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...this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English country-house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a splendid summer afternoon. Part of the afternoon had waned, but much of it was left, and what was left was of the finest and rarest quality. Real dusk would...

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...The implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English country house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a sple... ... such consideration and was the most characteristic object in the peculiarly English picture I have attempted to sketch. It stood upon a low hill, abo... ...ne of these was a remarkably well made man of five and thirty, with a face as English as that of the old gentleman I have just sketched was something e... ...emained for some days a mystery. Isabel remembered perfectly the neat little male child whose hair smelt of a delicious cosmetic and who had a bonne a... ...hey drew near the choir on the left of the entrance the voices of the Pope’s singers were borne to them over the heads of the large number of persons ...

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...g student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ritish Government,” and “bad for the people—good for the people,” made him malevolently angry. The doctor was nonplussed for a moment. Then he gath- ... ...are in England. We hear continual complaints of the stodgy dullness of the English. It would be quite as just to complain of their freakish, unusual c... ... Bricknell, the old man, was one of the partners in the Colliery firm. His English was incorrect, his accent, broad Derbyshire, and he was not a gentl... ...ith disgust. The sham Egypt of Aida hid from her nothing of its shame. The singers were all colour- washed, deliberately colour-washed to a bright ora... ...on heads, a million hands, and one monstrous, unnatural consciousness. The singers ap- peared before the curtain—the applause rose up like clouds of d... ... can’t stand it that Robert offers to hand her into the taxi.” He gave his malevolent grin round the company, then went out. He did not reappear for t... ... answer. “Did you ever keep count?” Tanny persisted. Jim looked up at her, malevolent. “I believe I did,” he replied. “Forty is the age when a man sho...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...is supposed to have been made of an oak tree which grew in the park of the English Earl of Lincoln between two and three centuries ago. In its younger... ...beard upon his chin.* There was likewise a minister of the gospel whom the English bishops had forbidden to preach, but who knew that he should have l... ...ful eye has caught two boys at play. Now we shall see awful times. The two malefactors are sum moned before the master’s chair, wherein he sits with ... ...th of Queen Anne. Hitherto the people had been in continual dread that the male line of the Stuarts, who 67 Hawthorne were descended from the beheade... ...hrough the same scene of sorrow and distress. In this manner was the whole male part of the population of the District of Minas put on board the five ... ...e drum, fife, and bugle drowning the holy organ peal and the voices of the singers. It would appear as if the British took every method to insult the ...

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...e ven- tured to say of the really historical personages. Mr. Fox Bourne’s ‘English Merchants’ furnished the tradition respect- ing Whittington. I am a... ...ad it been 16 The Caged Lion France, it had been endurable, but praise of English habits was mere disloyalty; and yet, whenever Patrick tried to thro... ...the slander, that our noble King has been caught in the toils of an artful Englishwoman, and been drawn in to promise her a share in his crown.’ A flu... ...d at Esclairmonde for perverseness and obstinacy in not accepting the only male thing she had ever favoured. The Bishop of Therouenne threatened and a... ...ng lay of victory was over; and King Henry had roused himself to thank the singers, then sighed, and said, ‘How long ago that was!’ ‘Six years,’ said ... ..., where sat the three la- dies in the midst of their circle of attendants, male and fe- male ranged on opposite sides; and old Lady Salisbury knew the... ...did her best to persuade her to overcome the superstition that kept her in male garments, thus greatly tending to increase the belief in her connectio...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, and ... ... of men; and De non apparentibus, et non existentibus eadem est ratio *—in English, “When a woman is not seen to blush, she doth not blush at all.” ... ...ich he frequently bestowed on her own. To say the truth, she had read much English di vinity, and had puzzled more than one of the neighbouring curat... ...on of our reader. Indeed we would, for certain causes, advise those of our male readers who have any hearts, to read no farther, were we not well assu... ...ll be found wor thy to satisfy any passion, and to answer any idea of fe male perfection which our pencil will be able to raise. And now, without ... ...I know, some derive from their being of a more bloody inclination than the males. On which account they apply to the nose, as to the part whence blood... ...ad, never missed church o’ Sundays, and was reckoned one of the best psalm singers in the whole parish. He would indeed now and then take a cup too mu...

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Excerpt: The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey.

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...Contents The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater ...4 THREE MEMORABLE MURDERS .............................................................................................. 4 THE TRUE RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE...................... 5...

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...Y A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State University... ...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ..., which would be better still, to import from Lancashire the Handel chorus-singers. But then, again, whatever change in the music were made, so as to ... ...e maternal ancestors of the present Wellesleys. Garret Wellesley, the last male heir of the direct line, in the year 1745, left his whole estate to on...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...d rose amid the appointments of modern luxury and the choice appliances of English “com- fort,” he remembered the details of his visit to that cloiste... ...om the confidence expressed in the house of Mongenod was not a wound. Like English houses, the Mongenods made no external display of luxury. They live... ...is money on a newspaper, living no doubt in the the- atres, connected with singers at the Feydeau, with musicians, and all the queer people who lurk b... ... of a certain sum; and he entailed the estate of la Chanterie on the heirs male of the marriage. “But the Revolution,” said Monsieur Alain in a parent... ... called Champ-Landry, these criminals, obeying the impulse which leads all male- factors into the blunders and miscalculations of crime, threw their g...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... being wept over and caressed on the mournful return, she decided that the English had no feeling, and acquiesced in the routine of lessons and expedi... ...ldren had the same birthplace. She had been able to see very little of her English relations, being much tied by the number of her children while all ... ...Yo n g e chiefly about music for the choral society, and the voices of the singers, about which Dolores neither knew nor cared. By one o’clock the lon... ...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 ...

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...g student publication project to bring classical works of lit- erature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...assion of this character, marked by eccentricities— a word invented by the English to describe the craziness not of the asylum, but of respectable hou... ...an of the past; now and again the Frenchman wakes up and kicks against his English-made casing; but ambition stifles him, and he submits to be smother... ...He rushed off to Josepha’s lodgings in the Rue Chauchat; for, like all the singers, she lived close at hand. “Whom do you want, sir?” asked the porter... ...few exceptions, who ought to be rewarded with the Montyon prize, the cook, male or female, is a domestic rob- ber, a thief taking wages, and perfectly... ...are equally applicable to any lady-killing rake; he is, in fact, a sort of male courtesan. Valerie’s last fancy was a madness; above all, she was bent...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...y as thou didst, from the Mill of St. Cast, on Quiberon and the invad- ing English; thou, ‘covered if not with glory yet with meal!’ Fortune was ever ... ...ith and against Feudalism (but not against Nature and her bounty), gave us English a Shakspeare and Era of Shakspeare, and so produced a blossom of Ca... ...nd who knows what nameless innumerable multitude of ready Writers, profane Singers, Romancers, Players, Disputators, and Pamphleteers, that now form t... ...ndemn to death for preaching, ‘put in execution.’ (Boissy d’Anglas, Vie de Malesherbes, i. 15-22.) And, alas, now not so much as Baron Holbach’s Athei... ... Darkness? Among the Paris Long-robes there may be more than one patriotic Malesherbes, whose rule is conscience and the public good; there are clearl... ...he heavier; for did it not employ the working- classes too,—manufacturers, male and female, of laces, es- sences; of Pleasure generally, whosoever cou...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...an of the bed-chamber to Henry VIII., and had put thirty-seven Psalms into English verse, in hopes of improv- ing the morals of the Court. John Hopkin... ...ed-chamber. He was a principal instru- ment of translating the Psalms into English metre; the first twenty-six (and seven-and-thirty in all)* being by... ...ondence ensued, as to the settlement of Hursley upon Dorothy and her heirs male, and the compensation to her younger sister Anne. Cromwell was anxious... ...nd the collar of the Golden Fleece around his neck, followed by a group of male figures, one with a beautiful face. On the other side kneels a lady, n... ...lace in Church, which was more im- portant when there was no choir and the singers sat in the gallery. He was very happy in this office, moving about ... ...rt’s T ongue (Scolopendrium officinale). (Polystichum angulare).—Cranbury. Male Fern (Lastrea Filix-mas). (L. spinulosa). (L. dilatata).—Otterbourne P...

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...le too strong? Whiskey and alcohol?s bad enough; but when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll learn that Christmas comes only once per ann...

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...y and pepper sauce and” — “Dump it in. Who ’s making this punch, anyway?” And Male mute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. “By the ... ...e of a glori ous ferment of sugar and sour dough. That was before your time,” Malemute Kid said as he turned to Stanley Prince, a young mining expert... ... he had heard of this wild deed, when at Forty Mile the preceding winter. Then Malemute Kid, who was a born raconteur, told the unvar nished tale of ... ...nd the board. Aliens from a dozen lands, they toasted each and all. It was the Englishman, Prince, who pledged “Uncle Sam, the precocious infant of th... ... Smiling incredulously, the Kid glanced at his well stocked ar senal, and the Englishman, realizing his impotency, turned for the door. But the dog d... ...tion; but when she came to him with her wonderful smile and her straight clean English, and talked to the point, without pleading or persuad ing, he ... ...me to pass in the time when the fools are dead, and when there will be no more singers to stand still and sing the ‘Song of the Bees.’ Bees are not me... ...r women, with his priests and sorcerers, his dancers and flute players and hula singers, and fighting men and servants, and his high chiefs with their w...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...stre”; he never contra- dicted them, and he made them shine. But among his male friends, when the topic of the sex came up, he laid down the principle... ...s, beggars, occasionally insolent countesses, admired actresses, applauded singers; she has even given, in the olden time, two quasi- queens to the mo... ...e with claws, scissors, impudent as a Spanish woman, snarling as a prudish English woman pro- claiming her conjugal rights, coquettish as a great lady... ... husband to eau de Melisse for faintness, sugarplums for the children, and English court-plaster in case of cuts. Jules studied all. He looked attenti... ...erings of the cradle, swelling to the griefs of other ages in the stronger male voices and the quavering of the priests,—all this strident harmony, bi...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, and ... .................................................... .................... 148 ENGLISH AS SHE IS TAUGHT ..................................................... ... can come within a split hair of guessing the complexion of his religion: English—Protestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italia... ...hen we have lately had a season or two of them in New York with these same singers in the several parts, and possibly this same orchestra. I resolved ... ...ou can lay on your keelson except gravel. THURSDAY.—They keep two teams of singers in stock for the chief roles, and one of these is composed of the m... ...oon till ten at night. Nearly all the labor falls upon the half dozen head singers, and apparently they are required to furnish all the noise they can... ...e so tram meled in his material that his name stands for whatever is most malevo lent and perfidious in human nature. You see how easy and flowing i... ...the laborers. No work is done, in the hive or out of it, save by them. The males do not work, the queen does no work, unless laying eggs is work, but ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...for a new St. Bartholomew!” cried others. “We are to be massacred, man and male child!” Neither was this rumor wholly discredited, although the wiser ... ...ers of the age. Authority on these points may be found in Strutt’s Book of English Sports and Pastimes. Bright were the days at Merry Mount, when the ... ..., and others, of still richer blush, which the colo- nists had reared from English seed. O, people of the Golden Age, the chief of your husbandry was ... ...s of the congregation, many of the middle aged, and nearly all the younger males. Pearson found it difficult to sustain their united and disapproving ... ..., while she undid the door, and stood up in the sacred desk from which his maledictions had just been thundered. She then divested herself of the cloa... ...of a song, which resounded, in broken notes, between the cliffs, while the singers hesitated whether to continue their journey or put up here for the ...

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..., and Rot ten Boroughs, and Revolts of Paris, deafen every French and every English ear, the German can stand peaceful on his scientific watch tower; ... ...on in which pure Science, especially pure moral Science, languishes among us English; and how our mercantile great ness, and invaluable Constitution,... ...ution, impressing a political or other immediately practical tendency on all English culture and endeavor, cramps the free flight of Thought,—that this... .... Observe too how fond they are of peaks, and Gothic arch intersections. The male world wears peaked caps, an ell long, which hang bobbing over the si... ...(Offscourings of Vienna) vociferously superintending games of chance. Ballad singers brayed, Auctioneers grew hoarse; cheap New Wine (heuriger) flowed ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...d lost their parents, on plans at once narrow and promiscuous, first in an English family and afterwards in a Swiss family at Lausanne, their bachelor... ...plexion which became a student; as different as possible from the blooming Englishman of the red-whis- kered type represented by Sir James Chettam. “I... ...an appetite for submission afterwards. And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise so... ..., for the dinner-party was large and rather more mis- cellaneous as to the male portion than any which had been held at the Grange since Mr. Brooke’s ... ...here the teach- ing included all that was demanded in the accomplished fe- male—even to extras, such as the getting in and out of a car- riage. Mrs. L... ...ist on my singing. But I shall tremble before you, who have heard the best singers in Paris. I have heard very little: I have only once been to London... ...ed that he could not find his hearth free. When he opened the door the two singers went on towards the key-note, raising their eyes and looking at him... ...n a scowl as he walked across the room and flung himself into a chair. The singers feeling themselves excused by the fact that they had only three bar...

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...ad lost their parents, on plans at once narrow and promiscuous, first in an English family and afterwards in a Swiss family at Lausanne, their bachelor... ...plexion which became a student; as different as possible from the blooming Englishman of the red whiskered type represented by Sir James Chettam. “I a... ...d: it is true that when he used a Greek or Latin phrase he always gave the English with scrupu lous care, but he would probably have done this in any... ...an appetite for submission afterwards. And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise so... ...g, for the dinner party was large and rather more miscellaneous as to the male portion than any which had been held at the Grange since Mr. Brooke’s ... ... missy to come down.” Rosamond and Mary had been talking faster than their male friends. They did not think of sitting down, but stood at the toilet t... ...ist on my singing. But I shall tremble before you, who have heard the best singers in Paris. I have heard very little: I have only once been to London... ...yed that he could not find his hearth free. When he opened the door the two singers went on towards the key note, raising their eyes and looking at him... ... and flung himself into a chair. 476 Book VI — The Widow and the Wife. The singers feeling themselves excused by the fact that they had only three bar...