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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...1 CHAPTER I WE ARE TO MAKE ACQUAINTANCE with some serious damsels, as this English generation knows them, and at a season verg- ing upon May. The ladi... ...pair publicly proved by dates. Both declared that the voice belonged to an opera-singer or a spirit. The ladies of Brookfield, declining the alternati... ...point of the other, he observed that to sing abroad in the night air of an English Spring month was conclusive of imbecility; and that no imbecile san... ...” Wilfrid lifted an eyelid. “He is one of the first-violins at the Italian Opera!” The gallant cornet’s critical appreciation of this impressive annou... ...knew that. He had great hopes of me. He said he would give me a box at the Opera, now and then. I was mad with joy; and so delighted to have made a fr... ...nch mind, and the French habit of quick social intercourse, have made them nationally far richer in language. Let me add, individually as much poorer.... ...nd summoned its brethren of the band to give their various versions of the National Anthem. “Can’t they be stopped?” Emilia murmured, clenching her li... ... a fertile tear! Anticipating that it will eventually be hung up among our national symbols, I proceed. The drum of Hillford entered the Brookfield gr...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...y is very largely made up for by the good will and generous efforts of the English and American press. An interesting monograph might be written upon ... ...ur, the Kaiser, and Crown Prince, and so forth; abuse of the “treacherous” English who allied themselves with the “degenerate” French and the “barbari... ...ildish attempts to induce neutrals and simple-minded paci- fists of allied nationality to save the face of Germany by ini- tiating peace negotiations.... ... the Allies have none of this defi- niteness in their task. The aim of the national intelligence in each of the allied countries is not to exalt one’s... ...ess incidental heroes no doubt, but no star part. Even the Germans, with a national predisposition for hero-cults and living still in an atmosphere of... ...etimes the picture will present a scriptural subject, sometimes a scene of opera, sometimes a dream landscape or a trophy of fruits or flowers, and th... ...ains favour either the offensive or the defensive. But they certainly make operations far more deliberate than upon a level. An engineered road or rai... ...kes hairpin bends upon tracks of loose metal not an inch too broad for the opera- tion, or it floats for a moment over the dizzy edge while a train of...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... marvellous print (our copy is not at all improved by being colored, which operation we performed on it ourselves)—a marvellous print, indeed,—full of... ... Y orkshire pudding for eighteen persons; the youths who are examining her opera- tions (one a literary gentleman, in a remarkably neat nightcap and p... ...ed as political, or as anything more than the expres- sion of the artist’s national British idea of Frenchmen. It must be confessed that for that grea... ...e, at the present moment, the En- glishman on the stage is the caricatured Englishman at the time of the war, with a shock red head, a long white coat... ..., and thought their occupations and amusements were those of all high-bred English gentlemen. Tom knocking down the watchman at Temple Bar; Tom and Je... ... wife of an East India Director? She has 22 George Cruikshank been to the Opera over-night (indeed her husband, on her right, with his fat hand dangl... ...his life familiar to him. Could Mr. O’Connell himself desire anything more national than the scene of a drunken row, or could Father Mathew have a bet...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...crapers the wires of the Associated Press were closing down. The telegraph operators wearily raised their celluloid eye-shades after a night of talkin... ...reality till the alarm-clock rang, at seven-twenty. III It was the best of nationally advertised and quantitatively produced alarm-clocks, with all mo... ...d four hundred thousand inhabitants now—he could see the top of the Second National Tower, an Indi- ana limestone building of thirty-five stories. Its... ...eep knocking the Traction Company and not realize the difficulties they’re operating under, like these cranks that want municipal ownership. The way t... ...phone they said only: “South 343. No, no, no! I said south—South 343. Say, operator, what the dickens is the trouble? Can’t you get me South 343? Why ... ... afternoon. Keep forgetting it.” At the Simplex Office Furniture Shop, the National Cash Register Agency, he yearned for a dictaphone, for a typewrite... ...y Business College 50 Babbitt and instructor in Public Speaking, Business English, Sce- nario Writing, and Commercial Law. Though Babbitt ad- mired t... ...at morning he had advocated lighter lunches and now he ordered nothing but English mutton chop, radishes, peas, deep-dish apple pie, a bit of cheese, ...

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... Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical w... ...on the bounty of the natives, are to be found in almost every isle and hamlet; and even where these are unserviceable, the natives themselves have oft... ...er, it may be called, and will almost certainly become, the tongue of the Pacific. I will instance a few examples. I met in Majuro a Marshall Island b... ...t Louis Stevenson This proneness to suicide, and loose seat in life, is not peculiar to the Marquesan. What is peculiar is the wide- spread depression... ... person whom he wronged. In the experience of my informant, almost no tapu had been put in use, except the two described: he had thus no opportunity t... ...-board, absinthe, a map of the world on Mercator’s projection, and one of the 48 In The South Seas most agreeable verandahs in the tropics), a handfu... ...rs and their meat; he clapped his hands, and gave me a stave of one of the old, ill-omened choruses. Centuries might have come and gone since this sli... ...n- experienced. This, it appears, is the language of the dead; its purport is taken down progressively by one of the ex- perts, writing, I was told, ‘...

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...Excerpt: Four years ago--in 1874--two young Englishmen had occasion to go to the United States. They crossed the ocean at midsummer, and, arriving in New York on the first day of August, were much struck with the fervid temperature of that city. Disembarking upon the w...

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...e University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James PART I F our... ...dsummer as- pect of New York is not, perhaps, the most favorable one; still, it is not without its picturesque and even brilliant side. Nothing could ... ...” was awaiting him on the wharf and that his commercial associate desired him instantly to come and give his attention to certain tele- grams received... ... that his commercial associate desired him instantly to come and give his attention to certain tele- grams received from St. Louis. But the two Englis... ...st something, my dear sir?” and Mr. Westgate looked at him, narrowing his eyelids. “Open your mouth and shut your eyes! Leave it to me, and I’ll put y... ...men went and had some “supper” in a wonderful place ar- ranged like a theater, where, in a gilded gallery, upon which little boxes appeared to open, a... ...ket phaetons, in which, almost always, a couple of ladies were sitting—ladies in white dresses and long white gloves, holding the reins and looking at... ...lves inside out. They gave him a dozen dinner parties and balls and were the means of his being invited to fifty more. At first he used to come into M...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...g very differ- ent from the quality of a Russian prince, let us say, or an English peer. He meant an intensity, a clearness… . Nobility 4 The Researc... ...ism of adolescence he came to realize that this was too comprehen- sive an operation; every one feels fear, and your true aristo- crat is not one who ... ...several quite frightfully wounded, refuse chloroform merely to impress the English onlooker, some of their injuries I could scarcely endure to see, an... ...timate articles for the school world, but never put into more than partial operation. “I have read my father’s articles upon this subject,” wrote Benh... ... on the other hand, Sir Godfrey Marayne’s temporary monopoly of the caecal operation which became so fashionable in the last de- cade of Queen Victori... ...nds pointed out to him the value of working out some special aspect of our national political interests. A very useful speciality was the Balkans. Mr.... ...ere being overdone. Everybody went to the Balkans and came back with a pet nationality. She loathed pet nationali- ties. She believed most people loat... ...lves. Imperialism without noble imaginations, it seemed to him, was simply nationalism with megalomania. It was swagger- ing, it was greed, it was Ger...

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...nd hillocks, and Death and Man are at grip for the haul. There we find our nationality, our poetry, no Hebrew com- peting. We do: or there at least we... ...with applause of the boys and girls of both ages in this land; and all the English critics heap their honours on its brave old Simplicity: our nationa... ...ll the English critics heap their honours on its brave old Simplicity: our national literary flag, which signalizes us while we float, sub- sequently ... ...t of our little Nesta’s godmother. I ‘ve told you. We took the girl to the Opera, when quite a little one—that high:— and I declare to you, it was mar... .... An unstable London’s no world’s market-place.’ ‘No, no; it’s a niggardly national purse, not the journals,’ Mr. Radnor said. ‘The journals are tradi... ...was pencilling upon letters perused. ‘Skepsey’s craze: regeneration of the English race by box- ing—nucleus of a national army?’ ‘To face an enemy at ... ...well-attuned barrel-organ in a street has drawn us to recollections of the Opera or Italy, another harshly crashes, and the postman knocks at doors, a... ... Europe, world, but especially this London, is rather a thing for hospital operations than for poetic rhap- sody; in aspect, too, streaked scarlet and... ...t be a privilege to dine with him—to know him. I know what he has done for English Commerce, and to build a colossal fortune: genius, as I said: and h...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...en who had fought against the Portuguese, the Spaniards, the Dutch and the English, has not been changed by the unavoidable defeat. They have kept to ... ... in the whole place. He was a good fellow, and free with his red wine. His English was difficult to understand, but he could sing songs in his own lan... ...sky like an immense hemispheric, iron shutter pivoting down smoothly as if operated by some mighty engine. An inspiring and penetrat- ing freshness fl... ...mantle. Her sa- rong, the kilt-like garment which both sexes wear, had the national check of grey and red, but she had not completed her attire by the... ...tion of ambitious men who played an occult but important part in all those national risings, religious distur- bances, and also in the organized pirat... ... in a gorgeously got up play on the brilliantly lighted stage of an exotic opera whose accompaniment was not music but the varied strains of the all-p... ...t seemed to me that I was walk- ing on a splendid stage in a scene from an opera, in a gorgeous show fit to make an audience hold its breath. You can’...

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...e implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English country-house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a splend... ...uch consideration and was the most characteristic object in the peculiarly English picture I have attempted to sketch. It stood upon a low hill, above... ...f these was a remarkably well-made man of five- and-thirty, with a face as English as that of the old gentle- man I have just sketched was something e... ... was very critical herself—it was inciden- tal to her age, her sex and her nationality; but she was very sentimental as well, and there was something ... ...woman dressed, on the lines of the prevailing fashion, in the folds of the national banner. Isabel’s chief dread in life at this period of her develop... ...m sure you understand everything and that differ- 99 Henry James ences of nationality are no barrier to you,” Ralph went on. Miss Stackpole gazed at ... ...one who took the tone of authority; and she was a passive spectator of the operation of her fate. “May I not see mamman Catherine get into the carriag... ...ir hotel, and at this establish- ment he learned that they had gone to the opera. He drove to the opera with the idea of paying them a visit in their ... ...ss Stackpole delights in an ice. I didn’t think they wanted me either. The opera’s very bad; the women look like laundresses and sing like peacocks. I...

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...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, an... ... problem, As if she deem’d that mystery would ennoble ‘em. She liked the English and the Hebrew tongue, And said there was analogy between ‘em... ...ments lean ‘em, ‘’T is strange — the Hebrew noun which means “I am,” The English always use to govern d—n.” Byron’s Don Juan “Canto One” 8 S... ...s, To newspapers, whose truth all know and feel, To plays in five, and operas in three acts; All these confirm my statement a good deal, B... ...ally, when he was ask’d to sing, He gave the different nations something national; ‘T was all the same to him—’God save the king,’ Or ‘Ca ir... ...ee, Sir—you Have got a travell’d air, which speaks you one To whom the opera is by no means new: You ‘ve heard of Raucocanti? — I ‘m the man; ... ...ont: Each villa on the Bosphorus looks a screen New painted, or a pretty opera scene. And nearer as they came, a genial savour Of certain st... ...ic Of Dido’s alphabet; and this is rational As any other notion, and not national);— Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Eight” 187 But Juan was quite ‘a... ...ularity, Reserve it) will be very sure to take. Meantime, read all the national debt sinkers, And tell me what you think of your great thinker...

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...L ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V VOL. II. OL. II. OL.... ...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...L ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM- EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V VOL. II. OL. II. OL... ...ed, then why allow of any lingering or doubt- ful force to what must often operate as a conflicting claim? ‘A call,’ which carries with it any legal f... ...irculating the Scriptures, (whether through the Bible Society, that is the National Society, or Provincial Societies,) of translating the Scriptures i... ...r section of the church; but in that year 1834, such a prestige did really operate; and this must be received as one of the reasons which partially ex... ...ealm. But probably it was the deep sense of that truth which reined up the national resistance. Sure of a speedy collision between some patron and the... ...will think, if this reformation were so vast that it drove them out of the national church, absolutely exploded them, then it follows that it must hav... ...s general example. But his false principles have a worse conta- gion. They operate not only through the general haze and halo which invests a shining ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...nce, with her eyes fixed on the hori- zon. I heard her say yesterday to an English gentleman— a very odd Mr. Antrobus, the only person with whom she c... ... country. I left him on deck an hour ago looking at the coast-line with an opera-glass, and saying it was the prettiest thing he had seen in all his t... ...after some mines, and he talks with scarcely any one else, as he speaks no English, and appears to take for granted that no one speaks French. Mamma w... ...wn to the piano in the drawing-room; she began to sing an air from a comic opera. I began to fear we had gone quite astray; I didn’t know in what hous... ...own a multitude of facts bearing upon the points that interest me most—the operation of the school-boards, the co- education of the sexes, the elevati... ...ned, perhaps, in France; but at least we have a certain incarnation of the national conscience, of the national dignity. The dignity is absent here, a...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...d his own lawyer confirmed the statement. Gazonal, though commander of the National Guard in his own town and one of the most capable manufacturers of... ...d pointing to a couple who were just then coming out from the Passage de l’Opera. “Goodness! who’s that?” asked Gazonal. That was an old woman, in a b... ...s face was rather vivid. “That rat, who is just leaving a rehearsal at the Opera- house, is going home to eat a miserable dinner, and will re- turn ab... ...through them again to-night. The rat is one of the primary elements of the Opera; she is to the leading danseuse what a junior clerk is to a notary. T... ...t us say it frankly, ignoble? Yes, ignoble; and yet a Frenchman is, of all nationalities, the one most persistent in this folly! I know the difficulti... ...ed. “Barber!” exclaimed Bixiou; “please remember that he is captain in the National Guard, and is decorated for being the first to spring into a barri...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...e than ten times as many captured at Gettysburg, to say nothing of similar operations in East Ten- nessee. These papers contain altogether thirty—one... ...eir quotas will have again to be subject to similar taxation or suffer the operations of the new conscription, nor it is probable that the like of the... ...r 9, 1863 7.30 P.M. MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE: I have seen your dispatches about operations on the Rappahannock on Saturday, and I wish to say, “W ell done!... ...dis- lodged from that important position; and esteeming this to be of high national consequence, I recommend that all loyal people do, on receipt of t... ...ial homage and gratitude to Almighty God for this great advancement of the national cause. A. LINCOLN. PROCLAMA TION OF AMNESTY AND RECON- STRUCTION D... ...s a laboring, landless, and homeless class, will not be objected to by the National Executive. And it is suggested as not improper that in constructin... ...ngs in cases of the United States against Dr. John B. En- glish, and S. S. English, qt al., sureties for John L. Hill. Also same against same suretie...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...amiable wife, to his hearth, to the Constitutionnel, to his office, to the National Guard, to the opera, and to God; but, only in order that the Const... ...arth, to the Constitutionnel, to his office, to the National Guard, to the opera, and to God; but, only in order that the Constitutionnel, his office,... ..., and to God; but, only in order that the Constitutionnel, his office, the National Guard, the opera, his wife, and God may be changed into coin. In f... ...nly in order that the Constitutionnel, his office, the National Guard, the opera, his wife, and God may be changed into coin. In fine, hail to an irre... ... to his post. A permanent bass for the chorus, he be- takes himself to the opera, prepared to become a soldier or an arab, prisoner, savage, peasant, ... ...elt of his Venus, of his beloved city. What was his want? The sabre of the National Guard, a permanent stock-pot, a decent plot in Pere Lachaise, and,... ...of quite exceptional manners and education. T o the youthful beauty of the English stock they unite the firmness of Southern traits. The fire of their... ...more words of it, came to Paris in 1816 to take refuge from the pursuit of English justice, which protects nothing Oriental except commerce. The exile...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...s a capital thatched with heather, and more than once, in the evil days of English invasion, it has gone up in flame to heaven, a beacon to ships at s... ...their favourite from the last of Scottish parliaments: people flushed with nationality, as Boswell would have said, ready for riot- 16 EDINGBURGH PIC... ...otch is now banished from the bench; but the courts still retain a certain national flavour. We have a solemn enjoyable way of lingering on a case. We... ...S sion. It was meant by nature for the realisation of the society of comic operas. And you can imagine, if the climate were but towardly, how all the ... ... which has earned for her so many slighting speeches. It was meant to be a National Monument; and its present state is a very suitable monument to cer...

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...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Co... ...gation — and they are not a few — as may hap pen to have lingered at the Opera far into the morning of the Sabbath; an excellent contrivance for p... ...f it be quite as severe in its provisions, and to the full as partial in its operation, as those which have preceded it and experienced a similar fate... ...? No. Menial servants, both male and female, are specially exempted from the operation of the bill. ‘Menial servants’ are among the poor people. The b... ... Heaven knows, he very often goes long enough without it. This is the plain English of the clause. The carriage and pair of horses, the coachman, the... ...in his own mansion: but the pint of beer and the plate of meat, degrade the national character in an eat ing house. Such is the bill for promoting t... ...ening service, was published by Charles the First, it is needless to say the English people were comparatively rude and uncivilised. And yet it is ex ... ...ath. They certainly would; but how many? Why, if the British Museum, and the National Gallery, and the Gallery of Practical Science, and every other e...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ssed the plank—the travellers who embark at Southampton are mainly of that nationality—and curi- ously, indifferently, vaguely, through the smoke of h... ...o report himself to his superior in Washington, and the loss of time in an English port could only incommode him, inasmuch as the study of English ins... ...r a judgement of this delay to which the Ger- man steamer was subjected in English waters. Mightn’t it be proved, facts, figures and documents—or at l... ...d. You can’t have a social position at Utica any more than you can have an opera-box. Pandora hasn’t got one; where, if you please, should she have go... .... He had been bewildered dur- ing those first weeks by finding that at the national capi- tal in the houses he supposed to be the best, the head of th... ...for only ten minutes, looking again at the paintings, commemorative of the national annals, which occupy its lower spaces, and at the simu- lated scul...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...DANISH. W AL, DUTCH. HW AL, SWEDISH. WHALE, ICELANDIC. 4 Moby Dick WHALE, ENGLISH. BALEINE, FRENCH. BALLENA, SPANISH. PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE, FEGEE. PEKEE-N... ...pture of this one whale, amounted altogether to 10,440 yards or nearly six English miles. ... “Sometimes the whale shakes its tremendous tail in the a... ...tself,” said Mr. W ebster, “is a very striking and peculiar portion of the National interest. There is a population of eight or nine thousand persons ... ... thousand persons living here in the sea, adding largely every year to the National wealth by the boldest and most persevering industry.” —Report of D... ...and seeing him now exhibiting strong symp- toms of concluding his business operations, and jumping into bed with me, I thought it was high time, now o... ...rs’s best cutlery with a vengeance. Afterwards I wondered the less at this operation when I came to know of what fine steel the head of a harpoon is m... ...t out one single peaceful influence, which within the last sixty years has operated more potentially upon the whole broad world, taken in one aggregat... ...pily borne out by an official circular, issued by Lieutenant Maury, of the National Observatory, Washington, April 16th, 1851. By that circular, it ap...