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...Contents MISCELLANEOUS PROSE............................................................................................................ 4 INTRODUCTION TO W. M. THACKERAY?S ?THE FOUR GEORGES?............................... 4 A PAUSE IN THE STRIFE?1...

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...eredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Miscellaneous Prose by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Miscellaneous Prose by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cla... ...ate University is an equal opportunity university. Contents MISCELLANEOUS PROSE ........................................................................ ... ITALY ............................................... 14 4 Miscellaneous Prose MISCELLANEOUS PROSE By George Meredith INTRODUCTION TO W. M. THACKERA... ...ued reading of his works will at least help to combat it. 6 Miscellaneous Prose A PAUSE IN THE STRIFE—1886 OUR ‘ERINIAD,’ or ballad epic of the enfra... ...nerosity to put trust in the most generous race on earth. 8 Miscellaneous Prose CONCESSION TO THE CELT—1886 THINGS ARE QUIET outside an ant-hill unti... ...to drop a vote into the ballot-box. As for the prominent 10 Miscellaneous Prose politicians who have displaced their rivals partly on the strength of... ...n the Irish; we trust them or we crush them. Intermediate ways are but the prosecution of our ugly flounderings in Bogland; and dubious as we see the ... ... the quotations between inverted commas, the commiserat- 12 Miscellaneous Prose ing shrug, cold irony, raw banter, growl of menace, sharp snap, round...

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...The Iliad of Homer Done into English Prose by Andrew Lang, M.A., Walter Leaf, Litt.D., And Ernest Myers, M.A. A ... ...ity university. 3 The Iliad of Homer The Iliad of Homer Done into English Prose by Andrew Lang, M.A., Walter Leaf, Litt.D., And Ernest Myers, M.A. PR...

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...ad talked with Mrs. Stringham was not quite consti- tuted, the comparative prose of the previous hours, the 361 Henry James traces of insensibility q...

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...oards. “Fee-rocious old cove, this,” said Stalky, reading the near- est. “‘Prosecuted with the utmost rigour of the law. G. M. Dabney, Col., J.P .,’ a... ...s would trespass here, does it?” “You’ve got to prove damage ‘fore you can prosecute for anything! ‘Can’t prosecute for trespass,” said McT urk, whose... ...Ink and blood all mixed. I held the little beast’s head all over the Latin proses for Monday . Golly, how the oil stunk! And Rabbits-Eggs told King to... ...till peace was declared. As they were grievously in ar- rears with a Latin prose, as it was a blazing July afternoon, and as they ought to have been a... ...the editorial ‘we,’” said King, irrelevantly. “It annoys me. ‘Where’s your prose, Corkran?’ ‘Well, sir, we haven’t quite done it yet.’ ‘We’ll bring it... ...ng; he com- ported himself as a visitor and not a strayed lictor; he never prosed, and he never carried over into official life the confi- dences of i... ...tle mine. I myself have prepared a few trifling foolish questions in Latin prose which can hardly be evaded even by your practised acts of deception. ... ...an hardly be evaded even by your practised acts of deception. Ye-es, Latin prose. I think, if I may say so—but we shall see when the papers are set— ’... ...minutes. “Looks familiar.” Said Beetle, after a glance: “It’s King’s Latin prose exam. paper. In—In Varrem: actio prima. What a lark!” “Think o’ the ...

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...r a sharp necessity for payment. Her songs were shot off on the impulsion; prose was the heavy task. ‘To be pointedly rational,’ she said, ‘is a great... ...ion which is the summary of actual Life, the within and without of us, is, prose or verse, plodding or soaring, philosophy’s elect handmaiden. To such... ... That plush of speech haunts all efforts to swell and illu- minate citizen prose to a princely poetic. Yet Lady Dunstane herself could name the bank o... ...e Bell. ‘It sounded like a felon’s heart in skeleton ribs,’ he said. ‘Or a proser’s tongue in a hollow skull,’ said she. He bowed to her conversible r... ...eat of wings—I envy poets now more than ever!—of Eden, I was going to say. Prose can paint evening and moonlight, but poets are needed to sing the daw... ...ning and moonlight, but poets are needed to sing the dawn. That is because prose is equal to melancholy stuff. Gladness requires the finer lan- guage.... ... I have mistaken my vocation, thought Diana: I am cer- tainly the flattest proser who ever penned a line. She sent Dangers into the bedroom on a trifl... ... of Journalism: a witty man, sparkling overnight, gets into his pulpit and proses; because he must say something, and he really knows nothing. Journal...

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..., and a short yet not imperfect, system of ethics. This I might have done in prose; but I chose verse, and even rhyme, for two reasons. The one will a... ..., but it is true; I found I could express them more shortly this way than in prose itself; and noth ing is more certain, than that much of the force ...

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.... When we arrived in Adelaide 22 A Personal Record the first reader of my prose went at once up-country, and died rather suddenly in the end, either ... ...eception of the homeless. Neither legal aid nor material assistance in the prosecution of the suit was ever want- ing. X, on his side, went about shed... ...ce; and among them the poet as the seer par excellence. Even the writer of prose, who in his less noble and more toilsome task should be a man with th... ...s laughter out of his voice, let who will laugh or cry. Y es! Even he, the prose artist of fiction, which after all is but truth often dragged out of ... ... a future, not from the cold and immutable heaven. A writer of imaginative prose (even more than any other sort of artist) stands confessed in his wor... ...othing else. It is M. Anatole France, the most eloquent and just of French prose-writers, who says that we must recognize at last that, “failing the r... ...talent of Mr. Jacobs for poking endless fun at poor, innocent sailors in a prose which, however extravagant in its felicitous invention, is always art...

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...eep close in his cabin. When we arrived in Adelaide the first reader of my prose went at once up-country, and died rather suddenly in the end, either ... ...eception of the homeless. Neither legal aid nor material assistance in the prosecution of the suit was ever wanting. X, on his side, went about shed- ... ...; and amongst them the poet as the seer par excellence. Even the writer of prose, who in his less noble and more toilsome task should be a man with th... ...ps laughter out of his voice, let who will laugh or cry. Yes! Even he, the prose artist of fiction, which after all is but truth of- ten dragged out o... ... a future, not from the cold and immutable heaven. A writer of imaginative prose (even more than any other sort of artist) stands confessed in his wor... ...hing else. It is M. Anatole France, the most elo- quent and just of French prose writers, who says that we must recognise at last that, “failing the r... ...lent of Mr. Jacobs for poking endless fun at poor, inno- cent sailors in a prose which, however extravagant in its felicitous invention, is always art...

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...uscript. “The rhym- ing fellows come to grief when they try their hands at prose. In prose you can’t use words that mean nothing; you abso- lutely mus... ...passibility of the professional critic, wearied by much reading of poetry, prose, and plays. Lucien was accustomed to applause. He choked down his dis... ... gentleman,” remarked Bar- bet, “it would be to give up poetry and take to prose. Poetry is not wanted on the Quais just now.” Barbet’s shabby overcoa... ...all it was filled with women of the town. Here dwelt poetry, politics, and prose, new books and classics, the glories of ancient and modern literature... ... at the finger-nails of a well-kept hand, “ask him whether it is poetry or prose; and if he says poetry, show him the door at once. Verses mean revers... ... By the time that d’Arthez is as learned as Bayle and as great a writer of prose as Rousseau, we shall have made our fortunes, you and I, and we shall... ...d nothing else. The most dogged industry would fail to graft a book on his prose. Felicien is incapable of conceiving a work on a large scale, of broa... ...ired Dauriat, with a knowing glance at the other. “How should I be writing prose otherwise, eh?” asked Lousteau. “There, you see! He has never said a ... ... volumes? Is there business in it? Of course not. You will be a delightful prose writer; you have too much sense to spoil your style with tagging rhym...

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...ures long should pry; He stepped between—’ Nay, Douglas, nay, Steal not my proselyte away! 115 Sir Walter Scott The riddle ’tis my right to read, Tha... ...tion, “it is a sign that I ought never to have succeeded, and I will write prose for life: you shall see no change in my temper, nor will I eat a sing... ...ead. 46. Adown. An instance of a purely poetical word, not ad- missible in prose. 49. Chase. Here put for those engaged in the chase; as in 101 and 17... ... the latter); but the word is almost invariably plural, both in poetry and prose—always in Shakespeare and Milton. Canto Second. 7. A minstrel gray. “... ...have done scathe to us,” etc. 393. Kern. See on 73 above. 395. Conjure. In prose we should have to write “conjure him.” 403. Yet life I hold, etc. Cf.... ... word may be so printed here, but not in Elizabethan poetry. We find it in prose of that day; as in Ba- con, Adv. of L. ii. 14. 9: “such as had scaped... ... her seat like an image of snow.” 780. Pry. Look pryingly or curiously. In prose on would not be used with pry. 784. T o speed. T o a fortunate issue;...

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...leep.’ ‘I don’t want to dream myself into church, listening to Scudamour’s proses: I’ve quite enough of that on Sunday.’ Ave began to play one of her ... ...ieve,’ said Dr. May, ‘that it can do you any real harm. I do not think the prosecution ought to take notice of it; but if they do, it will be easy to ... ...th both Mr. Bramshaw and the attorney from Whitford who was getting up the prosecution, each having been told that she was in possession of important ... ...the same relief, but was, like his father, subpoenaed as a witness for the prosecution. He had followed his father’s advice, and took care not to disc... ...en were then sworn in, and charged with the issue; and the counsel for the prosecution opened the case, speaking more as if in pity than indignation, ... ... glance in the direction of the prisoner. In answer to the counsel for the prosecution, he stated that he was at the Vintry Mill at seven o’clock on t... ...ugh. And Anderson says they have made so much out of the witnesses for the prosecution, that they need call none for the defence; and so the enemy wil... ... the very force of the persuasions made for the defence, unanswered by the prosecution, rendered it needful for him to give full weight to the evidenc...

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...h pain as he recognised that this was not success, the production of gelid prose which his editor could do nothing with on the one side and he himself... ...on several of their songs. Baron nevertheless still tries his hand also at prose, and his offerings are now not always declined by the magazines. But ...

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...her face; but it had long since be- gun to wane. And furthermore, in plain prose, she was growing stout. My disappointment amounted very nearly to com...

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...ls and drink for the venereal disease? Or their mutual quarrels in verse and prose of Whig and Tory, wherewith the stars have little to do? Having lon...

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...arrangement, she sat there and listened to it. It was in three acts and in prose, but rather of the romantic order, though dealing with contemporary E...

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...elation of his country’s pre- dicament did not lose its effect. Writing in prose he achieved a style of his own which went as near poetry as narrative... ...rose he achieved a style of his own which went as near poetry as narrative prose can do. without using the wrong music: while over his realism or his ... ...m the French, by T . S. Perry, 1877, 1883, by A. W . Dilke, 1878; Poems in Prose, from the Russian, 1883; Senilia, Poems in Prose, with a Biographical... ...y James, 1903, etc. LIFE: See above, Biograpical Introductions to Poems in Prose and First Love; E. M. Arnold, Tourgueneff and his French Circle, tran... ...t Golushkin, an Old Believer, who was said to be very zealous and promised proselytes. Solomin doubted whether it was worth while going, but agreed to... ...d not know. It contained several French and a great many Russian poems and prose extracts, of which the following reflections on Cicero form a fair ex... ... before these advanced, young men. Then he introduced them to the promised proselyte, who turned out to be no other than the sleek consumptive individ... ...as much as to say, “One must be careful in the presence of strangers.” The proselyte Vasia continued silent, and though he sat on the very edge of his...

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...es on the secretary of legation. She always seemed to be translat- ing the prose of your speech into the finer rhythms with which her own mind was fam...

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...ings it out.” She had literally marked for him the brightest patches of my prose, and if I was a little amused Vereker himself may well have been. He ...

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...unded, is both too wild and too beautiful to be ad equately wrought up in prose. Sullivan, in his History of Maine , written since the Revolution, r...