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...Excerpt: Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenaeum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lane Cooper, of Cornell University. I wi...

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...A A A A ACE CE CE CE CE Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenæum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have ... ...s Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Select... ...TION I. LIFE I. LIFE I. LIFE I. LIFE I. LIFE THOMAS DE QUINCEY was born in Manchester on the 15th of August, 1785. His father was a man of high charac... ...ly removed to The Farm, and later to Greenhay, a larger country place near Manchester. In 1796 De Quincey’s mother, now for some years a widow, remove... ...ke away entirely from his home by exchanging the solitude of Wales for the greater wilderness of London. Failing there to raise money on his expected ... ...f the original subject is lost. De Quincey divides his writings into three groups: first, that class which “proposes primarily to amuse the reader, bu... ...tobiographic Sketches and the Literary Reminiscences. As a second class he groups “those papers which address them- selves purely to the understanding... ...of, from which he could exchange his own yarns with those of the guard. No greater offence was then known to mail-coaches; it was treason, it was læsa... ...of the mail, was transformed into a dream, as tumultuous and changing as a musical fugue. This troubled dream is circumstantially reported in Section ...

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...e met the call of that particular transient occasion in which they arose; and others, it may be thought on review, might as well have been suppressed from the very first....

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION ..............

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... S K E T C H E S AUTOBIOGRAPHIC S K E T C H E S Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE E... ...nia State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORK... ... property, and especially the property in periodical literature. But a far greater diffi- culty lay in the labor (absolutely insurmountable to myself)... ...s in a world of evil and strife. Though born in a large town, (the town of Manchester, even then amongst the largest of the island,) I had passed the ... ...een swallowed up by the abyss; the lesser star could not rise before the greater should submit to eclipse. Summer, therefore, had connected itself w... ...an away,—a slight jar was thus given to the else triumphal effect of these musical ovations. Once having ut- tered my protest, however, willingly I ga... ... when the one side yearned for breakfast, and the other for a respite: the groups, therefore, on or about the bridge, if any at all, were loose in the... ...was a family of amiable children, who were more skilfully trained in their musical studies than at that day was usual. They sang the old English glees... ...n churches in the Society, Friendly, and Sandwich Islands—as well as other groups less known in the South Seas; Admiral H. A., on assuming the command...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. ?KASPAR! MAKAN!? The well-known shrill voice startled Almayer from his dream of splendid future into the unpleasant realities of the present hour. An unpleasant voice too. He had heard it for many years, and with every year he liked it less. No matter; there would be an end to all this ...

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...ad CHAPTER I “KASPAR! MAKAN!” The well-known shrill voice startled Almayer from his dream of splendid future into the unpleasant realities of the pres... ...imself and Nina. He absorbed himself in his dream of wealth and power away from this coast where he had dwelt for so many years, forgetting the bitter... ... warehouses with their long and straight avenues of gin cases and bales of Manchester goods; the big door swinging noiselessly; the dim light of the p... ...the rumble of barrels, the scratch of rapid pens; while above all rose the musical chink of broad silver pieces streaming ceaselessly through the yell... ...se entrances himself only knew, Lingard used to take his assorted cargo of Manchester goods, brass gongs, rifles and gunpowder. His brig Flash, which ... ...ought with dread of the separation with the only human being he loved—with greater dread still, perhaps, of the scene with his wife, the sav- age tigr... ...ic duties and disregarding the possibilities of domestic discontent, while groups of children brought up the rear, warbling joyously, in the delight o... ...rnal hand. The men strolled slowly after them in ever forming and changing groups that gradually dis- solved as they neared the settlement and every m... ...of water that lapped about his lips. This did him good, and he walked with greater confidence in himself and others as he returned towards the fire. H...

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........................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ........................ ...pers MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY FR FR FR FR FROM OM OM OM OM THE A THE A THE A THE A THE AUTHOR, UTHOR, UTHOR, UTHOR, U... ...ed his wounds; after which the prosperity of the despotism would have been greater than before. But, without reference to Wa- terloo in particular, we... ...of the mail, was transformed into a dream, as tumultuous and changing as a musical fugue. This troubled Dream is circumstantially reported in Section ... ...eatest then reigning. It was a favor that could not have been asked by any greater man in this world, nor granted by any less. Had no other distinctio... ...m” (a pretty, rustic dwelling occupied by my father in the neighborhood of Manchester), and subsequently (when that arose) to Greenhay.* As my father ... ...pital disadvantage, in my eyes, that its chapel possessed no organ, and no musical ser- vice. But any other choice would have driven me to an in- stan... ...and returning homewards at intervals, with anxious and dissatisfied looks. Groups of both sexes were collected at every corner of the wider streets, k... ...conflicting the feel- ings, so intense the anxiety. The arrangement of the groups was this: At the lower half of the room, but starting forward in att...

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... IV. THE PANTOMIME OF LIFE V. SOME PARTICULARS CONCERNING A LION VI.MR. ROBERT BOLTON: THE ?GENTLEMAN CONNECTED WITH THE PRESS? VII. FAMILIAR EPISTLE FROM A PARENT TO A CHILD AGED TWO YEARS AND TWO MONTHS...

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...BERT BOLTON: THE ‘GENTLEMAN CONNECTED WITH THE PRESS’ VII. FAMILIAR EPISTLE FROM A PARENT TO A CHILD AGED TWO YEARS AND TWO MONTHS PUBLIC LIFE OF MR.... ...ably pleasant town situated in a charming hollow by the side of a river, from which river, Mudfog derives an agree able scent of pitch, tar, coal... ... played the wind instruments, looking up into the sky (we mean the fog) with musical fervour, walked through pools of water and hillocks of mud, till ... ...concerned in this mighty assemblage is troubled with the same complaint in a greater or less degree; and it is a consolation to us to know that we hav... ...ho are nowhere to be seen. A barrel organ is playing opposite my window, and groups of people, offering fish and vegetables for sale, pa rade the str... ...been allowed for a slight confusion, occa sioned by the falling down of the greater part of the plat forms, to subside, the president called on one ... ... plan tations, while they could discern nothing whatever in the interior of Manchester cotton mills. He must know, too, with what quickness of percep... ...a melancholy instance of this only a week or two since. I was returning from Manchester to London by the Mail Train, when I suddenly fell into an oth...

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...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... ...t a mean distance of 140,000,000 miles, and the light and heat it receives from the sun is barely half of that received by this world. It must be, if ... ...han our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficial area and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is not only more distant from ... ...ENS ENS ENS WHEN I RETURNED to the common the sun was setting. Scat- tered groups were hurrying from the direction of Woking, and one or two persons w... ...the wedgelike lower lip, the incessant quivering of this mouth, the Gorgon groups of tentacles, the tumultuous breathing of the lungs in a strange atm... ...atmosphere, the evident heaviness and painfulness of move- ment due to the greater gravitational energy of the earth— above all, the extraordinary int... ...ly into the quiet air. As I looked, the handling-machine, with a faint and musical clinking, extended, telescopic fashion, a ten- tacle that had been ... ... flashed into frantic illuminations; they knew of it in Dublin, Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham, at the time when I stood upon the verge of the pit....

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...ine by line, with the Edinburgh edi- 4 The Lady of the Lake tion of 1821 (from the Harvard Library), with Lockhart’s first edition, the “ Globe “ edi... ...izabethan words and constructions, and I have quoted many “ parallelisms “ from Shakespeare and his contemporaries. I believe I have referred to my ed... ...s the Franciscan steeple reel? And see! upon the crowded street, In motley groups what masquers meet! Banner and pageant, pipe and drum, And merry mor... ...n]. We are more sure, how- ever, that it has fewer faults than that it has greater beauties; and as its beauties bear a strong resemblance to those wi... ... story is con- structed with infinitely more skill and address; there is a greater proportion of pleasing and tender passages, with much less antiquar... ...w (cf. vi. 488), and sometimes = precipice. 73. On the lone wood. Note the musical variation in the measure here; the 1st, 3d, and 4th syllables being... ...boggy or peaty dis- trict, like the famous Chat Moss between Liverpool and Manchester. 93. Lochard. Loch Ard is a beautiful lakelet, about five miles ... ...5 below. 523. In better time. That is, in better times or days; not in the musical sense. 524. Chime. Accord, sing; a poetical use of the word. Cf. vi...

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...llation of the early editions; and in every material instance of departure from the wording of those originals the rejected reading has been subjoined... ...es capriciously. In the very act of transcribing his mind was apt to stray from the work in hand to higher things; he would lose himself in contemplat... ...The ghastly torrent mingles its far roar, With the breeze murmuring in the musical woods. Where the embowering trees recede, and leave A little space ... ... the beautiful shade Of the green groves, with all their odorous winds And musical motions. Calm, he still pursued The stream, that with a larger volu... ...sible ravages of tyranny and war, cities and villages reduced to scattered groups of black and roofless houses, and the naked inhabitants sitting fami... ...765 12 12 12 12 12. Such man has been, and such may yet become! Ay, wiser, greater, gentler even than they Who on the fragments of yon shattered dome ... ...54. 54. Over the plain the throngs were scattered then _2290 In groups around the fires, which from the sea Even to the gorge of the first ... ...othing- ness of human life. His passions and his powers are incom- parably greater than those of other men; and, instead of the latter having been emp... ...HE THE THE THE MASSA MASSA MASSA MASSA MASSACRE A CRE A CRE A CRE A CRE AT MANCHESTER. T MANCHESTER. T MANCHESTER. T MANCHESTER. T MANCHESTER. Compose...

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... in the Republic than I had, when I landed in America. I purposely abstain from extending these observations to any length. I have nothing to defend, ... ...y, with a modest yet most magnificent sense of its limited dimensions, had from the first opined would not hold more than two enormous portmanteaus in... ...f more than Eastern splendour, and filled (but not inconveniently so) with groups of ladies and gentlemen, in the very highest state of enjoyment and ... ... the expression of the countenance, how much American Notes – Dickens 41 greater the difficulty when darkness shrouds them both, and the one can hea... ...mes jealous. She wants to have her share, which, if not the lion’s, is the greater part; and if she does not get it, she says, “ My mother will love m... ...ed with our manufacturing towns in England, and have visited many mills in Manchester and elsewhere in the same manner. I happened to arrive at the fi... ...n full leaf, must be extremely picturesque. Even in the winter time, these groups of well grown trees, cluster ing among the busy streets and houses ... ...el discussions upon the same themes, in connection with Shakspeare and the Musical Glasses, of which we read in the Vicar of Wakefield. Near the city,... ...f the mixing of cool liquors: but they were a merrier people here, and had musical instruments playing to them o’ nights, which it was a treat to hear...

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...olutely without meaning. Fortunately, after all such churls have withdrawn from my audience in high displeasure, there remains a large majority who ar... ...jority who are loud in acknowledging the amusement which they have derived from a former paper of mine, ‘On Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts;... ...aving secured that concealment from the public eye it then became of still greater importance not to lose a moment by delay, than previously it had be... ...he scene of this murder was at a rustic inn, some few miles (I think) from Manchester; and the advantageous situation of this inn it was, out of which... ... arrest the boy’s flight. And every succeeding second made his despair the greater. If the boy had really effected his es- cape to the neighboring far... ...ose. But what the world knows Wieland by is his ‘Oberon.’ Now in this gay, musical romance of Sir Huon and his enchanted horn, with its gleams of volu... ... of dramatically representing an impassioned tale, by means of dancing, of musical ac- companiment in the orchestra, and of elaborate pantomime in the... ... seems most characteristic: the form which presides in the most commanding groups, ‘is not dead but sleepeth:’ true, but it is the sleep of a life seq... ...of the Greek tragedy. Gran- deur in the attitudes, in the gestures, in the groups, in the processions—all this was indispensable: but, on so vast a sc...

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...er; and, to the raging, struggling multitude here and elsewhere, solemnly, from hour to hour, with preparatory blast of cow-horn, emit his Horet ihr H... ...ult and gold ornaments; also many a scene that looks desert and rock-bound from the distance, will unfold itself, when visited, into rare valleys. Nay... ...lls; so that when a man walks, it is with continual jingling. Some few, of musical turn, have a whole chime of bells (Glockenspiel) fastened there; wh... ...t of practical Reason’ proceeding by large Intuition over whole systematic groups and kingdoms; whereby, we might say, a noble complexity, almost like... ...ic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge. The whole is greater than the part: how exceedingly true! Nature abhors a vacuum: how ex... ...e of Names, which are the most important of all Clothings, I were a second greater Trismegistus. Not only all common Speech, but Science, Poetry itsel... ... hand-grips with Destiny her- self, may have comported himself among these Musical and Literary dilettanti of both sexes, like a hungry lion invited t... ...-gowns, for a second skin of tanned hide? By which change Huddersfield and Manchester, and Coventry and Paisley, and the Fancy-Bazaar, were reduced to...

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..., when inquiries are made respecting them, and they are taken as by favour from the mothers who relinquish all natural knowledge of them and claim to ... ...stands aside, observes closely, sees that the gate is quietly closed again from within, and follows the young woman. Two or three streets have been tr... ... are two or three governors, whole families from the congregation, smaller groups of both sexes, individual strag- glers of various degrees. The brigh... ... makers, Swiss silver-chasers, Swiss jewellers, Swiss import- ers of Swiss musical boxes and Swiss toys of various kinds, draw close together there. S... ...up—and perhaps also with contingent Obenreizer views—reminded him of those musical schemes of his in connection with his family, and how a singing-cla... ...tages, beyond all doubt. But there were hundreds of men in London with far greater power and far wider influence than V endale possessed. Was it possi... ... if I can be of any use. Business of my own takes me away for some days to Manchester and Liverpool. Can I combine any business of yours with it? I am... ...n was V endale himself. It was a sacrifice to leave his business; it was a greater sac- rifice to leave Marguerite. But a matter of five hundred pound... ...ted in the narrow street to see them depart. The people talked together in groups; the guides and drivers whispered apart, and looked up at the sky; n...

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...act, to none of the numerous societies which swarm in the English capital, from the Harmonic to that of 4 Around the World in 80 Days the Entomologis... ... with whom he had an open credit. His cheques were regularly paid at sight from his account current, which was always flush. Was Phileas Fogg rich? Un... ...m remained on deck to scan the picturesque panorama of the town, while the greater part disembarked in the boats, and landed on the quay. Fix took up ... ...was her speed, to reach her destination considerably within that time. The greater part of the passengers from Brindisi were bound for India some for ... ...g, clove, and pepper plantations, while the steam curled in spirals around groups of palm-trees, in the midst of which 42 Around the World in 80 Days... ...s of the glade, which was lit up by the torches. The ground was covered by groups of the Indians, motionless in their drunken sleep; it seemed a battl... ...t of India; or Monghir, a more than European town, for it is as English as Manchester or Bir- mingham, with its iron foundries, edgetool factories, an... ...ossed bamboo ladders, dispersed into all the corners, and produced strange musical effects by the combination of their various pitches of tone. The ju...

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...n the United Kingdom greatly cares for my opinion of its brandy or sherry. When I go upon my jour- neys, I am not usually rated at a low figure in the... ... I travel for the great house of Human Interest Brothers, and have rather a large connection in the fancy goods way. Literally speaking, I am always w... ...boys and young men among us; we had also many girls and young women. To represent, however, that we did not include a very great number, and a very fa... ...hed as rear- guard. Sharp-eye, I soon had occasion to remark, had a skil- ful and quite professional way of opening doors—touched latches delicately, ... ... night of travel and got to bed, I failed to keep my mind on comfortable thoughts of Seaman’s Homes (not overdone with strictness), and improved dock ... ...of fiction and a police report. Again: I wonder why people are always blown into the Surrey Canal, and into no other piece of water! Why do people get... ...s of miles away, I am hungry when I arrive at the ‘Refreshment’ station where I am expected. Please to observe, expected. I have said, I am hungry; pe... ...e hostelry which no man possessed of a penny was ever known to pass in warm weather. Before its entrance, are certain pleasant, trimmed limes; likewis... ...ner were the more in request, and many were bought. The title ran: ‘Sacred Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Church of Jesus Church of Latter-Day Sain...

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...w me to bear you. If I am reproached for impotence in this attempt to draw from the depths of mysticism a book which seeks to give, in the lucid trans... ... this book could belong exclusively to noble spirits, preserved like yours from worldly pettiness by solitude! They would know how to give to it the m... ... her once more. “But, Minna,” answered Seraphitus, “you look fearlessly at greater spaces far than that.” Then with raised finger, this strange being ... ...stepping- stone from and by which to rise to Him? We love according to the greater or the lesser portion of heaven our souls con- tain. But do not be ... ...s in England, where there are seven thousand Swedenborgians in the city of Manchester alone. Many men of high rank in knowledge and in social position... ...contemplated the vast extent, illimitable to human eyes, filled with those groups of worlds a mere fraction of which is all our telescopes can reach, ... ... Perspective,—as an organ fills a church with sonorous sound and reveals a musical universe, its solemn tones rising to the loftiest arches and playin...

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...y continued to regard the swelling bulks with expressions that had changed from indifference to disapproval. Mr. T om Smallways was a green-grocer by ... ...of the coming of the Crystal Palace. The Crystal Palace was six miles away from Bun Hill, a great facade that glittered in the morning, and was a clea... ...inarily wasp-like manner. His return to London—he visited and hovered over Manchester and Liverpool and Oxford on his way, and spelt his name out to e... ...ms to the first person to fly from Manches- ter to Glasgow, from London to Manchester, one hundred miles, two hundred miles in England, and the like. ... ...t to them. They handled a line of cheap gramophones, and did a little with musical boxes. The staple of their business was, however, the letting of bi... ... ourselves—the Desert Dervishes.” They bowed profoundly. The few scattered groups upon the beach regarded them with horror for the most part, but some... ... had found it interesting in spite of grave preoccupations. Kurt, like the greater number of the men upon the German air- fleet, had known hardly anyt... ...pours of ro- mance: he was a conqueror, and this was the enemy’s city. The greater the city, the greater the triumph. No doubt he had a time of tremen... ... it seemed like a hand-to-hand scuffle in the sky. Then they broke up into groups and duels. The descent of German air-ships towards the lower sky inc...

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...to Vettori, and it seems to me, now that I have released myself altogether from his literary precedent, that he still has his use for me. In spite of ... ...s unfair. The old sort of Prince, the old little principality has vanished from the world. The commonweal is one man’s absolute es- tate and responsib... ...tle things. A Rip van Winkle from 1350, again, would have noticed scarcely greater changes; fewer clergy, more people, and particularly more people of... ...l tables. “Confound it!” said I, and talked all the more zealously of that greater 107 H G Wells England that was calling us. I remember that we pass... ...d off by his passions for a “bit of a spree” to Birmingham or Liverpool or Manchester. The in- dulgences of these occasions were usually followed by a... ..., and I remember disconnectedly quite a number of brightly lit figures and groups walking about, and a white gate between orchard and garden and a lar... ...hy but determined. She had rather open blue eyes, and she spoke in an even musical voice with the gen- tlest of stresses and the ghost of a lisp. And ... ...rtain amount of open-air speaking in the dinner hour outside gas-works and groups of factories. Some special sort of people was, as it were, secreted ... ...ies would prevent it. If Messrs. Perowne or Cook organised a cheap tour of Manchester op- eratives, it would be stopped. No one dare bring the average...

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...with which his friends have 5 Yo n g e kindly supplied me, portraying him from their point of view; so that I could really trust that little more was... ...ary judgment in connecting and selecting. Nor until the work is less fresh from my hand will it be possible to judge whether I have in any way been al... ...ame the seed of his future purpose, and the eyes of his spirit were seeing greater things than the Vicarage of Feniton. Indeed, the subject was not en... ...arly impressive and beautiful service. I never saw anything conducted with greater decorum. Not a single fellow spoke except at the responses, which w... ...anner of saying the prayers was exceedingly good: his voice very sweet and musical; without seeming loud, it was fully audible, and gave assurance of ... ... England during his father’s lifetime, and perhaps transferring himself to Manchester, Liverpool, London, or some large city, where there was need of ... ...which had been taken in hand by a Scot- tish Presbyterian Mission; but the groups which seem to form 100 Life of John Coleridge Patteson the third fr... ...nd is now at work again—English, Maori, Greek and Hebrew types. Sepa- rate groups of buildings, which once were filled with lads from different Melane... ...in those private classes that he exercised such wonderful in- fluence; his musical voice, his holy face, his gentle manner, all helping doubtless to i...

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...N, at low water, Mr. Isbister, a young artist lodging at Boscastle, walked from that place to the pictur- esque cove of Pentargen, desiring to examine... ...ances, prompted him to keep the conver- sation going. “I’ve never suffered from sleeplessness myself,” he said in a tone of commonplace gossip, “but i... ...fter two hundred years. The haphazard cylinders he substituted displayed a musical fan- tasia. At first it was beautiful, and then it was sensuous. He... ...a crowd. He stopped near the highest step. Before him, on that level, were groups of seats and a little kiosk. He went up to this and, stopping in the... ...l flying machines? Why is there no fighting with them?” “They had. But the greater part of the aeronauts were in the revolt with us. They wouldn’t tak... ...ble gold. They clambered up the tottering walls, they clung in wreaths and groups about the high-standing pillars. They swarmed along the edges of the... ...ondon, there were only four other cities in Britain—Edinburgh, Portsmouth, Manchester and Shrewsbury. Such things as these, simple statements of fact ... ..., cried pas- sionately through the city. After two hundred years, he knew, greater than ever, grown with the city to gigantic propor- tions, were pove...

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...Woolf The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf Chapter I A s the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk... ... beyond the reach of malice and unpopularity. In his guess one might guess from the moving lips that it was thought; and in hers from the eyes fixed s... ...f admitting him, and feeling it awk- ward to stand beside a grief that was greater than his, he crossed his arms behind him, and took a turn along the... ... way of any real talent that the pupil might chance to have. Rachel, being musical, was allowed to learn nothing but music; she became a fanatic about... ...ack brisk animal—a Schipperke, I think, you call them. You can’t imagine a greater contrast. The Skye so slow and deliberate, looking up at you like s... ...children intermarry with the Spanish. Although they get their ploughs from Manchester, they make their coats from their own sheep, their silk from the... ...it would be to join the ranks of the married women—no longer to hang on to groups of girls much younger than herself—to escape the long solitude of an... ...w figures in the thin white dust to explain how Bach wrote his fugues. “My musical gift was ruined,” he explained, as they walked on after one of thes... ...able joining to another tea-table, and deck- chairs serving to connect two groups. But even at a dis- tance it could be seen that Mrs. Flushing, uprig...

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...not true.” Hackluyt. “WHALE. * * * Sw. and Dan. hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. hvalt is arched or vaulted.” Webster... ...ed or vaulted.” Webster’s Dictionary. “WHALE. * * * It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. Wallen; A.S. Walw ian, to roll, to wallow.” Richards... ...ches to all sinners; and therefore to ye, and still more to me, for I am a greater sinner than ye. And now how gladly would I come down from this mast... ...led out of Nantucket, that were as Chapter 24 The Advocate 115 great, and greater than your Cook and your Krusenstern. For in their succorless empty ... ... enter into the inquiry as to the true method of dividing the cetacea into groups and families. Utter confusion exists among the historians of this an... ...ing and weaving away when I started at a sound so strange, long drawn, and musically wild and unearthly, that the ball of free will dropped from my ha... ...of fin backs and other whales. Likewise, I have heard that in the museum of Manchester, in New Hampshire, they have what the proprietors call “the only... ...Here we go again. This wooden mallet is the cork, and I’m the professor of musical glasses — tap, tap!” (Ahab to himself.) “There’s a sight! There’s a...

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...elderly distinguished people successful, that she scarcely needed any help from her daughter, provided that the tiresome business of teacups and bread... ...still; and the faces of the elderly people were mellowed, at some distance from each other, and had a bloom on them owing to the fact that the air in ... ..., what would you do if you were married to an engineer, and had to live in Manchester, Mr. Denham?” “Surely she could learn Persian,” broke in a thin,... ...little outburst, and unconsciously supple- mented them by so many words of greater expressiveness that the irritation of his failure was somewhat assu... ... wall photo- graphs of bridges and cathedrals and large, unprepos- sessing groups of insufficiently clothed young men, sit- ting in rows one above ano... ...bery. He should have felt that his own sister was more origi- nal, and had greater vitality than Miss Hilbery had; but his main impression of Katharin... ...us or an underground railway. It was notable that the talk was confined to groups, and was, at first, entirely spasmodic in character, and muttered in... ... for it. She cast her eyes down in irritation, and read again her mother’s musical sentences about the silver gulls, and the roots of little pink flow... ...ust on the floor meditatively with the toe of his boot, he was roused by a musical and familiar voice behind him, ac- companied by a light touch upon ...

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...s not true.” —Hackluyt “Whale. ... Sw. and Dan. Hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. Hvalt is arched or vaulted.” —W ebst... ...ed or vaulted.” —W ebster’ s Dictionary “Whale. ... It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. wallen; a.s. walw-ian, to roll, to wallow.” —Richard... ...es to all sinners; and there- fore to ye, and still more to me, for I am a greater sinner than ye. And now how gladly would I come down from this mast... ...anonymous Cap- tains have sailed out of Nantucket, that were as great, and greater than your Cook and your Krusenstern. For in their succourless empty... ... enter into the inquiry as to the true method of dividing the cetacea into groups and families.... Utter confusion exists among the historians of this... ...ING and weaving away when I started at a sound so strange, long drawn, and musically wild and unearthly, that the ball of free will dropped from my ha... ...f fin-backs and other whales. Likewise, I have heard that in the museum of Manchester, in New Hampshire, they have what the proprietors call “the only... ...Here we go again. This wooden mallet is the cork, and I’m the professor of musical glasses—tap, tap!” (Ahab to himself.) “There’s a sight! There’s a s...

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...ent, at the head of French historical papers, and are the one great source from which all historians derive their insight into the closing years of th... ... was a new term, or a change in the ordinary meaning of words sprang forth from has pen. With this was joined a vigour and breadth of style, very pro-... ...rn. At the Cardinal’s death my father had returned to the Court and was in greater favour than ever. Just before Louis XIII. died he gave my father th... ...t, and always shaved along the walls, to make people make way for him with greater noise; and at Versailles worked his way on by a series of respectfu... ...at once hastened to the chateau, where I found a great buzzing and several groups of people talking. Mahony was closeted a long time with the King. At... .... Soon afterwards he was recognised by the new King of Spain. The Count of Manchester, English ambassador in France, ceased to appear at Versailles af... ...ignified manner; presiding, in fact, over the Salon of Marly, and over the groups gath- ered round him, like the divinity of a temple, who receives wi... ...utterly without sense, and who had had some expe- rience. Without voice or musical knowledge, he used to sing, in private, the passages of the opera p...

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...ng to have broken them. My plain story is of two Kentish damsels, and runs from a home of flowers into regions where flowers are few and sickly, on to... ...d Kentish extraction, albeit varieties of the breed. The farm had its name from a tradition, common to many other farmhouses within a circuit of the m... ...m her, whispering with satisfied noddings, wished to draw her in among the groups. She mentioned the name of Mary Burt to her father, sup- posing that... ...ed for more than a century: Burt and Hamble were still of the flesh; but a greater than Burt or Hamble was Blancove— the Sir William Blancove, Baronet... ...da shook her head, full sure that she could never be brought to utter such musical words naturally. “Yes, dearest, when you know what love is,” said D... ...seen her. I expect I’ve seen a portrait of her, though.” “Ah!” Mrs. Lovell musically drew him on. “Was she dark, too?” “No, she’s fair. At least, she ... ...nd I’ve finished with him. Don’t come to me about the fellow. If there’s a greater curse than the gout, it’s a son.” “My girl,” said the farmer, “she’... ...oll away, and with a last glance at Robert, they too went off in gossiping groups. Robert’s penance was over, and he could not refrain from asking wha... ...d assertions; now implicating the jockey, now the owner of Templemore. The Manchester party, and the Yorkshire party, and their diverse villanous tric...

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...te, with the interesting in- scription ‘Mrs. Tibbs,’ had never caught fire from con- stant friction, so perseveringly was it polished. There were meat... ...the wandering Jew of Joe Millerism. Mr. Tibbs enjoyed a small independence from the pen- sion-list—about 43£. 15S. 10D. a year. His father, mother, an... ...ublic that ‘Six individuals would meet with all the comforts of a cheerful musical home in a select private family, residing within ten min- utes’ wal... ...able place enough, even in these days; but, five-and-thirty years ago, the greater portion of it was little better than a dreary waste, inhab- ited by... ...hall be able to dance quadrilles all day; and then, whoever we know that’s musical, you know, why they’ll make themselves useful and agreeable; and—an... ...ayed ‘Off she goes:’ the major part of the company conversed cheerfully in groups; and the old gentlemen walked up and down the deck in pairs, as pers... ...tt sat down to a fried sole, maintenon cutlet, Madeira, and sundries, with greater composure than he had experienced since the receipt of Horace Hunte... ...lancholy instance of this only a week or two since. I was return- ing from Manchester to London by the Mail Train, when I suddenly fell into another t...

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...e originated. In such mouths I might have coupled it with an apt quotation from one of Shakespeare’s sonnets: “My nature is subdued To what it works i... ...true, and within the truth. The case of Gridley is in no essential altered from one of actual occurrence, made public by a dis interested person who ... ...stable monotony. Oh, go on, do!” Mr. T ulkinghorn reads again. The heat is greater; my Lady screens her face. Sir Leicester dozes, starts up suddenly,... ...ot relent—”the wrong she did to me, and I say no more of it, though it was greater than you will ever know—than any one will ever know but I, the suff... ...tone as soon as you had made it. You would have a very mean opin ion of a Manchester man if he spun cotton for no other pur pose. He must say he tho... ...He has shown nothing but his shell. As easily might the tone of a delicate musical instrument be inferred from its case, as the tone of Mr. T ulkingho... ... to Allegory and meditation. By this time the news has got into the court. Groups of its inhabitants assemble to discuss the thing, and the outposts o... ... at all.” At length, one afternoon a little before sunset, when the bright groups of figures which have for the last hour or two 164 Bleak House – Di... ...n, and the hall was blocked up by a grand piano, a harp, and several other musical instru ments in cases, all in progress of removal, and all looking...

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...e originated. In such mouths I might have coupled it with an apt quotation from one of Shakespeare’s sonnets: “My nature is subdued To what it works i... ...true, and within the truth. The case of Gridley is in no essential altered from one of actual occurrence, made public by a dis interested person who ... ...stable monotony. Oh, go on, do!” Mr. T ulkinghorn reads again. The heat is greater; my Lady screens her face. Sir Leicester dozes, starts up suddenly,... ...ot relent—”the wrong she did to me, and I say no more of it, though it was greater than you will ever know—than any one will ever know but I, the suff... ...tone as soon as you had made it. You would have a very mean opin ion of a Manchester man if he spun cotton for no other pur pose. He must say he tho... ...He has shown nothing but his shell. As easily might the tone of a delicate musical instrument be inferred from its case, as the tone of Mr. T ulkingho... ... to Allegory and meditation. By this time the news has got into the court. Groups of its inhabitants assemble to discuss the thing, and the outposts o... ... at all.” At length, one afternoon a little before sunset, when the bright groups of figures which have for the last hour or two 164 Bleak House – Vo... ...n, and the hall was blocked up by a grand piano, a harp, and several other musical instru ments in cases, all in progress of removal, and all looking...

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...Virgin Soil by Ivan S. T urgenev T ranslated from the Russian by R. S. T ownsend A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ...unity university. 3 Turgenev Virgin Soil by Ivan S. T urgenev T ranslated from the Russian by R. S. Townsend INTRODUCTION T urgenev was the first wri... ...d- ern Russia to the outer world, and Virgin Soil was the last word of his greater testament. It was the book in which many English readers were desti... ... front of the house there was a flower garden, with straight gravel paths, groups of acacias and lilac, and round flower beds. T o the left, past the ... ...ove him like his own son. This man supplied him with the means of going to Manchester, where he stayed for two years, acquiring an ex- cellent knowled... ...h the same expression with which she had looked at Solomin, only with even greater delight, emotion, radiance: “Oh, my dear!” she exclaimed. “We are b... ...g to play such an important part; where his wife patronised the arts, gave musical evenings, and founded charitable cook- shops; where Kollomietzev wa...

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...tention. So the girl eyed him. But, it happened now, that a slant of light from the setting sun glanced into the bottom of the boat, and, touching a r... ...t or barge that split the cur- rent into a broad-arrowhead, at the offsets from the piers of Southwark Bridge, at the paddles of the river steamboats ... ... require none from me. That will be fair on both sides. Indeed, I show the greater confidence of the two, for I will pay in advance whatever you pleas... ... last griev- ance as her climax, she laid great stress—and might have laid greater, had she known that if Mr Julius Handford had a twin brother upon e... ...rea- ture looking down out of a Glory of her long bright radiant hair, and musically repeating to him, like a vision: ‘Come up and be dead! Come up an... ... going to say, the king is generally dressed in a Lon- don hat only , or a Manchester pair of braces, or one epaulette, or an uniform coat with his le... ... Genie of the cheek would only answer to his rubbing. In the drawing-room, groups form as usual. Lightwood, Boots, and Brewer, flutter like moths arou... ...d quite agrees with you and me.’ 417 Charles Dickens Alfred advances. The groups break up. Lady Tippins rises to go, and Mrs Veneering follows her le... ...ssumed, and certainly would not have rounded off and broken down in with a musical laugh, as Bella did: she placed her husband in his chair, and place...

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...y was full of such grotesqueries, but the clean towers were thrusting them from the business center, and on the farther hills were shining new houses,... ... hood and noiseless engine. These people in evening clothes were returning from an all-night rehearsal of a Little Theater play, an artistic adventure... ...g—Sneakingly I have a notion that Zenith is a better place to live in than Manchester or Glasgow or Lyons or Berlin or Turin—” “It is not, and I have ... ...y.” The real convention consisted of men muttering in hotel bedrooms or in groups amid the badge-spotted crowd in the hotel-lobby, but there was a sho... ...h, an Old Family is one which came to town before 1840.) His power was the greater because he was not hindered by scruples, by either the vice or the ... ...were bringing folding chairs up from the basement. There was an impressive musical program, conducted by Sheldon Smeeth, educational di- rector of the... ...ck around with me, old man, and I’ll show you a good time!” They went to a musical comedy and nudged each other 212 Babbitt at the matrimonial jokes ... ...tle belly, and his round little mouth petu- lant as he piped to chattering groups on corners. “Move on there now! I can’t have any of this loitering!”...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, f...

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.................................23 Thou Reader........................................23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III..........................................38...

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..............23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III............................... ...OK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM ...103 To the Garden the World...................103 From Pent Up Aching Rivers............103 I Sing the Body Electric.......... ... it so, then I answer’d, I too haughty Shade also sing war, and a longer and greater one than any, Waged in my book with varying fortune, with flight,... ...d answer what I am for, But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known, Arouse! for you must justify me. Leaves of Gra... ...ge! Warblings under the sun, usher’d as now, or at noon, or setting, Strains musical flowing through ages, now reaching hither, I take to your reckles... ...from the crowd steps the marksman, takes his position, levels his piece; The groups of newly come immigrants cover the wharf or levee, As the woolly p... ...each other, The youth lies awake in the cedar roof’d garret and harks to the musical rain, The Wolverine sets traps on the creek that helps fill the H... ..., some slumbering? Who are the girls? who are the married women? Who are the groups of old men going slowly with their arms about each other’s necks? ... ...Berlin, Constantinople, I am of Adelaide, Sidney, Melbourne, I am of London, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh, Limerick, I am of Madrid, Cadiz, Barcelon...

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... of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely sufficient to satisfy the present cravings of nature, and can take no heed of the future....

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...poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely suff... ...and hunger, and the very bed on which his sick wife is ly- ing, is dragged from beneath her. What can he do? To whom is he to apply for relief? To pri... ...the little nicknacks are always arranged in precisely the same manner. The greater part of these are presents from little girls whose parents live in ... ...oks forward as the greatest treat of its existence. She seldom visits at a greater distance than the next door but one on either side; and when she dr... ... present an appearance of dirt and dis- comfort on such a night, which the groups who lounge about them in no degree tend to diminish. Even the little... ...ife-clattering, and waiter-chattering, per- fectly indescribable. The more musical portion of the play-going commu- nity betake themselves to some har... ... already, to be enabled to force itself into the narrow alleys around, are groups of people, whose appear- ance and dwellings would fill any mind but ... ...ull enjoyment of these festivities when we heard a shrill, and by no means musical voice, ex- claim, ‘Hope you’ll know me agin, imperence!’ and on loo... ...ar for a contradiction to our position, we may be reminded that Liverpool, Manchester, ‘and other large towns’ (as the Parliamentary phrase goes), hav...

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...y a relative of mine engaged in the lumber-trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the Penobscot, in which property he was interested. From this place, which is about one hundred miles by the river above Bangor, thirty miles from the Houlton military road, and five miles beyond the last log-hut, I proposed to make excursions to Mount Ktaadn, the second highe...

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... on the west branch of the Penobscot, in which property he was interested. 1 From this place, which is about one hundred miles by the river above Bang... ...ce, which is about one hundred miles by the river above Bangor, thirty miles from the Houlton military road, and five miles beyond the last log hut, I ... ...ed and fifty saw mills on the Penobscot and its tributaries above Bangor, the greater part of them in this immediate neighborhood, and they sawed two h... ... from fourteen to sixteen dollars. There was something refreshing and wildly musical to my ears in the very name of the white man’s canoe, reminding m... ...mery Indian name, the Olemmon, Passadumkeag, and other streams, which make a greater show on the map than they now did on the road. At Passadumkeag we... ...s; these, I think, were all beside ourselves. In the saloon was some kind of musical instrument, cherubim, or seraphim, to soothe the angry waves; and... ... of the lumberer. They are of a social habit, growing in “veins,” “clumps,” “groups,” or “communities,” as the explorers call them, distinguishing the... ...e prot´ eg´ es of the rivers. These narrow and straggling bands and isolated groups are, in a sense, the pioneers of civilization. Birds, quadrupeds, ... ...atiquoik, a mountain river. (Sockbasin.) Appendix 203 Judge C. E. Potter of Manchester, New Hampshire, adds in November, 1855: — “Chesuncook. This is...

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...le girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve....

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...er, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with hu... ...til domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child-pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theres... ...with yours. If I said more, it would only be the same thing written out at greater length, for I cannot now dwell on any other thought than that I may... ...low stool, unable to occupy herself ex- cept in meditation, said, with the musical intonation which in moments of deep but quiet feeling made her spee... ...othea!” he said, pressing her hand between his hands, “this is a happiness greater than I had ever imagined to be in reserve for me. That I should eve... ... that young lady for mental acquisition and propriety of speech, while her musical execution was quite exceptional. We cannot help the way in which pe... ...field on his farms has a rotten gate: a man very open-hearted to Leeds and Manchester, no doubt; he would give any number of representatives who will ... ...eeting was despatched, and fringed off into eager discussion among various groups con- cerning this affair of Bulstrode—and Lydgate. 664 Middlemarch ...

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... of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely sufficient to satisfy the present cravings of nature, and can take no heed of the future....

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...poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely suff... ...and hunger, and the very bed on which his sick wife is ly- ing, is dragged from beneath her. What can he do? To whom is he to apply for relief? To pri... ...the little nicknacks are always arranged in precisely the same manner. The greater part of these are presents from little girls whose parents live in ... ...oks forward as the greatest treat of its existence. She seldom visits at a greater distance than the next door but one on either side; and when she dr... ... present an appearance of dirt and dis- comfort on such a night, which the groups who lounge about them in no degree tend to diminish. Even the little... ...ife-clattering, and waiter-chattering, per- fectly indescribable. The more musical portion of the play-going commu- nity betake themselves to some har... ... already, to be enabled to force itself into the narrow alleys around, are groups of people, whose appear- ance and dwellings would fill any mind but ... ...ull enjoyment of these festivities when we heard a shrill, and by no means musical voice, ex- claim, ‘Hope you’ll know me agin, imperence!’ and on loo... ...ar for a contradiction to our position, we may be reminded that Liverpool, Manchester, ‘and other large towns’ (as the Parliamentary phrase goes), hav...

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...le girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve....

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...er, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide eyed and helpless looking as two fawns, but with hu... ...til domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theres... ...with yours. If I said more, it would only be the same thing written out at greater length, for I cannot now dwell on any other thought than that I may... ...a low stool, unable to occupy herself except in meditation, said, with the musical intonation which in moments of deep but quiet feeling made her spee... ...othea!” he said, pressing her hand between his hands, “this is a happiness greater than I had ever imagined to be in reserve for me. That I should eve... ... that young lady for mental acquisition and propriety of speech, while her musical execution was quite exceptional. We cannot help the way in which pe... ... field on his farms has a rotten gate: a man very open hearted to Leeds and Manchester, no doubt; he would give any number of representatives who will ... ...eeting was despatched, and fringed off into eager discussion among various groups concerning this affair of Bulstrode—and Lydgate. Mr. Brooke, who had...

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...er; and, to the rag ing, struggling multitude here and elsewhere, solemnly, from hour to hour, with preparatory blast of cow horn, emit hisH¨ oret ih... ...umult and gold ornaments; also many a scene that looks desert and rock bound from the distance, will unfold itself, when visited, into rare valleys. N... ...lls; so that when a man walks, it is with contin ual jingling. Some few, of musical turn, have a whole chime of bells (Glocken 32 SARTOR RESARTUS s... ...hat of practical Reason’ proceeding by large Intuition over whole systematic groups and king doms; whereby, we might say, a noble complexity, almost ... ...ogic mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge. The whole is greater than the part: how exceedingly true! Nature abhors a vacuum: how ... ...nce of Names, which are the most important of all Clothings, I were a second greater Trismegistus. Not only all common Speech, but Science, Poetry GE... ...tual hand grips with Destiny herself, may have comported himself among these Musical and Literary dilettanti of both sexes, like a hungry lion invited... ...ain gowns, for a second skin of tanned hide? By which change Huddersfield and Manchester, and Coventry and Paisley, and the Fancy Bazaar, were reduced ...

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...e of any rank, character, or nation; and in this way he diverted attention from the Prince, and sometimes gained admission for the pair into strange s... ... me,” said the Prince, “and I have all the will in the world to rescue you from this dilemma, but upon one condition. If my friend and I eat your cake... ...d pleading his recent arrival for excuse. And the man, grumbling with even greater fervour, and looking contemptuously from the money in his hand to t... ...ng and capable exterior. They were divided into two 59 New Arabian Nights groups, one about a roulette board, and the other surround- ing a table at ... ...opulous quarters of the city; even there be upon your guard. Y ou are in a greater danger than you fancy. Promise me you will not so much as look at m... ...ssed on and were admitted in their turn to the pavilion. One by one, or in groups, the seamen returned to the beach. The wind brought me the sound of ... ... the next, there was sure intel- ligence that he was still lurking between Manchester and Liverpool, or along the border of Wales; and the day after, ... ...us inclination of the head. Partly from the smile, partly from the strange musical mur- mur with which the Sire prefaced his observation, Denis felt a... ...d to limp about the apartment, clearing his throat the while with that odd musical chirp which had already grown so irritating in the ears of Denis de...

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...ere the blockheads and impostors who might naturally be expected to spring from such a state of things, and to flourish in it; these Y orkshire school... ... that those gentlemen might, in their modesty, be shy of receiving a visit from the author of the “Pickwick Papers,” I consulted with a professional f... ...t from the Opera band reside within its precincts. Its boarding-houses are musical, and the notes of pianos and harps float in the evening time round ... ... THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY windows are thrown open, and groups of swarthy moustached men are seen by the passer-by , lounging at th... ... Mr Nickleby was wrapt in a brown study, and sat contemplating it with far greater attention than, in a more conscious mood, he would have deigned to ... ...tthew Pupker, or the two other members, crowded round them in three little groups, near one or other of which the gentlemen who were NOT on speaking t... ...ty platform, and the ladies in the Music Gallery . In these amusements the greater portion of them had been occupied for a couple of hours before, and... ...had dwindled down to one. Mr Gregsbury, the great member of parliament, of Manchester Buildings, Westminster, wanted a young man, to keep his papers a... ...ll she could ascertain was, that there were several gentlemen with no very musical voices, who talked very loud, laughed very heartily, and swore more...

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...ere the blockheads and impostors who might naturally be expected to spring from such a state of things, and to flourish in it; these Y orkshire school... ... that those gentlemen might, in their modesty, be shy of receiving a visit from the author of the “Pickwick Papers,” I consulted with a professional f... ...t from the Opera band reside within its precincts. Its boarding-houses are musical, and the notes of pianos and harps float in the evening time round ... ... THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY windows are thrown open, and groups of swarthy moustached men are seen by the passer-by , lounging at th... ... Mr Nickleby was wrapt in a brown study, and sat contemplating it with far greater attention than, in a more conscious mood, he would have deigned to ... ...tthew Pupker, or the two other members, crowded round them in three little groups, near one or other of which the gentlemen who were NOT on speaking t... ...ty platform, and the ladies in the Music Gallery . In these amusements the greater portion of them had been occupied for a couple of hours before, and... ...had dwindled down to one. Mr Gregsbury, the great member of parliament, of Manchester Buildings, Westminster, wanted a young man, to keep his papers a... ...ll she could ascertain was, that there were several gentlemen with no very musical voices, who talked very loud, laughed very heartily, and swore more...

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...e Montparnasse, where a number of artists were in the habit of dining; and from then on I dined there every night. I have described the place elsewher... ... Paris to return to London. Once, long after wards, I received a telegram from him which ran as follows: ‘Please send twenty five pounds at once. Mot... ... God who is all power ful, to come forth. You are but a snake, and God is greater than all snakes. Obey my call and come.’ A tremor went through the ... ...ssed away in bloodshed, and in poudre de riz . The very plane trees had a greater sobriety than elsewhere, as though conscious they stood in a Paris ... ...turn of the Pagan world, the sins of the Borgias.’ His voice, poignant and musical, blended with the suave music of the words so that Margaret felt sh... ...f any importance,’ she laughed. Presently the diners began to go in little groups, and Mar garet suggested that they should saunter towards the Madel... ...ized with a devouring lust for the gutter, and he would go to Liverpool or Manchester and throw himself among the very dregs of the people. He used to...