item: #1 of 119 id: austen-emma_001-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_001-1815 date: 1815 words: 3334 flesch: 80 summary: But if, which I rather imagine, your making the match, as you call it, means only your planning it, your saying to yourself one idle day, 'I think it would be a very good thing for Miss Taylor if Mr. Weston were to marry her,' and saying it again to yourself every now and then afterwards, why do you talk of success? I am sure she will be an excellent servant; and it will be a great comfort to poor Miss Taylor to have somebody about her that she is used to see. keywords: emma; miss; taylor cache: austen-emma_001-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_001-1815.txt item: #2 of 119 id: austen-emma_002-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_002-1815 date: 1815 words: 1780 flesch: 60 summary: I suppose you have heard of the handsome letter Mr. Frank Churchill has written to Mrs. Weston? Mr. Weston was a native of Highbury, and born of a respectable family, which for the last two or three generations had been rising into gentility and property. keywords: mrs; weston cache: austen-emma_002-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_002-1815.txt item: #3 of 119 id: austen-emma_003-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_003-1815 date: 1815 words: 1888 flesch: 63 summary: After these came a second set; among the most come-at-able of whom were Mrs. and Miss Bates, and Mrs. Goddard, three ladies almost always at the service of an invitation from Hartfield, and who were fetched and carried home so often, that Mr. Woodhouse thought it no hardship for either James or the horses. CHAPTER III Mr. Woodhouse was fond of society in his own way. keywords: miss; mrs cache: austen-emma_003-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_003-1815.txt item: #4 of 119 id: austen-emma_004-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_004-1815 date: 1815 words: 3557 flesch: 78 summary: With this inspiriting notion, her questions increased in number and meaning; and she particularly led Harriet to talk more of Mr. Martin, and there was evidently no dislike to it. Mr. Martin, I suppose, is not a man of information beyond the line of his own business? keywords: harriet; martin; mrs cache: austen-emma_004-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_004-1815.txt item: #5 of 119 id: austen-emma_005-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_005-1815 date: 1815 words: 2001 flesch: 81 summary: Emma must do Harriet good: and by supplying her with a new object of interest, Harriet may be said to do Emma good. John loves Emma with a reasonable and therefore not a blind affection, and Isabella always thinks as he does; except when he is not quite frightened enough about the children. keywords: emma cache: austen-emma_005-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_005-1815.txt item: #6 of 119 id: austen-emma_006-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_006-1815 date: 1815 words: 2781 flesch: 79 summary: CHAPTER VI Emma could not feel a doubt of having given Harriet's fancy a proper direction and raised the gratitude of her young vanity to a very good purpose, for she found her decidedly more sensible than before of Mr. Elton's being a remarkably handsome man, with most agreeable manners; and as she had no hesitation in following up the assurance of his admiration by agreeable hints, she was soon pretty confident of creating as much liking on Harriet's side, as there could be any occasion for. She was quite convinced of Mr. Elton's being in the fairest way of falling in love, if not in love already. keywords: elton; harriet; likeness cache: austen-emma_006-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_006-1815.txt item: #7 of 119 id: austen-emma_007-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_007-1815 date: 1815 words: 2418 flesch: 81 summary: At last, with some hesitation, Harriet said-- Miss Woodhouse, as you will not give me your opinion, I must do as well as I can by myself; and I have now quite determined, and really almost made up my mind--to refuse Mr. Martin. Harriet had been at Hartfield, as usual, soon after breakfast; and, after a time, had gone home to return again to dinner: she returned, and sooner than had been talked of, and with an agitated, hurried look, announcing something extraordinary to have happened which she was longing to tell. keywords: emma; harriet; letter cache: austen-emma_007-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_007-1815.txt item: #8 of 119 id: austen-emma_008-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_008-1815 date: 1815 words: 4338 flesch: 76 summary: Mr. Knightley was a sort of general friend and adviser, and she knew Mr. Elton looked up to him. He had frightened her a little about Mr. Elton; but when she considered that Mr. Knightley could not have observed him as she had done, neither with the interest, nor (she must be allowed to tell herself, in spite of Mr. Knightley's pretensions) with the skill of such an observer on such a question as herself, that he had spoken it hastily and in anger, she was able to believe, that he had rather said what he wished resentfully to be true, than what he knew any thing about. keywords: elton; emma; harriet; knightley cache: austen-emma_008-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_008-1815.txt item: #9 of 119 id: austen-emma_009-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_009-1815 date: 1815 words: 4777 flesch: 86 summary: Emma was soon perfectly satisfied of Mr. Martin's being no otherwise remembered, than as he furnished a contrast with Mr. Elton, of the utmost advantage to the latter. Mr. Elton was the only one whose assistance she asked. keywords: charade; dear; emma; harriet; miss cache: austen-emma_009-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_009-1815.txt item: #10 of 119 id: austen-emma_010-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_010-1815 date: 1815 words: 2640 flesch: 73 summary: The lane made a slight bend; and when that bend was passed, Mr. Elton was immediately in sight; and so near as to give Emma time only to say farther, Ah! Harriet, here comes a very sudden trial of our stability in good thoughts. Harriet, she found, had never in her life been inside the Vicarage, and her curiosity to see it was so extreme, that, considering exteriors and probabilities, Emma could only class it, as a proof of love, with Mr. Elton's seeing ready wit in her. keywords: elton; emma; harriet cache: austen-emma_010-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_010-1815.txt item: #11 of 119 id: austen-emma_011-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_011-1815 date: 1815 words: 2168 flesch: 70 summary: It would be very hard upon Mr. Weston if she did not, papa.--You quite forget poor Mr. Weston. Mr. John Knightley was a tall, gentleman-like, and very clever man; rising in his profession, domestic, and respectable in his private character; but with reserved manners which prevented his being generally pleasing; and capable of being sometimes out of humour. keywords: john; weston cache: austen-emma_011-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_011-1815.txt item: #12 of 119 id: austen-emma_012-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_012-1815 date: 1815 words: 3247 flesch: 77 summary: I think Mr. John Knightley very far from looking well. What is the matter, sir?--Did you speak to me? cried Mr. John Knightley, hearing his own name. keywords: dear; emma; little cache: austen-emma_012-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_012-1815.txt item: #13 of 119 id: austen-emma_013-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_013-1815 date: 1815 words: 3017 flesch: 69 summary: She had not advanced many yards from Mrs. Goddard's door, when she was met by Mr. Elton himself, evidently coming towards it, and as they walked on slowly together in conversation about the invalid--of whom he, on the rumour of considerable illness, had been going to inquire, that he might carry some report of her to Hartfield--they were overtaken by Mr. John Knightley returning from the daily visit to Donwell, with his two eldest boys, whose healthy, glowing faces shewed all the benefit of a country run, and seemed to ensure a quick despatch of the roast mutton and rice pudding they were hastening home for. How they were all to be conveyed, he would have made a difficulty if he could, but as his son and daughter's carriage and horses were actually at Hartfield, he was not able to make more than a simple question on that head; it hardly amounted to a doubt; nor did it occupy Emma long to convince him that they might in one of the carriages find room for Harriet also. Harriet, Mr. Elton, and Mr. Knightley, their own especial set, were the only persons invited to meet them;--the hours were to be early, as well as the numbers few; Mr. Woodhouse's habits and inclination being consulted in every thing. keywords: elton; emma; mrs cache: austen-emma_013-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_013-1815.txt item: #14 of 119 id: austen-emma_014-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_014-1815 date: 1815 words: 2458 flesch: 69 summary: She heard enough to know that Mr. Weston was giving some information about his son; she heard the words my son, and Frank, and my son, repeated several times over; and, from a few other half-syllables very much suspected that he was announcing an early visit from his son; but before she could quiet Mr. Elton, the subject was so completely past that any reviving question from her would have been awkward. it proved;--for when happily released from Mr. Elton, and seated by Mr. Weston, at dinner, he made use of the very first interval in the cares of hospitality, keywords: mrs; weston cache: austen-emma_014-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_014-1815.txt item: #15 of 119 id: austen-emma_015-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_015-1815 date: 1815 words: 3328 flesch: 69 summary: She had not time to know how Mr. Elton took the reproof, so rapidly did another subject succeed; for Mr. John Knightley now came into the room from examining the weather, and opened on them all with the information of the ground being covered with snow, and of its still snowing fast, with a strong drifting wind; concluding with these words to Mr. Woodhouse: This will prove a spirited beginning of your winter engagements, sir. Mr. Weston, with triumph of a different sort, was confessing that he had known it to be snowing some time, but had not said a word, lest it should make Mr. Woodhouse uncomfortable, and be an excuse for his hurrying away. keywords: emma; miss; woodhouse cache: austen-emma_015-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_015-1815.txt item: #16 of 119 id: austen-emma_016-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_016-1815 date: 1815 words: 1885 flesch: 63 summary: Mr. Knightley, why do not you stay at home like poor Mr. Elton? She remembered what Mr. Knightley had once said to her about Mr. Elton, the caution he had given, the conviction he had professed that Mr. Elton would never marry indiscreetly; and blushed to think how much truer a knowledge of his character had been there shewn than any she had reached herself. keywords: elton; harriet cache: austen-emma_016-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_016-1815.txt item: #17 of 119 id: austen-emma_017-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_017-1815 date: 1815 words: 1185 flesch: 54 summary: The evening of the very day on which they went brought a note from Mr. Elton to Mr. Woodhouse, a long, civil, ceremonious note, to say, with Mr. Elton's best compliments, that he was proposing to leave Highbury the following morning in his way to Bath; where, in compliance with the pressing entreaties of some friends, he had engaged to spend a few weeks, and very much regretted the impossibility he was under, from various circumstances of weather and business, of taking a personal leave of Mr. Woodhouse, of whose friendly civilities he should ever retain a grateful sense--and had Mr. Woodhouse any commands, should be happy to attend to them. Time, she knew, must be allowed for this being thoroughly done; and she could suppose herself but an indifferent judge of such matters in general, and very inadequate to sympathise in an attachment to Mr. Elton in particular; but it seemed to her reasonable that at Harriet's age, and with the entire extinction of all hope, such a progress might be made towards a state of composure by the time of Mr. Elton's return, as to allow them all to meet again in the common routine of acquaintance, without any danger of betraying sentiments or increasing them. keywords: harriet cache: austen-emma_017-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_017-1815.txt item: #18 of 119 id: austen-emma_018-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_018-1815 date: 1815 words: 2570 flesch: 76 summary: CHAPTER XVIII Mr. Frank Churchill did not come. Emma was not at this time in a state of spirits to care really about Mr. Frank Churchill's not coming, except as a disappointment at Randalls. keywords: knightley; man cache: austen-emma_018-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_018-1815.txt item: #19 of 119 id: austen-emma_019-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_019-1815 date: 1815 words: 3062 flesch: 78 summary: At this moment, an ingenious and animating suspicion entering Emma's brain with regard to Jane Fairfax, this charming Mr. Dixon, and the not going to Ireland, she said, with the insidious design of farther discovery, You must feel it very fortunate that Miss Fairfax should be allowed to come to you at such a time. She had not been prepared to have Jane Fairfax succeed Mr. Elton; but he was actually hurried off by Miss Bates, she jumped away from him at last abruptly to the Coles, to usher in a letter from her niece. keywords: jane; miss; mrs cache: austen-emma_019-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_019-1815.txt item: #20 of 119 id: austen-emma_020-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_020-1815 date: 1815 words: 2399 flesch: 60 summary: Fairfax of the ----regiment of infantry, and Miss Jane Bates, had had its day of fame and pleasure, hope and interest; but nothing now remained of it, save the melancholy remembrance of him dying in action abroad--of his widow sinking under consumption and grief soon afterwards--and this girl. CHAPTER II Jane Fairfax was an orphan, the only child of Mrs. Bates's youngest daughter. keywords: campbell; fairfax; jane cache: austen-emma_020-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_020-1815.txt item: #21 of 119 id: austen-emma_021-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_021-1815 date: 1815 words: 3968 flesch: 84 summary: At the same time, nobody could wonder if Mr. Elton should have aspired--Miss Woodhouse lets me chatter on, so good-humouredly. Emma could not forgive her;--but as neither provocation nor resentment were discerned by Mr. Knightley, who had been of the party, and had seen only proper attention and pleasing behaviour on each side, he was expressing the next morning, being at Hartfield again on business with Mr. Woodhouse, his approbation of the whole; not so openly as he might have done had her father been out of the room, but speaking plain enough to be very intelligible to Emma. keywords: dear; emma; miss cache: austen-emma_021-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_021-1815.txt item: #22 of 119 id: austen-emma_022-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_022-1815 date: 1815 words: 1661 flesch: 61 summary: A week had not passed since Miss Hawkins's name was first mentioned in Highbury, before she was, by some means or other, discovered to have every recommendation of person and mind; to be handsome, elegant, highly accomplished, and perfectly amiable: and when Mr. Elton himself arrived to triumph in his happy prospects, and circulate the fame of her merits, there was very little more for him to do, than to tell her Christian name, and say whose music she principally played. Mr. Elton returned, a very happy man. keywords: elton; harriet cache: austen-emma_022-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_022-1815.txt item: #23 of 119 id: austen-emma_023-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_023-1815 date: 1815 words: 3340 flesch: 68 summary: There was instant pleasure in the sight of them, and still greater pleasure was conveyed in sound--for Mr. Weston immediately accosted her with, How d'ye do?--how d'ye do?--We have been sitting with your father--glad to see him so well. There was no resisting such news, no possibility of avoiding the influence of such a happy face as Mr. Weston's, confirmed as it all was by the words and the countenance of his wife, fewer and quieter, but not less to the purpose. keywords: emma; mrs; weston cache: austen-emma_023-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_023-1815.txt item: #24 of 119 id: austen-emma_024-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_024-1815 date: 1815 words: 3023 flesch: 74 summary: And how did you think Miss Fairfax looking? Ill, very ill--that is, if a young lady can ever be allowed to look ill. And, seriously, Miss Fairfax is naturally so pale, as almost always to give the appearance of ill health.--A most deplorable want of complexion. keywords: emma; fairfax; highbury; miss cache: austen-emma_024-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_024-1815.txt item: #25 of 119 id: austen-emma_025-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_025-1815 date: 1815 words: 2350 flesch: 75 summary: Mr. Weston, on his side, added a virtue to the account which must have some weight. This lesson, she very much feared, they would receive only from herself; she had little hope of Mr. Knightley, none of Mr. Weston. keywords: mrs; weston cache: austen-emma_025-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_025-1815.txt item: #26 of 119 id: austen-emma_026-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_026-1815 date: 1815 words: 6503 flesch: 76 summary: He told her that he had been impatient to leave the dining-room--hated sitting long--was always the first to move when he could--that his father, Mr. Knightley, Mr. Cox, and Mr. Cole, were left very busy over parish business--that as long as he had staid, however, it had been pleasant enough, as he had found them in general a set of gentlemanlike, sensible men; and spoke so handsomely of Highbury altogether--thought it so abundant in agreeable families--that Emma began to feel she had been used to despise the place rather too much. When Mr. Cole had moved away, and her attention could be restored as before, she saw Frank Churchill looking intently across the room at Miss Fairfax, who was sitting exactly opposite. keywords: emma; fairfax; jane; knightley; miss; mrs cache: austen-emma_026-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_026-1815.txt item: #27 of 119 id: austen-emma_027-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_027-1815 date: 1815 words: 3221 flesch: 84 summary: Indeed they are very delightful apples, and Mrs. Wallis does them full justice--only we do not have them baked more than twice, and Mr. Woodhouse made us promise to have them done three times--but Miss Woodhouse will be so good as not to mention it. Mrs. Weston informed her that she was going to call on the Bateses, in order to hear the new instrument. keywords: miss; mrs; weston; woodhouse cache: austen-emma_027-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_027-1815.txt item: #28 of 119 id: austen-emma_028-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_028-1815 date: 1815 words: 2002 flesch: 85 summary: I have not been working uninterruptedly, he replied, I have been assisting Miss Fairfax in trying to make her instrument stand steadily, it was not quite firm; an unevenness in the floor, I believe. I dare say, Miss Fairfax, that he either gave his friend very minute directions, or wrote to Broadwood himself. keywords: fairfax; miss; mrs cache: austen-emma_028-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_028-1815.txt item: #29 of 119 id: austen-emma_029-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_029-1815 date: 1815 words: 3278 flesch: 83 summary: Mr. Weston entered into the idea with thorough enjoyment, and Mrs. Weston most willingly undertook to play as long as they could wish to dance; and the interesting employment had followed, of reckoning up exactly who there would be, and portioning out the indispensable division of space to every couple. But still she had inclination enough for shewing people again how delightfully Mr. Frank Churchill and Miss Woodhouse danced--for doing that in which she need not blush to compare herself with Jane Fairfax--and even for simple dancing itself, without any of the wicked aids of vanity--to assist him first in pacing out the room they were in to see what it could be made to hold--and then in taking the dimensions of the other parlour, in the hope of discovering, in spite of all that Mr. Weston could say of their exactly equal size, that it was a little the largest. keywords: miss; mrs; weston cache: austen-emma_029-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_029-1815.txt item: #30 of 119 id: austen-emma_030-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_030-1815 date: 1815 words: 2151 flesch: 78 summary: He thought principally of Mrs. Churchill's illness, and wanted to know how she was treated; and as for the ball, it was shocking to have dear Emma disappointed; but they would all be safer at home. CHAPTER XII One thing only was wanting to make the prospect of the ball completely satisfactory to Emma--its being fixed for a day within the granted term of Frank Churchill's stay in Surry; for, in spite of Mr. Weston's confidence, she could not think it so very impossible that the Churchills might not allow their nephew to remain a day beyond his fortnight. keywords: ball; emma cache: austen-emma_030-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_030-1815.txt item: #31 of 119 id: austen-emma_031-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_031-1815 date: 1815 words: 1970 flesch: 68 summary: She had had three weeks of happy exemption from Mr. Elton; and Harriet's mind, she had been willing to hope, had been lately gaining strength. Emma continued, I have not said, exert yourself Harriet for my sake; think less, talk less of Mr. Elton for my sake; because for your own sake rather, I would wish it to be done, for the sake of what is more important than my comfort, a habit of self-command in you, a consideration of what is your duty, an attention to propriety, an endeavour to avoid the suspicions of others, to save your health and credit, and restore your tranquillity. keywords: emma; harriet cache: austen-emma_031-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_031-1815.txt item: #32 of 119 id: austen-emma_032-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_032-1815 date: 1815 words: 3829 flesch: 81 summary: From Harriet's happening not to be at Hartfield, and her father's being present to engage Mr. Elton, she had a quarter of an hour of the lady's conversation to herself, and could composedly attend to her; and the quarter of an hour quite convinced her that Mrs. Elton was a vain woman, extremely well satisfied with herself, and thinking much of her own importance; that she meant to shine and be very superior, but with manners which had been formed in a bad school, pert and familiar; that all her notions were drawn from one set of people, and one style of living; that if not foolish she was ignorant, and that her society would certainly do Mr. Elton no good. The idea of her being indebted to Mrs. Elton for what was called an introduction--of her going into public under the auspices of a friend of Mrs. Elton's--probably some vulgar, dashing widow, who, with the help of a boarder, just made a shift to live!--The dignity of Miss Woodhouse, of Hartfield, was sunk indeed! keywords: elton; emma; miss; mrs cache: austen-emma_032-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_032-1815.txt item: #33 of 119 id: austen-emma_033-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_033-1815 date: 1815 words: 2981 flesch: 72 summary: You are right, Mrs. Weston, said Mr. Knightley warmly, Miss Fairfax is as capable as any of us of forming a just opinion of Mrs. Elton. With a faint blush, she presently replied, Such attentions as Mrs. Elton's, I should have imagined, would rather disgust than gratify Miss Fairfax. keywords: elton; fairfax; jane; mrs cache: austen-emma_033-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_033-1815.txt item: #34 of 119 id: austen-emma_034-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_034-1815 date: 1815 words: 3114 flesch: 79 summary: The day came, the party were punctually assembled, and Mr. John Knightley seemed early to devote himself to the business of being agreeable. No, but it did not absolutely rain when I set out. Mr. John Knightley smiled, and replied, That is to say, you chose to have your walk, for you were not six yards from your own door when I had the pleasure of meeting you; and Henry and John had seen more drops than they could count long before. keywords: jane; knightley; mrs cache: austen-emma_034-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_034-1815.txt item: #35 of 119 id: austen-emma_035-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_035-1815 date: 1815 words: 2229 flesch: 74 summary: They were the first entitled, after Mrs. Weston and Emma, to be made happy;--from them he would have proceeded to Miss Fairfax, but she was so deep in conversation with John Knightley, that it would have been too positive an interruption; and finding himself close to Mrs. Elton, and her attention disengaged, he necessarily began on the subject with her. I not aware! said Jane, shaking her head; dear Mrs. Elton, who can have thought of it as I have done? But you have not seen so much of the world as I have. keywords: elton; jane; mrs cache: austen-emma_035-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_035-1815.txt item: #36 of 119 id: austen-emma_036-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_036-1815 date: 1815 words: 2836 flesch: 81 summary: The evil of the distance from Enscombe, said Mr. Weston, is, that Mrs. Churchill, as we understand, has not been able to leave the sofa for a week together. Mr. Churchill has pride; but his pride is nothing to his wife's: his is a quiet, indolent, gentlemanlike sort of pride that would harm nobody, and only make himself a little helpless and tiresome; but her pride is arrogance and insolence! keywords: churchill; mrs; weston cache: austen-emma_036-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_036-1815.txt item: #37 of 119 id: austen-emma_037-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_037-1815 date: 1815 words: 1286 flesch: 77 summary: CHAPTER I A very little quiet reflection was enough to satisfy Emma as to the nature of her agitation on hearing this news of Frank Churchill. This was the only visit from Frank Churchill in the course of ten days. keywords: frank; thing cache: austen-emma_037-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_037-1815.txt item: #38 of 119 id: austen-emma_038-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_038-1815 date: 1815 words: 4399 flesch: 80 summary: Mr. Weston was following; but Mrs. Elton detained him, to gratify him by her opinion of his son; and so briskly did she begin, that the young man himself, though by no means moving slowly, could hardly be out of hearing. When she was half-way up the set, the whole group were exactly behind her, and she would no longer allow her eyes to watch; but Mr. Elton was so near, that she heard every syllable of a dialogue which just then took place between him and Mrs. Weston; and she perceived that his wife, who was standing immediately above her, was not only listening also, but even encouraging him by significant glances.--The kind-hearted, gentle Mrs. Weston had left her seat to join him and say, Do not you dance, Mr. Elton? to which his prompt reply was, Most readily, Mrs. Weston, if you will dance with me. keywords: elton; emma; frank; miss; mrs; weston cache: austen-emma_038-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_038-1815.txt item: #39 of 119 id: austen-emma_039-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_039-1815 date: 1815 words: 1706 flesch: 62 summary: But poor Harriet could not follow. This was the amount of the whole story,--of his communication and of Harriet's as soon as she had recovered her senses and speech.--He dared not stay longer than to see her well; these several delays left him not another minute to lose; and Emma engaging to give assurance of her safety to Mrs. Goddard, and notice of there being such a set of people in the neighbourhood to Mr. Knightley, he set off, with all the grateful blessings that she could utter for her friend and herself. keywords: emma; harriet; miss cache: austen-emma_039-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_039-1815.txt item: #40 of 119 id: austen-emma_040-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_040-1815 date: 1815 words: 2091 flesch: 80 summary: CHAPTER IV A very few days had passed after this adventure, when Harriet came one morning to Emma with a small parcel in her hand, and after sitting down and hesitating, thus began: Miss Woodhouse--if you are at leisure--I have something that I should like to tell you--a sort of confession to make--and then, you know, it will be over. Within abundance of silver paper was a pretty little Tunbridge-ware box, which Harriet opened: it was well lined with the softest cotton; but, excepting the cotton, Emma saw only a small piece of court-plaister. keywords: emma; harriet cache: austen-emma_040-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_040-1815.txt item: #41 of 119 id: austen-emma_041-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_041-1815 date: 1815 words: 2991 flesch: 77 summary: Why, to own the truth, cried Miss Bates, who had been trying in vain to be heard the last two minutes, if I must speak on this subject, there is no denying that Mr. Frank Churchill might have--I do not mean to say that he did not dream it--I am sure I have sometimes the oddest dreams in the world--but if I am questioned about it, I must acknowledge that there was such an idea last spring; for Mrs. Perry herself mentioned it to my mother, and the Coles knew of it as well as ourselves--but it was quite a secret, known to nobody else, and only thought of about three days. My dear Emma, said he at last, with earnest kindness, do you think you perfectly understand the degree of acquaintance between the gentleman and lady we have been speaking of? Between Mr. Frank Churchill and Miss Fairfax? keywords: emma; frank; jane cache: austen-emma_041-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_041-1815.txt item: #42 of 119 id: austen-emma_042-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_042-1815 date: 1815 words: 5144 flesch: 77 summary: In the daily interchange of news, they must be again restricted to the other topics with which for a while the Sucklings' coming had been united, such as the last accounts of Mrs. Churchill, whose health seemed every day to supply a different report, and the situation of Mrs. Weston, whose happiness it was to be hoped might eventually be as much increased by the arrival of a child, as that of all her neighbours was by the approach of it. Churchill's state, however, as many were ready to remind her, was liable to such sudden variation as might disappoint her nephew in the most reasonable dependence--and Mrs. Weston was at last persuaded to believe, or to say, that it must be by some attack of Mrs. Churchill that he was prevented coming.--Emma looked at Harriet while the point was under consideration; she behaved very well, and betrayed no emotion. keywords: elton; emma; knightley; mrs; party; thing; weston cache: austen-emma_042-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_042-1815.txt item: #43 of 119 id: austen-emma_043-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_043-1815 date: 1815 words: 3330 flesch: 83 summary: It might be a very indifferent piece of wit, but Emma found a great deal to laugh at and enjoy in it--and so did Frank and Harriet.--It did not seem to touch the rest of the party equally; some looked very stupid about it, and Mr. Knightley gravely said, This explains the sort of clever thing that is wanted, and Mr. Weston has done very well for himself; but he must have knocked up every body else. Mr. Frank Churchill and Miss Woodhouse flirted together excessively. keywords: emma; miss; weston cache: austen-emma_043-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_043-1815.txt item: #44 of 119 id: austen-emma_044-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_044-1815 date: 1815 words: 2800 flesch: 78 summary: She would not let Jane say, 'No;' for when Jane first heard of it, (it was the day before yesterday, the very morning we were at Donwell,) when Jane first heard of it, she was quite decided against accepting the offer, and for the reasons you mention; exactly as you say, she had made up her mind to close with nothing till Colonel Campbell's return, and nothing should induce her to enter into any engagement at present--and so she told Mrs. Elton over and over again--and I am sure I had no more idea that she would change her mind!--but that good Mrs. Elton, whose judgment never fails her, saw farther than I did. I had not the least idea!--Jane took Mrs. Elton aside, and told her at once, that upon thinking over the advantages of Mrs. Smallridge's situation, she had come to the resolution of accepting it.--I did not know a word of it till it was all settled. keywords: jane; miss; mrs cache: austen-emma_044-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_044-1815.txt item: #45 of 119 id: austen-emma_045-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_045-1815 date: 1815 words: 2493 flesch: 68 summary: In the hope of diverting her father's thoughts from the disagreeableness of Mr. Knightley's going to London; and going so suddenly; and going on horseback, which she knew would be all very bad; Emma communicated her news of Jane Fairfax, and her dependence on the effect was justified; it supplied a very useful check,--interested, without disturbing him. He had long made up his mind to Jane Fairfax's going out as governess, and could talk of it cheerfully, but Mr. Knightley's going to London had been an unexpected blow. keywords: emma; miss; mrs cache: austen-emma_045-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_045-1815.txt item: #46 of 119 id: austen-emma_046-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_046-1815 date: 1815 words: 3128 flesch: 79 summary: Nay, dear Emma, now I must take his part; for though he has been wrong in this instance, I have known him long enough to answer for his having many, very many, good qualities; and-- Good God! CHAPTER X One morning, about ten days after Mrs. Churchill's decease, Emma was called downstairs to Mr. Weston, who could not stay five minutes, and wanted particularly to speak with her. keywords: emma; mrs; time; weston cache: austen-emma_046-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_046-1815.txt item: #47 of 119 id: austen-emma_047-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_047-1815 date: 1815 words: 4219 flesch: 67 summary: But poor Harriet was such an engrossing charge! Who had been at pains to give Harriet notions of self-consequence but herself?--Who but herself had taught her, that she was to elevate herself if possible, and that her claims were great to a high worldly establishment?--If Harriet, from being humble, were grown vain, it was her doing too. keywords: churchill; emma; frank; harriet cache: austen-emma_047-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_047-1815.txt item: #48 of 119 id: austen-emma_048-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_048-1815 date: 1815 words: 2988 flesch: 62 summary: Mrs. Weston had set off to pay the visit in a good deal of agitation herself; and in the first place had wished not to go at all at present, to be allowed merely to write to Miss Fairfax instead, and to defer this ceremonious call till a little time had passed, and Mr. Churchill could be reconciled to the engagement's becoming known; as, considering every thing, she thought such a visit could not be paid without leading to reports:--but Mr. Weston had thought differently; he was extremely anxious to shew his approbation to Miss Fairfax and her family, and did not conceive that any suspicion could be excited by it; or if it were, that it would be of any consequence; for such things, he observed, always got about. Mr. Weston had accompanied her to Mrs. Bates's, and gone through his share of this essential attention most handsomely; but she having then induced Miss Fairfax to join her in an airing, was now returned with much more to say, and much more to say with satisfaction, than a quarter of an hour spent in Mrs. Bates's parlour, with all the encumbrance of awkward feelings, could have afforded. keywords: emma; miss; mrs; weston cache: austen-emma_048-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_048-1815.txt item: #49 of 119 id: austen-emma_049-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_049-1815 date: 1815 words: 3364 flesch: 67 summary: Her change was equal.--This one half-hour had given to each the same precious certainty of being beloved, had cleared from each the same degree of ignorance, jealousy, or distrust.--On his side, there had been a long-standing jealousy, old as the arrival, or even the expectation, of Frank Churchill.--He had been in love with Emma, and jealous of Frank Churchill, from about the same period, one sentiment having probably enlightened him as to the other. There was too much domestic happiness in his brother's house; woman wore too amiable a form in it; Isabella was too much like Emma--differing only in those striking inferiorities, which always brought the other in brilliancy before him, for much to have been done, even had his time been longer.--He had stayed on, however, vigorously, day after day--till this very morning's post had conveyed the history of Jane Fairfax.--Then, with the gladness which must be felt, nay, which he did not scruple to feel, having never believed Frank Churchill to be at all deserving Emma, was there so much fond solicitude, so much keen anxiety for her, that he could stay no longer. keywords: churchill; emma; time cache: austen-emma_049-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_049-1815.txt item: #50 of 119 id: austen-emma_050-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_050-1815 date: 1815 words: 3601 flesch: 52 summary: With the greatest respect, and the warmest friendship, do I mention Miss Woodhouse; my father perhaps will think I ought to add, with the deepest humiliation.--A few words which dropped from him yesterday spoke his opinion, and some censure I acknowledge myself liable to.--My behaviour to Miss Woodhouse indicated, I believe, more than it ought.--In order to assist a concealment so essential to me, I was led on to make more than an allowable use of the sort of intimacy into which we were immediately thrown.--I cannot deny that Miss Woodhouse was my ostensible object--but I am sure you will believe the declaration, that had I not been convinced of her indifference, I would not have been induced by any selfish views to go on.--Amiable and delightful as Miss Woodhouse is, she never gave me the idea of a young woman likely to be attached; and that she was perfectly free from any tendency to being attached to me, was as much my conviction as my wish.--She received my attentions with an easy, friendly, goodhumoured playfulness, which exactly suited me. From our relative situation, those attentions were her due, and were felt to be so.--Whether Miss Woodhouse began really to understand me before the expiration of that fortnight, I cannot say;--when I called to take leave of her, I remember that I was within a moment of confessing the truth, and I then fancied she was not without suspicion; but I have no doubt of her having since detected me, at least in some degree.--She may not have surmised the whole, but her quickness must have penetrated a part. keywords: hope; letter; miss; thing; woodhouse cache: austen-emma_050-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_050-1815.txt item: #51 of 119 id: austen-emma_051-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_051-1815 date: 1815 words: 2361 flesch: 74 summary: Mr. Knightley himself would be doing nothing to assist the cure;--not like Mr. Elton. She thought so well of the letter, that when Mr. Knightley came again, she desired him to read it. keywords: emma; knightley cache: austen-emma_051-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_051-1815.txt item: #52 of 119 id: austen-emma_052-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_052-1815 date: 1815 words: 3253 flesch: 72 summary: In all probability she was at this very time waited for there; and Mr. Knightley might be preserved from sinking deeper in aggression towards Mr. Elton, if not towards William Larkins. Mrs. Bates and Mrs. Elton were together. keywords: elton; emma; knightley; miss; mrs cache: austen-emma_052-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_052-1815.txt item: #53 of 119 id: austen-emma_053-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_053-1815 date: 1815 words: 3117 flesch: 71 summary: And who but Mr. Knightley could know and bear with Mr. Woodhouse, so as to make such an arrangement desirable!--The difficulty of disposing of poor Mr. Woodhouse had been always felt in her husband's plans and her own, for a marriage between Frank and Emma. Mr. Woodhouse could not be soon reconciled; but the worst was overcome, the idea was given; time and continual repetition must do the rest.--To Emma's entreaties and assurances succeeded Mr. Knightley's, whose fond praise of her gave the subject even a kind of welcome; and he was soon used to be talked to by each, on every fair occasion.--They had all the assistance which Isabella could give, by letters of the strongest approbation; and Mrs. Weston was ready, on the first meeting, to consider the subject in the most serviceable light--first, as a settled, and, secondly, as a good one--well aware of the nearly equal importance of the two recommendations to Mr. Woodhouse's mind.--It was agreed upon, as what was to be; and every body by whom he was used to be guided assuring him that it would be for his happiness; and keywords: emma; knightley; mrs cache: austen-emma_053-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_053-1815.txt item: #54 of 119 id: austen-emma_054-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_054-1815 date: 1815 words: 3677 flesch: 79 summary: It was an alarming change; and Emma was thinking of it one morning, as what must bring a great deal to agitate and grieve her, when Mr. Knightley came in, and distressing thoughts were put by. Emma could not help laughing as she answered, Upon my word, I believe you know her quite as well as I do.--But, Mr. Knightley, are you perfectly sure that she has absolutely and downright accepted him. keywords: emma; harriet; martin cache: austen-emma_054-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_054-1815.txt item: #55 of 119 id: austen-emma_055-1815 author: austen title: austen-emma_055-1815 date: 1815 words: 1205 flesch: 51 summary: The result of this distress was, that, with a much more voluntary, cheerful consent than his daughter had ever presumed to hope for at the moment, she was able to fix her wedding-day--and Mr. Elton was called on, within a month from the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Martin, to join the hands of Mr. Knightley and Miss Woodhouse. CHAPTER XIX If Emma had still, at intervals, an anxious feeling for Harriet, a momentary doubt of its being possible for her to be really cured of her attachment to Mr. Knightley, and really able to accept another man from unbiased inclination keywords: emma cache: austen-emma_055-1815.txt plain text: austen-emma_055-1815.txt item: #56 of 119 id: homer-iliad_01-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_01-800 date: -800 words: 5878 flesch: 82 summary: The quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles—Achilles withdraws from the war, and sends his mother Thetis to ask Jove to help the Trojans—Scene between Jove and Juno on Olympus. Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Sons of Atreus, he cried, and all other Achaeans, may the gods who dwell in Olympus grant you to sack the city of Priam, and to reach your homes in safety; but free my daughter, and accept a ransom for her, in reverence to Apollo, son of Jove. keywords: achaeans; achilles; agamemnon; jove; ships; son cache: homer-iliad_01-800.txt plain text: homer-iliad_01-800.txt item: #57 of 119 id: homer-iliad_02-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_02-800 date: -800 words: 7995 flesch: 79 summary: But they now took no part in the war, inasmuch as there was no one to marshal them; for Achilles stayed by his ships, furious about the loss of the girl Briseis, whom he had taken from Lyrnessus at his own great peril, when he had sacked Lyrnessus and Thebe, and had overthrown Mynes and Epistrophus, sons of king Evenor, son of Selepus. It sought Agamemnon son of Atreus and found him in his tent, wrapped in a profound slumber. keywords: achaeans; agamemnon; city; jove; king; man; men; people; sea; ships; son; sons; trojans cache: homer-iliad_02-800.txt plain text: homer-iliad_02-800.txt item: #58 of 119 id: homer-iliad_03-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_03-800 date: -800 words: 4079 flesch: 79 summary: I see, moreover, many other Achaeans whose names I could tell you, but there are two whom I can nowhere find, Castor, breaker of horses, and Pollux the mighty boxer; they are children of my mother, and own brothers to myself. Alexandria, also called Paris, challenges Menelaus—Helen and Priam view the Achaeans from the wall—The covenant—Paris and Menelaus fight, and Paris is worsted—Venus carries him off to save him—Scene between him and Helen. keywords: achaeans; alexandrus; helen; menelaus; trojans cache: homer-iliad_03-800.txt plain text: homer-iliad_03-800.txt item: #59 of 119 id: homer-iliad_04-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_04-800 date: -800 words: 5115 flesch: 77 summary: Dread son of Saturn, said she, what, pray, is the meaning of all this? Then Minerva took the form of Laodocus, son of Antenor, and went through the ranks of the Trojans to find Pandarus, the redoubtable son of Lycaon. keywords: achaeans; agamemnon; arrow; menelaus; son; spear; trojans cache: homer-iliad_04-800.txt plain text: homer-iliad_04-800.txt item: #60 of 119 id: homer-iliad_05-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_05-800 date: -800 words: 8700 flesch: 78 summary: Then Pallas Minerva put valour into the heart of Diomed, son of Tydeus, that he might excel all the other Argives, and cover himself with glory. Then Idomeneus killed Phaesus, son of Borus the Meonian, who had come from Varne. keywords: aeneas; chariot; diomed; horses; jove; mars; son; spear; trojans; tydeus cache: homer-iliad_05-800.txt plain text: homer-iliad_05-800.txt item: #61 of 119 id: homer-iliad_06-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_06-800 date: -800 words: 5018 flesch: 76 summary: First, Ajax son of Telamon, tower of strength to the Achaeans, broke a phalanx of the Trojans, and came to the assistance of his comrades by killing Acamas son of Eussorus, the best man among the Thracians, being both brave and of great stature. Then Diomed killed Axylus son of Teuthranus, a rich man who lived in the strong city of Arisbe, and was beloved by all men; for he had a house by the roadside, and entertained every one who passed; howbeit not one of his guests stood before him to save his life, and Diomed killed both him and his squire Calesius, who was then his charioteer— so the pair passed beneath the earth. keywords: achaeans; city; father; hector; house; son; trojans cache: homer-iliad_06-800.txt plain text: homer-iliad_06-800.txt item: #62 of 119 id: homer-iliad_07-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_07-800 date: -800 words: 4449 flesch: 76 summary: Holding this shield before him, Ajax son of Telamon came close up to Hector, and menaced him saying, Hector, you shall now learn, man to man, what kind of champions the Danaans have among them even besides lion- hearted Achilles cleaver of the ranks of men. Ajax son of Telamon answered, Idaeus, bid Hector say so, for it was he that challenged our princes. keywords: achaeans; ajax; hector; jove; son; trojans cache: homer-iliad_07-800.txt plain text: homer-iliad_07-800.txt item: #63 of 119 id: homer-iliad_08-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_08-800 date: -800 words: 5381 flesch: 77 summary: Thus did they converse; but the whole space enclosed by the ditch, from the ships even to the wall, was filled with horses and warriors, who were pent up there by Hector son of Priam, now that the hand of Jove was with him. Thus did he pray, and father Jove pitying his tears vouchsafed him that his people should live, not die; forthwith he sent them an eagle, most unfailingly portentous of all birds, with a young fawn in its talons; the eagle dropped the fawn by the altar on which the Achaeans sacrificed to Jove the lord of omens; when, therefore, the people saw that the bird had come from Jove ,they sprang more fiercely upon the Trojans and fought more boldly. keywords: achaeans; hector; horses; jove; ships; son; trojans cache: homer-iliad_08-800.txt plain text: homer-iliad_08-800.txt item: #64 of 119 id: homer-iliad_09-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_09-800 date: -800 words: 6907 flesch: 77 summary: Achilles answered, Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, I should give you formal notice plainly and in all fixity of purpose that there be no more of this cajoling, from whatsoever quarter it may come. Ajax son of Telamon then said, Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, let us be gone, for I see that our journey is vain. keywords: achaeans; achilles; agamemnon; jove; man; men; ships; son cache: homer-iliad_09-800.txt plain text: homer-iliad_09-800.txt item: #65 of 119 id: homer-iliad_10-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_10-800 date: -800 words: 5567 flesch: 81 summary: Fear not, replied Ulysses, let no thought of death be in your mind; but tell me, and tell me true, why are you thus going about alone in the dead of night away from your camp and towards the ships, while other men are sleeping? I have good sons, and also much people who might call the chieftains, but the Achaeans are in the gravest danger; life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor. keywords: achaeans; diomed; horses; ships; son; ulysses cache: homer-iliad_10-800.txt plain text: homer-iliad_10-800.txt item: #66 of 119 id: homer-iliad_11-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_11-800 date: -800 words: 8606 flesch: 71 summary: Hither, then, to the rescue of great Ajax son of Telamon. She took her stand by the huge black hull of Ulysses ' ship which was middlemost of all, so that her voice might carry farthest on either side, on the one hand towards the tents of Ajax son of Telamon, and on the other towards those of Achilles— for these two heroes, well- assured of their own strength, had valorously drawn up their ships at the two ends of the line. keywords: achaeans; agamemnon; chariot; hector; horses; ships; son; spear; trojans; ulysses cache: homer-iliad_11-800.txt plain text: homer-iliad_11-800.txt item: #67 of 119 id: homer-iliad_12-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_12-800 date: -800 words: 4788 flesch: 69 summary: The eagle let go her hold; she did not succeed in taking it home to her little ones, and so will it be— with ourselves; even though by a mighty effort we break through the gates and wall of the Achaeans, and they give way before us ,still we shall not return in good order by the way we came, but shall leave many a man behind us whom the Achaeans will do to death in defence of their ships. Little did they know that at the gates they should find two of the bravest chieftains, proud sons of the fighting Lapithae— the one, Polypoetes, mighty son of Pirithous, and the other Leonteus, peer of murderous Mars. keywords: achaeans; hector; ships; son; trojans; wall cache: homer-iliad_12-800.txt plain text: homer-iliad_12-800.txt item: #68 of 119 id: homer-iliad_13-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_13-800 date: -800 words: 8453 flesch: 70 summary: Then Idomeneus vaunted over him saying, Othryoneus, there is no one in the world whom I shall admire more than I do you, if you indeed perform what you have promised Priam son of Dardanus in return for his daughter. And Ajax son of Telamon answered, I too feel my hands grasp my spear more firmly; my strength is greater, and my feet more nimble; I long, moreover, to meet furious Hector son of Priam, even in single combat. keywords: achaeans; battle; fight; hector; idomeneus; shield; ships; son; spear; trojans cache: homer-iliad_13-800.txt plain text: homer-iliad_13-800.txt item: #69 of 119 id: homer-iliad_14-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_14-800 date: -800 words: 5283 flesch: 74 summary: Ajax son of Telamon was more angry than any, for the man had fallen close beside him; so he aimed at Polydamas as he was retreating, but Polydamas saved himself by swerving aside and the spear struck Archelochus son of Antenor, for heaven counselled his destruction; it struck him where the head springs from the neck at the top joint of the spine, and severed both the tendons at the back of the head. Ajax son of Telamon was first to wound Hyrtius son of Gyrtius, captain of the staunch Mysians. keywords: achaeans; jove; juno; man; ships; son; trojans cache: homer-iliad_14-800.txt plain text: homer-iliad_14-800.txt item: #70 of 119 id: homer-iliad_15-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_15-800 date: -800 words: 7462 flesch: 76 summary: Every one made sure he had been killed by Ajax son of Telamon, but it seems that one of the gods has again rescued him. Ajax son of Telamon answered, My good fellow, let your bow and your arrows be, for Jove has made them useless in order to spite the Danaans. keywords: achaeans; ajax; fight; gods; hector; jove; ships; son; trojans cache: homer-iliad_15-800.txt plain text: homer-iliad_15-800.txt item: #71 of 119 id: homer-iliad_16-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_16-800 date: -800 words: 8986 flesch: 73 summary: The old knight Phoenix was captain of the fourth company, and Alcimedon, noble son of Laerceus of the fifth. I say further, and lay my saying to your heart, that if you send Sarpedon safely to his own home, some other of the gods will be also wanting to escort his son out of battle, for there are many sons of gods fighting round the city of Troy, and you will make every one jealous. keywords: achilles; body; fight; hector; men; patroclus; ships; son; spear; trojans cache: homer-iliad_16-800.txt plain text: homer-iliad_16-800.txt item: #72 of 119 id: homer-iliad_17-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_17-800 date: -800 words: 7315 flesch: 73 summary: When he had thus spoken they charged full weight upon the Danaans with their spears held out before them, and the hopes of each ran high that he should force Ajax son of Telamon to yield up the body— fools that they were, for he was about to take the lives of many. Brave Menelaus son of Atreus now came to know that Patroclus had fallen, and made his way through the front ranks clad in full armour to bestride him. keywords: armour; body; fight; hector; menelaus; patroclus; son; trojans cache: homer-iliad_17-800.txt plain text: homer-iliad_17-800.txt item: #73 of 119 id: homer-iliad_18-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_18-800 date: -800 words: 6073 flesch: 76 summary: Many men were working at the plough within it, turning their oxen to and fro, furrow after furrow. For now you shall have grief infinite by reason of the death of that son whom you can never welcome home— nay, I will not live nor go about among mankind unless Hector fall by my spear, and thus pay me for having slain Patroclus son of Menoetius. keywords: achilles; armour; hector; patroclus; ships; son; thetis; trojans cache: homer-iliad_18-800.txt plain text: homer-iliad_18-800.txt item: #74 of 119 id: homer-iliad_22-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_22-800 date: -800 words: 5504 flesch: 73 summary: Now, therefore, Achaean youths, let us raise the song of victory and go back to the ships taking this man along with us; for we have achieved a mighty triumph and have slain noble Hector to whom the Trojans prayed throughout their city as though he were a god. The death of Hector. keywords: achilles; city; hector; man; son; trojans cache: homer-iliad_22-800.txt plain text: homer-iliad_22-800.txt item: #75 of 119 id: homer-iliad_23-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_23-800 date: -800 words: 9037 flesch: 77 summary: Ulysses could not throw Ajax, nor Ajax him; Ulysses was too strong for him; but when the Achaeans began to tire of watching them, Ajax said to Ulysses, Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, you shall either lift me, or I you, and let Jove settle it between us. Ajax son of Oileus was for making him an angry answer, and there would have been yet further brawling between them, had not Achilles risen in his place and said, Cease your railing, Ajax and Idomeneus; it is not seemly; you would be scandalised if you saw any one else do the like: sit down and keep your eyes on the horses; they are speeding towards the winning- post and will be here directly. keywords: achaeans; achilles; ajax; antilochus; chariot; horses; man; patroclus; prize; son cache: homer-iliad_23-800.txt plain text: homer-iliad_23-800.txt item: #76 of 119 id: homer-iliad_24-800 author: homer title: homer-iliad_24-800 date: -800 words: 8401 flesch: 78 summary: He is to take such gifts with him as shall give satisfaction to Achilles, and he is to go alone, with no other Trojan, save only some honoured servant who may drive his mules and waggon, and bring back the body of him whom noble Achilles has slain. You are to go alone, with no Trojan, save only some honoured servant who may drive your mules and waggon, and bring back to the city the body of him whom noble Achilles has slain. keywords: achilles; body; hector; jove; man; priam; ships; son cache: homer-iliad_24-800.txt plain text: homer-iliad_24-800.txt item: #77 of 119 id: homer-odyssey_01-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_01-800 date: -800 words: 4164 flesch: 75 summary: Still, now that Ulysses is dead there are many great men in Ithaca both old and young, and some other may take the lead among them; nevertheless I will be chief in my own house, and will rule those whom Ulysses has won for me. He had gone there to accept a hecatomb of sheep and oxen, and was enjoying himself at his festival; but the other gods met in the house of Olympian Jove, and the sire of gods and men spoke first. keywords: father; home; house; son; suitors cache: homer-odyssey_01-800.txt plain text: homer-odyssey_01-800.txt item: #78 of 119 id: homer-odyssey_02-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_02-800 date: -800 words: 4258 flesch: 76 summary: Antinous, answered Telemachus, I can not eat in peace, nor take pleasure of any kind with such men as you are. Telemachus called her to the store- room and said: Nurse, draw me off some of the best wine you have, after what you are keeping for my father 's own drinking, in case, poor man, he should escape death, and find his way home again after all. keywords: father; house; suitors; telemachus; ulysses cache: homer-odyssey_02-800.txt plain text: homer-odyssey_02-800.txt item: #79 of 119 id: homer-odyssey_03-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_03-800 date: -800 words: 4749 flesch: 78 summary: I am the only older person among them; the rest are all young men of Telemachus ' own age, who have taken this voyage out of friendship; so I must return to the ship and sleep there. Nestor, said he, son of Neleus, honour to the Achaean name ,you ask whence we come, and I will tell you. keywords: heaven; house; man; minerva; nestor; telemachus cache: homer-odyssey_03-800.txt plain text: homer-odyssey_03-800.txt item: #80 of 119 id: homer-odyssey_04-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_04-800 date: -800 words: 8138 flesch: 78 summary: Menelaus then greeted them saying, Fall to, and welcome; when you have done supper I shall ask who you are, for the lineage of such men as you can not have been lost. On this he handed them a piece of fat roast loin, which had been set near him as being a prime part, and they laid their hands on the good things that were before them; as soon as they had had enough to eat and drink, Telemachus said to the son of Nestor, with his head so close that no one might hear, Look, Pisistratus, man after my own heart, see the gleam of bronze and gold— of amber ivory, and silver. keywords: father; gods; home; house; man; menelaus; sea; son; telemachus cache: homer-odyssey_04-800.txt plain text: homer-odyssey_04-800.txt item: #81 of 119 id: homer-odyssey_05-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_05-800 date: -800 words: 4728 flesch: 78 summary: When he had thus spoken, he said to his son Mercury, Mercury, you are our messenger, go therefore and tell Calypso we have decreed that poor Ulysses is to return home. Here poor Ulysses would have certainly perished even in spite of his own destiny, if Minerva had not helped him to keep his wits about him. keywords: calypso; gods; home; raft; sea; ulysses cache: homer-odyssey_05-800.txt plain text: homer-odyssey_05-800.txt item: #82 of 119 id: homer-odyssey_06-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_06-800 date: -800 words: 3467 flesch: 77 summary: I am ashamed to strip before a number of good looking young women. Here are your clothes all lying in disorder, yet you are going to be married almost immediately, and should not only be well dressed yourself, but should find good clothes for those who attend you. keywords: clothes; father; girl; ulysses cache: homer-odyssey_06-800.txt plain text: homer-odyssey_06-800.txt item: #83 of 119 id: homer-odyssey_07-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_07-800 date: -800 words: 3378 flesch: 72 summary: Nausithous had two sons Rhexenor and Alcinous; Apollo killed the first of them while he was still a bridegroom and without male issue; but he left a daughter Arete, whom Alcinous married, and honours as no other woman is honoured of all those that keep house along with their husbands. You will find a number of great people sitting at table, but do not be afraid; go straight in, for the bolder a man is the more likely he is to carry his point, even though he is a stranger. keywords: alcinous; house; people; phaeacians; ulysses cache: homer-odyssey_07-800.txt plain text: homer-odyssey_07-800.txt item: #84 of 119 id: homer-odyssey_08-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_08-800 date: -800 words: 5647 flesch: 75 summary: Young men, said he, come up to that throw if you can, and I will throw another disc as heavy or even heavier. She went up to the citizens, man by man, and said, Aldermen and town councillors of the Phaeacians, come to the assembly all of you and listen to the stranger who has just come off a long voyage to the house of King Alcinous; he looks like an immortal god. keywords: alcinous; demodocus; gods; house; man; phaeacians; ulysses cache: homer-odyssey_08-800.txt plain text: homer-odyssey_08-800.txt item: #85 of 119 id: homer-odyssey_09-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_09-800 date: -800 words: 5858 flesch: 77 summary: So long as the day waxed and it was still morning, we held our own against them, though they were more in number than we; but as the sun went down, towards the time when men loose their oxen, the Cicons got the better of us, and we lost half a dozen men from every ship we had; so we got away with those that were left. When they had eaten and drunk I sent two of my company to see what manner of men the people of the place might be, and they had a third man under them. keywords: cave; man; men; sea; sheep; ship; wine cache: homer-odyssey_09-800.txt plain text: homer-odyssey_09-800.txt item: #86 of 119 id: homer-odyssey_10-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_10-800 date: -800 words: 5734 flesch: 80 summary: Then I went about among the men everywhere all over the house, and spoke kindly to each of them man by man:' You must not lie sleeping here any longer,' said I to them,' we must be going, for Circe has told me all about it.' I kept my own ship outside, and moored it to a rock at the very end of the point; then I climbed a high rock to reconnoitre, but could see no sign neither of man nor cattle, only some smoke rising from the ground. keywords: circe; house; man; men; sea; ship cache: homer-odyssey_10-800.txt plain text: homer-odyssey_10-800.txt item: #87 of 119 id: homer-odyssey_11-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_11-800 date: -800 words: 6069 flesch: 76 summary: He knew me and said,' Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, why, poor man, have you left the light of day and come down to visit the dead in this sad place? The ghosts of other dead men stood near me and told me each his own melancholy tale; but that of Ajax son of Telamon alone held aloof— still angry with me for having won the cause in our dispute about the armour of Achilles. keywords: blood; dead; house; men; ship; son; time; wife cache: homer-odyssey_11-800.txt plain text: homer-odyssey_11-800.txt item: #88 of 119 id: homer-odyssey_12-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_12-800 date: -800 words: 4645 flesch: 74 summary: Here not even a bird may pass, no, not even the timid doves that bring ambrosia to Father Jove, but the sheer rock always carries off one of them, and Father Jove has to send another to make up their number; no ship that ever yet came to these rocks has got away again, but the waves and whirlwinds of fire are freighted with wreckage and with the bodies of dead men. I went round, therefore, and exhorted them man by man not to lose heart. keywords: island; men; scylla; sea; ship cache: homer-odyssey_12-800.txt plain text: homer-odyssey_12-800.txt item: #89 of 119 id: homer-odyssey_13-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_13-800 date: -800 words: 4224 flesch: 76 summary: Thereon, when they began rowing out to sea, Ulysses fell into a deep, sweet, and almost deathlike slumber. This much, however, I know exceedingly well; you were very kind to me as long as we Achaeans were fighting before Troy, but from the day on which we went on board ship after having sacked the city of Priam, and heaven dispersed us— from that day, Minerva, I saw no more of you, and can not ever remember your coming to my ship to help me in a difficulty; I had to wander on sick and sorry till the gods delivered me from evil and I reached the city of the Phaeacians, where you encouraged me and took me into the town. keywords: country; minerva; ship; ulysses; way cache: homer-odyssey_13-800.txt plain text: homer-odyssey_13-800.txt item: #90 of 119 id: homer-odyssey_14-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_14-800 date: -800 words: 5420 flesch: 76 summary: Eumaeus answered, Old man, no traveller who comes here with news will get Ulysses ' wife and son to believe his story. And now, old man, tell me your own story; tell me also, for I want to know, who you are and where you come from. keywords: eumaeus; jove; man; men; swineherd; ulysses cache: homer-odyssey_14-800.txt plain text: homer-odyssey_14-800.txt item: #91 of 119 id: homer-odyssey_15-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_15-800 date: -800 words: 5440 flesch: 79 summary: Their servants are all young men, well dressed, wearing good cloaks and shirts, with well looking faces and their hair always tidy, the tables are kept quite clean and are loaded with bread, meat, and wine. As soon as you get to Ithaca send your ship and men on to the town, but yourself go straight to the swineherd who has charge of your pigs; he is well disposed towards you, stay with him, therefore, for the night, and then send him to Penelope to tell her that you have got back safe from Pylos. keywords: father; home; house; menelaus; ship; telemachus cache: homer-odyssey_15-800.txt plain text: homer-odyssey_15-800.txt item: #92 of 119 id: homer-odyssey_16-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_16-800 date: -800 words: 4572 flesch: 81 summary: Those whom you have named, answered Telemachus, are a couple of good allies, for though they dwell high up among the clouds they have power over both gods and men. When Telemachus came up, the dogs did not bark but fawned upon him ,so Ulysses, hearing the sound of feet and noticing that the dogs did not bark, said to Eumaeus: Eumaeus, I hear footsteps; I suppose one of your men or some one of your acquaintance is coming here, for the dogs are fawning upon him and not barking. keywords: house; son; suitors; telemachus; ulysses cache: homer-odyssey_16-800.txt plain text: homer-odyssey_16-800.txt item: #93 of 119 id: homer-odyssey_17-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_17-800 date: -800 words: 5899 flesch: 81 summary: Such men are welcome all the world over, but no one is likely to ask a beggar who will only worry him. I know all about her husband, and have been partner with him in affliction, but I am afraid of passing through this crowd of cruel suitors, for their pride and insolence reach heaven. keywords: eumaeus; house; man; suitors; telemachus; ulysses cache: homer-odyssey_17-800.txt plain text: homer-odyssey_17-800.txt item: #94 of 119 id: homer-odyssey_18-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_18-800 date: -800 words: 4190 flesch: 80 summary: But Minerva would not let the suitors for one moment cease their insolence, for she wanted Ulysses to become even more bitter against them; she therefore set Eurymachus son of Polybus on to gibe at him, which made the others laugh. As long as heaven vouchsafes him health and strength, he thinks that he shall come to no harm hereafter, and even when the blessed gods bring sorrow upon him, he bears it as he needs must, and makes the best of it; for God almighty gives men their daily minds day by day. keywords: house; irus; man; suitors; ulysses cache: homer-odyssey_18-800.txt plain text: homer-odyssey_18-800.txt item: #95 of 119 id: homer-odyssey_19-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_19-800 date: -800 words: 6070 flesch: 74 summary: I had any number of servants, and all the other things which people have who live well and are accounted wealthy, but it pleased Jove to take all away from me; therefore, woman, beware lest you too come to lose that pride and place in which you now wanton above your fellows; have a care lest you get out of favour with your mistress, and lest Ulysses should come home, for there is still a chance that he may do so. Ulysses was left in the cloister, pondering on the means whereby with Minerva 's help he might be able to kill the suitors. keywords: autolycus; feet; house; husband; penelope; suitors; ulysses cache: homer-odyssey_19-800.txt plain text: homer-odyssey_19-800.txt item: #96 of 119 id: homer-odyssey_20-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_20-800 date: -800 words: 3875 flesch: 77 summary: I will take these out of the house with me, for I see mischief overhanging you, from which not one of you men who are insulting people and plotting ill deeds in the house of Ulysses will be able to escape. As he spoke he went up to Ulysses and saluted him with his right hand; Good day to you, father stranger, said he, you seem to be very poorly off now, but I hope you will have better times by and by. keywords: house; man; suitors; telemachus; ulysses cache: homer-odyssey_20-800.txt plain text: homer-odyssey_20-800.txt item: #97 of 119 id: homer-odyssey_21-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_21-800 date: -800 words: 4291 flesch: 77 summary: Then, when they had made their offerings and had drunk each as much as he desired, Ulysses craftily said:— Suitors of the illustrious queen, listen that I may speak even as I am minded. If heaven shall deliver the suitors into my hands, I will find wives for both of you, will give you house and holding close to my own, and you shall be to me as though you were brothers and friends of Telemachus. keywords: bow; house; string; suitors; ulysses cache: homer-odyssey_21-800.txt plain text: homer-odyssey_21-800.txt item: #98 of 119 id: homer-odyssey_22-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_22-800 date: -800 words: 4595 flesch: 82 summary: Then she went inside to call the women and tell them what had happened; whereon they came from their apartment with torches in their hands, and pressed round Ulysses to embrace him, kissing his head and shoulders and taking hold of his hands. When she saw all the corpses and such a quantity of blood, she was beginning to cry out for joy, for she saw that a great deed had been done; but Ulysses checked her, Old woman, said he, rejoice in silence; restrain yourself, and do not make any noise about it; it is an unholy thing to vaunt over dead men. keywords: door; suitors; telemachus; ulysses; women cache: homer-odyssey_22-800.txt plain text: homer-odyssey_22-800.txt item: #99 of 119 id: homer-odyssey_23-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_23-800 date: -800 words: 3726 flesch: 79 summary: When, however, she had crossed the stone floor of the cloister, she sat down opposite Ulysses by the fire, against the wall at right angles[ to that by which she had entered], while Ulysses sat near one of the bearing- posts, looking upon the ground, and waiting to see what his brave wife would say to him when she saw him. Ulysses in his turn told her what he had suffered, and how much trouble he had himself given to other people. keywords: bed; home; penelope; ulysses cache: homer-odyssey_23-800.txt plain text: homer-odyssey_23-800.txt item: #100 of 119 id: homer-odyssey_24-800 author: homer title: homer-odyssey_24-800 date: -800 words: 5241 flesch: 79 summary: When they saw Ulysses and were certain it was he, they stood there lost in astonishment; but Ulysses scolded them good naturedly and said, Sit down to your dinner, old man, and never mind about your surprise; we have been wanting to begin for some time and have been waiting for you. Then the son of Saturn sent a thunderbolt of fire that fell just in front of Minerva, so she said to Ulysses, Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, stop this warful strife, or Jove will be angry with you. keywords: father; house; laertes; men; son; ulysses cache: homer-odyssey_24-800.txt plain text: homer-odyssey_24-800.txt item: #101 of 119 id: thoreau-walden_001-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_001-1854 date: 1854 words: 25641 flesch: 70 summary: How can a man be a philosopher and not maintain his vital heat by better methods than other men? Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted, so enterprised or sailed in some way, that we feel like new men in the old, and that to retain it would be like keeping new wine in old bottles. keywords: bread; clothes; clothing; country; day; earth; end; feet; fire; food; furniture; good; house; indian; labor; life; lives; living; man; men; new; present; savage; shelter; sun; things; time; town; way; work; world; years cache: thoreau-walden_001-1854.txt plain text: thoreau-walden_001-1854.txt item: #102 of 119 id: thoreau-walden_002-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_002-1854 date: 1854 words: 187 flesch: 68 summary: Thou dost presume too much, poor needy wretch, To claim a station in the firmament Because thy humble cottage, or thy tub, Nurses some lazy or pedantic virtue In the cheap sunshine or by shady springs, With roots and pot-herbs; where thy right hand, Tearing those humane passions from the mind, Upon whose stocks fair blooming virtues flourish, Degradeth nature, and benumbeth sense, And, Gorgon-like, turns active men to stone. This low abject brood, That fix their seats in mediocrity, Become your servile minds; but we advance Such virtues only as admit excess, Brave, bounteous acts, regal magnificence, All-seeing prudence, magnanimity That knows no bound, and that heroic virtue For which antiquity hath left no name, But patterns only, such as Hercules, Achilles, Theseus. keywords: thy cache: thoreau-walden_002-1854.txt plain text: thoreau-walden_002-1854.txt item: #103 of 119 id: thoreau-walden_003-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_003-1854 date: 1854 words: 6165 flesch: 72 summary: Men think that it is essential that the Nation have commerce, and export ice, and talk through a telegraph, and ride thirty miles an hour, without a doubt, whether they do or not; but whether we should live like baboons or like men, is a little uncertain. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to glorify God and enjoy him forever. keywords: day; farm; hour; house; life; man; men; morning; things; time cache: thoreau-walden_003-1854.txt plain text: thoreau-walden_003-1854.txt item: #104 of 119 id: thoreau-walden_004-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_004-1854 date: 1854 words: 3812 flesch: 66 summary: The solitary hired man on a farm in the outskirts of Concord, who has had his second birth and peculiar religious experience, and is driven as he believes into the silent gravity and exclusiveness by his faith, may think it is not true; but Zoroaster, thousands of years ago, travelled the same road and had the same experience; but he, being wise, knew it to be universal, and treated his neighbors accordingly, and is even said to have invented and established worship among men. I aspire to be acquainted with wiser men than this our Concord soil has produced, whose names are hardly known here. keywords: books; language; men; reading; time; words; world cache: thoreau-walden_004-1854.txt plain text: thoreau-walden_004-1854.txt item: #105 of 119 id: thoreau-walden_005-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_005-1854 date: 1854 words: 5819 flesch: 70 summary: It is a sound admirably suited to swamps and twilight woods which no day illustrates, suggesting a vast and undeveloped nature which men have not recognized. When other birds are still, the screech owls take up the strain, like mourning women their ancient u-lu-lu. keywords: birds; cars; day; house; life; men; morning; pond; sound; sun; train; woods cache: thoreau-walden_005-1854.txt plain text: thoreau-walden_005-1854.txt item: #106 of 119 id: thoreau-walden_006-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_006-1854 date: 1854 words: 3475 flesch: 75 summary: Sometimes, when I compare myself with other men, it seems as if I were more favored by the gods than they, beyond any deserts that I am conscious of; as if I had a warrant and surety at their hands which my fellows have not, and were especially guided and guarded. Not to many men surely, the depot, the post-office, the bar-room, the meeting-house, the school-house, the grocery, Beacon Hill, or the Five Points, where men most congregate, but to the perennial source of our life, whence in all our experience we have found that to issue, as the willow stands near the water and sends out its roots in that direction. keywords: house; man; men; nature; pond; woods cache: thoreau-walden_006-1854.txt plain text: thoreau-walden_006-1854.txt item: #107 of 119 id: thoreau-walden_007-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_007-1854 date: 1854 words: 4813 flesch: 73 summary: Men of one idea, like a hen with one chicken, and that a duckling; men of a thousand ideas, and unkempt heads, like those hens which are made to take charge of a hundred chickens, all in pursuit of one bug, a score of them lost in every morning's dew- and become frizzled and mangy in consequence; men of ideas instead of legs, a sort of intellectual centipede that made you crawl all over. Yet I never, by any manoeuvring, could get him to take the spiritual view of things; the highest that he appeared to conceive of was a simple expediency, such as you might expect an animal to appreciate; and this, practically, is true of most men. keywords: day; house; man; men; room; thought; time; want cache: thoreau-walden_007-1854.txt plain text: thoreau-walden_007-1854.txt item: #108 of 119 id: thoreau-walden_008-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_008-1854 date: 1854 words: 3940 flesch: 71 summary: Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer thought in bean leaves and blossoms rather than in wormwood and piper and millet grass, making the earth say beans instead of grass- There the sun lighted me to hoe beans, pacing slowly backward and forward over that yellow gravelly upland, between the long green rows, fifteen rods, the one end terminating in a shrub oak copse where I could rest in the shade, the other in a blackberry field where the green berries deepened their tints by the time I had made another bout. keywords: beans; crop; day; field; hoe; new; seed; soil cache: thoreau-walden_008-1854.txt plain text: thoreau-walden_008-1854.txt item: #109 of 119 id: thoreau-walden_009-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_009-1854 date: 1854 words: 2046 flesch: 67 summary: One afternoon, near the end of the first summer, when I went to the village to get a shoe from the cobbler's, I was seized and put into jail, because, as I have elsewhere related, I did not pay a tax to, or recognize the authority of, the State which buys and sells men, women, and children, like cattle, at the door of its senate-house. But, wherever a man goes, men will pursue and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society. keywords: night; village; way; woods cache: thoreau-walden_009-1854.txt plain text: thoreau-walden_009-1854.txt item: #110 of 119 id: thoreau-walden_010-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_010-1854 date: 1854 words: 9251 flesch: 70 summary: Sometimes it would come floating up to the shore; but when you went toward it, it would go back into deep water and disappear. About fifteen years ago you could see the top of a pitch pine, of the kind called yellow pine hereabouts, though it is not a distinct species, projecting above the surface in deep water, many rods from the shore. keywords: boat; feet; green; ice; pond; shore; spring; surface; time; walden; water; woods; years cache: thoreau-walden_010-1854.txt plain text: thoreau-walden_010-1854.txt item: #111 of 119 id: thoreau-walden_011-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_011-1854 date: 1854 words: 2592 flesch: 71 summary: With his horizon all his own, yet he a poor man, born to be poor, with his inherited Irish poverty or poor life, his Adam's grandmother and boggy ways, not to rise in this world, he nor his posterity, till their wading webbed bog-trotting feet get talaria to their heels. But he, poor man, disturbed only a couple of fins while I was catching a fair string, and he said it was his luck; but when we changed seats in the boat luck changed seats too. keywords: field; john; life; light; poor; trees cache: thoreau-walden_011-1854.txt plain text: thoreau-walden_011-1854.txt item: #112 of 119 id: thoreau-walden_012-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_012-1854 date: 1854 words: 4249 flesch: 74 summary: Yet till this is otherwise we are not civilized, and, if gentlemen and ladies, are not true men and women. They mistake who assert that the Yankee has few amusements, because he has not so many public holidays, and men and boys do not play so many games as they do in England, for here the more primitive but solitary amusements of hunting, fishing, and the like have not yet given place to the former. keywords: animal; day; food; life; man; men; purity cache: thoreau-walden_012-1854.txt plain text: thoreau-walden_012-1854.txt item: #113 of 119 id: thoreau-walden_013-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_013-1854 date: 1854 words: 4862 flesch: 78 summary: When compelled to rise they would sometimes circle round and round and over the pond at a considerable height, from which they could easily see to other ponds and the river, like black motes in the sky; and, when I thought they had gone off thither long since, they would settle down by a slanting flight of a quarter of a mile on to a distant part which was left free; but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do. The smaller red champion had fastened himself like a vice to his adversary's front, and through all the tumblings on that field never for an instant ceased to gnaw at one of his feelers near the root, having already caused the other to go by the board; while the stronger black one dashed him from side to side, and, as I saw on looking nearer, had already divested him of several of his members. keywords: battle; black; house; pond; red; surface; water; woods cache: thoreau-walden_013-1854.txt plain text: thoreau-walden_013-1854.txt item: #114 of 119 id: thoreau-walden_014-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_014-1854 date: 1854 words: 5760 flesch: 69 summary: There are enough fagots and waste wood of all kinds in the forests of most of our towns to support many fires, but which at present warm none, and, some think, hinder the growth of the young wood. One day, however, as I was splitting wood, I thought that I would just look in at the window and see if the house was not on fire; it was the only time I remember to have been particularly anxious on this score; so I looked and saw that a spark had caught my bed, and I went in and extinguished it when it had burned a place as big as my hand. keywords: bubbles; day; fire; forest; house; ice; man; new; pond; winter; wood cache: thoreau-walden_014-1854.txt plain text: thoreau-walden_014-1854.txt item: #115 of 119 id: thoreau-walden_015-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_015-1854 date: 1854 words: 4778 flesch: 72 summary: His words and attitude always suppose a better state of things than other men are acquainted with, and he will be the last man to be disappointed as the ages revolve. Nearer yet to town, you come to Breed's location, on the other side of the way, just on the edge of the wood; ground famous for the pranks of a demon not distinctly named in old mythology, who has acted a prominent and astounding part in our New England life, and deserves, as much as any mythological character, to have his biography written one day; who first comes in the guise of a friend or hired man, and then robs and murders the whole family- New-England Rum. keywords: brister; family; house; man; road; snow; village; way; winter; woods cache: thoreau-walden_015-1854.txt plain text: thoreau-walden_015-1854.txt item: #116 of 119 id: thoreau-walden_016-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_016-1854 date: 1854 words: 3690 flesch: 68 summary: They were so familiar that at length one alighted on an armful of wood which I was carrying in, and pecked at the sticks without fear. There, far from the village street, and except at very long intervals, from the jingle of sleigh-bells, I slid and skated, as in a vast moose-yard well trodden, overhung by oak woods and solemn pines bent down with snow or bristling with icicles. keywords: door; fox; hoo; hunter; snow; winter; woods cache: thoreau-walden_016-1854.txt plain text: thoreau-walden_016-1854.txt item: #117 of 119 id: thoreau-walden_017-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_017-1854 date: 1854 words: 5254 flesch: 66 summary: Cape becomes bar, and plain shoal, and valley and gorge deep water and channel. Of five coves, three, or all which had been sounded, were observed to have a bar quite across their mouths and deeper water within, so that the bay tended to be an expansion of water within the land not only horizontally but vertically, and to form a basin or independent pond, the direction of the two capes showing the course of the bar. keywords: depth; ice; line; man; pond; shore; walden; water; winter cache: thoreau-walden_017-1854.txt plain text: thoreau-walden_017-1854.txt item: #118 of 119 id: thoreau-walden_018-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_018-1854 date: 1854 words: 6708 flesch: 71 summary: In a pleasant spring morning all men's sins are forgiven. O the evening robin, at the end of a New England summer day! keywords: day; earth; ice; leaves; morning; nature; pond; sand; spring; sun; water; winter; year cache: thoreau-walden_018-1854.txt plain text: thoreau-walden_018-1854.txt item: #119 of 119 id: thoreau-walden_019-1854 author: thoreau title: thoreau-walden_019-1854 date: 1854 words: 4691 flesch: 78 summary: The learned societies and great men of Assyria- where are they? The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. keywords: laws; life; man; men; new; time; truth; work; world cache: thoreau-walden_019-1854.txt plain text: thoreau-walden_019-1854.txt