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...mary Donnelly Listen With Your Heart 5 Prologue The Victoria Theatre, Dayton, Ohio, 1866 He’s out! Finished. ... ...ght, his audience would clamor for a refund. And the shame of the Victoria Theatre presenting a magician who could not pull a scarf out of his sleev... ...less from her dash up the back stairs, Morgan could hear Camilla’s grumbling progress toward her door. After a cursory glance at Camilla’s notes, sh... ...opers. As it turns out, we met years ago in Ohio.” “Dayton. The Victoria Theatre,” Morgan nodded, relaxing, surprised and delighted with his effo... ...er hands out to guard them from tumbling backward as they made their clumsy progress up each step. “What has she done to him?” Gertie’s voice was ... ...hat, Daniel,” a sharp voice interrupted. “No signs. You’ll destroy all our progress.” With Ronan in his arms, Daniel stood and walked toward the ... ...red up the fire, left his note, and departed. The new day was well in progress before Morgan awoke to it. The aroma of coffee tweaked at her ... ... From the disarray, she couldn’t determine whether Daniel was making great progress or none at all. She didn’t dare attempt to bring order to what... ...t know Tony Pastor, the clown prince of variety, and the king of the Bowery Theatre. I owe my career to Tony. If the Boy Prodigy here hadn’t been ...

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... less a man of judgment; on the strength of which he sets up as a judge of theatres, and discourses about those of Paris and the provinces. He knows a... ...ssions. Thus, when he returned to Paris in the intervals of his triumphant progress through France, he lived a life of per- petual festivity in the sh... ...en scattered throughout France to stimulate the zeal and self-love of the “progressive and intelligent masses”! Titles, medals, diplomas, a sort of le... ..., as a steam-engine of three, ten, twenty, fifty horse- power. Ha! this is progress! the movement onward to a bet- ter state of things; a movement bor... ...ings; a movement born of the spirit of our ep- och; a movement essentially progressive, as I shall prove to you when we come to consider the principle... ...s. It needed our epoch, Monsieur, the ep- och of transition—transition and progress—” “Yes, progress,” muttered the lunatic, with his glass at his lip...

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...any friends, to earn respect and win affection. Already I had made visible progress: that very morning I had reached the head of my class; Miss Miller... ...sure!—I could have told her anywhere!” cried the individual who stopped my progress and took my hand. I looked: I saw a woman attired like a well-dres... ...astened the car door, climbed to his own seat outside, and we set off. Our progress was leisurely, and gave me ample time to reflect; I was content to... ...ad she any deficiency or vice which sunk her below it. She made reasonable progress, entertained for me a vivacious, though perhaps not very profound,... ...ing the truth. I felt a conscien- tious solicitude for Adele’s welfare and progress, and a quiet liking for her little self: just as I cherished towar... ...till dark, which gives him something of the appearance of a “pere noble de theatre.” Lord Ingram, like his sisters, is very tall; like them, also, he ...

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...ans of bring- ing about an important change in his destiny. One day at the theatre—Motchalov was then at the height of his fame and Lavretsky did not ... ...r appearance; nevertheless, Varvara Pavlovna was assiduous in visiting the theatres. She went into raptures over Italian music, yawned decorously at t... ... thrusting his whole body out of the carriage and balancing so, “Religion, progress, humanity! . . . Farewell.” His head, with a foraging cap pulled d... ... hers in the dramatic works of M. Dumas Fils. She diligently frequents the theatres, when consumptive and sentimental “dames aux camelias” are brought...

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...h a point and to argue by parables; he read Robinson Crusoe, The Pilgrim’s Progress, a short history of the United States, and Weems’s Life of Washing... ...d Douglas was a Senator from Illinois, Lincoln’s State. Douglas’s national theatre of action was the Senate, but in his constituency in Illinois were ... ...he ne- cessity of measuring the steps of the government accord- ing to the progress of opinion among the plain people. They criticised Lincoln’s cauti... ..., and the political campaign languished. Neither were the tidings from the theatre of war of a cheer- ing character. The terrible losses suffered by G... ...ommunity, but the Bible was in every house, and somehow or other Pilgrim’s Progress, AEsop’s Fables, a History of the United States, and a Life of Was... ...egislator in Springfield, the new capital of Illinois, furnished a fitting theatre for the development and display of his great faculties, and, with h... ...roportions; that it lasted four years instead of three months; that in its progress, instead of 75,000 men, more than 2,000,000 were enrolled on the s... ...ngly to the new President’s sense of justice and expediency, would, in the progress of time, by a reversion to the ideas of the founders of the Republ...

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...lity; the books the ordinary man reads turn enormously on love-making, his theatre has scarcely ever a play that has not primarily a strong love inter... ... whole literature the world produced until the nineteenth century had well progressed, must needs be lacking in any definite and pervading sense of th... ...e New Republican on press and platform, the New Republi- can in pulpit and theatre, the New Republican upon elec- toral committee and in the ballot bo... ...ed, and at once withdrawn when they drop be- low average mental and bodily progress, it would seem more likely that a reasonable percentage should gro... ... promoting the organization of employments in any way that will not hamper progress in economic production. And if we can persuade the T rade Unions—a... ... materialism, and that the Soul of Man gains no benefit by this “so-called Progress,” that it is not birth-rates that want raising but Ideals. We shal... ...ass constantly into rottenness and decay when- ever growth is no longer in progress. That has been the fate of languages in the past because of the fe... ...ementary fineness, and base- ness is seen to be base. There are also a few theatres, and there might be more, in which fine action is finely displayed... ...e young. The application of the same method to the music-hall, the lecture-theatre, and the shelves of the public library, and to several other source...

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... as intelligible in the light of the ideal, we must think of that ideal as progressively revealed in history, not as something to be discovered by tur... ... added those who have the care of their gymnastic exercises, [1323a] their theatres, and every other public spectacle which there may happen to be. So... ...ive of contrary evils to each other; the labour of the body preventing the progress of the mind, and the mind of the body. 242 A Treatise on Governme... ... harmony and such the music which those who contend with each other in the theatre should exhibit: but as the audience is composed of two sorts of peo... ...e gives pleasure to every one, therefore those who are to contend upon the theatre should be al- lowed to use this species of music. But in education ...

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...ind him back again, and not merely a playwright, but lessee of the “Little Theatre” in the Haymarket. The plays which he produced here—satirico-politi... ...ith his friend Adams, in which nothing so remarkable happened as the swift progress of his recovery. As he had an excellent habit of body, his wounds ... ...mpolitick to talk seriously of love to a woman before you have made such a progress in her affections, that she herself expects and desires to hear it... ...for the charming Sapphira, which, having once entered upon, made a violent progress in my heart. Sapphira was wife to a man of fashion and gallantry, ... ...n a few months produced a piece of five acts, which was accepted of at the theatre. I remembered to have for- merly taken tickets of other poets for t...

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...t and value to us here to know how the expedition toward East Tennessee is progressing, if in your judgment you can give us the information with safet... ...t, in view of the present state of the important military movements now in progress, and the reduced condi- tion of our effective forces in the field,... ...ld be of great service here for us to know, as fully as you can tell, what progress is made and making in recruiting for old regiments in your State. ... ... isted are believed to be entertained by these neighbors, whose safety and progress are so intimately connected with our own. This statement especiall... ... I submit a statement of the proceedings of commissioners, which shows the progress that has been made in the enterprise of constructing the Pacific R... ...n respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has 419 The Writings of A...

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...entury. The first chapter, upon the exterior form of North America, as the theatre upon which the great drama is to be enacted, for graphic and pictur... ...lace and prosaic till M. de Tocqueville said, “This gradual and continuous progress of the European race toward the Rocky Mountains has the so- lemnit... ...World presented to me. I observed that the equality of conditions is daily progressing towards those extreme limits which it seems to have reached in ... ...ll human interference, and all events as well as all men contribute to its progress. Would it, then, be wise to imagine that a social impulse which da... ... observation and by sincere reflection to acknowledge that the gradual and progressive development of social equality is at once the past and future o... ...s the great social revolution which I have been describing made such rapid progress as in France; but it has always been borne on by chance. The heads... ... schools do not receive the child of the black and of the European. In the theatres, gold cannot procure a seat for the servile race beside their form... ...affect a class of the community, it instantly draws them to the stage. The theatres of aristocratic nations have always been filled with spectators no... ...lways been filled with spectators not belonging to the aristocracy. At the theatre alone the higher ranks mix with the middle and the lower classes; t...

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...causes, or to suggest that war (if resigned to its own natural movement of progress) is cleans- ing itself and ennobling itself constantly and inevita... ...d. Such a reserve cannot be dispensed with. It belongs to the principle of progress in man that he should forever keep open a secret commerce in the l... ...ary narrative in those parts which had most of all invited scepticism. The progress of the dispute threw the decision at length upon the archives of t... ...irection. Could retrogression by any metaphysics have been translated into progress, we excelled in that; it was our forte; we could have backed to th... ...ong by a babble of impossible forms, as fantastic as any that our Lon- don theatres have traditionally ascribed to English rustics, to English sailors... ...eative art—as, for example, the “De Imitatione Christi,” or “The Pilgrim’s Progress,” or” Robinson Crusoe,” or “The Vicar of Wakefield,”—was worth any... ...e to modifi- cation from personal qualities, inasmuch as there is no great theatre (as with us) for individual display. Forensic eloquence is unknown ... ...e irresolute Christian in the fascinations of the public amuse- ments. The theatre, the circus, and, far beyond both, the cruel amphitheatre, constitu... ...ncey ing the functions of the circus and the amphitheatre; and there was a theatre. From all such pleasures the Christian was sternly excluded by his ...

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...s the fact, and asks in the next column whether the world can parallel the progress of San Francisco. The Ameri- can who loves his country will tell y... ...e day. This Yellowstone Park is laid out like Ollendorf, in exer- cises of progressive difficulty. Hell’s Half-Acre was a pre- lude to ten or twelve m... ...ther makes me ill. And the cabman said that these things were the proof of progress, and by that I knew he had been reading his news- paper, as every ... ...r of telegraph-wires, the heaving up of houses, and the making of money is progress. I spent ten hours in that huge wilderness, wandering through scor... ...f iron to wood, and get- ting a steam and iron thing to run along them was progress, that the telephone was progress, and the net-work of wires overhe... ... listen to a first-class orchestra. The place is something like the Gaiety Theatre at Simla, enlarged twenty times. The “Light Brigade” of Buffalo occ...

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...times, in a desultory manner, committed to writing many particulars of the progress of his mind and fortunes, he never had persevering dili- gence eno... ...a great deal.’ He thus discriminated, to Dr. Percy, Bishop of Dromore, his progress at his two grammar- schools. ‘At one, I learnt much in the school,... ...icated to me the following particu- lars upon the subject of his religious progress. ‘I fell into an inattention to religion, or an indif- ference abo... ... which his friend described, when the value of money was diminished by the progress of commerce. It may be estimated that double the money might now w... ...was not acted till 1749, when his friend David Garrick was manager of that theatre. The Gentleman’s Magazine, begun and car- ried on by Mr. Edward Cav... ...d, David Garrick, having become joint pat- entee and manager of Drury-lane theatre, Johnson honoured his opening of it with a Pro- logue, which for ju... ...rick being now vested with theatrical power by being manager of Drury-lane theatre, he kindly and generously made use of it to bring out Johnson’s tra... ...took the charge of an edition of those Essays at Edinburgh, which followed progressively the London publication. This year he wrote to the same gentle... ..., which was spoken by Mr. Garrick before the acting of Comus at Drury-lane theatre, for the 76 Boswell’s Life of Johnson benefit of Milton’s grand-da...

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...n correcting my belief in many respects, for some years. It is our natural progress, I have heard.’ ‘W ell, well! But it’s not natural to bear malice,... ...use has done less and less for some years past, and our dealings have been progressively on the decline. We have never shown much confidence, or invit... ...ers, and right and left back to his professional pursuits), that wonderful progress was made. Indeed the danc- 75 Little Dorrit – Book One ing-master... ...resorted for support to playing a clarionet as dirty as himself in a small Theatre Orchestra. It was the theatre in which his niece became a dancer; h... ...imagination to picture as a boy. And yet he had changed very little in his progress through life. Con- fronting him, in the room in which he sat, was ... ...g herself with the quiet effort that had long been natural to her, ‘to the theatre where my sister is engaged.’ ‘And oh ain’t it a Ev’nly place,’ sudd... ...r Cripples’s, she found that both her sister and her uncle had gone to the theatre where they were engaged. Having taken thought of this probability b... ...ettled that in such case she would follow them, she set off afresh for the theatre, which was on that side of the river, and not very far away. Little... ...alling difficulties of the Anglo-Saxon tongue. It was in this stage of his progress, and in about the third week of his occupation, that Mr Pancks’s f...

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...n correcting my belief in many respects, for some years. It is our natural progress, I have heard.’ ‘W ell, well! But it’s not natural to bear malice,... ...use has done less and less for some years past, and our dealings have been progressively on the decline. We have never shown much confidence, or invit... ...ers, and right and left back to his professional pursuits), that wonderful progress was made. Indeed the danc- 75 Little Dorrit ing-master was so pro... ...resorted for support to playing a clarionet as dirty as himself in a small Theatre Orchestra. It was the theatre in which his niece became a dancer; h... ...imagination to picture as a boy. And yet he had changed very little in his progress through life. Con- fronting him, in the room in which he sat, was ... ...g herself with the quiet effort that had long been natural to her, ‘to the theatre where my sister is engaged.’ ‘And oh ain’t it a Ev’nly place,’ sudd... ...r Cripples’s, she found that both her sister and her uncle had gone to the theatre where they were engaged. Having taken thought of this probability b... ...ettled that in such case she would follow them, she set off afresh for the theatre, which was on that side of the river, and not very far away. Little... ...alling difficulties of the Anglo-Saxon tongue. It was in this stage of his progress, and in about the third week of his occupation, that Mr Pancks’s f...

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...s will have ad- equately appreciated the prodigious change effected in the theatre of the human spirit, by the transition, sudden as the explosion of ... ...anity. WAR.—This is amongst the foremost of questions that con- cern human progress, and it is one which, of all great ques- tions, (the question of s... ...ties are rising for making war upon war; and it is a striking proof of the progress made by such societies, that, some two years ago, a deputation fro... ... is not an evil still destined to survive through several centuries? Great progress has already been made. In the two leading nations of the earth, wa... ...eading. It matters not in which stage 63 Thomas de Quincey of the Bible’s progress the error commences; first stage and last stage are all alike in t... ...by the mo- tion of time, by experience, by expanding occasions, and by the progress of civilization. Is Newmanism likely to prosper? Let me tell a lit... ...Constantine, resuming its old Grecian name of Byzantium, there succeeded a theatre less diffusive, a population more concentrated, a character of acti...

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... battle and of war. Philip was more secure in the battle array than in the theatre: he often escaped from the hands of the enemy, he could not escape ... ...uthorities, not to men- tion that such freedom is absolutely necessary for progress in science and the liberal arts: for no man follows such pursuits ...

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...t we vary it with another: people, for instance, who eat sweetmeats in the theatre do so most when the performance is indifferent. Since then the prop... ...P . 34, l. 27. Numbers are in arithmetical proportion (more usually called progression), when they increase or decrease by a common difference thus, 2... ...ai oios diokein aytas]. And his analysis of [Greek: akrasia] (the state of progress towards this utter aban- donment to passion) shows that each case ...

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... takes an infant at the instant of his birth; he traces, step by step, the progress of his understanding; examines what things he has in common with b... ...his enemies, and under the hands of a physician to whom he was odious. The progress of Sir Isaac Newton’s life was quite different. He lived happy, an... ...misphere, those bodies might descend, their fall would certainly be in the progression discovered by Galileo; and the spaces they run through would be... ... XVIII.—ON TRAGEDY T HE ENGLISH as well as the Spaniards were possessed of theatres at a time when the French had no more than moving, itinerant stage... ...ontemporary with Lopez de V ega, and he cre- ated, as it were, the English theatre. Shakspeare boasted a strong fruitful genius. He was natural and su...

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... as to present a row of fires in the dusk. Their steady march was like the progress of 7 Hawthorne a machine, that would roll irresistibly over every... ... were min- strels, not unknown in London streets; wandering players, whose theatres had been the halls of noblemen; mummers, rope-dancers, and mounteb... ...e boy had called him. The light and motionless burden scarcely impeded his progress, and he soon beheld the fire rays from the windows of the cottage ... ...ainst Ilbrahim’s instinctive rectitude. Nothing, however, could arrest the progress of the latter’s affection, and there were many proofs that it met ... ...im, and made him shiver. As the boy thus led her by the hand, in his quiet progress over the bor- ders of eternity, Dorothy almost imagined that she c... ...eas, however, as minutely as he may, and finds himself curious to know the progress of matters at home— how his exemplary wife will endure her widowho... ... pages of romance, or at least to have flown hither from one of the London theatres, without a change of garments. Steeled knights of the Conquest, be... ...a shell,—the apparition of a house,—as unreal as the painted edifices of a theatre. It was like the perfect rind of a great cheese, in which a mouse h...

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...ke of securer food man teth- ered himself to a place. The history of man’s progress from savagery to civilisation is essentially a story of settling d... ...ake showy and startling changes. But it does not follow that this involves progress if the enterprise itself is dully conceived and most of it does se... ...les are the mere give and take of economic adjustment. No adjustment is in progress. New and strange urgencies are at work in our midst, forces for wh... ... to adjust itself in the social body. It is one of the main factors in the progressive embitterment of the Labour situation that whatever business is ... ...nst class organisation and caste feeling. These are forces antagonistic to progress, continually spring- ing up and endeavouring to stereotype the tra... ...riters and artists, for example, nor the stage—though it may build and own theatres—the tailor, the dressmaker, the restaurant cook, an enormous multi...

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...s but trace some of the ordinary provisions of life, through their several progresses, before they come to our use, and see how much they receive of t... ... so ciety be upon such terms, it will be only like Cato’s coming into the theatre, tantum ut exiret. Such a con stitution as this would make the mig...

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...forces that link life to life in modern commu- nities. It had no shops, no theatres, no lectures, no “business block”; only a church that was opened e... ...l trolley-run to the Lake grew irresistible, and they struggled out of the theatre. As they stood on the pavement, Harney pale with the heat, and even... ...y: “Oh, I’d rather go rowing on the Lake.” The street was so thronged that progress was slow; but the glory of sitting in the little carriage while it...

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... the rob- beries of a baron of the middle ages. Each is an incident in the progress of civilization; the man and the vegetable alike taking the direct... ...e astronomers to make. Fortunately, he gave his discourses somewhat of the progressive character of lectures, leading his listeners on, as it might be... .... Paris is a town in which cancans do not usu- ally flourish, their proper theatre being provincial and trading places, beyond a question; still there... ...m— every thing proceeds from cause to effect, and a little time, with some progressive steps, was necessary to make me fully acquainted with the whole... ...ief of an occasional bribe to little Nathalie, she ascertained the precise progress of the work, and learning that I should prob- ably be ready for sa... ...er, that suf- ficiently denoted discontent. “We are always puffing our own progress in America, without exactly knowing whether a good deal of the roa...

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... vinists, and Protestants on the terrible words “liberty,” “tol- erance,” “progress,” and “philosophy.” Two centuries have been employed by the oppone... ...ded France and the late scene of the mar- riage festivities had become the theatre of a cruel war. At the moment when Charles V . was put to flight, l... ...arts of the burghers—recouping his continual defeats in the field by fresh progress in the mind of the nations. The Cardinal de Lorraine and the Duc d... ...erine dé Medici, agreeing in this with her daughter- in-law, had allowed a theatre to be made of the great hall (afterwards arranged for the Parliamen... ...they died, and, above all, the impres- sion produced upon the crowd by the progressive diminu- tion of the chanting voices, superseded the fear inspir... ... weapons that cannot touch them. Let us see now if Protestantism will make progress when left to itself; above all, I would like to see with whom and ...

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...the expression of Mr. Brock’s countenance at this event might judge of the progress of the irresistible High-Dutch conqueror. Being of a very vain com... ... cui bono? Love is fate, and not will; its origin not to be explained, its progress irresistible: and the best proof of this may be had at Bow Street ... ...he eyes of the patient; and his wakeful nurse marked with satisfaction the progress of the beneficent restorer of health. When the Captain awoke, as h... ...e we compelled to leave the gallant Galgenstein, until his friends and the progress of this history shall deliver him from his durance. Mr. Brock’s ad... ...oiselle Ninon de l’Enclos, then at Paris, boast of charms which defied the progress of time,—for Mrs. Silverkoop was as red as a boiled lobster, and a... ...nd entertainment, at which the celebrated Madame Amenaide, a dancer of the theatre at Paris, was to perform, under the patronage of several English an... ...ll street than a bridge;”—of Bankside, and the “Globe” and the “For- tune” Theatres; of the ferries across the river, and of the pi- rates who infest ...

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...m; faithful for long to the same restaurant, the same church, and the same theatre, chosen simply for propinquity; stead- fastly refusing to dine out.... ... conclusions. Talk is fluid, tentative, continually “in further search and progress”; while written words remain fixed, become idols even to the write... ...ith words and for a while inhabit a palace of delights, temple at once and theatre, where they fill the round of the world’s dignities, and feast with... ...ment the other is beside him; and behold they are agreed. Like enough, the progress is illusory, a mere cat’s cradle hav- ing been wound and unwound o... ...ny real existence; and come forth again when the talk is over, as out of a theatre or a dream, to find the east wind still blowing and the chimney-pot... ... revivals, for he had successfully pressed on Murray, of the old Edinburgh Theatre, the idea of produc- ing Shakespeare’s fairy pieces with great scen... ...tes. Behind these comes a good troop of dear acquaintances; The Pilgrim ’s Progress in the front rank, The Bible in Spain not far behind. There are be... ...n are you to open your doors to 119 Memories and Portraits The Pilgrim ’s Progress and close them on The Faery Queen? T o bring things closer home, I... ...idents, but the incidents themselves, being tributary, need not march in a progression; and the characters may be statically shown. As they enter, so ...

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...s is in the nature of things. Men who are in any way typical of a stage of progress may be compared more justly to the hand upon the dial of the clock... ...s, and tor- tured him intimately by the spectacle of its horrors. It was a theatre, it was a place of education, it was like a season of religious rev... ...ll positive qualities, even those which are disreputable, in the capacious theatre of their dispositions. Such can live many lives; while a Thoreau ca... ...al in life; all should, if possible, be sweetly spontaneous and swimmingly progressive. Thus he learned to make lead-pencils, and, when he had gained ... ...nces solidly built, and no help from bastard rhythms. Moreover, there is a progression – I cannot call it a progress – in his work towards a more and ... ...ng leads naturally to another in an awakened mind, and that with an upward progress from effect to cause. The power and knowledge of these foreigners ... ...e housetop.” So Kusakabe, from the highlands of Satzuma, passed out of the theatre of this world. His death was like an antique worthy’s. A little aft... ... as we are accustomed to hear only on the stress of actual life, or in the theatre. In history – where we see things as in a glass darkly, and the fas... ... Stevenson and long evenings, both pleasant and profitable. The Pilgrim ’s Progress and Don Quixote were begun in prison. It was after they were becom...