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...th Wharton The Touchstone by Edith Wharton I PROFESSOR JOSLIN, WHO, as our readers are doubtless aware, is engaged in writing the life of Mrs. Aubyn, ... ...imagination, the physical reluctance had, in- explicably, so overborne the intellectual attraction, that the last years had been, to both of them, an ... ... The young woman so privileged combined with a kind of personal shyness an intellectual audacity that was like a de- flected impulse of coquetry: one ... ...ic drawing-rooms with audacities surpassing those of her printed page. Her intel- lectual independence gave a touch of comradeship to their intimacy, ... ...gainst this background, which seemed the visible expression of its owner’s intellectual toler- ance, rows of fine books detached themselves with a pro... ...’t know you cared about that sort of thing.” She was, in fact, not a great reader, and a new book seldom reached her till it was, so to speak, on the ...

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...x, in which every prince and statesman is something of a servant and every intelligent human being something of a Prince. No magnificent pensive Loren... ...appeal goes out now in other forms, in a book that catches at thousands of readers for the eye of a Prince dif- fused. It is the old appeal indeed for... ...17 H G Wells education lie within my father’s lifetime, and that many most intelligent and patriotic people were shocked beyond mea- sure at the State... ...ust of government in the Victorian days was far too great, and the general intelli- gence far too low, to permit the State to go about the new busines... ...hing himself as he supposed in my key, “to put constructive ideas into our readers, but they are narrow, you know, very narrow. V ery.” He made his mo... ...an immense tradition woven closely into the fabric of the na- tional life. Intelligent and powerful people ceased to talk Latin or read Greek, they ha... ...e on my way home. I do not think that I was very exceptional in that; most intelligent boys, I believe, want naturally to be men, and are keenly inter... ...puerility among them it is custom- ary to assume. I was indeed a voracious reader of everything but boys’ books—which I detested—and fiction. I read h... ...utions and evasions, in keenly appreciated secondary points. Per- haps the reader knows that Tintoretto in the National Gal- lery, the Origin of the M...

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... divers souls that show a calm and sober surface. Such being the case, the reader will comprehend that to have reached him in the form of a printed bo... ...n, but they were not to mine. I sought her eye, desirous to read there the intelligence which I could not discern in her face or hear in her conversat... ...arth and home would be cold in- deed, without the clear, cheering gleam of intellect. “Having perused the fair page of Mrs. Crimsworth’s face, a deep,... ...n; I should have liked well enough to be in- troduced to some pleasing and intelligent girl, and to have freedom and opportunity to show that I could ... ...though just now, as I am not disposed to paint his portrait in detail, the reader must be content with the silhouette I have just thrown off; it was a... ...andsome and fascinat- ing enough for the other. You think perhaps you look intelli- gent and polished; carry your intellect and refinement to mar- ket... ...” said I, “we shall meet again some day.” 45 Charlotte Brontë CHAPTER VII READER, perhaps you were never in Belgium? Haply you don’t know the physiog... ...urns, resealed in monuments. Farewell, luminous phantoms! This is Belgium, reader. Look! don’t call the picture a flat or a dull one—it was neither fl... ...ative; having studied French under a Frenchman, I could speak the language intelligibly though not fluently. I could also read it well, and write it d...

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...ther precaution. “Exupere,” he said to his son, “you must try to carry out intelligently a little manoeuvre which I shall explain to you, but you are ... ...nied to those who have seen better days. Perhaps as the story goes on, the reader will not regret hav- ing learned in advance a few particulars as to ... ...ition in front of Madame Mignon, Ma- dame Latournelle, with the diabolical intelligence of consci- entious duty, had isolated Modeste. Madame Mignon, ... ...the owner is silly, in divine charms of manner if she is “spirituelle” and intelligent. Remarkable for her pale golden hair, Modeste belonged to the t... ... shoulders. From the aspect of the young girl’s face, at once ethereal and intelligent, where the delicacy of a Greek nose with its rosy nostrils and ... ... Modeste. If the brevity of this explanation makes it seem rather dry, the reader must pardon its dryness in view of our desire to get through with th... ...e, and studying the principles of banking with the prodigious activity and intel- ligence of a native of Provence. This double operation of Dumay’s wa... ... genius and be his slave, like Lara, the mysterious page?” She had, as the reader per- ceives, fully understood “il pianto,” which the English poet ch... ...etry like infants to a nurse’s lullaby. Canalis, like Nodier, enchants the reader by an artlessness which is genu- ine in the prose writer and artific...

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...ing. Amongst the Editor’s Notes at the 9 Shelley end of the V olume 3 the reader will find lists of the punctual variations in the longer poems, by m... ...vert attention from Shelley’s poetry to my own ingenuity in disgusting the reader according to the rules of editorial punctilio. (I adapt a phrase or ... ...gulph,’ ‘desart,’ ‘falshood,’ and the like, can only serve to distract the reader’s attention, and mar his enjoyment of the verse. Accordingly Shelley... ...markable acumen nor possessed of the wide knowledge requisite for the full intelligence of so erudite a poet as Shelley, hence the perpetration of num... ... direction I am pain- fully aware; but in the present edition the ordinary reader will, it is hoped, find an authentic, complete, and accurately print... ...nspiration. His extreme sensibility gave the intensity of pas- sion to his intellectual pursuits; and rendered his mind keenly alive to every percepti... ...4. POEMS PUBLISHED IN 1824. In nobil sangue vita umile e queta, Ed in alto intelletto un puro core Frutto senile in sul giovenil fibre, E in aspetto p... ... living frame. Hereafter men will lament that his tran- scendent powers of intellect were extinguished before they had bestowed on them their choicest... ...is mind is at length suddenly awakened and thirsts for intercourse with an intelligence similar to itself. He im- ages to himself the Being whom he lo...

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...he was imperious, and he had learned to carry his em- pire in his eye. The reader must submit to be told one or two further and still smaller details ... ... family. Much will be said of her in these pages, and it is hoped that the reader may take an interest in her fate. But here, in speak- ing of the bro... ...‘have it out’ with her father. 36 The Prime Minister I would not wish the reader to be prejudiced against Miss Wharton by the most unnatural feeling ... ...conquered, rather than by her beauty,—by those gifts and by a clearness of intellect joined with that feminine sweet- ness which has its most frequent... ...w?’ This question was asked of her husband by a lady with whom perhaps the readers of this volume may have already formed some acquaintance. Chronicle... ...must be unintelligible to her. But he credited her with less than her real intelligence. She did understand the nature of his work and his reasons for... ...ious coats and comforters. But he was in full pos- session not only of his intellects but of his bodily power, showing, as many politicians do show, t... ...lope anything in his family, having always found his own infor- mation and intellect sufficient for his own affairs. But now he felt grievously in wan... ... that, let a leader be ever so autocratic by dispo- sition and superior by intelligence, still he must not unfrequently yield to the opinion of his co...

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...e a member of a sect immediately rival, and should make haste to take upon himself his ugly office ere the bones are cold; unusual, and of a taste whi... ...the man”; – though I question whether Damien would have said that he knew you. Take it, and observe with wonder how well you were served by your gossi...

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... a good word to say for it or for its author. Jervas no doubt preju- diced readers against himself in his preface, where among many true words about S... ...t due to a great classic, should not be as acceptable even to the careless reader as the one who treats it as a famous old jest-book. It is not a ques... ...tatis mutandis, to be equally effective with the great majority of English readers. At any rate, even if there are readers to whom it is a matter of i... ...t is matter of fact from what is matter of conjecture, and leave it to the reader’s judgment to decide whether the data justify the inference or not. ... ...it for granted that an allusion will be generally understood which is only intelligible to a few. For example, on many of his readers in Spain, and mo... ...ing forth your pur- pose to the best of your power, and putting your ideas intelligibly, without confusion or obscurity. Strive, too, that in reading ... ...ng one of our comrades sing: he will be here before long, and he is a very intelligent youth and deep in love, and what is more he can read and write ... ...ht hear it, he found that it ran as follows: SONNET Or Love is lacking in intelligence, Or to the height of cruelty attains, Or else it is my doom ... ...erned, you need waste no more words in describ- ing her beauty, worth, and intelligence; for, on merely hearing what 181 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed...

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... assent could only be tacit, for he had never been dazzled by his sister’s intellectual lus- tre. Save when he fell in love with Catherine Harrington,... ...al girl. There would have been a fitness in her being pretty and graceful, intelligent and distinguished; for her mother had been the most charming wo... ... “As a calculation? Thank you very much,” said the Doctor. “Wait till some intelligent man of forty comes along, and he will be delighted with Catheri... ...and if he fell short of this result, it was not for want of a good deal of intelli- gent effort. The Doctor talked to him very little during dinner; b... ...aret. The Doctor’s wine was admirable, and it may be communi- cated to the reader that while he sipped it Morris re- flected that a cellar-full of goo... ... lovely nature, Austin,” said Mrs. Penniman, “and Mr. Townsend has had the intelligence to discover that.” “With a little help from you, I suppose. My... ...d made a point of concealing from the Doctor. It will probably seem to the reader, however, that the Doctor’s vigilance was by no means excessive, and... ...faction that stewed oysters could give him, for it may be intimated to the reader that he regarded Mrs. Penniman in the light of a fifth wheel to his ... ...table for Morris Townsend to choose; a fact that should be remem- bered by readers disposed to judge harshly of a young man who may have struck them a...

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...e editor of these papers feels the highest pleasu re in laying befo re his readers, as a proof of the ca reful attention, indefatigable assiduity, and... ...oubt the debate did also, after arriving at such a highly satisfactory and intel ligible point. We have no official statement of the facts which the ... ...intel ligible point. We have no official statement of the facts which the reader will find recorded in the next chapter, but they have been carefully... ...ime. The mob hitherto had been passive spectators of the scene, but as the intelligence of the Pickwickians being informers was spread among them, the... ... ‘Lots of money—old girl—pompous doctor—not a bad idea—good fun,’ were the intelligible sentences which is sued from his lips. Mr. Tupman looked inqu... ...you intrusted with this message to me by name?’ inquired Mr. Winkle, whose intellects were hopelessly con fused by this extraordinary conversation. ‘... ...the danger in glowing terms, that gentleman might possibly communicate the intelligence to Mr. Pickwick, who would certainly lose no time in transmitt... ...We have little doubt that we should have been enabled to present it to our readers, but for a most unfortunate occurrence. Mr. Pickwick had replaced o... ... attacked and taken, and a mine was to be sprung. Mr. Pickwick was, as our readers may have gathered from the slight extract we gave from his descript...

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...in that obscure ele- ment. But he was as a light kindled in it; a light of Intellect, rude Nobleness of heart, the only kind of lights we have yet; a ... ... Faults? The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. Readers of the Bible above all, one would think, might know better. Who is ... ... regard for him grew: the story of their marriage is altogether a graceful intelligible one, as told us by the Arab authors. He was twenty-five; she f... ...atsoever is best and tru- est, are visible in this man. A strong untutored intellect; eye- sight, heart: a strong wild man,—might have shaped himself ... ...n written, es- pecially by late German Critics, some of which are not very intelligible at first. They say, for example, that the Poet has an infinitu... ...oet is he who thinks in that manner. At bottom, it turns still on power of intellect; it is a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a Poe... ...ceforth in partial sight of her, in some distant intercourse with her. All readers know his grace- ful affecting account of this; and then of their be... ...gling lines,—to the great injury of the grammar, to the great grief of the reader, for most part! What we wants to get at is the thought the man had, ... ...rs,—whose speech is Song. Pre- tenders to this are many; and to an earnest reader, I doubt, it is for most part a very melancholy, not to say an insup...

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...memory of God, who makes all things bud and fruit in the fields and in the intellect? A few lumps of clay, left by Moliere at the feet of his colossal... ...oisie, which may attract or repel attention according to the taste of each reader. In the first place, the Thuillier house did not belong to either Mo... ...ory to the obtaining of two or three children. If Brigitte did not have an intellect quite the equal of her will, at least she had the instinct of her... ...nded the University; and, as a general thing, the women listened. A man of intelligence (could he have borne the dulness of these evenings) would have... ...y like that of a hunting dog, flat and furrowed at the tip, inquisi- tive, intelligent, searching, always on the scent, instead of expressing good-hum... ... of modern societies, the centre of morality, of all good senti- ments and intelligent work. But we cannot conceal from ourselves that the principle o... ...armerie, beneath which he wore an ignoble waist- coat of knitted wool. The reader must imagine the man’s diseased head issuing from this species of sc... ..., is now an established historical fact; but it is necessary to remind the reader that from July to the last of August the French funds, alarmed by th... ...; he therefore gave him his invitation by word of mouth; but the attentive reader must remark a dif- ference in the hour named: “Quarter-past-six, Roc...

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...nexion of the subject with some mark made 8 The Portrait of a Lady on the intelligence, with some sincere experience. By which, at the same time, of ... ...logical accretion was this slight “personality,” the mere slim shade of an intelligent but presumptuous girl, to find itself en- dowed with the high a... ...est, would such a subject not be vitiated? Millions of presumptuous girls, intelli- gent or not intelligent, daily affront their destiny, and what is ... ... recognising the charm of the problem. Challenge any such problem with any intelligence, and you immediately see how full it is of substance; the wond... ...d Portias (even with Portia as the very type and model of the young person intelligent and presump- tuous) and to that of their Hettys and Maggies and... ... yet never let it appear that the chequered pavement, the ground under the reader’s feet, fails to stretch at every point to the base of the walls. Th... ...e: it testifies so, for my own ear, to the anxiety of my provision for the reader’s amusement. I felt, in view of the possible limitations of my subje... ... entitled to nothing, he is bound to admit, that can come to him, from the reader, as a result on the latter’s part of any act of reflexion or dis- cr... ...f, from the first, to work but for a “living wage.” The living wage is the reader’s grant of the least possible quantity of attention required for con...

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...in those Oriental poems! Our narrative will answer these questions to some readers. One thing resulted from this first reading of the Bible: Louis wen... ...s of 4 Louis Lambert war; and, indeed, his taste for study and precocious intelli- gence gave grounds for hoping that he might rise to high fortunes ... ...idea they represent? Then, to whose genius are they due? If it takes great intelligence to create a word, how old may human speech be? The combination... ...ld exert with equal effect with regard to the most abstract efforts of the intellect. He could remember, as he said, not merely the position of a sent... ...space behind him, to use his own words. But I will not here anticipate the intellectual phases of his life. Already, in spite of myself, I have revers... ...e Guyon were a sequel to the Bible; they had the first-fruits of his manly intelligence, and accustomed him to those swift reactions of the soul of wh... ...iscences to those who spent their boyhood there, would be weariness to the reader. Which of us all but remembers with delight, notwithstanding the bit... ...ill, by many more, clung to the smaller elements of its germs. T o certain readers, lovers of poetry, what he chiefly lacked must have been a certain ...

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...d has yet come after her, would first be adequately revealed. The youngest reader will know that the grandest forms in which the collective might of t... ... with its pure, un- troubled repose, contrasting potently, to a man of any intel- lectual sensibility, with the long chaos of bloodshed, dark- ness, a... ...stances of this memo- rable night were as follows:—As soon as the decisive intelli- gence was received, that the intrigues of his enemies had pre- vai... ...ult had been to refresh her with a little sea-bathing. Here was worshipful intelligence. Could any man’s temper be ex- pected to stand such continued ... ... to through the whole course of ancient literature, nor would it have been intelligible to any ancient critic; so that, whatever attraction for the ey... ...on the very anniversary of his mother’s murder, that he received the first intelligence of the revolt in Gaul under the Proprætor Vindex. This news fo... ...t contract on the emperor’s part, as the price of favors such as the Latin reader will easily understand from the strong expression of Spartian above ... ...tated, its ruin. Such might be the natural expectation of an inexperienced reader. But it is not so. The Cæsars, throughout their long line, are not i... ...the Gothic king’s remorse and contri- tion of heart, which has struck many readers as utterly un- suitable to the social and moral development of that...

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...one or two of the character studies, will not be regretted by appreciative readers. My earnest thanks are due to Mr. Robert Browning for his kind assi... ...ld, by fireside heat and lamplight, in order to suit it to the artificial, intellectual, and moral atmosphere which he derived from books, instead of ... ...rgyman; “but if I may trust my own judgment, you have at least many of the intellectual qualifications that should adapt you to it. There is something... ...nformation of him who, of all men in the neighborhood, knew nothing of the intelligence afloat; but it showed a certain importance that Septimius had ... ... be the exchange for one more suited to him, that he must now give up. The intellect, which was the prominent point in Septimius, stirred and heaved, ... ...; if he did, it should have been a woman of another make, who could be his intellectual com panion and helper. And then, perchance,—perchance,—there ... ...neyards, and squeezing out rich viscid juices,—potent wine,—with which the reader might get drunk. Some of it, moreover, seemed, for the further mysti... ...d? What icy hand had written, it, so that the heart was chilled out of the reader? Not that Septimius was sen sible of this character; at least, not ... ...er occupations, de voted several days to the search; and not to weary the reader with the particulars of the quest for an old box, suffice it to say ...

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...as exactly the case in this particular instance; all we wish to inform the reader is, that the different members of the party dispersed to their sever... ...ry often, refused ale and brandy, and looked gloomy. If our observant lady readers can deduce any satisfactory inferences from these facts, we beg the... ...injured and most op pressed client, must prevail with the high minded and intel ligent dozen of men whom he now saw in that box before him. Counsel ... ...of many questions, The Pickwick Papers 72 the conversation with which our readers are already ac quainted. The jury looked suspicious, and Mr. Serje... ... most probable the jury might be; for seeing anything in his then state of intellectual complication was wholly out of the question. Mr. Winkle was th... ...ulogiums on the conduct and character of Mr. Pickwick; but inasmuch as our readers are far better able to form a correct estimate of that gentleman’s ... ...ink necessary. You have my orders.’ Charles Dickens 123 Sam gave a nod of intelligence, and withdrawing his head from the door, set forth on his pilg... ... came back, and finding it quite impossible to engage Mr. Ben Allen in any intelligible conversation on the subject nearest his heart, or indeed on an... ...y next,’ replied Mary. Mr. Weller was so deeply overcome on receiving this intel ligence that he found it absolutely necessary to cling to his The P...

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...ation easily conceivable on the part of a young woman who was evidently both intel ligent and excited. She had seated herself and had put away the li... ...man Thought. Suddenly she became aware of a step very different from her own intellectual pace; she listened a little and perceived that some one was ... ...or CHAPTER 3 19 you and is wandering about upstairs; she didn’t seem at all intelligent. You had better tell her it’s no matter.” And then, since the... ...om her answers apparently that Mrs. Touchett de rived a high opinion of her intelligence. But after this she had asked a good many, and her aunt’s an... ...eneral that Lilian was the practi cal one, Edith the beauty and Isabel the “intellectual” superior. Mrs. Keyes, the second of the group, was the wife... ...r opinions Isabel was never very definitely informed; but it may interest the reader to know that, while they had recognized in the late Mr. Archer a r... ...easy victim of scientific criticism if she were not intended to awaken on the reader’s part an impulse more tender and more purely expectant. It was on... ...wever, for the present, had come of his offers, and it may be confided to the reader that if the young man delayed to carry them out it was because he ... ... Lord Warburton’s “making up” to her from the painful. It may appear to some readers that the young lady was both precipitate and unduly fastidious; b...

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...t do you think of it?” “I think I should kick him out of the office.” (The reader of nice perceptions, will here perceive that, it being morning, T ur... ...m, by this time, thought I at last, when, through another week, no further intel- ligence reached me. But, coming to my room the day after, I found se... ...the meager recital of poor Bartleby’s interment. But, ere parting with the reader, let me say that if this little narrative has sufficiently intereste...

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...left off and where I began must be left to the acute discrimination of the reader who may be interested in the problem. I don’t mean to say that the p... ...I have put the story into the mouth of a young man and made of it what the reader will see. The existence of the brute was a fact. The end of the brut... ...his dis- tance of time. I found them and here they are. The discriminating reader will guess that I have found them within my mind; but how they or th... ...self at home in it, and The Duel is the result of that feeling, or, if the reader prefers, of that presumption. Personally I have no qualms of con- sc... ...off the timidity and reserve of their sex, become by the vivacity of their intelligence and the violence of their merciless resentment more dangerous ... ...ower of her will to be understood was so strong that it kindled in him the intelligence of unexpressed things. “What else did you expect me to do?” he... ...ked on his neat little feet, with short steps, and looked at my collection intelligently. I hope I looked at him intel- ligently, too. A snow-white mo... ...rals to quar- rel with her on that account. Charm in woman and exceptional intelligence in man are a law unto them- selves. Is it not so?” I refrained... ... bolt! And most of them were neither more nor less than housebreakers. The intelligent, I mean. They robbed the rich; they were only getting back thei...