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...re is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her. It is otherwise in his case and a general fling at the sex we may deem pardonable, for doing as little harm to womankind as the stone of an urchin...

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...wit: ‘an unusual combina- tion,’ in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of h... ...raglio Point: they have not yet doubled Cape T urk.’ It is war, and on the male side, Ottoman war: her experi- ence reduced her to think so positively... ...o cheer his progress; a little to posterity, and to our country. Dozens of writers will be in at yonder yawning breach, if only perusers will rally to... ... capital descriptions. The best English letter- 30 Diana of the Crossways writers are as good as the French— You don’t think so?—in their way, of cou... ...lood. There were, one hears that there still are, remnants of the pristine male, who, if resisted in their suing, conclude that they are scorned, and ... ... morum, spicing the lamentable derelictions of this and that great person, male and female. The plea of corruption of blood in the world, to excuse th... ...e worked for my bread. I had thoughts of America. I fancy I can write; and Americans, one hears, are gentle to women.’ ‘Ah, Tony! there’s the looking ... ... inducement she had received to embark her money in this Company: a South- American mine, collapsed almost within hearing of the trum- pets of prospec...

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... val- leys would you have found the squatting lairs of his little herds, a male, a few females, a child or so. He knew no future then, no kind of life... ...ed beyond his reach. Or sud- denly he became aware of the scent of another male and rose up roaring, his roars the formless precursors of moral admo- ... ... automobiles, aeroplanes, waterplanes, and such-like, mobile purposes. The American Kemp engine, differing widely in principle but equally prac- ticab... ...the world until the twentieth century. Then, the growing impatience of the American people with the monstrous and socially paralysing party systems th... ...t came to be called the ‘Modern State’ movement, and a galaxy of brilliant writers, in America, Europe, and the East, stirred up the world to the thou... ... to become a military power, and maintained a small standing army upon the American model that was said, so far as it went, to be highly efficient, an... ...her. From the day when man contrived himself a tool and suf- fered another male to draw near him, he ceased to be alto- gether a thing of instinct and... ...lities, a pal- impsest of inherited dispositions. It was the habit of many writers in the early twentieth century to speak of competi- tion and the na... ...one comes to the latter nineteenth and the earlier twenti- eth century the writers are much more acutely aware of secu- lar change than their predeces...

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...gh to endure the search for a B.V.D. undershirt which had, he pointed out, malevolently been concealed among his clean pajamas. He was fairly amiable ... ...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 ... ...ed into a raging hostess, she took care of the house and didn’t bother the males by thinking. She went on firmly: “It sounds awful to me, the way they... ...his wife was too busy to be impressed by that moral indignation with which males rule the world, and he went humbly up-stairs to dress. He had an impr... ...e to ruin this business than all the plots and stuff that these fool story-writers could think up in a month of Sundays.” That afternoon, when the old...

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...rned, is understood to be the ancestral ape. And more particularly the old male ape.” But Sir Richmond was away on another line of thought. “Life itse... ...contradiction.” He came round suddenly to the doctor’s qualification. “Why male? Don’t little girls smash things just as much?” “They don’t,” said Dr.... ...practitioner would do. There’ s a lot of rage about most of them at first, male or female. “ 25 H G Wells “Queer little eddies of fury…. Recently—it ... ... that rising in- tonation of humorous conclusion which is so distinctively American, “those Druids have got him.” “He’s hiding,” said the automobilist... ...he cheek bones, that faint flavour of the Amerindian, one sees at times in American women. Her voice was a very soft and pleasing voice, and she spoke... ... pleasing voice, and she spoke persuasively and not assertively as so many American women do. Her de- termination to make the dry bones of Stonehenge ... ...esting men, rising politicians, university men of distinction, artists and writers even, men of science, men—there are still such men— active in the c...

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...; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest. II Blodgett College is on the edge of Minneapolis. It ... ...Charles, would it interrupt your undoubt- edly fascinating pursuit of that malevolent fly if I were to ask you to tell us that you do not know anythin... ...ng up some cute kids and knowing nice homey people?” It was the immemorial male reply to the restless woman. Thus to the young Sappho spake the melon-... ...u recipes for curry, voyages to the Solomon Isles, theoso- phy with modern American improvements, treatises upon success in the real-estate business. ... ... official. None of them made her more than pause in thought. For months no male emerged from the mass. Then, at the Marburys’, she met Dr. Will Kennic... ...t I’ve seen an awful lot of towns—one time I went to Atlantic City for the American Medical Association meet- ing, and I spent practically a week in N... ..., Lamb, De Quincey, and Mrs. Humphry Ward, who, it seemed, constituted the writers of English Fiction and Es- says. Not till she inspected the rest-ro... ... I guess the feminine mind is too innocent to understand all these immoral writers. I’m sure I don’t want to criticize Bernard Shaw; I understand he i...

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...moke had darkened the whole city with soot, and when, according to the old writers, there really was bright weather. The fleets of caiques bustling al... ...e moored everywhere, showing their flags, Rus- sian and English, Austrian, American, and Greek; and along the quays country ships from the Black Sea o... ...as en- deavouring to get the likeness of one or two of these comfort- able malefactors. One old and wrinkled she-criminal, whom I had selected on acco... ...issaries, with silver maces shining in the sun. ’Twas the party of the new American Consul-General of Syria and Jerusalem, hastening to that city, wit... ...lem, so as to be on the spot in readiness. When the diachylon Arab saw the American Arab, he straightway galloped his steed towards him, took his pipe... ...th. Hard by was Rebecca’s Well: a dead body was lying there, and crowds of male and female mourners dancing and howling round it. Now and then a littl... ...mo- rial accorded to the Christians of the Latin rite in Syria. All French writers and travellers speak of this protection with de- lightful complacen... ...I would urge, humbly, however, is this—Do not let us be led away by German writers and aes- thetics, Semilassoisms, Hahnhahnisms, and the like. The l... ...it. Then one of his companions got up and showed us his black cattle. The male slaves were chiefly lads, and the women young, well formed, and abomin...

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...hing. Perhaps he was thirty years old, perhaps more. His gleaming beauty , maleness, like a young, good-humoured, smiling wolf, did not blind her to t... ...the fact?—red little spiky stig- mas of the female flower, dangling yellow male catkin, yel- low pollen flying from one to the other. Make a pictorial... ...devil who won’t let life exist.’ She looked at him with a long, slow look, malevolent, su- percilious. ‘Y ou know all about it, don’t you?’ she said, ... ... at any rate.’ ‘What are they?—painters, musicians?’ ‘Painters, musicians, writers—hangers-on, models, ad- vanced young people, anybody who is openly ... ...y syllable distinctly. She looked at the cover, to verify herself. ‘An old American edition,’ said Birkin. ‘Ha!—of course—translated from the French,’... ...iked the West Afri- can wooden figures, the Aztec art, Mexican and Central American. He saw the grotesque, and a curious sort of me- chanical motion i...

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...lined and uncoordinated minority of inventors, experi- menters, educators, writers and organisers has achieved this development of human possibilities... ...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... ...scheme of the nation, as being in a sense designed to take the crude young male of the more or less responsible class, to correct his harsh egotisms, ... ...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.... ...of young Jews ascendant from Whitechapel, here a circle of journalists and writers, here a group of Irish politicians, here two East Indians, here a p... ...ut I went on talking. It’s the grim irony in the lives of all politicians, writers, public teach- ers, that once the audience is at their feet, a new ...

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...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... ...ed being of those days I confess I never cared for, and that was the chief male dancer — a very important per- sonage then, with a bare neck, bare arm... ... not pleasing to me; I even thought it a little vulgar — well! well! other writers have been considered vulgar — and as a description of the sports an... ...ilded halls; and now they are at Newgate, seeing the irons knocked off the malefactors’ legs previous to execution. What hardened ferocity in the coun...

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...e anecdote is trivial, but it shows the power of Julia Jowler over me. The writers of marine novels have so exhausted the subject of storms, shipwreck... ...-morrow I shall storm the fort, and on taking it, shall put to death every male in the garrison, and every female above twenty years of age. For yours... ...her eyes. My mind was instantaneously made up as to my line of action. The male attendants had of course quitted the apartment, as they heard the well... ...he dollars: do you hear?” Y ou see I had her in my power—up a tree, as the Americans say, and she very humbly lighted my pipe for me, and then departe...

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...nfluence of great men; he was an agent for half-a-dozen theatrical people, male 13 Thackeray and female, and had the interests of the latter especial... ...to me, considering these things, it seemed that there were a hundred other male brutes squatted round about, and treated just as reasonably as Bottom ... ... it, depend upon it: it is a sad life, a poor pastime. Mr. Dickens, in his American book, tells of the prisoners at the silent prison, how they had or... ...ourse of study, nor, indeed, possible; for, between ourselves, none of the male Fitz- Boodles ever could sing a note, and the jargon of scales and sol... ...r, and to remember that it has been modelled on the style of the very best writers of the sporting papers. 124 Men’s Wives * * * 4th round. C...

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...first edition, the “ Globe “ edition, and about a dozen others English and American. I found many misprints and corrup- tions in all except the editio... ...; and many other examples might be mentioned. The Ben-Shie implies the fe- male fairy whose lamentations were often supposed to pre- cede the death of... ...he Daoine Shi’, or Men of Peace, of the Highlanders, though not absolutely malevolent, are believed to be a peevish, repining race of beings, who, pos... ...unds, etc. “It has been already observed that fair- ies, if not positively malevolent, are capricious, and easily of- fended. They are, like other pro... ...h to say, to say sooth, in sooth, in good sooth, etc., are com- mon in old writers. Cf. the Lay, introd. 57: “the sooth to speak.” 65. T o claim its a... ...e their prey.’” 177. Good faith. In good faith, bona fide; as often in old writers. 192. Bower. See on i. 217 above. 195. This rebel Chieftain, etc. T... ...tion, see Wb. 90. Poule. Paul; an old spelling, found in Chaucer and other writers. The measure of the song is anapestic (that is, with the accent on ...

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...therwise iden tical with it. She was dressed as simply as possible, in an American print (I think the dry goods people call it so), but with a silken... ...e so happy, especially a feminine creature.” “They are always happier than male creatures,” said I. “You must correct that opinion, Mr. Coverdale,” re... ...or me, therefore, to go and hold a little talk with the conservatives, the writers of “The North Ameri can Review,” the merchants, the politicians, t... ... fall 133 Hawthorne in love with Priscilla. In society, indeed, a genuine American never dreams of stepping across the inappreciable air line which s... ...voices and much laughter proceeding from the interior of the wood. Voices, male and feminine; laughter, not only of fresh young throats, but the bass ...

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...h Greek and Roman customs, law courts and expressions, and Greek and Roman writers. I do not find myself wanting in making out a stiff bit of Greek or... ...orce’s new book, and this involved an examination of the question in other writers; but lately I have laid all controversial works aside almost entire... ...expeditions; but of late whalers and sandal wood traders, both English and American, had been finding their way among them, and too often acting as ir... ...it to-day, and had a long talk with the physician and surgeon, and saw the male pa- tients, two of them natives. One of them is dying, and so I am to ... ...d interest in all questions of philology. Both were also readers of German writers on Church history and of critical interpretation of the New Testame... ...haps: two or three faint female voices, two or three rough most discordant male voices, all the attempt at singing. No instrument of any kind. The bur... ... it is for all who wish to belong to it. He recognises no dis- tinction of male or female, bond or free.” 477 Yo n g e ‘Some of the elder men are bec... ...e the chief obstacle to the Mission. After describing an interview with an American captain, he continues:—’Reports are rife of a semi-legalised slave... ...tion, a sugar plantation has not been found a very advanced school for the American or West Indian negro, and as a matter of fact, the islander who ha...

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...e first clerk to the articled gents, from the articled gents to the ragged writers and white- faced runners, in clothes too tight for them, as he sate... ...versation. This is a species of dignity in which the high-bred British fe- male reigns supreme. To watch the behaviour of a fine lady to other and hum... ...ace all the females of the establishment in mourning; and desired that the male servants should be similarly attired in deep black. All parties and en... ...y handsome. But wherever she went she touched and charmed every one of the male sex, as invariably as she awakened the scorn and incredulity of her ow... ...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 ... ...o well? Finally, the procession being formed in the order described by the American diplomatist, they marched into the apartment where the banquet was...

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...rful and antipathetic fellow-novelist, Dostoievsky, and many other Russian writers: but as he was the greatest artist of them all, his individual reve... ...goes be- neath the old delimitation of the novelist hide-bound by the law—”male and female created he them.” He had the same extreme susceptibility to... ...ples set by men such as Quintin Johnson, Karrelius, Sverlitskov, and other writers and statisticians. Then he went on to talk of himself again, of his... ...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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...on horseback at full gallop up the stairway of the orangery at Versailles. Writers and artists died in the hospi- tal, as a natural consequence of the... ...ulties; but neither the conquerors, nor the actors, nor the women, nor the writers in the great drama will listen to the salutary voice. Cesar Birotte... ...imulate the growth of hair, to titillate the scalp, to revive the color of male and female tresses. This cosmetic will not be less successful than my ... ...ls, walls hung with an olive-green paper, and otherwise decorated with the American Declaration of Independence, a portrait of Bonaparte as First Cons... ...arious ways. Birotteau found himself among a numerous company of deputies, writers, journalists, stock- brokers, merchants of the upper grades, agents... ... “There is a beginning to everything,” said Molineux. Dismayed by the curt malevolence of the old man, Cesar was cowed; he heard the knell of failure ...

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...ty. I don’t want him to sell his country to Germany, or to turn it into an American republic in order that he may be president. But when he gets the r... ...leman at the Home Office, who means to reform the police and put an end to malefactors; or the new Minister at the Board of Works, who is to make Lond... ...remote a degree. Paragraphs in news- papers go for much, and therefore the writers and editors of such paragraphs were there,—sometimes with their wiv... ...r,—the result of which was, that he had gone rather deep into two or three American mines before the end of July. But he had already made some money o... ... with various ladies, with the Pountneys and Gun- ners, and other obedient male followers, had been to church. None of the Ministers had of course bee... ...rds, has not yet given it a name. I am a good deal at present in the South American trade.’ She listened, but received no glimmering of an idea from h... ...k that his son ought to enjoy any special privilege of primogeniture or of male inheritance. And if it could be so managed that the daughter should be... ..., and the strong-minded women who take an interest in such things, and the writers in newspapers, had almost doubted whether in the emer- gency which ...

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...from entering into ex- planations concerning their origin and purposes. As writers of travels among barbarous communities are generally very diffuse o... ...le INTRODUCTION TO THE EDITION OF 1892 BY ARTHUR STEDMAN Of the trinity of American authors whose births made the year 1819 a notable one in our liter... ...tsfield, Mass., ‘boarding around’ with the families of his pupils, in true American fashion, and easily suppressing, on one memorable occasion, the ef... ...e remained for four months, employed as a clerk. He joined the crew of the American frigate United States, which reached Boston, stopping on the way a... ... hesitate to employ, with all his patriotism, toward many renowned English writers. Dana is, indeed, great. There is nothing in literature more remark... ... pirated copies. Beside Hawthorne, Mr. Richard Henry Stoddard, of American writers, specially knew and appreciated Herman Melville. Mr. Stoddard was c... ...s of the principal groups it is simply a sexual designation applied to the males; but it is now used by the natives in their intercourse with foreigne... ...to have been dictated by the most merciful considerations. T o destroy our malefactors piece-meal, drying up in their veins, drop by drop, the blood w... ... concentrated; and to have seen it filled with a crowd of the natives, all males, conversing in animated clusters, while multitudes were continually c...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................

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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... ...iarisms in the “Paradise Lost” from Latin passages fathered upon imaginary writers, when these passages had previously been forged by Lauder himself f... ...rocken.”—This very striking phenom- enon has been continually described by writers, both Ger- man and English, for the last fifty years. Many readers,... ...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... ...ers; which, however, so far from reconciling her to the letters, or to the writers of the letters, had the unhappy effect of riveting her dislike (pre... ...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...