. That was years before, when this girl must have been a child; but hadn’t it thrown a kind of rainbow over her cradle, and wouldn... ... the ‘Yankee female’—the figure which, in the unregenerate imagination of the children of the cotton States, was produced by the New England school sys... ...and helpless miseries grow greater all the while? I am only a girl, a simple American girl, and of course I haven’t seen much, and there is a great de... ... an idea that in leaving them simply planted face to face (the terror of the American heart) she had so high a warrant; and presently Basil Ransom fel... ...upposed to have a remarkably insinuating way of waiting upon prime donne and actresses the morning after their arrival, or some times the very evenin...

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... year to defray the costs of a household consisting of father, mother, two children, a chambermaid and cook, living on the second floor of a house in ... ... dress precedes everything; then see what remains for the education of the children (a girl of eight and a boy of nine, whose maintenance must cost at... ... In such a situation the man holds to the wife very much the position of a child to a teacher when the latter cannot or will not recognize that the mi... ... gratification. Consequently, he was much liked in the world of actors and actresses, journalists and artists. For one thing, they had the same vices ... ...ed an enor- mous bunch of old trinkets, among which in 1824 he still wore “American beads,” which were very much the fashion in the year VII. In the b... ...etty wives of the under- clerks, and lived in the world of journalists and actresses, became devotedly attentive all the evening to Celestine, and was... ...ling his cane and of flinging the sort of glance which Bixiou told him was American. He smiled to show his fine teeth; he wore no socks under his boot... ...of the Ducs de Maufrigneuse and de Rhetore, whom he knew in the society of actresses, procured him his employment under government in 1819. On good te... ...nd China (where all government officials steal), also that of Austria, the American republics, and indeed that of the whole world, to the fact that fo...

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...aymates, and the bishop who “had paused to contem- plate the sports of the child remained to confirm the zeal of the missionary.”) And as with the bis... ... of his soul’s pilgrimage, has given us a pleasant picture of himself as a child stealing out into the woods to build himself a little altar. Such min... ...le, marries a wife foreign, out of a county family or suchlike, trains his children from their very birth in a different manner. Why, the growth curve... ...o shock and yet it had its standards, but here it was that the dancers and actresses and forgiven divorcees came in — and the bishops as a rule, a rul... ... reply. What was there for a bishop to object to? There was that admirable American widow, Lady Sunderbund. She was enor- mously rich, she was enthusi... ...The English were indolent, the French decadent, the Russians barbaric, the Americans basely democratic; the rest of the world was the “White man’s Bur...

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...ere are, every where; but an extraordinarily scanty population, and fewer children than I ever encountered. I don’t believe we saw a hundred children... ...gand! Hi hi hi! En r r r r r route! Whip, wheels, driver, stones, beggars, children, crack, crack, crack; helo! 9 Charles Dickens hola! harite pour l... ...ul little boy! First little girl gets out. Oh, but this is an enchant ing child! Second little girl gets out. The landlady, yielding to the finest im... ...ONS of such a place as Albaro, the suburb of Genoa, where I am now, as my American friends would say, ‘located,’ can hardly fail, I should imagine, t... ...eem to be always lying in wait for an opportu nity to hiss, and spare the actresses as little as the actors. But, as there is nothing else of a publi... ...sed to view a little wooden doll, in face very like General Tom Thumb, the American Dwarf: gorgeously dressed in satin and gold lace, and actually bla... ...te Campagna in one direc tion, where it was most level, reminded me of an American prairie; but what is the solitude of a region where men have never...

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... but still more to carry out an artful scheme of his own. Descoings had no children. Madame Descoings, twelve years older than her husband, was in goo... ...o the moral of fairy tales, would live happy ever after without having any children. The pair might therefore become attached to Agathe. That young gi... ... uncommonly follow the same course. In like manner, the eldest of Agathe’s children, who physi- cally resembled his mother, had the moral qualities of... ...ery day be- yond the round tower built by Francois I., to look out for the American packet, enduring the keenest anxieties. Moth- ers alone know how s... ... an impresario. In Paris, we fre- quently meet with men so fascinated with actresses, singers, or ballet-dancers, that they are willing to become dire... ...re. Philippe and his friend Giroudeau lived among a circle of journalists, actresses, and booksellers, where they were re- garded in the light of cash... ...w into the excessive dissipations of the dangerous and restless society of actresses, journalists, artists, and the equivocal women among whom Philipp...

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...ife almost infinitely remote from his statecraft. They were the vehicle of children, but only Imperial Rome and the new world of to-day have ever had ... ...one of those rare adults who have not forgotten the chagrins and dreams of childhood. He was a prosperous west of England builder; including my father... ...emember anything of my father’s earlier and more energetic time. I was the child of my parents’ middle years; they married when my father was thirty-f... ...nce of smoking during these twilight prowls with the threepenny packets of American cigarettes then just ap- pearing in the world. My life centred upo... ...ng is a necessary function in a nation. The Romans broke up upon that. The Americans fade out amidst their successes. Eugenics—” “That wasn’t Eugenics... ... rotating bookcase containing an excellent col- lection of the English and American humorists from Three Men in a Boat to the penultimate Mark T wain.... ...ressed up like —”—and had arrested himself and fumbled and decided to say—“actresses, and showin’ their fat arms for every fool to stare at!” Nor woul...

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...him and introduced him to that party, as if he had been a trained dog or a child phenomenon. Decidedly, he said, he disliked Willie—one of these large... ...body read Moorsom at the Antipodes, but everybody had heard of him -women, children, dock labourers, cabmen. The only person (besides himself) who had... ...essor needed all his phi- losophy under the circumstances. She is his only child now— and brilliant -what? Willie positively spluttered trying to de- ... ...though, Cloete; for company; liked to talk to all sorts there; just habit; American fashion. “So Cloete takes that chap out more than once. Not very g... ...ed himself as a journalist as certain kind of women give themselves out as actresses in the dock of a police-court. “He used to introduce himself to s...

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...ls to sell for a hundred sous what is worth a hundred francs. If you met a child who did not know the value of a louis, wouldn’t you feel bound to tel... ... say good- day because it is morning, Mimi. Ah! there she is off, the dear child. Yes! you shall be rich, richissime, or I’ll renounce my name of Cesa... ...ess had been fond of the maid, and brought up with her own sons the eldest child, Francois, and placed him in a seminary. Ordained priest, Francois Bi... ...ls, walls hung with an olive-green paper, and otherwise decorated with the American Declaration of Independence, a portrait of Bonaparte as First Cons... ...attle; they were unaware of their in- born power; their heads were full of actresses,—Florine, Tullia, Mariette, etc. They laid down the law to everyb... ... they picked up nothing for themselves. As Finot’s schemes did not concern actresses who wanted applause, nor plays to be puffed, nor vaudevilles to b...

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...in the foot, thick in the leg,” for all they had endured. A neat packet of American cloth behind the saddle contained his change of raiment, and the b... ...e had used that day, that the man before you was, after all, only a little child asleep. THE DREAMS OF MR. HOOPDRIVER THE DREAMS OF MR. HOOPDRIVER THE... ...f the existence of the Young Lady in Grey and her companion in brown, as a child in the dark is of Bogies. Sometimes he could hear their pneu- matics ... ...ign of a teapot, and exhibiting a brilliant array of tobaccos, sweets, and children’s toys in the window, struck his fancy. A neat, bright-eyed little... ... avern with a steak Mr. Hoopdriver ordered, done to a cinder long ago, his American-cloth parcel in a bedroom, and his own proper bicycle, by way of g... ...t him, I hope I may explain, be- cause his night-shirt was at Bognor in an American-cloth packet, derelict. He yawned a third time, rubbed his eyes, s... ...lking of the fashionableness of bicycling,—how judges And stockbrokers and actresses and, in fact, all the best people rode, and how that it was often...

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...ppiness a physical effluence? The ingenuousness of a girl, the graces of a child were dis- cernible under the domino. Though they walked apart, these ... ...en observed the dress worn by her deliverer, and said, with a smile like a child’s when it takes possession of something longed for: “Then I shall not... ...lain your position to- ward each other.” “In one word,” said she. The poor child quaked at the priest’ s stern tone, but as a woman quakes who has lon... ...nd simplic- ity and depth which distinguished the wonderful heroine of the American Puritans. She had too, without knowing it, a love that was eating ... ... had achieved miracles of true love. She had loved Lucien for six years as actresses love and courtesans—women who, having rolled in mire and impurity... ...cepted T ullia, Florentine, Fanny Beaupre, and Florine—two dancers and two actresses —besides Madame du V al-Noble. Nothing can be more dreary than a ...

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...e up there above the pinnacles where the smoke rose in a pointed hill, her children were now asking for her, and getting a soothing reply. As for the ... ...t is!” her husband groaned. “Poor creatures!” What with the misery for her children, the poor, and the rain, her mind was like a wound exposed to dry ... ...ide of them, square buildings and oblong build- ings placed in rows like a child’s avenue of bricks. The river, which had a certain amount of troubled... ... judges, professors, states- men, editors, philanthropists, merchants, and actresses; what clubs they belonged to, where they lived, what games they p... ...“which shall it be?” “Balzac,” said Rachel, “or have you the Speech on the American Revolution, Uncle Ridley?” “The Speech on the American Revolution?... ... she darted and ejaculated he gave Rachel a sketch of the history of South American art. He would deal with one of his wife’s exclamations, and then r... ...essness to think or to look. She was turning over the slippery pages of an American magazine, when the hall door swung, a wedge of light fell upon the...

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...tion to (I) the production, (2) the distribution, (3) the consump- tion of American wheat. When complete, they will form the story of a crop of wheat ... ...t to-night. See who I mean?” “Who? Mr. Jadwin? I don’t know. I don’t know, child. I never saw him, you know.” “Well I think it is he,” continued Page.... ... wear them after all. My poor little flowers.” But she showed him a single American Beauty, pinned to the shoulder of her gown beneath her cape. “Yes,... ...n his studio and regularly kow-tow to it, and talk about the ‘decadence of American industrial arts.’ I’ve heard him. I say it’s pure affectation, tha... ...the great braids, unlooped, fell to her waist. “What pretty hair you have, child,” murmured Mrs. Cressler. She was settling herself for a long talk wi... ... he has a Sunday-school over on the West Side, a Sunday-school for mission children, and I do believe he’s more interested in that than in his busines... ...eprecatory demeanour; as a jolly and roistering “high roller,” addicted to actresses, suppers, and to bath- ing in champagne. In the Democratic press ...

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... were a small marble-topped centre table covered with back numbers of “The American System of Den- tistry,” a stone pug dog sitting before the little ... ...ce clerks with flowers in their but- tonholes. At the same time the school children invaded the street, filling the air with a clamor of shrill voices... ...e of wheels, the heavy trundling of cable cars. At four o’clock the school children once more swarmed the sidewalks, again disappearing with surpris- ... ...cnickers. The mother, the father, a young man, and a young girl, and three children. The two older people held 9 Frank Norris empty lunch baskets in ... ...knew absolutely nothing further than that she 17 Frank Norris was Spanish-American. Miss Baker was the oldest lodger in the flat, and Maria was a fix... ...at one time possessed of an incalculable fortune derived from some Central American coffee plan- tation, a fortune long since confiscated by armies of... ... it intently, a great mirror over the mantle of- fered to view an array of actresses’ pictures thrust between the glass and the frame, and a big bunch...

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... it? One must look the devil straight in the face and not get excited like children—” “Oh, don’t, please!” Nejdanov interrupted him desperately, frown... ...ng to come to me. I am married and have a boy of eight, a very intelligent child, I may say. We usually spend the summer and autumn in the 21 Turgene... ...ven capricious. The false position he had been placed in 27 Turgenev from childhood had made him sensitive and irritable, but his natural generosity ... ...verly clean), frequented the theatre, and had many protegees among variety actresses, with whom he conversed in some extraordinary jargon meant to be ... ...contained nothing but a few painted wooden chairs and a couch covered with American cloth. There were pictures everywhere of an indifferent variety . ... ...ands. They are not heroes, not even ‘heroes of labour’ as some crank of an American, or Englishman, called them in a book he wrote for the edification...

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... had an influence on his conduct and modes of thought: In some stanzas of ‘Childe Harold’ this sympathy is expressed with truth and power; especially ... ...nshrined In the fine foldins of the feeling mind.... Sweet child of sickly Fancy!-her of yore From her loved France Rousseau t... ...y father’s share of a moderate competency, which was divided among fifteen children, be- ing very trivial, his business of a watchmaker (in which he h... ... he knew all the great virtuosi, all the celebrated works, all the actors, actresses, pretty women, and powerful lords; in short nothing was mentioned... ... with mine. T o prove this by experience, I taught music gratis to a young American lady, Mademoiselle des Roulins, with whom M. Roguin had brought me... ...g mentioned; but I have rea- son to believe it was known to the actors and actresses, and many other persons. Mademoiselles Gauffin and Grandval playe... ...ly connected with him to pass his name over in silence. M. du Perou was an American, son to a commandant of Surinam, whose successor, M. le Chambrier,...

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...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... ...im on earth! He’s being driven! … Oh, little mother, take pity on thy poor child.” All the contradictions of Gogol’s character are not to be disposed ... ...tail, while never forgetting to be as simple of speech as though he were a child, and at every step there were a danger of employing terms beyond his ... ...e old housekeeper is cutting it into cubes before the open window, and the children of the house crowd around her to watch the movements of her rugged... ...d accompanied the invitation with the kind of bow usually employed only by actresses who are playing the role of queens. Next, she took a seat upon th... ...mber of the Civil Service, has in reality served in the army and run after actresses; wherefore the old man no longer disguised his delight, but calle...

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...f France, and of his sec- ond wife Charlotte de l’Aubepine. I was the only child of that marriage. By his first wife, Diana de Budos, my father had ha... ...rance, only brother of the Duchesse de Villeroy. She died in 1684, without children,—having been long before separated from a husband who was unworthy... ...id down—namely, that none who entered the service, except his illegitimate children, and the Princes of the blood royal, should be exempt from serving... ... laughed at them. She herself played there Athalie (assisted by actors and actresses) and other pieces several times a week. Whole nights were passed ... ...whose permanent reign did not last less than thirty-two years? Born in the American islands, where her father, perhaps a gentleman, had gone to seek h...

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...! Dost know him, reader? Old is he, Eros, the ever young. He and Time were children together. Chronos shall die, too; but Love is imperishable. Bright... ...s father’s name?—there’s been a mighty cruel murther committed entirely. A child of Dick Steele’s has been barba- rously slain, dthrawn, and quarthere... ....” “I!” said the amazed and Right Honorable Joseph Addison; “I kill Dick’s child! I was godfather to the last.” “And promised a cup and never sent it,... .... 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.... ...ts of young and old gents of the fashion crowding round and staring at the actresses prac- tising their steps. Fancy yellow snuffy foreigners, chatter...

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...ad performed any very conspicuous action. They were highly civilized young Americans, born to an easy fortune and a tranquil destiny, and unfamiliar w... ...of building up com- mercial fortunes—the most obvious career open to young Americans. They had, indeed, embraced no career at all, and if summoned to ... ... too, that this was not the first time he had seen her. She was simply the American pretty girl, whom he had seen a thousand times. It was a numerous ... ...ttle woman, devoted to Miss Vivian. She is a widow, and Angela is her only child. They have lived a great deal in Europe; they have but a modest incom... ...eady any time this year or two to fall in love with some simple, trusting, child-like nature. I find this in perfection in this charm- ing young girl.... ...s in such cases, she over- played it. Her empty chatter, her futility, her childish coquetry and frivolity—such light wares could hardly be the whole ... ...that his gaze was heavy and opaque, and that, though he was staring at the actresses, their charms were lost upon him. He saw that, like himself, poor...

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...esident has made allusion, who died in her youth. I had letters about that child, in England, from the dwellers in log houses among the morasses, and ... ...ozens, not by units—has done the like, and has told me how she lost such a child at such a time, and where she lay buried, and how Charles Dickens 14... ...those who know me best, best know that. For myself, I would rather that my children, com ing after me, trudged in the mud, and knew by the general fe... ...ften that I could wish there were a closer parallel between myself and the American aloe. It is particularly agreeable and ap propriate to know that ... ...of that good blacksmith, as it was written of another of his trade, by the American poet: “Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing, Onward through life he goes;... ...ir education gratuitously, and who shall always be the children of actors, actresses, or dramatic writers. This school, you will understand, is to be ... ...ys an Charles Dickens 96 exceptional case—that the children of actors and actresses take to the stage. Persons therefore need not in the least fear t... ...s a blooming woman, and who came from a long line of provincial actors and actresses, once said to me when she was happily married; when she was rich,... ...ne, which seems to my mind to have a certain application. My friend was an American sea captain, and, therefore, it is quite unnecessary to say his st...

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... history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two Americans, Whitman and Thoreau, each is the type of some- thing not so much... ...ght them forth, an author would require a large habit of life among modern Americans. As for Yoshida, I have already disclaimed respon- sibility; it w... ... witness to a dreary, sterile folly, – a twilight of the mind peopled with childish phantoms. In relation to his contemporaries, Charles seems quite a... ...a is somewhat an excep- tion; she and the goat traverse the story like two children who have wandered in a dream. The finest moment of the book is whe... ...ontfermeil is full of the charm that Hugo knows so well how to throw about children. Who can forget the passage where Cosette, sent out at night to dr... ...ndignation against the zeal of a Whig clergyman, he writes: “I daresay the American Congress in 1776 will be allowed to be as able and as enlightened ... ...danc- ing, singing, and drinking, become his natural element; ac- tors and actresses and drunken, roaring courtiers are to be found in his society; un...

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...riendships included all classes and all ages. He was a great favorite with children, and knew how to meet them, from little four- months-old Veronica ... ... genial world. The reader there meets a vast number of people, men, women, children, nay even ani- mals, from George the Third down to the cat Hodge. ... ...were well advanced in years when they married, and never had more than two children, both sons; Samuel, their first born, who lived to be the illustri... ...behind your scenes, David; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensi- ties.’ 1750: AETAT. 41.]—In 1750 he c... ...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... ...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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... sedately two by two, wheeling perambulators and talking. Brightly dressed children trundled hoops or whipped a stubborn top. As he watched them, Dr P... ...you adore her. She is never tired of listening to my prosy stories of your childhood in Alexandria, and I’m quite sure that she will make you the most... ...e which would disappear when she was happily married. To have half a dozen children was in her mind much more important than to paint pictures. Margar... ...anged in a horse shoe, which was reserved for a small party of English or American painters and a few Frenchmen with their wives. At least, they were... ...s, who painted still life with a certain amount of skill, and Clayson, the American sculptor. Raggles stood for rank and fashion at the Chien Noir. He... ...t out with the tall Jagson, who smarted still under Haddo’s insolence. The American sculptor paid his bill si lently. When he was at the door, Haddo ... ...ere. Innumerable mirrors re flected women of the world, admirably gowned, actresses of renown, and fashionable courtesans. The noise was very great. ... ...ook at Arthur, ‘if only to show you how much more amusing I am than lovely actresses.’ Arthur, forcing himself to smile, accepted the invitation. The ...

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...ght of, by us, at least, without veneration and thankfulness; and my sons’ children, whether established here in our Republic, or at home in the alway... ...y education; and where I made the acquaintance of Mr. W arrington, whom my children never saw. When it pleased heaven, in the bloom of his youth, and ... ...ther, and him above all, my father and theirs, the dearest friend of their childhood, the noble gentleman who bred them from their infancy in the prac... ...ond, who had frequented the one as long as he had money to spend among the actresses, now came to the church as assiduously. He looked so lean and sha... ...l- land. My lord had a paper of oranges, which he ate and of- fered to the actresses, joking with them. And Mrs. Bracegirdle, when my Lord Mohun said ... ...ad made acquaintance, had promised to present him to that most charming of actresses, and lively and agreeable of women, Mrs. Bracegirdle, about whom ... ... 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...