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...: (SOMERSET:) DUKE OF EXETER : (EXETER:) EARL OF OXFORD : (OXFORD:) EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND : (NORTHUMBERLAND:) EARL OF WESTMORELAND : (WESTMORELAND:)... ...f the north, He slily stole away and left his men: Whereat the great Lord of Northumberland, Whose warlike ears could never brook retreat, Cheer’d up ... ... Richard; claim the English crown. [Flourish. Enter KING HENRY VI, CLIFFORD, NORTHUMBERLAND, WESTMORELAND, EXETER, and the rest .] KING HENRY VI : M... ...e is slain, they’ll quickly fly. KING HENRY VI : Far be the thought of this from Henry’s heart, To make a shambles of the parliament house! Cousin of... ...And Warwick shall disprove it. You forget That we are those which chased you from the field And slew your fathers, and with colors spread March’d thro... ... You are old enough now, and yet, methinks, you lose. Father, tear the crown from the usurper’s head. EDWARD: Sweet father, do so; set it on your hea... ...h commixture melts. Impairing Henry, strengthening misproud York, The common people swarm like summer flies; And whither fly the gnats but to the sun?... ...l us, all our hope is done: Scotland hath will to help, but cannot help; Our people and our peers are both misled, Our treasures seized, our soldiers ... ... I pawn my credit and mine honor. KING LEWIS XI : But is he gracious in the people’s eye? WARWICK: The more that Henry was unfortunate. KING LEWIS X...

...Excerpt: While we pursued the horsemen of the north, He stole away and left his men: Whereat the great Lord of Northumberland, Whose warlike ears could never brook retreat, Cheer?d up the drooping army; and himself, Lord Clifford and Lord Stafford, all abreast, Charged our main battle?s front, and breaking in Were by the swords of com...

... He slyly stole away, and left his men: 9 Whereat the great Lord of Northumberland, 10 Whose Warlike eares could neuer brooke retreat, 1... ... clayme the English Crowne. 56 Flourish. Enter King Henry, Clifford, Northumberland, 57 Westmerland, Exeter, and the rest. 58 He... ... 61 To aspire vnto the Crowne, and reigne as King. 62 Earle of Northumberland, he slew thy Father, 63 And thine, Lord Clifford, & y... ...le quickly 79 flye. 80 Henry. Farre be the thought of this from Henries heart, 81 To make a Shambles of the Parliament House. ... ...shall disproue it. You forget, 103 That we are those which chas’d you from the field, 104 And slew your Fathers, and with Colours spread 10... ...w, 128 And yet me thinkes you loose: 129 Father teare the Crowne from the Vsurpers Head. 130 Edward. Sweet Father doe so, set it on... ... 1761 Scotland hath will to helpe, but cannot helpe: [p5 1762 Our People, and our Peeres, are both mis- led, 1763 Our Treasure seiz’d, ou... ...y Credit, and mine Ho-nor. 1855 Lewis. But is hee gracious in the Peoples eye? 1856 Warw. The more, that Henry was vnfortunate. 185... ... Warw. Trust me, my Lord, all hitherto goes well, 2189 The common people by numbers swarme to vs. 2190 Enter Clarence and Somerset. 2191...

... Wonder how the King escap?d our hands? Pl. While we pursu?d the Horsmen of y North, He slyly stole away, and left his men: Whereat the great Lord of Northumberland, Whose Warlike eares could never brooke retreat, Chear?d up the drouping Army, and himselfe. Lord Clifford and Lord Stafford all abrest Charg?d our maine Battailes Front: and breaking in, Were by the Swords of ...

...dings how that the King Rience of North Wales had reared a great number of people, and were entered into the land, and burnt and slew the king’s true ... ..., and were entered into the land, and burnt and slew the king’s true liege people. If this be true, said Arthur, it were great shame unto mine estate ... ...s they seemed best, there was come a damosel the which was sent on message from the great lady Lile of Avelion. And when she came before King Arthur, ... ...great lady Lile of Avelion. And when she came before King Arthur, she told from whom she came, and how she was sent on message unto him for these caus... ...out of prison, for he was a good man named of his body, and he was born in Northumberland. And so he went privily into the court, and saw this adventu... ...id within man’s person, and many a worshipful knight is not known unto all people, and therefore worship and hardiness is not in arrayment. By God, sa... ... sword again. Nay, said Balin, for this sword will I keep, but it be taken from me with force. Well, said the damosel, ye are 6 Sir Thomas Malory not... ...ar it to my friends, and tell them how I have sped, and tell my friends in Northumberland that my most foe is dead. Also tell them how I am out of pri... ... knights. Thus endeth the tale of Balin and of Balan, two brethren born in Northumberland, good knights. Sequitur iii liber. To return to the Electron...

...me when King Arthur was at London, there came a knight and told the king tidings how that the King Rience of North Wales had reared a great number of people, and were entered into the land, and burnt and slew the king?s true liege people. If this be true, said Arthur, it were great shame unto mine estate but that he were mightily withstood. It is truth, said the knight, fo...

...l stop 5 The vent of Hearing, when loud Rumor speakes? 6 I, from the Orient, to the drooping West 7 (Making the winde my Post- h... ...Worme- eaten- Hole of ragged Stone, 39 Where Hotspurres Father, old Northumberland, 40 Lyes crafty sicke. The Postes come tyring on, 41 ... ...ot a man of them brings other newes 42 Then they haue learn’d of Me. From Rumours Tongues, 43 They bring smooth- Comforts- false, worse t... ...ocke but at the Gate, 54 And he himselfe will answer. 55 Enter Northumberland. 56 L.Bar. Heere comes the Earle. 57 Nor... ... him. 62 L.Bar. Noble Earle, 63 I bring you certaine newes from Shrewsbury. 64 Nor. Good, and heauen will. 65 L.Ba... ...houre, that Time and Spight dare bring 212 To frowne vpon th’ enrag’d Northumberland. 213 Let Heauen kisse Earth: now let not Natures hand ... ...Keep them off, Bardolfe. Fang. A rescu, a rescu. 662 Host. Good people bring a rescu. Thou wilt not? thou 663 wilt not? Do, do thou Ro... ...701 staires) desire me to be no more familiar with such poore 702 people, saying, that ere long they should call me Madam? 703 And did’s... ...inne, that Life lookes through, and will breake out. 2507 Glo. The people feare me: for they doe obserue 2508 Vnfather’d Heires, and loath...

...Actus Primus -- Scoena Prima -- INDUCTION. Enter Rumour. Open your Eares: For which of you will stop The vent of Hearing, when loud Rumor speakes? I, from the Orient, to the drooping West (Making the winde my Post- horse) still unfold The Acts commenced on this Ball of Earth. Upon my Tongue, continuall Slanders ride, The which, in every Language, I pronounce, Stuffing the ...

... that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constituti... ...serve should be valued by the human family. Those liberties had been wrung from reluctant monarchs in many contests, in many countries, and were group... ...stablished in ordinances sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, bu... ...nto license and result in the tyranny of absolutism, without saving to the people the power so often found necessary of repressing or destroying their... ... his great intellect were engaged in the patriotic effort to secure to the people of France the blessings that Democracy in America had ordained and e... ...eople and in vin- dication of truths that will stand for their deliverance from monarchical rule, while time shall last. A French aristocrat of the pu... ... Mont- gomery, Luzerne, Dauphin, Butler, Alleghany, Columbia, Northampton, Northumberland, and Philadelphia, for the year 1830. Their popula- tion at ...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential to the preservation of the liberties which...

... 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... ...ey AUTOBIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRACT FR ... ...shed in a journal dedicated to purposes of politi- cal change such as many people thought revolutionary. I thought so myself, and did not go along wit... ...ular—but many of my readers will know it for a truth— that vast numbers of people, though liberated from all rea- sonable motives to self-restraint, c... ... power to lay aside reserve; and many, again, cannot be so with particular people. I have witnessed more than once the case, that a young female danc... ... rocky strata which stretch north- wards from Derbyshire to Cumberland and Northumberland. The public carriages were the first harbingers of a change ...

...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....

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

...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... ...a a week to carry out his later project of a solitary tramp through Wales. From July to No- vember, 1802, De Quincey then led a wayfarer’s life.* He s... ... our little planet, the Earth, however cheap they may be held by eccentric people in comets: he had invented mail-coaches, and he had mar- ried the da... ...ne single college; in Oxford there were five-and-twenty, all of which were peopled by young men, the élite of their own generation; not boys, but men:... ...he year of Trafalgar), it had been the fixed assumption of the four inside people (as an old tradition of all public car- riages derived from the reig... ...ck, Mr. Waterton, a distinguished coun- try gentleman of ancient family in Northumberland, pub- licly mounted and rode in top-boots a savage old croco... ...’s Folio, ed. Hales and Furnivall, Vol. II, p. 7, run: The stout Erle of Northumberland a vow to God did make, his pleasure in the Scottish wo...

...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...

...a State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND .................................................. ... II. OL. II. SECESSION FR SECESSION FR SECESSION FR SECESSION FR SECESSION FROM OM OM OM OM THE CHUR THE CHUR THE CHUR THE CHUR THE CHURCH OF CH OF CH... ...antime these great disturbances are not understood in England; and chiefly from the differences between the two nations as to the language of their se... ...ginal act of invitation. And yet, in defiance of that notorious fact, some people go so far as to assert, that a call is not good unless where it is s... ... inoperative, is and must be moonshine. Yet be- tween two moonshines, some people, it seems, can tell which is the denser. W e have all heard of Barme... ...ady, who cannot bear to be mixed up in any common charge together with low people, abomi- nates such words as ‘sin,’ and wills that the parson should ... ...ervid activity. Not content with drawing counsel and aid from the cells of Northumberland, even the short time which he passed at Rome, he had ‘collec... ...he white breed of wild cattle, once so well known at Lord Tankerville’s in Northumberland, and at one point in the south-west of Scotland, had a simil...

...Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4 TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY........................................................................................ 43 CHARLEMAGNE...

...ng’s Bench: (Lord Chief Justice:) A Servant of the Chief Justice. EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND : (NORTHUMBERLAND:) SCROOP, ARCHBISHOP OF YORK : (ARCHBISH... ...RDOLPH: SIR JOHN COLEVILE : (COLEVILE:) TRAVERS and MORTON: retainers of Northumberland. SIR JOHN FALSTAFF : (FALSTAFF:) His Page. (Page:) BARDOLP... ...EEBLE , and BULLCALF: recruits. FANG and SNARE: sheriff’s officers. LADY NORTHUMBERLAND: LADY PERCY : MISTRESS QUICKLY : hostess of a tavern in Eas... ...for which of you will stop The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks? I, from the orient to the drooping west, Making the wind my post horse, still ... ...on, And not a man of them brings other news Than they have learn’d of me: from Rumour’s tongues They bring smooth comforts false, worse than true wro... ...DOLPH : Noble earl, I bring you certain news from Shrewsbury. NORTHUMBERLAND: Good, an God will! LORD BARDOLPH : ... ...ep them off, Bardolph. FANG: A rescue! a rescue! MISTRESS QUICKLY: Good people, bring a rescue or two. Henry 4th, Part 2, Act II, scene i 19 Thou ... ...as gone down stairs, desire me to be no more so familiarity with such poor people; saying that ere long they should call me madam? And didst thou not ... ...it in So thin that life looks through and will break out. GLOUCESTER: The people fear me; for they do observe Henry 4th, Part 2, Act IV, scene iv 63 ...

...Excerpt: Rumour: Open your ears; for which of you will stop The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks? I, from the orient to the drooping west, Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold The acts commenced on this ball of earth: Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears o...

................................................................. 93 A LETTER from a YOUNG LADY , whose feelings being too strong for her Judgement led h... ........................................ 96 A TOUR THROUGH W ALES—in a LETTER from a YOUNG LADY— ........................................................... ...he author. “Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love.” Letter the First From Isabel to Laura How often, in answer to my repeated intreaties that yo... ...nly inconvenience attending it was the Scarcity of Plays which for want of People to fill the Characters, we could perform. We did not mind trifles h... ...ut one genteel family since we came. Mr and Mrs Marlowe are very agreable people; the ill health of their little boy occasioned their arrival here; y... ...sley Castle) you will not be sorry to find yourself. In spite of all that people may say about Green fields and the Country I was always of opinion t... ...rticularly delighted with the manner of it. After his decease the Duke of Northumberland had the care of the King and the Kingdom, and performed his ...

...Excerpt: Deceived in Friendship and Betrayed in Love.? Letter the First From Isabel to Laura How often, in answer to my repeated intreaties that you would give my Daughter a regular detail of the Misfortunes and Adventures of your Life, have you said ?No, my friend never will I comply with your r...

................ 92 THE FIRST ACT OF A COMEDY .............................................................................................. 93 A LETTER from a YOUNG LADY, whose feelings being too strong for her Judgement led her into the commission of Errors which her Heart disapproved. ............................................................................................

...e, 37 Tendering the precious safetie of my Prince, 38 And free from other misbegotten hate, 39 Come I appealant to this Princely pre... ... 59 First the faire reuerence of your Highnesse curbes mee, 60 From giuing reines and spurres to my free speech, 61 Which else would... ...e yeeres 101 Complotted, and contriued in this Land, 102 Fetch’d from false Mowbray their first head and spring. 103 Further I say, an... ...hy: heere Bagot and Greene 598 Obseru’d his Courtship to the common people: 599 How he did seeme to diue into their hearts, 600 With ... ... so his; 790 As theirs, so mine: and all be as it is. 791 Enter Northumberland. 792 Nor. My Liege, olde Gaunt commends him to you... ...e thy thoughts, as thou dost ours 924 Ros. Be confident to speake Northumberland, 925 We three, are but thy selfe, and speaking so, 926... ... Gr. O Madam ’tis too true: and that is worse, 1007 The L[ord]. Northumberland, his yong sonne Henrie Percie, 1008 The Lords of Ross... ...A generation of still breeding Thoughts; 2676 And these same Thoughts, people this Little World 2677 In humors, like the people of this world,... ... as haue before indur’d the like. 2697 Thus play I in one Prison, many people, 2698 And none contented. Sometimes am I King; 2699 Then Tre...

...mas Mowbray? Bul. First, heaven be the record to my speech, In the devotion of a subjects love, Tendering the precious safetie of my Prince, And free from other misbegotten hate, Come I appealant to this Princely presence....

...ed severity of logic. A million and a half of souls—that population, apart from any other distinctions, is per se for London a justifying ground for s... ...classification; à fortiori, then, will it be- long to a city which counted from one horn to the other of its mighty suburbs not less than four million... ... purity of her civil liberties. Doubtless, then, Rome had risen immaculate from the arms of Sylla and of Marius. But, if it were Caius Julius who defl... ...uld have been otherwise who lived and conversed with that genera- tion and people. But if superstitious, he was so after a mode of his own. In his ver... ...rs of the Augustan era, it would seem that this custom was not confined to people of distinction, but was familiar to a class of travellers so low in ... ...re met him from the neighboring garrison of Ariminium. The tribunes of the people, those great officers of the democracy, corresponding by some of the... ...g, from Britain. Thither came the buffalo and the bison, the white bull of Northumberland and Galloway, the unicorn from the re- gions of Nepaul or Th...

...ndon; but of Rome in her palmy days, nothing less could be said in the naked severity of logic. A million and a half of souls--that population, apart from any other distinctions, is per se for London a justifying ground for such a classification; … fortiori, then, will it belong to a city which counted from one horn to the other of its mighty suburbs not less than four mil...

...ORD BERKELEY : BUSHY, BAGOT and GREEN: servants to King Richard. EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND : (NORTHUMBERLAND:) HENRY PERCY , surnamed HOTSPUR: his so... ... of a subject’s love, Tendering the precious safety of my prince, And free from other misbegotten hate, Come I appellant to this princely presence. No... ... nought at all to say: First, the fair reverence of your highness curbs me From giving reins and spurs to my free speech; Which else would post until ... ...asons for these eighteen years Complotted and contrived in this land Fetch from false Mowbray their first head and spring. Further I say and further w... ...rself and Bushy, Bagot here and Green Observed his courtship to the common people; How he did seem to dive into their hearts With humble and familiar ... ...s Hereford’s love, so his; As theirs, so mine; and all be as it is. [Enter NORTHUMBERLAND .] NORTHUMBERLAND: My liege, old Gaunt commends him to your... ..., old Gaunt commends him to your majesty. KING RICHARD II : What says he? NORTHUMBERLAND: Nay, nothing; all is said His tongue is now a ... ...two beget A generation of still breeding thoughts, And these same thoughts people this little world, In humors like the people of this world, For no t... ...ck Of such as have before endured the like. Thus play I in one person many people, And none contented: sometimes am I king; Then treasons make me wish...

...utely sheltered by this imprisonment throughout his nonage and early youth from the frightful violence and pre- sumption of the nobles of his kingdom.... ...aving been himself educated at Paris. The Abbey of Coldingham is described from a local com- pilation of the early part of the century, with an accoun... ... in the widest part of the valley, a sort of plat- form of rock jutted out from the hill-side, and afforded a station for one of those tall, narrow, g... ...e as well as to suffer,’ there was an approach of footsteps, and two young people entered the hall; the first a girl, with a family likeness to Malcol... ...dom hath he? What hope is there of his return? Can he brook to hear of his people’s wretchedness?’ This was the first question at which Sir James atte... ... with blood. Perhaps, both Lilias and old Halbert suggested, some of their people had returned and taken him to the Abbey of Coldingham, and as this w... ...re never were weary travellers more courte- ously received than we by Lord Northumberland, the cap- tain of Calais.’ ‘Oh, I am glad you came to us Eng... ...e captain of the garri- son, who was commanding in the name of the Earl of Northumberland, Governor of Berwick and Warden of the Marches, and who had ... ..., and then with all her pretty puerilities scorched away when she upbraids Northumberland with his fatal delay. Could Malcolm and Lilias have known he...

...hout his reign on the terms of friend rather than of captive, and was absolutely sheltered by this imprisonment throughout his nonage and early youth from the frightful violence and presumption of the nobles of his kingdom....

........................................................................... 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... ... difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous de- pression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in hav... ... any, had been already tried for me vicariously amongst the Ameri- cans; a people so nearly repeating our own in style of intel- lect, and in the comp... ...rciful bloodshed”—In reading either the later religious wars of the Jewish people under the Maccabees, or the ear- lier under Joshua, every philosophi... ...s, it is painful to witness the childish state of feeling which the French people manifest on every possible question that connects itself at any poin... ... the pure Icelandic forms of the English lakes, of North Yorkshire, and of Northumberland. In Scotland, it needs but a slight intercourse with the pea...

...mely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without a...

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

... The abbey of Rubygill stood in a pictur esque valley, at a little distance from the western boundary of Sherwood Forest, in a spot which seemed adap... ...xalted, his voice issuing most ca Maid Marian T. L. Peacock 3 nonically from the roof of his mouth, through the medium of a very musical nose new... ...iron tread of the armed intruders, as it rang on the marble floor and echoed from the vaulted aisles. The leader strode up to the altar; and placing h... ...f, “how this villain per Maid Marian T. L. Peacock 35 verts the deluded people by making them believe that those who tithe and toll upon them for... ...uddenly assailed from one side by a party of foresters, and that the baron’s people had made a sortie on the other, and that they had killed the guard... ...t when his habeas corpus was so unseasonably suspended. He was told that his people had been on the point of secur ing the said prisoner, when the de... ...m Palestine, and travelling from the sea coast of Hampshire to their home in Northumberland. By dint of staff and cockle shell, sandal and scrip, they...

...lingford, with the noble Robert Fitz-Ooth, Earl of Locksley and Huntingdon. The abbey of Rubygill stood in a picturesque valley, at a little distance from the western boundary of Sherwood Forest, in a spot which seemed adapted by nature to be the retreat of monastic mortification, being on the banks of a fine trout-stream, and in the midst of woodland coverts, abounding wi...

... dip at the bottom of the garden, carrying the garden path in continuation from the plank bridge on to the common. He had cut the rough turf and brack... ... pine trees as through a doorway, at the green- grassed garden-path rising from the shadow of alders by the log bridge up to the sunlit flowers. Tall ... ...ightness. And he was white-skinned with fine, silky hair that had darkened from fair, and a slightly arched nose of an old country family. They were a... ...fferent paste. The girls and the father were strong- limbed, thick-blooded people, true English, as holly-trees and hawthorn are English. Their cultur... ...ensity for so many generations. It seemed to cast a spell on the two young people. They be- came different. There was a curious secret glow about them... ...and he was gratified by the glow of physical passion between the two young people. To the man who in London still worked hard to keep steady his modes... ...- fertory was taken. And after the hymn, the prayer. Mr. Enderby came from Northumberland. Like Harry, he had never been able to conquer his accent, w...

...s working on the edge of the common, beyond the small brook that ran in the dip at the bottom of the garden, carrying the garden path in continuation from the plank bridge on to the common. He had cut the rough turf and bracken, leaving the grey, dryish soil bare. But he was worried because he could not get the path straight, there was a pleat between his brows. He had set...

...he beginning. Originally I intended Anticipations to be my sole digression from my art or trade (or what you will) of an imaginative writer. I wrote t... .... I have a slow con- structive hesitating sort of mind, and when I emerged from that undertaking I found I had still most of my questions to state and... ...th a future history, and if I made this second book even less satisfactory from a literary standpoint than the former (and this is my opinion), I blun... ... and entertaining as its matter permits, because I want it read by as many people as possible, but I do not promise anything but rage and confusion to... ...ph entertainment is the one to grasp. There will be an effect of these two people going to and fro in front of the circle of a rather defective lanter... ...owards 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 adopt in co... ...mwell Road. Such an index could be housed quite comfortably on one side of Northumberland Avenue, for example. It is only a reasonable tribute to the ...