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...to do, ex- cept a functionless existence varied by calls, tennis, selected novels, walks, and dusting in her father’s house. She thought study would b... ...ging. Daugh- ters were not like sons. He perceived, however, that both the novels he read and the world he lived in discountenanced these assumptions.... ...Wells about so much.” “Y es. That’s about the beginning. It’s these damned novels. All this torrent of misleading, spurious stuff that pours from the ... ...hance. Men are against her. Whatever she does is mini- mized. All the best novels have been written by women, and yet see how men sneer at the lady no... ...ot look to right or left again. Beyond the Circus Ann Veronica went into a British Tea- Table Company shop to get some tea. And as she was yet waiting... ... it said. Then he sat down again in a chair and said that people who wrote novels ought to be strung up. It was as much as I could do to prevent him f... ...erself anxious to read more of him, and the next Wednesday she went to the British Museum and hunted first among the half-crown magazines for his essa... ... nity, and spent most of the intervening time in the Assyrian Court of the British Museum, reading and thinking over a little book upon the feminist m...

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...ome fun. But a plague of odes, and ballads, and driveling meditations, and novels with wide margins, pervades the sofas and the atmosphere.” “I don’t ... ...eshing coolness to the atmosphere of any room in which a certain number of British females are gathered together. The young men grew serious as a coup... ... colors, and always appeared at balls adorned with the turban, dear to the British female, and lovingly cultivated in out-of-the-way districts in Fran...

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... player of draughts and chess, and an earnest and persistent reader of the British Weekly. His wife was a pink, short, wilfully smiling, managing, ing... ...he hour of six the shooting of bolts and the turning of keys had ended the British Ramadan, that weekly interlude of drought our law imposes. The yout... ...“You (un- profitable matter, and printing it would lead to a censorship of novels)! You know I got a weak chess!” The pole took him in the throat and ...

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...ure.” “You should learn, Miss Brough,” said her father. “The daughter of a British merchant need not be ashamed of the means by which her father gets ... ..., genteel society has been fully described already by vari- ous authors of novels, whose names need not here be set down, but who, being themselves co...

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...s too common and vulgar; for what else is the subject of all the romances, novels, plays, and poems, with which the stalls abound? Many exquisite vi ... ...lf of the species. In enjoying, therefore, such place of rendezvous, the British fair ought to esteem themselves more happy than any of their foreig...

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...e is at this very time (1854), and has been for twenty years, passing over British society. Multitudes of per- sons are becoming ashamed of saying, ‘m... ...dle out; put it out directly; we shall all be burned in our beds.’ Had the British party in the room been awake, Mr. Williams would have roused a muti... ...he seventeenth and eighteenth century, into the costly collections of the ‘British Poets.’ And really, if you will insist on odious comparisons, they ... ... his avenging dagger. These sort of people were not the sort to frighten a British Ministry. One laughs at the probable conversation between an old hu... ...phocles was judi- ciously chosen as the particular medium for conveying to British minds a first impression, and a representative im- 105 Thomas de Q... ...for unrealizing the effects of dramatic situations: 1. We may see, even in novels and prose comedies, a keen attention paid to the inspiriting and dre...

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...ncouragement to many others to undertake the like. Thus a swarm of foolish novels and monstrous romances will be produced, either to the great impover... ...ons who have scrupled to aim at both: and if we examine the ro mances and novels with which the world abounds, I think we may fairly conclude, that m... ...demands numbers, or something like numbers: whereas, to the composition of novels and ro mances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with ... ...s and the women. This young fellow lay in bed reading one of Mrs. Behn’s novels; for he had been instructed by a friend that he would find no more e... ...n the mystery of boxing: where the whole theory and practice of that truly British art, with all the various stops, blows, cross buttocks, &c., incid... ...raw a curtain over those that have been lately set forth in certain French novels; very bungling copies of which have been presented us here under the...

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...she seems on investigation to have been quite a suitable wife for a modern British Bishop, has been invested by the popu- lar historical imagination w... ... indispensable motive in popular plays. The plays of Moliere are, like the novels of the Victorian epoch or Don Quixote, as nearly sexless as any- thi... ...d, accus- tomed to consider the French stage much more licentious than the British, are always surprised and puzzled when we learn, as we may do any d... ...se French prudery does not attach itself to the same points of behavior as British prudery, and has a dif- ferent code of the mentionable and the unme... ...nd, and was advanced in all seri-ousness by an earnest and distin- guished British moralist shortly after the first performance of Overruled. My objec... ...The fiery sun of Spain blazed on your cradle; and it rocked to the roar of British cannon. MRS. LUNN. What eloquence! It reminds me of my hus- band wh...

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...as saying to myself, fiercely, hissing it between my teeth, as they say in novels—and really clenching them together: I was saying to myself: ‘Now, I’... ...t add that poor dear Edward was a great reader—he would pass hours lost in novels of a sentimental type—novels in which typewriter girls mar- ried Mar... ... say that her ideal husband would he one who could get her received at the British Court. She had spent, it seemed, two months in Great Britain—seven ... ...d then he spent the best part of a week, in correspon- dence and up at the British consul’s, in getting the fellow’s wife to come back from London and... ...re. Even when he was twenty-two he would pass hours reading one of Scott’s novels or the Chronicles of Froissart. Mrs Ashburnham considered that she w... ...well read as Lenora, at any rate in learned books. Leonora could not stand novels. But, even with all her differences, Mrs Basil did not appear to Leo... ...excess, his nights out, his, let us say, rutting seasons. She had read few novels, so that the idea of a pure and constant love succeeding the sound o... ... of her marrying me. And Leonora, I assure you, was the absolutely perfect British ma- tron. She said that she quite favoured my suit; that she could ...

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...hen I got back I were laid hands on by these here bobbies, contrary to the British constitooshun, and if your ladyship will kindly go to where that co... ... it; or as if a master mariner, knowing that many ships are wrecked in the British channel, should venture there with- out a pilot, thinking that he k... ...Canadian government for nothing, thought it would be a good idea to settle British workmen on it and screw rent out of them. Plenty of British workmen... ...of modern civilization in Germany, for instance. That one is France; that, British India. Here you have the United States of America, home of liberty,... ...bargee on the Lyvern Canal. The other is one of the senior noblemen of the British Peerage. They il- lustrate the fact that Nature, even when perverte... ...e point of being united?” “I really don’t know. This is one of your clever novels. I wish the characters would not talk so much.” “No matter. T wo of ... ... in spite of yourself, shown them in a false light. Actions de- scribed in novels are judged by a romantic system of morals as fictitious as the actio... ...hase (would that all had reached it!) has not yet leisure to write or read novels. In noveldom woman still sets the moral standard, and to her the mal... ...that you can find no better employment for your talent than the writing of novels. The first literary result of the foundation of our industrial syste...

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...d. The very people who read with indignation of Squeers and Creakle in the novels of Dickens are quite ready to hand over their own children to Squeer... ...ary schoolmasters to qualify themselves in the art of self-defence, as the British Constitution expresses our national estimate of them by allowing us... ...Wellington complained that it was impossible to get an order obeyed in the British army except in two or three crack regiments. Such frantic excesses ... ...ings of this are already percep- tible. There is a movement for making our British children into priggish little barefooted vagabonds, all talking lik... ...na. The cultivated Jewess no longer cuts off her hair at her marriage. The British matron has discarded her cap and her conscientious ugliness; and a ...

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...s they arrived. One man publishes nothing but school books; another has five novels already under examination.” “What a voluminous mass the unpublishe... ...m’s length. “It was Gray’s idea of heaven, to lounge on a sofa and read new novels. Now, what more appropriate torture would Dante himself have contr... ...row lane, through which he was passing, he beheld the broad countenance of a British hero swinging before the door of an inn, whence proceeded the voi...

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... is just what I did not want to do. Nothing would please our sanctimonious British public more than to throw the whole guilt of Mrs Warren’s professio... ... aim of my play is to 20 Mrs. Warren’s Profession throw that guilt on the British public itself. You may remem- ber that when you produced my first p... ...: there was no good fellowship. Nothing real. Only gallantry copied out of novels, and as vulgar and affected as it could be. Maidenly reserve! gentle...

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...ventional intercourse. Nasty! they are going into the church, too. Oh, the Britisher abroad!” “We sat opposite them at dinner last night. They have gi... ...rs. And let me give you all fair warning: I intend to be unmerciful to the British tourist.” “Oh, you wicked woman,” cried Miss Bartlett. “I am sure y... ...iss Lavish frowned. It is hard when a person you have classed as typically British speaks out of his character. He was not driving us well,” she said.... ...t topics: the Emersons’ need of a housekeeper; servants; Italian servants; novels about Italy; novels with a purpose; could literature influence life?... .... It’s much pleasanter. How wet it is! Let’s turn in here.” “Here” was the British Museum. Mrs. Honeychurch refused. If they must take shelter, let it...

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...n beaver hat, and carrying a roll of writing materials. “I am going to the British Museum to read,” said she. “T o walk!—alone!” said Lucian, looking ... ...exclamation had interrupted the combat, now waved his hat, and cried, “The British Lion forever! Three cheers for Cashel Byron.” Cashel turned upon hi... ... were tilts, tent-peggings, drilling and singlestick practice by squads of British tars, who were loudly cheered, and more boxing and vaulting by memb... ...le; and, failing any of these employments, sat outside in the sun, reading novels. When Lydia had worked in this retreat daily for two months her mind... ...o you remember once, before you knew me very well, telling me that Scott’s novels were the only ones that you liked to see in the hands of ladies?” “N... ...technically a breach of the peace, had never been severely dealt with by a British jury or a British judge; and the case would be amply met by binding...

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...d earnestness, of which there is no other living instance; of which, among British poets espe- cially, Wordsworth alone offers any resemblance. And th... ...tones of a wild and quite artless melody, could pierce so deep into many a British heart, now that the whole matter is no longer new,—is indeed old an... ...but for this no other form could be devised than that of the Richardsonian novels. Only by the minutest detail, by endless particularities which bear ... ...esigns, larger and smaller plates, which came more and more into vogue for novels and po- ems. He etched very neatly, so that his work came out of the...

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...,” and that the writings of the Indian philosophers “will survive when the British dominion in India shall have long ceased to exist, and when the sou... ...w heads are turned up by the plough. In the Pelasgic, the Etruscan, or the British story, there is nothing so shadowy and unreal. It is a wild and ant... ... this town; several of them had been made free from taxes through out the British dominions by King William, for their bravery in that memorable sieg... ...onder that the Mythology, and Arabian Nights, and Shakespeare, and Scott’s novels entertain us,—we are poets and fablers and drama tists and novelist... ...hat land formed the nucleus, and that it was not an iceberg;—the practical British reviewer proceeds thus, sticking to his last, “On the 22d of Januar...

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... What books in the circulating libraries circulate? How we glow over these novels of pas- sion, when the story is told with any spark of truth and nat... ...ng them, they cannot die.” The poets are thus liberating gods. The ancient British bards had for the title of their order, “Those Who are free through... ...50 Essays is that, and, in English literature, half the drama, and all the novels, from Sir Philip Sidney to Sir Walter Scott, paint this figure. The ...

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..., greatly performed. Take it to pieces and examine it, if you like. Y.M. A British troop ship crowded with soldiers and their wives and children. She ... ... third rates, of worn and commonplace and juiceless forms that makes their novels such a weariness and vexation to us, I think. We do not mind one or ...

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...ennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents NOVELS BY EMINENT HANDS ...................................................... ...................313 4 Thackeray Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray NOVELS BY EMINENT HANDS GEORGE DE BARNWELL BY SIR E. L. B. L., BART. VOL I.... ...her mind was duty above every other feeling!— so strong may it be in every British maiden!) the lovely girl kept her promise. “My former engagements,”... ...ver his head, and putting his arms a-kimbo, “we have learned that from the British, to whom we are superior in everything: and I’d have your Majesty t... ...essons. If your reglars jine General Washington, ’tis to larn from him how Britishers are licked; for I’m blest if yu know the way yet.” Tatua said, “... ...tershire have still many a legend of fear to tell; and the children of the British fishermen tremble even now when they speak of the terrible “Repudia... ...of our country, the chance of the combat might have been in fa- vor of the British vessels. It was not until the “Elector” blew up, at a quarter past ... ...ial, but it shows the power of Julia Jowler over me. The writers of marine novels have so exhausted the subject of storms, shipwrecks, mutinies, engag... ... ideas as romantic as any young misses of sixteen. Let us have middle-aged novels then, as well as your extremely juvenile legends: let the young ones...

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... the enemy had done to him. Very probably the Navy is the exception to the British sys- tem; its officers are rescued from the dull homes and dull sch... ...rn to speak French. Heaven alone knows what they do with their brains! The British reading and thinking public probably does not number fifty thousand... ...nited States is fluid. Equally notable is the enor- mous proportion of the British prosperous which winters either in the high Alps or along the Rivie... ...oyalty. The most elaborately con- ceived, the most stately of all recorded British Coronations is past. What new phase in the life of our nation and o... ...nt King exhorted this island to “wake up” in one of the most remarkable of British royal utterances, and Mr. Owen Seaman assures him in verse of an al... ...made me think a good deal at different times about the business of writing novels, and what it means, and is, and may be; and I was a professional cri... ... and what it means, and is, and may be; and I was a professional critic of novels long before I wrote them. I have been writing novels, or writ- ing a... ...s long before I wrote them. I have been writing novels, or writ- ing about novels, for the last twenty years. It seems only yes- terday that I wrote a... ...ders, women and girls and young men at least will insist upon having their novels significant and real, and it is to these perpetually re- newed eleme...

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... Clapham that is what they call by the senseless name of Free Love. In the British Empire we have unlimited Kulin polygamy, Muslim po- lygamy limited ... ...nations in the eyes of many worthy persons. Not only may the re- spectable British champion of marriage mean any of these widely different institution... ...e remarkable set of life studies of XIXth century women to be found in the novels of Dickens, the most convincingly real ones are either vilely unamia... ...th, if not sooner; but it is very seldom brought to that test. The typical British husband sees much less of his wife than he does of his business par... ...t to be wondered at that the mere mention of the marriage question makes a British Cabinet shiver with apprehension and hastily pass on to safer busin... ... than men. Now though polygyny prevails throughout the greater part of the British Empire, and is as practicable here as in India, there is a good dea... ...n the true sufferers? Is not love always 119 Getting Married falsified in novels and plays to make it endurable? I have noticed in myself a great del...

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...aht of a steam yacht in Mogador awber not twenty minnits agow. Gorn to the British cornsl’s. E’ll send em orn to you: e ynt got naowheres to put em. S... ...ke up the case against him. RANKIN. Is such a thing possible to-day in the British Empire? SIR HOWARD (calmly). Oh, quite. Quite. LADY CICELY. But cou... ...n fifty yawds. (Bustling them about) Nah then: git the plice ready for the British herristoracy, Lawd Ellam and Lidy Wineflete. REDBOOK. Lady faint, e... ... letter? Your men are waiting to hear it, I think. BRASSBOUND. It is not a British ship. (Sir Howard’s face falls.) LADY CICELY. What is it, then? RAS... ...ley Othman el Kintafi, and announces that he is coming to look for the two British travellers Sir Howard Hallam and Lady Cicely Waynflete, in the Cadi... ...d, and gazes at him with the stead- fast candor peculiar to liars who read novels. His eyes turn to the ground; and his brow clouds perplexedly. He ri...

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... Autobiography the eldest son of James Mill, the author of the History of British India . My father, the son of a petty tradesman and (I believe) sma... ...is humble source. I did not invent the word, but found it in one of Galt’s novels, the Annals of the Parish , in which the Scotch clergyman, of whom t... ..., entered into a complete analysis, from the Radical point of view, of the British Constitution. He held up to notice its thoroughly aristocratic char... ... all slaves. There was, indeed, no immediate peril from this source on the British side of the channel, where nine tenths of the internal business whi... ...ed, towards the end of 1861, the seizure of the Southern envoys on board a British vessel, by an officer of the United States. Even English forgetfuln... ... not feel that if there was still any chance of reconciling Ireland to the British connection, it could only be by the adoption of much more thorough ...

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...rges,” and with the writer of “Colomba.” A somewhat minute analysis of the novels and romances of Maupassant would suffice to demon- strate, even if w... ...e,” “Le Masque,” “Le Horla,” “L’Epreuve,” “Le Champ d’Oliviers,” among the novels, and among the romances, “Une Vie,” “Pierre et Jean,” “Fort comme la... ...eu and landscape and all that con- stitutes a precise middle distance, his novels can be considered an irrefutable record of the social classes which ... ... he has painted at many sittings, and whom he used to such effect that the novels and romances in which they are painted have come to be history. Just... ...his predecessors and contemporaries, Flaubert not excepted. Apart from his novels, De Maupassant’s tales may be arranged under three heads: Those that... ...ich she usually climbed to dream away her time undisturbed. “She uttered a British ‘Oh,’ which was at once so accentuated and so flattering, that I tu...

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...to the exaggerated employment of mirrors. We line our dwellings with great British plates, and then imagine we have done a fine thing. Now the slighte... ...y that we must look (if at all, in Appallachia), for the spirituality of a British boudoir. But we have seen apartments in the tenure of Ameri- cans o... ...is invariably mistranslated and misconceived. “Cui bono?” in all the crack novels and elsewhere,—in those of Mrs. Gore, for example, (the author of “C... ...g, “as needed,” upon a systematic plan, by Mr. Beckford,— in all the crack novels, I say, from those of Bulwer and Dickens to those of Bulwer and Dick... ...ile it has strict connection with poetry in the abstract, and with the old British poems themselves, should not be looked upon as a merit ap- pertaini...

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...ttainable, might be secured. It was believed also that from writers mainly British and American fuller consideration of English Philosophy than it had... ...s and their neural correlate, with an examination of the nature of pain,” “British Journal of Psy- chology,” viii, 4. (1917). But as these arguments a... ...han our knowledge of the “external” world; this view is to be found in the British philosophy which descends from Hume, and is present, somewhat veile... ...ed. There are also its narrative and imagi- native uses, as in history and novels. Let us take as an instance the telling of some remembered event. We... ...riment, see A. Wohlgemuth, “On Memory and the Direction of Associations,” “British Journal of Psychol- ogy,” vol. v, part iv (March, 1913). 144 Bertr... ...n an article by Mr. Wohlgemuth, called “The Direc- tion of Associations” (“British Journal of Psychology,” vol. v, part iv, March, 1913), it is claime...

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...ghteous and happy, world without end. Amen.’ And who can look twice at the British Parliament and then seriously bring it such a task? I am not advanc... ...and the body which is to regulate their administra- tion no wiser than the British Parliament. So that upon all hands we may look for a form of servit... ...; and the Law student, after hav- ing exhausted Byron’s poetry and Scott’s novels, informed the ladies of his belief in phrenology. In the present day...

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...n Connecticut until old enough to do for himself, when he emigrated to the British West Indies. Not long after his settlement in Pennsylvania, my gran... ...the course of studies. Much of the time, I am sorry to say, was devoted to novels, but not 17 U. S. Grant those of a trashy sort. I read all of Bulwe... ...ination of the war, but also because foreign governments, particularly the British Government, were constantly threatening that unless ours could main...

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...rehand:—one must trust a little to Providence and be generous. It’s a good British feeling to try and raise your family a little: in my opinion, it’s ... ...n the numerous visitors of the house. She found time also to read the best novels, and even the second best, and she knew much poetry by heart. Her fa... ... stay a long while there in spite of professional accom- plishment. In the British climate there is no incompatibility be- tween scientific insight an...