item: #1 of 46 id: 1093 author: James, Henry title: The Beast in the Jungle date: None words: 19118 flesch: 81 summary: The charm, happily, was in other things too--partly in there being scarce a spot at Weatherend without something to stay behind for. It was all to have made, none the less, as I have said, a date; which came out in the fact that again and again, even after long intervals, other things that passed between them were in relation to this hour but the character of recalls and results. keywords: bartram; day; eyes; face; life; light; marcher; moment; question; sense; thing; thought; time; way cache: 1093.txt plain text: 1093.txt item: #2 of 46 id: 1190 author: James, Henry title: The Jolly Corner date: None words: 14584 flesch: 72 summary: With habit and repetition he gained to an extraordinary degree the power to penetrate the dusk of distances and the darkness of corners, to resolve back into their innocence the treacheries of uncertain light, the evil-looking forms taken in the gloom by mere shadows, by accidents of the air, by shifting effects of perspective; putting down his dim luminary he could still wander on without it, pass into other rooms and, only knowing it was there behind him in case of need, see his way about, visually project for his purpose a comparative clearness. The great fact all the while, however, had been the incalculability; since he _had_ supposed himself, from decade to decade, to be allowing, and in the most liberal and intelligent manner, for brilliancy of change. keywords: brydon; door; eyes; face; fact; house; life; light; moment; open; place; rooms; sense; staverton; time cache: 1190.txt plain text: 1190.txt item: #3 of 46 id: 1195 author: James, Henry title: Glasses date: None words: 19740 flesch: 78 summary: I felt a shock much greater than any I should have thought possible when on this person's drawing near I knew her for poor little Flora Saunt. There was in fine weather the coast of France to look at, and there were the usual things to say about it; there was also in every state of the atmosphere our friend Mrs. Meldrum, a subject of remark not less inveterate. keywords: beauty; dawling; eyes; face; flora; good; iffield; lady; lord; meldrum; moment; mother; mrs; saunt; thing; thought; time; world cache: 1195.txt plain text: 1195.txt item: #4 of 46 id: 12193 author: Foss, James Henry title: The Gentleman from Everywhere date: None words: 59987 flesch: 64 summary: I stocked the lake with excellent food fish obtained from the National Fish Commissioner, built good sidewalks, arched by beautiful shade trees; and many prominent men bought lands in our town. Suffice it to state that I returned to 'Frisco, fought a successful dictionary battle there, formed the acquaintance of many distinguished men, among them the great Irving Scott, who built the famous battleship Oregon. keywords: air; away; boat; boys; brother; chapter; children; church; city; clouds; come; day; death; earth; eyes; face; family; father; feet; fire; fish; florida; friends; general; good; great; green; half; hand; head; heart; heaven; home; hours; house; human; know; land; left; life; love; man; men; miles; money; mother; nature; new; night; peace; people; rest; river; school; sea; spirit; state; summer; sun; thought; time; town; trees; war; water; white; wife; wild; women; woods; work; world; years; young; youth cache: 12193.txt plain text: 12193.txt item: #5 of 46 id: 14629 author: Snowden, James H. (James Henry) title: A Wonderful Night; An Interpretation of Christmas date: None words: 12971 flesch: 76 summary: Great men, as a rule, are not born in cities. These men did not follow cunningly devised fables when they made known unto us the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, for they were eye-witnesses of his glory. VI. keywords: angels; bethlehem; birth; child; christ; christmas; come; glory; god; gospel; jesus; light; men; new; peace; room; shepherds; world cache: 14629.txt plain text: 14629.txt item: #6 of 46 id: 179 author: James, Henry title: The Europeans date: None words: 74111 flesch: 79 summary: â��I think that if you marry,â�� said Mr. Wentworth presently, â��it will conduce to your happiness.â�� _â��Sicurissimo!â��_ Felix exclaimed; and then, arresting his brush, he looked at his uncle with a smile. She had stood there for half an hourâ��stood there, that is, at intervals; for from time to time she turned back into the room and measured its length with a restless step. keywords: baronessâ �; beâ �; brandâ �; brotherâ �; canâ �; companionâ �; cousin?â �; doesnâ �; donâ �; eh?â �; fatherâ �; felixâ �; gentlemanâ �; gertrudeâ �; hadnâ �; havenâ �; himself.â �; himâ �; isnâ �; itâ �; iâ �; lifeâ �; me.â �; mean?â �; mistressâ �; oneâ �; sheâ �; shouldnâ �; thatâ �; then?â �; there.â �; time.â �; wayâ �; wentworthâ �; woman.â �; wouldnâ �; you!â �; â �; � acton; � charlotte; � clifford; � clock; � comme; � eugenia; � mrs; � robert; � s; � t.â; � wonâ; � � cache: 179.txt plain text: 179.txt item: #7 of 46 id: 18566 author: James, Henry title: Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series) date: None words: 57219 flesch: 63 summary: This marked love of cases of conscience, says M. MontÃ�©gut, this taciturn, scornful cast of mind, this habit of seeing sin everywhere and hell always gaping open, this dusky gaze bent always upon a damned world and a nature draped in mourning, these lonely conversations of the imagination with the conscience, this pitiless analysis resulting from a perpetual examination of one's self, and from the tortures of a heart closed before men and open to God--all these elements of the Puritan character have passed into Mr. Hawthorne, or to speak more justly, have _filtered_ into him, through a long succession of generations. Whatever may have been Hawthorne's private lot, he has the importance of being the most beautiful and most eminent representative of a literature. keywords: american; author; book; boston; country; day; deal; england; english; fact; genius; good; hand; having; hawthorne; history; house; imagination; interest; lathrop; left; letter; life; light; little; man; mind; moral; nature; new; note; people; place; quality; romance; salem; sense; society; story; tales; things; time; way; work; world; writer; years; young cache: 18566.txt plain text: 18566.txt item: #8 of 46 id: 19717 author: James, Henry title: The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) date: None words: 80931 flesch: 70 summary: VIII Verena Tarrant got up and went to her father in the middle of the room; Olive Chancellor crossed and resumed her place beside Mrs. Farrinder on the sofa the girl had quitted; and Miss Birdseye's visitors, for the rest, settled themselves attentively in chairs or leaned against the bare sides of the parlour. The daughter of Doctor Tarrant, the mesmeric healer--Miss Verena. keywords: basil; birdseye; boston; burrage; course; day; doctor; eyes; face; farrinder; friend; girl; good; house; idea; kind; ladies; lady; life; look; luna; man; miss; miss birdseye; miss chancellor; miss tarrant; moment; mother; mrs; new; olive; olive chancellor; people; ransom; room; street; tarrant; things; thought; time; verena; verena tarrant; want; way; women; world cache: 19717.txt plain text: 19717.txt item: #9 of 46 id: 19718 author: James, Henry title: The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II) date: None words: 84923 flesch: 75 summary: We want the last news about Miss Verena, and it has got to come out of this house. The public are almost as much interested in your sister as they are in Miss Verena; they know to what extent she has backed her: and I should be so delighted (I see the heading, from here, so attractive!) keywords: away; basil ransom; birdseye; burrage; chancellor; course; day; doctor; eyes; face; good; hour; house; idea; kind; life; luna; man; mind; miss; miss chancellor; moment; mrs; new; olive; olive chancellor; people; place; prance; ransom; room; round; saw; tarrant; thought; time; verena; verena tarrant; want; way; women; world; york cache: 19718.txt plain text: 19718.txt item: #10 of 46 id: 20085 author: James, Henry title: The Tragic Muse date: None words: 221500 flesch: 79 summary: Nick felt Nash could never surprise him any more save by mere plain perpetration. Nick felt himself catch the smile and all the reasons of it: they made up a charm to which he had perhaps not hitherto done justice--something of the impression he had received when younger from showy views of fine country-seats that had pressed and patted nature, as by the fat hands of benches of magistrates and landlords, into supreme respectability and comfort. keywords: actress; agnes; air; art; biddy; brother; care; carrã; carteret; case; course; dallow; dashwood; day; dear; door; eyes; face; fact; far; felt; fine; friend; gabriel; general; girl; good; grace; hand; having; head; high; home; hour; house; idea; interest; julia; kind; lady; life; little; london; look; madame; man; manner; matter; mind; miriam; miss; moment; mother; mrs; nash; nick; nick dormer; paris; people; peter; peter sherringham; place; poor; question; right; room; rooth; round; saw; sense; sherringham; sort; stage; talk; theatre; things; think; thought; time; want; way; woman; words; work; world cache: 20085.txt plain text: 20085.txt item: #11 of 46 id: 209 author: James, Henry title: The Turn of the Screw date: None words: 51059 flesch: 77 summary: Nothing at all that I know touches it.â�� â��For sheer terror?â�� I remember asking. â��For dreadfulâ��dreadfulness!â�� â��Oh, how delicious!â�� cried one of the women. keywords: butâ �; canâ �; companionâ �; donâ �; eveningâ �; floraâ �; gentleman?â �; groseâ �; hadnâ �; havenâ �; heâ �; him?â �; itâ �; iâ �; know!â �; little; missâ �; nothing.â �; noâ �; outâ �; quint?â �; sheâ �; thatâ �; them?â �; thereâ �; thingsâ �; usâ �; wasnâ �; what?â �; womanâ �; wouldnâ �; yesâ �; â �; � lord; � mrs; � s; � t.â; � wonâ; � � cache: 209.txt plain text: 209.txt item: #12 of 46 id: 22363 author: Coyne, James H. (James Henry) title: The Country of the Neutrals (As Far As Comprised in the County of Elgin), From Champlain to Talbot date: None words: 17582 flesch: 68 summary: His bourg was in the middle of the country; to reach it, one had to pass through several other villages (bourgs et bourgades.) [Illustration: This is a copy of Galinee's map of 1670, the first made from actual exploration in which Lake Erie appears. keywords: country; creek; day; detroit; east; erie; french; hurons; indians; iroquois; journey; lake; lake erie; little; map; nation; neutrals; north; point; river; south; talbot; village; way; west; year cache: 22363.txt plain text: 22363.txt item: #13 of 46 id: 2327 author: James, Henry title: Some Short Stories [by Henry James] date: None words: 40836 flesch: 81 summary: Her sister, Mrs. Brooksmith, had been dead a year, and three months later her nephew had disappeared. A shade of indulgence, a sense of other things, came back to her. keywords: addie; brooksmith; cutter; day; dear; dyott; eyes; fact; friend; good; lady; life; look; major; mamie; maud; medwin; miss; monarch; mrs; offord; people; place; question; room; sense; thing; thought; time; wantridge; way cache: 2327.txt plain text: 2327.txt item: #14 of 46 id: 2366 author: James, Henry title: The Beldonald Holbein date: None words: 8577 flesch: 80 summary: In that space of time two things had happened one of which was that I made the acquaintance of Mrs. Brash; and the other that Mrs. Munden reached me, cleaving the crowd, with one of her usual pieces of news. Mrs. Munden remained in correspondence with Mrs. Brash--to the extent, that is, of three letters, each of which she showed me. keywords: beldonald; brash; lady; moment; mrs; munden; nina; thing cache: 2366.txt plain text: 2366.txt item: #15 of 46 id: 2425 author: James, Henry title: A Bundle of Letters date: None words: 14280 flesch: 76 summary: And you know Clara _is_ Bangor, to the soles of her shoes. Do you remember the _pension bourgeoise_ of Madame Vauquer _nee_ de Conflans? keywords: bangor; day; deal; english; family; french; house; lady; mother; paris; people; right; want; way; young cache: 2425.txt plain text: 2425.txt item: #16 of 46 id: 2426 author: James, Henry title: The Diary of a Man of Fifty date: None words: 12116 flesch: 89 summary: Is it reserved for poor little Stanmer to put a bullet into him? Poor young Stanmer (he is of the Devonshire Stanmers--a great property) reported this speech verbatim, and of course it can't in the least signify to him that a poor grizzled, battered soldier, old enough to be his father, should come to call upon his _inammorata_. keywords: countess; florence; man; moment; mother; salvi; scarabelli; stanmer; time; years cache: 2426.txt plain text: 2426.txt item: #17 of 46 id: 2460 author: James, Henry title: The Madonna of the Future date: None words: 15504 flesch: 79 summary: O ye of little faith!' She lived on a fourth floor, and she was not rich; but she offered her visitors very good tea, little cakes at option, and conversation not quite to match. keywords: artist; beauty; eyes; face; fine; florence; friend; genius; hand; head; madonna; moment; picture; smile; sort; theobald; time; woman; work; world cache: 2460.txt plain text: 2460.txt item: #18 of 46 id: 2534 author: James, Henry title: Eugene Pickering date: None words: 19241 flesch: 80 summary: But when you found this letter of yours on your place at breakfast, did you seem for a moment to see Madame Blumenthal sitting opposite? There is something I have not told you, he said; something that your saying that Madame Blumenthal has no reputation to lose has made me half afraid to tell you. keywords: blumenthal; day; days; eyes; face; friend; hand; lady; letter; life; love; madame; man; moment; pickering; time; way; woman; world cache: 2534.txt plain text: 2534.txt item: #19 of 46 id: 25500 author: James, Henry title: A London Life, and Other Tales date: None words: 101876 flesch: 83 summary: 'Like what so much?' 'Going on this way. She would see old Mrs. Berrington, whom she liked because she was so simple, and old Lady Davenant, who was staying with her and who was interesting for reasons with which simplicity had nothing to do. keywords: berrington; capadose; children; colonel; course; davenant; day; dear; door; dora; eyes; face; gentleman; girl; good; hand; home; hour; house; idea; jasper; lady; laura; life; lionel; look; lyon; man; mavis; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; nettlepoint; night; people; place; raymond; room; selina; sister; things; think; thought; time; want; way; wendover; woman; years cache: 25500.txt plain text: 25500.txt item: #20 of 46 id: 26115 author: James, Henry title: A Small Boy and Others date: None words: 100774 flesch: 36 summary: The becraped passage at Meurice's alluded to a little back was of a later season, and the radiation, as I recall it, had been, that first winter, mainly from a _petit hÃ�´tel_ somewhere on the other side, as we used with a large sketchiness to say, of the Champs ElysÃ�©es; a region at that time reduced to no regularity, but figuring to my fond fancy as a chaos of accidents and contrasts where _petits hÃ�´tels_ of archaic type were elbowed by woodyards and cabarets, and pavilions ever so characteristic, yet ever so indefinable, snuggled between frank industries and vulgarities--all brightened these indeed by the sociable note of Paris, be it only that of chaffering or of other _bavardise_. Who were the copious Hunts?--whose ample house, on the north side, toward Seventh Avenue, still stands, next or near that of the De Peysters, so that I perhaps confound some of the attributes of each, though clear as to the blond Beekman, or Beek, of the latter race, not less than to the robust George and the stout, the very stout, Henry of the former, whom I see bounding before a gathered audience for the execution of a _pas seul_, clad in a garment of Turkey red fashioned by his own hands and giving way at the seams, to a complete absence of _dessous_, under the strain of too fine a figure: this too though I make out in those connections, that is in the twilight of Hunt and De Peyster garrets, our command of a comparative welter of draperies; so that I am reduced to the surmise that Henry indeed had contours. keywords: age; air; albany; american; art; big; brother; case; character; charm; consciousness; course; day; days; degree; doubtless; effect; english; experience; fact; family; father; figure; fine; form; free; french; general; good; half; hand; having; high; home; hour; house; image; impression; interest; left; life; light; manner; matter; mean; memory; miss; moment; mother; mrs; new; note; occasion; order; paris; picture; place; point; presence; present; public; question; rate; recall; scene; sense; sort; state; street; things; think; time; truth; view; vision; way; wonder; world; years; york cache: 26115.txt plain text: 26115.txt item: #21 of 46 id: 27101 author: Rochelle, James Henry title: Life of Rear Admiral John Randolph Tucker date: None words: 25440 flesch: 63 summary: On her return to Norfolk harbor, the _Virginia_ was accompanied by the _Patrick Henry_ and the other vessels of the Confederate squadron. He was at first assigned by the Governor to the defense of James river, but in a short time was ordered to assume command of the steamer _Patrick Henry_. keywords: amazon; amazon river; atlantic; charleston; command; commission; confederate; current; del; distance; federal; feet; henry; hour; james river; longitude; miles; mouth; naval; navy; patrick; river; squadron; states; steamer; tucker; ucayali; vessels; virginia; water; west cache: 27101.txt plain text: 27101.txt item: #22 of 46 id: 28004 author: James, Henry title: A Little Tour of France date: None words: 77248 flesch: 65 summary: They are also exhibited in other attitudes; though I do not recognise them in the composition on top of one of the fireplaces which represents the battlements of a castle, with the defenders (little figures between the crenellations) hurling down missiles with a great deal of fury and expression. It is true that this was not exactly the appearance of the Roman theatre, which lies on the other side of the town; a fact that did not prevent me from making my way to it in less than five minutes, through a succession of little streets concerning which I have no observations to record. keywords: air; arles; avignon; bourges; carcassonne; castle; cathedral; century; chambord; chapter; charming; church; chã¢teau; city; country; course; court; day; effect; end; face; fact; france; french; garden; general; good; half; having; hill; history; hour; house; illustration; impression; kind; left; life; light; look; louis; mes; middle; picture; place; river; roman; round; saint; stands; stone; things; time; toulouse; tours; towers; town; view; walk; walls; way; white; windows; work; years; young cache: 28004.txt plain text: 28004.txt item: #23 of 46 id: 29452 author: James, Henry title: The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 date: None words: 82781 flesch: 75 summary: The interest to Milly herself we naturally mean; the interest to Kate Milly felt as probably inferior. A good-natured lady in fine, a friend of her mother and a relative of the lady of the gallery, had offered to take her to the party in question and had there fortified her, further, with two or three of those introductions that, at large parties, lead to other things--that had at any rate, on this occasion, culminated for her in conversation with a tall, fair, slightly unbrushed and rather awkward, but on the whole not dreary, young man. keywords: aunt; companion; course; croy; dear; densher; eyes; face; fact; friend; girl; good; having; kate; lady; life; light; lord; lowder; marian; mark; matter; maud; milly; moment; mrs; new; place; point; present; question; sense; stringham; susie; things; think; thought; time; way; woman; world cache: 29452.txt plain text: 29452.txt item: #24 of 46 id: 30059 author: James, Henry title: The Wings of the Dove, Volume II date: None words: 109191 flesch: 84 summary: He had given poor Kate her freedom. She had more things in that head than any of them in any other; unless perhaps it were Kate, whom he felt as indirectly watching him during this foolish passage, though it pleased him--and because of the foolishness--not to meet her eyes. keywords: aunt; case; course; day; dear; densher; effect; eyes; face; fact; friend; girl; good; having; hour; idea; kate; life; look; lord; lowder; luke; man; mark; matter; maud; milly; moment; mrs; place; point; present; question; right; sense; sir; stringham; things; thought; time; want; way cache: 30059.txt plain text: 30059.txt item: #25 of 46 id: 32649 author: James, Henry title: The Middle Years date: None words: 22724 flesch: 38 summary: I knew myself the very worst conceivable, but how to give to such other persons a decent or coherent reason for my being so required more presence of mind than I could in the least muster--the consequence of which failure had to be for me, I fear, under all that confused first flush, rather an abject acceptance of the air of imbecility. I honestly think one did, even in the first flushes of recognition, more or less so tremble; I remember at least that in spite of such disconcertments, such dismays, as certain of the most thoroughly Victorian _choses vues_ originally treated me to, something yet deeper and finer than observation admonished me to like them just as they were, or at least not too fatuously to dislike--since it somehow glimmered upon me that if they had lacked their oddity, their monstrosity, as it even might be, their unabashed insular conformity, other things that belong to them, as they belong to these, might have loomed less large and massed less thick, which effect was wholly to be deprecated. keywords: case; effect; face; fact; fine; general; good; half; having; hour; impression; interest; life; light; long; matter; moment; mrs; place; present; question; scene; sense; time; years cache: 32649.txt plain text: 32649.txt item: #26 of 46 id: 32939 author: James, Henry title: The Sacred Fount date: None words: 78821 flesch: 83 summary: Mrs. Server _was_ nervous. The _other_ consciousness---- Is all for the other party? keywords: briss; brissenden; case; come; course; eyes; face; fact; having; john; lady; light; little; long; look; man; matter; mind; moment; mrs; obert; point; poor; question; sense; server; talk; things; think; thought; time; want; way cache: 32939.txt plain text: 32939.txt item: #27 of 46 id: 33325 author: James, Henry title: The Spoils of Poynton date: None words: 72622 flesch: 83 summary: THE SPOILS OF POYNTON I Mrs. Gereth had said she would go with the rest to church, but suddenly it seemed to her that she should not be able to wait even till church-time for relief: breakfast, at Waterbath, was a punctual meal, and she had still nearly an hour on her hands. This girl, one of the two Vetches, had no beauty, but Mrs. Gereth, scanning the dullness for a sign of life, had been straightway able to classify such a figure as the least, for the moment, of her afflictions. keywords: brigstock; companion; course; day; eyes; face; fleda; friend; gereth; girl; good; hand; having; house; lady; mean; moment; mona; mother; mrs; owen; owen gereth; place; poor; poynton; question; ricks; right; room; sense; things; thought; time; want; waterbath; way cache: 33325.txt plain text: 33325.txt item: #28 of 46 id: 36143 author: Mapleson, James Henry title: The Mapleson Memoirs, 1848-1888, vol I date: None words: 78833 flesch: 69 summary: On one occasion we had to perform _L'Africaine_ on consecutive nights in New York and Philadelphia, which entailed the removal of the whole of the scenery and dresses, likewise the transport of the whole of the supernumeraries, ballet, etc., numbering altogether 400 persons; and we had, moreover, to return the same evening after the performance to New York, in which city the work was to be repeated the following night. The production of _L'Africaine_, which was new to Baltimore, was a marked success. keywords: act; close; company; concert; costa; course; day; days; donna; drury; engagement; evening; faust; following; garden; gerster; giuglini; grand; great; gye; half; having; hotel; house; lane; london; madame; majesty; manager; mapleson; matter; mdlle; mdme; money; morning; music; new; night; nilsson; occasion; opera; operatic; orchestra; order; patti; performance; place; prima; public; room; royal; season; second; signor; singing; smith; stage; success; tenor; theatre; time; titiens; work; years; york cache: 36143.txt plain text: 36143.txt item: #29 of 46 id: 36144 author: Mapleson, James Henry title: The Mapleson Memoirs, 1848-1888, vol II date: None words: 74506 flesch: 70 summary: Titiens, Thérèse, Vol. I., 9, 12, 18, 19, 23, 26, 27, 35, 36, 37, 38, 42, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51, 55, 56, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 68, 72, 77, 78, 81, 82, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 95, 100, 101, 103, 104, 109, 112, 117, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 128, 139, 140, 143, 146, 152, 154, 155, 156, 157, 159, 161, 162, 166, 167, 177, 178, 190, 193, 194, 196; Vol. II., 15, 25, 268, 282, 290, 300. Trebelli, Mdme., Vol I., 43, 58, 59, 60, 68, 72, 73, 77, 79, 89, 101, 104, 129, 131, 139, 140, 146, 154, 155, 156, 160, 190, 199, 220, 221, 240; Vol. II., 3, 30, 250, 255, 268, 296. V. Vachot, Mdlle., Vol. I., 261, 262, 263. Grisi, Mdme., Vol. I., 9, 26, 33, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93; Vol II., 300. Guarducci, Mdlle., Vol. I., 17, 18, 19, 22; Vol. II., 296. Gunz, Dr., Vol. I., 95; Vol. II., 298. Gye, Mr. Ernest, Vol. I., 305, 310, 320, 321, 322, 325; Vol. II., 1, 3, 4, 5, 81, 82, 84, 85. Gye, Commander, Vol. I., 288, 290, 303, 304. Gye, Messrs., Vol. I., 260, 287. Gye, Mr., Vol. I., 8, 9, 13, 14, 33, 36, 41, 42, 67, 70, 71, 72, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 118, 119, 124, 125, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 142, 143, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 153, 154, 160; Vol. II., 285. keywords: academy; american; artists; audience; case; chicago; chorus; city; company; concert; course; day; days; defendant; dollars; engagement; evening; following; francisco; general; gerster; grand; hauk; having; hotel; house; italian; left; line; london; manager; mapleson; mdlle; mdme; money; morning; music; new; night; opera; orchestra; order; patti; pay; people; performance; place; public; ravelli; receipts; return; san; season; signor; singers; stage; success; theatre; tickets; time; train; vol; way; week; years; york cache: 36144.txt plain text: 36144.txt item: #30 of 46 id: 37424 author: James, Henry title: Views and Reviews date: None words: 51053 flesch: 66 summary: Suppose Mr. Tennyson were to come out with a novel, or Madame George Sand were to produce a tragedy in French alexandrines. TENNYSON'S DRAMA I. QUEEN MARY A new poem by Mr. Tennyson is certain to be largely criticised, and if the new poem is a drama, the performance must be a great event for criticism as well as for poetry. keywords: arnold; art; author; book; character; course; criticism; drama; eliot; english; fact; figure; form; general; george; good; half; hand; harold; human; kipling; life; man; mary; men; mind; morris; nature; new; pages; people; poem; poet; poetry; queen; reader; sense; story; style; subject; swinburne; tennyson; things; time; verse; way; whistler; words; work; world; writer cache: 37424.txt plain text: 37424.txt item: #31 of 46 id: 37425 author: James, Henry title: Within the Rim, and Other Essays, 1914-15 date: None words: 17889 flesch: 34 summary: I think of particular faces, in the whole connection, when I want most to remember--since to remember always, and never, never to forget, is a prescription shining before us like a possible light of dawn--faces saying such things in their silence, or in their speech of quite different matters, as to make the only thinkable comment or response some word or some gesture of reprieve to dumb or to dissimulated anguish. The resonance through our immemorial old street of her sobbing and sobbing cry was the voice itself of history; it brought home to me more things than I could then quite take the measure of, and these just because it expressed for her not direct anguish, but the incredibility, as who should say, of honest assured protection. keywords: american; case; course; england; fact; france; general; good; having; history; life; light; mind; people; point; question; sense; state; things; time; way; world cache: 37425.txt plain text: 37425.txt item: #32 of 46 id: 38035 author: James, Henry title: The Letters of Henry James, (Vol. II) date: None words: 161648 flesch: 70 summary: I envy you the quite ideal and transcendent jollity (as if Marie Corelli had herself evoked the image for us) of having polished off a brilliant _coup_ and being on your way to celebrate the case in Paris. I have really done it fast, for what it is, and for the way I do it--_the_ way I seem condemned to; which is to _overtreat_ keywords: alice; american; away; beauty; book; brother; carlyle; case; charming; cheyne; conditions; country; course; days; dear; dearest; effect; end; england; experience; face; fact; find; fine; form; friend; general; good; gosse; grace; great; hand; having; heart; henry; henry james; home; hope; hour; house; interest; james; kind; lamb; letter; life; little; london; long; makes; making; mansions; matter; mean; mind; miss; moment; months; mrs; new; news; night; paris; people; place; point; present; question; rate; real; return; round; rye; s.w; save; sense; sort; spite; state; subject; summer; talk; thank; things; time; town; walk; want; way; weeks; wharton; william; wish; words; work; world; writing; years; young cache: 38035.txt plain text: 38035.txt item: #33 of 46 id: 38135 author: Cousins, James Henry title: Etain the Beloved, and Other Poems date: None words: 11110 flesch: 84 summary: From year to year life's pleasures round thee played, And fell behind the question of thine eyes That searched the mysteries of leafy shade, And the blue heron sailing in the skies Cutting the silence with the rusty blade His voice, and sought to spy the subtile might That killed your gathered iris in a night. Yet, lacking thee, I am not wise: I need thine eyes That I may see! Insect and bird Chant prose and verse, God's passion-stirred Interpreters. keywords: day; death; deep; earth; eochaidh; etain; eyes; heart; joy; king; life; light; love; spring; thee; thou; thought; thy; way cache: 38135.txt plain text: 38135.txt item: #34 of 46 id: 38424 author: James, Henry title: Notes of a Son and Brother date: None words: 134421 flesch: 50 summary: The part played consisted to a large extent in the vast, even though incomplete, array of Swedenborg's works, the old faded covers of which, anciently red, actually apt to be loose, and backed with labels of impressive, though to my sense somewhat sinister London imprint, Arcana Coelestia, Heaven and Hell and other such matters--they all had, as from other days, a sort of black emphasis of dignity--ranged themselves before us wherever, and however briefly, we disposed ourselves, forming even for short journeys the base of our father's travelling library and perhaps at some seasons therewith the accepted strain on our mother's patience. I disentangle these again, if the term be not portentous, though reflecting too, and again with complacency, that though I thus prize them as involved most in my own consciousness, this is just because of their attachment somewhere else to other matters and other lives. keywords: air; american; away; boston; brother; case; character; consciousness; course; day; days; degree; doubtless; effect; experience; face; fact; father; feel; feeling; felt; figure; find; fine; force; form; friend; general; good; hand; having; history; home; hour; house; human; impression; instance; interest; kind; left; letter; life; light; like; living; look; man; manner; matter; measure; memory; mind; moment; morning; nature; new; newport; note; occasion; order; people; personal; place; play; point; presence; present; question; rate; relation; round; scene; sense; sort; speak; state; tell; thing; thought; time; truth; turn; view; vision; way; william; work; world; years; york; young cache: 38424.txt plain text: 38424.txt item: #35 of 46 id: 39316 author: Stark, James Henry title: The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution date: None words: 258767 flesch: 69 summary: John Sylvester John, became an able theological and political writer. John Sylvester John, 316. Jonathan 251. keywords: 135; account; act; adams; admiral; age; american; andrew; april; arms; army; benjamin; bernard; boston; britain; british; brother; business; cambridge; canada; captain; cause; character; charles; chief; children; church; city; coffin; college; colonel; colonies; committee; company; congress; council; country; court; crown; daniel; daughter; david; day; days; death; early; ebenezer; edward; elizabeth; england; english; esq; estate; family; father; following; francis; franklin; french; friends; gage; general; george; good; government; governor; great; halifax; harvard; henry; high; hill; history; home; house; hutchinson; indians; isaac; island; james; john; john adams; jonathan; joseph; judge; july; june; justice; king; large; late; law; left; letter; liberty; lieutenant; life; little; london; lord; loyalists; major; man; mansion; march; married; mary; massachusetts; member; merchant; mob; mother; mrs; murray; nathaniel; near; new; new england; north; office; officers; old; oliver; order; page; parliament; party; people; persons; peter; place; power; present; property; province; public; quincy; return; revolution; richard; right; robert; royal; said; salem; samuel; sarah; second; service; shall; sir; soldiers; son; sons; south; states; street; suffolk; thomas; thompson; time; town; troops; united; war; washington; way; west; widow; wife; william; winslow; worcester; years; york cache: 39316.txt plain text: 39316.txt item: #36 of 46 id: 39511 author: Leuba, James H. (James Henry) title: The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion date: None words: 20231 flesch: 60 summary: Although the hypothesis that gods and Religion are the consequence of the recognition of the failure of Magic, must be rejected, it does not follow that two modes of activity in the service of common purposes, as are Magic and early Religion, do not act upon each other in many ways. The adjectives _passive_ and _active_ might be used to separate amorphous from organised Religion, _i.e._ keywords: animals; behaviour; beings; belief; fear; frazer; ghosts; gods; idea; instance; life; magic; man; men; mind; nature; order; origin; power; relation; religion; savage; science; thought cache: 39511.txt plain text: 39511.txt item: #37 of 46 id: 432 author: James, Henry title: The Ambassadors date: None words: 204080 flesch: 74 summary: I saw in a moment that, should this development proceed both with force and logic, my â��storyâ�� would leave nothing to be desired. Why then do you â��meetâ�� themâ��since it doesnâ��t appear to be to stop them?â�� â��Oh that they shouldnâ��t come is as yet too much to ask. keywords: about?â �; againâ �; allâ �; aâ �; beenâ �; beâ �; canâ �; chadâ �; charming.â �; charmâ �; companionâ �; comradeâ �; countessâ �; courseâ �; dayâ �; doesnâ �; donâ �; everything.â �; expressionâ �; feelâ �; girlâ �; glorianiâ �; good?â �; gostreyâ �; hadnâ �; havenâ �; herself?â �; herâ �; heâ �; himâ �; homeâ �; husbandâ �; ifâ �; isnâ �; isâ �; it?â �; itâ �; iâ �; jimâ �; lastâ �; lifeâ �; lightâ �; mamieâ �; maynâ �; me!â �; mean?â �; mustnâ �; myselfâ �; newsomeâ �; night.â �; nothingâ �; now.â �; noâ �; oneâ �; outâ �; pocockâ �; possiblyâ �; questionâ �; returnedâ �; roundâ �; s â; sarahâ �; sayâ �; sheâ �; sideâ �; sort.â �; thatâ �; then?â �; thereâ �; theâ �; thingâ �; time.â �; upâ �; usâ �; vionnet.â �; visitorâ �; wasnâ �; wellâ �; what?â �; withâ �; womanâ �; wouldnâ �; yesâ �; yourself.â �; youâ �; â �; � certainlyâ; � europe; � ii; � jim; � ll; � maria; � mrs; � s.; � strether; � t; � t.â; � wonâ; � � cache: 432.txt plain text: 432.txt item: #38 of 46 id: 53244 author: Kerry-Nicholls, J. H. (James Henry) title: The King Country; or, Explorations in New Zealand A Narrative of 600 Miles of Travel Through Maoriland. date: None words: 100809 flesch: 69 summary: We led our horses down the steep, slippery track into the valley, and as we were now seen by some of the Maoris, there were loud shouts that _pakehas_ had arrived, and the natives came out of the _whares_ and awaited our approach in front of the _wharepuni_. It was a very picturesque spot, dotted about with springs, some tepid, some hot, some boiling, and fringed with _manuka_ scrub. keywords: altitude; base; blue; centre; chief; country; course; crater; dark; day; direction; distance; features; feet; fern; footnote; forest; form; green; growth; height; high; hills; horses; island; journey; king; king country; lake; lake country; land; lava; left; level; like; maori; miles; mountain; natives; new; night; north; open; place; plains; point; portion; region; river; rock; rose; ruapehu; sea; settlement; sides; snow; south; springs; steep; stream; summit; table; taupo; time; tongariro; trees; tribe; valley; vegetation; view; volcanic; waikato; water; way; white cache: 53244.txt plain text: 53244.txt item: #39 of 46 id: 55078 author: James, Henry title: The Birthplace date: None words: 22451 flesch: 83 summary: Mrs. Gedge did believe--she _would_; since the wide doors of the world of poetry had suddenly pushed back for them it was in the form of poetic justice that they were first to know it. Mrs. Gedge, who had suggested that, till their move should come, they ought to read Him regularly of an evening--certain as they were to do it still more when in closer quarters with Him--Mrs. Gedge felt also, in her degree, the spell; so that the very happiest time of their anxious life was perhaps to have been the series of lamplight hours, after supper, in which, alternately taking the book, they declaimed, they almost performed, their beneficent author. keywords: course; gedge; good; having; hayes; husband; man; moment; mrs; new; people; place; question; thing; time; want; way; wife cache: 55078.txt plain text: 55078.txt item: #40 of 46 id: 68340 author: James, Henry title: A landscape painter date: None words: 65088 flesch: 82 summary: To appreciate the importance of this conversation, the reader must know that Miss Gertrude Whittaker was a young woman of four-and-twenty, whose father, recently deceased, had left her alone in the world, with a great fortune, accumulated by various enterprises in that part of the State. The Major was not handsome in feature; he left that to younger men and to lighter women; but his ugliness was of a masculine, aristocratic, intelligent stamp. keywords: adela; blunt; captain; companion; course; day; eyes; face; fact; feeling; ferdinand; friend; gertrude; good; half; hand; head; heart; hofmann; home; hour; house; life; little; looking; love; ludlow; luttrel; major; man; mason; miss; moment; morning; mrs; poor; richard; room; severn; thought; time; way; whittaker; woman cache: 68340.txt plain text: 68340.txt item: #41 of 46 id: 68717 author: James, Henry title: The American scene date: None words: 167283 flesch: 45 summary: This element of the reflected interest, and more particularly of the reflected distinction, is for the most part, on the American scene, the missed interestâ��despite the ingenuities of wealth and industry and â��energyâ�� that strain so touchingly often, and even to grimace and contortion, somehow to supply it. The refinement prevails and, as it were, succeeds; holds its own in the medley of accidents, where nothing else is refined unless it be the amplitude of the â��quietâ�� note in the front of the Metropolitan Club; amuses itself in short with being as extravagantly â��intellectualâ�� as it likes. keywords: accentâ �; activityâ �; againâ �; air; americanâ �; away; batemanâ �; beenâ �; beâ �; case; characteristicâ �; conditions; course; criticâ �; dayâ �; donâ �; earthâ �; easeâ �; effect; emersonâ �; endâ �; eveningâ �; fact; find; fine; form; franklinâ �; freshâ �; general; goodsâ �; great; hadnâ �; havenâ �; having; hawthorneâ �; high; himâ �; history; hour; house; impression; innsâ �; interest; irvingâ �; isnâ �; itselfâ �; itâ �; jeffersonâ �; landâ �; leeâ �; lifeâ �; light; like; look; lowâ �; makingâ �; marquandâ �; matter; menâ �; michaelâ �; moment; myselfâ �; natureâ �; new; note; noâ �; oneâ �; order; outâ �; picture; place; poorâ �; premisesâ �; presence; question; rousseauâ �; s â; sayâ �; scene; schoolâ �; sense; shouldnâ �; socialâ �; southernâ �; southâ �; spotâ �; state; stoneâ �; street; successâ �; thatâ �; thereâ �; thingsâ �; think; time; toâ �; usâ �; valuesâ �; view; vision; visitorâ �; voidâ �; wasnâ �; way; world; wouldnâ �; yesâ �; york; â �; � artisticâ; � composedâ; � epinayâ; � europe; � intensityâ; � latinâ; � runâ; � s; � styleâ; � t; � value; � � cache: 68717.txt plain text: 68717.txt item: #42 of 46 id: 68723 author: James, Henry B. title: Memories of the Civil War date: None words: 24218 flesch: 81 summary: As the rebs charged over him, one of them turned to bayonet him, but his lieutenant prevented him, and asked the wounded man, â��Whereâ��s your men now?â�� â��You just keep on, youâ��ll find them!â�� was the reply, as the men swept over him. Who goes there?â�� My challenge cry, It rings along the watchful line, â��Relief!â�� I hear a voice reply; â��Advance and give the countersign!â�� _ keywords: army; battle; camp; company; comrades; day; enemy; general; home; illustration; left; line; march; men; morning; night; regiment; river; time; war; works; � clock; � � cache: 68723.txt plain text: 68723.txt item: #43 of 46 id: 68961 author: James, Henry title: Portraits of places date: None words: 104794 flesch: 64 summary: Ventnor hangs upon the side of a steep hill, and here and there it clings and scrambles, it is propped and terraced, like one of the bright--faced little towns that look down upon the Mediterranean. But it smells of the modern asphalt; it is lined with great white houses that are adorned with machine-made arabesques, and each of which is so exact a copy of all the rest that even the little white porcelain number on a blue ground, which looks exactly like all the other numbers, hardly constitutes an identity. keywords: air; american; art; beauty; blue; cathedral; charming; church; city; colour; country; course; day; days; deal; delightful; effect; end; england; english; entertainment; fact; france; french; garden; good; gray; great; green; half; hand; head; high; hour; house; human; impression; italy; kind; ladies; lady; left; life; light; london; look; man; men; mind; new; number; open; paris; people; picture; picturesque; place; pleasure; point; present; river; room; sea; sense; society; sort; stands; stranger; street; things; time; town; venice; view; walk; walls; water; way; white; windows; woman; work; world; years; young cache: 68961.txt plain text: 68961.txt item: #44 of 46 id: 7118 author: James, Henry title: What Maisie Knew date: None words: 98224 flesch: 82 summary: For Sir Claude then Mrs. Beale was young, just as for Mrs. Wix Sir Claude was: that was one of the merits for which Mrs. Wix most commended him. Her account of it brought back to Maisie the happy vision of the way Sir Claude and Mrs. Beale had made acquaintance--an incident to which, with her stepfather, though she had had little to say about it to Mrs. Wix, she had during the first weeks of her stay at her mother's found more than one opportunity to revert. keywords: air; beale; child; companion; course; day; days; dear; eyes; face; farange; father; friend; good; hand; ida; instant; lady; ladyship; left; life; look; maisie; mamma; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; overmore; papa; person; place; poor; question; right; room; round; sense; sir claude; things; think; thought; time; want; way; wix cache: 7118.txt plain text: 7118.txt item: #45 of 46 id: 8080 author: James, Henry title: A Passionate Pilgrim date: None words: 32512 flesch: 81 summary: I was deadly sick from the hour we left New York.â�� â��Well, you do look considerably reduced,â�� said the second-comer. I havenâ��t slept six hours for three weeks.â�� This was said with great gravity. keywords: about?â �; brotherâ �; canâ �; companionâ �; donâ �; dutyâ �; englandâ �; english; eyes; friend; hadnâ �; havenâ �; heâ �; itâ �; iâ �; lelyâ �; life.â �; man; me!â �; miss; moment; nothing.â �; oneâ �; place; sheâ �; sir; thereâ �; time; way; youâ; â �; � s.; � searle; � � cache: 8080.txt plain text: 8080.txt item: #46 of 46 id: 8081 author: James, Henry title: Louisa Pallant date: None words: 15736 flesch: 81 summary: Linda Pallant, young as she was, and fresh and fair and charming, gentle and sufficiently shy, looked somehow exclusive--as if the dust of the common world had never been meant to besprinkle her. Linda Pallant moreover was not a chatterbox; as she knew the value of many things she knew the value of intervals. keywords: archie; daughter; girl; linda; moment; mother; mrs; nephew; pallant; place; thought; time; way cache: 8081.txt plain text: 8081.txt