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...c raptures that they were rather proud of not having been afraid to choose it as the setting of their own. ?It required a total lack of humour, or as great a gift for it as ours, to risk the experiment,? Susy Lansing opined, as they hung over the inevitable marble balustrade and watched their tutelary orb roll its magic carpet across the waters to their feet....

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...ylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... as the set- ting of their own. “It required a total lack of humour, or as great a gift for it as ours, to risk the experiment,” Susy Lansing opined, ... ...ice to a camp in the Adirondacks. For the present, they had decided on the former. Other considerations apart, they dared not risk the expense of a jo... ...she had hitherto been exposed to; but what if others, more subtle, found a joint in it? W as there, among her delicate discriminations, any equiva- le... ...g to cost?” She raised her eyebrows gaily. “Why, a good deal less than our railway tickets. Ottaviano’s got a sweetheart in Milan, and hasn’t seen her... ...the guise of fiction he could develop his theory of Oriental influences in Western art at the expense of less learning than if he had tried to put his... ...hat he was glad the portrait of a Countess of Altringham should occupy the central place in the principal room of the exhibition, that the crowd about... ...w his motor-horn at each halt, while the twins called out the names of the stations, and Geordie, with the canaries and kitten, affected to change tra...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...his second book even less satisfactory from a literary standpoint than the former (and this is my opinion), I blundered, I think, more edifyingly—at l... ...int of view of my own in- struction. I ventured upon several themes with a greater frank- ness than I had used in Anticipations, and came out of that ... ...iation towards it, to face it in no ascetic spirit, but in the mood of the Western peoples, whose pur- pose is to survive and overcome. So much we ado... ...rical “Erewhon,” and Mr. Stead’s queendom of inverted sexual conditions in Central Africa, found the Tibetan method of slaughtering the inquiring visi... ...el in many ways. It is un- likely there will be any smoke-disgorging steam railway trains in Utopia, they are already doomed on earth, already threat-... ...commu- nications will all be managed electrically from common gen- erating stations. And the trend of political and social specu- lation points decide... ...s as that first engineer, Nature, has made the stems of her plants and the joints and gestures of her animals. To es- teem him a sort of anti-artist, ...

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...to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbors among whom, our doctor followed his profession....

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...o be counted as something by the county squirearchy. In other respects the greatness of Barsetshire depends wholly on the landed powers. Barsetshire, ... ...sts. The eastern moiety of the county is more purely Conservative than the western; there is, or was, a taint of Peelism in the latter; and then, too,... ...keen. The case with young Frank Gresham may be supposed to much nearer the former than the latter; but yet the cer- emony of his coming of age was by ... ... abrupt, obnoxious, pesti- lent virulence. This was one Scatcherd, a great railway contractor, a man who was a native of Barchester, who had bought pr... ...d, and others, had made from his profession an income sufficient for their joint wants; but he had not done as others do: he had no three or four thou... ... and Jackson. I was then partner with Jackson in the York and Yeovil Grand Central. I thought a deal of Jackson then. He’s not worth a shilling now. ’... ...r Gresham, that your lot and mine are not cast in the same mould; that our stations in life are different. Would your father or mother approve of your...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...aeroplanes of an improved pattern in 1950, or that there will be a through railway connection between Constantinople and Bombay and between Baku and B... ...ticipated Sir Percy Scott by a year in his doubts of the decisive value of great battleships (see “An Englishman Looks at the World”); and he was soun... ...onsider the diffi- culties of a single question, which is also a vital and central question in this forecast. We shall not attempt a full answer here,... ...set up some perma- nent organ for the direction and co-ordination of their joint international relationships. It may be a queerly constituted body at ... ...it to the power for treason of these suppositi- tious German monarchs that Western folly has permitted to possess these Balkan thrones—thrones which n... ... far they will prove able to get out of the habits and traditions of their former social state, how far they will be able to take generous views and m... ...l stores; in many provincial towns you will find two or even three railway stations at opposite ends of the town; the streets are blocked by the vans ...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...tury that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themsel... ...hts in the upper windows of the houses as the people went to bed. From the railway station in the distance came the sound of shunting trains, ringing ... ...an who had fallen in, but showing as a little black object against the hot western sun. Now he got his shoulder and knee up, and again he seemed to sl... ...sunset and was immediately with- drawn, and afterwards a thin rod rose up, joint by joint, bear- ing at its apex a circular disk that spun with a wobb... ...rst, but as I went on the interest dawning in his eyes gave place to their former stare, and his regard wandered from me. “This must be the beginning ... ... able telegrams had been received in the morning from Byfleet and Chertsey stations, but that these had abruptly ceased. My brother could get very lit... ...London, for at that time the furious terror of the people had rendered the central termini impossible. Near this place they halted for the rest of the...

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...Excerpt: These papers I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought together so wid...

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...Contents MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ..........................................

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... DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...ages, and are now revised under another. They were written generally under great pres- sure as to time, in order to catch the critical periods of mont... ...if severed from the documents which attest their fidelity to facts. In the former class stand the admirable novels of De Foe; and, on a lower range, w... ...me) had by letter instructed me to give. He was a mere savage boy from the central bogs of Connaught, and, to the great amusement of Lord Westport, he... ...ematically traducing our order of country gentlemen. His picture of Squire Western is not only a malicious, but also an incongruous libel. The squire’... ...t a time when every week sees the town banker drawn from our rural gentry; railway directors in ev- ery quarter transferring themselves indifferently ... ...d limb by limb Surveyed, and sometimes went, and sometimes ran With supple joints, as lively vigor led; But who I was or where, or from what cause, Kn... ... masonry. Higher by far than the Mogul gifts of mile-stones, or travelling stations, or even roads and tanks, were the gifts of security, of peace, of...

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...el a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observations of ours upon their sovereign, threatening Africa?s fires and savagery....

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...reach of practical human sagacity. But where were our armed men? where our great artillery? where our proved captains, to resist a sudden sharp trial ... ...EY came of a race of fight- ing earls, toughest of men, whose high, stout, Western castle had weathered our cyclone periods of history without changei... ...o him like a second nature, from his habit of doing as others bid him: the former smacks a voluntarily sweating forehead and throbbing wounds for witn... ...he whole book producing a kind of electrical agitation in the mind and the joints. This was its effect on the lady. To her the incompre- hensible was ... ... sir, she is not a Radical. Do you take me?’ Rosamund Culling drove to the railway station on her way to Bevisham within an hour after Mr. Romfrey’s e... ...ining the lines of railway, and fasten- ing on the valuable land adjoining stations. Hundreds of millions of pounds! She dropped a sigh at the prodigi... ... of this vast English middle-class ruling the land is Comfort. It is their central thought; their idea of neces- sity; their sole aim. Whatsoever mini...

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...Excerpt: Prelude; Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth ...

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... Chapter VI., 38 -- Chapter VII., 47 -- Chapter VIII., 51 -- Chapter IX., 55 -- Chapter X., 65 -- Chapter XI., 74 -- Chapter XII., 82 -- Book II ?Old and Young., 97 -- Chapter XIII., 97 -- Chapter XIV., 104 -- Chapter XV., 113 -- Chapter XVI., 124 -- Chapter XVII., 135 -- Chapter XVIII., 142 -- Chapter XIX., 151 -- Chapter XX., 154 -- Chapter XXI., 164 -- Chapter XXII., 17...

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.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Book II — Old and Young. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Chapter XIII.... ...c reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theresa’s passion... ...ht, as of oxy hydrogen, showing the very grain of things, and revising ail former explanations. Of this sequence to Bichat’s work, already vibrating a... ...ry gentry of old time lived in a rarefied social air: dotted apart on their stations up the mountain they looked down with imperfect discrimination on ... ...wardly altered there; but while the summer had gradually advanced over the western fields beyond the avenue of elms, the bare room had gathered within ... ...stage coach, which carried him to Brassing; and there he took the new made railway, observing to his fellow passengers that he considered it pretty we... ...nripeness of his authorship. It is true that this last might be called his central ambition; but there are some kinds of authorship in which by far th... ... off Mr. Byles the butcher as his bill has been running on for the best o’ joints since last Michaelmas was a twelvemonth—I don’t want anybody to come...