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...d fain do the little in our power towards introducing him favorably to the American public. The ensuing tale is a translation of his “Beatrice; ou la ... ...s of individuals to each other, that, with certain obvious exceptions, any male and female may be moderately happy in the married state. The true rule... ...mous in every walk of life; princes, presidents, poets, generals, artists, actors, and philanthropists,—all making their own market at the fair, and d... ...s of the Fair, nothing was more common than for a person—whether at feast, theatre, or church, or trafficking for wealth and hon ors, or whatever he ... ...l success, a higher fortune than their abilities could vindicate; writers, actors, painters, the pets of a day, but whose laurels wither unrenewed ami... ...,—yet none could tell precisely of what nature, although the city gossips, male and female, whispered the most atrocious sur mises. Until a recent pe... ... reader a few desirable particulars about Drowne himself. He was the first American who is known to have at tempted—in a very humble line, it is true... ...along his daily course. One of his most rational projects was to connect a musical opera tion with the machinery of his watches, so that all the hars...

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...of a far more formidable description than was commanded by the adventurous American. Time and circumstances change the character of nations and the fa... ...rowing the force of my narra- tive upon the characters and passions of the actors;—those passions common to men in all stages of society, and which ha... ...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... ...uring of a warm and vivid imagina- tion, which gives light and life to the actors and speakers in the drama of past ages. Yet with tastes so opposite,... ...she uttered that might be proposed in example to ladies of much supe- rior musical talent. Her natural good sense taught her, that if, as we are assur... ...ibility to poetry, and power of combining its expression with those of the musical notes, that her singing gave more plea- sure to all the unlearned i... ...re than he himself could have expected; but it is men- tioned of the North American Indians, when at the stake of torture, that on the least intermiss... ...a crowd, or for pushing you up to the wall, or for taking your seat in the theatre; but the modern code of honour will not permit you to found a quarr...

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...tion by Charles Dickens A publication of PSU s Electronic Classics Series American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publicati... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvan... ...rom its roof. In the gallery opposite to the pulpit were a little choir of male and female singers, a violoncello, and a violin. The preacher already ... ...ich a half grown Duke of Clarence might be smothered easily. There are two theatres in Boston, of good size and construction, but sadly in want of pat... ...hat all the great sights are somewhere else. If a lady take a fancy to any male passenger’s seat, the gentleman who accompanies her gives him notice o... ...tes – Dickens 94 hotel with stores about its base, like some Continental theatre, or the London Opera House shorn of its colon nade, plunge into th... ...el discussions upon the same themes, in connection with Shakspeare and the Musical Glasses, of which we read in the Vicar of Wakefield. Near the city,... ...ding? On every side. Every session had its anecdotes of that kind, and the actors were all there. Did I recognise in this assembly, a body of men, who... ...f the mixing of cool liquors: but they were a merrier people here, and had musical instruments playing to them o’ nights, which it was a treat to hear...

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...Excerpt: Volume I. Preface: Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of ?The Ambassadors,? which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the second chapter of Book Fifth, for the reader?s benefit, into as few words as possible-- planted ...

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... of “The Ambassadors,” which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situ... ...“arranged for”; its first appearance was from month to month, in the North American Review during 1903, and I had been open from far back to any pleas... ...hort stay in London; an evening spent by Miss Gostrey’s side at one of the theatres, to which he had found himself transported, without his own hand r... ...d raised, on the mere expression of a conscientious won- der. She knew her theatre, she knew her play, as she had triumphantly known, three days runni... ...sh life. He had distracted drops in which he couldn’t have said if it were actors or auditors who were most true, and the upshot of which, each time, ... ...hat matter, it had begun to seem to him that there must only have been the male and the female. These made two exactly, even with the individual varie... ...ut of it, with his “home,” as Strether figured the place, in the Boulevard Malesherbes; which was perhaps why, re- pairing, not to fail of justice eit... ...em. It might have been, on analysis, nothing more than Shakespeare and the musical glasses; but it had served all the purpose of his appearing to have...

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...e shoe makers. The whole place looks as if it were the stage of some great theatre, and the curtain had just run up, for a picturesque ballet. And the... ...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... ... from the heat of the fire, and where the brave Courier plays all sorts of musical instruments of his own manufacture, all the evening long. A mighty ... ...t of Faith, are very commonly seen walking in the streets. There are three theatres in the city, besides an old one now rarely opened. The most import... ...ait for an opportu nity to hiss, and spare the actresses as little as the actors. But, as there is nothing else of a public nature at which they are ... ...y by the Jura mountains, sprinkled with snow, and lighted by the moon, and musical with falling water, was delightful; or how, below the windows of th... ...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... ...tared at again, without let or hindrance. The body of the room was full of male strangers; the crowd immense; the heat very great; and the pressure so... ...s to remind them that he took the money. The majority were country people, male and female. There were four or five Jesuit priests, however, and some ...

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...there dwelt an old, melancholy, grizzled man of the name of Tari (Charlie) Coffin. He was a native of Oahu, in the Sandwich Islands; and had gone to s... ...id, is uppermost in the mind of the Marquesan. It would be strange if it were oth- erwise. The race is perhaps the handsomest extant. Six feet is abou... ...ey of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Hapar. There are but two writers who have touched the South Seas... ...tted. They must not sit on the paepae; they must not go up to it by the stair; they must not eat pork; they must not approach a boat; they must not co... ...both of these feasters and their meat; he clapped his hands, and gave me a stave of one of the old, ill-omened choruses. Centuries might have come and... ... above upon a woody valley: a little French fort, now disused and deserted, over- hangs the valley and the inlet. Atuona itself, at the head of the ne... ...icety of his inflections, the elegance of his gestures, and the fine play of his ex- pression, told us that. We, meanwhile, sat like aliens in a playh... ...ucted, or seem- ing so by contrast. There was much variety of measure, and towards the end of each piece, when the fun became fast and furious, a reco... ... fled; and when at length the leader found the wit or the author- ity to get his troop in motion and revive the singing, it was with much diminished f...

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...ce certainly; nor a merry one, though very noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool wa... ...does leave a disconsolate family to mourn his loss; so in academies of the male and female sex it occurs every now and then that the pupil is fully wo... ...taverns (for the Oriental Club was not as yet invented); he frequented the theatres, as the mode was in those days, or made his appearance at the oper... ...delighted beyond measure at the Ba- zaars; and in a whirl of wonder at the theatre, whither the good- natured lady took her. One day, Amelia had a hea... ...ere the principal themes. They are not, it is said, very bril- liant, in a musical point of view, but contain numberless good- natured, simple appeals... ...Fancy our late monarch George III when he heard of the revolt of the North American colonies: fancy brazen Goliath when little David stepped forward a... ...d gentleman was born), rector of Crawley-cum-Snailby, and of various other male and female members of the Crawley family. Sir Pitt was first married t... ...irit enough to bustle about for “a few select inmates to join a cheer- ful musical family,” such as one reads of in the Times. She was content to lie ... ...wether. There was Mr. John Paul Jefferson Jones, titularly attached to the American Embassy and correspondent of the New Y ork Demagogue, who, by way ...

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... divert me during my recovery from measles, he one day hired an actor in a theatre, and put a cloth round his neck, and seated him in a chair, rubbed ... .... While the words were coming out of his mouth, he saw the tramps, and the male tramp’s eyes and his met. The man had one eyebrow and his lips at one ... ...apid, never high or low, and then a slide of similar tones all round, —not musical, but catching and incessant,— gave me an idea that I had fallen upo... ...ained the day in love-affairs, I suspect you’d run a good race against the male half of our county, William. And a damned good test of a man’s metal, ... ...him, as if in a fit of careless affection. Then he talked runningly of the theatres and pantomimes and London’s charms. The fear I had of this Bench m... ... lovely view,’ said I. ‘Lovely view,’ she repeated. She ran on in the most musical tongue, to my thinking, ever heard: ‘ And see my little pensioners’... ...mewhere, for news arrived of my father’s approach with a French company of actors, and deafening entertainments were at hand. On the whole, I thought ... ... soit peu philosophe, a ce qu’on dit; a traveller. They say he has a South American complexion. I knew him a boy; and his passion is to put together w...

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... Vol. One ain, the Sisters of all the cardinal virtues separately, the Fe males of America, the Ladies of a hundred denominations. They appeared to b... ...ith another blot headed candle in his hand. “Pray is your lodger within?” “Male or female, sir?” says Mr. Krook. “Male. The person who does copying.” ... ...He has shown nothing but his shell. As easily might the tone of a delicate musical instrument be inferred from its case, as the tone of Mr. T ulkingho... ... here my Lady Dedlock has been bored to death. Concert, assem bly, opera, theatre, drive, nothing is new to my Lady under the worn out heavens. Only ... ...ut Boodle and his retinue, and Buffy and his retinue. These are the great actors for whom the stage is reserved. A People there are, no doubt—a certa... ...ess capable of exhaustion than we were. We made the round of the principal theatres, too, with great delight, and saw all the plays that were worth se... ...g up at me. I felt all through the performance that he never looked at the actors but constantly looked at me, and always with a carefully prepared ex... ...n, and the hall was blocked up by a grand piano, a harp, and several other musical instru ments in cases, all in progress of removal, and all looking... ...ghts as I lie here. T ake an extreme case. T ake the case of the slaves on American plantations. I dare say they are worked hard, I dare say they don’...

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...res whom we have deliberately suffered to be bred for misery and ruin. The American portion of this story is in no other respect a carica- ture than a... ...or the most part (Mr. Bevan ex- pected), of a ludicrous side, only, of the American character—of that side which was, four-and-twenty years ago, from ... ...s to say the rumour origi- nated in the same base quarters, that a certain male Chuzzlewit, whose birth must be admitted to be involved in some obscur... ...is: merely adding, by way of a final spadeful, that many Chuzzlewits, both male and female, are proved to demonstration, on the faith of letters writt... ...the same thing any- where else. But he stopped to read the playbill at the theatre and surveyed the doorway with a kind of awe, which was not dimin- i... ...them as many sights, in the way of bridges, churches, streets, outsides of theatres, and other free spec- tacles, in that one forenoon, as most people... ...ve of our separation, Mr Jinkins and the gentle- men have made up a little musical party among themselves, and do intend, in the dead of this night, t... ... when gentlemen sit up late they drink, and when they drink they’re not so musical, perhaps, as when they don’t. But this is the arrangement; and I kn... ... of any im- pression from it, that, although Tom had been one of the chief actors, it was like a dream. No one had noticed him after they had left the...

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...ere to be for ever dis- appointed by the intervention, as it were, of some malevo- lent being, and who was at last to come off victorious from 10 Guy... ...because its existence was secret (that is, presumed to be so) from all the males of the family, but especially from the hus- band and master. He was, ... ...is time, when there’s sae little money stirring in Scotland wi’ this weary American war, that somebody may get the land a bargain—Deil be in them, tha... ...erest and astonish posterity! Their fortifications, their aqueducts, their theatres, their fountains, all their public works, bear the grave, solid, a... ...who was to usher him to the man of law. The period was near the end of the American war. The desire of room, of air, and of decent accommodation, had ... ... of the whole scene was at once destroyed, and the natural passions of the actors called forth into very indecent and active emulation, by a wag who t... ...w, so we must make the most of our conquest to-night.” This led to another musical trial of skill, and that to lively conversation. At length, when th...

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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... ... 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... ... for articles of a smaller nature, such as visiting cards, memorial cards, theatre tick- ets, and things which Chichikov had laid by as souvenirs. Thi... ...ed Nozdrev. “And one for me as well,” added the flaxen-haired man. “At the theatre,” went on Nozdrev, “there was an ac- tress who sang like a canary. ... ... 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 ... ...for a certain dimness and want of clarity in my principal char- acters and actors, that will be tantamount to saying that never do the broad tendency ... ... for instance?” “For a young man, dancing, the playing of one or an- other musical instrument, and—well, yes, marriage.” “Marriage to whom?” “To some ...

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...ng about it!’ ‘They can’t mend,’ said Mysie. ‘Besides, do you know, in the American war, all the sewing-machines in the Southern States got out of ord... ...criti- cisms on plays and novels. I know he always has tickets for all the theatres and exhibitions. She did not say how she did know it, for a pang s... ...that a person answering to his description had embarked at Liverpool in an American-bound steamer. This idea, though very uncertain, was a relief, at ... ... the elder boys, walked to evensong at a neighbouring church noted for its musical services, and Lady Merrifield, as she said, ‘lashed herself up’ to ... ...he French original existed in the house, and Fly started the idea that the male performers should speak En- glish and the female French; but this was ... ...olute best.’ The performance went off beautifully—at least so thought both actors and spectators. The dignity of the Bailli and the meddling of the dr...

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...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. ... ...was not acted till 1749, when his friend David Garrick was manager of that theatre. The Gentleman’s Magazine, begun and car- ried on by Mr. Edward Cav... ...d, David Garrick, having become joint pat- entee and manager of Drury-lane theatre, Johnson honoured his opening of it with a Pro- logue, which for ju... ...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... ...as Giardini, as that he is an eminent Grecian.’ Gold- smith. ‘The greatest musical performers have but small emoluments. Giardini, I am told, does not... ...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 ... ....’ Boswell. ‘I think he should play once a year for the benefit of decayed actors, as it has been said he means to do.’ Johnson. ‘Alas, Sir! he will s... ...uld have done nothing else.’ Boswell. ‘Pray, Sir, did you ever play on any musical instrument?’ Johnson. ‘No, Sir. I once bought me a flagelet; but I ...

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...another on Monday afternoon, of plays which, unsuitable for the commercial theatre, were consid ered of sufficient merit to please an intellectual au... ...for by then a great change had come into my life. The manager of the Court Theatre, one Otho Stuart, had brought out a play which failed to please, an... ...st serve to keep his theatre open for a few weeks, by the end of which the actors he wanted for the play he had been obliged to postpone would be at l... ...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... ...y off the most famous, the most infamous, of them all, Sprenger’s Malleus Malefikorum. ‘Here is one of my greatest treasures. It is the Clavicula Sa... ... became manifest. Of these, the most marvellous were those strange beings, male and female, which were called homunculi. The old philosophers doubted ... ...turn of the Pagan world, the sins of the Borgias.’ His voice, poignant and musical, blended with the suave music of the words so that Margaret felt sh...

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... I take my place behind this desk, and face this learned au- dience. To us Americans, the experience of receiving instruction from the living voice, a... ...uous an act. Particularly must this be the case on a soil as sacred to the American imagination as that of Edinburgh. The glories of the philosophic c... ...or violence, but complete absence of emotional reaction. If he went to the theatre, which he did out of habit, he could find no pleasure there. The th... ...ear so strange; it is as if I could not see any reality, as if I were in a theatre; as if people were actors, and everything were scenery; I can no lo... ... I could not see any reality, as if I were in a theatre; as if people were actors, and everything were scenery; I can no longer find myself; I walk, b... ...on the sly, and this fact, together with my jealousy of another one of her male admirers and my own conscience despising me for my uncontrollable weak... ...h between the two Ideals. The carnivo- rous-minded “strong man,” the adult male and can- nibal, can see nothing but mouldiness and morbid- ness in the... ...ertain feeling, in what the quality or worth of it consists. One must have musical ears to know the value of a symphony; one must have been in love on... ...w York, 1846, p. 3. 369 William James of light on land and sea, odors and musical sounds, all bring it when the mind is tuned aright. Most of us can ...

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...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 ... ...- 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... ...m; faithful for long to the same restaurant, the same church, and the same theatre, chosen simply for propinquity; stead- fastly refusing to dine out.... ...ecret pretensions, and give themselves out for the he- roes, brave, pious, musical and wise, that in their most shin- ing moments they aspire to be. S... ...ith words and for a while inhabit a palace of delights, temple at once and theatre, where they fill the round of the world’s dignities, and feast with... ...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...