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...ATEUR AND PROFESSIONAL SPORTS “As long as we are on the subject of entertainment, we don‟t idolize or pay those people you call celebrities. ... ...st Bloc citizens. When you‟ve tried to assimilate them into the low level occupations they have bankrupted your social welfare systems. And because ...

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...Excerpt: There is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art. All our arts and occupations lie wholly on the surface; it is on the surface that we perceive their beauty, fitness, and significance; and to pry below is to be appalled by their emptiness and shocked by the coarseness of the strings and pull...

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...PTER I ON SOME TECHNICAL ELEMENTS OF STYLE IN LITERATURE* THERE IS NOTHING more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any... ...on me the epithets, a slovenly, base, untrue, and empty literature. Of that writer himself I am not speaking: he is diligent, clean, and pleasing; we ... ...have been), but I thought I could make shift to sail her as a schooner with- out public shame. And then I had an idea for John Silver from which I pr...

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...ce from among the many young men whom her father’s politics brought to his entertainments. Though so young, she asserted in society all the freedom of... ... the various deputations from departments could offer. The splendor of his entertainments, the luxury of his dining-room, and his dinners, fragrant wi... ... to express a wish to play at be- ing common folk at this gleeful suburban entertainment, and promised herself immense pleasure in mingling with the c... ...esture, or a single word, which could indicate a vul- gar origin or vulgar occupations; nay more, his manner of discussing things revealed a man devot... ...de Fontaine to the Comte de Kergarouet. The young Countess gave splen- did entertainments to drown thought; but she, no doubt, found a void at the bot...

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...overt hostilities. How the Crawleys got the money which was spent upon the entertainments with which they treated the polite world was a 11 Thackeray... ...rself endowed with both the 13 Thackeray above qualifications, to give an entertainment at Gaunt House, which should include some of these little dra... ...ancholy welcome too, for it will be among the very last of the fashionable entertainments to which it will be our fortune to conduct him. A portion of... ...red as high and joyful as her triumph. There was a ball after the dramatic entertainments, and every- body pressed round Becky as the great point of a... ...rquis of Steyne to meet his Royal Highness. Having made comments upon this entertainment to the housekeeper and her niece as they were taking early te... ...ing, drinking, ribaldry, laugh- ter, go on alongside of all sorts of other occupations in V anity Fair—the crowds were pouring out of church as Rawdon... ...itement. His daughter could not induce him to settle down to his customary occupations or amusements that night. He passed the evening fumbling amongs...

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... skin, and as she had no sort of character, nor talents, nor opinions, nor occupations, nor amusements, nor that vigour of soul and fe- rocity of temp... ...er’s society, Mrs. Crawley and her nephew. He gave up hunting; he declined entertainments at Fuddleston: he would not dine with the mess of the depot ... ... in pewter, and slices of paper to the frequenters of this dreary house of entertainment, where nothing else seemed to be consumed. As for William Dob... ...ithout bestowing upon him either calipash or calipee. The splendour of the entertainment, and the apartments in which it was given, alarmed Mr. Dobbin... ...ival, her mother thought it necessary to prepare I don’t know what festive entertainment, and after the first ebullition of talk, took leave of Mrs. G... ...est George spent a great deal of money, was the very dismallest of all the entertainments which Amelia had in her honeymoon. She wrote the most piteou... ...ing, drinking, ribaldry, laugh- ter, go on alongside of all sorts of other occupations in V anity Fair—the crowds were pouring out of church as Rawdon... ...itement. His daughter could not induce him to settle down to his customary occupations or amusements that night. He passed the evening fumbling amongs...

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...not easily dispirited when I have the means of pursuing my own fancies and occupations; and I believe I have some natural aptitude for accommodating m... ... fair specimen of a real Genoese tavern, where the visitor may derive good entertainment from real Genoese dishes, such as Tagliarini; Ravioli; German... ...ople, and are seldom seen to dance on their holidays: the staple places of entertainment among the women, being the churches and the public walks. The... ...gentlemen being insisted on, by the Governor, in all public or semi public entertainments. They are lofty critics in consequence, and infinitely more ... ...of garlic and truffles, and I don’t know what else; and this concludes the entertainment. Before I can sit down in my own chamber, and think it of the... ...r caracolling among the lions and tigers, and proclaim ing that evening’s entertainments with blast of trumpet, it then filed off, by the other end o...

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...Penniman, with more buckles and bangles than ever, came, of course, to the entertainment, accompanied by her niece; the Doctor, too, had promised to l... ...en, looking away, “I am rather tired,” she murmured. I have said that this entertainment was the beginning of something impor- tant for Catherine. For... ...in its annals. More than this, he went so far as to promise him- self some entertainment from the little drama—if drama it was—of which Mrs. Penniman ... ...er he had hoped for a little more resistance for the sake of a little more entertainment; but he said to himself, as he had said before, that though i... ...ine “sticking” appeared to have a comical side, and to offer a prospect of entertainment. He determined, as he said to himself, to see it out. 94 Was... ...n him. She held up her head and busied her hands, and went about her daily occupations; and when the state of things in Washington Square seemed intol... ...e shudder!” his sister exclaimed. Catherine went rigidly through her usual occupations; that is, up to the point of going with her aunt to church on S...

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...sman, where everybody is a merchant, resides above his store; so that many occupations are often carried on in one house, and the whole front is cover... ... moves a very Chesterfield among the company. Like other assemblies, these entertainments afford a fruitful topic of conversation among the ladies for... ...ise, whose attachment to the forms of religion, and horror of the atrical entertainments, are most exemplary. Ladies who have a passion for attending... ...t to monopolise the means of mutual instruction, improvement, and rational entertainment; or which has ever continued to be a station very long, after... ...ll the way out at window from the corners of my eyes, I found abundance of entertainment for the rest of the ride in watching the effects of the wood ... ... to hear these Little Warblers, or to report upon this novel kind of vocal entertainment: novel, at least, to me: but I found in a large open space, e...

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...lly made for me, no hotel-advertisement is personally addressed to me, no hotel-room tapestried with great-coats and railway wrappers is set apart for... ...ce in our lives or conversation. But we had all come together in a place where our convenience was well consulted, and where we were well looked after... ...entlemen, Heaven bless your welcome faces and send ye prosperous, but he has been to the Play with a young friend for his diversion, and he combinates... ...nd every now and then pitched themselves into the river head foremost, and came out again to repeat this social routine. I made haste to participate i... ...man the time. The well-spoken young man, keeping well up with you, resumes: ‘I am aware sir that it is a liberty to intrude a further question on a ge... ...e should be of rushes, and how knowingly (with a sheaf and a bottomless chair at our back) we should lounge on bridges, looking over at osier-beds! Am... ...etimes on tramp again. Bricklayers often tramp, in twos and threes, lying by night at their ‘lodges,’ which are scattered all over the country. Brickl... ...ring Satur- day evening towards eight of the clock, when with astonish- Charles Dickens 226 ment I beheld an old old man and an old old woman in it, ...

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...e prospect of bachelorhood. The truth was, that, as it will be part of the entertainment of this narrative to exhibit, Rowland Mallet had an uncomfort... ...sked Rowland a number of questions about himself, his age, his family, his occupations, his tastes, his religious opinions. Rowland had an odd feel- i... ...t is a waste of wit to nurse metaphysical distinctions, and a sadly meagre entertainment to caress imaginary lines; that the thing to aim at is the ex... ...e was left to vain conjectures, however, as to Roderick’s actual moods and occupations. He knew he was no letter- writer, and that, in the young sculp... ...ot immediately appar- ent, however, that the young lady found an answering entertainment in the physiognomy of her host; she turned her head after a m... ...ry sorry for her.” Rowland met the two ladies, about this time, at several entertainments, and looked at Christina with a kind of distant attendrissem... ...n since Mrs. Light’s ball, save a few words bearing on an incident of that entertainment. Rowland informed Roderick, the next day, that he had told Mi...

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...o Sparta, a removal from contact with those employed in low and mechanical occupations giving high refinement and beauty to the state. Some Greek writ... ...ughter. Mirth, introduced seasonably at their suppers and places of common entertainment, was to serve as a sort of sweetmeat to accompany their stric... ...iness, a passion that has become inveterate in me for peace, for unwarlike occupations, and for the society of men whose 107 Plutarch’s Lives meeting... ...ice in a per- functory and inattentive manner, but, laying aside all other occupations, should apply their minds to religion as to a most 117 Plutarc... .... There goes a story that he once invited a great number of citizens to an entertainment, at which the dishes in which the meat was served were very h... ...ing-vessels, and the tables loaded with rich meats, and a most sumptu- ous entertainment. But the dialogue which is reported to have passed between hi... ... and work, did well to take off his citizens from laborious and mechanical occupations, and keep them to their arms, and teach them only the art of wa... ...When he came to the Olympic games, and was so splendid in his equipage and entertainments, in his rich tents and furniture, that he strove to outdo Ci... ... T olmides, were employed by Pericles rather to fill the city with festive entertainments and solemnities than to enlarge and secure its empire. Where...

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...cter, in points of wit as broad, 575 As aught by wooden images performed For entertainment of the gaping crowd At wake or fair. And oftentimes do flit ... ...hness also found I at this time In human Life, the daily life of those Whose occupations really I loved; The peaceful scene oft filled me with surprise... ...speare’s page, I mused, and thought, and felt, in solitude. 485 Pass we from entertainments, that are such Professedly, to others titled higher, Yet, ... ...hoice Of time, and place, and object; by his wants, 105 His comforts, native occupations, cares, Cheerfully led to individual ends Or social, and stil... ...ins, there abounding most, 125 Where sovereign Nature dictated the tasks And occupations which her beauty adorned, And Shepherds were the men that ple... ...d contentious thought, Or aught of heavier or more deadly weight, In trivial occupations, and the round Of ordinary intercourse—our minds Are nourishe...

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...d my frozen brain. It is a bother when all one’s thought turns on one’s work in some sense or other; could not even think yesterday; I took to inventi... ...ull) to dinner. Sat- urday, Graham and I lunched on board; Graham, Belle, Lloyd dined at the G. ’s; and Austin and the whole of our servants went with... ...ioned it yesterday. I ought to say how much we all like the Jersey party. My boy Henry was enraptured with the manners of the Tawaitai Sili (chief lad... ...that volume might have never got done; and I send you two others in case they should be in time. First have the Beach of Falesa. Then a fresh false ti... ... Louis Stevenson what you complain of. Indeed, I placed my single reliance on Miss Grant. If she couldn’t ferry me over, I felt I had to stay there. A... ... where I find Vitrolles and (Heaven reward you!) the White Book, just arrived per upolu, having gone the wrong way round, by Australia; also six copie...

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...e her. Y esterday her fancy had fluttered free pin- ions above a choice of occupations; now she had to drop to the level of the familiar routine, in w... ...ly, however, had been deplorably careless in noting the particulars of the entertainment. She had failed to observe the colour of Mrs. V an Osburgh’s ... ...: fashion sulked in its country houses, or came to town incognito, general entertainments were discountenanced, and informality and short dinners beca... ...extract her best silver from the Safe Deposit vaults. Mrs. Peniston’s rare entertainments were preceded by days of heart-rending vacillation as to eve... ...r newly acquired friends, had decided on the bold move of giving a general entertainment. To attack society collectively, when one’s means of approach... ...that her friend had probably summoned her in order to hear about the Brys’ entertainment. Mrs. Trenor had absented herself from the feast, perhaps for... ...ly would receive his note! He yielded himself to the charm of trivial pre- occupations, wondering at what hour her reply would be sent, with what word...

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...me of ‘Proud Cis’. On this day she had avoided the task on the plea of the occupations caused by her approaching journey, and the Duke put in her plac... ...y poor house at Westminster with your presence at a supper, and share such entertainment as is in our power to provide.’ ‘My nieces are keeping their ... ...on there were, however, numer- ous halts on the road,—two or three days of entertainment at every castle, and then a long delay at Canterbury to give ... ... all devoted to her. Lady Drummond found that to try to win her to quieter occupations was in vain. The girl would not even try to learn French from F... ...nt with Duke Sigismund, and had nearly all been 151 Yo n g e spent on the entertainments at Nanci; nor could he make levies as lord of the country-fo...

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... bookroom, reading aloud Mme. de La Rochejaquelein’s Memoirs by turns. Our occupations were, on Emily’s part, completing a reticule, in a mosaic of sh... ...bore away Queen Titania to put her to bed, for the servants were having an entertainment of their own down- stairs for all the out-door retainers, etc... ... different lines, and awakening trains of thought; and then there was that entertainment which Griffith and Clarence gave us in their rooms, when they... ...th birthday, and Emily and Martyn were of course to come and assist at the entertainment. It was on the morning of the day fixed that a letter came to... ...on was that one of the maids must have stolen out to join in the Christmas entertainment at the Winslow Arms, and been pursued home by some tipsy reve... ... movements uncertain, she is still a stereotyped incident in the Christmas entertainments. There was no question but that these letters and remem- bra... ..., but to do his duty, she dropped her objections; and we soon saw that the occupations that his absence would impose on her would be a fresh interest ...

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...nk lan- guage, he accused us of treating the Priscilla as a tavern for the entertainment of bad company, stating that he had helped to row me and my a... ...t have him help shoulder his father’s pack un- til he has had his, fill of entertainment.’ A smooth voyage brought us in view of the towers of Ostend ... ...rer to the land till she could discern men, women, and children, and their occupations. A fisherman and his wife sat in the porch above their hanging ... ...roceedings were approved, though the squire wanted me near him. We offered entertainments to the students on a vast scale. The local newspaper spoke o... ...ved of my father’s approach with a French company of actors, and deafening entertainments were at hand. On the whole, I thought it decent to finish my... ...even-league boots of jargon, once so delicious to me, for the margravine’s entertainment. His lack of discernment in treat- ing the princess to it rui...

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...tulance, respecting the opinions of those who do not ap- prove of dramatic entertainments. I have restored what I said, which was meant to be respectf... ... among his other great quali- fications, is well fitted to enliven such an entertainment. His manners are extremely easy, and his style of speaking si... ...and a cue of the kind once called military may serve to show that my civil occupations have been some- times mixed with those of war. Nevertheless, tw... ... produced by Mr. Beauffet, gave a sort of an- tique and foreign air to the entertainment, which rendered it more interesting. It was a great thing to ... ...aying, ‘My dear son, farewell!’ My friend was much pleased with this day’s entertainment, and owned that I had done well to force him out.” * * ... ...ed at free quarters in the houses of his tenants, and received the kindest entertainment. Till the 13th of the month the troops lived in the utmost ha...

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... title of the Augustan History, followed in the same track. Though full of entertainment, and of the most curi- ous researches, they are all of them e... ... news of his motions might run before himself, on this night Cæsar gave an entertainment to his friends, in the midst of which he slipped away unobser... ...d, this munifi- cence would furnish the materials for a volume. The public entertainments of Cæsar, his spectacles and shows, his naumachiæ, and the p... ...assions the most remote (as it might have been thought) from the voluntary occupations of his thoughts. He raved about the State, and about those king...

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...influ ence you have over your mind—if any. Y.M. Yes, and got more or less entertainment out of it. I did as you ordered: I placed two texts before m... ...et, the scientist. O.M. Their autocrat prefers the deep pleasures of these occupations, either well paid or ill paid, to any others in the market, at ... ...ed. Being insane, he was allowed to go on talking. He was found to be good entertainment. Sev eral nights running he made abolition speeches in the o... ... science: Physillogigy is to study about your bones stummick and vertebry. Occupations which are injurious to health are cabolic acid gas which is imp... ...f the law that he exhibits this inclination. The phrases peculiar to other occupations serve him on rare occasions by way of description, comparison, ... ...e found them in some unknown period of early life, amid multifarious other occupations, for the study of classics, literature, and law, to say nothing... ...s to remove perdition from the Protestant Church’s program of post mortem entertainments; it has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyt...