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...to live in flooded, swampy areas? Based on a theory developed in 1930 by British marine biologist Alistair Hardy, Elaine Morgan‘s provocative book ... ...tion of its operation on next page after end of this chapter. Renowned British brain researcher Michael Crawford, PhD, argues quite persuasively ... ...lists of spaces with visual details to bring to mind thousands of lines of poetry. Church ritual and liturgy were passed down in the same manner. A ... ...far-flung as Greece, Sicily, Italy, North Africa, southern Spain, and the British Isles. Vowel signs were missing The Phoenician‘s twenty-two sign... ...the world. Many historians title this period of cultural and intellectual revival the Carolingian Renaissance. Some, however, contend that the major... ... Guillen, Michael. Five Equations that Changed the World: The Power and Poetry of Mathematics. New York: Hyperion, 1995. Hawke, David Freeman...

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...f opprobrium and odium is hardly surprising, or unprecedented. Empires - Rome, the British, the Ottomans - were always targeted by the disgruntled,... ... US foreign policy. Thus, the American Empire is closer to the commercially driven British Empire than to the militarily propelled Roman one. Actu... ..., isn't America's reign merely the successor of Britain's? Wasn't it John Locke, a British philosopher, who said that expansion - a "natural right"... ...e interests of the sole superpower - as may be the case with North Korea - Russia's revival as an important regional player is tolerated. But, follo... ...collapse of Sharon's narrow right-wing government - this despite a modest economic revival. The current account deficit, prognosticates the EIU, ... ...f the war-torn country's middle class is the cornerstone of any hoped-for economic revival. But income inequality and a criminalized regime led to... ...ology: http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/ Philosophy: http://philosophos.tripod.com/ Poetry: http://samvak.tripod.com/contents.html Fiction: http://sa...

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...or's fancy. Every human being has, somewhere in his composition, an element of poetry, and a poetic germ, developed through successive generations, pr... ...of impending danger. Such a spectre appeared in 1664, to Captain Rogers of the British Navy. He was heading for the Hatteras Capes, but still deemed h... ...the South Africa coast, and there he and all with him beheld in the offing the British man-of-war Barracouta. So plainly visible was the vessel that s... ...ny Pigapheta, a Knight of Rhodes, who dabbled in letters, has written a little poetry at times, and is consequently looked on as rather a suspicious c... ...the West Indies, Penn formed the bold design of conquering and annexing to the British dominions the large and valuable island of Hayti and operations... ... in the direction of finding a practicable passage. The peace of 1815 caused a revival of interest in Arctic exploration, and the result was a renewal...

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... himself, and sought employers for Bert who did not know of this strain of poetry in his nature. And Bert touched the fringe of a num- ber of trades i... ...g the consequent great rise of prices, confidence, and enterprise that the revival of interest in flying occurred. It is curious how that revival bega... ...d to keep his secret safe from any further risk of leak- age. He faced the British public now with the question whether they wanted his secret or not;... ...sual dimensions and irregular circumstances and the still largely decorous British public learnt with reluctance and alarm that a sympathetic treatmen... ...exclusive acquisition of the priceless secret of aerial sta- bility by the British Empire. The exact particulars of the simi- larity never came to lig...

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...ole- onic rule. After the pressure was removed, there followed that sudden revival of class divisions which did so much harm to the country. The most ... ..., and consumers of tobacco; and are apt to treat art, sci- ences, letters, poetry, or anything offensively above their in- tellects, cavalierly enough... ... pretensions to wit will be at her house en petit comite. Literature, art, poetry, any sort of genius, in short, is held in great esteem there. It is ... ...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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...ed to the consumption of beer by her maid servants; and she affirmed that the British laundress (Mrs. Touchett was very particular about the appearance... ...ses, the London Spectator, the latest publications, the music of Gounod, the poetry of Browning, the prose of George Eliot. These things now, as memor... ...orms that puzzled him. She questioned him immensely about England, about the British CHAPTER 6 43 constitution, the English character, the state of p... ...e two amused themselves, time and again, with talking of the attitude of the British public as if the young lady had been in a position to appeal to i... ...rself, you know; but I haven’t read everything she has written. It’s usually poetry, and I don’t go in much for poetry—unless it’s Byron. I suppose yo... ...ung lady felt the force of it—felt it thrown off, into the vast of truth and poetry, as practically a bait to her imagination. But she promptly came r... ...en when the reality had been pleasant. The past was apt to look dead and its revival rather to show the livid light of a judgement day. The girl moreo...

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...generally identified with the ancient tower of Fast Castle.] The scraps of poetry which have been in most cases tacked to the beginning of chapters in... ...ure invention. I found it too troublesome to turn to the collection of the British Poets to discover appo- site mottoes, and, in the situation of the ... ... were man?—a world without a sun!” And there would not be a darker spot in poetry than would be the corner in Shakespeare Square, if, like its fellow,... ...abroad a conducteur; or might be compared to the sailing-master on board a British ship of war, who follows out after his own manner the course which ... ...ive tartan, and so named to distinguish them from the scarlet ranks of the British army. In this occupation she spent many hours of each morning and e... ... between the offence which he had taken at Robin’s late behaviour, and the revival of his habitual feel- ings of regard. He now rose, and went towards...

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...as no objection to an interminable Chancery suit. It is a slow, expensive, British, constitutional kind of thing. T o be sure, he has not a vital inte... ...ate life you are otherwise than a very estimable man, with a great deal of poetry in your nature, of which you may not be conscious. The stranger only... ...ger only answered with another violent snort, whether in acceptance of the poetry tribute or in disdainful rejection of it, he did not express to me. ... ...rp a little, singing a little, working a little, reading a little, writing poetry a little, and botanizing a little. She was a lady of about fifty, I ... ...dmiring Mrs. Snagsby the regular acute professional eye which is thrown on British jurymen. “Now, ma’am, perhaps you’ll have the kindness to tell us ... ...om that truly national work The Divinities of Albion, or Galaxy Gallery of British Beauty, representing ladies of title and fash ion in every variety... ...s wife, “and see what she is? You’re a brimstone chatterer!” with a sudden revival of his late hostility. “Unlucky old soul!” says Mr. George, turning...

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... any gentleman of commercial pursuits bringing laws for all mankind from a British city—where two spare clerks, like dried dragoons, in green velvet c... ...h and nail upheld by the Circumlocution Office, of warning every ingenious British 85 Little Dorrit – Book Two subject to be ingenious at his peril: ... ... Clennam re- garded as among the implied obligations of his partnership. A revival of the passing interest in the subject which had been by chance awa... ...rapes growing everywhere and lava necklaces and bracelets too that land of poetry with burning mountains picturesque beyond belief though 106 Charles... ...spouse of hers, whom it was heresy to regard as anything less than all the British Merchants since the days of Whittington rolled into one, and gilded... ...y Cottage, T. and M. Plornish; the partnership expressing man and wife. No Poetry and no Art ever charmed the imagination more than the union of the t... ...have seen enough of you to know that you are a bully and coward. I need no revival of my spirits from the effects of this wretched place to tell you s...

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... live in flooded, swampy areas? Based on a theory developed in 1930 by British marine biologist Alistair Hardy, Elaine Morgan‘s provocative book ... ...easy-to-harvest shellfish—like today‘s scallops—in abundance.‖ Renowned British brain researcher Michael Crawford, PhD, argues quite persuasively ... ...lists of spaces with visual details to bring to mind thousands of lines of poetry. Church ritual and liturgy were passed down in the same manner. ... ...far-flung as Greece, Sicily, Italy, North Africa, southern Spain, and the British Isles. Vowel signs were missing The Phoenician‘s twenty-two si... ...e world. Many historians title this period of cultural and intellectual revival the Carolingian Renaissance. Some, however, contend that the major... ... Guillen, Michael. Five Equations that Changed the World: The Power and Poetry of Mathematics. New York: Hyperion, 1995. Hawke, David Freeman...

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...ropped upon the table as I write a modest pe- riodical called The Northern British Israel Review, illustrated with portraits of various clergymen of t... ...nts out that the absence of mist on the North Sea was of great help to the British in the autumn of 1914, and declares that it was the wet state of th... ...hich has found such delicate and attractive expression in the de- votional poetry of Rabindranath Tagore—has long since abandoned this anthropomorphic... ...and and cry out in the ecstasy of salva- tion; the tambourine, that modern revival of the thrilling Alexandrine sistrum, may still stir dull nerves to... ...te of affairs even for the next few decades. There are many signs that the revival is coming very swiftly, it may be coming as swiftly as the morning ... ...e altogether. Allusion has already been made to the sympathetic devotional poetry of Rabindranath Tagore; he stands for a movement in Brahminism paral... ...band themselves the better to attain specific ends. T o borrow a term from British politics, there is no objection to ad hoc organisations. The object... ...ey should not assemble for that purpose. And there is no doubt that divine poetry, divine maxims, religious thought finely expressed, may be heard, re... ...larification, such as I foresee, will most certainly bring with it a great revival of art, religious art, music, songs, and writings of all sorts, dra...

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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 ... ...ty for dealing with the grandeurs of the human spirit, with religion, with poetry, or even with science, when it rose above the mercenary practical, i... ...me for saying that men of the most sense are apt, upon two subjects, viz., poetry and style, to talk most like blockheads), have invariably regarded S... ...ial and random T emple de Gout ‘shows the supe- riority in this species of poetry to have been greatly on the side of the Frenchman.’ Let’s hear a rea... ...ons which occurred to me as requir- ing an answer, in connection with this revival, was one with regard to the comparative fitness of the Antigone for...

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...andi- 27 On Heroes navian one. Snorro tells us farther that Odin invented Poetry; the music of human speech, as well as that miraculous runic marking... ... in the Koran, a vein of true direct insight, of what we might almost call poetry, is found straggling. The body of the Book is made up of mere tradit... ...n illusion. At bottom, clearly enough, there is no perfect Poet! A vein of Poetry exists in the hearts of all men; no man is made altogether of Poetry... ... would there were no greater danger to our Europe than the poor old Pope’s revival! Thor may as soon try to revive.— And withal this oscillation has a... ...g men: and he was born in a poor Ayrshire hut. The largest soul of all the British lands came among us in the shape of a hard- handed Scottish Peasant... ...to every man? You would think it strange if I called Burns the most gifted British soul we had in all that century of his: and yet I believe the day i...

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...f national prowess. This is the principle upon which, very naturally , our British school- boys value a battle. Painful it is to add, that this is the... ... knew Lady Carbery’s constitutional inapti- 77 Thomas de Quincey tude for poetry; and not for the world would I have sought sympathy from her or from... ...an herself; for, though he had never in his whole homely life read more of poetry than he had drunk of Tokay or Constantia,—in fact, had scarcely hear... ... had drunk of Tokay or Constantia,—in fact, had scarcely heard tell of any poetry but Watts’ Hymns,—he seemed petrified: and at last, with a deep sigh... ... Or do we grind her still?” Pretty much the same authority it is which the British public of this day has for its craze upon the subject of English op... ...ling of amateurship. Several great collections have been bequeathed to the British Museum, for instance—not chiefly as a na- tional institution, and u... ...Swedish interest in the counsels and administration of that city. With the revival of the imperial cause, no doubt these orders would be repeated, and...

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...e back; this time, with eight hundred vessels and thirty thousand men. The British tribes chose, as their general in chief, a Briton, whom the Romans ... ...ef, a Briton, whom the Romans in their Latin language called —, but whose British name is supposed to have been Caswallon. A brave general he was, an... ...oman soldiers saw a great cloud of dust, and heard the rattle of the rapid British chariots, they trembled in their hearts. Besides a number of smalle... ...urga, happened, as she was sitting among her sons, to read a book of Saxon poetry. The art of printing was not known until long and long after that pe... ...f bringing the Princess to the scaffold, he went on at a great pace in the revival of the unreformed religion. A new Parliament was packed, in which t... ...ion of Queen Elizabeth, for the placing of Mary on the throne, and for the revival of the old religion. If the English people were too ready to believ...

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...in and maintain that lofty sight where facts yield their secret sense, and poetry and annals are alike. The instinct of the mind, the purpose of natur... ...ady into fiction. The Garden of Eden, the sun standing still in Gibeon, is poetry thence- forward to all nations. Who cares what the fact was, when we... ...a French Reign of Terror, and a Salem hanging of witches; before a fanatic Revival and the Animal Magne- tism in Paris, or in Providence. We assume th... ...uspended their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the ... ... Abraham, the building of the Temple, the Advent of Christ, Dark Ages, the Revival of Letters, the Reformation, the discovery of new lands, the open- ... ...ternal sense of the Word, in the language of the New Jerusalem Church; the revival of the Calvinistic churches; the experiences of the Methodists, are... ...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...

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...taff towards the opinions at issue were much the same as those of a modern British Home Secretary towards members of the lower middle classes when som... ...gue (not having noticed, appar- ently, that it had been anticipated by the British Em- pire, the French Republic, and the Kingdoms of Italy, Japan, an... ...t expressing religious emotion without intellectual definition by means of poetry, music, vestments and architecture, also pro- ducing religious ecsta... ...estion. Much less unlikely things have happened. It is true that if such a revival does take place soon, the martyrs will not be members of heretical ...

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...ere the real fathers of the Church; and nobody would lis- ten to religion, poetry or rhetoric; so that even Socialism had to call itself “scientific,”... ...il strangers: Greed instinctively mistrusts Intellect, even in the garb of Poetry and the company of Godhead, whilst envying the brilliancy of the one... ... must none the less fight for your life. It seems hardly possible that the British army at the battle of Waterloo did not include at least one English... ...ecularist systems had all the fictitiousness of “revela- tion” without its poetry, there was no escaping the conclu- sion that all the good that man h... ...ngle orchestral rehearsal, than by ten years reading in the Library of the British Mu- seum. Wagner must have learnt between Das Rheingold and the Kai... ...ction to absolute music, starting partly from Brahms, and partly from such revivals of medieval music as those of De Lange in Holland and Mr. Arnold D...

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... it was the same. A little brute at King’s who was always trying to get up revivals, spoilt my Bible—your first birthday present to me—by writing unde... ...ppose it wouldn’t be the end of the world if anything did. A little bit of British pluck is what you want, old chap. [He descends and strolls across t... ... of Greek no capi- tal? Is my access to the subtlest thought, the loftiest poetry yet attained by humanity, no capital? my character! my in- tellect! ...

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...tion, or in the fine arts, except only that, as to one of these arts, viz. poetry, a single god vaunted himself 28 Theological Essays and Other Paper... ...ked as unprosperous a speculation as Dr. Darwin’s scheme for improving our British climate by hauling out all the ice- bergs from the polar basin in s... ...he Hindoo races, now so entirely dependent upon our wisdom and justice, we British* immediately, by our solemnity of investigation, tes- *It may be th... ... travelling fast after all the wis- dom and the wit, the eloquence and the poetry of this earth, like a mountainous wave, and will finally overtake th... ...tural recognition of witchcraft as a Precisely in that way it was that the British witch operated. She, by her eye, blighted the natural powers of gro... ...lexandria founded and matured this new principle of remodelling applied to poetry not less than to philosophy and criticism. And, con- sidering the ac... ...is great of- fice—this was in itself sufficiently dreadful, and a shocking revival to the human imagination of that eldest amongst all traditions—a tr...

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...n July they found four or five urns of unbaked clay in one barrow—of early British make, very coarse, all either full of black earth or calcined bones... ... of the maniples; but alas! on being sent, in 1891, to be inspected at the British Museum, it was pronounced to be one of a cinquecento series of the ... ... his history says was at first derided and scoffed at as piety rather than poetry, adding that the good gentleman had drunk more of Jordan than of Hel... ...own and revered as the author of the Christian Y ear, and was Professor of Poetry at Oxford, when he came to Hursley; having married, on the 10th of O... ...last of all, the friend and partner of his earlier work, the sharer in the revival of the Church from her torpid repose, John Henry Newman, who met Dr...

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...embodying noble aspirations, has had but a limited in fluence. Again, the poetry of Robert Browning, though less frankly altruistic than that of Cowp... ...here the table d’ hote was a scene of sponta neous gaiety. The problem of British taciturnity passed his comprehension; but for us the enigma of Tols... ...ient and unnecessary. He even counselled the younger generation to give up poetry as a form of expres sion and to use prose instead. Poetry, he maint... ...His doctrine in fact appears less as a new light in the darkness than as a revival of the pure flame of “the Mystic of the Galilean hills,” whose teac...

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... especially in the rainy season, the Ganges is the cock of the walk in our British orient. Else, as regards the body of water discharged, the absolute... ... a step above even that object which some four-and-twenty years ago in the British Museum struck me as simply the sublimest sight which in this sight-... ...heir interests, which has ever marked our too haughty and Caliph-Omar-like British gov- ernment, lay in the circumstance that the glasses of the ap- p... ...ation of loneliness or ‘eeriness’ (to use an expressive term of the ballad poetry) arises to any small party assembling in a single room of a vast des... ... into another pit called Ball. This was too much. We were obliged to quote poetry against them:— ‘Letters four do form his name; He came by stealth an... ...ed most negligently at Hawkshead school, subsequently by reading the lyric poetry of Horace, simply for his own delight as a student of compo- sition,... ...ity. So that it appeared I was wrong in thinking he had forgotten me. This revival of my intimacy with Professor Kant, coincided pretty nearly, in poi...

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...y known musical instrument; was an accom- plished painter, and had written poetry. All this might as well have been true as far as the Wiltstokeners w... ...hen he recited before them, which, as he had a good memory and was fond of poetry, he often did. They were proud to go out walking with him. But his a... ...he had no suspicion that she was waited on by a versatile young student of poetry and public affairs, distinguished for his gallantry, his personal pr... ...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... .... Ta-ta!” As Cashel withdrew, Lucian collapsed into a chair, shaken by the revival of passions and jealousies which he had thought as completely outgr...

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...mary passes. These, for a time, were unsuccessful. The first indication of revival was afforded by a partial descent of the iris. It was observed, as ... ...and opportunity—to practise im- 116 Poe in Five V olumes posture upon the British and Austrian millionaires. In paint- ing and gemmary, Fortunato, l... ...ue state. Then a strong desire to lapse into insensibility. Then a rushing revival of soul and a success- ful effort to move. And now a full memory of... ...cian nor poet; although no man lived more profoundly enamored of music and poetry. Under other circumstances than those which invested him, it is not ... ... of combined novelty and propriety—in a word, of 192 Poe in Five V olumes poetry—(for, than in the words just employed, I could scarcely give, of poe...

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...rayers and Scriptures. When Queen Mary had sent for her to consider of the revival of convents, her views had been found to have so far diverged from ... ...o discuss Ronsard’s last sonnet, showing no small taste and knowl- edge of poetry. Greatly attracted by Sidney, the King de- tained the whole English ... ...at the University, fencing and dancing from the best profes- sors, Italian poetry, French sonnets, Latin epigrams; nothing came amiss to Sidney, the f... ...e her rescue, and even his own explanation to her, to a mere servant. This revival of his memory had not at all conduced to his progress in recovery. ... ...ily-instructed country priests, who were more numerous be- fore the Jesuit revival of learning, and knew nothing of con- troversy save that adapted to... ... his hat into the air, and was so near astonishing the donjon walls with a British hurrah, that Berenger had to put his hand over his mouth and strang...

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...H-EASTER?PASSAGE UP THE COAST, 32 -- CHAPTER XI ? PASSAGE UP THE COAST?MONTEREY, 35 -- CHAPTER XII ? LIFE AT MONTEREY, 38 -- CHAPTER XIII ? TRADING?A BRITISH SAILOR, 40 -- CHAPTER XIV ? SANTA BARBARA?HIDE-DROGHING?HARBOR -- DUTIES?DISCONTENT?SAN PEDRO, 46 -- CHAPTER XV ? A FLOGGING?A NIGHT ON SHORE?THE STATE OF THINGS ON -- BOARD?SAN DIEGO, 52 -- CHAPTER XVI ? LIBERTY-DAY ...

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...e gave us a longer credit than she gave to France or Germany or Russia. To British centenar- ians who died in their beds in 1914, any dread of having ... ...galler- ies and museums and schools at once occupied by war work- ers. The British Museum itself was saved only by a hair’s breadth. The sincerity of ... ... came to frantic denunciations of German chemistry, German biology, German poetry, German music, German literature, German philosophy, and even German... ... and even German engineering, as malignant abominations stand- ing towards British and French chemistry and so forth in the relation of heaven to hell... ...n of another enthusiast. Thus and not otherwise occurred that remark- able revival of the British drama at the beginning of the cen- tury which made m... ...o- duction at a London theatre than the Dialogues of Plato, not to mention revivals of the ancient Athenian drama and a restoration to the stage of Sh... ...lothes; where stories of improper females like Potiphar’s wife, and erotic poetry like the Song of Songs, were read aloud; where the sensuous and sent... ...nk of nothing but your ridiculous presentiment. You bore me. Come and talk poetry to me under the stars. [She drags him away into the darkness]. MANGA...

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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... ...adiness of expression. 1 I had read, up to this time, very little English poetry. Shakspeare my father had put into my hands, chiefly for the sake of... ...om he used to attack with some sever ity. He cared little for any English poetry except Milton (for whom he had the highest admiration), Goldsmith, B... ...e first book of the Fairie Queene ; but I took little pleasure in it. The poetry of the present cen tury he saw scarcely any merit in, and I hardly ... ..., 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... ...taken in conjunction with the many proofs which have since been given of a revival of speculation, speculation too of a free kind, in many quarters, a...

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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... ...revolution amidst which we are living to-day, that revolution of which the revival and restatement of nominalism under the name of pragmatism is the p... ...ny book that has any success can always be bought for sixpence, and modern poetry, because, with an exception or so, it does not signify at all. He wo... ..., or French or German history, a guide to the books on geology, a guide to poetry and poeti- cal criticisms, and so forth. Some such books our philoso... ...h a simple direct fatherliness with all the beneficent persuasiveness of a revivalist preacher. Millions read these leaders and feel a momentary benef...

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...vestryman. No doubt that literary knack of mine which happens to amuse the British public distracts attention from my character; but the character is ... ...e office in the city. When his swagger is exhausted he drivels into erotic poetry or sentimental uxoriousness; and the T ennysonian King Arthur posing... ...nduct, whose power of attention and scope of interest, are measured by the British theatre as you know it to-day, can either handle this colossal task... ... istic credulity of V oltaire, the amoristic superstition of Shelley , the revival of tribal soothsaying and idolatrous rites which Huxley called Scie... ...ill not allow you or any man to treat me as if I were a mere member of the British public. I detest its prejudices; I scorn its narrowness; I demand t... ...r Dante of Beatrice, as you see of Ann now; and yet they wrote first- rate poetry—at least so I’m told. They never exposed their idolatry to the test ... ...ndoza! How painless his longing of love for Louisa! That is real poetry—from the heart—from the heart of hearts. Don’t you think it will mov...

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...ll 35 introduce new benefits. What is boasted of at the present time as the revival of religion, is always, in narrow and uncultivated minds, at leas... ... religion, is always, in narrow and uncultivated minds, at least as much the revival of bigotry; and where there is the stron gest permanent leaven o... ...le to be interpreted literally , and possessing rather the impressiveness of poetry or eloquence than the pre cision of legislation. To extract from ... ...have said: Toleration of their faith (the faith of a hun- dred millions of British subjects), the superstition which they called religion, by the B... ...he British Government, had had the effect of retarding the ascendency of the British name, and preventing the salutary growth of Christian- ity.... To...

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...he slaughter of many innocent inhabitants. The neighborhood of Spanish and British territories, bor- dering on some States and not on others, naturall... ...ve its navigation and fleet—let those four of the constituent parts of the British empire be be under four inde- pendent governments, and it is easy t... ...se facilitate the competitions of other nations, by enhancing the price of British commodities in our markets, and by transferring to other hands the ... ...quell a domestic insurrection, and still keeps a corps in pay to prevent a revival of the spirit of revolt. The particular constitution of Massachuset... ...ion was to Montesquieu what Homer has been to the didactic writers on epic poetry. As the latter have considered the work of the immortal bard as the ...

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...he illusions of Chloe about Strephon have been sufficiently consecrated in poetry, as the pathetic loveliness of all spontaneous trust ought to be. Mi... ...nything, Fred, to gain your point.” “W ell, tell me whether it is slang or poetry to call an ox a leg- plaiter.” “Of course you can call it poetry if ... ...mer from slang. I shall invent a new game; I shall write bits of slang and poetry on slips, and give them to you to separate.” “Dear me, how amusing i... ...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 ... ...ing what he had originally felt about Dorothea’s engagement, and feeling a revival of his disgust at Mr. Brooke’s indiffer- ence. If Cadwallader—if ev... ... stay a long while there in spite of professional accom- plishment. In the British climate there is no incompatibility be- tween scientific insight an... ...ent up. At a glance he knew that Raffles was not in the sleep which brings revival, but in the sleep which streams deeper and deeper into the gulf of ...

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...the illusions of Chloe about Strephon have been sufficiently consecrated in poetry, as the pa thetic loveliness of all spontaneous trust ought to be. ... ...anything, Fred, to gain your point.” “Well, tell me whether it is slang or poetry to call an ox a leg plaiter.” “Of course you can call it poetry if y... ...mer from slang. I shall invent a new game; I shall write bits of slang and poetry on slips, and give them to you to separate.” Middlemarch 79 “Dear m... ... and Young. 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 ... ...g what he had orig inally felt about Dorothea’s engagement, and feeling a revival of his disgust at Mr. Brooke’s indifference. If Cadwallader— if eve... ...ay stay a long while there in spite of professional accomplishment. In the British climate there is no incompatibility between scientific insight and f... ...went up. At a glance he knew that Raffles was not in the sleep which brings revival, but in the sleep which streams deeper and deeper into the gulf of ...

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...rtholomew’s, procured for the Prince of Or- ange, the Admiral Coligny, the British Queen Elizabeth, and the Protestant princes of Ger- many, supplies ... ... put forth new shoots, and the former greatness of Austria to experience a revival. The father of Ferdinand was the Archduke Charles of Carniola, Cari... ...nts. Here commenced a scene of horrors for which history has no language — poetry no pencil. Neither innocent childhood, nor helpless old age; neither... ...nt was that of a general; and the only one from whom he could hope for the revival of his former splendour, had been removed from his command by an en...

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... how the species varied with the season of the year. But this was the very poetry of the profes- sion. The others whom I knew were somewhat dry. A fai... ...so, if we could trace it out, that all men have learned; and that is why a revival of letters is always accom- panied or heralded by a cast back to ea... ...he had dreamed of the Hebrew stories, and his head had been full of Hebrew poetry and Gospel ethics; until they had struck deep root into his heart, a... ...ndness for the neighbourhood of graves, as homely things not without their poetry – or had I an ancestor a sexton? But what of the garden where he pla... ...ise in a large way of practice over both England and Scotland, nor had any British engineer anything approaching their experience. It was about this n... ...e was proud to tell, played a certain part in the history of Shakespearian revivals, for he had successfully pressed on Murray, of the old Edinburgh T... ...truck in the last years of his life by a conversation with two young lads, revivalists “H’m,” he would say – “new to me. I have had – h’m – no such ex... ... life, and humours the caprices of the tyrant. But the potentate, like the British in India, pays small regard to the character of his willing client,... ...but it is an old, insu- lar, home-bred staginess; not French, domestically British; not of to-day, but smacking of O. Smith, Fitzball, and the great a...